Week 2 Digital Learning with STrEaM

April 4th, 2020 

STrEaM Parents and Families,

We completed our FIRST week of digital learning successfully! Students who responded to the online learning survey this week gave an average score of 3.8 on a scale of 1-5 rating their success with online learning. Parents and staff reported positive experiences, and a high level of communication. We started strong, showing that we can do this! #STrEaMstrong

This week:

Students should check their Google Classrooms for assignments and updates. Visit teachers on their scheduled office hours to check in, ask questions, get support as needed. Office hours schedule (link). Coming this week, Grade-Level schedules with office hours and meetings.

Tuesday and Thursday 8:00 AM: Parents and families invited to join Mr. Mokelke, Mrs. Biondich, Mrs. Gatlin and Ms. Bonertz on Zoom to have a cup of coffee, visit, ask questions and get support and information.

Parents, you cannot be added as students to Google Classrooms. They are not designed this way and will cause a lot of confusion. You CAN request to be added for Guardian Updates and receive daily or weekly summaries. We also recommend you ask students to log in and show you their Google Classrooms. This is the best way to see what they are seeing.

Zoom: 

We are aware of the concerns out there with zoom. Fortunately, our teachers and students had great zoom sessions the first week. We will continue taking steps to keep this platform safe: teachers have to admit each person from a waiting room to the meeting, and will only admit known students. Our staff has trained, practiced and mastered this platform, and we will keep it safe and secure. Please continue talking with students about appropriate online etiquette.

Lottery: 

The first lottery is complete, filling all our available seats and we have a wait list in all three grades. The Lottery is open for round 2. We are actively seeking female students for seats in the sixth grade! Initially we have 60 seats open. We accepted 30 boys and 21 girls.  If you know any interested families, please let them know we still have seats for female applicants. We still welcome boys, and the wait list is not too long!

Let’s have a great second week of e-learning. Contact us with any questions. Stay engaged, and engage at the level you and your family is comfortable with: don’t let things overwhelm you. We would rather put out more than enough material than too little, and let families decide how much to do and how much time to spend.

Hope to see you on Zoom this week!
Mr. Mokelke