Dear students and Brown and Hill Families,
This will be a long email, but hopefully it will clarify our schedules starting next week. We have systems in place to communicate directly with students moving forward, so hopefully this means less communication through parents.
First, thank you for a great first week. It has been a pleasure to meet everyone. We have both received a lot of positive feedback from parents, and we appreciate it. Some have also let us know their concerns or kept us up-to-date on students' stress levels, which we also appreciate. It is a lot and we thank you for your ideas and patience.
Next week is the start of full-time remote learning. Josh and I have put a lot of thought into our schedule. It resembles Cascadia’s master schedule with a few tweaks. The first thing we have done is split each homeroom into two groups, so that we have a total of 4 classes, each with about 13 – 14 students. These are learning groups A, B, C, and D (the Alpacas, the Bison, the Camels, and the Dingoes). Your student will receive an invite to their respective learning group later today in their Outlook. Please see our attached schedules to get an idea of what this looks like.
Have your student log into their outlook tonight and accept the invites to the various meetings. Outlook is one of the apps in office 365, under student resources on the Seattle Schools main page.
For us, synchronous learning will be on Teams with the teacher. Asynchronous will be a number of things, including time reading instructions or getting a lesson from a video or other format, independent work time, group project time, and time for self-care. This time will also be for us to hold conferences with students as well as small(er) groups. Mr. Hill and I both will have a Teams meeting up and running during asynchronous time so that we are easily available to help students with whatever they are working on.
Mr. Brown has made links for each class available on Schoology. They are in students’ “English LA” class, on a page called, “The Ultimate Page of Links.”
Mr. Hill has made links for each class available on Schoology. It is labeled “Weekly Schedule with Links” They are in Math on the main page.
Our Monday morning schedule is the same as it has been this week, with the same morning meeting links. We will help students get to where they need to be!
Sincerely,
-Mr. Brown
-Mr. Hill
Links to a couple of “how to” vids.
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