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Parent Presentation. October 9, 2013. Agenda. GradeConnect New handbook highlights Security and crisis management. GradeConnect. The faculty has been making this transition for nearly 18 months. Serves to make the reporting process function much more smoothly.
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Parent Presentation October 9, 2013
Agenda • GradeConnect • New handbook highlights • Security and crisis management
GradeConnect • The faculty has been making this transition for nearly 18 months. • Serves to make the reporting process function much more smoothly. • Allows you the opportunity to review student performance at any time.
What remains the same? • Tests are still being sent home for you to review with your child. • Grading rubrics remain the same. • You still have the ability to communicate with the teacher when the need arises.
What has changed? • You have the ability to see the scope of academic performance at all times. • There is no longer a need for interims to be sent home at the trimester mid-point. • You will receive a warning notice if your child is in danger of failing, under performing or is experiencing a behavioral issue.
What else can you expect in the future? • Email announcements from the teachers. • More detailed report card comments and observations provided by the teachers.
The SKD Handbook • Life under two handbooks. There was a need for norms to develop that suit our blended community. • SKD Discipline Policy – January • The way SKD does things…it is in writing now!
Where is it located? • Go to the school website. • Look for the handbook icon and links in three locations on the home page.
Consequences • Utilization of the discipline policy as established last January. • Additional documentation of dress code violations. • Supervised lunch detentions.
Your homework • Read each section of the handbook thoroughly. • Click on each link to other related website and/or form. • Download and print the handbook agreement form. Sign it and return it by October 14th.
Security and crisis management at SKD • December 2012 – A personal paradigm shift. • Conducted an immediate needs assessment. • Sought the advice of experts. • “Shut the place down.”
Needs assessment • Abundantly clear that several things had to change. • Revisit the crisis management plans. • Make some changes to the physical plant.
Tasks • Formed faculty committees to create new drill procedures. • Developed and fine tuned safety procedures. • Raised money to make many of the changes we needed. • Executed the plan over the summer.
Safety procedures • Constantly attending to and making adjustments to daily procedures. • Making school security part of our daily conversation. • Preparing and executing safety drills with the students.
The drills • Fire • Internal lockdown • Weather • Evacuation with shelter in place • Evacuation with rally points • Others – Bomb threat and chemical leaks
Conversations with the children • Keep it age appropriate. • Think it through. How will you answer the questions they may ask? • Know that some children are more sensitive than others.
My words to you, the children, teachers and myself • We are safe in our school. However, we need to know what to do if there is an emergency. • We are prepared. If something bad were to happen we would know what to do.
