Mechelle: October 15
Safety Measures & Tools
I wanted to let you
know some of the tools that NHA has for principals to use when presented with
possible COVID symptoms or positive cases. If a staff member or student exhibit
COVID symptom or have a positive case, I would follow the steps below.
1.
NHA COVID-19 Staff & Student Response Plan
phone app is available for all school leaders to use to
help us navigate and report COVID related situations with our students and
staff.
a. I would enter the
situation and/or trace information (positive cases) into the app and it notifies me of next steps. In
addition, the app sends the information to NHA. I
then proceed to step 2.
2. NHA has set up a response hotline
for COVID support for both confirmed cases or questions around
different scenarios.
a.
Principals along with our DSQ will
call a hotline with two teams from the Service Center: Pandemic and Health and
Safety team.
b.
These meetings will help to provide
immediate guidance and next steps/resources regarding our COVID situations.
I also wanted to let you know what steps we are taking
here to address COVID symptoms. If a student
shows one of the following symptoms (fever, uncontrolled cough, shortness of
breath) that is NOT explained by a known medical or physical condition, they
will go directly to the Parent Room until a parent picks them up. They may not
return until they do one of the following: bring in a doctor’s note explaining
the symptoms, negative COVID test result, or quarantine for 10 days and remain
fever free for 24 hours (without medication).
Playground Equipment
I am excited to inform you that our Board and PTO have purchased three new pieces of playground equipment! The playground equipment has been ordered, but with delays due to COVID we do not have an installation date yet. The plan is to have it installed this school year!
Progress Reports
Parents will be viewing their child’s progress report on the Parent Portal on October 9. As a part of our Green School initiative, we will not be printing progress reports. Please make sure that you have a true representation of their child’s academic progress by having enough grades entered by October 9.
Edcite
Don’t forget to utilize the resources on the Virtual Staff Learning Hub while you are navigating Edcite. There are four short video tutorials to help you understand this assessment platform.
Regardless, if you are virtual or an in-person teacher, all students will be using Edcite to take the interim assessments. You can administer other assessment through EdCite too.
One of the benefits to EdCite is that you can see how students are
progressing through the assessments as they are working (how many questions
complete, etc.).
Next Wednesday, we will be spending some time exploring Edcite further.
Shout Outs
Keystone Staff for filling
buckets and spreading kindness.
Tully, Tracy, Diane, and
Julie for planning activities and events for MOYA.
Anne, Amelia, and Tricia
for planning
anti-bullying month.
Andria for going
out and getting materials for the staff.
Stacey, Andrea, Andria, Ellen, Jen H,
Amelia, Robyn and Cindy Conti for attending
and/or hosting our Title 1 Parent Informational Meeting.
Christina and Sarah
D for
remaining calm during a discussion.
Jeanne, Theresa, and Tabitha for
consistently monitoring the parent room.
Sarah D for creating
a Chromebook cheat sheet.
Robyn for always making sure that we have everything we need for interviews.
This Week
Tuesday, October 6:
·
MOYA Spirit Day (Group A)-ALL students may wear a pink shirt with jeans
(no rips or tears) and gym shoes for $1 to support Susan B. Komen Breast Cancer
Foundation
*Teachers may participate on both
days!
Wednesday, October 7:
·
Count Day
· Nikki’s Birthday
·
PTO Meeting 4-5 PM https://meet.google.com/
mnh-btzf-nmc
Thursday, October 8:
·
Tabitha’s Birthday
Friday, October 9:
·
Progress Reports
· DUE: Morning Assembly Presentation-BOROWIAK (Anti-Bullying)
· MOYA Spirit Day (Group B)-ALL students may wear a pink shirt with jeans (no rips or tears) and gym shoes
for $1 to support Susan B. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
*Teachers may participate on both
days!
Saturday, October 10:
Admin Observations
The admin team will be finishing Classroom Culture observations
this week. All teachers should have culture ratings in his or her framework by
October 2. Next, we will be focusing on the Teaching competency.
Please review the “look fors” in the document below to provide you with some
insight on what we are looking for when we observe you in action. Don’t
hesitate to reach out if you have any questions regarding the expectations.
Teaching Look Fors by embryjd on Scribd
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