Week 1 Education - Quarantine

This week, I ran across a blog by Patrick M. Larkin (I posted his entire blog post below for your reading pleasure.)  His blog was a great reminder about on-line learning and things we need to keep in mind from the teacher, parent and student perspective.  In his blog, he shared this parent's perspective from Israel:

Even though this video makes us laugh a little, it is a good reminder of the need to be mindful of the work we give our students.  The pandemic brings about a time of uncertainty and stress for many of our families and adding a large load of work to students (especially for junior high students) can add even more stress.

Many of you have wonderful ideas and plans of learning to share with your students this week.  You have been working extremely hard.  Not only have you been carefully planning but many of you have reached out to students you are worried about to offer extra support during these times.  Our students are blessed to have you in their lives.  This week, continue to be thoughtful, move slowly, and work to maintain and grow relationships with your students.  Sail On!

Patrick Larkin Blog


Important Information: 

Office Closure - The High School Office will continue to remain closed to follow the Governor's Orders.  Everyone's health and safety is our top priority.  If you need any support, please feel free to contact Jody at anytime.  812-719-1937

Team Meetings:  Phil and I would like to follow up with everyone towards the end of the week for a quick check-in.  To help facility better conversations, we will meet by teams.  We will meet this Thursday, April 2nd during the following times via Google Hangout (if the time doesn't work for you, please let me know):

8:30 a.m. - English Team
9:30 a.m. - Math Team
10:30 a.m. - Science Team
11:30 a.m. - Special Education Team
12:30 p.m. - Social Studies Team
1:30 p.m. - Island Team

Zoom - If any of you are considering hosting a zoom meeting for students, you may want to watch the guidance below.  Bo Gibson created a screencast to show you how to prevent requiring an extension for students.  Thanks for your work, Bo!    You can find the screencast HERE.

Food Delivery - Perry Central is continuing to offer food delivery on Monday and Wednesday each week.  Food is only allowed to be delivered to students.  If you know of a family that needs help with this, please let us know.

Book Study -  Individuals participating in the "Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind" book study will continue their discussion via Google Classroom.  We hope to have Chapters 4-6 ready to discuss by April 1st.  We will start our discussion through classroom.  Looking forward to your comments!