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September 20, 2020

 Good evening-

I hope you all had a restful weekend and enjoyed the beautiful fall weather. You deserved it after a great first week. I am grateful for the feedback and to hear from many of you that the week with students helped to ease your anxiety. I feel the same way. We have a lot of work to do in order to get hybrid learning right but we are all on the right track and doing a great job. I saw some fantastic examples of teaching, learning, and supporting students this week. Keep it up!

A few things I noticed during mask breaks. Please remind students not to share food and to be sitting at least 6 feet apart if you are stationary. The Ashland community has been informed that school grounds are off limits during school hours so please don't hesitate to tell someone that or ask one of us to come out. 

Please review evacuation protocols with your classes first thing Monday morning. Remember you do not need to follow one way hallways in the event of an emergency. The class should always go to the closest exit.

Wednesday schedule: 
Wednesday is our first day of combined cohort classes. All students are expected to be logged on for synchronous instruction or check-in's with their teachers. The schedule for class meetings times is:
C period- 9:30-10am
E period- 10:05-10:35am
F period- 10:40-11:10am
D period- 11:15-11:45am
Students and families have been told they can expect to have asynchronous work to complete for the remainder of the day. 

Class meetings: There is just no good way to have them this year so we are going to attempt them all on Wednesday this week. Sorry for the changes as we work to figure out the best way to reach all students. If any of you want to join the meeting or have any information to share please let me know. 

Please remind students to look for the email to join their class Google Classroom or use this code to join:
Class of 2021- 5drd3j6
Class of 2022- xc43dei
Class of 2023- wqza65x
Class of 2024- igf2bxo


If you have not completed the SEL survey sent out by Jen Shiels please do so ASAP. The district is looking at purchasing a program to support students and staff and your assistance in carrying it out will be needed.

Work hours: Faculty are expected to be in the building by 8:20am and until at least 2:55pm or until your professional responsibilities are met. Please do not leave campus during dismissal. This adds to our traffic congestion. We need to be a team in assisting with safe transitions.
As we look to help ease traffic congestion we may adjust the order of dismissal over the next week or two. Please encourage your students to listen to the announcements and leave the classroom when their dismissal group is called.

Meeting schedule:
Faculty meetings will be the 2nd Thursday of the month and will be held "virtually" but in the building. We will hold a vote this week for before or after school since we did not vote in the spring. The meeting will be either from 7:15-8:15am or 3-4pm. We hope we can eventually transition to in person meetings. 
Our meeting schedule is as follows-
October 8
November 12
December 10
January 14
February 11
March 11
April 8
May 13
Department/curriculum meetings are the 4th Thursday of every month but departments can decide to meet on another day with at least three days notice. Liaisons should use the Department Meeting Calendar to list meeting dates. 

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