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Minnewaska Middle School News
Weekly Update
With that said, Wednesday will be different for all Middle School Teachers. 7-12 staff will have the morning full with a variety of plans from PLCs to Advisory and Office Hours. 4-6 will coverage from 12:30-3:00 for their own PLC, planning and Staff Meeting time. We're working to finalize all schedules and plan to have a copy to teaching staff by Monday afternoon.
Our staff meeting this week will have more information for you regarding some upcoming events from Homecoming to fall conferences.
If you haven't completed your NWEA assessments, please make sure to do this early this week. We'll work on a date to do a data dig as we learn more about what the data means for us.
This week's newsletter, The Wave, sent to families on Sunday. It can be found here.
September 21
COVID Thoughts
I know I talked about this last week, but I can't emphasize enough that our families are hanging on what you say. We learned late last week that a highly respected professional in our community made their own comments about COVID and what they thought would happen at the school. Their comments alone made a family decide to go DL without knowing the facts and believing we were in the middle of an outbreak.
These are troubling times, but sharing the facts and a positive outlook can go a long way.
Just to clarify, we haven't had a positive case yet. We have had lots of students with symptoms be tested and many who have had to quarantine due to exposure to someone outside of school.
Dismissal
We're asking for dismissal to happen in stages. Here's the plan:
3:07 8th, 4th and 5th dismiss
3:10 7th and 6th dismiss
As we get going there will be bus duty after school, likely each teacher will have a week. Mr. Meissner is working on a schedule for our entire 4-12. For our first week, please join us outside as we have all hands on deck making sure kids get where they need to.
Sub Plans-MAKE SURE THEY ARE WITH KRISTEN!
Lunch Changes
Recess
Sarah's Schedule
9:00 Attendance Mtg.
3:45 Command Team Mtg.
Tuesday, September 15
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Wednesday, September 16
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12:30 MAMS Staff Mtg.
1:30-3:00 MAMS PLCs
Thursday, September 17
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Friday, September 18
MAMS