End of Year Planning Jean Childs Young Middle School
Teaching and Learning
Virtual Learning Schedule Continues through 5/14 ● Schedule includes daily live classes and daily teacher office hours ● Live sessions are encouraged for maximum experience ● All live sessions are recorded and posted on teachers’ google classrooms ● If a student can’t attend the live, he/she should watch the recording before submitting assignments to receive the instruction first ● There are daily assignments for each class which are graded and entered in IC ● Office hours allow students to get questions answered, practice more with the teacher, and get additional teacher support and help ● Fridays are “make up” days with no new assignments or live classes ● Teachers have scheduled office hours each Friday and daily at 4:00
Last week of school is 5/18-5/22 ● During this week, school is still in session ● However, we will try to mirror the activities we would be doing if we were physically at school and make it a fun week ● There will not be new assignments this week ● We will focus on the social emotional side of ending the school year with our students ● Looking for ideas, so please share them in the chat if you have ideas for virtual fun that week for our students! I will address 8th grade more specifically later in this session. ● Last new assignments will be given the week of 5/11. ● Last day to submit work for credit will be 5/15 .
Grades ● Students can submit work at any time for full credit/no late penalty. ● They must submit work on google classroom directly to their teacher. ● They can always email the work to the teacher if they have a glitch with google classroom. ● Currently there is an “M” in the gradebook for “missing” if an assignment has not yet been submitted and/or graded. ● All “M”s will be removed by next Friday, May 1st. Students may still submit these assignments for credit to raise their grade, but will NOT be penalized if they do not.
For final year-end grades/report cards: Students will receive THE HIGHER GRADE OF EITHER : o Their 3 rd quarter grade OR o Their final cumulative grade If their 3 rd quarter grade is higher than their final cumulative grade on May 15, the teacher will override the cumulative grade and input the 3 rd quarter grade as the final grade. In other words, no student will receive a grade decline as a result of virtual learning.
For students with failing grades at 3rd quarter ● Teachers are to invite these students individually to office hours to work on their deficit skills and to provide additional practice opportunities to give them additional chances to improve their grade. ● All teachers are to make it their goal of providing individualized help to prevent failure.
For all students ● Teachers are encouraged to provide “extra credit” opportunities for students to engage in that could benefit their grade. ● Teachers may give “participation” grades to students who attend live sessions or office hours which can benefit their grades.
Timeline Summary ● May 1: all “m”s removed (although these assignments may still be submitted) ● May 14 : final instructional day ● May 15 : final day to submit work for the school year ● May 18-21 : final week of school for students; end of year activities (details TBD)
Non-instructional Information
Refunds for dues paid for spring events ● Refund checks will be created and mailed next week on 4/27 ● Refunds are for: ○ Flag Football ○ 8th grade dues ● Some have asked us to rollover their payment as a credit for next year ○ If you want us to do that, email School Business Manager Latrice Nowell at lnowell@atlanta.k12.ga.us
Registration for 2020-2021 ● Current 6th and 7th grade families : ○ Hold on to all paperwork until further notice! ○ If you have email, phone number or address changes email those to Latrice Nowell at lnowell@atlanta.k12.ga.us so we can go ahead and update your record now ● Current 8th grade families : ○ Your registration goes directly to Mays HS. ○ You can complete registration online via Parent Portal ○ We will share registration information from Mays as we receive it ○ You can reach out directly to Mays HS at 404-802-5100. ○ The 9th grade administrator is Travis Chapman who can be reached via email at Travis.Chapman@atlanta.k12.ga.us
For Rising 6th Graders ● Help us spread the word to your neighbors and friends! ● We will have a Facebook live at this time next week targeted to our Rising 6th grade families where we will address all things transition to middle school!
Summer Programs ● Power Up Programs and all summer programs typically offered by district in the month of June are cancelled per the Superintendent. ● No decision has been made yet on Summer Bridge programs which occur in July for rising 6th and 9th graders. ● We will communicate plans for our Summer Bridge and Mays’ Summer Bridge once we receive district guidance.
8th grade End of Middle School Events ● Our current ideas : ○ Slideshow honoring every 8th grade student posted to all of our communications channels and shared with all students and staff to include pictures, shout outs, music ○ Honoring all names on our marquee starting in May ○ Virtual Dance ○ Virtual “ceremony” with speeches from selected students and school staff and recognition of awards earned ● Need your thoughts ! Send ideas via the chat or email Dr. Jones at nicole.jones@atlanta.k12.ga.us
How and Who to Contact if you have questions ● Contact teacher first via child’s google classroom account or email if it is specific to a class ● Contact grade level AP via email if concern not addressed or not specific to a class: ○ 6th grade: Ron Garlington rgarlington@atlanta.k12.ga.us ○ 7th grade : Wanda Moore Williams wmwilliams@atlanta.k12.ga.us ○ 8th grade: Rod Hister histerr@atlanta.k12.ga.us ● Contact Principal if not grade level specific or concern not addressed ○ Kara Stimpson kmstimpson@atlanta.k12.ga.us ● School number does receive voicemails which are checked daily by School Business Manager Latrice Nowell 404-802-5900
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