Live Meeting Schedule

If you are conducting live meetings with your students, please adhere to the schedule below. This schedule was created to take into consideration:

     1. Families that have children at multiple grade levels

     2. Families that may only have one device for students to utilize

In addition, new security features in Google Meet do not allow students to create their own Google Meet sessions. However, students could rejoin a teacher-created Google Meet session up to 3 minutes after the last person leaves the meeting, then the meeting locks. For this reason, teachers should be the last person to leave a live meeting and check back in 1-3 minutes to ensure no students have rejoined.

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Staff Meeting

April 20 Staff Meeting Agenda

1. Good News

2. Meeting Norms

3. Remote Learning 2.0

4. Accessing the Building 

5. Glint Survey

8. Q & A

9. Launch

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Highlights

Robyn

First grade has opened Google Classrooms after having created an efficient weekly plan for parents.  They are excited to have more student interactions!  They have continued using DOJO as a communication tool for parents and respond even if it is outside of "business hours."  A few students have completed and even presented their Family Project in a video!

Stacey

Young Fives and Kindergarten have been working well as a team of 8!  They've been collaborating well with their weekly newsletters/plans and tailoring it for their students’ needs.  They are adding a little more each week, so parents aren't overwhelmed with the new system.  They've used a variety of means: classroom apps, personal notes through the mail, email, phone calls and virtual meets when able to connect with students.  They've heard from almost 100% of their students!

Jamie

Sloane starts her week off in her Google Classroom with good news.

The Specials teacher send out a weekly newsletter to the Keystone families. This week Emma asked students to create art by looking for items around  them, Kelly set up a music challenge for the students to teach their family a song or game they learned in music , Sarah is teaching the students how to animate their jokes and Brian posted videos of his daughter Avery doing different workout techniques. Way to go specials teachers!

Highlights

Each week, the deans highlight great things that members of their teams are doing to generate ideas and best practices amongst colleagues. I know that all of you are doing amazing and creative things and I cannot wait to share them in the upcoming weeks.

Stacey

The Special Education Team has been creatively coming up with solutions to help their students during the school closure.  Some of what they've been doing is: creating google classrooms for their students, using email and phones to make student and parent contacts, sharing a blog for OT resources, sending resources to speech students.  In addition, they've been collaborating with classroom teachers and still managing to hold IEP meetings.  They haven't missed any deadlines despite the circumstances.  Keep up the great work!!

Robyn

All my teams jumped in and started running with Remote Learning 2.0 planning during their Spring Break!  The fourth grade team has been staying connected to their students and doing their best to keep them engaged by sending a student specific personalized email each week or setting up a phone call with each student each week!  They have each started a log to track their communication!

Jamie

5th -8th grade teachers were ready to go with the new Remote Learning 2.0 over Spring Break! The teachers always have the students' best interest and want them to be successful when planning and communicating out to families. The middle school teachers are setting up weekly spirit days for the middle school students to keep them engaged and having fun with learning!

EOY Evaluations

The End of the Year Evaluation window is now open. You and your dean have already scheduled your O3 for the week of April 20-May 1 to discuss and finalize your ratings. Due to the school closure, NHA has made some changes to the evaluation. The Positive Impact on Student Learning indicator will be removed from the evaluation since students didn’t have a full year to demonstrate growth. Instead, Professional Accountabilities will account for 50% of the overall evaluation score, and the remaining 50% will be based on the Classroom Framework. I will be sending a separate email explaining the self-rating process for Professional Accountabilities.

Remote Learning 2.0

Does this work count?

Work is not required but recommended so kids can actively be engaged in learning during this time. The learning packet work really has a focus on participation and effort rather than a focus on grades due to the inequity in homes across our system of schools. The standards covered in the learning packets are the most important, priority standards that will make the biggest difference for students’ success in their upcoming grade level. No grades are being entered into the gradebook. Instead, NHA is developing a tool for teachers to track participation and contact with students.

Instead of spending time grading work, teachers should provide feedback as well as correct misconceptions as needed. Rather than earning a grade, ask parents/kids to take a picture of one completed assignment each week (their best work, their favorite assignment, etc.) as a check-in on who’s participating.

Please do not hesitate to speak with your dean during your grade level/PLC meeting this week if you still have lingering questions.

Live Meeting

We are excited that NHA has provided us with a platform to conduct live meetings with our students, Google Meet. At this time, Keystone will be offering this platform beginning Monday, April 20, so that we can ensure consistency and understanding of the expectations of this platform. Please be on the lookout for more information.

Staff Engagement Survey

NHA will be continuing with the Staff Engagement Survey for our staff.  However, the survey will be significantly shorter and focus primarily on collecting information on staff needs during the COVID-19 closure. The survey window will open on Monday, April 20 through Friday, May 1.

Happy Birthday

Sarah M.- April 6

Ellen- April 12