Parkrose Middle School Staff Update

Staff -

Happy Mother's Day to all of the moms on our staff! We hope you have had a wonderful day and felt loved and appreciated! We want to start this newsletter by thanking our classified staff for their commitment, hard work, support of our students, kindness and care. We missed Classified Appreciation Week with all that was going on with the pandemic and school closure but we hope you know you are appreciated everyday. We want to say a special thank you to our kitchen staff, front office staff and custodial crew for their work since the school closure began. These staff members have been coming into the building to work on a weekly and sometimes daily basis to provide critical support to our students, families and community throughout this pandemic. We are lucky to have you all and thank you for your extra level of dedication right now. There will be a small gift in the mail to everyone this week. Thank you for all you do to help our students and make our school such a special place!

Please see below for updates on this upcoming week.

We will continue to handout Chromebooks to our students on Thursday, 5.14.20 from 3:30-5:30pm in front of the middle school. Please let parents and students know this information as you are talking with them. Also we have a few internet hot spots that we can still provide to middle school and high school families. If you know of a family who is in need of this please let me know directly.

Please go to this link to find the schedule for staff check out. Errica will send the check out list to all staff later this week. Please follow your normal check out procedures this year with one exception that we are encouraging all certified staff to keep their technology over the summer.

We have less than five weeks of distance learning remaining. We appreciate all of the work our teachers have done to communicate with and support our students throughout this distance learning time. Please continue to use the communication log as you hear back from students. Just mark the appropriate box for this week starting May 11th. Please continue to work to reach our students who have not been engaging as regularly as others in your classes. This may look like phone calls and text messages through Remind, reaching out through Google Voice if you had previously set up an account and individual emails to students. Also as you are working with students please do not hesitate to reach out to our counselors on any student you may be concerned with in terms of mental health. This is a difficult time for all of us and our students are particularly vulnerable during this time. If you have concern for a student or if a parent is concerned about their child please contact Mara or Sonny directly.

Just a reminder that as you work with students and families and you hear of needs (food, internet, financial needs). We are working on keeping that information and those requests for support during the COVID-19 crisis in one central place. Please fill out the below form. Our team will meet weekly and work to problem solve and provide support for each family. We will input notes into the communication log as well as send communication to the student's teachers through email on a weekly basis.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScMhp4KPRPqqcyQ7y8ZnrS9G63klIoM7ehiqubhixEYaBwy0Q/viewform?usp=pp_url

Below is the meeting schedule for this week. All meetings are scheduled through your Google Calendar. Please accept meeting invitations and look for the link for that meeting in the invitation. The meetings below will all be held through Zoom.

This Week:

5.12.2020 - PLC Leaders 10:00-11:00am

5.13.2020 - PLC Meetings 10:00-11:00am

5.14.2020 - All Staff Meeting 2:00-3:00pm

Have a good week everyone!

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

- John Wooden

Email: annette_sweeney@parkrose.k12.or.us
Website: https://www.parkrose.k12.or.us/
Location: 11800 Northeast Shaver Street, Portland, OR, USA
Phone: 503-408-2700
Twitter: @PMSPSD