MP Principal's Post
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Manchester Park Elementary
Home of the Timberwolves
4/24/2020
Upcoming SCM Meeting
I am canceling the certified on Tuesday at 8:30. Please plan to attend the SCM training on Thursday from 1:00 - 2:00. The other SCM training is on May 14th from 1:00 - 2:00. These behavior trainings are required by the district and doing these this year will fulfill 2 of the 5 hours needed. Thank you for doing your best to carve out this time in your schedule!
PD Opportunities
Feel free to check out the PD opportunities that are available at the following link:
CLP Website
All information on the CLP site will remain up and active through the summer for parents to use if they like.
Next Year's Review of Standards
Several of you have asked about working the grade level below about standards missed this quarter in preparation for next year. Learning Services is working on this and will have information for staff at some point before next year begins, but I don’t know what it is going to look like for sure. There will have to be some modifications however I don’t know if that will look like a modified pacing guide or what. While I don’t think it hurts for your PLCs to have this conversation, I would hate for you to do too much detailed planning not knowing what the district will be providing or directing teachers to do.
School Mobile Integrated Health (MIH) Unit
During the first 4 days of operating the School Mobile Integrated Health Unit in partnership with nurses from Olathe Schools and the Olathe Fire Department, the teams visited 50 families reaching 70 students. They utilized telehealth for 32 visits and made 21 home visits (some families required both). The visits varied widely including minor nursing care, resource connection, hygiene kit delivery, IT assistance for an iPAD and food pantry assistance. Thank you to all who are working to keep school children healthy and safe during this time. If you have specific families that administration, teachers, or nurses have not heard from and are afraid they are needing help, please contact Sharon Morris and she can start a referral for the team to go make a home visit and support their needs!
Summer Building Use (Including Summer School)
No decisions will be made until the May 3 SAH expires. There’s a good chance it could be extended or if lifted that restrictions will still be in place regarding the size of groups etc.
Graphic Communications Department News
The department is checking emails regularly and assisting as they can. There’s a skeleton crew coming in to the shop to run the machines but only for Continuous Learning packets or COVID-19 communication needs. We will not start accepting quick turnaround requests until Johnson County lifts the stay-at-home order and I have permission to expand our team again.
Each year, we ask for the schools to get their 1st quarter print requests in before they leave for summer break. That is not changing. Please encourage your teams to access Digital StoreFront through the ozone and enter their orders for August. To order in advance, enter a due date of August 3rd. We will invoice all August 3rd due dates from the 2020-21 accounts
Pink/Blue Cards and Groupings for Next Year
I am going to hold off on having you complete the pink and blue cards. We will have the opportunity to do so when we get back into the schools and get the data we need.
- At this time, I am going to place blank class list forms in your grade level Teams in the folder labeled, "2020-2021 Class Lists". You will have the number of class list forms that match the number of sections for the next grade level.
- Along with this, you will find an excel sheet that I would like for you to fill out if you for input purposes:
1. Are placing a particular student with another for a certain reason
2. Are separating a student from other students
3. Have specific requests that you are aware of from parents
4. Student has any needs that you need to share: IEP, 504, Evaluation, MTSS, etc.
A big thank you to Andrea as she dropped all of your students for the grade level into this file, so you will go to the child and then fill out the column that pertains to them. You are only filling this out for students that meet one of the criteria above.
I will pull the class lists and this input form when I start forming the classes for next year.
Class Placement Forms for Families
Interventions on Synergy
Please make sure that you are putting this on synergy when you begin and then update this when you complete it. This should be done for any behavior or academic interventions. Please do the best that you can with the information that you have at home. You can always update these when we have access to the classroom. Please feel free to add a statement explaining that due to school being cut short because of COVID-19, the last day of the intervention was ______.
Some #OlatheSpirit for the Week of 4/20
Some schools are doing something like this weekly. I will be adding this to my twitter, but feel free to add this to your SeeSaw as well if you would like to!
Thanks!
PTO Dining Out Night
Please share this PTO dining out night in your parent communication. It is a great way to help our PTO and one of our business partners!
Manchester Park families can now support the PTO and our beloved local Johnny’s Tavern all at once!
CURBSIDE TO GO Fundraising Day!
Wednesday, April 22nd
All day long – 11:00 am – 9:30 pm
10384 S. Ridgeview Rd.
Be sure to mention you are with Manchester Park when placing your order!
Many thanks to Johnny’s in Olathe for supporting MPE!