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On 7/13/22 Alliance MIT 6-12 Complex hosted a New and Returning Families Welcome Orientation. Here's the recording where you will learn about upcoming important dates and updates for the new school year 2022-2023. Spanish translation was offered live(simultaneously) via the language interpretation option in Zoom.

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awesome wonderful thank you so much I miss Tina. I will be returning as well as will miss Cobbs but they are not with us tonight and with that being said I'll hand it off to mr. tried to interview some people from high school good evening welcome everybody welcome new families and returning families we have can you I'm Mr Thai I've been with the wise MIT for the past few years and I'm stepping into the role as principal and I've been with Alliance for 17 years now and I'm really excited for this year and I we have you are so stupid for that, seeing and then we have a couple culture Deeds we have Mr cantarero and Mr Campos a today so I'm going to pass pass it off to him so he could introduce himself are amazed with compos and the dean students have been with the Lions on my teeth is best for years all right we have a really we are so lucky to have a a really big team of a support staff both in terms of our counseling staff you can see here are educational psychologist as well as on the next slide you'll see a big group of our operations leaders and on the next slide we can actually yeah our operations team cartoon did you want anybody to to chime in real quickly here most of them might be here presently but I know because the sake of time we were to try and speed things up by the entire operations team a lot of you have been working with us as we are enrolling your students or a lot of you already noticed so I'll be half of the Ops Team we want to welcome everyone and we can't wait to see you all in alright that means I'm next perfect timing okay and I will miss him so I don't try to go as slowly as I can give him the time frame that we have but Mr crosstone went through the agenda today before we get into other avenues are important information that you all need to know we do need to talk a little bit about Stacey returning schools in the fall and what does that look like as you all know the last few years we have been in a pandemic and we are all trying to navigate through it and hopefully get through it so I will be sharing with you all keep points highlights of what will continue what are new procedures are new protocols in place starting in the fall that we you all know what to expect when you start in August so just a little brief overview of the I suppose for making any decisions as a network we've made sure since 2020 that we have been guided with all decisions when it comes to health and safety Scholars learning scholar will be Equity communication on boy an organizational sustainability and we have been using the following resources to inform specific and compliant protocols which is the California Department of Public Health and also leusd part of that I do want to highlight for this past spring as a network we provided over 500,000 rapid covid test network-wide that's a lot and also face mask we provide more than mppe supplies more than 300,000 across the network hundred percent of our staff are vaccinated or exempt eighty percent of our students in the entire network which the promo video mentioned we have 26 schools 13,000 students 80% of the students are fully vaccinated or partially vaccinated and 91% attendance 3 or above 90% attendance remain for all schools which speaks volumes knowing that we came back from from being at home so that just mean no tells your commitment from from students and and our school staff safety at Alliance Alliance MIT will continue to build upon a culture of safety and appearance to Public Health protocols will continue to make sure that we're treating all positive cases and following protocols as needed most of them will be similar from previous years we will be implementing health and safety practices to include that everyone gets all their PPE supplies at schools I'm staying safe and clean are we will be following County guidelines for reopening and exposure management and we will be implementing an adjusting any network policies based on guidance that we received from the state the district excetera so key policies or areas that we will be changing slightly or maybe drastically for some the first for highlighted and yellow will be new information for all returning and you've please and then the remaining items at the bottom that are just highlighted and white those will remain the same pay for my returning families so for covid-19 cases I won't go into detail. a lot of you already familiar with this whenever we find out if a case we will continue to follow through on our protocol at and making sure that they're being isolated that we're testing uncles contacts that were testing students after day 35 and that we are making sure that no one is getting infected and that any any student who is or was or even a staff member that tested positive on site ensure that they follow the isolation. Need to go before they return to site so that'll remain the same as we have been operating last school year and for a lot of my returning my new families a lot of this information will be very similar to how your previous School Elementary or your other Middle School used to handle things we follow very similar protocols as multiples do if and when a student or staff member where did test positive on site we will self isolate them and obviously contact my parents immediately and ensure that the student is being picked up and then that we didn't always sanitize clean those areas and we do our reporting as needed and then our covid point of contact team will activate and you know make sure that we turn on all communication that not just those that of the infected in a family are in our you know communicated about the situation but also I need clothes contacts so we try to make sure that we we involve and communicate clearly anyone that might of potentially being might have been in close contact to that individual in regards to close contact racing in the event of a positive case we will contact race any individual who was you know how to expose you're with that that person within the 48 hour time frame close contacts for the purpose of school please contact tracing now like let's just say that maybe you were not a close contact then you won't you no get tested you won't be how to find out the clothes contact but close contacts for the purpose of school-based contact tracing are not individuals with exposure potential exposure outside so I'll tour setting we will not consider you as a close, individuals with potential exposures outside of school School related extracurricular activities are individuals with an infectious person in their household and then close contacts or anyone in just a reminder in a refresher for some of you close contacts or anyone within six feet of an infected person on wall indoors or anyone who shared the same airspace of an infected individual endorse so a lot of those you know scenario still apply and colors for close contacts they will have to remain asymptomatic have no symptoms okay they have to test negative on day 3 and 5 and they will have to wear a mask indoors during that that you know I catching her you know the drink them on a train. So if you were identified as a close contact you can remain on site as long as you're following these three bullet points which is you're not feeling symptoms you're getting tested and you're making sure you're negative and that you're wearing a mask as you know as informed we will make sure to communicate to our families we do a lot of the covid acronym communication through parents force a lot of our returning families you guys are used to this you're used to getting our Communications but our new families we will talk a little bit about parents Brandi coming slide but just make sure that when we do provide you with that information that you activate your app and that you create your login information so that you receive Ausable communication not just Cobra related communication but also school-wide announcement and then covid testing protocol so this is a big change for the new school year so all Alliance was not just Alliance a mighty will complete full population Baseline testing after any breakup three school days or more so after long weekend breaks like summer break winter break in on spring break excetera in an effort to mitigate increase covid from traveling saberian for the first day of school all students and staff will rapid test during the first period of the day so when your students start in August yes the first date as soon as they going to their first. They will all get get tested as a the entire School population and we only do rapid testing so we no longer use PCR testing families were interested in that they would have to obtain that PCR test option through Insurance primary care provider or just an external testing site with that said and I don't know if my in my previous light communicated that but covid testing will not be happening weekly how we were doing it this previous school year so this previous school year every beginning of the week we would do covid testing for the entire school that will no longer be the case starting in August we will only do it after on weekends breaks Etc or as needed we will also continue to provide covid testing for students and staff for these three following reasons Alliance will continue to do that for staff and Scholars too dumb symptoms of anyone's on-site feeling sick we will definitely touch them they will go to the nurse's office we will isolate them test them and if they are positive they will get sent home and then Alliance will continue to Attitash stop and Scholars who were closed context of a positive individual who was on site only for on-site cases so we will as soon as we know someone positive well our team will activate identify post context we will pull those students or staff members get them Austin I'm in follower close contact protocol in policy and then Alliance will continue to allow asymptomatic now in close contact so you can opt-in and test if you'd like and we we will be offering the service more formation will come to you all once the school year start I will not go into detail for that portion but we just want to make sure that you know that this will be be be said expectation for covid testing once we begin the school year and then this slide pretty much covers exactly what I just mentioned so students doing symptomatic will go to the nurse's office and then we will get them tested and and do all that close contacts will get identified test Monday 3 and 5 and then we will make sure to Pollo a la puerta cost for that covid testing policy details Scholars one thing for my new families you definitely don't know this information. But Scholars can consent to test if they are 12 years old need your older without a parent consent or present if your child is younger than 12 years old then school nurse. Will contact you directly to ensure that we know we we get consent before we test dude but if you have any covid related questions or testing information any any questions that you have you are always welcome to contact our main office or come visit us in person at the main office we will provide hopefully an answer to any of your questions and like I mentioned earlier we are doing rapid testing so this is just a quick overview a lot of you I'm sure are used to this these are like the at home testing what's the ones where you swap your nose you drop in the the the drops into the little panel and then you'll get the results so this is the type of testing that we will be using on site and for my returning families this has not changed from last school year and I'm asking everyone wants to know what we still will we still be required to wear I'm asking doors so returning families you know Outdoors that was not required at some point in the spring semester but indoor was still required and it is currently still required for those students and staff that are still on site during the summer but starting in August when teachers and staff returned and students return potentially change but we don't know the answer just yet so after July 29th families and staff of Alliance will receive a communication form a network office to inform us of our new mask mandate so it can potentially stay as is or it can potentially go to not being Mast indoors okay so we do not have that information just yet but we just wanted to make sure that you are aware and that communication will be sent to you prior to the first day of school and we will continue to still have masks available regardless of what decision is made will have covid testing hand sanitizer and disinfectant stations excetera all of that will still be available everyone that visits and is on campus on a day-to-day basis and our daily cleaning disinfecting of our building that has not stopped and will and it will not stop so we will make sure that this happens daily and then Escobedo currents that we do the extra deep clean on that is needed right and then events activities will we be ever to ever have in person activities and it's look answer is yes so we will be transitioning into allowing more in-person events this new school year so I know our team and you know a lot of the students are going to be excited for this so we do look forward to bringing this back when we start doing those events and we start bringing in activities that all you know allow for more people together and be in person we will provide guidance as needed for the most part yes we should be going to back to in-person activities and then the last portion to this section staff scholar and visitor vaccinations on requirement so I know a lot of parents are asking does my child have to have the covid vaccine before starting so the answer is all Scholars regardless of vaccination status have an in-person learning option for the school year so no you do not your seller does not have to have their covid vaccine given by the start of the school year Alliance will continue to incur bridge that you don't you guys vaccinated monitor but it looks like leusd will be implementing a mandate for the start of the next following school year so July 1st of 2020 3rd so you guys will have plenty of time between now and then but as of now you do know your child does not have to have the covid vaccine to start the school year and for all of our parents that love to visit us and help volunteer we will be aligned visitors Compass you guys will obviously make sure that you know will it will check in self screen before coming in if you're feeling sick please do not come you guys will check in and our stuff in the office will assist you with directing you to area that you were visiting and then I will now allow Purex testing to come in and talk to you a little bit I know a lot of you have been getting our Communications through parentsquare to enroll your child through Purex testing I'm still a representative from church this year to give a very quick brief presentation and then if you all have any questions for them or for myself or any other team members remember we will take questions at the very end of the presentation okay I will take over from here hello a mighty Alliance my name is Susan and I work with your ex testing my colleagues Mandy Nanny and Jose are also yesterday on this webinar we are just so happy to be at MIT allowed at Alliance to be able to provide covid testing for the staff and students at the school we've already currently started with a summer school and we'll be continuing through fall on just to give you a little bit of background about us we have been working with covid testing and administering covid testing since the beginning of pandemic in March of 2020 have an abundance of experience working at a large Ms that you might be familiar with such as Dodger Stadium like a devil Parts just to name a couple people really is to provide a free and quick testing for all the students and staff and to make it as Brianna mean as fast and as seamless as possible not sure if you're aware but covid test all the cases are currently on the rise again also we definitely want to make sure that we test as many students as possible on a regular basis so we can continue to keep the staff and students healthy and safe and also so that we can continue to keep your school open awesome meanwhile I'm sure you received a communication from the school all such as a flyer that you're seeing before the first day of school we really request that all can log on on to that code or the link and go ahead and register your student so that we can make sure that they are tested we plan on being at the school on Mondays and Tuesdays from about 8 a.m. and we will be test that's fine so everyone really must sign out by the first day of school if anyone has any problems or need any help signing up we are more than happy to provide a response on Mondays and Tuesdays while we are at their as well so and also if you have any questions please feel free to also contact us email us also at schools at curex testing. We just really look for play working with you and all your students and we're just really excited to be at a micelle Alliance thank you so much Suzanne for participating in helping out know that there might be some parents I have some questions in regards to registration up for any parents that do feel free to throw those on the in the chatter Q&A and Susan if you don't mind assisting with answering some and if not parents you can also ask any towards the end of the presentation and we also have our Spanish-speaking colleague with us as well so feel free to ask any questions in Spanish thanks so much Susan I think I put the correct email in the chat but if I didn't if you could correct it in for families if you have a question either in English or in Spanish you can put that question in the queue in a section of the zoom or you can put it in the chat at War email schools at tricks testing.com if it's regarding the testing procedures and process and registration all right we are going to move into the handbook highlights and we are highlighting things if either got change or things that are just really important to know so we're going to go ahead and move into that now for those of you who are joining us for the first time you may not know our mission statement it is a little bit long I was going to say that basically what we're all about is making sure the students grow and develop and that they are ready to get into and graduate from college and so that is what we are focused on and a lot of the policies you're going to see here or directly related to that let's go to the next slide for next slide this is a shift citizenship back to normal with our attendance policies last year with our return to school sites coming back for that first year for the pandemic we didn't monitor how many excused absences student has like we have in Prior years this year the 22 23 school year we are going back with our door policy where a student is allowed up to 7 Excuse excuse each school year for an asset to be excused you have up to 5 days to communicate with her or operations teams to get that documented Weatherby dental medical or like service they had to attend and then there are a lot of details on this in the handbook out my team this this process and policy but we just really wanted to highlight and clarify that there is a shift back to we kids are only allowed that the 7 excuse thank you mr. try also wanted to add our operations lead Miss back to sorry and she is dropping all the links to the handbooks on the chat so if any parents would like to follow you're welcome too if not most of you have been receiving the handbook this week that when you've been visiting our campus when are the shifts that we're going to be making sure that we monitor a little better to make sure that students are one presentable and always ready to learn in the classroom is going to be our uniforms so we are going to make sure that students are wearing a shirt at all times even if find a sweatshirt or a jacket on this has to be worn during break and even at lunch time as soon as they're going to be required to wear pants were the middle school which is 6 through 8th grade going to be black pants long skirts for those students we are going to ask that students do not have any open toed shoes which includes Croc slippers sandals Etc students are also students and families are going to be asked to make sure that students they have black or gray sweatshirts without any hoods or Alliance sweaters I'm sorry go back and then go back to the previous slide and then for a high school it's going to be khaki pants shorts or skirts for high school students so that's going to be for the high school and then in the next life we have some images of what a polos are going to be for both Middle School 6th grade we have blue 7th grade purple page we have read I'm in for 9th grade we have navy blue and maroon 11th grade grey 12s black and then we also have images of the sweaters for both middle and high take me to cubero it just a bill bond that for High School this year the shirts that students are wearing or allied with the credit they have for high school really pushing are complex really this idea that our kids are graduating within four years and on track to graduate in so to be on track to graduate and promote the shirt color you need to assume you'll need to have those credits so a 9th grader would need to have the 55 credits before they can promote to the 10th grade maroon shirt and some will be communicating out what what should students should be receiving for those perfect and then I am seeing questions on the chat I'm concerned about some of the polos not having the School logo are we understand that and it's something that were making sure to get address so don't think you received the wrong polar anything or student will not get in any trouble or of any store because they do I have the logo we understand there was just something you lay with our provider so as long as they're wearing the correct grade level Polo they're going to be fine and then we also have images of what students should be wearing for bottoms example we have two black chinos or asking no shorts for middle school students but we understand some students might have specifics students and Families my husband sific situations or requirement will feel free to email me up in my email on the chat as well for a high school we are asking khaki colored pants and then for high school students shorts are going to be okay and then families are also going to receive weekly messages with a ton of information and about are the uniforms for the Middle School to Valero students and you're also going to also have direct links for Amazon or Target where you can see and actually purchase the dating a Frenchman there as well and just start to build on this as well. I didn't answer to the question to chat middle school will be a black and then high school will be khaki so that way the uniform easily identifies great as well as whether their high school or middle school I mean it's something that we are going to high life is we want families as soon as to make sure that the possible for their devices any damages do any computers or anything that belongs to the school family will get charged a bill for it on students are also expected in this is all messaged out in she just talked about this as well as admin are expected to use technology and internet at school and at home in an appropriate manner parents were also asking parents guardian and everybody else will monitor that closely while they're at school or even sometimes when they're at home where are able to monitor is some of the use that's students for their technology as well also something that we did notice this past year many of the situations that come up us specifically with middle and high school students is a lot of social media problems so we're asking families to support our staff by making sure that they're being responsible when specially with cell phones we're asking parents and Guardians to if your I was going to have a phone I'll make sure that you're closely monitoring their usage on any social media platforms students are actually going to we're going to build on this next slide as well since we're going to be asked to actually use a a pouch for their going to store their phone at the beginning of the day for the middle school students this year to make sure that we just minimize the time that they're spending on their device and instead focus on the lesson I'm learning that's happening next class but we want to make sure that we provide a responsible space for them throughout the entire day if if you if you need to connect with your child or any emergency you can always count the main office to relay any message for your child as well and and something else that we're going to also ask is for family to talk to children or to students about is going to be airpods smart watches or any portable speakers to make sure that they're put away and I'll get it over to that's what Manner or in the pouches that they're going to be provided with going to be a Yonder bag on students who are caught with their cell phones will have a three-strike consequences them the first one is easy on the screen is going to be a one-day confiscation which I meant him hold on to it and a safe look in the safe space in our offices second offense if it'll be confiscated for the remainder of that week will ask a parent or Guardian to pick up the device from the the third offense is actually going to be complicated for the rest of the semester and again this is something that will cover with students at the beginning of the year as well something that we just wanted to make sure that all my parents knew is that our teachers do not request that students use cell phones in the classroom there are some schools that do that but our school is not one of them we find that cell phones are distracting both in the classroom and outside of the classroom and when I say distracting outside of the classroom almost all of the conflicts that students have with one another not all of them them start with people using careless or profane language with one another online online on social media most of the time on Instagram and so with parents as partners we know that you want your soon-to-be successful we want your students to be successful if you have not yet gotten your student a smartphone I would consider looking into other options which will talk about just a second if you have gotten them a smartphone I would look at different policies or policies in your family to make sure that they're using it responsibly and following people who are using it responsibly we go to the next line I have an 11 year old going into 6th grade and most of her friends and that we've been talking with the families we are using devices that parents can still text the child children can still text their parents but they are not a smart and able they're not having unlimited access to the internet and they're not having unlimited access to social media is something that I would definitely look into a we had a lot of students who missed days because I'm feeling sad a lot of the bullying that takes place takes place online so if there's anything you can do to help us with that I would be very very helpful for your student to have the best experience in middle school and high school as infirmary high school did the cell phone policy is very similar to Middle Schools where where students shouldn't have during the school day it's a distraction from learning as well as I can have some negative social ramifications and at the end of the day we want to make sure our school we have a school where kids feel safe and can prioritize instruction because of this if it's soon does have their phone out we teachers will confiscate it for the. And then from there I can escalate where the phone to be held up to a day a week excetera where parents will need to pick it up see a difference soon as refusing to give up a phone the consequences will also escalate where I pair may need to pick it up or have a conference about some of the behavior yeah I just the suits are responsible for personal property so if they don't need it for school I I strongly recommend is that I'm not bringing it to school they are responsible for it and we just don't want it Ted to go missing in so it's just best if they don't need it for school to not bring it to school and where asthma spartina saber we are increasing the number of activities we have and we're going to continue with sports club Student Government field trips and other activities in as we do a lot of these things that since they're looking forward to do we need to make sure they're eligible based on a Cadet and it and behavior in order to participate students participating in any school activity that happens after Ever After School must be enrolled in her all stars after school program yeah and for students to participate in these extracurricular activities they do have to have a GPA of 2.0 or better I know for a sports team you can have more than two and pieces in addition to that until there aren't we do have expectations to be able to participate in these dances and sports excetera all right for those we're just joining us we do use a program called Dean's List and we also send home to the parents emails updates about their progress you can expect updates about their progress at least every 5 weeks but for the Middle School were exploring options with Dean's List to make that more more frequent and I know High School is also looking to make those reports and more frequent it generally has information about attendance their behavior at school I and those are used for getting eligibility for our school events field trip student store excetera a real important both for eight and 12 grade culmination graduation and beer events move up day students are expected to follow through on all the expectations and make sure that they are maintaining good academic standing which means my grades need to be a fuse or above if there are issues with students maintaining those grades or if behavioral expectations are not met we normally go through a process of appeal and those are required for this dude be able to participate in those combinations and graduations I can cover the suction just a couple highlights for health and safety we do keep emergency cards on site for all students and staff students must have all known covid immunization on record so this is non covid-19 ization so all their immunizations up-to-date if any of your students are missing immunizations we will definitely be in contact with you those that don't have all their immunizations will not be able to start physically on skip school August 10th immigration enforcement on-site Administration will ensure that you know we follow protocol accordance to the law medication including epipens can be administered on site we just need proper documentation that will be provided from our office and doctor needs to sign excetera so if you have any child that needs to take medication on side or you need us the house there EpiPen do to any any allergy please make sure you speak to her office staff so that they can provide you with the proper documentation to get that cleared and so that a nurse can have that available in our in our nurses office Public School staff are mandated reporters so Google report any suspicion of child abuse and or suicide risk and administration May conduct searches based on Reasonable Suspicion as needed to maintain a safe School that's something that we also want to highlight is at Alliance MIT we have zero tolerance for harassment discrimination and bullying on campus or we ask all families and students be cumin get a report anything if anything is to occur or something we tell students during our me at 3 to meetings all the time as if you see something say something and then we do follow Outlet USB cord conduct and suspension what's an expectation again going back to social media we ask parents Guardians to make sure that they do not allow for unlawful underage use of social media plan we asked families to monitor their students social media use and or cell phone or computer and messaging while we also asked families to report and document any inappropriate behaviors we also families to discontinue what does continued child use of social media is necessary to protect child social and emotional well-being failure to meet these requirements may result in disciplinary action and or BFF Adams or a police investigation of law all right I just want to say that the involvement parents is really critical to us achieving our mission and parents really are partners and it's one of the most important things for us going forward is to have your help and support at home you're the next slide why is it so important while the road to College of challenging if you're not familiar with some of the percentages very few students especially coming from a low-income areas are able to achieve hang in there college degree and we want that to be an option for all of our students I'm in sixth grade more than half of our students start more than two years behind in math and and read so our mission is to make sure that they're ready to be successful high school and college and we definitely need parents of work to make that happen as part of that we have many different routes to communicating with you and we would really appreciate if you could take the time make sure that you are getting all of them and if you're not let us know one of those is parentsquare it is an app you can download it to your phone it is also a website parentsquare.com where you can access information it also allows you to message the teachers and the staff of the school power school is really important for being able to access students grades it will also show you which assignments that your student is missing if they are missing assignments almost all students who are not passing a class or who have a c in a class are either not turning working or not completing it when they turn it in and you can find that information on PowerSchool every week we have a newsletter called they're ready to review the get sent out on Friday you can find it Mason at Alliance and mighty. Org on your phone or on a browser device social media we make posts both on Instagram and Facebook a school correspondence via snail mail via the mail so please be sure in there as well you can connect with the main office and again we talked earlier about Dean's List in some of the weekly bi-weekly reports just real quickly again smart habits to start now if you wait until when school starts it will be a big transition for your student so if you're going to be considering changes around social media if you're going to be considering changes around cellphone these are a great time to do that one of the successful moves that many parents make is if their student does have a cell phone it doesn't go back into the room overnight with them but it charges in a common area so that could be a habit that your family can start now let's go the next slide another one just in terms of increasing how much are students are active and or picking up books is just limiting the amount of time students spend on screens we know that covid had a lot of big impacts and we know the students were stuck at home a lot and consequently screens were used a lot and it makes sense but that's had some really negative impact on students so we're hoping to work with you to make these changes so that your students can benefit next line so where is the partners parents can really be great Partners working with them around their phone use being sure that students come to school on time in their uniform limiting screen time at home creating a time and place for them to be able to read ideally quiet and make sure that you're getting our parents where messages all right so for bell schedule and school hours if you go to there we go there's a slightly different bell schedule an hour's this year for actually a very different for middle school so we are still starting at 8 and getting out at 3:15 on Monday Tuesday Thursday and Friday I just want to say that again Monday Tuesday Thursday and Friday school goes from 8 a.m. until 3:15 on Wednesday's on Wednesdays there is a different schedule so on Wednesdays school starts at 8:57 school starts at 8:57 that's because the first time there from 8855 teachers are meeting teachers are meeting for professional development and school gets out at 3:15 on that day some schools have a early dismissal on professional development days and some schools have a delayed start on professional development days we have you late start on Wednesdays that will only occur on days when we have all five instructional days on weeks that are short they will all be 8 to 3:15 days and then you can see down here at the minimum Day schedule if it is a minimum Day schedule school starts at 8 and gets out at 1 I try your muted right now thank you mr. Carlson for high school the schedule remains very similar to what it did last year start time is always 8:30 Monday Tuesday Wednesday kids will have all of their their classes and Thursday Friday Heather block schedules where they can have more time to get deeper into, content for assessments excetera one shift that we do have is that Wednesday is an early release day to allow for professional development Network 6 schools and this is time where are teachers won't be able to work with other teachers that teach the same content at other Alliance schools share resources build curriculum and provide the best instruction possible for your son and daughter list of Wednesday's dismissal will be at 3 p.m. Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday every other day of the week does smoked dismissal will be at 3:45 so again always at 8:30 start time 3:45 dismissal with exception of Wednesday which is the 3 p.m. dismissal time so are school hours for supervision School side is going to open and we do have supervision started at 7:30 we are asking families to not drop off students prior to that because we will not have supervision before 7:31 after school all students who are signed up in All Stars pro must report to their designated area immediately after school all students should wait and their designated Squad areas for parent or Guardian pick up we only have after-school supervision available for 30 minutes after dismissal time any students saying pass a 30-minute window will be required to sign up for after-school program or they will be asked to leave campus supper is available for all students and after-school program and Ark will close at 6 p.m. sharp with again with early-morning supervision students cannot answer campus and then leave campus this is a major safety concern so for example like we do liquor store in a donut shop not too far from us one student center campus we are responsible for them. So as soon as you're not allowed to step off once they're already inside students or families who do bus transportation bus riders are considered on campus as soon as they step on the bus and must enter campus immediately after being dropped off in front of the school we want to make sure you walk communicate with that your children spensley of their new students to us and then after school there are no in and outs when it's 16 minutes that's off-campus they must remain on off-campus students can a man return unless they are accompanied by a again this is a major safety concern it's something that we prioritize at our school this is just a quick nap overview especially for a new families when dropping off students in the morning or picking up we will be using our valet service so families will be enter the entrance closest to the San Fernando Road and then you'll see there the car is right in front of her school and then exit through the opposite side so in the morning and after-school that'll either way that you can either drop off your student if they're in a vehicle or if they're walking they can use any of the entrances in front of our school it's a good evening families I'm going to go over our main office in school hours still. or summer we are open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. starting August 10th it will continue with their normal hours 9 a.m. to 12 and then clothes for 12:30 12:32 we will reopen at 12:30 and then all the way to 3:30 you can also contact us we have two phone numbers and office number in his cell phone number please feel free to reach out to us with any questions we also are provided an email for free to send us documents questions there as well and just as a reminder a school will be closed next week July 18th to the 23rd and we will return on the 25th of July and good afternoon good evening everybody after school All-Stars here great to see everybody Grace and meet everyone this week during our drive through here's our contact information if you need to reach us. and if our students are participating in any after-school activities are we definitely want you to have an after-school All-Stars application on file for safety reasons we operate every day that the school is open from the dismissal of until 6 p.m. I'm if you have any questions I will also include our emails in the chat while we are here to help you with anything you need in relation to after-school program thank you everybody great meeting you hello good evening everyone as you all know our school that's provide the bus transportation for our students we have two locations Pacoima Charter School on from Tujunga and Glisan area we have sent an interest form earlier July the first week of July I will also drop off the link right now in the bad for you if you haven't received the link to be able to sign in your student to get the transportation so spaces are limited however the good news is that for this year we are having a full which we didn't have for the school year so we will be using. And we will be able to accommodate more students this year but it is important for you to send us your stuff play if you are interested in getting this service from us so the deadline is this Friday July 15th if you haven't completed yet please follow the link that I sent in the chat so we can receive your student information so this year we will be contacting contacting you when your bus card and agreement is ready for pickup so you will receive an email or a phone call from us so please make sure if you are interested too I will drop it ID on to fill out the survey and then if you have any questions reach out to the office and we will answer your questions quickly thank you miss practice Renn like Miss practice Ian mentioned we are not mailing bus cards home this year we will you will need to pick them up in person and sign the agreement so our stuff will be in contact with you they are ready for pickup alright Summer Bridge if your student is new to our school if they are new 6th graders welcome if they are new first graders welcome if they are new ninth graders are new to any of our grades welcome on that says April on August 8th or 9th on August 8th or 9th those are the two days prior to school starting we will be having a summer which program of about two to three hours of four of those students please keep your eyes on parentsquare for the confirmation grade 6 is probably going to be on Monday August eighth grade 7 is probably going to be on August 9th and what we will be doing on those days I'll let you talk about high school on the 2nd but we'll be doing on those days is going over school expectations the websites will be currently used how often were using our computers things like that will be doing the school tours so they know where their classrooms are they'll be meeting some of their sixth seventh and ninth grade teachers and meeting your advisory teacher for that day you want to add anything for the high school very similar for the high school that it's your student will need to attend one day if there are any incoming 9th grader not both days will communicate what day that is and if that date doesn't work for you and the other one does let us know when we can I do something to accommodate you just want to make sure that we have space for all the students and they are able to get in meet their advisory class at they're going to travel without each year m b r a teacher's so that way when on the first day of school it is they have a lot of familiar faces as for the ones I already know me I'm here and welcome everyone back and then for that I was I don't know me I'm in the front center one of the office manager so here you can see the event calendar for this year will not be sending this calendar as soon as it's finished a thing next time this week you will receive please write me something yes this is being finalized so just once it is finalized we will be sending it to parentsquare make sure you keep it handy we will also have copies available in the main office this calendar will basically provide you with all the events that we will be hosting throughout the year and I'm happy that event seems like it's going to be play some this year so I missed the castle said to mention this before the apparent is something that we went to see more this year so this is a great opportunity for you to be employed we are recruiting for RSA copc members for this school year I'm on a pronoun chart the form so you are interested in participating here's a Google form you can fill it out in you can be part of the planets are going to take the teachers make decisions with us this year so please join us is really really important for us to have you in their elpc is the one that committed for English Learners today NES AC is that committee. Everyone can can be part of that committee so hopefully we have a lot of applications are you can send me your phone now and then you'll follow us on Facebook or Instagram I know that we always will with stairs so please please follow us share our Pages as well you see the information here in the Square yes and if you have any families friends looking for a middle school or high school and let them know to follow our Pages direct them to our website have them come take a school Tour on WE host. take me on Fridays I'm so that they can get to know MIT and hopefully flying and and come to our school Tuesdays this time and you can just make a reservation before to make sure that will not be there for you yes please talk to others about our school and if you share that information on Facebook or Instagram thank you thank you for that and I hopefully would have a lot of stress did you thank you yes and miss you lots I think you not to mention but we do have a parent referral program we do a lot of raffle is a lot of prices so we can see when you show up late and they will take your name and you'll participate in our office every month but I do one more information and you are going to be more involved in that give me a call go to school at from a syllabus Army hospital will give you more information about this okay a real quick before we go into the uniform and laptop distribution cartoon or Perez our body do we know when the message will go out to families with the parentsquare login information or the link to set that up I want to say that as soon as they are into the system in PowerSchool then they'll get the message but I think that is for bug to start in my no more information yes we are planning to send it out within the first week of school and just because we do have any students when I M sure that we cover everyone because they are being added to the system as we enroll them but yes within the first week of school that's her plan got it okay so new parents look for that in the first week of school I'm and the questionnaire about the other application is actually something you can access online it's more PowerSchool and will be doing more presentations about that at upcoming training including back to school night yes and my new pair yes we will still communicate with you all through school men as well so don't worry we'll make sure that capture all communication through all platforms alright I'm getting form and laptop distribution thank you for attending we've had it for returning families Monday Tuesday Wednesday I'm in 10 tomorrow and Friday will be funny family for those who have not attended it's okay please attend the next within the next two days I'm toys are from 9 a.m. to 11 and then we closed open back at 3:30 all the way to 5 p.m. and then this drive-thru if you are a parent folder with all the information that are amazing princess haven't gotten over from parent handbook at this no items in there at bell schedule you'll receive a physical copy of all of that and then you will receive a polo as you are when you complete a few forms so you have to compete every year you will get the free polo and so yes if you have and so please stop by off of please stop by all the way to 5 p.m. I know a lot of families work late but we're here till 5 we will be we will be here if you have any questions please call her office or go ahead and email I'm about as for accommodations as well we reminder again we are closed next week but we will continue we will be back on July 25th if you didn't attend uncle's face but try to make it this week please thank you all right I just to reiterate 9 to 11 and then 12:30 to 5 those are the times available this week and then next week we're close and the week after those will be the the times that we will continue to have available for all of our families all right we are nearing the end thank you all for Patiently Waiting I know we're a little bit over time but I promise we won't we are finally at the last few few slides and we will then we want to queue an A but what to expect on first day of school before the day starts make sure that your scholar conducts a sentence screening at home and sure your scholar has a clean mask if and when we do require the maximum daytime to be in door what colors were inappropriate uniform and that their laptop and also materials are ready and make sure that they charge their laptop before coming to school when they arrive on the first day of school they will stop screen upon arrival. search for playground if they arrive between 7:30 and 8:30 or classrooms after 8 a.m. that's for Middle School at 8:34 High School Scholars will check first. Rosters we will have them displayed all over the campus and they'll find her name on those rosters and then it'll indicate what first. Class they have that student will then report to that first. Class and then during that first. Class still receive their belts are there schedule for the remainder of the day so then from there they'll know what classes they have throughout the day during that first. Of the day we will also covid test all students on the first day of school any students who do I report on the first day of school will have to covid test on the following day or whenever their first day of school is on campus and then during the day students will receive the health and safety training will have breakfast lunch and designated areas and installers will engage in their classes and our summer orientation Etc last final reminder specially my 7th grade families please please make a note of this seventh graders and Tareen this year are required proof of the Tdap and Buddy still I mean ization please make sure you submit proof of this before the first day of school if you have already submitted proof and disregard this message but if you have not and or have received a communication from us letting you know that your how does missing these immunization make sure you submit that information before August 10th and it's not your child will not be able to be at site and person starting August 10th until they have those immunization bonfire so if you have any questions call office connect with our nurse and then we'll be more than happy to answer any question first day of school is on a Wednesday August 10th August 10th mark your calendars but my new families you do have Summer Bridge you know either on August 8th or I'm so just be on the lookout for information that we will be sending in the following days or weeks and then like I mentioned earlier class schedules will be provided to students on the first day of school that'll be during their first word of the day for my returning families or student if you all have access to your purse School PowerSchool account you should be able to view your class schedules probably before the first day of school all right and we go back to that last Light real quick cartoon directions yeah I just want to there's been a couple questions in the chat and also in the queue a section about Wednesday schedules for middle school so just to to try to clarify that confusion firstly on Wednesday August 10th school will start at 8 not at 8:15 not at 8:57 or middle school students the other thing to know about those Wednesday schedules those are only on weeks when there are five instructional days so if there school all week then the Wednesday has a late start day if there's only four school days in that week because there's no Monday or if there's only three days in that week like the first week of school then there's no special schedule on Wednesday and school starts at 8 a.m. but yeah I want to make sure that that that that's clear for that is there are any other questions about that Wednesday schedule please do put them in the chat so that we can answer that but specifically again for that first day of school starts at 8 a.m. for Middle School students all right looks like Mister Kosten in China a lot of the questions have been answered through chat or two and a misty lots are there any any families are parents that have any questions that they like to to say during the meeting if they raise their and we have some hands right here from 7-10 days let me see if there'll from Patricia Patricia Ramia you are allowed to talk now I know you still have a question or you already got the answer miss Patricia yeah maybe we're ready answers so let's go with a dog water bottle oh Patricia you're good go ahead but nothing when you going up Alice Navia guardado Miss water bottle okay okay okay nothing to play with that I'm less p lesbian satina going to play one that you have any let's see maybe all I want to start muchas gracias yes I had a question regarding the shirts and I got confused with the grades or something that there's going to have patches or something on the shirts I think there are a couple things that are leading to the side this confusion I think the first one is some shirts I may not have the the alliance logo or the patch and we're working on getting all of them with the logos but we may not have them for all the shirts and that's just the alliance logo it doesn't reflect the grade level all the shirts for high school the color of the below is connected to a kid's grade level based on credit in Sulphur High School to be able to graduate you need 230 until each year there's a benchmark Express to have earned the the the shirt to be on track to graduate in four years okay so it would show their grade on their shirt though not the greatest but the great that they're getting in class so 99 cent with 93 credits will be in the 10th grade credits will be in the maroon Polo 11th and the gray and then black will be Fall Creek okay and then my second question is are they ever going to have lockers or they're just going to continue carrying their book their backpacks in their computers at this time we don't plan to have any lockers for the most part a lot of her work is digital which is relieved a lot of the weight that kids are carrying around with us most of what they're carrying out their notebooks and and their different book okay and then just my last question what about the parents that cannot be at the office at 9 in the morning and they need to talk someone from the office when they drop off their kids they would just have to email you or will I'm guessing it's about to just send us an email if no one is available because we are office hours are from 9 to 12 and from 12:30 to 3 3701 is there you can email you if it's an emergency you always can open the door for us but with there so if it's something that you need to get an answer right away for us okay thank you thank you miss how I lost about Moscow and Gendry Rosales Rosales your little in Boba Fett high school high school by myself solo Tanya Pizarro routes / different types of transportation is one of the uniforms if I wear black pants for high school hockey Piper High School call Bob misik I believe you might be on mute policy when we return back to cite from the pandemic we gave a lot of Grace around the uniform with people are returning clothes are fitting or for whatever reason we just gave a lot of grease for that has we're going back a more normal year we're going with Kathy for high school black from middle school it helps us easily identify which students they are whether they're middle school high school and what areas are they should or should not be in thank you mr. Cheyenne regard to Transportation mistress Alice we're finalizing the list as soon as we had that information will share with you Mimosa air con Santa Cruz Miss Cruz you can talk now is Blanca Cruz she already we already responded for her Miss Munoz okay maybe you answer let's go with Miss Oliver there's some Fela virus in a bit when does Marill evolve it's necessary okay love news December coronavirus and covid-19 if it's mandatory open no no Senor Olivares is metoprolol a cappella siente El proximo let's go with dorismar dorismar Adelante you can you cannot meet okay go ahead go to smart Senor Iguanas what's the weather for the winter okay maybe we already answered let's go with Erica Gomez the high school Joe Weller Yo Gabba Yo Gabba Gabba if you're at so I can view yes or no answer. Okay so just look at that you need from just saying that you already bought the uniforms for the high school I think I meant you think it's not fair that sometimes we allow some kids snug wear that uniform. They're supposed to be wearing just said that she saw some students not wearing that uniform last year and yeah she's concerned about that I'm sorry I guess what I left in contrast, telephone apartments in Austin and then she saying that I'm just guessing just to follow up on that make sure that students are wearing the right uniform because she said it's not fair because they are spending the money by that unit from Cindy's just come through this not wearing those uniform we just enforce them a water today for everyone absolutely appreciate that we we are going to be doing a better job with enforcing uniforms or like I said before we we gave more grace going into next year just with it the first you're coming back pandemic that we are clear around expectations and if you need support with pants if you reach out to her. Specialist they've got a lot to really help families either acquire proper uniforms yeah and then just to build off of that this is exactly why we cover this thing up the beginning with all families to make sure that they're aware of it but we do communicate with families students who are not in uniform as well thank you both I'm single. Gutierrez Martina Gutierrez. Signora Martina okay, let me know what you think play Spotify. I'm almost here. Okay smoke on Pandora still can I switch on the Cy Young El Nino no service no need for me. Como estas Tanto Cambio okay the schedule for Wednesday she needs more clarification on that so that start with h getting my credit in high school high school yeah okay what was the question when do they schedule Wednesday there is early dismissal there's no advisory so instead of getting out at 3:45 you will be dismissed at 3 every Wednesday every Wednesday yes if there's get the kids going to have we are they want to wear that shows Bert b e r the same for PE I believe we are allowing kids to change but we are not making it mandatory to my standing by Whitney. Connect with her PE department to get more pleasure in that I don't know you can talk more about to uniforms with your Camaro you know we're not going to be providing other PE uniforms like we have in the past but if students would like to change they will have the opportunity to change to be more comfortable during that during that time okay okay I apologize I have I'm going to try to manage that as well can you repeat that question before. Like the uniform pants are like the other ones where the sport pants for PE wear the uniform pants and participate in their normal uniform I wish some kids off to you but I believe they have the option of changing in the restroom if they wanted to okay methenamine team is already 7:30 I don't know if you want to let the people go down this I have a question I don't know what do you think it's already 7:30 and I know some parents are okay let's go acapella High School what is the only phone Middle School bonasera pantalones Negros Elementary I just have a good time okay I don't know try to close a meeting State Fair Webber has more questions or want to continue Mister Jagger I don't know if you tried to talk to us now again I have to stop asking you I'm having trouble hearing can you repeat the question last information to the press and then stay here for whoever has more questions or you want to continue to live as is now I'm okay closing out and if anyone has questions we will stay on the answer the question okay so thank you everyone for attending this meeting I M sure I stay with you if you have to go I know it's late so thank you very much for staying today for join us we have a great great participation more than a 200 people participate in today I know still a lot of questions so you can if you want to continue here want to be here for a little more time and if you want to leave now you're more than welcome and you can email us or call us at any time you know we're there for you to answer any questions that you may have sit down, search I crossed our last words for our parents family we're really excited to walk around back for the the 22 23 school year and I'm really excited that to see some of Rising 9th graders and 6th and 7th graders on site on the 8th and 9th of August as well as school starts August 10th 4 for everyone else seaaca did you have a question for us I'm not sure if you cannot hear us an interest of a tradition I think it is appropriate that we ask a question analyst if you could be ready to take yourself off mute families and students you can do this at home in your in the comfort of your own home but we do have a question for you at the end of our meetings and that question is are we ready call Rising call so much for joining us we're going to be closing out our meeting now please do reach out to us with remaining questions will be putting that information down in the chat if you have further questions for us I want to apologize sorry for the ones that way since you didn't answer we have tons of questions from more than 200 people so we try to do our best but if you still have questions please email us go that's okay we're here for you we're doing our best yes and then I just want to mention that this recording we recorded the presentation and then we will be sending out the presentation deck and also the recording out to all of our family so you will be getting this information digitally to review on your own time thank you all for participating thank you Miss about the PE uniforms so big we are intention is to provide uniform priority is to get our uniforms to pick up the supply chain eventually uniforms will be in the parts will be provided but just tell the parents are the Guardians that have questions about that are we will be able to buy V YouTube Moby and time to start the school year so admin operation stop we do intend to have the bee uniforms but we all want to prioritize making sure that we get our regular uniform in by the start of the school year face off thank you everyone have a wonderful night bye-bye we still have some of our race has here do we want to answer those questions now or is better than send us an email I see another question last question for mr. list of allows for the uniform shirts with it will come with a logo they going to come with logo right Miss Paris are you still there hey Miss Universe I believe there was a shortage of everything and our supplier they were not in on time with the logo a as soon as we're able to get the logo once I'm sure the Ops team will communicate with families eventually switching them out for the correct one with the logo or getting some type of respond again we apologize it's something that unfortunately is out of our control because there is a delay as far as like this I don't care if you're aware there's a shortage of unfortunately right now making a left turn I don't feel safe making a right turn what there is no sidewalk and I have to drive next to kiss what would a casino with a riot. we're going to ask because one it is it does get fairly crowded we do get heavy traffic we are going to ask families to not make that left turn just because it does slow down traffic so we are going to ask for Families 2 instead I'll make a right into the valet or if and when there are no buses in front of the school to drop students off there again it's because safety is our priority at to make sure students are safe thank you I know that we have Miss Hernandez with the Allison Allison question for us I don't even know if still Ivy and elasticity yes, my question was what about I came in through half of the presentation for the testing what is the purpose of that enrollment in we are doing or you guys are doing the rapid testing the first day of school is there a specific purpose for the enrollment on the website Master mr. Manny yeah just so answer the question we are taking over over after covid testing for the school so all covid testing starting a fall semester will be under T-Rex so the rapid testing is going to be on the end of first on the first day of school or first day of the school and as of why not our agreement is every Monday every Monday of the week in Romans you can choose any time any date on the link as long as you just enroll your student just wants that should be fine thank you very much Miss Crucible until you can talk also relating the qrx just trying to understand that you're doing a PCR test or you're doing a rapid test because you're asking for registration that requires insurance which I understand the PCR test requires but why does a rapid testing required my insurance information it just doesn't make sense to me just answer to that question to we do we do we do rapid test also Ron PCR test as well if the student test positive or the rapid test is Uncle inconclusive we would run a PCR test in that case also rapid test kits I'm not free either that's why we Bill Insurance to fund those tests as well also we do have a healthcare provider health care provider just for the safety of the tescott safety of students taking the test as well okay so now I'm not speaking for myself but I'm speaking for other parents that don't have insurance I also did notice that it's a and I read on your chat that there's a $59 fee I also read that it's free so again it goes back to you needing my insurance information I'm not trying to be difficult I just am trying to understand why you don't need theirs they're paying a fee but yet you're going to ask for my insurance information to charge my insurance so so good we're not asking your insurance we're asking the student's Insurance of your asking for their insurance and the tests are found out through the insurance everyone everyone will be uploading the necessary documents regarding uninsured whoever that doesn't have insurance we will work with the school to come up with a plan for a for the uninsured students in the coming weeks but with our experience almost over 80% of the population in space kids under 18 they qualify for some sort of health coverage and they should get that free health coverage and we are going to be there if needed to help them do I have time to sign up for that free health coverage. okay thank you so much for your question, let's go take another two more questions and then from there when I close a meeting let's go with I know that miss that ice has been asking to talk Buenas Tardes vitamin K Craigslist is there Schieffer Middle School actually I don't know still there or chili whoever can I try this Middle School 850 right in the morning start typing Middle School is what you're asking yes it's in the PowerPoint text that look like and I'll tell you okay okay let me know okay then okay I didn't get that question just yet but they asked the question about Valera middle schools start time is 8 a.m. everyday except for Wednesdays Wednesdays there is a 8:57 a.m. start time okay m i c okay and then she's asking about that the dismissal time is too shy PCC perfect thank you thank you so much every day from middle school we don't get more confused oh she would like to know about the PE uniform if they're going to be able to you to wear the same uniform that they were waiting for 6th grade and I can't wait for 7 I would defer to somebody at the middle school team for that but I don't see a reason why that would be an issue because it's already 7:46 and I need to go in my coffee and I know you guys do so Miss Alice you can talk now everyone's sorry I really wanted to make this your the coal uniform thing I paid for four shirts already if it and somebody just answer the question to a different parents that the logos are most likely not going to it's not going to happen so I just want to have my son ready with the actual color of uniform can I pick up play one from you guys and then eventually you can I get a refund yeah we will for sure have them available that that week will he I don't know I don't know what the word is like will you guys accept them not wearing the uniform that week or I'll get in trouble if we do with the logo it's fine for that way will you be wearing the whole week if we are unable to secure the shirts we would make accommodations for that situations but the plan is that we would be able to have them ready ready to go okay I just want to make sure they won't get you no thank you thank you everyone again thank you for being this late here if you want to review this information you want to be posted this information on our website so please tell wait to review it there and then last I said you have any other questions please reach out to us thank you so much have a wonderful wonderful night and bye bye

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