Administrative Items:

LIBRARY:

Please join me in welcoming Ms. Zoulis back to our P.S. 246 family for the 2024-2025 school year as our interim acting librarian during Ms. Horton's maternity leave.    We look forward to having our library up and running for our PS 246 community.

RESO-GRANT:

Last year I wrote a RESO Grant that provided us with 30 new promethean boards which were installed in every classroom over the summer.   It is also providing us with190 new devices (95 laptops and 95 I-pads) which will be delivered to the school this Friday, October 18th.   Those classes who are missing devices for their students will be made whole once the delivery is completed.   Please send an email to Ms. Johnson, your AP and Ms. Ortiz indicating how many  devices you need for your classroom,

Parent teacher conference 

Next month we will host our first Parent Teacher Conference on Thursday, November 7th from 1:00 - 3:00 pm and from 4:30 to 7:30 pm. Thursday is a half day of school and children will dismiss at 11:30 am.  Teachers may leave the school directly after dismissal to conduct the conference from their home if they will arrive before the 1:00 pm conference time. Otherwise, you will conduct the conference from the school and leave at 3:00 pm if you will reach home in time for the 4:30 pm conference.  Please alert Ms. Johnson if you will be conducting the PTC from the school building by Tuesday, November 5th.

REPORT CARDS  WILL BE OPEN THIS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9TH FOR THE UPCOMING MARKING PERIOD.  Report Cards are to be sent to Administration by Friday, November 1st as follows:

Ms. Johnson General Education

Ms. Prince -  ENL/Bilingual

Ms. Jaoui -  Special Education

1. Parent Conference Log

Teachers are to log their meetings with parents in the Parent Conference Log via the link below (you will need to make a copy to edit).  It is important to note that the "status section" must be reserved to indicate that status of your PTC outreach (did parents attend the scheduled meeting, did they reschedule…) Please enter the time of the meeting, whom you met with and the meeting status (met/not met). PTC logs are to be completed by Friday, March 8th by COB. For those parents whom you cannot contact on the day of the PTC, you will have to reschedule for a mutually agreeable non-instructional time. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/184t2KfOfg48VuBnHx0xHMGEXhaK3Im-HmaqDL0yUUQM/edit?usp=sharing

Parent Teacher Conferences are meant to be visual interactions with parents where we are sharing the students report card and any supporting work /documents.   Cameras are expected to be on during this time.   Please ensure you are using Google classroom to showcase student learning and their progress.  If you are using another platform, you must share the platform link with administration.   

2. Parent PTC Schedule:

Please have parents sign up to meet with you during PTC for 15 minute intervals using a scheduling app such as Calendly.   Please send your schedule to Ms. Johnson and the AP's by Tuesday ,November 5th.

Teachers, please find below a Google sheet to sign up for translation services, if needed, for your  various PTC time slots.   Just click on the Google sheet, sign up for an available translator for the time you will require their services and provide them access to your Google classroom.   I have also attached a translation services flyer if you need help for other languages.   

Attached is also the parent teacher conference log which must be filled out and returned to me no later than Monday, November 11th as I am forwarding these documents to the district office on the 12th.    Please make every effort to reschedule and reach parents who were unable to attend the PTC on Thursday, November 7th  by the latest Tuesday,   November 19th.

3. PTC TRANSLATION SUPPORT

If you need help with translation for parent meetings,, you can schedule translation support below. Sign your name under an available translator next to the time you would like to have that translator join your conference  by logging into the google docs below.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ee056SYK_4iuJZKmv4In0w2PLVC0F_I3/edit? usp=sharing&ouid=107776637196447744119&rtpof=true&sd=true

4. Administrative Support:

In case you need administrative assistance while meeting with a parent you can email us or call us directly at the following numbers.

A. Johnson:     917-971-1150

V. Prince :        917-859-2585

I. Jaoui:           347-265-1841

Administration will also be available under staff teams Administrative channel at the following times below if you need to stop by for assistance:

1:00 - 2:00    A. Johnson

2:00 - 3:00    I Jaoui

4:30 - 5:45    I. Jaoui

5:45- 7:00     A. Johnson

5. Providers:Please ensure that you have set-up meeting times with parents to review their student progress by scheduling times with parents.  Please  forward your progress reports and schedule to Ms Johnson and Ms Jaoui by Tuesday, November 5th.

6.  Specialists: Please ensure that you coordinate with teachers so you can schedule time to meet with parents of students of concern.

7.  Please follow the half day lunch schedule for Thursday, November 7th which will be share by Ms. Inniss under separate cover.