Plan to attend your department meeting with your teacher leader...

Check your Google Calendar for your invite and time.

If you are unable to attend at the time your teacher leader has shared out, be sure to watch the recording! (Recordings will be sent via email by your assigned Teacher Leader)

Review the Templates below for Thursday and Friday...

Be sure to copy and paste the required items into your personal Orientation RLE template (PreK-4) or Folder (5 & 6)

Each of these templates contain two digital citizenship lessons from Common Sense Education. These are a required part of RLE orientation. We recommend creating a free account and using the additional lessons as RLE progress through the year. For this week, we are including a Privacy & Security Lesson and a Media Balance & Well Being Lesson.

There is a lot of information out there right now about schools and expectations that may be confusing. You will want to reconnect with your families and attempt to clarify in your message Thursday that goes along with your RLE Orientation.

• Naming Convention - in order to help our families with emails regarding learning - any email you send about Remote learning should follow this convention: RLE -(your grade)(your last name)-date for learning (i.e RLE-1st-hufnagel-4/6/20)

• Be sure you discuss that this week is Orientation and Next Week we will be back to new learning that students should be engaged in.

• Describe the expected time frames for learning and why it is different than a typical school day:

  • Virtual learning takes longer

  • Expected time learning

    • Preschool - 1/2 hour per day, broken up into smaller increments

    • Kindergarten - 1 hour per day

    • 1st & 2nd grade - 2.5 hours per day

    • 3rd & 4th grade - 3 hours per day

    • 5th & 6th grade - 3 - 3.5 hours per day

  • Our focus is key standards that will ensure success next fall NOT all standards

  • Be sure to share with families that Remote Learning Experiences should be done in smaller chunks - not all 2-3 hours at once!

• Give some information about your Comet Connect Time - what is it, when will you offer it, how will it work?

• Reiterate that Learning with be shared:

  • via emails will arrive each night at 8:00 PM (Prek-4)

  • via Schoology each Sunday night by 8:00PM (5-12)

You will want to ensure your families are engaging on Thursday and Friday so that you can personally follow up with anyone who has not engaged.

Some ideas:

• Create a Google Check In Form (Don't know how - watch this)

• Ask families/students to respond via Flipgrid, Seesaw, Google Classroom, Email....

• 4th, 5th, and 6th grade only:

  • The link below shows you how to use the analytics within your Schoology course(s) to know which of your students have accessed your course content and which have not.

  • How to Use Schoology Analytics Video (click here)

  • How to Use Schoology Analytics slides (click here)

As you engage with families, if they have device or wifi needs, please have them email support@masonohioschools.com and a member of the tech dept. will reach out.

Be sure to check in here and let us know how you're doing!