Friday, March 5, 2021

March 5, 2021

Honey-Do List- March


March 5- Read the Hive. Remind your friends to read the Hive.
March 8: Post link and information about pooled testing consent for on classroom pages

New 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 9:10 Jackie/David will deliver breakfasts to the classroom based on the number of children expected that day.

  • We will provide a list of classrooms and #of students

  • Once breakfasts have been distributed by Jackie/David they will return the carriers back to the cafeteria.

  • This will happen no later than 10:00 am


General Dismissal Procedures:


Preparation:

  • We will be doing a living bus binder.

  • Jodi will walk the building at 10:15 and ask each individual classroom who is absent and present that day

    • This will allow teachers to post their full attendance later in the day to account for online learners. 

    • This information will be used both for the lunch count needed in the cafeteria by 10:20 and identifying who to expect riding on the bus. 

  • At this time Jodi will also ask if any students scheduled to ride the bus are being picked up that day. 

  • If you find out later in the day that a student is changing their departure please text Jodi

  • This information will help us to avoid looking for students at the end of the day. 


Walkers/Pick-ups

  • Walkers will be dismissed at 3:10. The classroom teacher will walk the students to the back of the school where they will meet the students’ families. 

  • Any student not picked up by 3:35 will be returned to the office and the teacher will contact the family. 


Bus Students

  • Keri will bring the students to the bus. 

  • Keri will wait by the double doors at the entrance with a sign stating the number of the bus that is boarding

  • Zoraida will call the bus number. Paras will get the students ready in the classroom.

  • There will be 3 staff members assigned to gather students from the classrooms. 

    • 2 on the first floor and 1 on the second floor

  • Each gathering staff member will bring their line of students to Keri who will then bring the students to the bus.

Monday and Tuesday


Boarding Staff:

Keri

Gathering Staff

101, 102, 103,104 Sam

105,108         Jodi

202, 205         Kathryn


Thursday and Friday

Boarding Staff:

Keri

Gathering Staff:

106, 107 Jodi

101, 103 Sam

203, 204 Sarah



Back-up: Monday/Tuesday Govi

Thursday/Friday Nee


Student Pooled Testing

Consent

  • We will begin to offer student pooled COVID next week. 
  • 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 hybrid students participate in testing. 
  • So far, we have only 7 students with completed consent forms.  
  • 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 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 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.
  • We currently only have 9 students that have consented.  

Talking Points

  • By tomorrow afternoon I should have finished adding in Hybrid and Remote classes for each grade level to Talking Points so that you can easily text the families of students that are in your groups something that is only relevant to that group.

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:

Safety Drills

Mandated safety drills including active shooter and fire drills will be held next week on Monday and Thursday. 

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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