Your Parent Responsibilities
Please note: Unless otherwise noted, these responsibilities apply to all guardians, regardless of a child’s remote or in-person attendance status.
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Your Parent/Guardian/Caregiver Responsibilities:
- Screen your child’s health daily before sending them to school.
- Do not send your child to school with any fever, chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, new loss of taste or smell, sore throat, congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting, or diarrhea.
- Do not send your child to school in violation of any State or local mandates.
- If your child is expected at school in person, please call the school in the morning as soon as you recognize the child will not attend.
- Teach, reteach, and remind your child about good hygiene. Make sure they know one needs to:
- Wash hands often with soap and water for 20 seconds.
- Wear a mask to cover mouth and nose.
- Keep physical distance from those who do not live in the same home and from sick people.
- Ensure that your child gets adequate sleep, regular medical attention, and proper nutrition
- Kidsages 3-5 need 10-13 hours of sleepeach day.
- Kidsages 6-13 need 9-11 hours of sleepeach day.
- Kids need alow sugar dietthat is high in nutrients and includes plenty of protein.
- Read with your child 15-20 minute every day.
- Pick up or arrange to get your child’s materials.
- Limit play time with screens and devices to less than 15 minutes per day. Play time away from screens is better for the young brain.
- Arrange and support contact between your child and your child’s teacher at least once every week of school.
- Provide feedback about your child’s response to learning (both materials and activities) regularly as requested by your child’s teacher.
- Contact your child’s teacher if you have questions or concerns.
- If your child is expected at school in person, make sure they are dressed for any possible weather.
- For cold weather: Hat, gloves or mittens, snow pants, heavy coat, and warm boots.
- For rainy days: Raincoat or waterproof coat, waterproof boots.
- Be respectful to the school, students, staff and other families.
Suggestions to make the most of remote time:
With every student having some remote time for learning during this COVID-19 period, there are a few things educators want to share as tips that help with students’ remote time.
- Routines are extremely helpful for young people to thrive and have better moods.
- Exercise activities (at least 60 minutes per day) are important to build into a child’s routines.
- Bedtime should be close to the same time each day and early enough to provide enough sleep for their age. Studies show primary-age children’s brains typically learn best on an early-to-bed and early-to-rise schedule.
- Remote learning activities at the primary grades should only take 2 to 3 hours a day when you are working one-on-one with a 5 to 8 year-old learner. Learning or remote work periods should be scheduled to happen for the child routinely throughout the week.
- If weeknights are a struggle for your family to fit in learning time, consider building in some time on the weekend to make up for that.
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Your Teacher’s Responsibilities
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Your Teacher’s Responsibilities
- Connect with each student weekly.
- Provide all learners with curricular goals, must-do activities, a way to know if goals are met, and additional learning options for the core subject areas.
- Endeavor to motivate students to learn.
- Have high expectations and help every child to develop a love of learning.
- Communicate regularly with families about student progress.
- Send home weekly newsletters informing parents about lesson topics, and about school and classroom events and activities.
- Provide meaningful learning assignments to reinforce and extend learning.
- Participate in professional development opportunities that improve teaching and learning and support the formation of partnerships with families and the community.
- Actively participate in collaborative decision-making and consistently work with families and school colleagues to make school an accessible and welcoming place for families.
- Provide a warm,safe, and caring learning environment to in-person learners.
- Respect the school, students, staff, and families.
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Your Student’s Responsibilities
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Your Child’s Responsibilities
- Come to school or start remote learning each day ready to learn and work hard.
- Ask for help when they need it.
- Use devices as learning tools.
- Read or be read to everyday for 15-20 minutes.
- Show parents and teachers what they can do. (Assessments and feedback about lessons are mainly ways to show what a child can do.)
- Respect the school, students, staff, and families.
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