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September 16, 2020

 Good afternoon-

I hope you had a great day of professional development, planning, and meeting as departments. I appreciate the collegiality I have seen through all of this. I hope you were able to share ideas and strategies. You are all doing great things! 

I am looking forward to our 2nd first day of school tomorrow. It will be great to welcome back our L-Z students. 

A few reminders as we adjust to our new norms:
1. When you head outside for a mask break, please don't prop any doors open. Check that doors are closed securely when leaving the building.
2. Teachers should walk at the end of the group during the mask break so you can monitor their behavior. Please remind students to social distance when outside. When returning to the building you should wait for each student to put their mask on and hand sanitize when returning to the building. Please stand where you can see the door and make sure each student is doing this.
3. If you are going outside for a class please remember to use the Outdoor Classroom sign-up. You are welcome to take chairs from the cafeteria. When returning have students wipe their chair and re-stack them neatly.

Attendance:
As we continue to explore the best way to take attendance I will ask that you each create a form that students will complete at the beginning of each period during their remote days. We will share a spreadsheet for you to record any absent student. Please do this on a daily basis during your next prep. We will keep working to adjust this to get an accurate attendance.
Include the following on your form:
Date, Student ID, Student Name


Some of you may receive emails from nursing letting you know a student is out for an extended time. Please work with the student to determine how to best keep up with work if they are able to do so. Thanks!

IEP meeting invitations have been going out. To clarify, the MOU agreement was that you will not have more than one meeting scheduled on a Wednesday and no more than two per month on a Wednesday. Meetings will be held on all days however. As in the past coverage will be provided so you can attend. Please keep in mind that it is a legal obligation to have a regular education teacher attend IEP meetings. 

We do have substitute teachers available at AHS. The district subs have all be asked to identify which building they will work in and they will only work in that building. Please remember you should have "sub" plans left in your Google Classrooms. If you are out on a Wednesday you should choose "no sub needed" in AESOP and students can access the asynchronous plan. 

Since a few scenario questions were asked this week here is the updated DESE Protocols for Responding to COVID 19. These are previosuly shared guidelines that were updated on 9/14/2020. I have also linked them in the Shared AHS Re-opening Drive. 


At this time 67 of our 77 teachers and 637 of the 808 students have been able to log in to eHallpass. I did some more updating tonight and hope to have added our new staff and a few of you who could not get in. Please let me know if you are still having trouble. In some cases it was just a typo with your email address. Students should be told they can not use their phone. They MUST use the Chromebook. The app is currently disabled because it doesn't support the new social distancing features such as room caps, building cap, limit location availability, and Auto Pass student start/teacher stop. They are in the process of updating the app. 



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