As we enter our second month of school at Padilla, there are a couple items we would like to clean up within the parking lot drop off/pick up process. Overall, things are going very smoothly and we are appreciative of your patience and help with this process. However, as we grow in the not so distant future, we know that the number of vehicles in the lot before and after school will increase causing more delays and some frustrations.

Please be aware of the following:

• The left lane is not a drop off or pick up lane. This lane is a pass through lane used to exit the lot after you have dropped off or picked up your student.

• The right lane (Hug and Go) is not a parking lane. If you need to get out of your car to let your student out, please consider parking in the lot to do so. Having your students sit on the passenger side of your car will help speed the drop off process up. (The kinder and pre-school lot are the exception to this as we encourage parents to use this horseshoe to park and bring their students to the gates or the door for preschool)

• Please pull forward as far as possible so that we can invite as many cars as possible into the lot. If you can wait to drop off your child until after the first crosswalk, this will help speed up the process for all

• We are going to have crosswalk areas painted into the lot soon and we ask that everyone does their part and use the crosswalk areas to get where they need to go at Padilla. At this time, we aren’t sure what the city will be able to provide our community with, as far as crosswalks/stop signs onto Longs Peak Street are concerned. Within our lot, we will be adding additional monitors in order to help families of our kinder and pre-k students cross the parking lot safely to the horseshoe. Eventually we will be asking all families to avoid crossing that area of the lot as we know things can get busy before and after school towards the parking lot exit.

Thank you for your patience as well as your willingness to help everyone safely and efficiently get to school and then home every day!

This week teachers engaged in learning about all the different resources that are available to support them in reaching their professional learning goals this year. Learning Lab Mondays will allow our teachers to dive deeper into their understanding of the 27J tools and resources. Professional Learning on Wednesdays are a chance for our teachers to dig into the evidence they have collected towards their goal and observe fellow colleagues in action. Thursdays are dedicated to collaboration time which allows teachers to identify and plan next steps towards their goals with their grade level teams. Finally teachers can engage in Student-Centered Coaching Cycles with our Instructional Coach in order to set student learning goals, collect student evidence, plan instruction based on the evidence collected, and have support in the classroom to implement their plan through co-teaching. With so many resources in place to support us in reaching our goals of increasing student achievement at Padilla, we have no doubt that we will be successful!

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