Dear Siskiyou School Parents,
We are sending you all our best and hope that all families are still well.
Here are more updates from our end.
· Class Packets: This morning all the class teachers met online over Zoom to discuss preparing packets and instructional materials for their students for this week. Expect an email from your class teacher with specific class details and information about learning packets. Some of you have probably received your emails already.
· Back to school date: At this time, we don't know exactly when classes will resume. We are hoping for April 6 but that is based on the official end of Spring Break according to our school calendar rather than on directives from the Ashland School District and State of Oregon. As soon as we know anything official, we will send out an email. If we don’t resume classes on campus on April 6, our faculty will have a full teaching plan in place. We will use a combination of online resources, shared documents and Zoom for remote classroom teaching.
· The Home Technology Survey: If you haven’t had a chance yet, please take the attached survey so we can collect all feedback and be better able to plan for the future should the “break” be extended. Click here to take the Home Technology Survey.
· We will also send you an email should we learn that anyone of our community has been affected by COVID-19.
· Big Spring Events & Parent Ed: We are discussing upcoming events and will keep you updated on any postponement or cancellations. As of now, we have cancelled Grandparents’ Day and we are letting all Siskiyou School grandparents know via a mailing that will include the latest Newsletter and a letter explaining the cancellation of the event. We are so sorry to have to cancel that very special event!
· Re-enrollment packets: Packets will be mailed to you at the end of the week. Please mail them back to us when you can.
Ongoing impacts: The Board is holding a special meeting this week to discuss the financial impacts of a continued school closure, both to the school and our broader community.
An idea for staying connected: If one parent/student were to set up Zoom and invite friends to meet and chat, that can be a nice way to stay connected. This morning we had our first faculty meeting that way. It was new to us all but we found it a very effective way of connecting and talking things through!
Please know that we will stay in touch with updates as needed. Never hesitate to reach out to me with questions.
For now, let’s do all we can to stay positive and healthy and to provide our children with grounded continuity during these days of uncertainty.