Administrivia

As imagined, Back to School Night will be VIRTUAL this year, and as mentioned in the Teacher Norms for Distance Learning, teachers will need to create a video that can be distributed to parents covering the following topics:

• who you are
• highlights of your class and education journey this year
• how grades are assigned
• how students can get support from you
• what social/emotional support looks like in your class

For the first time ever, academic, elective and conservatory teachers will submit videos for their classes. More information will follow shortly, but your video(s) will be due Friday, September 4

Last Friday, August 21 was the deadline for students to request changes to their schedule. Counselors are working furiously to make those adjustments as quickly as possible. Thank you for your continued patience!

So your parents are fully in the loop, please send your Google slide agenda link to all parents through AERIES Communications.

Need guidance for how to send? For a quick tutorial on how to send announcements through Aeries Communications, please click here.

Last week, some parents and teachers reported concerns with students chatting with one another during class, thus causing distraction and disruption. As the host of your meetings/class sessions, you can control which meeting or participants are allowed to chat with. You can also disable the chat for all participants or disable private chat, so participants cannot send private messages.

We recommend you only permit chatting with everyone in the meeting/class, or disable entirely.

To see the full Zoom support article, please click here.

We have purchased Screencastify Unlimited! Please login to Screencastify with your @ocsarts.net email (Sign in with Google) to activate your account.

You should see the image to the right when you login showing Screencastify Unlimited for Record and Edit is active. Please disregard any messages in "My Account" that states you do not have an active subscription - you do!

• PLC meetings continue on Tuesday!
• If you have not had a chance to look at the PLC Expectations, please review the 2020-2021 PLC Expectations found here.
• Each PLC meeting will grapple with weekly PLC Reflective Questions. During your meetings, use these questions to guide your discussions.

Do you have materials that need to be picked up by students without you being present? If so, it is important to complete the following:

• Gather materials and label student materials with your class, teacher name, and if necessary, student name.

• Utilize the Humanities Tower as the point of pickup for your students.

• Communicate directly with staff at the receptionist desk so they know where materials are located, what is being picked up, and if students need to initial their pickup.

• Materials can be picked up before 5:00 PM, Monday - Thursday, and 4:00 PM on Fridays.

The Student Behavior Referral Form has been updated with this year's students. When you complete the referral, the notification goes to the following people:

• the student
• the parent(s)
• the counselor
• Leslie Brooks
• Michael Ciecek

Please remember that the referral form is part of your classroom management plan, and should be used when other measures like parent and student communication have not been successful.

Attendance marks during distance learning will continue to require adjustments based on information received from the state. Based on information received thus far, please use the chart below to guide your attendance marks with your students.

To download the chart below, please click here

Anyone entering an OCSA building is required to complete a DAILY health screening before entering. Daily health screening procedures will include:

• Completion of the OCSA Campus Visitor Health Screening Form - this form will ask questions like where you are going on campus, how long you will be there, as well as some health questions and acknowledgements of mask policies we have implemented in connection with the School Reopening Plan. This form is required to be completed DAILY for any OCSA employee who enters a campus building, and can be completed before you arrive on campus (recommend you save the link on your devices for easy access).

If you have elected to work on the OCSA campus during distance learning, please adhere to the campus hours below:

• Monday - Friday, 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM
• It is important that all employees depart the OCSA campus by 5:00 PM so OCSA custodial and security personnel can complete their cleaning and security procedures to close the campus each night.
• With 11 buildings and 350,000 square feet of space, the process takes nearly 2 hours to complete. Thank you for supporting them in completing their job duties.

Until the school closure concludes, We will maintain permanent buttons below within Administrivia

Elective Teacher PLC (Tuesday, August 25)

1:15 PM

Meeting ID: 951 9517 1321

Passcode: Elective

Academic Teacher PLCs (Tuesday, August 25)

2:00 PM

Check with Curriculum Leads for meeting Information

OCSA Reopening Task Force Meeting (Wednesday, August 26)

1:30 PM

Meeting ID: 967 2514 3571

Passcode: OCSA

Admin Office Hours (Friday, August 24 - optional attendance)

2:00 PM

Meeting ID: 757 977 2269

Passcode: OCSA

Email: ocsa.administration@ocsarts.net
Website: ocsa.net
Location: 1010 North Main Street, Santa Ana, CA, USA
Phone: (714) 560-0900
Twitter: @weareocsa