School district anticipates return to in-person learning Archuleta School District schools are planning to return to in-person school on Jan. 4, 2021, according to Superintendent Dr. Kym LeBlanc-Esparza’s Friday memo for staff, which was shared with The SUN. “Today the leadership team and I met to look at the data, study the Toolkit for Returning to In-Person Learning and plan for how we will return from the winter break. The data and the research continues to tell us that schools are some of the safest places. We also know that our students need to be in-person. We have done an amazing job with the last three weeks, but nothing beats being in your classrooms, learning with their peers, from you,” the memo states. “So we are planning to return to in-person school on January 4. We realize that conditions change and there are dynamics that are out of our control. So the leaders will convene for a brief meeting on Thursday December 31, just to be sure our plan is still the right one to return to school. That said, our first priority and goal will be to safely return to in-person learning.”