Thank you, to our awesome custodial staff for making us smile during the pandemic!

 

Agency in the Time of COVID

QUEST! Here is a nugget of wisdom to support your empowerment of student choice, voice and ownership.

Click here to read a post from the "Making Good Humans" blog entitled, "Agency in the Time of COVID." The message is strong and relevant.

Some highlighted parts that I personally loved:

"We need to respect that they (like all of us) have gone through change, uncertainty, and potentially loss and trauma. Now more than ever we must see them as whole human beings – not partially complete adults-in-the-making."

"No Secret Teacher Business... Make the "why" transparent."

"Stay critical about what's worth learning."

"Plan in response to learning... So although it can be difficult to let go of those perfectly laid out curriculum maps and long range plans and unit designs… we might find that this year, getting to know our learners and their families first, then involving them in decision-making and planning and always going one step at a time might be a more fruitful approach.

Enjoy! 😁💡🌏

Andrea

Friday Message

 Team,

Please click on the link below to view the Friday message, wish includes some new news and some reminders. 

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FRIDAY MESSAGE

Happy Friday!

 Team, 

Below you will find my message for this week, as well as resources related to its content! HAPPY FRIDAY! 

CLICK HERE TO VIEW BLOG MESSAGE FOR 10/23/20

BLOG VIDEO SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS below...do our students know what success will look like by the end of each lesson we teach? 

What quadrant are you spending your time in? How can you add quadrant 2 activities to your life? 

Social Media and our students...

Team,

 I was recently reminded about being careful with what is retweeted or shared out on social media—we had communicated with parents via multiple forums about masks AND six feet, and at times there has been communication (pictures) out there as a district where that is not occurring. We are being thoughtful with it as a school, but this is a general reminder that I wanted to pass along.

Right now, we are still six feet and social distancing, but please keep this in mind when sharing out celebrations with pictures. We are doing a great job as a school with social distancing, however, I know how hyper-critical people can be given the current state of Covid.

I have received ZERO complaints so far from families about this topic, but because this was shared with me from the district level I wanted us to remain vigilant as well.

Thank you!

Derek

FEAST meal 20-21

 Team,

As you can imagine, FEAST will be quite different this year. We have some classrooms working on virtual presentation options, but one shift is that Food Service will be providing a turkey, feast style meal on November 19th and 20th. They will provide it all, and we will follow the lunch schedule for that day--monitors will still provide regular coverage. Unfortunately, we will not be cooking and eating all as one like year's past, however, this will be a free meal that all students can get on the day they are in (Cohort 1 or 2). If an adult wants this lunch as well, they would need to pay $4.10

Thanks so much to Mrs. Stanford for organizing the sign-up for us!

Please follow the directions below to order the lunch for your students: 

CLICK HERE TO ORDER YOUR STUDENTS' FEAST LUNCH FOR NOV. 19TH AND 20TH. ORDER MUST BE DONE BY NOVEMBER 5TH!

Digital Citizenship week is October 19-23

 

Next week is Digital Citizenship week.  It might be a good time to review what it means to be a good digital citizen.  Below are a few resources from CommonSense.org that you might find useful.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vWBnp_fGVa-7qaZGJhZGvxopFeqTdjpt_Dj0xbQ3BVI/edit?usp=sharing 

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D3YYy-0cIH4LMCpP3ieHZfaPJdFqxP9Fh0C1-2pzHmk/edit?usp=sharing 

 

Message from Derek

 Team,

Please click on the link to view this week's message. You will also find a short video that goes along with the message. 

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE WEEKLY MESSAGE!

HCSD Essential Standards Quick Link!

Click here for the direct link to the HCSD essential standards for ELA and Math. The documents are downloadable, printable and contain grade bands. Woot! ⭐

Looking Ahead

 

New Tech Troubleshooting website

Check out our new easy to use technology troubleshooting website.  It can be found on our main website under Tech Troubleshooting.  It is accessible to students, parents and teachers.  Consider bookmarking this website and posting it to your Google Classrooms for easy access for students.  https://sites.google.com/ga.hiltoncsd.net/tech/home 

Friday, October 9, 2020

 Team,

Please check out the video with updates below (see link). In addition, feel free to check out the related article! The video includes:

• New principal challenge
• A few heads up and shout outs

CLICK HERE TO VIEW VIDEO

What can food trucks teach us about hybrid and remote learning?

CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE

National Custodian Day

Last Friday was National Custodian Day! A huge thanks to our custodial crew for being rockstars!

Family Goal Form for CLASSROOM TEACHERS

Here is the link for a Family Goal Form that you can use to document family support at home. It's not a contract or a binding document, but QUEST prides itself on this 3-way relationship with student-teacher-families. This may be a simple way for you to electronically gather that information and for parents to focus in on the supports they provide their child for educational success. Thanks to the Kindergarten Team for coming up with this great idea!

**You will need to "make a copy" of the form (and rename it with your name) before sending it to parents in order to gather your OWN data. Otherwise, all the info we gather will be produced as a school-wide .csv file and you'll have to sift through many rows of data to check out parent responses.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19bE1g9fiQlHrEYCPx5Pv2FGRV7gqubvey9ZBt6hth5I/edit?usp=sharing

Caught Ya

Caught yas are BACK! This year they will be zoomed virtually by Andrea and Val similar to last year on Wednesdays. If you nominate students, they will be read on Wednesdays and emailed out. The student will receive their cadet crew sticker and their name in the Q and A!

https://forms.gle/cNoWqvR5dFdkrqEk7

October 2, 2020

 Please view the message for this week below. Enjoy your weekend!

CLICK HERE FOR MESSAGE

Oh no, I’m having tech issues, now what?

I’ve seen several students have problems accessing websites, work not appearing in Kami, or unable to view things that everyone else in the class could access.  If this happens try the following things with your student.  I’m also more than happy to meet with you and your student to help resolve the issue.  If I’m not in the building, just email me and we can meet via Zoom. 

1.  Many issues can also be fixed and prevented by completely shutting the Chromebook down at least once per day.  Best practice is to shut it down completely when leaving school and again after using it at home.  Closing the lid only puts it in sleep mode.  A complete shutdown is done by clicking the menu in the bottom with the time and wifi icon, then selecting the power button. Shutting down and restarting will apply any pending Chrome updates.  

2. All district Chromebooks need to be Authenticated against our web filter to work properly. This authentication needs to take place Every 8 hours. If you login at 8:00am, you will need to re-authenticate at 4:00pm.Any time your network address changes. If you are traveling between school or Daycare or McDonalds, etc. and home you will need to re-authenticate. You can (re)authenticate by opening a new tab, Click HCSD Bookmarks on the bookmark bar, Click Web Authentication.You will automatically authenticate when logging into the Chromebook, so an alternative would be to log out and back in, or restart.

3. Most Chromebook software issues can be addressed by clearing your cache and advanced history. Follow this link to a document that explains the process.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10y1yUD3G2g9EPwWr3YO_2CeQFRevxL4erBghVtyMXmI/edit?usp=sharing

This document can be shared with students and parents and includes many of the things mentioned above plus other resources https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SJdJXP4jg5EQ0R1zTXRqygU25EjQlj4kJQr1mXYQ3AA/edit?usp=sharing 

Jason Cring

Global Compliance

 

New York State Law requires school districts to provide annual training for Bloodborne Pathogens, Hazard Communication (Right-To-Know), Sexual Harassment and Dignity for All Students Act/Code of Conduct - NY.  As we have done in the past, the District is using the Global Compliance Network (GCN) on-line tutorials for the 2020-2021 trainings.  The District’s Sexual Harassment policy #6121 link is below for your reference. 

 

https://www.hilton.k12.ny.us/policies.cfm?pid=511

 

 

All employees must complete these required tutorials by October 31, 2020 to remain in compliance.  The four (4) required trainings that must be completed are:

 

·         Bloodborne Pathogens;

·         Dignity for All Students Act/Code of Conduct – NY;

·         Hazard Communication (Right-To-Know); and

·         Sexual Harassment NY – State Approved.

 

Please contact Kristina Clemmo (ext. 7001) or Debbie Palmeri (ext. 7015) if you need further assistance with the website.

The website link to access the tutorials is listed below (Ctrl + Click to follow the link):

 

https://site.gcntraining.com/user-admin/login.html  The Organization ID is:  hilton