Raleigh Hills Newsletter
3/23/2020
Weekly Message
Dear Raleigh Hills Families and Community,
We are currently living through a once-in-a-lifetime event. The disruption to our daily lives is enormous. We miss your students terribly and wish that we could be working with them each day. As you may know, one of the best ways to encourage help students keep up their skills it to have them reading and writing every day! If you could get 2-3 thirty-minute sessions a day, your child would benefit greatly! Please consider following the district's remote learning page. There are a lot of great activities posted there!
We have been overwhelmed by the generosity of this community. Many people have offered friendship as well as food and other basic necessities. The best thing that you can do to help us at this time is to donate directly to the Oregon Food Bank. They have the infrastructure to help our community broadly. Additionally, BSD has set up a Community Resource Fund to support families in the BSD community (see below). While teachers, staff and community volunteers want to be out delivering things and helping individuals, the best thing we can do to help is to stay home and take all precautionary measures to keep this virus from spreading. This might feel like doing nothing, but it is the MOST IMPORTANT thing we can do at this time.
Don't forget that the district will resume providing meals curbside for breakfast and lunch every weekday after spring break. Meals will resume on March 30 at Raleigh Hills. Please bring your students. They must be present, but any child 1 and up will receive a meal. Additiona locations are listed below.
Hold your loved one close and enjoy your spring break. Watch the BSD Webpage for updates daily. Take care of yourselves. WE will get through this together!
Be Well,
Jennifer
Upcoming Events
- March 23-27: Spring Break - No School for Students
- March 30-April 28: Schools Closed
Note: Spring Conferences have been cancelled and will not be rescheduled.
Meal Services
Grab and go meals (breakfast and lunch) will be served curbside at the 15 designated locations (Aloha Huber Park K-8, Barnes, Beaver Acres, Chehalem, Fir Grove, Hazeldale, Kinnaman, McKinley, Raleigh Hills K-8, William Walker, Vose, Whitford MS, Beaverton High School, Southridge High School, Sunset High School) on March 18, 19, 20, and on weekdays after spring break until April 28. Meals will not be served over Spring Break. There are also no plans to deliver food to families.
The Nutrition Services Department is using a waiver provided by ODE and USDA to allow schools approved for summer meals to provide food during this emergency closure. Only sites that have previously been approved for summer meals are allowed to provide meals. Staff consolidated sites that are close together and selected sites that may provide access to a larger number of students. They also looked at sites that provide easier curb-side service.
We have been working with community partners, faith-based partners and social service organizations to connect families with resources they may need during this time. Please visit our Community Resources webpage for information and resources you may need.
Donate to the Beaverton Schools Community Resources Fund
The Beaverton School District is now accepting donations from the greater Beaverton community to support community-wide efforts to provide food boxes, toiletries and other essential items to our families during emergency situations. There are many Beaverton families who struggle economically even in the best of times, and this fund will enable the Beaverton School District to work with community partners to serve our families.
To make a donation to the Beaverton Schools Community Resources Fund, visit
https://or-beaverton-lite.intouchreceipting.com/,
- Select “Beaverton School District” under School
- Select “Beaverton Schools Community Resources Fund” under Item
- Add a donation amount
- Click on Buy
- Click on Checkout
Social Emotional Learning
In this time of uncertainty, we can turn to Social and Emotional Learning to help ourselves and our loved ones through this difficult time. In case you are unfamiliar, the eight-minute video from CASEL (see below) quickly describes Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and how parents can help support their child's SEL. There are a few specific examples of what you can do at home starting at 5:42.
Our children's Social and Emotional Learning starts at home. They take cues from how we deal with difficult and stressful situations, which is why it is important to be mindful of our own emotions so that we can properly respond to the emotions of others.
The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence has some great resources and suggestions for dealing with our emotions during this crisis. A helpful tool for dealing with the complicated emotions you and your children may be feeling right now is their RULER approach:
Recognize emotions in yourself and others
Understand the causes and consequences of emotions
Label emotions accurately
Express emotions appropriately
Regulate emotions effectively
If you find yourselves wanting more tangible resources for building emotional resilience with your children at home, I highly recommend accessing the resources listed on the Confident Parents Confident Kids website.