Communication Update

August 19-21 or at the point you have made contact with most of your students at least once

Teachers should be hosting a ZOOM session during every class period on your daily schedule. You are not expected to ZOOM during your prep period, PLC, or duty-free 30 minute lunch. However, during other contract hours the first week, please have your Zoom open and ready to receive and guide students.

August 24

Once things settle after the start of the school year, (probably starting August 24th), teachers will begin to follow the Intermittent Closure - Teacher Daily Schedule. (See attached .pdf below.)

Please note that this document is a work in progress and will likely need tweaking. We just wanted to provide you with an idea of what your daily schedule is going to look like while in a period of Intermittent Closure.

Keeping communication pathways for students and parents easy to find and access is the name of the game. Please use the fewest number of ZOOM links possible to eliminate confusion for your students.

Please include your ZOOM link in your Schoology contact info, your teacher site contact info, and your google classroom (as applicable).

****Please fill out this linked form to UPDATE YOUR 2020-2021 ZOOM link(s) by 4pm Tuesday, August 18th.***

See Attachment for detailed instructions.

Teacher sites will be published to the LV campus webpage at 4pm on Tuesday, August 18. Please make sure you have made every attempt to address the webpage requirements listed on the linked google doc.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1agzoJoi7aShNtLJ5uJhfHf4vwPzo9wYyvzds2H8wAdM/edit?usp=sharing

If you are struggling with the teacher site requirements because you really aren't sure what is expected or how to develop your page, please feel free to attend an impromptu training in Mrs. Hood's room D225 from 10-11am. You are welcome to bring your laptop or use one of the Computers in Mrs. Hood's room.

Mrs. Hood and Ms. Ochoa will work with teachers who need help navigating and updating their site.

We are still working to gain clarity on attendance procedures. We absolutely know that having a clear answer to give you would remove a portion of stress from your life.

From what we understand to be true at this point, you will run an Analytic report in each of your sections in Schoology and use the information on that report to input attendance in TAC.

Once the two platforms become more integrated/compatible, the hope is that this will no longer be necessary. Fingers crossed.

What this looks like

If a student logged in on Day One prior to noon, their name will show on the Analytics "logged in" report. Using this report, go to TAC and mark that student present for Day One.

Days Two-??, use the span of time beginning Noon Day One - Noon Day Two to determine present status for Day Two.

Please have attendance entered into TAC by the end of each school day. This daily deadline may change as we come to know more about what is expected.

We wanted to make the Counselor & AP's student alphas (by last name) aligned this year.

The following is the way our student body has been divided for 2020-2021:

• A-F Treadaway/Staha
• G-M Gandar/Walters
• N-S Ruppert/Lyons
• T-Z Riddle/Ochoa