St. Ignatius Public Schools

Senior Graduation: Graduation will be conducted on the football field on Saturday, June 6 at 2pm. Student/Parents/Guardians that the student will be riding with for the parade will park on the track in one car by 1:45pm. All other guests or family members will need to park in the parking lot and walk onto the football field or stand around the outside fence. We will conduct Graduation at 2pm. There will be a white flag with each student’s name that will mark where the student sits. All family and guests who choose to attend will sit in a line behind their student marked with a Blue or Green Flag line. No one will be allowed in the orange flagged areas except for staff and students. Parents/Guests/Guardians: • Graduation is not a requirement for any attendees including students, community, parents or guardians. Everyone outside the student marked area is responsible for themselves including, but not limited to, social distancing and any liability in attending this event. It is recommended that all attendees wear facial masks and gloves. School District #28 is not responsible or liable for anyone who chooses to attend the event. THIS EVENT IS OPTIONAL FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED. Students are not required to attend promotion and if they do not attend the event the promotion certification will be mailed. • If you are at risk for any health reasons; if you have been out of the area in the past 14 days; if you don’t feel well; please stay home and do not attend this event. You can watch the parade from a location of your choosing at the conclusion of promotion. If the family area behind each student is full please remain outside the football field. We will recommend social distance and that guests stay as far apart as possible. We ask attendees outside of the marked areas to observe social distancing (i.e., maintaining a distance from others of at least six feet) and limiting physical contact with others and wearing face masks and gloves to avoid the risk of exposure to COVID-19. The District will be offering the following to attendees outside of the marked areas: (i.e., signs about social distancing, sanitizer/hand-washing station access). School District #28 has consulted with county health officials and are following their recommendations. • Staff that chose to attend the graduation can sit in the bleachers and social distance themselves. Staff is not required to attend. • Guests, Family members and Community sitting on the Football Field behind the graduate it is recommended to bring you own lawn chair since chairs will only be provided for five per student. The family area will be directly behind each student marked with either a green flag or blue flag line. The student and stage area will be marked off with orange flags that no one will be allowed inside of the orange flag area. Graduation schedule will include: Introduction by the Superintendent; Principal Statement; Valedictorian and Salutatorian Address; Retirement Recognition; Senior Athlete and Scholarship Recognition and Diploma Presentation and Certification. All other Graduation Components will be recorded and available on our website. Students will be introduced; they will walk onto the stage; pick up graduation certification; pose for a picture and return to their designated seat. Everyone on the stage will have social distance. At the end of graduation we will play music and load cars for the parade. A fire truck will lead the parade throughout our community. Community is encouraged to congregate along the city streets to give our seniors a proper salute.

8th Grade Promotion 8th Grade Promotion: Promotion will be conducted on the football field on Wednesday, June 3 at 4pm. Students/Parents/Guardians that the student will be riding with for the parade will park on the track in one car by 3:45 pm. All other guests or family members will need to park in the parking lot and walk onto the football field or stand around the outside fence. We will promote 8th Graders at 4pm. There will be a white flag with each student’s name that will mark where the student sits. All family and guests who choose to attend will sit in a line behind their student marked with Blue and Green Flags. No one will be allowed in the orange flagged areas except for stage personnel and students. Parents/Guests/Guardians: • Promotion is not a requirement for any attendees including students, guests, community, parents or guardians. Everyone outside the student marked area is responsible for themselves including, but not limited to, social distancing and any liability in attending this event. It is recommended that all attendees wear facial masks and gloves. School District #28 is not responsible or liable for anyone who chooses to attend the event. THIS EVENT IS OPTIONAL FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED. Students are not required to attend promotion and if they do not attend the event the promotion certification will be mailed. • If you are at risk for any health reasons; if you have been out of the area in the past 14 days; if you don’t feel well; please stay home and do not attend this event. You can watch the parade from a location of your choosing at the conclusion of promotion. If the family area behind each student is full please remain outside the football field. We will recommend social distance and that guests stay as far apart as possible. We ask attendees outside of the marked areas to observe social distancing (i.e., maintaining a distance from others of at least six feet) and limiting physical contact with others and wearing face masks and gloves to avoid the risk of exposure to COVID-19. The District will be offering the following to attendees outside of the marked areas: (i.e., signs about social distancing, sanitizer/hand-washing station access). School District #28 has consulted with county health officials and are following their recommendations. • Guests, Family members and Community sitting on the Football Field behind the 8th grade student it is recommended to bring your own lawn chair since chairs will only be provided for five people per student. The family area will be directly behind each student marked with either a green flag or blue flag line. The student and stage area will be marked off by orange flags that no one will be allowed inside of except students and stage personnel. There will be a short statement from the principal, two student speeches with all other presentations presented on the website. Students will be introduced; they will walk onto the stage; pick up certificates; pose for a picture and return to their designated seat. Everyone on the stage will have social distance. At the end of promotion we will play music and load cars for the parade. A fire truck will lead the parade throughout our community. Community is encouraged to congregate along the city streets to give our 8th Graders a proper salute.

Summer Education Program K-12: We are working on putting together a June Summer Program for students who may have had a difficult time with online learning or just need some additional support during the month of June. This program would be small group and with social distancing with teachers or para’s in groups of no more than five per room. We would work on credit recovery, standards support and fun math and reading activities to recover any loss during the closure. This will be on an entirely volunteer basis and we would love to see students come in for one of the two sessions daily. Students will need to provide their own transportation to and from the learning summer program. We will use this time to increase proficiency for students that may need some additional support. The program will run Monday through Thursday June 8th to June 25th. Lunch and Breakfast Program will continue for three weeks in June for curb side pick-up. We will also offer lunch and breakfast snacks for students attending summer program. Open times for June summer program will be Monday-Thursday: 8:00-8:30 Breakfast Snack Session One: 8:30-11:30 AM 11:30-12:00 Lunch Snack Session Two: 12:00-3:00 PM Students can attend 1 of the 2 sessions daily. Drop off and pick up will need to be arranged for each student. If you are interested in the June Summer Program Please call your building main office and sign up for the June Summer Proficiency Camp Sessions of your choice. We are here to help all students in this time of needed recovery and stable work environments. This is entirely voluntary and we look forward to serving you. Sign Up Today from 8am-2pm: Elementary: 406-745-3811 x 302 with Connie Marchant Middle School and High School: 406-745-3811 x 300 with Lou Rice or Jackie Spidel x 263 We will need your students name and Session Time Preference. Students can sign up for session one or two each day Monday-Thursday.

Summer Meals PARENTS/GUARDIANS: Breakfast/Lunch Curb Side Pick-Up will continue into June on Every Wednesday from 10am-1:00pm. Buses will not be running in the summer, but weekly lunch and breakfast will continue for three weeks into June. Breakfast/Lunch Pick Up: June 10th,17th,24th Wednesdays from 10-1:00. All Call reminders will go out on Tuesdays.

School District #28 Proposed School Plan Covid-19 The proposal for re-opening that came from Governor Bullock to authorize local control and decision-making in the best interest of students has forced districts to make the decision for ourselves when and how we re-open. I believe we have conducted the best possible remote self-learning plan to stay productive and press forward while remaining safe. We have made it a point to guide the education of essential understandings and expectations that must be met with all the tools that are available. Schools are unique in that we would have many issues in conducting business as normal in schools under the current guidelines set forth by the Governor. Issues with school opening include: • Social Distancing with class size of 15-30 • Group congregation in lunch room, recess and passing time • One student per seat on the bus • Getting students to come to school with health concerns of parents • Teachers or Staff with health risks of exposure • Moving from a stay at home order to congregate with close to 600 people daily in close proximity seems to be extreme The latest directive provides for the phased reopening of Montana. It establishes guidance applicable to all phases and provides direction for Phase One, including the Stay at Home Directive and reopening non-essential businesses. It also provides local school the flexibility to make decisions about the remainder of the academic year. Executive Orders 2-2020 and 3-2020 declare that a state of emergency exists in Montana due to the global outbreak of COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus. The meals and buses will continue as planned for the remainder of the year. During the finals period we will run the buses on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday twice a day at 9:00 am and 1:00 pm for students to utilize for finals, school material and checkout return. Proposal I. We continue with our plan of support and achievement of essential understandings for every student in every class until finals. We will continue to conduct online enrichment with study guides for every student in every class for the goal of understanding the expectations of the semester essential understandings. The elementary continues to work on standards and expectations set forth at the beginning of closure. The education plan will continue as established at the beginning of closure until finals. All students will need to check in books and chromebooks at the completion of the year and adequately check-out. II. Finals Period: May 18 to June 5- All teachers will be required to be in school during times that are set up for student assessments and times required by building principals for end of the year reporting and check out with social distancing protocols in place. Teachers will remain available for student support either in school or remotely during the finals period. End of the year assessments will need to be graded and submitted with a letter grade attached. If rubber gloves and masks are needed for grading, let us know, and we will make sure we get you the needed protection. Teachers will be required to hand-in or submit electronically the summative evaluation itself and results of those evaluations for every class by June 5. Teachers will be done: • When every student has been assessed either at home or at school during the finals period. • When final grades are submitted. • When building administration has signed off on all end of year expectations and reporting. A. Elementary Students/Staff/Parents: Students will be given the option of taking final assessments at school or at home over the three-week final assessment period. The expectation will be to have a Math and ELA summative assessment that will measure expected growth of essential understandings. This summative assessment must be something that can be measured and compared to the beginning of the year and/or semester. All other summative evaluations can be completed with needed measurable outcomes that the building principal feels appropriate and needed for final reporting. All students that choose to use the school for final assessments will need to contact their teacher and set up a time and place for assessments. Any students in the building must be supervised with as limited human contact as possible. Students can come in and take the final assessments, turn in books and chromebooks then leave. If online options are available for assessments that will suffice, but students will still need to come in and return books, chromebooks and check-out. We will sanitize any area that has had any human contact. Finalize the summative standard-based assessments and properly check out and students are done for the year. B. Middle School Students/Staff/Parents: Students will be given the option of taking finals at school or at home over the three-week final assessment period. The expectation will be to have a Math, English, Social Studies and Science summative assessment that will measure expected growth and effort. This summative assessment must be something that can be measured and compared to the beginning of the year and/or semester. All other summative evaluations for electives can be completed with needed measurable outcomes that the building principal feels appropriate and needed for final reporting. All students that choose to use the school for final assessments will be set up and supervised with limited or any at all human contact. Students can come in and take the final assessments, turn in books and chromebooks, then leave. We will sanitize any area that has had any human contact. Finalize the summative assessments, check-out and students are done for the year. C. High School Students: • Seniors will be required to come in or complete finals remotely, when possible, during the week of May 18 to May 22. The finals that are required by teachers for the essential understandings are a requirement and will be graded. Project based assessments will also need to be handed in during this week. Senior Projects must be complete and signed off by May 22. Check out forms must be signed before final checkout will be approved. All chromebooks, finals and checkout forms must be returned before checkout is complete. Any students who do not take finals or meet the expected effort of essential understandings will fail the semester. • Grades 9-11 High School Students will be required to come in or complete finals remotely, when possible, during the weeks of May 26 to June 4. The finals that are required by teachers for the essential understandings are a requirement and will be graded. Check out forms must be signed before final checkout will be approved. Project based assessments will also need to be handed in during these two weeks. All chrome books, finals and checkout forms must be returned before checkout is complete. Any students who do not take finals or meet the expected effort of essential understandings will fail the semester.

End of the Year Schedule for St. Ignatius Elementary Students and Families Please check our FB page for our End of the Year Schedule. https://www.facebook.com/stignatiusschools

PTO Meeting 4pm today, May 11, Monday. It will be live streamed on PTO Facebook Page. Don't miss it!

Winners of the drawings from the Virtual Scavenger Hunt for the Elementary School are now posted on Facebook! Check out our FB page to see the winners! https://www.facebook.com/stignatiusschools/

Remote Drivers Education St. Ignatius School District #28 is scheduled to begin. Monday, April 27 at 7pm-8pm: Parent Meeting Online link will be emailed to the student and parent (if email is provided). Both students and parents must attend this meeting. Tuesday, April 28-Thursday, May 28 Classes will be virtual from 3:00pm to 5:00pm Monday through Thursday. Thursday, May 28- Will be the Final Lesson and Written Test. We will assess the best plan for conducting the driving portion of the class as soon as it is safe to proceed. Anyone who opts out will be reimbursed for the class. Everyone who wishes to participate must have paid before the parent/student meeting. The last I heard JOM will not be paying for classes.

Click on SEE ALL POSTS to the right for instructions on how to join our FIRST EVER VIRTUAL SCAVENGER HUNT with PRIZES! Thursday, April 22, 6pm-7:30pm

The date on milk containers have changed. The date on your milk is the sell by date and is good for 10 days after that sell by date. Thank you -

If you did not get meals today and you are on a bus route, please call your building front office and request food drop off on Thursday. Thank you to everyone who picked up breakfast and lunch.

The buses will run twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1:00pm. The Week 3 plan said 2:00, but that has been changed to 1:00 pm leaving from the school. Thank you -

Students/Parents/Community: Week 3 • Food Pick up for Week 3 will be Tuesday, April 14 from 10am-1pm • Work Pick-Up will be the same day (Tuesday) with designated times depending on grade. • Starting week 3: Buses will run Tuesday and Thursday leaving the school at 2pm. • Student and Parents: At the end of this closure or end of the year students will be required to take an assessment that will indicate effort and essential understandings of expectations. Teachers will determine the grade based on effort during the closure with work turned in, Google, Learn@home and online efforts and check-ins, end of the year assessment of effort and self-paced learning. Students who are putting in the time, effort and competency of essential understandings will pass the semester. Students who: *have not picked up packets *have not handed in work *have not checked in or completed online enrichment activities *have not made progress on their essential understandings... will not pass the semester. Our open school hours will change in Week 3 to 8am-2pm so we can sanitize on a daily basis. Students as a whole are working really hard and we are very proud of your efforts. Keep up the great work! Drivers Education: If there are any additional closures after the current April 24th shelter-in-place, Drivers Education will be cancelled until next Spring and checks will be mailed with a full refund.

Closure Extended - April 24 Gov. Bullock Today NBC

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Students/Parents/Community: Week 2 • Food Pick up for Week 2 will be Tuesday, April 7 from 10am-1pm • Work Pick-Up will be the same day with designated times depending on Grade on Tuesday and Thursday. • Buses will run Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday leaving school at 9am and 1pm for school work pick-up drop off and special circumstance meal drop-off.

Attention MS/HS Families -Just wanted to give a quick update on your children's educational plan moving forward. Thank you to everyone for coming in and picking up work and food. We got every single student their work. Thank you for putting your child's education at the top of your priorities. -Right now your child(ren) should be working on the homework that was handed out on Tuesday. Do your best to turn that in by next Tuesday. Containers are in front of the HS entrance in the roundabout. -If you need work picked up, the busses will be running Tu, Wed, Th at 9am and 1pm. Call Jackie in the office to make arrangements 745-3811x263. -Next week we go live with online learning. Your child should be logging into their school email, and getting onto their google classroom's set up by their teachers. -Teachers will be taking attendance in their 2nd period class or Advisory in MS. This means your child will have to check in with that teacher someway, daily. That could be in google classroom, in a google chat/hangout, via email, or submission of an assignment online. -If you are unable to get online to interact, and will be needing paperwork, you can email your child's teacher and let them know, or call Jackie at extension 263. -We're all learning how to do this as we go. Don't stress out about this too much. Our staff is flexible and wants to work with everyone in ways they feel most comfortable. We'll get through this together. If you have any questions or concerns feel free to email me at shendrickson@stignatiusschools.org or call me at 745-3811 x301. Please like, share and tag other parents you may know that need to see this. Thanks and have a great weekend.

Students/Parents/Community: Week 2 · Food Pick up for Week 2 will be Tuesday, April 7 from 10am-1pm · Work Pick-Up will be the same day with designated times depending on Grade on Thursday 10am-1pm Education Plan for Week 2 and the Rest of the Closure: Our long-term plans will be centered on semester standards and educational expectations. This plan will be to continue what has already been established as a best practice for School District #28. Every teacher, for every class will develop a semester test, evaluation, project or documentation that will include the essential understandings for every class and every grade. These expectations or a standard-based rubric that includes the essential understandings will be sent to every student for every class so that every student knows exactly what is expected of them to learn by the end of the year or the end or school closure. This evaluation of essential understandings will be broken down by weeks or months so students know how to pace their learning and expectations. Teachers will give students study guides, online enrichment, resources available on-line such as Discovery Education, Gooru, UTube, Khan Academy or any of the thousands of other resources available to students to learn the essential understandings and expectations. Students will know what they are expected to learn and teachers can give progress monitors and/or check-ins rather than send numerous hand-outs home. The idea will be to establish a process with the end in mind. What are our expected outcomes? When the closure is over or the end of the year, students will be brought back and we will assess what was accomplished with the self-paced learning and essential understanding. We will assess effort and essential understanding of standard achievement and proficiency. This is how we will grade the 4th quarter and the semester. We will take into account the lack of support and limited title I availability and grade accordingly. The teachers will be expected to be available during certain times during the day for phone calls and support for students' understanding of material teachers feel is essential for class completion. Teachers will be available from home, school, online meetings, learn@home on webpage or email. If teachers choose to be at home, we will need home phone numbers and/or cell phone numbers so students can get a hold of teachers during our established contact times. Teachers will be expected to respond in order to support students with evaluation expectations. The 4th quarter grade and semester grade will be based on what was accomplished in terms of essential understanding of the standards. Elective classes may require a documentation log, project completion or evaluation understanding of essential expectations. We start with the end in mind, this is what a student needs to learn, give them the resources to learn it and when they return we will evaluate what was learned or accomplished for our essential understanding expectations. This evaluation is how we will grade and in the elementary assess the standard understanding level with assessments upon return. This measurable outcome will give us the proficiency requirement for all classes. This will also cut down dramatically on the amount of needed worksheets and back and forth work delivery. We will break this down to effectively measure the potential of every student. Students that do not put in the effort and accomplish expectations at a level deemed fair, the teacher can fail or pass with an appropriate and equitable grade designation. At the elementary, standards rating of where they are at and what they accomplished will be determined by each teacher for each student. Work, Study Guides, Online Enrichment, Plans, and Expectations will continue until the end of the closure. If we do not return to school we will send home an end of the year assessment for students to take or at that time decide whether or not it is safe to rotate them through for our final assessments. I believe this will be the best way to handle this situation and cut down on the numerous amounts of work back and forth. Give our students the expectations of what is essential and support them the best way we possibly can and hope we can use this time constructively to make gains. We will assess the students’ effort one way or another at the end of closure or school year. Principals will be giving directives in terms of availability times and school specific expectations. If you have questions, please contact your building principal so we can clarify any confusion. Counselors will be available during school hours for any mental health, educational support and crisis management. Check in regularly with our at-risk students that will need support during these times. We will lead by example and I believe we have the best plan to reach students and continue educational expectations. We will get our on-line and remote learning devices to as many students as possible. Matt Lyon and Jesse Nesper are working hard to get all of you the right tools to best support students remotely. We will see this through successfully. I am, as always, happy to be working for a great community. It is our time to shine, so give it your best.