The Compass

Good afternoon Leander ISD families,

We hope you had a restful Spring Break. There’s lots going on around the district as we finish up March, and we’ve got the information you need right here.

In this issue:

• COVID-19 Update on Quarantine Guidance

• Equity & Diversity Update
  

• School Quality Survey Deadline Sunday, March 28

• Job Fairs

• Substitute Hiring Fair

• PreK, Dual Language Kinder, Kinder & New Student Registration

• Technology Survey
  

• LEEF Staff Recognition Campaign

• Jurassic Quest

• Board Briefs

• Bad Weather Make-up Day, April 12

Rouse High School

The Raiders are serving up more than just smoothies! Students are filling Career & Technical Education (CTE) programs with an energy that’s fueling success. Our latest Super School Visit premieres now with Superintendent Bruce Gearing, Ed.D., and RHS principal Christine Simpson.

After consulting with our local public health agencies and reviewing recent changes by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommendations concerning school operations during COVID-19, we updated our health protocols. The tweaks include shortening quarantine guidelines and vaccine return protocols for employees. For complete details, please visit www.leanderisd.org/covid19/.

For the last two months, Leander ISD has been listening and learning from our community about how to better support our students. These Equity and Diversity Listening Sessions wrap up on Tuesday, March 30. Please make plans to join us for our final session (7:30 p.m.) by registering here. LISD’s Equity and Diversity Advisory Committee will compile the data gleaned from these conversations and present its findings to the Board of Trustees at a meeting later this spring. Thank you to everyone who has committed to learning and working to understand the diverse community in which we live.

We are fast approaching our March 28 deadline for the School Quality Survey completion. We ask our parents to please share with us what we are doing right and the areas you feel that we need to work on. This information will help us better our facilities, programs and more! The parent survey can be completed at the link found here. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us!

Leander ISD Virtual Job Fair for elementary and secondary teaching positions will be held on April 21st and April 28th.

ESS, Leander ISD’s substitute hiring partner, is hosting a Substitute Hiring Fair on March 27 via Zoom. Want to learn more about being a sub? Think of someone who would be a great sub? Please feel free to share the event details. We look forward to seeing you there!

We need your help spreading the word! LISD is working hard to assess campus needs for the next school year so that we can make staffing and resource allocations that best serve our students and families. To do that, we need an early and accurate count of the students expected for in-person learning at each campus. We are asking parents to register their new students as early as possible to assist us with this mission.

• Free and Tuition-Based PreK Registration

All families who are interested in applying for the 2020-21 Leander ISD PreK program are encouraged to register online or by calling their elementary neighborhood elementary campus to pick up a paper packet. For more information about registering for PreK, qualifying for free PreK, our new tuition-based program, schedules, and curriculum, click here.

• Dual Language Kindergarten Registration

The Dual Language application for 2021-22 incoming Kindergarten students is available now through April 30. To learn more about this program and how to register, click here.

• Kindergarten and New Student Registration

If your child will be new to our district (not enrolled with us this year) or if they are starting Kindergarten Fall 2021 (and are not currently in our LISD PreK program), please check out this webpage where you can get more information and register your student. We look forward to having them with us next year!

For less than 15 minutes of your time, you have the opportunity to anonymously give feedback on technology access and use on your campus. Parents, students, teachers, and administrators are welcome to participate. Click here for more information on the Technology Survey.

It’s time to celebrate and encourage Leander ISD staff with LEEF's Staff Recognition Campaign! The first 70 staff members who are recognized will receive a $10 gift card from H-E-B! More info: https://leeftx.org/recognition/

More than 70 photorealistic dinosaurs are ready to return from extinction and invade Austin, as the Jurassic Quest Drive-Thru will migrate to the H-E-B Center at Cedar Park from March 12-28. Click here to buy tickets: bit.ly/JurassicQLEEF, and use the code "LEEF10" to receive a 10% discount plus give back to LEEF! $5 from each ticket sold will benefit Leander ISD students and teachers!

The Leander ISD Board of Trustees will meet for its regular meeting Thursday, March 25 at 6:15 p.m. View the full agenda here and view the livestream here.

April 12 will be a regular school day to make up for the snow day on Jan. 11. Students need the minutes and staff contracts require employees to make up the time, therefore, we will use the bad weather makeup day allocated in our calendar. For our secondary students, this will be an A day.

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Leander ISD teachers and support staff focus on engaging and inspiring students for achievement and lifelong success. We are a fast-growth district, adding more than 1,500 students every year, serving families in seven different municipalities. Our Guiding Documents — the Learning Model, 10 Ethical Principles, The Leander Way, the Graduate Profile — are the foundation of who we are and ensure that we maintain an outstanding, inclusive learning environment for all students.

LISD educates more than 41,000 students at its 44 campuses. The district encompasses nearly 200 square miles.

Website: leanderisd.org
Location: 204 West South Street, Leander, TX, USA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LeanderISD/