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S.C.M.�COUNCIL ROCK PRIMARY SCHOOL�MONDAY, MARCH 15, 2021

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Agenda Item

Time Frame

Objective(s)

Important Updates:

Re-Opening Update

Report Cards

Construction

Full Day K

Planning for 2021-22

3:15 – 3:45

To provide CRPS based important updates to faculty and staff

Diversity/Equity/Inclusion: CRPS Gender Identity – Beginning conversation

3:45 – 4

To begin the conversation re: gender identity through the lens of CRPS

Diversity/Equity/Inclusion: Identity

4 – 4:15

To continue the conversation district-wide re: DEI

BTA Meeting – remain on the same link

To follow SCM meeting

 

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UPDATES

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  • Reopening
  • Report Cards
  • Brighton Believes Day – Follow up
  • Construction Update
  • Full Day Kindergarten
  • Technology – iPad update
  • Temperature Checks
  • Planning for Next Year
  • Exciting Announcement

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REOPENING

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  • Survey with categories explained briefly going out to families – results back by end of week
    • To use to further plan
  • Continue to work with Team Leaders, staff, and faculty to brainstorm questions, concerns, and ideas
  • Not imminent – changes in guidance from local DOH still need to be released

       

Classroom  

set up 

Transportation 

Drop off &  

pick up 

Lunch 

Recess 

Support  

Services 

Handwashing 

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REPORT CARDS

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Portal opens on Friday for parents

E-Mail with directions will be sent out Thursday and additional information regarding COVID and how report cards were marked

Directions at the following link: https://www.bcsd.org/Page/15178

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BRIGHTON BELIEVES DAY – FOLLOW UP

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  • Projects will be sent in throughout this month
  • Bins in the Main Lobby area to collect
  • PTSA volunteers will deliver completed projects
  • Photo Link: CRPS Brighton Believes Day Photos 
  • Link to additional projects: https://www.bcsd.org/Page/15927

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CONSTRUCTION

  • Several offices will be moved over March/April Break
    • Rachel Mattern
    • Barb Flender
    • Katie Kimble
    • Melissa Maloney
    • Kara Mathis
  • Access to Main/West Hallway – Gym – opened back up after break
  • Library – Status
  • Site work continues

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TECHNOLOGY – IPAD UPDATE

  • iPads being distributed to K-2 Hybrid classrooms
  • Included in the Tappon Times to families – those that still need one or desire one – please complete the form at the following link:  https://bit.ly/BCSDTechForm2020
  • Rationale explained

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This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA

No more temperature checks!

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FULL DAY KINDERGARTEN IN BUDGET – PLANNING FOR 2021-22

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  • Hiring – Timeline
    • Internal Interest
    • Hiring
  • Planning
    • Schedule Recreation
    • K Team
  • Ties into Planning for 2021-22 School Year

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PLANNING FOR NEXT YEAR!

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COMING SOON!!! EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!

  • Author visit planned
  • Monday, April 19th and Tuesday, April 20th
  • Schedule in process – to be shared soon
  • Both Hybrid and Remote will attend via zoom
  • Staff presentation by author at April SCM
  • Parent follow up session, Tuesday, April 27th

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DIVERSITY/EQUITY/INCLUSION – GENDER IDENTITY

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  • Just the beginning of this conversation – more to come!!
  • Several students in our building – that we know about!

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PRACTICAL TIPS/THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND�

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    • Never Assume
    • Avoid Grouping Children by Gender
      • Birth month, color of hair, clothing colors, etc
    • Move away from “Boys and Girls”
      • Friends, Learners, Council Rock Citizens, Thinkers
    • Use children’s names when referring to them – rather than gender pronouns
    • If you make an error – Apologize, take responsibility, and try not to next time
    • Use Literature to help break gender stereotypes and promote inclusivity

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/34011.Children_s_Books_that_Break_Gender_Stereotypes

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IDENTITY

Cultural Competence @ Brighton

This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA

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SEE . ENGAGE . ACT

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  • How we See informs how we Engage, which informs how we Act.
  • We must honor the complexity, emotionality and lack of closure that this journey towards equity entails.

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REDLINING

  • Is the illegal discriminatory practice in which a mortgage lender denies loans or an insurance provider restricts services to certain areas of a community, often because of the racial characteristics of the applicant’s neighborhood.
  • https://www.britannica.com/topic/redlining

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WHY FIGHTING RACISM STARTS WITH OURSELVES

  • How do issues of race, class, religion, and sexual orientation live within us? How does our societal conditioning shape the way educators show up in classrooms?

Future for Learning

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https://vimeo.com/299137606

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STEP-IN . STEP-OUT . STEP-BACK

  • Choose: Identify a person whose life story is different from your own. Someone who doesn’t sound, look, pray, etc., like you.
  • Step In: Given what you see and know at this time, what do you think this person might feel, believe, know, or experience?
  • Step out: What else would you like or need to learn to understand this person’s perspective better?
  • Step back: Given your exploration of this perspective so far, what do you notice about your own perspective and what it takes to take somebody else’s?

http://pz.harvard.edu/resources/step-in-step-out-step-back

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WATERFALL CHAT

SHARE YOUR ANSWER on the chat

    • What did you notice about your perspective and what it takes to take somebody else's?

AFTER SHARING,

  • Read your collogues posts
  • Select one with which you made a connection, found value, or extended your thinking in a different direction
  • Tell us why by posting on the chat with the prefix @persons’s name and then comment

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Remain on the Zoom for a BTA meeting. Have a great afternoon!