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Pi Day is in two day! Celebrate Pi Day on March 14 with these Pi Day Resources, including i-Ready's Pi Day kit!

• Pi Day Celebration Kit: English

• Pi Day Celebration Kit: Spanish

• Great Googley Activities for Pi Day

• 8 Inspiring Pi Day Activities from Paper

• Celebrate Pi Day with NCTM

• 14 Fun 2024 Pi Day Activities for High School Students from HMH

• #CelebrateWithDE: Virtual Pi Day Party from Discovery Education

• Paper Challenge runs all month (see info below)
• March 12: Secondary Grading Window opens
• March 15: 3189 Loaner Chromebooks will be deactivated
  
• March 21: Secondary Grading Window closes
• April 15: Deadline to complete Panorama Survey
• May 31: Deadline to input Physical Fitness Scores

We want to know what you think! To gain insight into your perception of our school and district and ensure that we continue to provide high quality, rigorous learning experiences that meet the needs of our learners, PUSD invites you to take the annual School Climate Survey. We have partnered with Panorama Education to conduct surveys of students (grades 3-12), families/caregivers, staff, and community members. The online survey asks questions about social-emotional learning, growth mindset, sense of belonging, safety, and more. It takes only a few minutes. You may complete the survey through April 15, 2024. Students will take the survey at school, and we ask that staff and families/caregivers take the survey too.

Survey links for staff, teachers, and students can be found in Clever. Links to share with families are listed below.

Family (English): surveys.panoramaed.com/pusd/spring24family

Family (Spanish): surveys.panoramaed.com/pusd/spring24family/surveys?language=es

3189/Loaner Chromebooks assigned to students are scheduled to be deactivated this Friday, March 15, 2024. EdTech has given specific instructions on how to replace these devices since the middle of February, to ensure a smooth deactivation process with limited student impact. If one of your students is still using a 3189/loaner Chromebook, please have them see your librarian or site Chromebook contact to attain a replacement device. Again, this will only affect devices assigned to students not staff.

Are you a classroom teacher who still has a Lenovo Thinkpad checked out to you in addition to your PUSD issued Dell Precision or MacBook laptop? If so, we need your device! All PUSD staff members should have turned in their Thinkpads when they received their new PUSD laptop last school year. If you did not turn in your device then, please submit a ticket so our team can pick it up. We need these devices to redistribute to support staff (Instructional Aides, Long Term Substitutes, etc.) who are using 3189 Chromebooks.

Questions? Contact EdTech.

The Physical Fitness test (PFT) needs to be administered to all 5th, 7th and 9th grade students between Feb 1st and May 31st, 2024. The results for the test will be recorded into Aeries.

For more information, including training videos, please visit the link below.