FALL PLANNING UPDATES
WELCOME BACK!!!!!
As we kick of opening week, please remember how AWESOME you are. The areas for focus this week are:
*Building connections with your students.
*Helping students know what is expected of them.
*Making sure students know how to learn remotely.
*Taking lots of deep breaths and showing yourself grace---perfect is NOT the target. You're going to be fabulous!
Safety guidelines must be followed at all times...and all times you are outside, too. We will continue to ask staff coming onsite to complete a daily self-certification verification and, if you are a "no" to either question---please immediately notify your principal and me.
Attendance
*Please know that, while we are in full remote, Wednesdays are days the buildings WILL be open and staff CAN be onsite. Since we will have so few kids and staff onsite, we can disinfect and sanitize daily and a full closure isn’t required.
*On days you are onsite, we’d ask gently that you please leave the building by 4:00 daily so that we can clean thoroughly. Thank you so much in advance!
*We have NO INTENT to furlough or lay off anyone. We have work for everyone to do as long as people can be flexible!
*We WILL have kids onsite for learning! Students invited to be onsite 4 days/week are PreK and our most complex IEP-entitled students. Students invited to be onsite Wednesday only are IEP-entitled students whose goals/SpEd support time are a majority of their day. All other IEP-entitled students will receive support through remote learning. Every single IEP-entitled student will have to have a Remote Transition Plan written--training and time for this will be provided during Welcome Week. It’s really not too hard--I promise! :)
*Grab and Go meal pick up will continue through the week of August 17 and then will stop. Starting August 24 (the first day for students), we will shift to meal drop off by our buses. Daily meals will be dropped off by bus stop on the Lotus bus schedule. Our drivers will have route helpers to do this. This keeps families from having to leave home to get meals so they can stay home to support remote learning. We’ll push out a reminder each day. We will discuss the logistics of this during Welcome Week to make sure everyone knows their role and has input into the process.
*We’ll also use the bus routes to deliver any materials that students need EACH FRIDAY. Teams will be responsible for organizing these materials, but this will allow us to get supplies, hard copy documents, books, novels, etc. to our students when we need them to have them. The supplies will stay on the routes so--in case someone misses a Friday drop off--they can still get the materials.
As always, when you have questions, please ask. When you have suggestions, please bring them forward. We are ONE TEAM, ALL IN...now more than ever.
THANKS to everyone for your work to complete the FLASH BACK reflection to help us know where our students' gaps exist!!!!
These documents should be used by EVERY team to help in planning. The tools you need are linked below:
LINKS:
PreK-8 Flash Back Standards
Exploratories Flash Back Standards
Case Manager Flash Back Reflections
All staff MUST wear masks AT ALL TIMES when onsite and in public spaces.
If you are working in an office/classroom with the door closed, you may remove your mask. It must be worn when anyone enters that space with you.
In addition, the steps below (from the CDC website) MUST be taken if you have been diagnosed with or exposed to COVID-19:
If you come onsite, you are self-certifying and verifying that:
Heather
