Nothing means more than your words of thanks and affirmation as they tend to give 110% each day.

Again, these are trying times and just like many of you, we have teachers who are overwhelmed, lonely, bored, concerned about loved ones, dealing with unemployment of spouse, etc. A positive message and thank you can go a long way in brightening their week.

Thank you for being such wonderful, supportive and positive partners with Duval Charter School at Southside!

5/4 to 5/8 Teacher Appreciation Week

Monday 5/4:

"Say Thanks" to your teachers

Phase 2 of Recommit Begins

A Day for MS Electives

Resource: K & 1 Technology, 2nd Spanish, 3rd PE/Health, 4th Art, 5th Music

Progress Reports - Log into Powerschool

Tuesday 5/5:

"Share Smiles" - link below to record jokes

B Day for MS Electives

Resource: K& 1 Music, 2nd Technology, 3rd Spanish 4th PE/Health 5th Art

Recommit Process Facebook Live Session 3pm Today with Cece

Wednesday 5/6:

"Gifts of Gratitude"

A Day for MS Electives

Resource: K & 1 Art, 2nd Music, 3rd Technology, 4th Spanish, 5th PE/Health

Thursday, 5/7

"Draw It" Draw art for your teachers

B Day for Middle School

Resource: K& 1 PE/Health 2nd Art, 3rd Music, 4th Technology, 5th Spanish

Friday 5/8:

"Share the Love" take to social media and shout out your teachers - use #CSUSATeahersRock & #StingrayStrong please

A Day for Middle School

K & 1 Spanish, 2nd PE/Health, 3rd Art, 4th Music, 5th Technology

Cancelled

• All events and testing through June 3rd per FLDOE

Progress Reports are out today. Please log on to
PowerSchool at https://csusa-fl.powerschool.com/public/ to look up your student(s) current grades.

If your child has a ZERO in for an assignment, that is usually a placeholder for a missing assignment and they need to reach out to the teacher if they are unsure what to submit.

Need assistance with your powerschool log in - email bmerryman@southsidecharter.org

For Tuesday - Have your student share a school appropriate joke for the teachers! They record themselves on Flipgrid and we will share the link with staff. Don't forget to have them pause before the punch line :) https://flipgrid.com/251041a7 No account or email needed to have your student record for their teachers.

Phase 1: in January, we completed phase 1 of the recommit process. 97% of our students are returning for 2020-21 school year

Phase 2: New this year in CSUSA, for the second step in the process, parents/guardians will complete an online Re-Enrollment Packet for returning students. This allows us to collect updated student demographic data, receive parent/guardian consent, and emergency contact information closer to the start of the school year. By completing this step, we will have fewer updates needed for emergency contact information in August/September.

You should get an email like this...

If you are receiving this letter it's because you recommitted your student(s) to return to DCSS for the 20-21 school year. Phase 2 of the recommit process begins today, 5/4/20. All recommitted students must complete this process in order to be fully enrolled to return to DCSS for the 20-21 school year. Please visit our enrollment website, SchoolMint https://csusa.schoolmint.net to complete the re-enrollment process.

Please reach out to the enrollment administrator, Cece Zamora, if you have any questions.

czamora@southsidecharter.org

Tuesday 3pm Cece will be on our Facebook Page LIVE to talk about the recommit process and answer your questions!

Thank you for your cooperation!

We are still in review of Duval's recent announcement of using the dates in June as make up days. We are reviewing our charter contract, our seat time, and will have a final decision on our end date soon. Thank you for your patience.

Monday, May 25th will remain a "No School" Holiday.

It is time for our annual spring survey! Normally we would be handing you QR codes in the car line, etc. but we hope you are getting this virtually via your newsletter and will take a few minutes to share your valuable feedback!

Parent Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/1920_Spring_Parent_Survey

Take a minute and submit a teacher or staff member who deserves a Stingray Shoutout! Have they done something amazing lately? or maybe you just want to thank them for something they have done regularly that is above and beyond! Share here...

Entries will be used to lift up staff members, pass along a kind word, brag about our teachers, etc.

https://bit.ly/3efkHn7

Friendly Reminder

Is your student currently in 6th grade going into 7th grade?

No-> This reminder is not for you.

YES-> Please continue reading.

Has your student received the Tdap shot? (Usually at age 12)

Yes->make sure the school has a copy of the Florida Shot Record

No -> You must have this shot in order for your student to start school in August. Please visit your physician or clinic (listed below) to get the shot and obtain the Form DH-680 (required to be on this form) as soon as possible.

Florida Department of Health

5220 N Pearl Street

904-253-1420

Duval County Health Department

515 W 6th Street

904-253-1250

Duval County Health Department

900 University Blvd. N

904-253-1620

Once you have received this form showing proof of your student receiving the Tdap shot, please email it to bmerryman@southsidecharter.org

We are now moving to ALL online payments going through one system! MySchoolBucks started as our meal payment site, but it will now be our site for Before/Aftercare, Meals, Field Trips, Purchasing Items, and donations!

If you do not have a MySchoolBucks account, set one up now!

https://www.myschoolbucks.com/ver2/login/getmain?requestAction=home

Special Thank you to Mini-Bar Donuts of Jacksonville for giving us a discount to be able to treat the teachers to coffee and donuts this week!

If you haven't checked them out - do so! https://minibardonuts.com/

They have a location near Southside at 10618 Deerwood Park Blvd. Jacksonville Fl. 32256

and a beach blvd location with a drive thru: 1262 Beach Blvd. Jacksonville Beach Fl. 32250

Both locations are open for pick up and you can order online!

Your spring pictures arrived at the school over Spring Break. We never returned from sping break, so they are secured at the school building. When restrictions are lifted, then pictures will distributed. Please do not contact Leonard's. They were printed and shipped to the school. They are unable to ship to your home.

Yearbooks: Order Form Attached or use the online code shown below

Find the books on epic for free, or download from amazon, order the paperback and join in on fun author visits, discussions and more!

CREATE your own music while learning math.

https://mathsciencemusic.org/#/project/groove-pizza (overview)

Make drumbeats and sounds immediately - (Groove Pizza Launch App)

JOIN NBA Player Shaquille O'Neal and others for a poetic play-by-play on Edward Hirsch's poem "Fast Break," which captures a slow-motion basketball play.

https://www.poetryinamerica.org/episode/fast-break/

LOCATE the extreme places where some of the Star War movies were filmed.

You will become a latitude and longitude expert

As employees work/pay may be impacted as well as not having the free/reduced lunch program impacting families, we hope to be able to list some resources/information for you.

We have moved the long list of resources over to a separate link: https://www.smore.com/71a3z

• Log in Daily to Edmodo - Students need to login to Edmodo through the Clever portal to find out about daily expectations and assignments. Your child’s teacher(s) will be posting assignments for the day by 8a.m. and your child will be expected to complete daily assignments. Some of these assignments will be physical assignments that they do with paper/pencil, and some will be virtual with online assignments.

• Attendance: When your child submits a daily assignment, or attends a live zoom class, to show they are "at school" and working, the teacher amends the attendance to show "present" - For middle school, just like at the physical school, attendance is taken each period. If a child is only doing their math assignments as that might be their favorite subject, then they will only be shown as "present" for math class.

*Teachers will amend attendance up to one week to accommodate families sharing devices, working in the evenings or weekends to complete assignments because they are with a caregiver without internet during the day.

• Grading: Check Powerschool grades weekly be ensure that your child is submitting their work to their teacher. There will be practice grades, and mastery assessments grades. It is important to allow your child to complete assigned work independently. This will allow us to truly assess your student’s level of mastery of each standard.

• Instruction: Teachers have been conducting whole class lessons and pre-recorded lessons in which students can self pace. Some students may have small group zoom sessions for remediation as well as differentiating the assignments to meet your child academically where they are and ensure they continue to grow.

• Communication: Let’s continue to ensure that we are all on the same page as advocates for your child’s academic success by keeping communication strong and positive. Please reach out if your child needs any extra support. Your child’s teacher(s) will have daily office hours for student questions/assistance and parent conferencing on Zoom. Office hours should be posted in Edmodo. If you are unable to reach a teacher, or have not received a response within the expected 24 hour turnaround, please call the help desk and we will get the teacher to reach back out to you.

DCSS families, our help desk is open from 8am-3pm Monday through Friday. When calling the menu options are for general questions, technology assistance, Edmodo & coursework help, and enrollment (for new families 2020-21, etc.) If we are helping another family, please leave a voicemail and we will call you back. Thank you to our help desk superheroes Ms. Jill, Mr. Jules, Mr. Ball and Ms.CeCe!! 904-423-5348

Calling all Stingrays! Please send your recorded pledge of allegiance to Ms. Sauer asauer@southsidecharter.org Middle Schoolers - you can even Tick Tock the pledge. We would love to post a new pledge every day.

We have moved our comprehensive list of programs, apps and softwared used at D.C.S.S. to a seperate page - https://www.smore.com/dxqct

Click to learn more about powerschool, clever, edmodo, school mint, Lexia, and more!

Log your volunteer hours on a computer in your Powerschool account (option does not appear on the App)

IF you need to log more volunteer time and have been busy this fall, there are some off-site opportunities that can be done from home...

1 hr: Leave a positive review on Facebook, Yelp, or Great Schools - let shopping families know what you LOVE about Duval Charter at Southside. This helps our marketing team!

1 hr: Choose one of our enrollment/marketing social media posts and share it! That's it... help spread the word using the "share" button

https://www.smore.com/y7zw0

Website: https://www.southsidecharter.org/
Location: 8680 A C Skinner Parkway, Jacksonville, FL, USA
Phone: 904-4235348
Facebook: facebook.com/DuvalSouthside
Twitter: @DCSSouthside