Honey-Do List- March
March 8- Read the Hive. Remind your friends to read the Hive.
March 15: Post link and information about pooled testing consent on classroom pages
March 17: 3:00-4:30 Staff Meeting (Including Paras)
Buzzing in my Brain
Concurrent Teaching
- The early childhood department shared this resource on concurrent teaching.
- Mary Driscoll shared this resource on concurrent teaching that Region 2 found helpful.
- It is from the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching and is called: Concurrent Teaching Considerations: Supporting instruction in multiple modalities.
- This tool is designed to help teachers plan for and then deliver concurrent lessons to ensure that learning is maximized regardless of student modality. Concurrent instruction can include:
- Teaching virtual and in-person learners simultaneously
- Teaching virtual and in-person learners in different class periods but within the same day
Preparing to Welcome Students Back
What We Know
Parent Survey
- Families will get their survey on Monday, they have until 3/22 to complete it
- Jodi with support from Sam will call families and walk them through the survey
- I actually started with room 101 today. :)
- We may reach out to teachers for support with families that we are not able to reach
- A family can opt to switch to in-person learning at any time. This is in the new regulations. The District may ask for a reasonable amount of time to make it happen (i.e the time it takes to route transportation)
- You do not have to make 20 individual sets of materials.
- 2-3 students may share the same set of manipulatives etc.
Materials
- We have reordered everything that we were unable to get into your hands this fall. Hopefully, we will start to see those arriving soon.
Devices
- You may ask students to transport their devices OR to bring them and leave them in the school once we have returned to 5-day in school learning
Specials
- The amazing Ms. Purple is redoing our special schedule again
- Our goal is to increase "live" specials once students return.
- We are balancing this goal with the desire to limit exposure for our specialists
- I will be working with our specialist team to determine their comfort levels
- Specials will either be live-streamed into your classroom or held in person
- We will be opening the second cafeteria once we find the furniture to do so
- Both tents should be erected over the weekend as well
- We are revamping the lunch schedule to accommodate for the number of students
- Breakfast will be eaten outside under the tents starting April 5th
Getting us to the Goal
Time
- You will have time to prepare your classrooms on 3/24 and 3/31(This may change based on any agreements reached between the BTU and BPS)
- The building will be open until 5 on each of those days
Rescheduled PD
- Our final 2 PD sessions will be scheduled to 4/28 and 5/5
- Please continue to enter your questions and concerns into this document
Adjusted Procedures
- We continue to live and learn in this new reality. Here are some new/tweaked procedures that we will use moving forward.
Breakfast Procedures
Beginning at 9:05 Jackie/David will deliver breakfasts to a central location in each hallway
At 9:10 each classroom can send an adult to gather the breakfasts needed for your classroom.
Breakfast bags will be brought back to the cafeteria at 10:00 am by the breakfast captain
This will only be in place until April 5.
Student Pooled Testing
Consent
- This is a key mitigation strategy
- This type of surveillance testing is designed to test large groups of asymptomatic people as an additional mitigation strategy that will help us to monitor infection rates within our community and to be able to quickly prevent transmission if a positive case is identified.
- This program will be most successful if the majority of in-person students participate in testing.
- Please post a link to the google consent form on your classroom pages (for your hybrid students only) in an effort to get as many students as possible enrolled in the pooled testing program.
- If families have specific questions, please direct them to Sam and she can talk them through the process.
- If you have other ideas to boost education and consent or if you want Sam to come to speak to a group of your parents in order to explain the program and answer questions, please let me know.
- Pooled surveillance testing is an important way that we can ensure a safe school environment.
In-School Procedure
- Please read this updated linked document, Student Pooled PCR Testing DRAFT Process, so that you know what to expect when pooled testing begins this upcoming week.
- We do not have flexibility with when the testing occurs because the support team is assigned centrally.
Family Literacy
- Lee Academy will be hosting another set of Family Literacy Nights focused on supporting students as a writer.
- Families will be taking a look at grade-level writing standards, sharing tips with each other, and getting ideas for how to support writing at home. T
- The sessions will be organized by grade level and facilitated by Sarah and Govi.
- Classroom teachers - if you could send a reminder the Monday or Tuesday of the week of your session, that would be super helpful!
- Sarah will also post the link on Seesaw or Google classroom the morning of the session if she has access (or you can give me access and I'll post). She'll also send reminders out to you the week of. Also - and totally optional - but please let me know if there's anything specific you'd like Sarah to cover.
The sessions are on the following dates:
- Grades K2/1st Grade: Thursday, March 11th, 5:30pm
- Grades 2 and 3: Thursday, March 18th, 5:30pm
- Grades K0/K1: Thursday, March 25th, 5:30pm
Zoom link for all sessions:
Stipend Opportunity
Please Join - Performance Assessment Development
We are recruiting teacher teams to pilot the development of performance assessment tasks at the district level. Virtual meetings will occur on 3/22, 3/29, 4/5, 4/12, 5/3, 5/17, 6/21, and 6/28. There is a $1,500 stipend per participant. Detailed information and the application can be found here. For more information, please contact Sarah Jay at sjay@bostonpublicschools.org
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