Collegiate Academy Heartbeat
Sunday, March 22, 2020
From the Heart
Team,
Week 2 GCISD Learning@Home
I hope everyone is well in your household and you are ready to begin our 2nd week of Learning@ Home. As I stated in the Phoenix News, our two main goals for this week are:
1. Closing out the 3rd nine weeks.
2. Student s transitioning to online courses at TCC NE
This week we will begin to develop routines. It might take all week to find the right ones. Please be patient. As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to ask. You know you can always ask me anything directly, but during this time of communicating through email or phone, I want to give you your first contact for different needs. These individuals are working closely with district leaders and might have more current information than I do.
Instruction - Lauren
College concerns - Riley
Social/emotional needs - Riley
Technology issues for students and staff - Matthew
Suggestions for this week:
Develop a schedule for yourself that includes recreation, time with family, self care time, and work time. Do not let work be ongoing...schedule it and stick to it. I know for me I have worked non-stop since Thursday, March 5 with I knew we were closing schools. I am going to change that this week. Our mental health demands we take breaks from thinking. Please take care of your mental and physical health over the next few weeks. You have an important service t do for the Phoenix Community. We need you!
I am attaching the Secondary Teacher Expectations for this week! As we discussed in our convoluted meeting on Friday, No new work given and let's make zeros NC. Our goal is to put every student in the best position for success next year. Be making a list of any students that will not be passing your class for the year if grades ended on March 27 for the year and share with me by end of the day (4:30pm) on Thursday, March 26. I will be setting up facetime meetings with those of you that have failures on Friday, March 27 to discuss. Here is the screencastify link for Week 2 Teaching and Learning
Parents are so appreciative of the work you are doing to connect with their students. I have received so many emails of encouragement, support and gratitude for all you have done! Thank you for your commitment and service to our Phoenix Family. The new normal is difficult and confusing to everyone, Thank you for your patience last week and your positive attitude! If I have to be working to serve students in a time that is unpredictable and almost impossible it would be with you all! YOU ALL are Rock Stars!!
Paraprofessionals - you do not have to work during this time, but I will send the link to the CA Staff meeting tomorrow to everyone. Join if you just want to hang out, but there is no expectation that you do!
"See" you tomorrow at 2pm!
Always Grateful,
Bobbe
The courage to love unconditionally breaks all barriers.
#PhoenixFierce
Together we will make a difference!
Lauren Jackson
Thank you for the kind and encouraging words on the Padlet! We are such an amazing team and I am grateful to be part of it!
Although nothing is set in stone quite yet, the wheels are turning across the district with ideas of having WebEx content PLCs (across the district), Liaison/Coach hosting PLCs, SpEd PLCs, etc. I am going to share these times with Courtney Ervin (GES Liaison who is beginning to coordinate all of these) that the times on this sheet are set for our campus.
As you will be setting your office hours this week, take the meeting times that affect you into consideration. Also, please note that your office hours may change from this week to next due to these district meetings, but I'm hoping they can remain consistent from week three moving forward. Please edit the office hours week of 3/22 tab today.
Below are the guidelines for office hours and meeting times:
Daily: Two hours being near your computer to answer emails, respond to questions in LMS with your students, etc. This can be broken up into two one-hour increments if that works better for you.
Weekly: WebEx grade level PLC (this will start the week of 3/29 for our campus)
As needed: WebEx All Staff PLC (We have this as MWF for our campus), respond to emails from GCISD staff in a timely manner.
The above information is as of today, March 22. Right now, let's just take this week-by-week. Please feel free to Google Chat me (thanks for setting that up, Riley) if you have any questions.
Thank you,
Lauren