Self-Care Tip: Kindness - Research shows that doing good for others stimulate positive areas in your brain, helping us create positive feelings! It gives us purpose and self-worth.
This Week's Invitation: Commit to paying kindness forward (hold the door open, smile, offer compliments, assume positive intent for everyone you meet.) Count how many times you were able to pay it forward each day!
Looking forward to seeing everyone back in the building!
Spreading Cheer - Calling all teachers/assistants who are interested in having a little fun with our students! We would like to create a 12 Days of Christmas Parody that is similar to the video below. If you are interested in joining several other teachers in creating this, please meet at the stage on Wednesday, December 9th at 11:30. Our plan is to practice this week and record it next week! The more the merrier! Even if you don't want to look goofy, we will need singers! We all need some JOY in our lives this season!
12 Days of Christmas Parody - Click here for a laugh.
Important Information:
* COVID - Just a reminder that Social Distancing, Mask Wearing and Washing Hands are all the best defensive methods against COVID-19. Please spread out students throughout your classrooms and help them remember these steps of safety! Seating charts are a key part of our success as well. Thank you!
* Lunches: During the Hybrid Only, all students will be eating in the cafeteria during their lunch times. Assistants who cover lunches in the classroom, please report to the cafeteria during this time. If we have too many students, we will ask you to help us take them elsewhere to eat. We will resume lunches in the classrooms when we are back in-person.
* Attendance: Please continue to mark students who are not in your class absent. We will clean up their attendance in the high school office. We know our on-line and hybrid list may not be accurate and we hope to get it back to very accurate this week with all of your help!
Important Documents:
We know it is very difficult to keep up with the documents that house information about COVID schedules ad students. I have created a folder in the Teacher Resource Folder in Google to organize these for you. I hope it helps!
* Hybrid Updates - Please take a look at this document for Hybrid updates/student schedules. We have asked some students to attend for 4 days a week and we are starting to get some students in on Wednesdays. Also, there are a few students that are switching days. All of this information can be found on this document. You will notice the tabs at the bottom. One tab is a list of students and the days they will attend, 2nd tab is a list of 4 day a week students that do not have IEPs and where they should report on their opposite days, and the 3rd tab is our schedule for Wednesday students and assistants. Everything on this document will continue to change and evolve. Document is HERE.
* On-Line Students - We have had a few more students decide to remain on-line. We are asking all students that are on-line to please stay virtual through January 15th. On this document you will see the additional list of students all of the way to the right. We will continue to place new students here. Document is HERE.
* Missing Work - Please continue to fill out the google form HERE for missing work. If you are someone that is trying to help students get caught up on work and would like to see the list of work missing, HERE is the link to the sheet where all of the information is populated. Teachers, if you have a chance and can strike a link through work that has been completed, it would help us stay focused on what needs to be accomplished.
Final Exams: In a 7-12 building with Early College High School in the mix, we need to have the flexibility for all of you to be able to wrap up the semester appropriately. We ask that students are engaged in meaningful work each and every day - what ever that needs to look like for your students. Here are a few logistics:
* We will not block time on any of our days remaining in December. All class periods will remain the same.
* On December 21, 22 we will NOT bring in Thursday/Friday students. Thursday/Friday student's last day in person will be December 18th.
* Grades are due in the gradebook by January 6th at midnight. Please make sure that all incomplete grades are cleaned up by this time so that semester grades are accurate. Transcripts are very important for seniors during this time of the year for scholarship and college application purposes.
Winter Break Cheer:
* Wednesday, December 9th - Please stop by the high school office to enjoy a Hot Chocolate/Coffee Bar! COVID free goodies available!
* Wednesday, December 16th - Lunch will be provided. Details later!
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