If your employee group requests time off directly in Skyward, please read this message regarding COVID-related absences carefully.

If you have tested positive for COVID or have one or more COVID-like symptoms, report your sick day as usual and email Heather Wangler at hwangler@emsd37.org to work through the district COVID protocol. The current list of COVID-like symptoms is:

• New onset of moderate to severe headache

• Shortness of breath

• New cough

• Sore throat

• Vomiting

• Diarrhea

• New loss of sense of taste or smell

• Fatigue from unknown cause

• Muscle or body aches from unknown cause

If you are not fully vaccinated and have been in close contact* with a confirmed COVID case, report your sick day and email Heather Wangler at hwangler@emsd37.org.

*Close contact is being within six (6) feet of an infected person, for at least 15 minutes or more during a 24-hour period.  An infected person is considered contagious two days prior to diagnosis or onset of symptoms