CBE News - October 15th, 2021
Weekly Covid-19 Update and more
Great Relationships Produce Great Students
This Newsletter Features the Following:
- Weekly Covid-19 update
- Friends of Eielson Fundraiser
- CBE - One Act Play
- No School dates
- PTA - Clothing Store open through 10-24-21
- Written Notification of School Accountability Report
- PowerSchool and Canvas Support links
CBE Covid-19 Weekly update
The week of October 11th, Carl Ben Eielson Middle School had four positive student and staff COVID-19 cases. Out of those cases, three had close contacts due to school or school related activities or athletics. Carl Ben Eielson Middle School administration has reached out to all those deemed close contacts. If you have not been contacted, you or your student are not identified as a close contact in the school setting.
Close contacts include students and staff members who were within six (6) feet of the individual for at least 15 cumulative minutes in a classroom or in other school spaces. Due to guidelines from the North Dakota Department of Health, if the close contact is fully vaccinated OR the close contact and the positive individual were both wearing masks, the close contact does not need to quarantine if asymptomatic.
It is also recommended that students who are symptomatic be tested for COVID. Fargo Cass Public Health provides indoor walk-up testing on Monday – Friday from 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM at 3051 25th Street South, Fargo, Suite K. The testing site is located in the Family Fare Strip mall. Prior to testing, please register at https://testreg.nd.gov/. More information on testing can be found by clicking here.
Sincerely,
Brad Franklin
Carl Ben Eielson Middle School Principal
Friends of Eielson Fundraiser - Doing Great Things Together
Friends of Eielson is the yearly fundraising event for our school. Donations will go directly to the student's team to fund field trips, team building activities, and a variety of “outside of the classroom” opportunities otherwise unavailable to our students. You will receive a CBE window cling for your donation of $10.00 or more. Please consider supporting the students at Carl Ben Eielson by making a donation and sharing this information with your family and friends.
Online Donations
Family & Friends visit www.fargo.k12.nd.us/CBE and click on Friends of Carl Ben Eielson under the "Quick Links".
Parents, please login to your Parent PowerSchool account and go to SchoolPay.
Carl Ben Eielson One Act Play
NO SCHOOL - October 21 & 22
CBE PTA Online Clothing Store - open through October 24
The new CBE Online Clothing Store is now open thru October 24! Shop for a variety of CBE clothing items and accessories at https://bit.ly/cbe-online-store!
- Youth and Adult sizes available.
- 10% of sales go to CBE PTA.
- Items will be distributed to students in their advisory classrooms in mid-November. If you have more than one child attending CBE, just complete an order form for one child. All items purchased will be distributed to the child for which contact information was provided.
- CBE teachers and staff, enter your info in the Customer/Student information section and just note you are teacher/staff in the Advisory Teacher field.
- Store scheduled to reopen in Spring 2022.
- Questions? Contact carlbenpta@gmail.com.
Written Notification of School Accountability Report update
Dear Parent/Guardian,
Now more than ever, it is important for schools to be transparent to its stakeholders. The world
is in an unprecedented pandemic, and much has changed in our schools and education in
general due to COVID-19.
Transparency to the Public
North Dakota is committed to informing communities about how well our schools are doing. North Dakota’s future success depends on tapping into the potential of all students so that they graduate choice ready with the knowledge, skills, and disposition to be successful.
State education departments are required to annually create an accountability report for every public school in the state. The school accountability reports outline how schools are performing on the accountability elements North Dakota selected within its ESSA plan.
North Dakota has a public dashboard designed to help communities across the state access
important data regarding K-12 districts and schools, including COVID-19 Response. Insights
features easy-to-read reports on multiple measures of school success, including test scores,
graduation rates, English Learner progress, student engagement results, and state
accountability. To find out information about our school, visit the dashboard at Insights.nd.gov,
select “Find My School”, and search alphabetically.
Please note, data made available to the public masks or hides data for groups with less than 10
students to protect confidential information about individual students and will say “no data
available”.
How is our School Doing?
To find out more information about our School Accountability Report, visit the dashboard at https://insights.nd.gov/, select “Find My School”, and search alphabetically for our school. The school accountability report is posted under the Dashboard heading. Please note, the data made available to the public masks or hides data for groups with 10 or fewer students to protect confidential information about individual students. Therefore, if data is not available to less than 10 students, it will say “no data available”.
Family Engagement
We have robust plans for working to continuously improve educational programs at our school,
even in the midst of a pandemic. We would like you and your child(ren) to continue to be active
participants in our educational system. Please help support our high expectations for student
achievement by participating in school initiatives, offering input and support in our endeavors to
raise student achievement, and volunteering at school. Meeting our school’s goals will take a
united effort, and we look forward to working with families to ensure success for each student.
Continuous Improvement
All schools engage in continuous improvement for general support; therefore, our school has
completed a continuous improvement plan. As part of the overall school improvement plan, a strategy map is generated for each school. Our strategy map, outlining our key school improvement initiatives, is also available on the Insights Dashboard.
Carl Ben Eielson has a student membership count of 642, and it is not a participating Title I school.
If you have any questions regarding the information in the memorandum, please contact the school at 1601 13th Ave. S, 701-446-1700, and/or email to franklb@fargo.k12.nd.us.
Sincerely,
Brad Franklin
Carl Ben Eielson Principal
Parent PowerSchool and Canvas support
Parents and Guardians have the ability to log in and check on their child's attendance, grades, and assignments (homework). The system used depends on the type of information they are looking for and the student's grade level. Here is a quick rundown of each system and what it provides for parents/guardians:
PowerSchool Parent
PowerSchool Parent access is the best place for parents to start, by clicking the PowerSchool logo on the Fargo Schools website menu bar. In PowerSchool Parent, you can:
- Review and submit annual school forms for your child.
- Check attendance.
- Review grades, report cards, and progress reports.
- View documents associated with your child's school record.
*Parents of 6th grade students should check with their child's teachers for more information on how to access progress information.
https://www.fargo.k12.nd.us/Domain/197
Canvas
Parents can get to Canvas from a link right inside PowerSchool parent. Parents can also download the PowerSchool Parent App from their phone's app store.
Parents/Guardians of children in grades 6-12 can log into Canvas to:
- View your child's course schedule.
- View assignments for each course.
Parents and Students can find help documents and instructions on using Canvas at https://sites.google.com/fargoschools.org/canvassupport .
Mr. Brad Franklin
Principal
Grade 6Mr. Dean Wilson
Assistant Principal
Grade 7Mrs. Natalie Richter
Grade 8
Carl Ben Eielson Middle School
Website: www.fargo.k12.nd.us/cbe
Location: 1601 13th Avenue South, Fargo, ND, USA
Phone: 701-446-1700
Twitter: @FPSCarlBen
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