Friday will be a half day of school. We will have our zoom meeting from 8:55-10:30 a.m. The rest of the morning will be used to catch up on missing assignments and minutes on i-Ready and Zearn. The students will have the afternoon off.
Students may wear a costume to zoom on Friday if they’d like to. This is optional.
I will be absent on Thursday, October 29th. Here is our schedule for the day:
The Dearborn Board of Education late Monday night authorized administrators to start a blended learning program for elementary students once community COVID conditions improved, but noted that may take several weeks.
The district can start bringing kindergarten through elementary students back two weeks after the Wayne County Health Department safety rating for the district improves to at least a D and the seven-day average positivity rate for Wayne County outside of Detroit is below 5 percent for at least two weeks. The county’s safe school matrix is based on the infection rate for that community (number of cases per 100,000 people), if the infection rate is increasing or decreasing, and the county’s positivity rate (number of COVID tests that come back positive).
Currently Dearborn Schools, along with most Wayne County schools, has an E rating on the county’s matrix. The district will work with Wayne County to try to get the relevant reports posted publicly and linked from the district’s web site. Dearborn Schools already has charts from other sources showing the daily and average positivity rates.
Two weeks after community conditions are met, the district will restart with blended learning where half of kindergarten to second grade students will come in for four hours on Monday and Thursday and the other half of students on Tuesday and Friday. Wednesday will be used for live online learning for all students. The district was authorized to restart as early as Nov. 16, but trustees doubted community conditions would improve quickly enough to allow that to happen. The seven day positivity rate continues to be more than 5 percent.
Two weeks after kindergarten through second grade students return, grades three through five would also be allowed to restart on the same blended schedule. Preschool programs would follow after the rest of elementary restarted.
Classes would move back to online only if conditions decline in the district or if problems arise at a particular school and the health department recommends closing that building for a while.
Under the approved plan, middle and high school students would not return to classes face to face until at least the second semester starting in mid January. Then, they would also probably restart with a similar blended schedule and a shorter school day. Dearborn Schools would be able to restart learning labs for students once the average positivity rate falls below 5 percent again.
For elementary students, schools would have siblings attend on the same day, dividing the school roughly by last name. Breakfast would be offered in the classroom, but students who wanted lunch would take a boxed meal home. Plans are still being worked out for how free meal distributions will continue for other students.
Students and staff will be required to wear masks while they are in the buildings.
The board’s meeting, which lasted more than six hours, also addressed how desks and other touch points will be sanitized every four hours or when students change classes, and looked at how many people with COVID have been on school grounds. The presentation to the board also touched on numerous other safety details like how schools will develop entry and exit procedures to help students social distance and social distancing in the classrooms and hallways.
School officials also noted that parents who are uncomfortable with the plan have until Friday, Oct. 30, to sign up to switch their children to the Virtual Learning Program. For information on the Virtual Learning Program, please visit https://vlp.dearbornschools.org. Individual questions can be addressed by calling (313) 827-3024. Any parent with a child already in the Virtual Learning Program does not need to re-enroll their student. Approximately 2,500 Dearborn students are now signed up for the program which will teach children online for the entire year. Dearborn Public Schools has more than 20,000 students.
Dearborn Schools opted to start by returning elementary students to face-to-face learning because those children have the most difficult time learning online and because those students are easier to keep socially distanced. The young students will stay in their classrooms during their shortened school day.
“We are grateful for this concrete plan to start bringing students back to our schools because we know most students learn best in-person,” said Superintendent Glenn Maleyko. “We hope with this gradual approach to show our community schools can resume relatively safely, and we ask the community to do its part to reduce the spread of the virus by wearing masks, social distancing, regular hand washing, and taking other safety precautions.”
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Good morning!
We’ve been working hard and getting a lot done! For the rest of today, please check in with your child and make sure they have completed their assignments:
SUCCEED Math book page 95
Zearn 20 minutes
I-Ready 20 minutes
Spelling – Type each word once on document on Schoology
Writing – Publish your informational writing from your R.A.C.E.R. chart onto your document on Schoology, “Does fur help animals survive?”
Last but not least – Did you finish your assignments for the week from your special classes? Music (today at 1:00), Gym, Art, Technology and Enrichment
HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND! Stay safe!
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Hello Snow Community,
There will be no in person open house at any of the Dearborn schools due to the current pandemic. There will be extra time added to parent teacher conferences which will be held virtually to allow more time for teachers to meet with parents. Our wonderful staff here at Snow has proactively created a Bitmoji Slideshow to share with parents and students. I hope you all enjoy the show and share it with your children please click the link below.
Thank you,
Mr. Abdelfattah
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Xtv5-4sODN18sA78KEnJdbSxZDv_QdG6H3pTKEgz0W0/preview
| Dearborn Public Schools Board of Education voted Monday night (Oct. 12) to extend online learning into November, but set another meeting for Oct 26 to reevaluate conditions.The approved motion also called for continuing and expanding in-school learning labs where, under current conditions, up to three students at a time come in and meet with teachers. If local COVID conditions stay favorable, those groups will expand up to six students. Learning labs for some special education students started last month and then expanded to every school last week.Trustees voted 6-1 in favor of the measure. Only Trustee Jim Thorpe dissented, expressing that the district was ready to slowly start bringing students back. Since the September meeting, the average COVID test positivity rate for outer Wayne County has fallen below 5 percent and the average daily cases in Dearborn have declined significantly. District administration had recommended starting to bring elementary students back in a split model where half of students would be at school at one time. Three options were presented for student attendance including every other day, half days every day, or a shortened day every other day. In each case, students not at school would have done asynchronous work at home. More information about each option is available in the presentation to the board.The plan included options for starting with preschool through third grade or preschool through fifth grade. Siblings at the same school would attend at the same time.In all three options, elementary students would have stayed mostly in their classrooms with any special teachers like art or music coming to them. Desks and other touch points would have needed to be sanitized every four hours, or between groups of students.Maysam Alie-Bazzi, Executive Director of Staff and Student Services and a co-chair of the district’s reopen committee, made the presentation. She also touched on options for starting to return middle and high school students, although probably not until after elementary schools restarted. Secondary students are more difficult to bring back because of the number of students in the buildings and the need to have them switch classes. Each class change will mean students mixing in the hall and the state requirement to wipe every desk. Options for middle and high school include “Zoom in the room” where teachers would simultaneously teach students in the classroom and online.Monday’s meeting stretched more than five hours, past midnight, as trustees discussed the plans and heard more than 50 public comments submitted online and by residents at the meeting.Information presented also stressed that students and staff would be expected to wear face masks while at school. Bazzi also told trustees that the district would need two or three weeks to finalize and launch any blended learning model the board adopts. The time would be used to group students, figure out busing, finalize cleaning routines, create teacher schedules, adjust the school meal programs, communicate the changes to parents, and more.Parents who were not comfortable returning their child to school could ask to have their child moved to the Virtual Learning Program by calling their child’s school and asking to be put on the waiting list. The program will teach students online all year, but elementary students would be required to switch teachers.Bazzi also noted that entire schools would not close for one or two cases of COVID in the building. Referencing the district’s COVID flyer, she said the district would start by requiring close contacts to quarantine, which might mean whole classrooms temporarily return to online learning. Entire schools would only close if that was the recommendation of the Wayne County Health Department.Administration had targeted restarting with the youngest students because they struggle the most with online learning. It also is easier in elementary school to follow safety protocols like better social distancing and not allowing different groups of students mix.“We know online learning is the most difficult for our youngest students and their parents,” said Superintendent Glenn Maleyko. “We continue to work towards the day we can start to bring our students slowly and safely back to school.” by Katie Hetrick on October 13, 2020 |
Good afternoon,
The boys and girls have been doing a wonderful job with their Zoom Meetings and completing assignments. Tomorrow we will finish up our Math NWEA.
Friday is a half day. Students will zoom with me 8:55-10:30 a.m. Then they will be given independent work time to finish up their homework before lunch.
Some families have been contacted for in-person learning labs starting tomorrow. The rest of the students will continue to do virtual learning for now. Please let me know of any questions.
Enjoy this beautiful afternoon!