EGMS Weekly Update
September 21 -25
Attendance
There is no need to call in an excused absence for appointments because your student has all day to access classwork- teachers will take attendance the following day, around 7am. If they accessed Canvas and did classwork, they will not be marked absent. **If you feel it will not be possible for your student to complete any work in that time frame, please contact Kay Crafton, EMGS Attendance Secretary, at 541-526-6443 so she can mark the absence excused.
We will NOT be using the auto dialer to call about attendance at this time. If you are getting notifications via ParentVue, you can go into the settings and turn that off if you find it stressful or disruptive.
ODE does require us to take attendance each day. We take it a variety of ways, including: attending the live class, completing work on Canvas and communicating with teachers. We understand technical challenges happen. Please communicate with your teachers when they do, so they know you're there and working as best as you can be.
Did you miss the first day?
Chrome
You must be logged into your student Chrome account to access Google Meets and Canvas. It will NOT work if it's logged into a parent account. If you're using your own device, make sure Chrome is downloaded and your student is logged in. Redmond tech department cannot service or troubleshoot if you're using your own device. We highly recommend using an RSD student chromebook.
If someone other than the student is logged into Chrome we will not allow them into a Google Meet. This is for everyone's safety.
How do I get into StudentVue?
Please call our office for assistance! Our front office will be happy to help you get into StudentVue or ParentVue. Please call 541-526-6440
There is also an app you can access from your phone. Search your app store to find and download.
When you do get in and are looking at schedules, make sure you're not looking at "today" and you're looking at T1 so you can see the schedule.
No Schedule Changes This Year
We are in a cohort model and we are preparing to go back to a hybrid schedule when the state gives the ok. When we're back, kids will be with one small group of kids for the whole day. Teachers will move classrooms this year, not kids. That means we can't mix kids up with different schedules.
Thank you for understanding. We are bound by strict safety guidelines by the state and our goal is to keep our kids as safe as possible when we return.
Parent Guidelines for Successful Live Online Learning
Please consider the online classroom as you would a classroom on campus. It is a formal learning environment, not a social media environment.
As we launch this school year in a comprehensive distance learning format, your partnership is more important than ever to ensure success for our entire school community. This communication provides important information about your role to help us accomplish quality experiences for our students, parents, and teachers while in distance learning.
Much of our partnership relies on your trust in our professional educators- to prepare and deliver caring, standards-based instruction in a digital format. Our teachers have spent many hours of professional learning to be prepared for this new context.
Below are guidelines that will help ensure success:
Parents, siblings, or other household members should not interrupt the learning process by interjecting verbally, through chat, or through their video presence in the virtual classroom.
If a parent has a question about anything that they hear or see in the virtual classroom, the proper means of communication is to email the teacher with the inquiry. As with a physical classroom space, if questions arise about something in the lesson, the teacher is the first person of contact.
The virtual classroom ‘enters’ the homes of other families. Please be aware that if you see or hear something that occurs in another household, you should treat that information as confidential.
Because we share our online classroom with other families, it is not appropriate for parents, siblings, or other household members to video online instruction or to photograph/screenshot during instruction.
Please be aware of the appropriateness of your student’s background and attire when in distance learning. The background and attire should be school appropriate and not disruptive nor offensive.
All live sessions will be recorded, including whole class, small group and individual instruction and student support.
If a teacher has concerns about a student’s online presence- due to behavior or other circumstances, the teacher may select to mute the student from audio, or block the student’s video or chat access. These actions do not constitute removal from access to the instructional environment. The teacher may also remove the student from the online classroom temporarily. If a removal occurs, a meeting with a building administrator and parent will be scheduled to address the concern. The district Technology Use agreement provisions apply while in distance learning.
EGMS Full-Time Online Students
You are strongly encouraged to be in class during the bell scheduled times every day. We believe that this will help you increase your learning, have access to your teachers, and get assistance directly from your teachers. If you do not attend the live daily lesson, we do expect that you access every class in CANVAS at some point during the day. Per the Oregon Department of Education requirements we are required to take attendance every period, every day, and therefore will need to have evidence that you logged into and demonstrated engagement in each class, each day.
Se le recomienda encarecidamente estar en clase durante el horario programado de timbre todos los días. Creemos que esto lo ayudará a aumentar su aprendizaje, a tener acceso a sus maestros y a obtener ayuda directamente de sus maestros. Si no asiste a la lección diaria en vivo, esperamos que acceda a todas las clases en CANVAS en algún momento durante el día. De acuerdo con los requisitos del Departamento de Educación de Oregon, estamos obligados a tomar la asistencia en cada período, todos los días y, por lo tanto, necesitaremos tener evidencia de que inició sesión y demostró participación en cada clase, todos los días.
Calling EGMS
- First and last name of student or Student ID #
- Return phone number
We have received many calls directly from students who have forgotten to leave their name. We want to be sure we can call everyone back.
Thank you!
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Nutrition Services
As of just this morning, the USDA has extended free meals for kids under the Summer Food Service Program through December 31, 2020.
RSD Nutrition Services will provide curbside school meal pickup for all children 18 & under on planned school days 7:00 - 8:00 a.m. & 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. outside at these 10 school locations:
Terrebonne Elementary
Tumalo Elementary
Redmond High School
Ridgeview High School
Tom McCall Elementary
John Tuck Elementary
Vern Patrick Elementary
Sage Elementary
Hugh Hartman Elementary
M.A. Lynch Elementary
Additionally, we will provide access to meals at two outlying locations
At the bus stop (behind the fire station on Quail & Shad Rds) on CRR 9AM-9:30AM
At Diamond Bar Ranch Park (NE) 10:30AM-11AM
These meals will be grab & go (non-congregate) and breakfast and lunch will be packaged together. They may be picked up by either children themselves or a parent/guardian on their behalf at NO CHARGE through December 31, 2020. No identification will be necessary.
Please be patient as we adjust our staff, production, and operations to best meet the needs of our community and also understand that we too are facing unprecedented supply chain issues and rising food costs. Given our resources, we’ve tried to make school meal pick-up as safe and convenient as we possibly can. Please also consider that your participation in our program extends your personal food budget, may be a comforting routine for students, is confidential and not just for low-income families, helps to utilize existing inventory (less food waste), and helps us to keep our local school meal program financially afloat.
As a last reminder, understand that under the National School Lunch Program, which will presumably resume if/when students return from Holiday break in January 2021, meals will return to being charged based on meal benefit eligibility status. Therefore, meal benefit applications are currently being processed for the 2020-21 school year and can be completed either on-line using a computer (not optimized for mobile devices) or via print/mail by visiting the RSD Nutrition Services webpage at http://redmond.k12.or.us/departments/nutrition/.
We look forward to getting our students back in our school cafeterias!