HEALTH, SAFETY & WELLNESS PROTOCOLS
MCMS Illness Prevention Policies
Madison Community Montessori School is fully committed to safeguarding the health and safety of all of our faculty, staff, students, and community members. We comply with all public health guidance for operating schools.
Family Responsibilities
We ask all families to help us keep the health and safety of the MCMS community a priority. Families can do this in the following ways:
- Make sure you provide information regarding any illness with the office
- Be consistently on time for drop-off and pick-up
- Do not enter the MCMS school building if you are sick
- Practice wearing masks and talking to your children about the proper use and importance of them so they are ready if they need to wear one
- Make the commitment to keep our community healthy by abiding by all Public Health Madison and Dane County and CDC guidance in your personal lives outside of school
UPDATES TO OPERATIONS
We have looked in to all aspects of our facility and operational policies for ways to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and other viruses. Here are just some of the things we have done at MCMS.
- Cleaning and sanitization Our nightly service consists of hospital-grade disinfectants, color-coded Microfiber cloths (traps 99% of dirt), Microfiber NO DIP flat mops (no cross contamination) and HEPA Vacuums (traps 99.7% airborne allergens).
- Drinking fountains We encourage all staff and students to use individual drinking bottles, fillable with the no touch units on each floor.
- HVAC & air quality Our school is equipped with eight individual systems. While other buildings you visit may share air throughout, our classrooms never share air with more than one other room. We have commissioned local experts to test and balance air flow in all rooms. We have also installed auto-cleaning air ionization systems throughout the building. Bipolar ionization works to safely clean indoor air, leveraging an electronic charge to create a high concentration of positive and negative ions. These ions travel through the air continuously seeking out and attaching to particles. This sets in motion a continuous pattern of particle combination. As these particles become larger, they are eliminated from the air more rapidly. Additionally, positive and negative ions have microbicidal effects on pathogens, ultimately reducing the infectivity of the virus. This bipolar ionization is ozone-free and completely safe while in-person. Our nap room also has a portable HEPA air filtration system in use when children from multiple cohorts are napping.
- Restrooms have been upgraded with no-touch soap and paper towel dispensers, all in an effort to limit multi touch points.
RESOURCES
Our In-person Operating Plan has been created based on guidelines, protocols, and mandates enacted for Dane County. Below you will find additional resources and links with the most recent information available.