Happy Monday...
Although things are not as normal as we hoped we are so very appreciative of all that you have done to make our students and their families feel welcome and comfortable at school the last few weeks. The kids have been more resilient than we expected and you all have gone above and beyond to find creative ways to get your students interacting with each other and learning. We will still have hurdles to overcome as we learned this week, but as a school family we can get through anything together. We were informed last week that there was a possibility that schools would lose an allocation of a staff member to work at Charlotte Virtual School. On Friday we were made aware of the confirmation of our loss of one of our first grade teachers, Jen Phillips. We are extremely sad to lose Jen, but know that with her curriculum strengths and technology expertise she will be an amazing addition to the CVS staff and a huge benefit to students as they navigate this school year online. Jen will be with us through this week and will then transition to CVS. We will be sharing this information with the parents of her class on Tuesday after school, so please do not share this information with any students or parents at this time. When you see Jen please wish her luck on her new adventure. We hope to have our paths cross again in the future so we can have her back on our staff!
Fire Drill and Safety Drill:
Thank you for your patience with the fire alarm on Friday. After pulling the station for the drill we locked the station back up, but it did not silence the alarm as it was supposed to. The district maintenance department answered our call and arrived quickly. They have removed the pull station and will be back on Monday to do the needed repairs. I appreciate your flexibility with your students as we adjusted to unplanned activities to avoid the noisy alarms in the buildings.
Just a reminder, CCSO attends our safety/crisis drills and walks our campus to confirm that we are following protocols. We did an awesome job, but did receive comments on our form that they observed some door windows not covered as well as some classes of students could be heard from the hallways. Please review these procedures with your kiddos between now and our next drill.
Collaborative Planning:
This week we will try our very first session of back to back collaborative planning. Our goal with this model is to provide you with additional uninterrupted planning time to work together as a team to dive deeper into instructional practices and to analyze student work so we can boost our tier one for our students, especially to make up for their lost instructional time due to COVID-19. Just a reminder, specials times run differently on these days. Also, if you are scheduled for back to back planning on Tuesday your classes will have two specials period that day (Tuesday and Friday's classes), but will not have any specials on Friday. If you are scheduled for back to back planning on Fridays you will not have a specials class on Tuesday and will have two classes on Friday (Friday and then Tuesday's classes). We would like you to take advantage of the time in your classroom with your students when you do not have specials as this time will be taken away from academics on the day that you have double specials. Below is the specifics of the back to back planning schedule for you to review. Program Planners will be facilitating the sessions to keep the team focused on their goals and Mrs. Brown, Mr. Vernon, and me will be attending to assist as needed. We will need to use a few minutes of time this week to talk about the new Oral Language Communication window.
Weekly Schedule:
Below is our schedule for the week. Mrs. Skavronek has organized an awesome drive through event for our families on Friday for "Dad's Take Your Child To School Day."
We hope you have an awesome week!
-Keli and James
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