Cougar Times
COVID-19 Closure Week of April 13th, 2020
Contact Information
Email: bacorpuz@bethelsd.org
Website: www.bethelsd.org/cmms
Location: 5625 260th Street East, Graham, WA, USA
Phone: 253-800-8000
Facebook: facebook.com/cougarmountainms
Twitter: @CMCougs
Important Information
Staff Phrase/Collage:
If you haven't already, please select your word(s) on this DOCUMENT for our staff phrase/collage and submit your picture to Dezihan by Monday @ 3:00.
All Staff Meeting:
We will have our weekly all staff meeting on Monday, 4/13 @ 8:00 via Zoom. Here is the link to the meeting. Our classified staff meeting will take place on Wednesday, April 15 @ 9:00 and here is the zoom link, both links are also available to you in the building calendar invites.
Evolved Expectations:
As you know, Governor Inslee has closed school buildings for the duration of the school year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, continuous learning must take place! With this new layer, and based on feedback from staff, students and families, there are a few new expectations that will begin as of Monday, April 20th. I worked with leadership to develop a few systems that will help to streamline information for our students and families, and that will support our online learning instructional practices as they grow throughout the closure. We will go over this information during our staff meeting, please read through this EVOLVED EXPECTATIONS document. After you have read through and we've discussed the evolved expectations, please complete this TEACHER GOOGLE SURVEY by 4/15/20 @ 2:15 PM.
Vertical Team Planning:
Many of our teams have started the essential/power standards planning discussion with both their PLCs and vertical teams. If you haven't discussed the essential standards with vertical teams (6-7-8), please plan to make this happen this week. This school closure is going to impact every single student, and it is vital that we instruct them on truly essential standards during our limited exposure with them. There is a video from John Hattie below to further support this work.
Non-Engaged Students:
Please update our NON-ENGAGED STUDENTS LIST by Thursday of each week, so that we can make phone and/or zoom calls along with emails on Fridays. I will add this to the building calendar as a reminder each week. Anytime a student has started to engage, you can just delete your name/subject from the list.
Staffing for Child Care Site:
Here are the staffing assignments for the child care sites for our classified staff reference... THOMPSON CHILDCARE SCHEDULE - APRIL.pdf and NELSON CHILDCARE SCHEDULE - APRIL.pdf.
CMMS Staff Parade ~ Friday, April 17th @ 9:00 AM
GET EXCITED!!!! Thanks to transportation for creating this very specific and well-organized PARADE ROUTE for our staff on Friday, April 17th from 9-11 AM. Feel free to bring signs or paint your windows! We will start off at CMMS at 9:00 AM, and then you can follow Brit's truck throughout the parade route. We will end at CMMS during lunch distribution!
Celebration/Welcoming Ideas
It is absolutely heart-breaking when we think of the significant grade levels transitioning this year, and the thought that they may not get the anticipated experience they hoped for. I still believe we can do something amazing for these kiddos, and I know many of you feel the same! If you would like to share your great ideas in terms of HOW we celebrate our outgoing 8th graders, and welcome our incoming 6th graders, please enter those ideas in this CELEBRATION/WELCOMING GOOGLE SURVEY!