Connery Weekly Update: Weekly Update #3

This Week's Schedule

Monday, September 20, 2021 Mentor Meeting 2:30

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Wednesday, September 22, 2021 Early Release (1:15)

Thursday, September 23, 2021
Friday, September 24, 2021 9am Grade 5 Leadership Assembly in Gym

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Things to Consider

Please read the weekly update carefully.

Operational:

PLT's this week are MATH with Katie L.

Cafeteria Table Assignments - Here are the table assignments for Grades K-5 for lunch and for Grades 1-5 for breakfast. Click here for cafeteria assignments. Please make sure that each student has an assigned seat for lunch.
Breakfast: If a student arrives after breakfast (8:30) and grabs a breakfast to go, you can have the student sit at a back table to eat until they finish their breakfast.
Half day Lunch Schedule. Students are dismissed at 12:15pm:

Attendance - This should be done every day by 8:45 AM.
Open House - Open House is on September 30th from 6-8. For Open House, we have decided to go with a zoom session instead of in-person.

Please have a zoom link (under your LPS email) set up for the event. Here are some documents where your link will need to be added. (Translator Doc, Parent Communication)
Please communicate about your open house to all families.
For the event, we ask that a resource folder be sent out prior to the event that families can refer to: RazKids login, Teacher Contact Sheet (Best forms of communication), Homework, Attendance Procedures, Schoology Information, Classroom Procedures, Night Back Information etc.

Specialists - Specials are up and running, and the prep schedule has some changes. Please review and adjust schedules accordingly.
Imagine Learning - all Connery students will have access to Imagine Learning this year.
Behavior Management Resource - Minors and Major Behaviors and De-escalation Strategies
Progress Reports - October 22, 2021
Sub Plans - Start to pull together activities to be used for an unplanned absence. The Sub folder should include both Literacy and Math. Connect with your CIT when the folder is complete.

Literacy:

Reach for Reading is a resource. We are discussing the use of the Reach End of Unit Assessments with the ELA department. In discussion with the ELA department, we feel that the comprehension portion of the Unit tests do support our goals of independent reading. We will continue to give all portions of the assessments until we hear from Admin. but are in communication with them around our vocabulary concerns.

If you are assessing your students using Running Records, Guided Reading, Spelling Inventory and other Formative Assessments throughout each unit then you will have a pulse on each student and their reading level.
The new Data folders will help to keep all this organized.

ELA Assessment - LPS has chosen an early literacy and reading assessment in lieu of Dibels. The assessment is Renaissance Star Reading. This assessment is similar to iReady ELA. In an effort to support our growth and limit over assessing students, we will opt out of iReady ELA and focus on the district's new assessment.
Raz Kidz - I have assigned all classroom teachers a RazKids account. Here is some information about Class Rostering - Please make sure your classes are rostered for Razkids.

Math:

New Staff Information:

All absences are put into Frontline Education. Full day requests are the only option. Contact your CIT if you are planning a personal day.

Technology:

Laptops: Please remind students to bring their laptops charged daily! Please assist your students in updating their laptops when necessary.

Staff Information:

Health and Safety:

Mask - Wear our masks appropriately (over our nose and mouth). Our students model our behavior.

ALL employees, regardless of vaccination status, are required to wear a mask that covers their mouth and nose while inside on duty during work hours except for when they are seated at their cubicle/work station or using break time to eat or drink. This includes common areas (i.e. in hallways and stairwells, going to the restroom, etc.), during meetings, in city vehicles when occupied by more than one employee at a time, and interacting with the public. Members of the general public must also wear face coverings while conducting business in city buildings. If a visitor does not have a mask, they should be offered one by the department visited and business should not be conducted until the face covering is in place.

This policy shall also go into effect for school buildings, and respective employees currently working in them on the above date, and will be required at the start of the school year for returning staff and students, regardless of vaccination status.

The Lynn Public Health Department will provide masks for all offices before the close of business tomorrow. Appropriate signage will also be placed around all public buildings.

Department heads are instructed to enforce this policy with employees. Any employee not complying with the policy will be subject to the progressive discipline process (verbal warning, written warning, one day suspension, multi-day suspension, termination). Employees that cannot wear a mask due to a medical condition must provide documentation to the Personnel Department.

Misc. Info:

Book Inventory for Professional Development - please complete so that we can track the books that we each have in our classrooms.
Day 1 Summer PD
Day 2 Summer PD
Day 3 Summer PD

District Updates

Technology Issues

Please remember to submit all technology issues to the Helpdesk by emailing: servicedesk@lynnschools.org . Be sure to provide as many details as possible including name of user having issue (email or stu#), problem, program being used, etc.
Please enter tickets for EACH problem they encounter with as much information as possible included.

Looking Ahead

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