Sunday, June 14, 2020

Week of 6/8 - 6/12

Hey Panda Family,

This is the last Weekly Wrap for the year! We made it 😊 Make sure to get plenty of rest this summer and stay safe in your travels! Check your school email periodically for updates, and don't hesitate to reach out if you need anything at all. Have a wonderful summer vacation, and Thank You again for all that you do! 



Class Dojo: The grade level and department reps met this past week to discuss which tool we plan to use for our school-wide communication with parents next year. The unanimous decision was Class Dojo. We believe that by using one platform it will streamline the communication for our parents, and especially those with multiple children in different classrooms. It will be expected that all teachers use this communication tool to connect with families beginning next school year. 

Please see the presentation linked below to view the many resources Class Dojo has to offer (there are a lot of ideas on the Class Dojo community page on Facebook too). Also, it was recommended that if you are already using Class Dojo that you archive your class from this year. Instructions are linked below to help you with this (thanks Ms. Tall!). We encourage everyone to begin playing with Class Dojo so you are familiar with it come next school year. Please let me know if you have any questions.




Phase 2/EOY Plan: Please refer to the following document linked below for our Phase 2/End-of-Year Plan. It has important dates and instructions. Phase 2/EOY Plan - Piney Grove Elementary

Canvas Training: All certified staff, please make sure you complete the "Preparing to Launch" Canvas training by Monday, June 15. 

Staff Spotlight: Thank you to the technology collection crew for your diligent work this past week in the heat to collect materials, to Ms. Gardner for delivering our report cards to central office for mailing, to our amazing office staff that had all items ready for teachers to stuff their report cards, and to all our teachers and staff that effectively finished up all our EOY tasks in a timely manner. Was a wonderful team effort this past week! 

Teacher Tuesday Spotlight: Our school Facebook page is highlighting a teacher each week! Our spotlight this past week was Ms. Pollard. Check it out!  

IF Updates

Reading Continuity Project: If you are interested in working on a small portion of our reading continuity plan, please let Jayne know.  She will hopefully be working on it next week and would love to have some more brains to make this the best it can possibly be!  

Surveys: As part of planning for the fall, WSFCS has created several surveys.  You may have seen them trickle through your inbox.  Here are the ones that I know of at this point, all in one place, for your convenience.  

Here is the parent survey.  Please consider forwarding it to your parents!   We really need all parents to complete this so that the district can have appropriate input from them.  

All of the surveys will close on Tuesday, 6/16 so please complete them ASAP.  Encourage others that you know to do the same! 


Upcoming Dates:

June 15 - Last day to complete "Preparing to Launch" Canvas training
June 15 - Certified Teachers last day of Employment for this school year
June 16 - All district surveys close
June 30 - Last day to access your PowerSchool Learning page
July 20-23 - Tentative dates for Math and Reading Textbook training
August 14 - Last day to complete "K12 First Day Ready" Canvas training
August 17 - First day of school for 2020-2021

I think this says it all! Have a wonderful summer! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQYtGUQ8Ld8


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