Thank you for what you are about to do for students and for each other!
"At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parts." Jane D. Hull
This is your chance to connect, partner and prepare for our FINAL quarter! You know all of this but it is a good reminder...
Attendance Matters
Assignments Matter
Participation Matters
Learning Environment Matters
Reflection Matters
15 Tips for Leading Productive Parent-Teacher Conferences
- Show you care!
- Offer a flexible conference schedule
- Prepare, prepare, prepare
- Arrange for a translator if needed (see me) and find a way to connect
- Approach parents with positive assumptions
- Share real stories and student work ~THIS IS THEIR TIME TO SHINE!
- Be solution oriented
- Create clear goals
- Avoid education jargon
- Give parents responsibility - Yes, I said it! It is worth a try!
- Encourage questions
- If a parent becomes confrontational, don't engage
- Remain professional at all times
- Stay in contact with parents
- Take the opportunity to LEARN - Take a look at this form and make it your own for valuable feedback on the first 3 quarters.
- Build a cohesive community. Design lessons and activities that regularly mix in-person and hybrid students in virtual breakout rooms and apps you've already been using virtually.
- Optimize tech to bring virtual students into the classroom. One teacher projects her computer screen on a whiteboard for in-person students and then shares her screen on Zoom for remote kids. The projector has speakers that allow in-person students to hear what their remote peers are saying.
- If extra tech is limited, maximize class interactions by repeating what virtual students ask or answer to their in-person classmates and vice versa. Teachers can also facilitate class conversations through digital discussion boards.
- Accept that everything will take longer. Pacing is just going to be slower, and that's ok.
- Give your tech setup a couple of dry runs before your first day of concurrent teaching. Testing audio beforehand is essential.
- Keep everything digital. Online resources and materials and submitting homework digitally are what kids are already accustomed to using, so stick with it.
- Remember to breathe and to laugh. Here's a kickstart to the laughter from principal-comedian Gerry Brooks, who wishes you all a "great hybrid day."
- Reach out if you need help! We are all here to support each other. Please remember Christine Burton is available Tues-Thurs to assist us ALL in setting up our rooms.
Wellness Committee Blog
We will all be facing another new challenge this week as we begin to return to the building. Please be gracious with yourself and know that it is okay to not have the answers and for everything to not be seamless. Our staff and students appreciate you! Thank you for ALL that you do!
Padlet updates for March 8th
Weekly Affirmation to repeat on your own and with your students!
This week is “I MAKE MYSELF PROUD”
Weekly Challenges
This week is “10 SIDE LUNGES EVERY DAY”
STAFF: https://padlet.com/jolynnevoorhees/5k9o0mbrrjwncvx
**We have had a high number of student input on our Student Wellness Wall! Thank you for encouraging our students to participate, it has shown a heartwarming sense of community among our students.
Mitigation Plans
FUSD COVID-19 Mitigation Plan Revised 2/16/2021
FUSD's Return to In-Person Webinar
Marshall's Return to In-Person School Plan for families
Marshall's Return to In-Person School Plan-Detailed for staff
Form to sign off <--ALL STAFF, once you have reviewed Mitigation Plans
Staff acknowledgement of reviewing Mitigation plans. Please pick up hard copies of the FUSD Covid Mitigation Plan and the Marshall Mitigation Plan in the front office and add them to your "Covid-19" folder from earlier in the year (from Nurse Walmer).
Return to in-person schedules
Please coordinate morning duty with your grade level team.
Do you have a new to Marshall student? Please let him/her know that we can meet prior to the first day of school. This link will take them to the tour sign up sheet. Only 1 adult is allowed to accompany each student. Please talk with your "New to Marshall" students and let us know if they plan to attend on Thursday, March 11th so we can be sure we are ready. Thank you for your assistance with our newest Mustangs. Link below.
SAFETY UPDATES
SAFETY FIRST!
Health Data for the Week: https://www.fusd1.org/Page/18464
FUSD Covid Dashboard: https://www.fusd1.org/Page/18503
Vaccination Reminders: If you have registered for a vaccine please fill out the district form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxFhqXKY-rrwwyxDQetboTuTZ6xGo-I3okFAhbGOJdw_BPWA/viewform
Vaccine specific questions please email- covidvaccine@fusd1.org
Covid reporting please use- covidhelp@fusd1.org
FUSD COVID-19 Testing
Sinagua Middle School Tuesdays and Thursdays
Coconino Community College Saturdays
8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. 2800 S. Lone Tree Road
Coming Up
Monday, March 8
~Book Fair continues
~1:00-4:30 Reasor at Admin Council
Tuesday, March 9
~12-1:45pm Reasor at Elem. Admin
~3:30pm Restorative Px mtg
~Governing Board Mtg 5:30pm-8:30pm?
Wednesday, March 10
Parent/Teacher Conferences ~12:10 pm dismissal
~12:20 FIRE DRILL (takes less than 8 min)
~2:30pm Reasor at Everybody Matters Mtg
~4:00-6:00pm Reasor & Overton at FUSD Safety Committee
Thursday, March 11
~Asynchronous Day for Students ~12:10 pm "dismissal" - no attendance
Reasor morning announcement will be sent to you on Wednesday.
~Kindergarten Orientation Day
~New to Marshall Student Orientation Day
Friday, March 12
~Parent/Teacher Conferences ~11:10 am dismissal
March 22 - Begin 4th quarter & in-person K-5. We are ready!
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