Faculty Focus
April 13, 2020
Monday Updates
Attendance - What does it look like during remote learning?
- Monitor student interaction with your classroom, materials, assignments, discussion opportunities.
- Communicate your expectations to kids so they know what's expected in order to earn participation credit.
- Some examples: Submitting assignments, responding to a posted teacher question, commenting meaningfully to a classmate's ideas, asking questions, actively participating in a video conference, responding to teacher feedback on an assignment.
- If through the week, you have no interaction with a student, please reach out, and let the grade level counselor know. If outreach to home is needed by admin, we will do so.
To help you keep track, Jeff has created sheets that we will try out this week. There is one for each house, and then a separate one for specialists and individual teachers. If anyone has been missed, please let us know.
Please link to Remote Learning Attendance to view the folder and find your sheet.
PD Offerings this Thursday
There will be one session of each offered this Thursday at 1:00 p.m. Sessions will be brief, with 15-20 minutes of demo of some commonly appreciated tips to make your workflow easier or to ad to your understanding. More information will come about signing up and details of what will be included.
Miscellaneous Information You May Need or Find Helpful
If you have a website you need unblocked for your students, please put in a ticket to IT. Unless it contains questionable content or there is a copyright issue, they will take care of it.
Please be mindful of violent or provocative content...what may be okay when you have kids in front of you for processing may not be appropriate for them on their own or under current circumstances.
Students Needing a Chromebook:
If a parent or student reports that they now need a Chromebook, please send me the student's complete name and let them know I will be in touch. I am keeping a daily list of students, and forward to Gregg for distribution. Best to have it coming all from one place.
Tech Support in General:
We have our own tech support form for families. Please direct students or families to the O'Maley website and the link called Remote Learning Tech Support Information. There is information for troubleshooting, and a link to a form that Jeff, Dennis, and I can all access to take care of issues. Staff should simply submit a Help Desk ticket.
Emailing Parents:
If you typically email parents or students through SchoolBrains rosters, this does not relate to you. If you email groups of parents or students manually, please be sure to always BCC, so that others do not see email addresses from other community members.
In case you didn't see this video...sent to kids yesterday:
Additional Photos from DPW
Contact Information
Email: lbeattie@gloucesterschools.com
Website: http://omaley.gloucesterschools.com/
Location: 32 Cherry Street, Gloucester, MA, USA
Phone: 978-281-9850
Twitter: @omaleyprincipal