Jensen Ranch
March 14, 2020
Week at a Glance
Week at a Glance for March 16-20, 2020
Click Here for the Jensen Master Calendar. You have access to it on your Google calendar under the "Other Calendars" section under your "My Calendars" section. This is the year to begin using your Google calendar to keep up to date!
Friday Reminders on Saturday
Kicking Off Distance Teaching & Learning
There is a lot to take in regarding our interim instructional process of using distance teaching & learning. It's pretty easy to get overwhelmed, but just take a breath, 10 if you need to and know this is all going to work out! Take some time to read through the information here once through. Then come back through and reread, think of questions, ideas. I'll see you all Monday morning at 8:00 a.m. in the science room! We're going to through it all in detail and grade levels will have the day to meet and plan and Amy and I will be around to assist! Our time Monday morning will be in lieu of our previously scheduled cross-site/staff meeting on Tuesday afternoon.
MTSS Work
You and your grade level team will have some time during the next two weeks to work around essential standards. This is a perfect opportunity to continue your collaboration on ELA and begin math work together either in person at school or remotely. Please let me know what your team plans are at this time.
Assessment Data Entered into Illuminate
Thank you for getting your report cards completed and out to students yesterday! Please make sure assessment data gets entered into Illuminate in the coming two weeks now that report cards are finished.
Review of Recess Rules Over the Next Few Weeks
Playground rules also should be reviewed by the PBIS team and any additional staff that want to participate. Here is a link to the current rules as listed in the school handbook. At a minimum, we all need to be consistent in holding students accountable. School/playground rules can be found on pages 18-19.
Second Step Lesson Tracker
Click here to update the Second Step Lesson Tracker. A reminder to please update the tracker by the end of each month.
Mon., 3/16 Staff Planning Meeting from 8-9:30 a.m.-Science Room
Tues., 3/17 Certificated Staff workday at school and Materials Pick-Up by Families
Wed., 3/18-Fri., 3/20 Distance Learning-Staff may work from home or school/daily principal and student check-in
Mon., 3/23-Fri., 3/27 Distance Learning-Staff may work from home or school/daily principal and student check-in
Mon., 3/30 PD Day will be held at Jensen Ranch
Tues., 3/31 No School-Cesar Chavez Day
Wed., 4/1 Expected Return Date for Students to School-No Joke
CVUSD Technology Department Newsletter February/March
March 9, 2020 Technology Newsletter - Cleaning and Sanitizing Edition
Suspended-Instruction and Distance Learning 3/16-3/27
All certificated staff will work together at school to plan and prepare for distance learning on-site on Mopn., 3/16 and Tues., 3/17. Regular work hours apply.
Staff meeting on Monday morning, 3/16 from 8-9:30 a.m. in the Science Room.
Classified staff will be working their regular daily hours and will be available to assist with organizing, copying, filing, helping the check-out of materials, etc as needed.
The expectation is that when coming to work on Monday and Tuesday, you will not bring your children. Please make other arrangements. This is not my directive. This is from Parvin.
Please see the next section for your responsibilities during distance learning. This is also outlined in the attachment to my email from this morning (Sat., 3/14).
Employee Guidelines During Suspension of In-School Instruction
School will be open for staff March 16-17 and we are suspending “on site instruction” March 16 through March 31st. Students should stay home on March 16th so that staff can prepare for this 2-week suspension of on-site instruction. Tuesday, March 17th, students need to pick up materials and assignments from their teachers.
March 16th and March 17 are intended for staff to be on-site to work with their administrators to develop the process for instruction to continue through March 27th. March 30 is a professional development day, and March 31st is Cesar Chavez Holiday (non-duty day).
We are developing opportunities for all employees to work on-site or from home. Sick Leave, PN and for classified only, vacation is still an option based on each employee’s personal circumstance. For example, if an employee is sick and unable to work, they can use sick leave. As with any workday, staff would put their absence in the subsystem, indicating “no sub required”.
March 18 through March 27 instruction will be provided via “distance learning”
School will resume April 1, unless we have new directions from the CDC, ACPHD or our board.
Teacher Expectations:
Provide daily and weekly instructions/lessons to students. This can be done in a variety of ways:
Virtual learning
Posting of daily assignments
Provide work in a daily/weekly packet
Provide instruction for students from home or at school as long as they have a method for providing students with daily and weekly instruction.
Develop a weekly process to verify work completion for students
Check-in and out with their administrator each day via google form or some other method.
Be available to check in with the administrator at a specified time (determined by each site) each day to check in on issues, concerns, questions, etc.
Counselors are expected to be on-site or available to address students in crises. Counselors will be available to provide support to students in need via “Tele-health”, etc. Marianne Meadows will provide a number for families and students to call. 510-537-5910 x 3450
Elementary Science Specialists will provide a lesson for 4th and 5th grade each week
PE teachers will provide lessons for students to complete at home
March 23-24 - Elementary Conferences will happen via phone or in person. You will work with families to determine how this will take place.
Administrator Expectations:
Must be on-site each day to support staff, parents, and students that may need assistance.
Develop a process with staff to check in daily
Develop and process to ensure that all students that do not have access to the technology needed to complete their teacher’s assignments, receive the device that they need. Greg will share a google doc with you to assist in this process. Use your older Chromebook as loaners in the event that they do not return. Greg can assist with this.
Classified Employee Expectations:
All Classified Employees are expected to work their regular days and hours.
Expectations and duties will vary between each department/classification. Your supervisor will provide specific directions.
District Office and Site Clerical, Campus Security, Custodial, Warehouse, and Maintenance staff will be expected to be on site.
Child Nutrition will continue to provide a grab and go lunch to students in need. Specific sites will remain open to provide this grab and go lunch. Suzy will provide further details on specific sites. CVE, Marshall, Creekside, CVHS and Redwood.
Para Professionals must be available, unless sick and unable to work, to provide assistance to their supervisor/teacher. This may include professional development/training, grading papers, making copies, assembling packets, and organizing work/classrooms. Your supervisor will provide specific directions.
Special Education:
IEP Meetings can be done telephonically. Pre-scheduled IEP’s should continue.
To the greatest extent possible we will provide services to students in special education. All students will be given “prior written notice”. A letter will go to staff explaining the process. Teachers will be given a template to complete. All timelines are tolled during this time of on-site instruction suspension.
Suzy Williams will get back to everyone regarding special ed transportation.
Transportation:
Morning routes will be the same on Tuesday. The secondary schools will work with their principals to determine the schedule for the day, and a second route will be established to get kids home.
Other
Please remember that all employees are “disaster services workers” per Government Code 3100
Resources-Prepping for Distance Learning
On Monday, you are going to tell parents your plan for distance learning. As you figure things out over week one, you may want to try something different or new with your students as you go along. Allow for flexibility. Encourage families to create daily schedules and outline how much time students should be spending on lessons/activities. You may even want to send a live video stream of yourself to your class, do a class meeting online, send your class a premade video of you reading a story. Be creative, have some fun with this and most importantly, stay personally connected to your students to ensure they are engaged and you can provide support as needed.
We'll talk more about all of this Monday morning. This is a work in progress and we're going to get more confident as we go along. We'll hash out individual or grade level details during the day Monday. No need to panic! We got this!
You do not have to have the 14-day instructional lessons in place, you just need to know what platform or combination of platforms you are using for instruction:
- Packets (weekly, bi-weekly)-1st set need to be ready for Tuesday distribution 8am
- Google Classroom
- Classroom website
When will students get their lessons/instructions:
- Daily
- Weekly
- other...
You need to explain your daily check-in process with students and families for support. This is where you outline the method/methods you will be communicating with your students:
- Will you use Zoom to schedule appointments/video conferencing (whole group/individual)?
- Will you use Google Hangouts to schedule appointments/video conferencing (whole group/individual)?
- Will you use Google Classroom?
- Will you be available by phone or email.
You need to have a basic outline of how you will be monitoring the work progress of students and how students will be assessed. Since we are only out 2 weeks right now, you can likely hold off on big tests.
- Packets-those will be turned in (what day, where to?)
- Google Classroom-you can monitor assigned work and give assessments
- Monitoring of online programs that have been assigned-daily log-in, completion of lessons assigned, books read, etc.
How will you conduct Spring Conferences?
- You will follow-up with the relevant families and explain if it is in person at school, phone or video conference
IEP's
Jodee and Ken will update us on how those will take place. IN person/phone conference/video conference
Grade Level and/or Teacher Daily Check-in w/ Lisa
I'm going to be using ZOOM for our video conferencing with you individually or with your team.
It's free right now for us to use so we're going to try it out!
Zoom (an online communication platform) is temporarily lifting the 40-minute time limit on free Basic accounts for schools affected by the Coronavirus. It's much more reliable and better quality than google hangouts.
Here's the link: https://zoom.us/docs/ent/school-verification.html?zcid=1231&_ga=2.228851412.995105639.1583699918-735451631.1546545079
Your Plan for Distance Learning w/ Your Class
As you get everything planned out, you will add your plans here. If you as a grade-level team all do basically the same thing, it will make your lives so much easier and remove parents comparing assignments and workload:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1alZ_b5kpzfYX84SjXednwpf6Po1nC_8scVANxNzRDAY/edit?usp=sharing
Jensen Events Schedule-Review for Possible Necessary Postponement/Cancelation
ELPAC Testing-Schedule is currently on hold due to school closure.
Click Here for the ELPAC testing schedule. Our next testing session will not be until March 25th for K-2nd grade. More info to follow in the coming weeks.
Green Schools Activities
Waste-Free Wednesdays
Custodian Recognition @ Fri. Flag 4/20
-Each class will create a card for Jarvis and one or two students from each class will present to him saying one or two things they appreciate about him!
Earthday Clean-Up Sat., 4/25
Friday Flag Helpers -On Hold
For Friday, March 13: Grade 3 teachers, please select 5 students who will fill the roles listed on the link below.
There are 5 roles, so as a grade-level team, decide the best way to select 5 students from the three classrooms. I would encourage you to use this as a way to do some personal bucket-filling for kids who may need some positive recognition.
Add Student Names by 3:30 p.m. on Thursday. If you, as the teacher would like to notify the parents, you are welcome to do so since you are selecting the student.
Elementary Assessment Calendar for 2019-2020
Please review the 2019-2020 Elementary Assessment Calendar and work with your grade level team as you work on your curriculum planning. This is a live link so if there are updates or changes it will be reflected on this document.
Mighty Jaguar Homework Club -Gr. 3, 4, 5
On Hold
Session 2 - January 13 and run through April 27.
Prodigy Math Online Resource
If you are having trouble getting your Prodigy class account set-up, check with a colleague. Several staff members have been successful in setting it up!
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Follow-Up from our trainer Mike to me:
As promised I have sent out the teacher toolkit for your teachers and have sent them to their individual email addresses. Below are the links that I have shared with your teacher, hopefully, you find them helpful as well.
Your Teacher Toolkit: giving you access to videos, printables, and answers to FAQs. Make sure to bookmark this one!
Prodigy Champion’s Club application: join our exclusive network of teachers just like you, sharing best practices, discovering new ways to engage your students and earning rewards!
Share our Prodigy for Parents video with the parents of your students!
Here's today's recording as well: https://prodigygame.zoom.us/recording/play/gVMOpQzyGJXy9crRJWMM1PMaDRp-2VRztLD_UV-YE5ZS_d0XGriabAzEXl5Dle93?autoplay=true&startTime=1570823133000
Please let me know if you have any further questions or concerns.
Thanks and looking forward to working with you this year,
Matthew Gike
Interpreter Services
To request an in-person interpreter, fill out the online Interpreter Request form (below) with the required information to submit your interpreter request.
A minimum of two weeks notice is needed for an "in-person" interpreter. On occasion, an interpreter can be found on shorter notice, but that is generally not the norm and should not be expected. An email will be sent on your behalf to request an interpreter within 24 hours of the first workday after your request has been received. You will be included on that email and will be notified via email when your interpreter request has been filled.
For last-minute interpreting needs, you and the family can use the Language Line. Click the link for the directions.
Student Council Timeline/Meeting Dates
During Student Council meeting dates 3rd grade will attend upper-grade lunchtime. The dates are as follows:
- Wednesday, April 1st
- Wednesday, May 6th
- Wednesday, May 21st
Free Mindfulness Meditation App for Educators
CVUSD TOSA Updates
Mark Your Calendars!
2019-2020
Mon., 3/16 Staff Planning Meeting from 8-9:30 a.m.-Science Room
Tues., 3/17 Certificated Staff workday at school and Materials Pick-Up by Families
Wed., 3/18-Fri., 3/20 Distance Learning-Staff may work from home or school/daily principal and student check-in
Mon., 3/23-Fri., 3/27 Distance Learning-Staff may work from home or school/daily principal and student check-in
Mon., 3/30 PD Day will be held at Jensen Ranch
Tues., 3/31 No School-Cesar Chavez Day
Wed., 4/1 Expected Return Date for Students to School-No Joke
Fri., 4/3 Friday Flag - inside
Fri., 4/3 Principal's Coffee
Fri., 4/3 Battle of the Books- postponed
Fri., 4/10 Superhero Assembly-canceled
4/13 - 4/17 No School - Spring Break
Check the online school calendars for updates:
Jensen Ranch Master Calendar-families
Jensen Ranch Public Calendar-for staff
Reminders & Resources
NON-JENSEN STUDENT VOLUNTEERS
Click Here to list the names/information of any regular non-Jensen student volunteers that you are expecting to help in your classroom during our school day. While on campus, the student will be under your direct supervision and it is expected that you have been in communication with the student’s family and that they know the student is on our campus to volunteer.
PBIS and the PAW PLEDGE
Use the lesson plans in the staff PBIS Handbook as a guide and adapt as necessary to your grade level. Reinforce these lessons as needed with your students throughout the school year!
Resources:
Electronic Copies of JR PBIS Lesson Plans
SECOND STEP LESSON TRACKER
The lesson tracker should be updated by the last school day of each month. Once the 19-20 tracker is available it will be posted here.
PD OPPORTUNITIES FROM ED SERVICES
Please Click Here/TBD for 2019-2020 to see what professional development opportunities are being hosted by Educational Services & Special Education. Please contact the host of each event for any questions or additional information.
MYSTERY SCIENCE MATERIALS
Please see this link for the reimbursement procedure, budget amount, and materials list.
MTSS
CVUSD MTSS Team Drive of Resources 2019
RTI-From Amy Valvo
The book leveling website is amazing! Often times, we are unsure what level some of the books are in our classroom. Please use the link to search over 60,000 titles with my username and password. Extending Learners w/ Book Clubs
Resources:
This website will give you access to nearly 60,000 titles and their corresponding levels:
https://www.fandpleveledbooks.com/login.aspx
Username: avalvo@cv.k12.ca.us Password: rti
www.readworks.org and www.newsela.com (Both great, free resources for reading passages)
SOCIAL STUDIES FRAMEWORK-NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL STUDIES
https://www.socialstudies.org/sites/default/files/c3/C3-Framework-for-Social-Studies.pdf
TROUBLE TICKETS
https://help-cvusd.issuetrak.com/Login.asp
If you have an issue and it is still a concern but it has been updated to “Closed” status, please communicate with Jeanine. You may still need to update/resubmit the request or we may be
BEHAVIOR/SOCIAL EMOTIONAL
Second Step 19-20
The Six Tenants of Classroom Management
Ideas for Emotional Regulation in the Classroom
EL RESOURCES
OCCUPATIONAL RESOURCES (OT)
Occupational Therapist Support & Resources
NEW DIGITAL RESEARCH RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS: California State Library
https://www.library.ca.gov/services/to-public/k-12-online-content-project/
About Us
Email: lmaclean@cv.k12.ca.us
Website: https://jensenranch.cv.k12.ca.us/
Location: 20001 Carson Lane, Castro Valley, CA, USA
Phone: 1(510)537-6365
Facebook: facebook.com/lisamacleanprincipal/
Twitter: @JensenJaguars