September 21, 2020

9/22/20 Daily Bulletin

Shout Out

Shout out to Ms. Ricketts for having 100% attendance in class today!

Shout out to our Performing Arts Team, Ms. Alves, Ms. Bourgeault, Ms. Untermyer and Ms. Taylor Knight for creating this beautiful performance about Ubuntu for our community.

Shout out to Madeline and Kathy for handling all the calls today and helping families navigate how to get online. Thank you!

Shout out to our Lunch Monitors for helping us organize supplies! It was so great to see you all in person again!

Due Dates 

This Week:  
9/23 Staff Meeting 2:45-3:15pm
9/25 Building Walkthrough
Next Week: 
10/1 1st day of Hybrid Learning for IPP students in group B
Looking Ahead:
10/5 1st day of Hybrid Learning for IPP students in group A
10/8 Open House
10/20 Columbus Day - No School
10/15 K0, K1, K2 Group B starts hybrid
10/19 K0, K1, K2 Group A starts hybrid
10/22 Grades 1-3 Group B starts hybrid
10/26 Grades 1-3 Group A starts hybrid
11/5 Grades 4-8 Group B starts hybrid
11/9 Grades 4-8 Group A starts hybrid
11/11 Veteran's Day No School

Mask-Free Speech

When scheduling speech and teacher of the Deaf (TOD) services, please make efforts to leave times available on Wednesdays. Because Wednesday is full remote, students and teachers will not be wearing masks. Given the nature of speech sound disorders, stuttering, and comprehension work for children with hearing impairment, these students will benefit most from speech practice and listening for aural rehabilitation without masks. 

Student Technology

Student Chromebook Inventory (Google Sheets)
Please keep notes in column O to keep note of student tech needs as we shift from collecting information to delivering devices. We will only use this form for the next few weeks as we determine student tech needs day-by-day.

Student Tech Questions/Requests, Curley K8 School (Google Form)
Please use this form for both "General" and "STUDENT SPECIFIC" tech questions

Preventing Zoom Bombing

Zoom has started alerting teachers if they find Zoom links on social media and caught the following Tweet from a BPS student over the weekend, inviting people to Zoom Bomb their classroom. We recommend teachers take extra care to safeguard their Zoom links and refer to this guide to learn how to set security settings or download our Zoom/Google Hangouts Safety Poster
Teachers with older students (grades 5-12) should consider requiring authentication on meetings to ensure that only BPS accounts are allowed into their Zoom meetings. This is the strongest way to prevent unauthorized access to meetings and/or identify the person disrupting a meeting. Instructions for enabling this setting can be found here.
https://bostonpublicschools.helpdocs.io/article/rn4q8hgtzq-recommended-zoom-settings-for-security


Personal Zoom Links

In order to help each other and families in accessing zoom links, please add our personal zoom to this document 2020-2021 Zoom Links. We will raffle a prize off to teams at our staff meeting on Wednesday if your team has completed this.

Student Who Start 10/1/20 In Person Priority (IPP)

In Person Priority (IPP), formerly referred to as "high needs" is a designated group of students identified by criteria that will start attending school in person on October 1, 2020 following their assigned A or B cohort. As a staff, once you have a student arriving in person for an A or B day, you must also be in the building to teach in person on that A or B day. All staff teaching this student must report at that time.
Students were identified for IPP in BPS based on the following criteria:
  • Students who attend special education public day schools (McKinley, Carter, Horace Mann)
  • Students with disabilities who learn in substantially separate classrooms
  • Students with disabilities in inclusion classrooms with high needs, as defined by the PL3 in the student’s IEP
  • Students with limited or interrupted formal education
  • English learners who have an ELD Level of 1 or 2
  • Students who are experiencing homelessness
  • Students in the care of the Department of Children and Families
You can see if your student is listed for IPP by looking on SIS under the In Person Priority column. If the word "HIGH" is next to your student, your student is scheduled to come to the Curley in person on October 1,2020 (B Cohort) or October 5, 2020 (A Cohort). At this time, you cannot submit a student for the IPP list. Only students who have met the criteria by BPS will have IPP at this time. Please reach out to mohrenberger@bostonpublicschools.org with any questions regarding IPP.

Schedule

Here is the SY 2020-2021 Schedule for your reference. You may want to bookmark this page.

Technology Updates

We are sending messages to families regarding chromebook distribution. A shipment has just come in so at present, we have approximately 100 chromebooks available to distribute. We will first be contacting the families that were identified by BPS as being in Phase 1. Distribution will be available Monday and Tuesday for pick up at the school. Families will also be told that if they are not able to come to the school on Monday or Tuesday to contact their child's homeroom teacher. If you hear from a family that requires delivery, please send an email to Pete, Kate and Dawn and we will arrange for delivery ASAP. We are expecting another delivery of chromebooks soon and will distribute them as soon as we can and don't forget to update our tracker. 
BPS Helpline 617-635-8873 - Please have families call the BPS Family helpline Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm for questions about technology and other resources available to BPS families.
Help is available in Arabic, Cape Verdean Creole, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Russian, Somali, Spanish, and Vietnamese.

Walkthrough

We conducted our first walkthrough of the building today as we prepare to safely open and welcome students. While there were many items on the list in place we are still missing important items that were negotiated in the BPS/BTU MOA. We will conduct another walkthrough next week to update everyone on our progress in securing these items. Please note that the walkthrough results were reported directly to the BTU.

ALL Staff Sign In/Sign Out Procedures - Effective starting Friday, Sept. 18, 2020

All BPS employees have been directed to use the following form to sign-in AND to sign-out each day that they are working; you will be expected to complete the form twice each day: once when you start your day, and once when you end your day. The form will use the timestamp to capture the date and time; in the event that you forget, there is an option to retroactively log a sign-in/out, where you will be asked to manually enter the date and time. For more information about this, please see the attached document entitled Remote Sign-In Procedure for BPS Staff. To make sure that you are in compliance with this directive, you will be required to sign in and out daily at the following link: Boston Public Schools - Sign-In/Sign-Out (SY20-21)

Cross Classroom/Cross Building Guidance from the BTU

Here is further guidance to clarify how staff who work across multiple classrooms or buildings will support the work in our school.

BPS Coronavirus Website 

BPS has a website outlining key questions families may have, prevention tips, and tips for educators.  https://www.bostonpublicschools.org/coronavirus There is also a site to support families with food needs https://www.bostonpublicschools.org/Page/8098. 

Sick Day Procedure (teachers and paraprofessionals)

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