As we continue during the state-mandated closure, we wanted to take a moment to let you know we are thinking of you and the impact this change has had on you personally and professionally.

Please know we appreciate your patience and support in this situation. We have all experienced many rapid changes and unexpected events in the last two weeks, and it is important to recognize that and do what you can to keep yourself physically and emotionally healthy at this time.

Although our physical campuses remain closed, student instruction will resume from the safety of our homes beginning on Monday, March 30, 2020, in accordance with the Governor's directives and guidelines. We hope the plan below will help explain how we will move forward as an elementary team.

We look forward to working closely with you as we navigate through uncharted territory! Together we will get through this!

The Elementary Administrative Team

As we move forward, we will be working in teams to tackle the planning of instruction. Please click here for a list of the planning teams.

1. Team members determine your meeting times Monday-Friday. Blue will schedule the meetings.

2. Team members (from grade level teams) send Purple what he/she needs to develop the communication by noon on Fridays.

3. Purple sends link to communication to Yellow by 2pm on Fridays.

4. Yellow reviews and gives the OK to Purple by 3pm on Fridays.

5. Purple sends the final link or communication to team members by 3pm on Fridays.

6. Each team member will email his/her parents and update Continuous Learning site with the information on Friday at 4pm with the following week’s assignments. (You may simply email your parents with a reminder to check the site. No need to post it in email and on the site.)

Reminder for Blue Team Member - Begin scheduling planning meetings and be sure to report your team's progress and questions to Yellow! We are here to provide guidance and support!

Specials will take place on Fridays (parents may opt to have child(ren) complete earlier in the week). The following groups will provide lessons for these dates:

April 27-May 1 - Music (Please update Continuous Learning site by 4pm on 4/24.)

May 4-8 - Art (Please update Continuous Learning site by 4pm on 5/1.)

May 11-15 - PE (Please update Continuous Learning site by 4pm on 5/8.)

May 18-22 - Guidance (Please update Continuous Learning site by 4pm on 5/15.)

May 26-29 - Music & Art (Please update Continuous Learning site by 4pm on 5/22.)

June 1-5 - PE & Guidance (Please update Continuous Learning site by 4pm on 5/29.)

Grades K-1:

Friday - Music / Art / PE / Guidance (Rotate weeks) (20 minutes)

Grades 2-3:

Friday - Music / Art / PE / Guidance (Rotate weeks) (25 minutes)

Grades 4-6:

Music / Art / PE / Guidance (Rotate weeks) (30 minutes)

If you choose to read a book online to your students, please follow these guidelines from Scholastic. If you are reading a book from another publishing company, please research their guidelines. You may have to ask for permission first.

Recently, a group of us worked together to create a report card that we will use at the end of this school year. Our hope is that the guidelines and the Continuous Learning Report Card will truly allow you to focus on what's important right now - meeting your students' needs.

Please click here for more information.

Then, to view an example of the report card, please click on this link.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or a member of our committee. See document below.

At the elementary level, you will select the most essential standards to address during this last marking period.

See the documents in the Q & A above.

As always, we encourage you to provide feedback when possible.

• Really think how your assignments could easily be completed with either technology or paper/pencil.
• Offer choices (technology/paper/other items at home) when you send the assignments.
• If applicable, we encourage you to take photos of any papers you would ask your students to complete so parents can easily see the questions on their phones and have students answer on paper at home.

Open lines of communication between regular education teachers and the special education teachers are necessary. Regular ed teachers must keep the special ed teachers they work with regularly in the loop. Be sure to share the weekly plans with them so they can support their students. If wanted, invite them to planning meetings.

Be sure to adhere to the schedule that was shared in the Continuous Learning Plan for the required activities you assign. These are your "Must Dos. " For these, you are focused on the essential standards your team has identified.

You may provide a few ideas for extras that are not mandatory. These are your "Can Dos" and may contain extra practice, reading daily, Reflex Math, etc. These should not focus on new learning. And, this is not necessary to do. Please do not go crazy with these. Some parents will think everything is mandatory.