Titan Parent Academy:
September 14th & 15th 2020
The Titan Parent Academy is an invitation to welcome you to our Titan family. This series of workshops will help you develop a plan for ongoing parental involvement in your child’s education during remote learning. You will learn what resources are available and how to stay involved with your child’s education. You will have the chance to meet your child's teachers, learn about remote learning at West Prep, and how to support your child's social, emotional, and physical well being.
All sessions will be recorded and posted here for families to view at a later date and time if anyone is unable to attend. Live translation in spanish will also be available for several of our sessions.
Please view the schedule and read the descriptions below.
10:00 - 10:45am | 11:00 - 11:45am | 12:00 - 12:45pm | 1:00 - 2:00pm | 2:00 - 2:45pm | 3:00 | |
Monday September 14 | Kick-off: Welcoming address | Family Orientation: | Google Classroom for Parents | Cell Phone Policy After School ProgrammingWatch VIDEO | Account Ready: Signing into: “NYCschools” account | PA: Get to know your PA |
Tuesday September 15 | WITS: Keeping your family active! | Restorative circle for families: hopes and fears for the start of the school year | Engaging your remote learner: Building discourse around learning | Social and Emotional Learning: RULER What is a MoodMeter, the Meta Moment & Titan Time? | What is Jupiter Ed? | PA: Getting involved! |
Monday September 14th_
Kick-off: State of the school, overview of Parent Academy, support staff introductions.
Facilitator: Mr. Washington spanish translation: Carmen Reyes
Moderator (host): Costa
Family Orientations for 6th, 7th and 8th Grade:
Meet the educators who will guide you through your child’s academic journey. Learn about curriculum, procedures, celebrations, the first 4 days of school and grading policies.
Facilitators: Classroom teachers on each grade
Moderator (hosts): 6 Kelsey Sheehan, 8 Chris Kellogg, 7 Daniel Randhare
Google Classroom for Parents
Getting started- beginner session for new families. Learn what google classroom is and how assignments will be posted for students.
Facilitator: Cidalia Costa & Tunisia Bristol spanish translation: Carmen Reyes
Moderator (host): Natalie Davis
Cell Phone Policy
Introduction to Yondr
Facilitator: Kat Panayotov
Moderator (host): Cidalia Costa
Afterschool Programming
Read: How to apply for After School programming online
Account Ready: My NYC school’s account (NYCDOE) Learn how to access your child's state test scores, attendance, and report card grades.
Facilitator: Carmen Reyes, Adam Kearns, Stephanie Pendleton
Moderator (host): Cidalia Costa
PA: Get to know your PA
Facilitator: Jamila Nicholas, Shirley Gomez, & Edwin Franco
Moderator (host): Carmen Reyes
Tuesday September 15th
WITS: Keeping families active and healthy
Learn how to keep your child and family engaged in wellness and stay physically active during remote and hybrid learning.
Facilitator: Kearns, and WITS staff
Moderator (host): Cidalia Costa
Restorative Circle for families: Hopes and Fears upon returning to school
Facilitator: Carlos Muñoz
Moderator (host): Costa
Engaging your remote learner: Building discourse around learning How to check your child’s work, monitor their grades and assignments, and interact with their teachers. Learn strategies that your child can use at home to support their online learning.
Facilitators: Tunisia Bristol, Natalie Davis, Jesse Kupferman
Moderator (host): Cidalia Costa
SEL: What is RULER, the Meta Moment & Titan Time?
Learn how we use the meta moment as a strategy at West Prep to support students emotionally. Also learn what is Titan Time and how we will use that time to support the emotional well being of our scholars.
Facilitator: Brooke Somech, spanish spanish translation: Carmen Reyes
Moderator (host): Natalie Davis
What is Jupiter Ed? (beginners)
Incoming parents will be able to learn the basics of our online grading and messaging system. Any and all parents are welcome for a refresher session. This is a repeated live session of the earlier session.
Facilitator: Cidalia Costa Spanish translation: Carmen Reyes
Moderator (host): Kalilah Clarke
Parent Association: Get involved!
Start building a strong foundation and PA network that supports parents needs.
Facilitator: Jamila Nicholas, Shirley Gomez, & Edwin Franco
Moderator (host):
Future Sessions Date and Time TBD:
Using Jupiter like a Pro:
Parents who are familiar with Jupiter can learn more techniques to the Jupiter software.
Facilitator: Jesse Kupferman
Moderator (host): Cidalia Costa
High School Articulation
Learn how the myschools website works, this year the high school application is completely online.
Facilitator: Emely Güilamo
Getting Started with Email
Staff will support parents 1:1 who need to create an email for the first time.
Facilitator: Cidalia Costa, Kalilah Clarke, Annery Quezada, Emely Güilamo, Joann Medina, and more
Remote Learning Resources for families:
Intrepid Museum Virtual field trips and programming:
https://www.intrepidmuseum.org/digital-resources
Virtual Sensory Friendly Evening
For teens (14+) and adults with autism and their friends and family
Concorde
Friday, September 25
5:00pm – 11:50am
Learn about the British Airways Concorde on a rare behind the scenes tour of this historic aircraft! Explore hands-on artifacts and do an activity based on this supersonic jet during this sensory-friendly program.
Free with advance registration! For more information and to register, click here to complete the Google Form.