Monday Memo

Week of May 11

Faculty Meeting

Monday at 10:00 a.m.

Agenda Items include:

1. PMP

2. Grades

Finishing Strong in Weeks 8 and 9

It is our aim to create the conditions over the final weeks of school up to May 27, 2020 that allow students to finish strong and experience success in Distance Learning. It is also our intent to empower teachers and teacher teams to prioritize key learning objectives and implement systems and structures of support for students and families.

Having grace, compassion and flexibility during distance learning means that we allow students to learn at their own pace, give them multiple opportunities to demonstrate their learning, and provide the ability to turn in submissions additional times to show proficiency.

Additionally, because of our extended Spring Break, there is more content in each course than weeks left in the school year. Below are some details and recommended actions for elementary, middle and high school teachers.

Elementary Info & Recommended Action Steps

Teachers are encouraged to review learning activities and assignments contained in all modules and determine critical content for student demonstrations of mastery.

PLCs may determine what critical content should be prioritized and what content should have less focus at this time. Non-prioritized content can be exempt by entering the gradebook and changing the status of those assignments to “excused.” Teachers must communicate to students that anything marked “excused” will not be their responsibility.

To support students with completing essential assignments, no new assignments from FLVS will be published for week 9. Students are encouraged to continue SmartyAnts, Zearn and connecting with teachers, but other time should be prioritized on critical content.

PLCs or individual teachers of their own course may determine what critical content should be prioritized and what content should have less focus at this time. Non-prioritized content can be exempt by entering the gradebook and changing the status of those assignments to “excused.”

Teachers must communicate to students that anything marked “excused” will not be their responsibility. All other assignments in course segments, weeks, or modules must be completed to the best of their ability before the course deadline. This refers to missing, zeroes, or scores the student wishes to improve. Students can easily see this by clicking on “Grades” in myLearning. Teachers should message that learning continues, and help support student completion and success of coursework.

Mental Health Training ~ to be completed...

Pursuant to F.S. 1012.584 & 1012.584, all Pasco County School staff is required to participate in training for youth suicide awareness and prevention. All staff who have not attended the 6-hour Youth Mental Health First Aid training (YMHFA), must complete an alternate training, titled Kognito. The Kognito training consists of a 1.0-hour virtual simulation training.

The requirement is for all staff to be trained in YMHFA or Kognito prior to school starting this fall, August 10, 2020.

Kudos, Thank Yous

#bettertogether

Thank you

To Stan, Liz and the rest of the delivery crew (Makayla and Diane) for the awesome signs for our yards! (x7)
To Landry for the bitmoji remembrance and thank you note!
To Liz, Stan, Makayla, Landry and Beth for their cards and signs to show their appreciation for us!
To the fifth grade team for celebrating our 5th graders and visiting all of their houses with signs!
To the 5th grade teachers for delivering signs to the students. Their smiles and excitement were so good to see, even if from a distance! (Pictures to come!) And thank you to admin for helping to order the signs and make this happen! The families were very grateful.
To all Wildcats for simply being awesome, supportive and loving. #WCESstrong
To Makayla for organizing the addresses for our 5th grade students.
To Mrs. Mahota and Ms. McKinney for helping deliver the 5th grade signs.
To Carina for all her help and coordination of meetings.

Kudos

To all the staff for being amazing and persevering through distance learning - 12 more days, we got this!
To all the teachers making virtual learning as successful as possible during this time.