Early Childhood Connected Learning Plan

Early Childhood Staff Availability

Office Hours:

  • Teachers are expected to have virtual office hours for 45 minutes in the AM and 45 minutes in the PM on Monday-Thursday.

  • Teachers will be utilizing this time for individual appointments with students/families for assessment and instructional purposes, as well as a way to stay personally connected with students/families.

  • Your teacher’s office hours will be communicated to you by your child's teacher and parents and/or students can request time to talk with their teacher during their office hours.

Organization and Planning

  • A master schedule for the week will be shared with you and your child. This will consist of:

        • consistent and predictable timing of circle time instruction

        • times your child will be participating in small group and one-on-one Google Meet instruction

  • Your child's teachers will be teaching in real-time with Google Meet Monday to Thursday. In addition, your child's teacher may also post or send instructional videos that can be viewed outside of the Google Meet scheduled sessions.

  • Your family will be provided with some learning activities that can be completed at a time convenient to your family.

  • Instruction will be based on the district-written curriculum which can be found on our district website linked here: Early Childhood Curriculum

  • Students with IEP's or other services required will continue to be provided based upon the goals of their IEP's and/or other service documents.

  • At home learning tips include:

        • remove distractions

        • set timers or create a calendar with times your child needs to get on the computer for instruction

Communication and Academic Content Delivery

Early childhood staff will:

  • utilize the Early Childhood Google Site to post information and activities

  • utilize Google Meet for synchronous video communication

  • record some lessons/videos and send these to parents

  • monitor how long students are in front of a computer screen

  • communicate frequently with parents using their district email account

  • communicate via phone when needed and will utilize interpreters for families that need them

Parents/guardians along with their child will:

  • engage in scheduled lessons over Google Meet

  • watch posted recorded videos/lessons when posted

  • engage in activities posted by the teacher at a time convenient to them

Student Feedback

  • Early childhood staff will:

        • continue to utilize standards-based grading. To learn more about this type of grading system, click here. To view the power standards and rubrics, go to the district website which is linked here

        • provide feedback to students during live Google Meet sessions

        • collect assessment data by power standards on the standards that can be assessed over a screen

  • Some standards/goals may not be able to be assessed over a screen. Because of this, early childhood staff will not give a marking on the report card on these standards as they all involve being physically with students.

Resources

Google Meet support can be found on the Family Tech Support page which can be found by clicking that tab at the top of this site.