Social Distancing reminder whenever on campus.
- Stay 6 feet apart.
- Wash hands often.
- Wipe down the surfaces you use.
- Know you can report anyone to me who is not observing these guidelines.
Community Work Area – If you use the library as a community work area, this is just a friendly reminder to observe the social distancing guidelines above.
Homework Reminder (HW from 4/15):
- Streamline – work on ways to streamline your delivery of instruction and your time preparing the instruction. It’s OK to reduce or pull back to make things easeir on both you and your families. I do not have concerns about not providing enough learning for our families, and in fact, more of my concerns about providing too much and making parents (and students) feel badly about what they are doing or not doing.
- Dreambox – great work, this can be such a powerful tool for this kind of enviroment and we have a really good percentage of students holding a good weekly average. If you are interested in what this program can tell you about your students, let me know.
- Cancel a morning or afternoon – hopefully you followed my suggestions and did this. If you did then you should notice a few things;
- The world kept moving and your kids are still OK.
- You control your schedule rather than your schedule controlling you.
- I can say with 99.999999% confidence your students and parents appreciated the break as much as you. Although there are benefits to this hybrid schooling, it’s still hard at home – please never forget this.
Now for your grade on this assignment – due to the COVID-19 meteorite that impacted our society you will not receive a letter grade, but rather you will receive a Pass/Incomplete mark. You hold yourselves accountable and assign the grade you see fit. Too soon, for this kind of sarcasm?!?!
Staff Appreciation – FYI – our PTO will be supporting a week of staff appreciation however it will be postponed until the first week of June. Also, just as an FYI I communicated the following message with our PTO board as we discussed plans for staff appreciation;
“I speak for our whole team when I say that we know this is a unique year and while we love the appreciation, we also recognize this as an appreciation of our entire community, not just our own work as educators. This brings a different definition and spin to the “it takes a village…”.”
Meetings:
- All Staff – Wednesday 3:00 – No agenda from me – Wellness Circle will be led by Amy Yilik.
- Optional prep for the meeting; Professional Resilience & Wellness Presentation (17 min)
- Grade Level Check-Ins – NO GRADE-LEVEL Check-Ins with me this week. I will pick up with our schedule next week. I am available if you need me my phone or email, and of course, if you want me to join your grade level meeting I will, but I am just trying to put some time back into your calendars.
- Next Week:
- 5/6 Tuesday – 2nd/3rd -2:45
- 5/7 Wednesday – 4th/5th- 1:00
- 5/8 Thursday – 1st – 3:00
- 5/9 Friday K – 1:00
Hot Spots – so far it appears that our families have overcome the internet and wifi barriers nicely, however if you get the impression we missed somebody please let me know so we can apply for a hot spot for them.
Class Placements – good news! I am about 96.83245% certain I have secured a program to allow us to do this virtually! More details coming soon. The parent input forms were made avaialbe to parents via a google form survey to reduce any paper copy exchanging. We [Shawna] and I will take care of putting these together for your after submission.
Dyslexia Letter- We are not required to send the second round of Dyslexia letters this spring.
Meal Deliveries – Just FYI – COVID Meal Delivery spreadsheet
Distance Learning Resources
Julie’s Weekly Update from 4/24/20
Hi Teachers,
Happy Friday!! Here is a link to some resources and the most up-to-date information:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZlH3NN8hhe9O3t9oZ-tTDvdxiSV8fTfBZtXkvQchkGA/edit
Thank you for all you do!!