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a few more seconds and then we will get started okay good evening everyone my name is Charlene Evans Smith I have the honor of supporting interventions and acceleration at idea and tonight's Town Hall I will be facilitating this discussion is for family I just asked everybody to place themselves on mute when you're not intending to speak that would be most helpful the session is recorded but we do want to facilitate conversation so I'm if everyone can put themselves on you unless you were send to I share something out that would be most helpful to eliminate background noise so welcome thank you again for joining us on this lovely spring evening wear hopefully where you are at the rain has held up so you can enjoy a few more moments of sunshine we're going to start with some some brief introductions and my name is Charlene Evan Smith if anyone on the line actually our idea staff would like to introduce themselves that would be most leaving everyone this is Nicole McCray the principal of IDEA Public Charter School and hello family good evening my name is Tawanda Johnson no I'm not staff but I am a parent board member welcome welcome I believe we have one time. Williams math teacher at idea walking families didn't I never wanted my name is Mister Romero and I am operations and attendance everyone or afternoon my name is Tiffany beaver I am a physics and environmental science teacher at idea all right not hearing any additional introduction I will move on to Executive updates which I believe will be spearheaded by principal McRae good evening off to first ask if you can I need a call from you or dropping the check are you receiving the family newsletters that are being sent out there's one that goes out by the 15th or 16th of every month that is an overview that has an executive-level update and when it comes out biweekly as well if you are receiving those are you able to come off of me you and just say yes or no that helps me to determine how communication is I will see the chat looks like Miss Tawanda Johnson said yes she was she's always been missing you sure said no Erica Bailey yes also said yes so would you already look like they are receiving with a few that are are not receiving those updates what's happening at IKEA one of the things that we shared in the most recent executive-level few newsletter included the updates around our mask mandate okay I do want to share that currently at this time ideas still has our masks you have not changed or provide our policy we are asking for your help as you are a very important member of the idea Community we do not want to make any changes in policy without your voice in your input and we plan on doing a full full circle approach in terms of getting it every stakeholder to share and their spot at so far we have 23 staff out who indicated that and you can see the data there they believe that the policy should change at this time and out of the out of the 23 responses majority of our staff feeling so it should remain the same this time that we only had one family to share their thoughts on this and their answer was no so I'm the link is on the slide deck if any one of the staff members is able to if you can have access to it as well but I we are asking that you please give your input our Scholars especially our student council don't have a chance to replace their role as well see whether or not they want to advocate for today wearing mask but at this time we are still holding them at policy as we are trying to increase the student vaccination rate at this point as a school we are currently at about 28% of our vaccinated and so families we need your help with that additional question as well I don't hear any questions regarding that so I will move on to the next one Ford focuses on our school calendar for next year on our website at so please look out for the next day or so years 22-23 the family you can take a look to see the tentative date for the start my Scholars is at the end of our Council see on there are some of the brain a February break for next school year so you can plan around for that Christmas winter break in also be spring break as well you can take a further Dodge into this calendar as it is closely aligned to be CPS it is not exactly mirror it but it is very slow in terms of all of the days that are scheduled off do you have any questions please feel free to reach out to me directly if you can look on our website not in the next day or so and you will see this post that I forget about you awesome thank you I don't hear any Crush at the moment I know it is a bit hard to see but again this will be available in the next day or so so moving on to vaccinations vaccinations importance next year and for the next two Thursday you can come to idea and gets back soon dated from 36 different brands are available in booster it's a walk-in clinics please, and if you have infection in a piece make sure you providing us with a copy of vaccination card and you can submit that to Miss Jenkins in the main office and get 250 kazoo points question mr. Romero which vaccines are being offered Moderne and the Johnson Johnson okay good to know they are asking for. so there will be a mailing that goes home as well as a report card please we are asking that you are have your scholar return that document signed so that they are able to get their vaccinations you do not have to be present I need your signature on the PC help Forum okay so please this will impact your college enrollment for next school year not just an idea but any DC school so we are fortunate a clinic that is there for the next three weeks or family's please pick a manager this opportunity because it is free of charge awesome thanks so much okay just a few more updates about my school check so I can know the weather is getting warmer and that I miss you I want to see no access storage. Please come in at the game if your starter is absent for please make sure you send the note also notes are available by any staff members so all you can send me an e-mail also in with apps every Thursday in case you didn't know home visits are conducted so if you don't want us to be knocking on your door please make sure that you send your starter every day make sure you send that out make sure you stay on top home visits are underground so please don't be surprised if you are knocking on your door also you are required to be in person virtual about an option unless there is a waiver on file and you have been approved again virtual is not optional you must be in person and forever early dismissals please make sure you are sending all early dismissals to early dismissal at idea pbs.org Amazon thank you mr. Mara I'm going to pause right here to check the chat so missed Nelson asked is there an electric electronic copy just for clarification ma'am are you speaking towards the waiver or are the calendar I'm not sure when this message was sent I'm speaking towards the waiver sometimes we give our kids up signed copy of something they don't send it in I just wanted to know what that be available on by Jeezy governments website or something like that so Miss Johnson you can actually reach out to the main office and will be more than happy to email directly to you thank you thank you hey red almond so important it is that time of the year again read a Roman starts next week so the first week and send it ICE 2 weeks $100 into two points did a Chick-fil-A lunch so make sure that the application in order for you to receive the 100 talk to you point out the application must be completed and signed off by Miss Eichelberger so that you will not get that $100 in Castle point and like I said it's for the first 2 weeks now for some reason you cannot make it for sweet you have another two weeks in which you can earn a $50 into the point you will still get a free Chick-fil-A lunch enrollment t-shirt as well you can start I mean the enrollment for is available so you can start filling it out but the extra enrollment date starts next Friday so please a man and you can also expect a call from the enrollment fee this year idea a waiting list and we had to turn people away so please make sure that you should turn your seat early for your child so that way they can continue with us next year fantastic thank you and I want to cause a scene. what is open again and I believe there was a question our exemption forms and option can the person that question clarify are you speaking of the waivers for virtual and if the person is unable to come off mute or clarifying the chat you can always I'm sorry I was trying to no problem so you're you're you're asking where you can get the waiver for virtual correct I'm not sure what you're saying I'm saying like how some places when you're going places if you don't if you're not gasconade at you have the option of filling out an exemption from one for your reasoning jobs and things of that nature gotcha thank you for clarifying Miss Romero do you have any information on a medical exemption form for vaccine I will have to check on that and get back to you cuz I don't want to give the the wrong information are you referring to the the regular Administration or the covid vaccine cuz I want to make sure I get that information back to you I'm saying if you're not going to get to vaccinate but you have to get the exemption form to pass you I can you drop your email on the chat and I will get that answer for you but you know where we are cuz I'm not a hundred percent short and I don't want to give out information about it thank you you have an additional question from Alice Brittany Cobb wants to know is that 100% points for each student enrolled or is that per family for the first 2 weeks is 54 the third and fourth week in April hey and more money your way he seemed send us a referral if you make $250 you know the more the merrier so please if you want to make one of this is an easy way to earn $250 per referral there is no cap on it and also please join us for the enrollment celebration which will be held on Saturday April 23rd from 11 to 2. You can come in the Ravine some vendors we have food games music and you will be our you can also compete to your application or if you're missing a document so you can bring it in and we will be there to assist you as much as you can just one more thing let you know about the referral bonus The Scholar must be in our roster on October 5th or otherwise you will not get the referral bonus again in order to get the referral bonus the referral scholar must be on monster on October 5th any questions about the referral hey hearing none and I don't see any comments in the chat the next slide out for teaching and learning I'll take teaching and learning good afternoon everybody core exam core 3 games are next week so please just give that help to get that extra push to make sure they show up on time either definitely encourage do that best insult for every test here's an example of the schedule all testing happens in the morning and if there's any questions please reach out all right I don't see any immediate questions in the chat summer school summer school summer school planning is underway the dates for summer school I will be at 6 p.m. the 5th classes will be Monday through Thursday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. they'll be a morning shift and afternoon shift Scott most guys will be on either one of those shifts there will be an inch is where there are Scholars that are the movie of Holiday Inn if you can place yourself on you and I'm going to attempt to some folks I know I did I order summer school will be capped at $75 so windy correspondence goes out in the sign-up goes out please please please make sure that you sign your scholarship as soon as possible if they are not one of the first 75 to enroll and they will have to take summer school I'm at another school again any questions you can send me directly to me as Jennings at idea pcs.org I'll put it in the chat alright thanks so much and I don't anything beyond Inc Jennings email so after our acceleration team specifically our academic counselor just wanted to point out that the senior audit is underway and it will can you around April 13th on this is incredibly important not just the senior audit but also your Scholars are starting to have scheduling conversations all students need to have a scheduling conversation I'm so we can plan for our students be able to have their schedules before the start of the Year this is not something we want to rush to do at the beginning of the year and this also allows time for our students to have input into their classes they should be speaking with an administrator or their teachers to allow them to schedule based on their interest on to the extent possible for the coming year so if you have any questions you can always reach out to her guidance counselor at least a Garcia or the adult side to support your scholar with and this would be an ideal time before the school year starts to make sure that your Scholars schedule matches their interest to the extent possible and it's also going to enable them to move on to their college or career of their choice any college right here I do want to take a step back because Jewel has asked when do we sign the kids up for summer school likely question for a teacher earning if he doesn't have a specific answer or if he cannot come off meet at the moment on we will just note your question and send you a email with a follow-up write a hundred and two of our scholars in this is as of a few days ago I completed their scheduling for next year but as I mentioned if you have any questions or concerns Al Garcia and idea pcs.org is our academic counselor on specifically if your child has particular interest or would like to change certain courses this is something that you would want the flag early with our academic as soon as possible via email is preferred so one of the things that we have in place at idea to ensure social socioeconomic equality among students is we have a dress code and that includes on it looks like somebody is able to draw on the screen that includes having on certain items that we would like our Scholars to refrain from wearing some of them are for safety purposes of his open-toed shoes like logs on others of them help to Norman environment of professionalism as well as making sure that any socioeconomic differences between students are not highly pronounced so if you can I know this is coming toward the home stretch of the year but if you can remind your scholar That Uniforms matter and it does help to promote a sense of equity in the school and make sure that our Scholars can remain focused on academics that would be incredibly helpful don't say anything in the chat and something of particular concern as a title 9 coordinator I just want to make sure that everybody is aware that if your student has any concerns about any type of gender-based diversity or any concerns regarding unwanted advances your students do have right and that is covered under Title Nine I'm in so if you have any questions or concerns about what your students rights are right to be free from retaliation from civil rights to see you please email Title Nine at Title IX and idea pcs.org under also a safe space for students to report any issues or parents to report any issues that their children may be facing and you can rest assure that those issues we followed up with it in a timely fashion we want to make sure that our students again similar to many other policies replace an idea are focused on academics and that there aren't any impediments to their learning anything in the chat going to pause at this time and see if there are any additional questions feel free to come up mute or you can use the chat before we begin to close out the conversation for the evening and I don't know if principal McRae or AP Jennings is still in the lineup but we will we will make sure that we note your question about students for summer school if they'll be up they'll be a letter sent home and there will also be an email sent out so you can sign up electronically any other questions or concerns that you would like to raise before we close out for the evening okay hearing none I'd like to thank you all for your time hopefully you can get out enjoy the last few moments of the weather evening I'm assuming it's not raining thank you again and we look forward to serving your students tomorrow have a good evening bye bye thank you have a good evening thank you another one have a good night everyone I miss Cobb I see your question I will know what the summer school team your question about transportation we will follow daily mail okay thank you good night night thank you I will be a Temptation for set up for summer school okay thank you good night okay what about when when it's time to sign up for something so within the next two weeks we're still compiling The rosters for all the kids the summer school finalized that we will send you a couple things will send a email blast and alert blast and it will also send a letter home okay what is it that they required to have as far as like the sign up for so I'm not too sure what I'll be needing it was time I showered at all you need is love I think that'll be sent sent to you it'll be like a Google link and you just sign up there and yes ma'am okay thank you okay thanks again everyone I'm going to go ahead and end the call for everyone again if you have any questions get email up please submit those get you now and we will get back to you soon as possible as a lovely evening two things I got to spend thanks everyone
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