Welcome back from Fall Break!
Returning to school after a restful break, we can now wrap up our first quarter and hold our first-quarter Presentations of Learning. We have a few different ideas to bring the POL to all our families, but we are charting new territory. Rest assured that we will do our best.
October 23: End of Quarter/POLs
Our learners will have until 4:00 p.m. on Monday, October 19, to turn in any missing assignments or improved assignments from the quarter. Mastery of content occurs at different times for different learners, which is why CSA provides this additional time. Yet this also provides a deadline for the content work to be completed and time for facilitators to grade any of these assignments.
Revisit COVID Protocols
On Monday, we will be revisiting our COVID protocols for all CSA staff and learners. It is so easy to become complacent. To maintain our ability to be in school every day, we have to stay focused to do our best each and every day. The following protocols will be revisited across the school:
- Grade-level cohorts will each have their own passing period, lunchtime, recess time, and study hall.
- Learners can wear shields only in the classroom and only when working independently.
- Facilitators can wear shields while in the classroom providing whole-class instruction to benefit second language learners and to project their voice. However, facilitators need to maintain a distance of five to six feet from the learners.
- At lunchtime, learners will select a table where they will sit and eat. After lunch is eaten, if there is still time left, learners will put their masks back on and remain seated. Learners will not move from table to table or mill around the lunchroom. Learners will clean up after themselves, following our CSA expectation that “we will leave it better than we found it.”
- At recess, learners do not have to wear a mask when engaged in physical activity. Otherwise, learners need to wear masks.
- Daily input your information into the COVID Symptoms Checker. Please complete it before you drop off your learner. All other schools require that this is completed before a learner leaves the car. Provide CSA, your child’s school, with the same respect by completing the COVID Symptoms Checker before you arrive. Starting Quarter 2 (October 26), learners will not be admitted into the school without the COVID Symptom Checker completed.
Messages from CSA
As the weather turns colder, please be sure you have provided your email address(es) and phone number(s) via Cherry Creek School District (CCSD) Central Admissions. CCSD populates PowerSchool with this information, and this is what populates school-wide email messages, calls, and texts. If you haven’t received any of these types of messages, your proper information is missing. Please be sure to update it before the snow flies. CSA school delays and closures are also reported with a banner on the CSA website home page. CSA school closure/delay information is listed on Channels 2, 4, 7, 9 and Fox31.
In-person learning for CSA is vital to the emotional, social, and mental health of our learners. We must do all we can to continue to remain in person. Regardless of any of our personal opinions, CSA will remain in-person if we all work together. It is an honor to work alongside all of you, our CSA community.
Warm regards,
Suzanne Acheson
School Director
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