Staff picking up items
- We will not be returning to the building for teaching this year, many folks are interested in gathering items and closing up classrooms. If you need materials for instruction, please gather them as you need (make sure to let Tim know so that he isn’t sanitizing your room when you plan on gathering your items).
- Due to Bond projects that will be starting at HDMS this summer we will need to organize, move, box or cover items in classrooms. I am waiting for the guidelines/expectations for teachers and custodial staff…once I have this we will work to ensure that everyone can get into their rooms and prepare them for the summer projects, more to come in next weeks blog hopefully.
Content team meetings
Wendy, Paul and Nole are available to join your content team PLC WebEx meetings should you ask. If your team wants to celebrate some successes, is struggling with an issue or needs something clarified, please don’t hesitate to send us a link to the meeting and the date/time you’d like us to join. We are here to serve.
HR Info
- All of the requested personal days from March 16th through March 30th were automatically cancelled. There is a HR link on the district COVID guidance form posted in last weeks blog, after reading that and you still have questions with your personal and/or sick days please reach out to HR for answers.
Tech Tips
Approving YouTube Videos
Teachers can now approve YouTube videos for their students to view! Yes, you heard me right. When you …Click here to read full story
Koop created this video with helpful WebEx tips. Thanks Koop!
Student Google Classroom
Posted April 8 for all students. Thanks Brettney for creating the doc!
Here is a template for all students to use to fill in your personal schedule! Use the first tab as your template and make a copy of it to your notability, see the second tab for an example.
Note: all the information you need to complete the template can be found from your teachers e-mails or posts on their google classroom.
If you have any questions regarding copying and downloading this template please reach out to [email protected] or your grade level counselor.
¡Aquí hay un plantilla que todos los estudiantes pueden usar para completar su horario personal! Usen la primera pestaña como su modelo y hagan una copia a su notoriedad (notability), vean la segunda pestaña para ver un ejemplo.
Nota: toda la información que necesitas para completar la plantilla se puede encontrar en los correos electrónicos o publicaciones de tus maestros en tu Google Classroom.
Si tienes alguna pregunta sobre la copia y descarga de esta plantilla, comuníquate con [email protected] o con tu consejero.
Student Feedback
Students have expressed some confusion over what is “required” or “optional” for teacher WebEx meetings, Office Hours and other learning activities. Please be as transparent and clear as possible when communicating with students.
Non Engagement Tracking
Thank you for taking the time to track students who have not accessed any of your learning opportunities. We are no longer accepting updates to that spreadsheet. Please continue to track student engagement as we will ask you to fill out a new form on April 23 which is a few weeks into the fourth quarter.
The statistics show that 84% of our students attended at least 4 of their 6 classes (excluding PE) within the first week of Remote Learning. That is extraordinary and a reflection of your hard work and dedication communicating and reaching out to your students!!!
The full stats of our RTI pyramid is as follows:
Of the 5% who missed 5 or more classes, we were already working with two percent of those families with internet, food, clothing and other needs. That left 27 students whom we had no contact with. Our counselors and SRC teachers are working diligently to connect with those families to serve their needs and get those students engaged in remote learning. Here are the 27 as of Thursday afternoon:
We encourage staff to view the HDMS Remote Learning Tracking sheet regularly for updated information on our student’s needs.
Once we’ve reached the 27 students and their families, our support staff will then connect and serve the students with 4 missed classes to make sure their needs are being met.
Please know that we are asking our most needy students to engage in at least 2 core classes. Some students/families have many other stressors that they are dealing with and we don’t want to add too much of a burden to their already chaotic lives. Every time you are able to engage with one of these students, take a moment to celebrate it with them and express how happy you are for even their smallest engagement in remote learning.
Our support staff doing this essential work is Cathy, Joe, Lynne, Jon, Jennifer, Trish, Honza, Asha, Liz, Brettney and our Super Hero FAN advocate Jamie Neill. Thanks Team.
Paper Packet Students
I’ve added a tab to our Remote Tracking Sheet so you can quickly and easily see which students are requesting paper pencil packets to be submitted to Wendy/Paul by noon Tuesday of each week.
If you see a student listed but have confirmed that they NOW have internet and don’t need paper copies anymore (internet is being added to HDMS student homes on a daily basis), please contact that student’s case manager or counselor and they will remove the Paper Packet designation in the database for that student.
Phone Conferencing Via WebEx
While some students don’t have internet at home, most all of them have access to a smartphone. Those students can attend your WebEx by calling into it. They can hear all of the conversations but not view what is happening on the video screens. Here are easy to follow instructions to provide calling-in information to your students. https://www.loom.com/share/e16e6503d3af4984871dff4a5941c920
As another OPTION: you may choose to reach out to a small subset of your non internet students (3-4) for a weekly phone conference with you using WebEx. This is an optional idea and if you try it, please give us feedback on how it went.
Remote Learning Norms
This slideshow re: HDMS universal remote learning norms and expectations will be posted to the HDMS student Google classroom as well as the HDMS website. We are in the process of getting this document translated to Spanish.
Reminders:
Sharing Resources/Ideas: Please continue to reference and add remote learning ideas/resources to this document.
ICCL Office Hours: Optional, drop-in ICCL meetings are taking place on Friday, 4/10, Thursday, 4/16, and Tuesday 4/21 from 2:00-3:00pm. We will capture the discussion and update the meeting notes using this document.
Admin Office Hours Daily at 3pm
https://bendk12.webex.com/meet/wendy.mcculloch
We will be keeping a weekly “live” document with notes of the celebrations and Q & As that were shared out during the admin office hour sessions.
- Next week:
- 4/13-4/17 Admin WebEx office hours notes found here
- This document will be updated throughout the week
- Previous weeks:
- 4/6-4/10 Admin WebEx office hours notes found here
- 3/31-4/3 Admin WebEx office hours notes found here