How To Use This Site

ReadyCaSchools.org is the website for “one-stop shopping” for tools, information, and other resources for planning and preparing California schools for a potential influenza pandemic. All California schools are required to have a school safety plan and are encouraged to include a pandemic influenza preparedness component in it.

The California Department of Education and the California Department of Health Services developed two planning checklists, Pandemic Flu Checklist for Local Educational Agencies in California and Pandemic Flu Checklist for Child Care Agencies and Preschools in California, to help schools with their pandemic planning.

The California school planning checklists are organized into four categories: Prevention and Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. This website is similarly organized to ensure that it is user-friendly for California school administrators and educators. An additional category, called Planning Tools can be found on the homepage in the far left column and the horizontal bar near the top of the page. It contains links to school planning checklists, examples of school plans, and tool kits.

Within each category, tools are arranged by school age group. The preschool section contains tools and resources that will also be helpful to administrators and operators of child care facilities.
Tools that school administrators will find useful include planning checklists, sample plans, and sample letters to parents.
Tools that teachers will find useful include curricula, lesson plans, and posters, which are fully developed and ready to use.
Tools that older students will find useful include preparedness checklists for home and family as well as home care for sick family members.

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