Principal's Message to Hornet Families to close out the Fall semester
Great evening fantastic families,
We are excited to return to campus January 5th but want to assure all families scholar safety is at the forefront of our minds at this point. We are aware of the uptick in cases in the Austin community and are prepared for a safe return for both students and staff. AISD has created many COVID testing and Vaccine opportunities for the city of Austin. Please read the letter linked below for more information. We encourage everyone to get boosted and tested before returning to school January 5th. We will open school as usual and continue with the COVID protocols that worked well for us and AISD during the fall semester. Each classroom has plexiglass barriers, HEPA filters, and sanitizer available for all students. We will provide more structure for our courtyard eating opportunities and continue to operate our HEPA filters in the cafeteria during lunches. We could still use more volunteers to help with lunch monitoring. If you are interested please reach out to PTA president Beth Reyburn. Please reach out to Principal Wilson directly if you have any concerns or questions. I am here to serve this community and am open to suggestions and fielding concerns. Currently, we are also anticipating continuing our fine arts and athletic programs this Spring. Boys’ basketball and Girls’ Soccer tryouts are still scheduled for this week. We look forward to creating a GREAT learning experience for our scholars this Spring despite COVID and any other barriers that await. Feel free to join us Thursday for our first PTA meeting of the Spring Semester. We will have time to discuss adjustments to AISD’s COVID response, master scheduling for next year, and many other pressing items our community may want to discuss. Thank you for choosing Kealing Middle School and Austin ISD as your scholar's primary educator.
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Happy Holidays!
The Kealing PTA Executive Board
2021-2022 Initiatives and Goals
1.) Daily Formative Assessment
2.) Literacy in Every Classroom
3.) Standards Aligned Instruction
4.) Progress Monitoring
Academic Goal
Utilizing an array of assessments (MAP- Measure of Academic Progress, SCA - AISD Short Course Assessment, and STAAR - State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness), the percentage of each demographic/special group of students performing at the meets level in Math & English will increase by at least 5% - 10% from August 17th, 2021 to May 27th,2022.
Social Goal
- TBA (we are still working on this but planning to look at the types of counseling visits our students are requesting)
KMS Safety Protocols as of 1/2/2021
All Day
Mask wearing is mandatory
Before School
All staff, students, and visitors are encouraged to self screen for COVID 19 symptoms before entering into a campus or other Austin ISD Facilities each day
Arrival
- We will maintain outdoor markers to social distance
Transition
- we will encourage moving halls where students are encourage to not stop while transitioning to classes
- staggered release
Classrooms
- We are seating/desks at least 3 feet apart when feasible
- Each classroom has a HEPA (High Efficiency Particulate Air) filtration unit
- Personal Protective Equipment will be available in each room
- Plexiglass dividers available
- Additional outdoor seating (2 outdoor classrooms & the courtyard if teachers plan to use)
Breakfast & Lunch
- Assigned seating
- Students are allowed to eat lunch both inside the cafeteria and outside in the courtyard
- Plexiglass accordian dividers
-Volunteer lunch monitors
- The courtyard comfortably seats 5 classes, which is from 25% - 100% of the lunch capacity for each lunch period.
Dismissal
- we will have staggered dismissal where scholars will be dismissed by areas of the building to reduce traffic.
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