Please do not send students receiving special education services to SPED rooms outside of their scheduled times unless you have made direct contact and received confirmation from a team member in that room. This is essential for maintaining safe supervision, support consistency, and smooth transitions.

Use either the radio or a phone call to confirm availability before sending a student.
Radio channel numbers are listed on the back of your staff badge for quick reference.

Thank you for your help in ensuring all student transitions are communicated and coordinated clearly. This supports both student success and staff safety.

Team —

I want to take a moment to highlight and deeply thank the staff in one of our DCD classrooms who responded quickly and effectively during a medical emergency yesterday morning. A student began actively choking and was unable to speak or cough. Thanks to the student’s ability to signal distress and the immediate, coordinated action of the teacher and ESPs in the room, the situation was resolved safely and the student recovered quickly.

Two staff members began back blows while the teacher alerted help and retrieved the Dechoker device. By the time support arrived, the student was breathing normally again.

It was a tense moment that could have ended very differently — but the calm, focused response made all the difference. I am so grateful for this team’s quick thinking, training, and care for their student.

As a building, this also gave us an important chance to review:

• Where Dechoker and other safety devices are located

• When and how to use them (as a backup, not a replacement for standard choking response)

  • Dechoker:  https://youtu.be/oco9K6LW85M?feature=shared

  • AED:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81vRL-GC0B8

• The importance of staying calm, communicating clearly, and leaning on each other in emergencies

Please take a moment this week to revisit the location of emergency devices near your room and check in with your team about your response roles. A quick hallway conversation could be what helps you act with confidence if the moment ever comes.

To the DCD team — thank you again. Your care, teamwork, and professionalism shined!

Sean

I’m sharing this document with you so you can see what Carol is using to guide your meetings. You don’t need to take any action with it right now — it’s just for your awareness.

As we move forward, she'll use the information to help determine next steps and identify what levels of support may be helpful (site wide as well).

Thank you for taking a look.

Sean

Heads up on the plan for 2025.

Due to new and ongoing construction, we have had to move our outdoor gathering area.

1. Outside: soccer fields to the south.

2. Indoor Primary: Grace Bible

3. Secondary Indoor: The Pillars.

https://tinyurl.com/WestRelocation

Added a page with more information on iDismiss.  Most have an account setup if they need to view.

The media center student list has been updated.  New students and homerooms.  I have also run the desk reference sheets with the student barcodes for checkout.  We are ready to go.

Just a quick clarification as we head into the new year:

There are two websites for West Rapids, each serving a different purpose:

1. District Website
   This is the public-facing site listed under the Schools tab on the ISD 318 homepage:
   🔗 https://westrapids.isd318.org
   It includes basic info like our address, contact details, and general school overview.
   
   

2. West Rapids Family Site
   This is a separate site I created specifically for our families with children currently attending West. It includes helpful, timely details that families need to know.
   🔗 www.tinyurl.com/WestRapids2526
   To help keep our school community safe, this site isn't meant for public browsing — families can access it through the link we share, but it’s not searchable.

Thanks for helping us keep things clear and secure for our families!

This sheet includes bus numbers for both East and West Rapids, since many families are shared between our schools. It also includes the symbols used for each bus number.

A few important notes:

• Traversa, the transportation department software, remains the best source for live updates.

• The office can look up the most current info quickly.

• This sheet is mainly for staff needing to check routes during the day.

The first few tabs show just the buses that students ride from our school to the transfer point. The “ALL Stops” tabs list every stop on each route — helpful, but a little more time-consuming to navigate. If you need up to date info for an individual student, please contact the office.

I’ve shared this with staff so we can reference routes without needing a Traversa login.

I’ll update the document as needed and I’ll adjust the title of the document to reflect the update date.