October 16, 2020

Honey-Do List- October

10/8/20        Special Education Learning Plans Completed

10/9/20        School Facing Schedules to be uploaded into Lee Academy 20-21 Folder

10/15/20      Goals entered into TeachPoint

10/16/20      Bulletin board picture due

Buzzing Along- Important Upcoming Dates

10/22/20.                     Hybrid B in-person learners K0-3 First Day

10/26/20.                     Hybrid A in-person learners K0-3 First Day

10/5-10/19                  Assessment window open for MAP Reading Fluency Screener (K2-2)

10/5-10/19                  Assessment window open for MAP Reading Growth (3)

Professional Development

• All PD will be virtual this year
• The current ETWA agreement calls for 30 hours of PD. I am thinking we scale that back to 20 hours. 
• I propose we start the work after all the first days of school my proposed start date would be 11/4
• We would meet from 4-6 on basically the First and Third Wednesdays of the month (this shifts in January and February)
• Our work will be around Cultivating Genius (book study and implementation)  and the Racial Equity Handbook. 
• We placed two copies of the Cultivating Genius book (It's blue) in each classroom over the summer

Huddles

• We would restart the operational huddle virtually that would be on the 2nd Tuesday of each month from 8:40-9:10

Family Communication

Expectations

• Please have a personal check-in with each family at least once a week. This can be a text (use talking points), at pick-up for hybrid students, or an old-fashioned phone call. 
• Please log these weekly communications under support notes in Panorama
• If a family lets you know about a health concern please let Sam know immediately so she can begin the appropriate health protocol 

Health Protocols

• Our health protocols continue to work
• We are continuing to be transparent with what is happening here. Within our locus of control. 
• Our building continues to be safe

An Example

• Student A started illness symptoms on 10/12 after apple picking.  
• Parents thought it was allergies (The student has a known history of allergies and had missed a dose of daily med).  
• The student felt better with Tylenol and Motrin so the student came to school for MAP testing Wednesday 10/14.  
• On 10/15 he spiked a fever to 102.  
• The student went to the pediatrician on 10/15 for evaluation and COVID test.  
•     Day 0: 10/12 (day symptoms first appeared)
•     Off isolation: 10/23 (only if fever free w/o meds and feeling better)
• The above is assuming the student has a positive test.  
• If the student has a negative test, then the student can return to school after being fever-free for 24 hours and feeling better.  
• If an alternative diagnosis is made, such as strep or acute ear infection, then Sam will collaborate with Student A's Primary Medical Doctor regarding return to school.  
• Staff who were identified as close contacts (only 1 person) have been advised to quarantine until we know the result of his COVID test. 
• Given how quickly we responded to information this staff member's family is not at risk of being infected 
• The likelihood of the staff member having contracted COVID is minimal because they remained masked as did the student. 
• This was a good teaching opportunity with the family, as he should not have come to school for testing if he had any recent symptoms on the checklist (even if they presumed allergies).  

At-Home Learning Kits

• The majority of the materials have arrived. 
• We will begin assembling these kits by grade level next week
• Student kits for our EL and SWD will have headphones included
• Putting the kits together is labor-intensive and the resulting kits are large
• Thank you, Sam and Zoraida for starting this project. 
• We will pick it up again next week and work on it as we can. 

Chromebook Update

The Current Situation

Students

• The following students had broken Chromebooks with no Loaner device available to them
• Matthew Martinez Orozco
• Angel H. 
• Alexis Perdomo Gonzalez
• Malloy Williams
• Lesly Peguero Lugo
• Nathanael Lewis
• Zahmanie Carty Woods
• Each of these students has now been assigned a loaner Chromebook. 
• Families were contacted via TalkingPoints and advised that they could come to the school anytime between 9-4 so far no one has come
• If one of these students is yours please advise the family that there is a laptop available for them. 

Paraprofessionals

• We also have a limited number of laptops available for paras to use when they are working in the building
• We must leave them in the building because we do not have any loaner devices for students that need them and it seems each day someone needs one
• We also do not have surplus Chromebooks for students that may be newly assigned to our school
• As we start to build a surplus and repaired Chromebooks are returned to us we will assign Chromebooks to paras permanently. 

Something Fun

• Please give me a 2-1/2 by 3 1/2  photo of yourself for our Welcome bulletin board.
• When we finally have more students back I think it will be a fun visual