4-23-2020 Announcements

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School Shutdown Updates

Many Internet providers are providing free Internet access to families with school-age children during the school closure. Here is the link:.

• Junior High Jump Start teachers who teach HS credit courses will provide learning opportunities and will assign grades as normal letter grades as dictated by the teacher’s gradebook. At the end of the semester, you will have the option to change a passing letter grade into a Pass (P) on your transcript.
  
• Special Education services will continue to be delivered to individual students based on the delivery method that works best to meet the needs of the student and family through the teacher(s).
  
• All students in Grades K-8 have access to iReady Math and iReady Reading. All students in Grades K-12 have access to Rosetta Stone to learn a World Language of their choice during the school closure. Rosetta Stone is a supplementary program for students needing additional instruction or a desire to improve language skills in a second language.
  

This information has been added to existing COVID-19 information on the WVSD#208 Website, www.wvsd208.org

Rosetta Stone is Available for Students

Every Tuesday at 12pm Rosetta Stone Trainers are hosting Rosetta Stone Educator Open Office Hours. The session will be providing some ideas and support as well as leaving plenty of time for Q&A. You can sign up below:

Link for 5/5 webinar (through May 5)

Link for May 12 - June 30

WVSD Parent Resources

Are you feeling anxious and overwhelmed by everything?

Have you ever had the feeling when you’re traveling somewhere new for the first time. You’re anxious, excited, nervous, worried, whatever...there's new unfamiliar emotions to this adventure because you’ve never traveled this way before. I know, on the way back from many of these adventures with my family, every one of them has said, “it seemed so much further on the way here than it did going home.” I used to run a lot and one of my favorite runs was to run from my house out to the Cowiche Canyon Uplands trail. The first time I did this, it seemed so much quicker on the way back home. After turning around, I knew the route and could just focus on the next turn, hill, or straight-away. Folks, we haven’t reached the turnaround yet and I’m not sure when we will. But I have a feeling that when we do, it’s going to seem so much easier. It’s always easier when you can see the end...when we know what’s coming...when worry and anxieties don’t get in the way. I would like to encourage you right now to focus on just that: right now. Are you going up a hill, heading into a valley, do you have a turn coming, are you just struggling to make the next step...focus on that. And then the next step. And the next step. I’ll let you in on a quote I heard: “When we struggle before it is necessary, we will struggle more than is necessary.” Are you struggling? We’d love to help, so if we can help encourage you in any way, please don’t hesitate to contact any WVJH staff member. The staff directory is in the message notes.

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