February 5 2021

Honey-Do List- February

February 5- Read the Hive. Tell your friends to read the Hive.

February 5 (Noon)- Complete shout out trackers

February 26- Last day for teacher leadership grants

Buzzing in my Brain

• Do you ever get questions stuck in your head? This week I have two that are buzzing around in there:
• How/When do we give students an opportunity to redo work so that it meets the quality of the standard?
• How do we acknowledge and respect that we are in people's homes every day and that may or may not be uncomfortable for people?

K-6 After School Program

• BPS will be working with Out-of-School-Time (OST) partners and agencies to provide direct support to students' academic experiences and instruction outside the traditional school day. The programming will take place online or in-person in the neighborhoods of our students, especially those with the greatest need.
• Student criteria for program eligibility are based on students who need intensive support as signified by  ELA and math grades from the 1st  quarter in SY20-21. 
• For more information about the program please click here
• We have 82 students that will be invited to attend

BPS Moves Together Movement Break Cards

• The Office of Health and Wellness is excited to share a movement break card deck for classroom teachers and school leaders. 
• They have adapted all activities for virtual and distance learning settings. 
• Check it out here! 

Most Things Reopening

• The staffing template found here has multiple tabs including duty assignment, lunch schedule, and contingency staffing plan
• Please familiarize yourself with this document. The information in it is important

Contingency Staffing Plan:

• Last week there was some confusion over the role of partner teachers. 
• The K0/K1 team asked if we could meet to discuss the plan and try to come up with an action for many possible scenarios
• You may find this helpful to do with your grade level team and partner teacher. 
• I think this was a productive meeting though we do not have all of the answers yet 
• Here is where we left it:

	Scenario	Plan A	Plan B
Scenario 1	The teacher needs to stay home due to covid protocol but is well enough to work remotely	- Teacher covers remote kids.  - Para cover in-person kids.
Scenario 2	Para needs to stay home due to covid protocol but is well enough to work remotely.	- Para covers remote kids.  - Teacher covers in-person kids.
Scenario 3	The teacher is too sick to work from home.	- Para covers in-person kids. - Remote kids log onto partner teachers zoom	If the partner teacher is out, remote students will learn asynchronously
Scenario 4	Para is too sick to work from home.	- Teacher covers in-person kids.  - Remote kids log onto partner teacher's zoom.	If the partner teacher is out, remote students will learn asynchronously
Scenario 5	The teacher and Para need to stay home due to covid protocol but are well enough to work from home.	- Teacher and para cover remote kids.  In person kids are equally distributed among the other 3 classrooms. Possibly find another staff member to cover in-person kids
Scenario 6	The teacher and Para are both home and too sick to work.	- Remote kids log into partner teachers zoom. In person kids are equally distributed among the other 2 classrooms. Possibly find another staff member to cover in-person kids	If the partner teacher is out, remote students will learn asynchronously