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Great feedback from parents at Metea regarding opening. 120 more students want to come in. Darrell is continuing to meet with parent groups. Feedback has been heard - "This is great, but we want more."

Parents have a greater view of what we do every day. Feedback is positive. They have a new perspective that will likely deepen the home/school partnership and collaboration.

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PTA - has been phenomenal! PTA has figured out ways to celebrate students and engage in school wide celebrations in the pandemic
Classroom teacher/teams weekly zoom connections with families
CEC has really managed many parent concerns
Great turnout at virtual parent meetings at MS - it is convenient for parents - MS engaging 5th grade parents
Parent Teacher Conferences via zoom has been successful - availability and convenient for parents
Parent meetings - Room and Zoom model - will this work? Live and zoom parents - would this increase parent engagement

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Stakeholder meeting to engage parents and gather feedback on options.

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With small numbers, we have had increased direct connections with parents

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- Frequent communication with parents
- PT Zoom conferences from Nov (from parents/staff)
- IEP Meetings are as or more productive/more participation
- Set up Curriculum Night - this set up meets more of our parents needs and expectations.
- Using our online format, gives more parent participation
- Use of Synergy is allowing parents to pick language for easy translation between school and home with different languages.

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PT Conferences were better attended
Video curriculum nights got more views than we had parents in the building prior
Granger started a food pantry for them and feeder schools.  Allowed them to meet incoming families and starting those connections
Richer and deeper conversations with parents of kids that are struggling because parents are waking up a little more to their kids' struggles
Able to meet with parent and child together over zoom

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Weekly meetings with parents to discuss how to get through remote learning. It was a way for teachers, admin & parents to share ideas to support students.

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Parents are finding different ways to show support. Emails and gift cards. Zoom also makes it easier for parents to join a meeting. Conferences were well-attended and many really liked doing them over Zoom. Overall huge appreciation for education and educators. Parents are grateful for what they haven't seen before. 

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Parents are finding different ways to show support. Emails and gift cards. Zoom also makes it easier for parents to join a meeting. Conferences were well-attended and many really liked doing them over Zoom. Overall huge appreciation for education and educators. Parents are grateful for what they haven't seen before. 

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Connecting virtually, developing relationships through remote platform, community building is limited

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Teachers and parents much more connected than usual.

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Trying to get students back to the zoom after the break... Lack of stable learning environment

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Awareness of Tech Issues and how to get help

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Awareness of Tech Issues and how to get help

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PTA focusing on mental health at upcoming meeting--how to support students at school & home

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Virtual PTA meetings have been much higher attended. Way more convenient

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Virtual PTA meetings have been much higher attended. Way more convenient

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Website and Videos for Course Selections

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Website and Videos for Course Selections

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Efficient and Access for all

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Parents more knowledgeable and engaged with the curriculum.

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More parent involvement because they don't need to travel to participate in conferences, IEP meetings, etc.

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Teachers & admin attended PTA meeting to answer questions that parents wanted to discuss. Teachers took ownership for presenting & sharing.

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PTA and Parents donated gift cards and it ended up each teacher received 3 gift cards each! We were hoping to just get 1 each!

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parents are working from home as well and have lots of demands on their time

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Redefining our definition of engagement and evolving as a staff, district

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This experience has required us to take our efforts to another level that will serve us well in the future.

The virtual experience has allowed for some parents to participate in the school experience more fully.

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- Information overload
- Trying to balance communication & what we are asking from parents
- Lack of in-person opportunities from previous times; this is difficult to do via Zoom
- Sometimes the 'loudest' parents guide us to focus on the negative
- Miss having parents in the building or being to work and feeling connectedness to the school

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Even youngest learners are capable of a lot.

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Some parents don't have a clear picture of what is happening in school. Would be helpful to send a short video to parents so they can see it. May need to share the district's transition to hybrid video again.

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Having the choice of staying home or going in...not making choice based on need but rather convenience.

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Students are letting us know what they need. Student confident and independent.

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Grace with engagement

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A parent has run a virtual book club, something she might not have done in "real" time.

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Zoom allowed for parents to participate

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Parents develop more understanding and respect for teachers

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Parents bring forward concerns or issues that they are right about and we have to walk the company line.

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Teachers have a deeper understanding of their students' home life and some of the challenges our families might be experiencing.

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Night school with 20 kids with typically disengaged kids with group of 12 teachers

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Night school with 20 kids with typically disengaged kids with group of 12 teachers

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ELL kids are getting a lot more specialized time
Teachers working very hard to engage the kids
Individual zooms

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Zoom encourages more meaningful conversations.

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Cameras off ... is the student there? Are they understanding? Limits to personal connection, student assessment

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This department has experienced many new challenges as the scope of their work has expanded with school lunches, etc. Often the workers are on the "front line" with parents and receives feedback on how frustrated the parents are with the situation we are facing.

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Parents who aren't able to by their child's side especially in the younger grades.

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Parents who aren't able to by their child's side especially in the younger grades.

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Live students sharing with the zoom students - live students providing motivation for students on zoom to turn on camera
In-person instruction has been exciting for teachers and for students
Custodians are happy to have the students back in school
In-person instruction provides a high level of student engagement due to small class sizes
In-person piece is more than just the learning; there is a human interaction piece that is critical for all

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Are not able to pick up students in the middle of the day and therefore cannot have students in person.

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Being able to keep up with all of the moving pieces for every program and discipline.

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Connecting with families via virtual PTSA events
PTSA hosting virtual social events

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Teacher able to support a student struggling at home

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Teacher able to support a student struggling at home

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Student never on camera so Teacher did not know of the struggles with limited "participation"... Yet family reached out to thank and recognize teachers.

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Students with IEPs are receiving more individualized instruction
1:1 or small group time has helped students feel more connected and "special"

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- Use of Social Media at WVHS - InstaLive with Students
- Opportunity to bring in more Ss in for interventions as individual schools find is needed. Like to have that support and level of trust.

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Barrier between in-person and remote students

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Barrier between in-person and remote students

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Small student ratio and increased communication with many families.

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Kids have been more inclined to turn camera on when T puts on Smartboard for hybrid class.

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Some parents still fearful of sending their kids into school out of fear of covid.

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Keeping engagement high when it is so easy to turn off the screen, not get out of bed, and not having the connection with staff and peers

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School teams have been more creative and connected in order to support students

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Forced to learn

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Information overload -- how to communicate differently so that the message is truly read/processed?

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Interaction with Teachers less with Hybrid

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Interaction with Teachers less with Hybrid

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Especially if elementary students need to room and zoom.

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Parents have disabilities that prevent them from participating in zooms and emails

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Parents have disabilities that prevent them from participating in zooms and emails

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Parents that struggle to keep up with the technology- eye opening with just how tech needy some parents are
Kids being raised by grandparents that really struggle with tech
Prompting home visits to work together to help the child
Disparity between parents who are at work and are at home
Creating dynamics in the home because of all the togetherness

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Seeing teachers & kids meet in person for the first time was great. The connections they made online translated to real life!

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Zoom instruction: parents were very much a part of their child's learning and it was difficult to determine the child's skills level due to frequent parent prompting and support
Parents not engaging at all in student learning and not accessing services through early intervention or early childhood
How do we quickly obtain information about a student in a timely manner when they have not been involved in educational activities or in an educational setting

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Kids have been so resilient & adaptable which is difficult to teach.

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Ron was able to place a STEPS student into the lunch work program. He was in person for four days a week, and he was able to secure a job and benefit from working and helping his community.

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Ensuring that our parent involvement reflects our student community

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KInder said students are gaining greater independence, problem solving and perseverance than they've seen before, especially the remote students.

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Remote learning has been a positive experience for some of our kids. Some kids have exceled in this environment.

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Strategies to connect with hard to reach families (or perceived unengaged)

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Strategies to connect with hard to reach families (or perceived unengaged)

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Jennifer was able to form a Student Equity Action committee with all three high schools together as they could meet virtually.

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Some parents doing the work for students

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Some parents doing the work for students

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We often have to talk to our TAs about building independence for each student. We can now have those conversations with parents.We have independent time for students which is a tremendous hardship. We are grateful for the ways parents are supporting their children.

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Being able to be back in sports is a positive.

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Great to start the week with the entire class. Sets them up for a week of success and helps students stay connected as a class.

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Creativity in connecting with parents virtually. In many cases, even more parents are engaged (PT conferences, open house, etc.).

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Students are just so happy to be back in person with friends and activities. While it is not the same, students feel that something is better than nothing.

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Streaming activities & events removes some barriers and allows more access.

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Some students thrive in the remote learning mode and prefer it for a variety of reasons.

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Parents they may otherwise not have attended were able to do so on Zoom.

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- Ss are still struggling with the schedule - every day is different at the ELEM schools
- The INDPT time is very difficult for families/students to follow.
- HS is due to engaging with the masks on - it's hard to converse and engage with a mask on
- difficult to build in engagement opportunities within safe guidelines
- building in social opportunities

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Student engagement seems to go hand-in-hand with parent engagement. Kids who don't have access to that support tend to struggle.

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Some students have done better in the Remote environment.

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Some students have done better in the Remote environment.

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Schools reaching out to families/students and getting no response. At HS, kids who need to be in school are choosing to stay home.

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Students without intrinisic motivation and limited to no support around them

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Students without intrinisic motivation and limited to no support around them

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Or students that have not accessed zoom at all or families that are not engaging even with exhausted attempts to try with staff

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It is very challenging to engage students with moderate to significant disabilities through a remote format.

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Some students have done well in the setting that haven't in traditional methods while others that are the high achievers may be focusing on core classes only

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Some parents don't access the ConnectEd messages, can't get them, are unfamiliar how to navigate the new modes of communication.