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.