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On Monday, December 4th, at the NYCPS headquarters in Manhattan, Mr. Tomlinson officially received his Big Apple Teaching award from Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos! A great honor for such a gifted and deserving educator. We're all so proud of you Mr. T!

Take a close look at the bottom left- that's Mr. Orza and Friends and Frequency highlighted in an email to ALL NYC Public School staff and families!

Congrats Tom! What a well-deserved honor.

December 10th - Flatbush Town Hall makeup picture day

December 12th - Gotham Gingerbread House competition

December 13th - Snowflake Dance HAS BEEN CANCELED

December 17th- Pajama Day

December 18th - Ellery Street Holiday Talent Show

December 20th - In school dance socials, every site

December 20th - Wayside Holiday show

December 23-January 1st - Winter Recess

To all sites,

Moving forward, please begin using the digitized trip request form for ALL TRIPS!!

This will provide administration and unit coordinators with access to all trip requests in one centralized place for reference (UC's) and approval (administration).

Here is the link below:

https://forms.gle/LzY5at9HfVtnWiUe9

Kat will add to the google classroom for easy reference.

Please reach out with any questions or concerns!

Every site, in cooperation with the UFT Consultation Committee, now plans for absence coverage using a "cascade" model-a protocol we will utilize to ensure safety and equality (please understand that occasionally we will have to step outside of protocol if safety demands it).

Broadly, absences will be addressed as such:

1. Subs who have taken jobs from sub central

2. Out of classroom staff:

• coaches
• SBO positions

3. Teachers who are willing to use a paid prep

4. Administration (APs, Principal)

5. Split classes

6. Speech staff

On Friday, December 6th, three of our occupational therapists, Drs. Kingston and Mtango and Ms. Voloshin, hosted a book publishing party for Our Safety Story, a book they wrote with their students.

Our authors read from their work, and celebrated with their families, teachers and related service providers. It was such a lovely event to honor our amazing kids!

Check out Ms. Gilinson's students teaching each other the process of making screen prints!

Preview Owen, then click on the folder to view more!

Angie spent months working on this painting (meticulously mixing her skin tone, independently setting up & cleaning up) and throughout the process she kept saying how much she liked her work (a first!).

From Ms. Fourquet:

Panther Press Shout Out - Shout out to Andrew Chung for supporting the Transition Team! We now have OPWDD videos on the school website for families to learn more about transition and services offered. Go Andrew!!

I am completely obsessed with Doechii's Alligator Bites Never Heal. Non stop on repeat in my house.