Monday Morning Memo

9/28-10-2

Doug Fisher-Distance Learning Playbook-

As a reminder, this Tuesday, 9/29 @ 2:00 will be Doug Fisher's professional learning opportunity.  I highly encourage you to take part in it.  It is absolutely aligned with our school-wide focus.

Substitutes-

• If for any reason you need to be out, you will need to follow the normal process of calling SAMS and requesting a sub.
• Educators should follow normal procedures for reporting an absence (notifying Armando and Cathy the day before if possible and inputting into SAMS. 
• Educators must prepare lesson plans for the Visiting Teacher just as you would during onsite instruction 
• Options for providing Zoom links:
• Never share your username or password
• Add the substitute to your meeting and assign as a co-host
• Have the substitute email Cathy for the link to your Zoom

Observations-

I will be going into classrooms this coming week to give you feedback on your instruction.  I will be coming in with the lens of Learning Intentions and Success Criteria.

Appointment-based Learning-

I will be having a meeting soon about how we support our most vulnerable students with on-site learning.  As we think about our neediest students, please start thinking about your class and who would benefit the most out of that group.  Once I get more information, I will have a meeting about it.

Enrollment-

As we move into next week, our enrollment has dipped a little bit.  We will be monitoring it very closely.   Usually, the district looks at enrollment at the end of the 3rd week.  They have moved it to the end of the 5th week.  I do not know if they will be changing the overall process of reorganization as well.  More information to come as I learn more.

Chronic Absenteeism-

We are on a watch list for our Chronic Absenteeism (ATSI).  If a school is above the 10% threshold of their students being chronically absent, the school is considered a site with chronic Absenteeism.  We are at 19.6% We will need to be taking measures to increase our attendance online and in-person.  More information to come. 

ELD-

Just a friendly reminder that Designated ELD needs to be on your schedules.  I will be hopping into those lessons next week as well.

DRA-

Eventually, we will learn how to administer the DRA soon.  If you wanted to take a look at the resources in advance, please click this link.

STAFF DAILY SYMPTOM CHECK-

We have changed the process when you access our site at any time.  

Fill out the ClearPass employee daily symptom questionnaire that can be filled out online before coming to campus. This takes place of the paper check-off list of symptoms that you would fill out when you arrived on site.  To Access ClearPass Job Aide click here.

Employees coming on campus must still have their temperature checked and continue to follow the Teacher/Staff Access Guide.

ZOOM NOTICE & SECURITY

I'm sure you have heard of "Zoom-bombing" when someone outside of your classroom jumps into your lesson in an attempt to sabotage your lesson.  There are new guidelines for security that are mandatory.  If you have not done so, please ensure that you are having your students log in by authentication.  Below are the troubleshooting tips rom the Educator Updates.

ZOOM GUIDANCE: UPDATED TROUBLESHOOTING FOR JOINING AUTHENTICATED MEETINGS

These three problem solving procedures will resolve most issues when joining authenticated Zoom meetings from a district Chromebook. 

Please try these steps in order. For example, if #1 doesn’t work, try #2. If #2 doesn’t work, try #3. 

STEP 1: Sign in through sandiegounified.zoom.us before joining the meeting. Click here for a video tutorial.   

STEP 2: Uninstall the Zoom extension. Click here for a video tutorial.

STEP 3: Sign in into the extension with SSO. Click here for a video tutorial. 

Important Upcoming Dates:

M 9/28-

T 9/29-ELAC Meeting-SPSA Feedback 9:00-10:00, Distance Learning Playbook Training 2:00-4:00

W 9/30- 

Th 10/1- SSC Meeting-Site Plan Approval 2:30-3:30, Mission Bay Cluster Meeting 6:00-7:00

F 10/2-

MONDAY MORNING MEMO 9/21-9/25

Monday Morning Memo

Week of 9/21-9/25

As we move into week 4, I just wanted to thank everyone for the continual consideration of your families and the challenges that they are going through. I also want to thank you for your dedication to your family, kids, and students.  Every family has a different challenge during COVID and our small school community has been strong during online learning.  Thank you for working together cohesively.

STAFF DAILY SYMPTOM CHECK-

We have changed the process when you access our site at any time.  

1. Fill out the ClearPass employee daily symptom questionnaire that can be filled out online before coming to campus. This takes place of the paper check-off list of symptoms that you would fill out when you arrived on site.  To Access ClearPass Job Aide click here.
2. Employees coming on campus must still have their temperature checked and continue to follow the Teacher/Staff Access Guide. 

Iv Cam app 

This app turns your cell phone into a docucam. It had been a "game-changer" according to one of our teachers.  It could be useful in your lessons for your students.

Classroom Observations-

As of this week, I will resume my classroom observations.  I will be focusing on Teacher Clarity, success criteria, and learning intentions.  If you are new to these ideas,  your grade level partners and I can assist and break down these strategies.  

ZOOM NOTICE & SECURITY

I'm sure you have heard of "Zoom-bombing" when someone outside of your classroom jumps into your lesson in an attempt to sabotage your lesson.  There are new guidelines for security that are mandatory.  If you have not done so, please ensure that you are having your students log in by authentication.  Below are the troubleshooting tips rom the Educator Updates.

ZOOM GUIDANCE: UPDATED TROUBLESHOOTING FOR JOINING AUTHENTICATED MEETINGS

These three problem solving procedures will resolve most issues when joining authenticated Zoom meetings from a district Chromebook. 

Please try these steps in order. For example, if #1 doesn’t work, try #2. If #2 doesn’t work, try #3. 

STEP 1: Sign in through sandiegounified.zoom.us before joining the meeting. Click here for a video tutorial.   

STEP 2: Uninstall the Zoom extension. Click here for a video tutorial.

STEP 3: Sign in into the extension with SSO. Click here for a video tutorial. 

School Site Council Nominations/Elections-

SSC/ELAC-

Cathy will be getting you the SSC and ELAC election ballots throughout next week.  It is critical that you send them electronically to your parents on the date that Cathy requests you to send them to your families.

Please ask parents to send any completed nominations and election ballots to cvalenzuela@sandi.net.

If you are on SSC as a teacher, Cathy will be contacting you to let you know when our meeting for September is scheduled.

 

Items needed to be shared with Armando-

• Emergency Lesson Plans
• Regular Zoom Links for any instruction Monday through Friday
• PLEASE PASTE YOUR LINKS INTO THIS GOOGLE DOC. HERE IS THE LINK.

DRA-

Eventually, we will learn how to administer the DRA soon.  If you wanted to take a look at the resources in advance, please click this link.

Monday Morning Memo

Week of 9/14-9/18 

Week 2 has come to an end and I wanted to say that I am very proud of you.  I am also very thankful for your support in passing out the necessary supplies and materials to your students.  Each of you put a very big smile on their faces when they met you in person for the first time in a social distance manner. 

 

I know things are hard and I also wanted to say that I know you are doing the best that you can.  Your students and parents are doing the best that they can as well.  As we move into next week, I believe that we all will get better and you will find your groove.

 

Enjoy the weekend I look forward to a wonderful week 3.

Thank you everyone for your help in our distribution to all students!

Mrs. Sor's class had tremendous attendance in the first and second week.  Keep it up!!!

 

Open House-

• This will consist of each teacher having their own open house Wednesday, 9/16 @ starting at 5:00 pm. 
• Each teacher will be responsible to get the Zoom links to parents.
• Each teacher will need to share with me your open house Zoom links as well.
• Each teacher will be responsible to have at least 2 sessions to accommodate parents who have siblings. 
• The next Zoom open house will be at 5:30 for the last group of parents. 
• There will not be an initial whole group meeting. 
• I have set up times to do Coffee with the Principal covering the same items within the 3rd week of school in every classroom.

Student/Family Reach-out-

At this point, Marylin Obregon will be taking the lead in any technical issues that cannot be handled at the teacher level.  If you can't solve an issue at the teacher level, please connect the family to Marylin via email at mobregon@sandi.net.  

She will also be reaching out to families based on your recommendation who either have poor attendance, struggling with connecting to your lessons or need additional support from the school.  She and I will be discussing the direction we will be going with each of the families in need.  We will keep you informed on how we further support the families.

School Site Council Nominations/Elections-

• Cathy will be getting you the SSC and ELAC nomination ballots throughout next week.  It is critical that you send them electronically to your parents on the date that Cathy requests you to send them to your families.
• Please ask parents to send any completed nominations and election ballots to cvalenzuela@sandi.net.
• If you are on SSC as a teacher, Cathy will be contacting you to let you know when our meeting for September is scheduled.

 

Items needed to be shared with Armando by Wednesday of Next Week.

• Emergency Lesson Plans
• Regular Zoom Links for any instruction Monday through Friday
• Coffee with the Principal Zoom Links for your respective times
• PLEASE PASTE YOUR LINKS INTO THIS GOOGLE DOC. HERE IS THE LINK.

Music Prep-

I have been working on the schedule with Mr. Whiteside starting on Monday.  At this point, if you need to make any further changes, please let Mr. Whiteside know.  Here is the link to the Music Prep Schedule.  Please look at only the tab that says Whiteside/Lore.  Mr. Luch's schedule is much more complicated and will be done as soon as we can. Here is the link for the Music Prep Schedule.

*****NOTE******IT IS CRITICAL THAT YOU EMAIL MR. WHITESIDE YOUR STANDARD ZOOM LOGIN LINK/CODES FOR BEFORE HIS SCHEDULED TIME IN YOUR CLASS.  YOU WILL ALSO NEED TO MAKE HIM A CO-HOST DURING YOUR MUSIC PREP-TIME.  PLEASE ALSO COMMUNICATE TO YOUR PARENTS THE TIME AND DATE YOU WILL BE HAVING MUSIC PREP IN ADVANCE.

Library-

Library will be on Thursday each week.  Lore will be reaching out to each of you to discuss what your time will look like and for scheduling purposes.  Please respond to her emails as soon as you can.  We are trying to get her time started this coming Thursday.

Violin-

Mr. Luch has needed to make a major overhaul of his program and it will take some time to get off the ground.  We will be sharing with parents an overview of what his program will generally look like at the coffees with the principal.  We will also be sending out a Google Form questionnaire to parents as well.  Thank you for your patience.

 

Canva-

This website is a great resource for high-quality templates for you to use for free if you have not done so already. Here is the link Canva.com.

 

 

DRA-

Eventually, we will learn how to administer the DRA soon.  If you wanted to take a look at the resources in advance, please click this link.

 

Online Tech Resource-

Hopefully the tech support issues will begin to lessen this week.  Please share this CPJMA Online Learning Resource webpage with your families to have a consolidated resource if in need.  Here is the link.

 

Important Upcoming Dates:

 

• M 9/14-ELAC/SSC Nominations sent out by teachers

• T 9/15- 2:30 Staff Meeting

• W 9/16-Cathy collects SSC/ELAC Nominations, Teachers send out official SSC/ELAC elections ballots to their families. Open House Session #1 5:00 and Session #2 5:30

• Th 9/17- Coffee with the Principal

• F 9/18- Coffee with the Principal, SSC/ELAC election ballots counted and election announcement sent by Cathy to families.