1 00:00:00,940 --> 00:00:30,920 All right, so we will kick off just as a third reminder, we've had a handful of friends join since I last said it. So if you're interested in live translation in Spanish or Haitian Creole, you can use that stream.lexiquit.com slash Sudbury. You'll be asked to join and choose your language of preference that ultimately acts, gives you access to a live stream with a translator. You can also do that and use the local broadcast with English, and you'll be receiving the same stream. 2 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:35,280 If you want to utilize that service, this Zoom will kind of remain open though. 3 00:00:35,460 --> 00:00:42,080 So either spot you sit is good, and we'll head through all the details of the Smiling Explore Summer Program. 4 00:00:42,700 --> 00:00:47,520 We're thrilled to have your families on board and to meet some of your children. 5 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:52,380 Some of them are familiar to us already and others are new to us. 6 00:00:52,500 --> 00:00:56,780 We have an incredible representation from all four elementary schools, 7 00:00:56,780 --> 00:01:00,540 and we're eager to see them this summer at Peter Noise. 8 00:01:01,540 --> 00:01:03,820 So there's that link, if you need it, 9 00:01:04,960 --> 00:01:06,520 and otherwise, will it start it? 10 00:01:08,890 --> 00:01:11,070 So we really just wanted to acknowledge 11 00:01:11,070 --> 00:01:13,470 some of the people behind the scenes 12 00:01:13,470 --> 00:01:16,550 that have helped make the Silent Explorer program possible. 13 00:01:17,070 --> 00:01:20,090 Our funding partners continue to be the town of Sudbury 14 00:01:20,670 --> 00:01:23,530 and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. 15 00:01:23,890 --> 00:01:25,770 We're grateful for those funding sources 16 00:01:25,770 --> 00:01:29,070 and we look forward to future years of this program running. 17 00:01:29,330 --> 00:01:33,370 So if you have a younger elementary student or more to come, 18 00:01:33,690 --> 00:01:35,870 please continue to keep us on your potential books 19 00:01:35,870 --> 00:01:38,770 for your summer experiences. 20 00:01:39,790 --> 00:01:41,530 Our development team is deep. 21 00:01:41,950 --> 00:01:44,330 We have people working across all schools 22 00:01:44,330 --> 00:01:45,630 inside Bray Public Schools 23 00:01:45,630 --> 00:01:47,750 and throughout our central office team 24 00:01:48,110 --> 00:01:50,950 through literacy and math, our technology team. 25 00:01:51,450 --> 00:01:53,170 The Mechco program is involved 26 00:01:53,170 --> 00:01:54,910 along with our curriculum coordinators. 27 00:01:54,910 --> 00:02:00,250 members, our business and transportation departments all have a hand in making the program possible. 28 00:02:00,850 --> 00:02:05,510 So thank you to all of those contributors. We will continue to need your help as we go. 29 00:02:06,850 --> 00:02:12,630 We have quite the team with us. You'll see a few of us here this evening and be able 30 00:02:12,630 --> 00:02:17,790 to meet more of us boots on the ground as you get going. Kim Swain, our assistant superintendent 31 00:02:17,790 --> 00:02:21,750 for teaching and learning will hopefully be joining us soon. She was having a tech issue 32 00:02:21,750 --> 00:02:27,670 getting into the Zoom. I'm Rebecca Ameral and I'm coordinating the smile program this summer. 33 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:35,780 Hi everyone. I'm Sarah Rivera and I am coordinating the Explorer programs this summer. 34 00:02:38,210 --> 00:02:44,410 And I'm Jeff Wappen. I'm the Assistant Director of Student Services coordinating the ESY program 35 00:02:45,270 --> 00:02:52,670 along with Anya Prudreski who should be joining us as well. We'll have a couple of administrative 36 00:02:52,670 --> 00:02:59,270 of assistance working with us this summer too, Jean Maguire and John Meritzky. One of those is 37 00:02:59,270 --> 00:03:04,650 a familiar face for the Peter Noise crew and another works diligently in our central office team. 38 00:03:05,070 --> 00:03:10,390 So they'll be kind of sharing the front desk duties through at the Peter Noise School this summer. 39 00:03:10,910 --> 00:03:16,510 And we'll have two nurses, Caitlin Griffin, who's familiar to the Nixon families and Meritzah crews. 40 00:03:17,370 --> 00:03:21,710 And Meritzah was also there last summer. So if your child participated last summer, you may be 41 00:03:21,710 --> 00:03:27,930 familiar with her as well. So we have quite the team of people helping coordinate, but really what's 42 00:03:27,930 --> 00:03:34,670 most important is the staff we've brought on. We're excited to say that we will kind of dig into 43 00:03:34,670 --> 00:03:40,730 what that looks like and share with you all about our enrollment and our team of teachers and exactly 44 00:03:40,730 --> 00:03:47,910 what you can expect from the program. Yes, so tonight we're going to give you a program overview that 45 00:03:47,910 --> 00:03:53,770 It includes things such as our purpose and goals, our schedules, resources. 46 00:03:54,550 --> 00:04:00,570 We also want to go about explaining some logistics, some important information we would like 47 00:04:00,570 --> 00:04:08,150 from you, and also what we're going to do with teacher feedback, and the arrival and dismissal 48 00:04:08,150 --> 00:04:13,430 procedures along with food service and any communication you might be receiving, moving 49 00:04:13,430 --> 00:04:13,850 forward. 50 00:04:15,310 --> 00:04:21,110 So if you have questions tonight, you can use the either zoom or lexiquit key Q&A. 51 00:04:21,610 --> 00:04:25,650 Both of those sources for questions will be fed right back to us. 52 00:04:26,070 --> 00:04:27,770 Some of them may be answered along the way. 53 00:04:28,010 --> 00:04:33,170 You may see a typed answer in that Q&A box from Mr. Lapin or one of us. 54 00:04:33,830 --> 00:04:37,750 And if not, we'll address those unanswered questions at the end of the presentation. 55 00:04:37,750 --> 00:04:41,810 There will also be an opportunity for other questions to be asked when we reach the end. 56 00:04:41,810 --> 00:04:46,370 So hold on to your thoughts or feel free to be typing them into that Q&A as they come up. 57 00:04:51,260 --> 00:04:56,820 Alrighty, so we'll take in a little bit to what the program entails. We'll be functioning out of 58 00:04:56,820 --> 00:05:03,300 the Peter Noise School this summer. Thank you to Peter Noise staff for letting us borrow your 59 00:05:03,300 --> 00:05:08,220 space. We keep calling this a pop-up school and it is exactly that. We have classroom 60 00:05:08,220 --> 00:05:10,240 from joining in every single classroom 61 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:12,980 in nearly every office filled with staff members, 62 00:05:13,380 --> 00:05:14,260 providing services. 63 00:05:14,740 --> 00:05:18,860 We have a couple hundred plus children joining us 64 00:05:18,860 --> 00:05:20,880 for the summer, so we truly are filling 65 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:22,180 the majority of the school. 66 00:05:22,620 --> 00:05:25,380 We'll run from July 10th to August 4th. 67 00:05:25,620 --> 00:05:28,020 If your child is participating in a full day, 68 00:05:28,020 --> 00:05:31,000 it'll run from 8.30 to 3 o'clock with lunch in the middle. 69 00:05:31,380 --> 00:05:34,200 In a half day, might run from 8.30 to 11.30 70 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:35,980 or 12 o'clock to 3 o'clock. 71 00:05:35,980 --> 00:05:41,580 We'll talk about what constitutes bull day or half day in our scheduling portion and you'll 72 00:05:41,580 --> 00:05:46,320 hear me say it many times along with Sarah if you have any questions shoot us an email 73 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:47,080 put it in the box. 74 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:51,100 We'll talk about it tonight, but we're continuously available as we approach program 75 00:05:51,100 --> 00:05:51,700 cert time. 76 00:05:54,230 --> 00:05:58,550 So the smile program is a tuition free program designed to target literacy and numeracy 77 00:05:58,550 --> 00:06:02,830 skills in a classroom setting that is surrounded with grade level peers. 78 00:06:02,830 --> 00:06:07,450 some familiar in the same school and others that are across the district. 79 00:06:07,990 --> 00:06:13,950 We have, as I mentioned before, great representation from all four elementary schools, 80 00:06:14,150 --> 00:06:19,790 both in our staff and in our students. So as of right now, we have 15 classroom teachers 81 00:06:19,790 --> 00:06:23,230 with seven teaching assistants hired for the smile program. 82 00:06:23,530 --> 00:06:28,470 I'm proud to say that the majority of those educators are our SPS educators. 83 00:06:29,130 --> 00:06:41,730 We've filled some holes with summer turning educators from last year's summer program from a few neighboring districts that are absolutely dynamite, but we have a lot of our own people continuing on with us for the summer. 84 00:06:42,550 --> 00:06:53,650 We're on 30 class sections, so a couple in ready for kindergarten or pre-k, a few in kindergarten in first, second, and then a couple in third, fourth and fifth. 85 00:06:54,370 --> 00:06:57,950 As of right now, we have a little over 190 enrolled. 86 00:06:58,210 --> 00:07:00,150 That was a number about five days ago, 87 00:07:00,150 --> 00:07:01,690 so we've gotten a handful more. 88 00:07:01,910 --> 00:07:05,270 So we anticipate about six to 10 students per section, 89 00:07:05,970 --> 00:07:07,750 understanding that there are some grade levels 90 00:07:07,750 --> 00:07:09,670 that have different enrollment than others. 91 00:07:10,530 --> 00:07:12,530 So this program will run ready for kindergarten, 92 00:07:12,990 --> 00:07:14,890 which is our current pre-case students, 93 00:07:14,970 --> 00:07:18,110 or entering kindergarten in September of 2023, 94 00:07:18,790 --> 00:07:21,130 all the way through our current fifth graders. 95 00:07:21,130 --> 00:07:25,750 So those students heading off to the middle school after the summer are considered fifth grade 96 00:07:25,750 --> 00:07:30,030 still for the summer. Although they wouldn't tell you that, they would say they are middle schoolers. 97 00:07:33,710 --> 00:07:39,750 All right. Well, I'll tell you a little bit about our Explore program. The Explore program does run, 98 00:07:39,930 --> 00:07:45,710 it's a fee-based program. It runs in tandem with the smile program and our extended school year program. 99 00:07:45,710 --> 00:07:55,890 So, students are invited to join us for a fee, and if they do so, they will be engaged 100 00:07:55,890 --> 00:07:58,350 in lots of dynamic activities. 101 00:07:59,230 --> 00:08:07,950 We have four activity teachers that will cover science and music, art, and PE, and the goal 102 00:08:07,950 --> 00:08:15,010 of the program, not only to work in tandem with Smile and ESY, is to have a social emotional 103 00:08:15,010 --> 00:08:20,910 lens and so it's very important that our teachers are well first in that and I'm proud to say 104 00:08:20,910 --> 00:08:28,050 that all four of our activity leaders are Sudbury Public School teachers and are very familiar with 105 00:08:28,050 --> 00:08:33,270 what our goals are socially and emotionally for our students and so we'll be able to carry that 106 00:08:33,270 --> 00:08:40,850 easily into our program in the summer. Along with those activity lead teachers we have counselors 107 00:08:40,850 --> 00:08:43,250 that will be traveling with the groups of children. 108 00:08:43,530 --> 00:08:45,570 And right now, we have six student sections. 109 00:08:46,510 --> 00:08:49,090 There's about 125 enrolled. 110 00:08:49,230 --> 00:08:50,950 I do believe I added two more today. 111 00:08:51,170 --> 00:08:52,070 So maybe a little bit more. 112 00:08:53,090 --> 00:08:55,910 We love seeing that families are interested in our programs. 113 00:08:56,210 --> 00:08:57,330 So, very exciting. 114 00:08:57,910 --> 00:09:03,090 And so, that puts our groupings at about 20 or 22 per section. 115 00:09:03,450 --> 00:09:06,030 So, those sections each will be supported 116 00:09:06,030 --> 00:09:09,470 by a counselor, a junior counselor, and an activity leader. 117 00:09:09,470 --> 00:09:17,490 So, essentially, three supervising staff members for a group of about 20 kids. 118 00:09:17,670 --> 00:09:21,790 So, it's a nice number, and we can really dig in for those social emotional pieces 119 00:09:21,790 --> 00:09:23,810 along with those enriching experiences. 120 00:09:29,260 --> 00:09:33,680 So, Jeff can speak a little bit to the ESY program in general, 121 00:09:33,940 --> 00:09:37,980 but really it's a special education program designed to meet the needs of students 122 00:09:37,980 --> 00:09:40,700 via individualized education plans. 123 00:09:42,060 --> 00:09:48,360 Yep, so those students who'd require services for the summer would be on their IEPs and 124 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:52,940 the teams have met and been meeting all year long and we've been planning for what is needed, 125 00:09:52,940 --> 00:09:53,980 so they will be covered. 126 00:09:54,460 --> 00:09:59,860 Some of our students, the questions should they do ESY or should they do smile, so many 127 00:09:59,860 --> 00:10:05,180 of our students are doing the smile program with support, as well as even students with 128 00:10:05,180 --> 00:10:10,140 IEPs are doing the Explorer program in the afternoon, and we have added support for those 129 00:10:10,140 --> 00:10:14,660 needed so that they can be successful in that programming. So it's a very inclusive program. 130 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:19,400 So if you have any specific questions you can definitely let me know or Anya Dresquino. 131 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:24,320 But we've worked very hand in hand with the SMILE and Explorer program to make sure that all 132 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:31,610 the students' needs will be covered for the summer. And you'll be holding your own virtual ESY 133 00:10:31,610 --> 00:10:38,790 specific information session on May 30th, correct? Yep, May 30th is at seven for focusing just on the 134 00:10:38,790 --> 00:10:40,190 Send it to your program. 135 00:10:40,990 --> 00:10:41,090 Great. 136 00:10:45,630 --> 00:10:52,750 So this red string has me chuckling each time I get to this slide, but it has felt like my light for the last stretch. 137 00:10:53,890 --> 00:11:01,850 You'll see in the next couple of slides the combinations of programs you can be enrolled in in order to participate this summer. 138 00:11:02,490 --> 00:11:04,910 And it feels a bit like this red string on a board. 139 00:11:04,910 --> 00:11:11,790 So we have been working diligently to create a schedule that meets the needs of all programs 140 00:11:11,790 --> 00:11:18,070 that are running within noise this summer, explore, smile, ESY programming, things happening 141 00:11:18,070 --> 00:11:23,430 at the middle school, service delivery across all of those programs, multiple staff schedules, 142 00:11:24,130 --> 00:11:29,070 full-time and part-time staff and students, and we're getting quite close. 143 00:11:29,490 --> 00:11:32,330 So your enrollment letters were sent in April and May. 144 00:11:32,330 --> 00:11:40,070 The majority were sent at the very end of April with some trickling in throughout the month of May if you signed up a bit later. 145 00:11:40,490 --> 00:11:44,970 Please contact us if you have changes to your schedule or questions about your enrollment. 146 00:11:45,410 --> 00:11:51,850 We'll go over in just a moment what types of programs you might be enrolled in and what your day might look like. 147 00:11:52,490 --> 00:11:58,610 We encourage strongly that families communicate with us if there is a known interruption to your schedule. 148 00:11:58,610 --> 00:12:09,490 So some families have already reached out to share about a day or two or some short amount of time where their family is already engaged in something else and that needs to be accommodated. 149 00:12:09,910 --> 00:12:17,450 Having that information now enables us to plan accurately for the students will have in front of us the staff to be expecting them and so on. 150 00:12:17,610 --> 00:12:21,630 So please, please feel free to share if you already have something on your schedule. 151 00:12:24,380 --> 00:12:29,420 So if you are scheduled for a half day, that could mean one of many things. 152 00:12:29,540 --> 00:12:34,040 It might mean that you are just coming for a half day of ready for kindergarten, either 153 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:35,560 in the morning or in the afternoon. 154 00:12:36,060 --> 00:12:39,620 You would know on that enrollment letter if you were morning or afternoon. 155 00:12:40,180 --> 00:12:47,080 You might also be coming for just K-2-2 smile only, where you're experiencing both literacy 156 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:50,000 and math in an integrated experience. 157 00:12:50,620 --> 00:12:55,360 You might be coming for grades three through five smile in just one content area. 158 00:12:55,880 --> 00:13:00,620 So a half day focused primarily on literacy or a half day focused on math. 159 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:03,600 You might come for just a half day of explore. 160 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:09,380 We were able to open explore to the general community a few weeks ago and we gathered a few more 161 00:13:09,380 --> 00:13:10,540 friends that way. 162 00:13:10,940 --> 00:13:16,220 So if you're coming for just a half day of explore, you might be there or if you're ESY only. 163 00:13:16,220 --> 00:13:22,140 So if your student is only coming for their individualized education plan extended school 164 00:13:22,140 --> 00:13:24,920 year services, you would be functioning on a half day. 165 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:30,200 So if you're in the morning, you'd arrive at 8.30, either by bus fan or car, we'll talk 166 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:33,940 about that transportation in a little bit, then you'd have your scheduled session. 167 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:40,420 In the earlier grades, ready for K, K through 2, that would be a real integrated experience 168 00:13:40,420 --> 00:13:42,860 of literacy, math, and social teaching. 169 00:13:43,560 --> 00:13:47,340 or grades through through five, you'd be there for just one content area. 170 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:53,520 We'll talk about this too, but we know that creating and experience that is engaging 171 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:56,480 and fun is important in this summer pop-up school. 172 00:13:57,040 --> 00:14:02,800 And that's something that's being really heavily built into our schedule making and planning for the summer. 173 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:06,320 And then you'd head out at 11.30 if you had that morning schedule. 174 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:10,300 If you're there for just a half day in the afternoon, you'd arrive at 12. 175 00:14:10,300 --> 00:14:13,440 12, have your session from 12 to 3 and head out at 3. 176 00:14:14,100 --> 00:14:19,240 So half-dayers just come, they will eat a snack while they're with us, but they won't 177 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:20,360 necessarily eat lunch. 178 00:14:22,060 --> 00:14:27,520 So if you are scheduled for a full day, it might be because you're doing ready for kindergarten 179 00:14:28,540 --> 00:14:30,280 or K through 2 smile. 180 00:14:30,700 --> 00:14:35,440 So you're one of those students who's coming for the ready for K or K through 2 smile program 181 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:39,440 And you've chosen to do explore that tuition-based program. 182 00:14:40,020 --> 00:14:44,340 You may also be someone that's coming for grades 3 through 5, 183 00:14:44,340 --> 00:14:46,640 smile in both ELA and math. 184 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:49,760 So all day long in that more classroom-based setting, 185 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:51,620 half day of ELA, half day of math. 186 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:57,260 Maybe your 3 through 5, but your smile for one content area 187 00:14:57,260 --> 00:14:59,580 and explore for the other half of your day. 188 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:29,780 Maybe you're a full-explore student, so you're coming to explore on both halves of the day, or maybe your ESI and explore. You're coming for those IEP-driven services, and then the other half of your day is in the morning, and then in the afternoon you're in the Explore program. If that's your plan for the summer, a full-day schedule, you'll still arrive in 8.30 in the part at 3 o'clock. Your first session and second session will be the same time as those half-day sessions with a lunch in between. 189 00:15:29,780 --> 00:15:35,680 And we'll talk all about those lunch options, but you can imagine this is where my red string has come in, right? 190 00:15:35,780 --> 00:15:43,420 We have all of these program and enrollment types and there are many kids in each category and each has a different set of 191 00:15:43,420 --> 00:15:52,980 needs when it comes to scheduling and staffing. So if you are unsure of what your program is, please contact us privately through the smile at 192 00:15:52,980 --> 00:15:57,100 at subbray.k12.ma.us email address. 193 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:00,160 And we can help to confirm your enrollment type. 194 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:01,920 If you're sitting and thinking, 195 00:16:01,940 --> 00:16:04,760 wow, I'm signing up for Smile for a half day 196 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:08,480 and I really wanna add Explore, please email us 197 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:09,340 and we can add that. 198 00:16:09,660 --> 00:16:12,320 If you're listening because you haven't yet signed up 199 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:14,020 and you're interested in doing that, 200 00:16:14,380 --> 00:16:15,540 saying send us an email 201 00:16:15,540 --> 00:16:18,380 and we'll get that enrollment confirmation out to you. 202 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:21,020 More and more information will be heading our way. 203 00:16:21,020 --> 00:16:26,960 so we're hoping to get as many interested families enrolled as early as possible so we can focus on 204 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:27,580 that connection. 205 00:16:30,380 --> 00:16:35,120 The smile and curriculum resources are really intended to be an extension of the 206 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:39,880 learning we do during the school year. So we'll be using familiar programs that your students are 207 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:46,800 already using in their year-long classrooms. Bridges and Mathematics is our district-wide or 208 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:53,380 elementary-wide math program. It has a stand-alone math program and an intervention program. 209 00:16:53,700 --> 00:16:56,780 So both of those programs will be available for use throughout the summer. 210 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:03,580 Heggardy and foundations are two of our primary literacy programs intended to teach children 211 00:17:03,580 --> 00:17:10,200 how to read. Heggardy focusing on the sounds that make up language and foundations focusing on 212 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:13,260 and what to do with letters and their sounds to read words. 213 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:19,020 We also have compiled a rich sequence of mentor texts 214 00:17:19,020 --> 00:17:22,680 that teachers will be using for guided instruction 215 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:23,760 and comprehension. 216 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:27,540 We'll also be doing some really structured writing 217 00:17:27,540 --> 00:17:31,640 experiences that will enhance what students have learned 218 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:34,640 in their individual grades throughout the year so far. 219 00:17:35,460 --> 00:17:38,700 We have created curriculum maps for every grade bubble. 220 00:17:38,700 --> 00:17:44,960 So those resources are well organized available for teachers to be able to implement and it gives us 221 00:17:45,980 --> 00:17:50,840 the confidence that the same instruction or similar instruction is happening across all 222 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:56,840 of our classrooms in each grade level. We'll have a math coach on staff along with a literacy 223 00:17:56,840 --> 00:18:02,480 specialist. Our math coach is our math coach and literacy specialists will be spending some time 224 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:07,660 in the classrooms and then also working as instructional coaches with all of our staff. That's an 225 00:18:07,660 --> 00:18:10,520 important role as we welcome some teachers from outside of 226 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:14,420 Sudbury Public Schools. They're being handed programs or 227 00:18:14,420 --> 00:18:18,280 techniques that may not be their day-to-day practice but we want to 228 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:20,900 ensure that all students are getting the same 229 00:18:20,900 --> 00:18:24,340 continuation of learning so that instructional cultural has been 230 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:28,720 pretty critical. We'll have some grade level collaboration time so teachers 231 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:32,380 will be able to connect after the program ends throughout the week 232 00:18:32,900 --> 00:18:37,240 to streamline some of that work. We'll have access to the continued 233 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:41,620 access to all of our grade level resources that everyone has all year. So our 234 00:18:41,620 --> 00:18:46,360 book room, which has all of our texts we use to teach children to read, the 235 00:18:46,360 --> 00:18:51,740 math materials that go with our math kits, all of our technology resources, 236 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:55,320 Chromebook carts, all of those kinds of things would be available and we'll have a 237 00:18:55,320 --> 00:19:00,100 technology team member working on site throughout the summer as well. So it is 238 00:19:00,100 --> 00:19:05,560 truly an extension of the learning we do in the school year. Not necessarily 239 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:14,660 meant to be a rinse and repeat or just grabbing a pre-taught unit that they were exposed to throughout 240 00:19:14,660 --> 00:19:21,080 the school year and going through it again, but are truly curated learning experience that targets 241 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:26,660 the highest need skills for the students that are sitting in front of us. 242 00:19:30,270 --> 00:19:38,970 Pidgy backing on that, the Explore Curriculum and Resources rely heavily on the Harmony 243 00:19:39,310 --> 00:19:44,270 Social Emotional Curriculum that we use here in Sudbury Public Schools. 244 00:19:45,150 --> 00:19:54,490 Our activity leaders are utilizing that curriculum in tandem with the activities that they're 245 00:19:54,490 --> 00:20:04,810 Our Harmony curriculum is based on the castle research that stands for collaborative for academic, social, and emotional learning. 246 00:20:05,390 --> 00:20:14,330 And we know research tells us that students that do have stronger social emotional skills, they will have improved academic outcomes. 247 00:20:14,330 --> 00:20:28,490 And we are hoping that part of the explore curriculum and the experiences will help to foster that in what they're experiencing in the program along with being able to carry it forward in the classroom. 248 00:20:34,250 --> 00:20:43,250 Some explore components that I'd like to share with you tonight are we do have morning groups and afternoon groups and they will be built by age band. 249 00:20:44,030 --> 00:20:49,290 So, it could be a pre-K, K group, one, two group, and a three, four, five group. 250 00:20:49,550 --> 00:20:53,750 It is depending, we're still figuring all those strings out that we're back at talked 251 00:20:53,750 --> 00:20:58,530 about with our groupings, but we are looking very carefully at that. 252 00:20:59,370 --> 00:21:04,090 As I had stated earlier, each group will be supervised by a counselor and junior counselor, 253 00:21:04,430 --> 00:21:08,850 and when they go to their activity, they'll have a third supervisor, which will be the activity 254 00:21:08,850 --> 00:21:09,270 leader. 255 00:21:09,270 --> 00:21:18,850 Each day students will experience a welcome assembly run by myself and our activity leaders and our counselors. 256 00:21:19,010 --> 00:21:28,890 They will go to various activities and there will be an SCL focus embedded into everything that they are going through throughout the day. 257 00:21:29,150 --> 00:21:35,450 We will work on some team building during our snack break each session as well. 258 00:21:36,710 --> 00:21:41,650 As you can see, all of our experiences are run by those licensed Sudbury public school teachers. 259 00:21:42,210 --> 00:21:49,590 They will have four weeks of art, four weeks of physical education, and then two weeks of science, and then the other two weeks of music. 260 00:21:50,270 --> 00:21:59,210 So we've been working really hard at putting together some robust curriculum and experiences for our students and are looking forward to having them this summer. 261 00:22:00,710 --> 00:22:08,770 So, one of the ways that we are finding the fun in all of this is through looking for 262 00:22:09,290 --> 00:22:16,570 friendships, making it as project-based or cross-curricular as possible, embedding some spirit 263 00:22:16,570 --> 00:22:23,130 days and having themes. So, as you can see here, we've got four themes for the summer. 264 00:22:23,510 --> 00:22:28,410 Our first week will be a nature theme. Our second week will be space, safari, and ocean. 265 00:22:28,410 --> 00:22:32,090 And we know that those cross-curricular experiences make 266 00:22:32,090 --> 00:22:34,850 the learning much more meaningful for students, 267 00:22:34,850 --> 00:22:37,290 and will be deeper and richer. 268 00:22:41,210 --> 00:22:43,070 All right, and I'll give you a little sample schedule. 269 00:22:43,670 --> 00:22:46,850 For example, if you were in the blue team 270 00:22:46,850 --> 00:22:50,510 for your explore experience, the arrival 271 00:22:50,510 --> 00:22:52,510 and welcome assembly would happen first, 272 00:22:52,890 --> 00:22:54,630 then they may go to their art experience 273 00:22:54,630 --> 00:22:56,310 than the physical education. 274 00:22:56,870 --> 00:22:59,490 Head off to have a little break snack 275 00:22:59,490 --> 00:23:06,470 and do some team building together as a group and then head to science or music depending on the time of the summer. 276 00:23:07,190 --> 00:23:13,410 And then before heading off for dismissal, would have the closing assembly and then leave for the day. 277 00:23:15,150 --> 00:23:23,230 Looking ahead, some of the communication I wanted to share out is we plan to send out Sunday email reminders each week. 278 00:23:23,230 --> 00:23:27,470 Monday's and Fridays will be spirit color days, Thursday's will be 279 00:23:27,470 --> 00:23:32,470 scene days, and you'll be receiving Friday email newsletters with a summary 280 00:23:32,470 --> 00:23:38,530 of what students have been up to and share out some fun pictures of the 281 00:23:38,530 --> 00:23:41,470 various events that have been going on in our program. 282 00:23:45,580 --> 00:23:47,460 So we'll dive now into some 283 00:23:47,460 --> 00:23:54,820 program logistics, the little things that get us through each day. I am seeing one 284 00:23:54,820 --> 00:24:01,160 question I think we could attend to right now, thinking or was curious about explore being just 285 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:07,760 in the afternoon and how our AM and PM grouped. So when you received confirmation of your enrollment, 286 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:12,320 if you were explore only, you were told if you were in the morning or if you were in the afternoon. 287 00:24:12,940 --> 00:24:18,980 Otherwise, we are taking the full picture of who's enrolled in a dual program where they're in 288 00:24:18,980 --> 00:24:24,020 a smile classroom for half the day and an explore program for half the day. And then we're doing 289 00:24:24,020 --> 00:24:31,220 essentially classroom placement for our pop-up school with lots of data points that we'll talk about in a moment and 290 00:24:31,220 --> 00:24:34,740 Some students will have explore in the morning and it's smile in the afternoon 291 00:24:34,740 --> 00:24:39,660 And then some will have smile in the morning and explore in the afternoon. Those that are there for the whole day 292 00:24:40,380 --> 00:24:43,740 Give us a little bit of flexibility to be able to look for 293 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:50,220 School alike pairings or friendship pairings or things like that to be able to honor those moments 294 00:24:51,020 --> 00:24:56,560 We have also noticed in previous years that students are able to do that full day. 295 00:24:56,900 --> 00:25:01,660 It sounds like a long one, especially with the warm weather and such, but we do have air 296 00:25:01,660 --> 00:25:03,380 conditioning at the Peter noise school. 297 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:08,620 And while some activities will be happening outside, we won't necessarily be having super 298 00:25:08,620 --> 00:25:09,180 long days. 299 00:25:09,500 --> 00:25:13,280 So I go confident that students will be able to do either part of the program on either half 300 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:13,680 of the day. 301 00:25:17,730 --> 00:25:21,350 So thinking about how we prepare for this, right? 302 00:25:21,350 --> 00:25:26,190 you can imagine that right now we're in the season of classroom placement and thinking about 303 00:25:26,190 --> 00:25:32,070 preparing for next year. So as a kindergarten teacher at the Nixon School, I'm taking all that I 304 00:25:32,070 --> 00:25:37,670 know about the students I've spent nearly 180 days with and carefully crafting really balanced 305 00:25:37,670 --> 00:25:44,250 classrooms based on a lot of data, right, that I have collected over time. And so when we think about 306 00:25:44,250 --> 00:25:50,690 creating class placements for this real temporary learning setting, we want to mimic that and as 307 00:25:52,490 --> 00:25:59,190 As deep away as possible and so we're looking at multiple information sources in order to 308 00:25:59,190 --> 00:26:01,470 be able to pull that information. 309 00:26:02,110 --> 00:26:06,950 One student information form will be coming to you later this evening via email. 310 00:26:07,350 --> 00:26:13,050 In that form you'll be able to identify some strength scenarios for growth for your child. 311 00:26:13,610 --> 00:26:18,170 Identify what your hopes are for the summer to help us kind of orient ourselves. 312 00:26:18,170 --> 00:26:27,290 You'll be able to share a bit of medical information and contact information, your plans for lunch and transportation and any potential schedule conflicts. 313 00:26:27,910 --> 00:26:31,370 That medical and contact information is available in our system. 314 00:26:31,630 --> 00:26:42,510 So I'll explore, sorry, all program directors and participants have access to the regular school system of student information that we have access to all school year. 315 00:26:42,510 --> 00:26:54,190 But as I know with my own kids at home, sometimes it is nice to be able to send them to a new setting and be able to check the box that says, oh, yes, they have an allergy and let me just make sure you know it. 316 00:26:54,690 --> 00:26:57,350 Especially where we're combining students from four schools. 317 00:26:57,650 --> 00:27:04,350 So we'll be kind of combining information from our current database, this family student information form. 318 00:27:04,350 --> 00:27:08,590 Our hope is that you can complete that by May 29th. 319 00:27:08,590 --> 00:27:13,310 We're hosting two days of training for all staff joining us this summer. 320 00:27:13,910 --> 00:27:23,470 And during a portion of that time, staff will have an opportunity to learn more about the students that will be with them for the summer, including this kind of feedback. 321 00:27:23,470 --> 00:27:34,210 If you can complete that as soon as it's possible, but particularly by May 29th, that gives me time to process that information and get it into the hands of our staff during our training days. 322 00:27:35,230 --> 00:27:43,970 We'll also seek information from our teachers. So their current classroom teachers are also completing a form. 323 00:27:43,970 --> 00:27:47,470 They are completing their typical end of your assessment data. 324 00:27:48,010 --> 00:27:55,070 That specific academic information will help drive our teaching choices this summer. 325 00:27:55,470 --> 00:28:00,730 So while we have created curriculum maps to give us a bit of a guide for what we'd like to cover, 326 00:28:01,050 --> 00:28:07,390 we are going to take the individual needs of each group sitting in front of us based on all of this information 327 00:28:07,390 --> 00:28:11,010 and make a more specific plan that meets the needs of those students. 328 00:28:11,010 --> 00:28:17,230 So we'll combine all that we've already talked about with that end of year assessment data that's already underway. 329 00:28:17,770 --> 00:28:27,790 We'll access any individualized education plans, 504 plans, building based accommodation plans, and then a teacher feedback form. 330 00:28:27,950 --> 00:28:39,690 So in addition to all of that, teachers are filling out a similar form to the one you're being asked to fill out for each student in their current class that's attending one or all of the programs being offered this summer. 331 00:28:39,690 --> 00:28:46,830 All of that information will be compiled and provided to smile and explore educators that are supporting your child. 332 00:28:47,550 --> 00:28:54,370 So anyone who your child will be looking to in a teacher role will have information that is important for their role. 333 00:28:54,830 --> 00:28:58,090 Otherwise that information will be kept private to the coordinators. 334 00:29:01,050 --> 00:29:04,210 So we'll take all of that information and get it into teacher's hands. 335 00:29:04,710 --> 00:29:10,570 But there are some other logistical pieces that are important as we work to get this up and running. 336 00:29:11,270 --> 00:29:16,610 Sarah and I were chatting last night about how long you have to work out the kinks of 337 00:29:16,610 --> 00:29:22,730 arrival and dismissal. And while nothing, not nothing. Few things about getting this 338 00:29:22,730 --> 00:29:26,530 program up and running this year have caused significant stress. But for some reason, 339 00:29:26,650 --> 00:29:31,510 arrival and dismissal, I just need the cars to go well and kids to get in the right places. 340 00:29:32,130 --> 00:29:36,830 So we're putting a lot of thought into that. But in the typical school, you've got 180 days 341 00:29:36,830 --> 00:29:42,370 over many years to find a system that works to practice and find the pits, fill them up and make it 342 00:29:42,370 --> 00:29:48,070 better, and we're looking at 20 arrivals and dismissals. So please bear with us if they want to 343 00:29:48,070 --> 00:29:53,970 and hopefully just to feel a little bit clunky. I do promise that it will be, it'll find its way 344 00:29:53,970 --> 00:29:59,270 in being smooth pretty quickly, but there will be morning, midday and afternoon transportation 345 00:29:59,270 --> 00:29:59,830 patient happening. 346 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:05,700 And one of three ways. Car, you're bringing your student, bus, a bus is bringing your student 347 00:30:05,700 --> 00:30:11,620 or van. A van is bringing your student via an individualized education plan. The buses 348 00:30:11,620 --> 00:30:16,580 are picking up and dropping off at multiple locations throughout Sudbury and Boston. We'll talk 349 00:30:16,580 --> 00:30:21,780 specifically about what those locations are in a moment. Cars will be able to drop off 350 00:30:21,780 --> 00:30:27,060 and pick up as well. And then those van services will be running as they do during the regular 351 00:30:27,060 --> 00:30:34,200 school year. So if your child is one who's participating in explore or smile and 352 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:39,300 utilizes van services via their IEP during the regular school year, that 353 00:30:39,300 --> 00:30:44,460 transportation can be continued. On that parent, that family information form, it's 354 00:30:44,460 --> 00:30:48,280 important that you let us know what your transportation plan is. You'll see in a 355 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:52,540 moment that I'm still working with the bus company to find exact pickup and 356 00:30:52,540 --> 00:30:56,560 drop-off times at the locations because I need to know how many people are getting 357 00:30:56,560 --> 00:31:00,920 on the bus. So that kind of feedback that you'll give through that form will be important 358 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:09,280 for future decision making. But that 830 time, that 1130 time for a potential pickup, 12 359 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:13,820 o'clock for more friends to be dropped off and then 3 o'clock for anyone left to head home 360 00:31:13,820 --> 00:31:18,620 for the day will all be happening. So the buses will be busy and the parking lot will be 361 00:31:18,620 --> 00:31:19,940 a lot of the day. 362 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:23,660 But one thing about the midday route. 363 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:24,360 Yes. 364 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,540 That if you are a family who's just doing 365 00:31:27,540 --> 00:31:29,780 either the morning or even just the afternoon, 366 00:31:29,780 --> 00:31:30,900 there's a midday bus. 367 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:31,520 Yes. 368 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:33,960 So if someone is doing just the afternoon, 369 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:35,700 there's a midday bus that they could take, 370 00:31:35,700 --> 00:31:38,520 and they could take the late bus home as well. 371 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:39,480 Exactly. 372 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:42,460 Utilizing the bus, 373 00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:44,640 you'll have three busing options. 374 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:46,280 Bus one will stop at hate, 375 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:53,680 the Haines School, Haskell Field on Fairbank and the Curtis Middle School. The times are still 376 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:59,060 being worked out. When the bus company figures out those times, they really need to take into 377 00:31:59,060 --> 00:32:04,200 account how many kids or families are boarding this bus at each stop so that we can give families 378 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:10,180 an exact minute. But we ask that you honor your school year understanding that the bus could come 379 00:32:10,180 --> 00:32:15,540 10 minutes in either direction. So plan to get there a tiny bit early and don't sweat if it's a 380 00:32:15,540 --> 00:32:17,320 a few minutes late getting to that spot, 381 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:19,840 much like what it will look like at the noise school. 382 00:32:20,060 --> 00:32:21,900 I imagine that the bus will also have a day 383 00:32:21,900 --> 00:32:22,960 to figure out its route. 384 00:32:23,260 --> 00:32:24,420 So please be patient. 385 00:32:25,140 --> 00:32:27,380 My, I anticipate having those bus times 386 00:32:27,380 --> 00:32:29,600 in the next couple of weeks confirmed. 387 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:32,440 I'll talk a little bit about some more information 388 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:33,600 you'll get from us in June 389 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:35,520 and one of those things will confirm 390 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,120 all of your transportation to. 391 00:32:37,700 --> 00:32:38,500 But as of right now, 392 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,440 the bus plans to go campaigns to Haskell over to Curtis 393 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:43,680 and then bring kids to noise. 394 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:49,220 and then they'll depart again at 11.30 and kind of do that route in reverse and 395 00:32:49,220 --> 00:32:54,300 then pick more people up to bring them back to noise and then drop people off 396 00:32:54,300 --> 00:33:01,140 in the afternoon. Bus one, Haynes, Haskell, and Curtis. Bus two will run to Boston 397 00:33:01,140 --> 00:33:06,440 Post Road to 655 Boston Post Road into the Loring School and do a similar route. 398 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:10,920 It's looking as though the first bus stop will happen at about eight o'clock or 399 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,960 805 and then dropped off closer to 325. 400 00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:18,820 If in 10 same for dropping off closer to like 1150, 401 00:33:18,820 --> 00:33:20,980 or picking up at about that time too. 402 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:24,340 Bus three will go into Boston. 403 00:33:24,980 --> 00:33:28,400 The Boston bus will also have a bus monitor, 404 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:30,720 Ms. Monique Granem, 405 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,620 who is our middle school program coordinator 406 00:33:33,620 --> 00:33:35,300 and absolutely fantastic. 407 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,160 We'll be serving as the bus monitor for bus three, 408 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,780 but also a smile and a smile and explore shared counselor. 409 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:44,400 So you'll be seen throughout the building as well. 410 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:52,000 The bus three will be stopping at the Boys and Girls Club rotary, the Franklin Park Zoo, 411 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:58,860 the Jubilee Church on Blue Hill Ave and I've lost sight now. There we go. 412 00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:04,220 And then the stop and shop at the American Legion Plaza. So that's the same route as it is 413 00:34:04,220 --> 00:34:09,960 currently and then it will do the same route on the way back. So be prepared for 414 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:14,000 that. These times we have been able to nail down just based on the distance from 415 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:19,280 Boston, but I will send confirmed times closer to program launch just so 416 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:25,160 people aren't left waiting or missing any transportation options. This bus three will 417 00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:28,660 just be running in the morning and then in the afternoon. So you may notice that 418 00:34:28,660 --> 00:34:31,020 there isn't a midday bus route for bus three. 419 00:34:35,540 --> 00:34:37,200 All righty. So that arrived on 420 00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:42,060 dismissal you come by bus. That's how you might get there. The buses and vans will unload in the 421 00:34:42,060 --> 00:34:48,180 front circle. At the at Peter noise during the school year there are a dozen plus or dozen or 422 00:34:48,180 --> 00:34:54,360 so buses that pack themselves in there so three buses and a few vans will be just fine. Cars will 423 00:34:54,360 --> 00:35:01,180 drop off and pick up on the basketball port behind the school. So if you are I I have a kindergartner 424 00:35:01,180 --> 00:35:06,200 and this is my alarm telling me to find his library book in case anyone's wondering my alarm that's 425 00:35:08,780 --> 00:35:27,780 So I'm mom too over here, so arrival and dismissal, the bus is a man's at the front cars to the back of your current Peter noise family, it's business as usual, so you'll enter through I'll show you a map in a moment, but you'll enter through one of the parking lot spots, and you'll head to the back of the school, and you'll be able to drop off or pick up your student there. 426 00:35:27,780 --> 00:35:32,680 For anyone riding a bike, there is a bike stand located near the front entrance if needed, 427 00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:34,940 but there will not be a crossing guard on duty. 428 00:35:35,220 --> 00:35:39,640 So if you plan to walk to the Peter noise school, I know many students who attend that school 429 00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:45,540 do travel on foot or bike, please bring your child all the way to the school as there won't 430 00:35:45,540 --> 00:35:49,620 necessarily be someone doing that road traffic support. 431 00:35:50,660 --> 00:35:54,200 Students are able to arrive at 8.30 and 12 o'clock. 432 00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:58,680 Please do not release your students from your vehicle before those two times. 433 00:35:59,140 --> 00:36:08,900 Particularly the 12 o'clock staff will be fully engaged with all of the students having lunch and will not be available to take in students until 12 o'clock. 434 00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:15,560 And at 8.30 we'll be having a quick staff kind of grouping just before we launch each day. 435 00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:19,340 And so we appreciate your patience and waiting until 8.30. 436 00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:24,100 If you do arrive after drop-off as ended, treat it like you would during the 437 00:36:24,100 --> 00:36:28,140 normal school year. Park and walk up into the office and check in with our 438 00:36:28,140 --> 00:36:32,000 administrative assistant, ringing the doorbell, and all of that. 439 00:36:34,150 --> 00:36:34,830 Here's our map 440 00:36:34,830 --> 00:36:38,790 of the car pickup. So this is how noise is currently running. 441 00:36:40,790 --> 00:36:44,810 They'll... Jeff, have you been over there during this wonderfully busy time? 442 00:36:45,450 --> 00:36:48,250 Yes, I've also been across and guard there, so very day. 443 00:36:48,250 --> 00:37:19,470 So you come in over here. So I've heard a couple of reports, but many families, well, if you can see these the two buildings that are just above the little a drop pin drop there, the range in the town hall, many families will actually turn in there, and it makes for a bit easier access to the back where this where you do see this white line, where you can then follow along the buses there, that's our bus depot, follow along those buses all the way to the back of the school. 444 00:37:19,470 --> 00:37:24,970 you'll see a large basketball court that's gated. It will be open for just drop off and pick up 445 00:37:24,970 --> 00:37:29,690 times and otherwise closed. When those gates are open you're able to pull directly onto the 446 00:37:29,690 --> 00:37:35,530 basketball court and you'll park in lines of about seven cars and then cars will be unloaded or loaded 447 00:37:35,530 --> 00:37:41,350 loaded one line at a time. Please look to staff for direction before that unloading and loading so 448 00:37:41,350 --> 00:37:46,830 we can ensure safety for all students and staff members. These tiny details will be coming to you 449 00:37:46,830 --> 00:37:51,330 again much closer to program launch. So do not worry if you're not a noise family and you 450 00:37:51,330 --> 00:37:55,750 don't necessarily know where the back of the noise school is because more will come. 451 00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:02,800 Shifting a bit to keeping our engines full as we work through the school day, 452 00:38:03,660 --> 00:38:09,440 you'll please plan to send a water bottle each day. I say labeled water bottle but label everything. 453 00:38:10,240 --> 00:38:14,940 If anybody else has lost and found looks like Nixon's lost and found which is bustling, 454 00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:21,260 many things get lost so if you label it we can ensure it gets back to you. Please also plan to 455 00:38:21,260 --> 00:38:27,060 send a nut free snack and then you'll be able to choose will you send a nut free lunch or will you 456 00:38:27,060 --> 00:38:33,620 access the lunch that's provided. This lunch will be free as it has been all school year. We're partnering 457 00:38:33,620 --> 00:38:39,460 with Wayland Food Services who we partnered with last summer and it went really well. Fresh meals are 458 00:38:39,460 --> 00:38:45,340 prepared at one of their sites each morning and then dropped off to us. So they're dropped off 459 00:38:45,340 --> 00:38:50,240 each day and stored in coolers for the morning until students are ready to eat at 11.30. 460 00:38:50,720 --> 00:38:56,480 You'll have an opportunity to opt in or out for that provided lunch on that student that family 461 00:38:56,480 --> 00:39:01,220 student feedback form. So when you go to fill that out you'll have to choose if you are interested 462 00:39:01,220 --> 00:39:08,600 in getting lunch. It is like an all-in or all-out but know that that means you're just letting us know 463 00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:13,940 you are a number who needs a lunch and we're assuming that your child will need lunch from us 464 00:39:13,940 --> 00:39:21,240 most days, but if your child will not eat a chicken Caesar wrap, then on that day you can skip 465 00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:27,340 and send a lunch and it is just fine. We can reallocate that meal. This slideshow will be shared out 466 00:39:27,340 --> 00:39:33,000 along with that form tonight. So you'll be able to access the menu by clicking on this word menu 467 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:38,200 and that will give you the menu for the month. You could also just let that be. It will be coming in 468 00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:41,980 a welcome packet that you'll be getting in June as well with the day-to-day 469 00:39:41,980 --> 00:39:46,240 schedule for what lunch will include. Should your family need assistance with 470 00:39:46,240 --> 00:39:50,220 providing snacks or breakfast for your child, please just reach out. We are 471 00:39:50,220 --> 00:39:54,900 happy to help coordinate that. Wayland's Food Services is wonderful. Our partner 472 00:39:54,900 --> 00:40:00,260 there is amazing and she's happy to be to plan for that and drop off extras for 473 00:40:00,260 --> 00:40:01,060 whatever we need. 474 00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:08,620 You'll hear from us a lot throughout the summer and most of 475 00:40:08,620 --> 00:40:09,880 that will come via newsletters. 476 00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,920 Once our program kicks off at the end of each week, 477 00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:15,760 communications will be posted to the district website 478 00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:18,940 and sent via some more to our group of enrolled families. 479 00:40:19,580 --> 00:40:21,720 On Fridays, that will include a synopsis 480 00:40:21,720 --> 00:40:23,040 of what happened throughout the week 481 00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,180 and pictures of your kids in action. 482 00:40:25,900 --> 00:40:27,640 You will be able to give photo permission 483 00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:29,620 in that student information form. 484 00:40:29,820 --> 00:40:31,820 So please let us know if you're comfortable 485 00:40:31,820 --> 00:40:34,640 with us sharing photos of your child in that venue. 486 00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:36,940 They won't otherwise be utilized 487 00:40:36,940 --> 00:40:41,600 where during the school year there are far more events for photos to make 488 00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:46,420 your way into but this will primarily be for our weekly newsletters. Throughout 489 00:40:46,420 --> 00:40:50,940 the program, again, small detail that you'll hear more about in June so it's 490 00:40:50,940 --> 00:40:55,200 okay to tuck it away, but you'll report your absences the same way you would 491 00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:59,680 throughout the school year by either emailing or calling the office. The email 492 00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:05,140 you'll use is the Smilet Cyber-A-K12 and May-US one that you have been using and 493 00:41:05,140 --> 00:41:09,580 And then the phone number there is the noise phone number so that would connect you to one 494 00:41:09,580 --> 00:41:11,040 of our administrative assistants. 495 00:41:12,100 --> 00:41:16,920 In June you'll hear from us again with a little bit more specific information. 496 00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:22,540 So we'll take all that we hear from you and your child's teacher and other information available 497 00:41:22,540 --> 00:41:23,300 to us. 498 00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:27,960 We'll make our classroom groupings and then we'll be in touch and we'll let you know who 499 00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:32,240 your child's teacher will be for the summer, we'll confirm their schedule, we'll confirm 500 00:41:32,240 --> 00:41:36,880 their lunch and transportation plans based on your responses in that form that's coming out 501 00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:41,460 and we'll have a bit of a welcome packet that will include the lunch menu in the bus routes 502 00:41:41,990 --> 00:41:48,300 and some just other important information to have at your disposal as we get ready for lunch day. 503 00:41:54,250 --> 00:42:00,470 So I've noticed that many people have asked some questions and along the way and we've been 504 00:42:00,470 --> 00:42:07,390 able to answer those by just typing a response and I know what we do know it is a lot of information 505 00:42:07,390 --> 00:42:14,110 and so as Rebecca has said and I will reiterate if you should not have a question at this moment but 506 00:42:14,110 --> 00:42:19,570 something comes up later tonight or tomorrow or even you know any time between now and the whole 507 00:42:19,570 --> 00:42:28,010 summer give us a shout out via email we're happy to respond quickly and get those questions answered 508 00:42:28,010 --> 00:42:39,430 I do see a question that has not been answered yet, but I do encourage people if you have additional questions to continue to type them into the Q&A feature. 509 00:42:39,710 --> 00:42:50,090 We're happy to answer them live as of right now, because I think we've completed our presentation and gotten through all of our slides. Hello, Kim. Nice to see you. 510 00:42:50,090 --> 00:42:57,570 Well, I am so embarrassed, like Rebecca and Sarah know that I've been working with our 511 00:42:57,570 --> 00:43:04,150 tech team and our translation team and again, the weakest link, but I hope that all the 512 00:43:04,150 --> 00:43:13,670 families that are here are noticing the incredible excellence of our smile and our ESY teams. 513 00:43:13,670 --> 00:43:28,250 Rebecca and Sarah have been doing a phenomenal job, and I'm really, really confident that this iteration of smile and explore will be the best ever. 514 00:43:28,990 --> 00:43:38,550 I did want to talk a little bit about the broader context, like how does the public school system bring this to families. 515 00:43:38,550 --> 00:43:48,770 So we originally started with our from monies from the pandemic recovery, and we are still using some of those monies. 516 00:43:49,250 --> 00:43:52,410 But I also want to give a huge shout out to Dessie. 517 00:43:52,730 --> 00:43:58,850 We have been awarded multiple grants to continue this program. 518 00:43:58,850 --> 00:44:05,630 They acknowledge the excellence of the combination of academic and social 519 00:44:05,630 --> 00:44:12,530 emotional programming and that makes it very approachable for said very 520 00:44:12,530 --> 00:44:18,510 families. I do want to acknowledge also that you know the Explorer component has 521 00:44:18,510 --> 00:44:24,810 a tuition component that is more competitive than in years past. It is our hope 522 00:44:24,810 --> 00:44:35,890 that this program will continue way past any grant restrictions. So I had more 523 00:44:35,890 --> 00:44:42,770 hoping to make it sustainable because it's important meeting kids where they 524 00:44:42,770 --> 00:44:49,470 are and having fun summers and and having an academic component with our 525 00:44:49,470 --> 00:44:59,750 qualified said very educators is a priority. So just to to Rebecca to Jeff to 526 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:29,800 Arra to Anya, who's not on with us tonight. This is an amazing program. I'm so proud of it. I'm so proud of the folks that are leaning in and we have an incredible team of certified educators and a verified curriculum. So I'm looking forward to meeting your kids this summer and I'm looking forward to supporting you in any way that I can. So when you write to smile, 527 00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:38,780 know that you will get an answer and gratitude team. You're amazing. Thank you, 528 00:45:38,900 --> 00:45:42,800 Cam. We are having fun along the way and I think the real fun is actually yet to 529 00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:51,980 begin. A couple of questions that we could touch on. One person has asked, can you tell a bit more 530 00:45:51,980 --> 00:45:56,760 about the Ready for K program and I am happy to. So the Ready for K program is a unique 531 00:45:56,760 --> 00:46:01,820 opportunity for incoming kindergartners to kind of get their feet wet in a classroom setting 532 00:46:01,820 --> 00:46:06,820 that mimics what a kindergarten classroom will look like. So consider it a good bridge between 533 00:46:06,820 --> 00:46:12,340 the preschool classroom or pre-k classroom they may currently be in or maybe they are in a different 534 00:46:12,340 --> 00:46:18,500 setting like a home daycare setting or not attending preschool and their destination in the fall 535 00:46:18,500 --> 00:46:24,780 of kindergarten. So students will be engaged in a variety of things that mimic a kindergarten day. 536 00:46:24,780 --> 00:46:30,100 We, um, Sarah is also a kindergarten teacher here at Nixon and we tend to call kindergarten 537 00:46:30,100 --> 00:46:31,260 or roller coaster. 538 00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:35,660 We have these highs of high demand and high expectation and then some lows where we 539 00:46:35,660 --> 00:46:40,940 get to recover for a moment before we go re ramped back up in what we, um, what we're asking 540 00:46:40,940 --> 00:46:42,420 students to be able to do. 541 00:46:42,660 --> 00:46:46,240 And so that roller coaster will kind of be mimicked throughout that. 542 00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:52,780 You can expect that the ready for K program will include a circle time and things like 543 00:46:52,780 --> 00:46:58,960 that but also includes some direct instruction in letters and numbers and counting in 544 00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:05,880 environmental print and book awareness and all of those pre-reading and pre-math skills 545 00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:10,700 that are important for students heading in. But far more importantly, the ready-for-k classroom 546 00:47:10,700 --> 00:47:16,840 will be very focused on the social growth of students. So students in ready-for-k is a bit unique 547 00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:22,160 compared to other classrooms and that they are predominantly grouped by school that they're heading 548 00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:28,380 into. So our hope is that they will be able to join friends and get to know some new faces 549 00:47:28,380 --> 00:47:33,640 before they transition in. They too will have access to our harmony curriculum and be able 550 00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:38,900 to work with some of those resources in addition to other resources that we know are best practice. 551 00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:44,780 They'll have social direct social teaching and opportunities to practice those social skills 552 00:47:44,780 --> 00:47:50,780 through guided or structured play and through unstructured play. We'll be looking to really develop 553 00:47:50,780 --> 00:47:58,020 students language, their problem-solving skills, their motor skills, all of the pieces that help 554 00:47:58,020 --> 00:48:03,820 create a ready-to-go Kindergartener. So the Ready-for-K program is half-day, but those students are 555 00:48:03,820 --> 00:48:08,140 absolutely welcome to join the Explorer program, and we anticipate that they'd be in an 556 00:48:08,140 --> 00:48:14,400 Explorer program grouping of like-aged students that will also have that real developmental lens. 557 00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:33,180 In thinking about the difference between ESY and Smile, so students who are eligible to participate in ESY are doing that via an individualized education plan through special education. 558 00:48:33,900 --> 00:48:40,100 Those students have been given access to additional practice and services throughout the summer. 559 00:48:40,100 --> 00:48:44,640 Some other students, though, also need that additional practice. 560 00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:48,160 And we've identified those students in a variety of ways. 561 00:48:48,460 --> 00:48:50,440 For some, we're looking at that assessment data. 562 00:48:50,660 --> 00:48:52,520 For some, we're working directly with families. 563 00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:55,400 Some of you listening right now have chatted with me directly 564 00:48:55,400 --> 00:49:00,040 and kind of talked about the opportunity for participating in smile. 565 00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:03,660 So while that academic and social focus will be happening 566 00:49:03,660 --> 00:49:06,840 in both ESY classrooms and smile classrooms, 567 00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:09,820 how you gain access to those is a bit different. 568 00:49:10,060 --> 00:49:12,440 One being a more special education initiative, 569 00:49:12,700 --> 00:49:16,260 and one being a bit more of an integrated setting, 570 00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:20,140 open to most students in the Sudbury Public Schools. 571 00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:22,680 All at the end of the day, though, 572 00:49:23,020 --> 00:49:25,560 regardless of program you're enrolled in, 573 00:49:25,660 --> 00:49:27,020 your students' needs will be met. 574 00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:29,360 So we'll take all of that available data, 575 00:49:29,720 --> 00:49:31,260 we'll take what we know about your child, 576 00:49:31,580 --> 00:49:34,220 and what supports they've been accessing in the classroom, 577 00:49:34,220 --> 00:49:44,540 and we'll put them into place in the smile or explore classrooms and probably find some more things along the way that help them to be successful. 578 00:49:45,380 --> 00:49:49,920 One thing with the ESY program, so there's program kids who are there every day. 579 00:49:51,020 --> 00:49:58,860 Those programs are interconnected into the building, so when they're like last year, we had a carnival two years ago, we had a snowstorm. 580 00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:04,400 So they were all integrated into it, so even though it's through with smile, those students 581 00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:07,060 had the opportunity to be a part of those activities. 582 00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:09,400 So that worked really well. 583 00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:13,760 One thing I think the biggest question we had between the difference between smile and ESY, 584 00:50:14,240 --> 00:50:21,120 some students for ESY would require tutoring for like an hour or two hours a week, where 585 00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:28,060 Their smile is a three hour day five days a week program, so they would get a more intense 586 00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:33,400 support and activities that really align with the curriculum. 587 00:50:34,660 --> 00:50:39,880 So that's a big difference that can be, so that's why sometimes the conversations with 588 00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:42,400 families figure out which one made the most sense. 589 00:50:42,860 --> 00:50:47,840 Really looking at the student and really the best people to know that is the families working 590 00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:54,060 with the teams because as this is director myself and I know we oversee it but we don't 591 00:50:54,060 --> 00:50:58,040 know each nuances of all the students so really listen to the team and the family figure 592 00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:03,240 out what makes the most sense for each student but all students are able to do explore if 593 00:51:03,240 --> 00:51:07,660 they're in the US White or Smile and I think that's really been a great success the last 594 00:51:07,660 --> 00:51:12,700 few years that we've had this program and some of our students who have higher needs have 595 00:51:12,700 --> 00:51:18,520 been able to participate in the the Explorer program with the support and just really integrate 596 00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:23,380 it well. So I want to say the staff that run the Explorer program really understand the needs, 597 00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:28,340 the diverse needs of all students and really make it inclusive to all students. 598 00:51:34,010 --> 00:51:42,460 Right now our question bank is empty and it might be that you digest if you're anything like me, 599 00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:48,100 you'll digest over the next hour or day or two or week and you'll think of more. So that smile, 600 00:51:48,100 --> 00:51:55,940 at Cadburyk12.amay.us is our best spot to be able to contact us with any of those questions. 601 00:51:57,720 --> 00:51:59,860 Sarah, do you want to touch upon this next question? 602 00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:10,800 Someone has asked that in prior years there was a PE session after smile and is that still the case? 603 00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:13,700 A PE session after smile. 604 00:52:13,700 --> 00:52:23,580 I think that's possibly the, what used to be, so smile last year was smile and smile plus, which was had a lot of PE really woven into it. 605 00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:31,400 That smile plus has now morphed into smile or explore and has kind of a higher variety of activities happening. 606 00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:37,160 Yes, so there is PE, there will be PE for the Explorer students every single day. 607 00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:47,480 So that is similar. We just have built out on what was what was working well and have expanded into music art and science as well. 608 00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:56,460 So I want to thank the team and I want to get them. 609 00:52:56,460 --> 00:53:07,160 you know, back to their families and but we are here for you at Smile email. It's 610 00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:15,720 right there. You'll be getting the parent survey and again Sarah, Rebecca, Jeff, 611 00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:25,400 and 612 00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:28,800 And I am on behalf of the Sudbury families. 613 00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:34,000 This is an incredible opportunity that's 614 00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:35,880 been recognized by Dessie. 615 00:53:36,060 --> 00:53:37,500 It's recognized by the district. 616 00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:40,460 And you're taking it to a whole new level. 617 00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:41,900 So we're here. 618 00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:43,300 We're going to work with you. 619 00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:44,400 We're going to be flexible. 620 00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:51,760 And I have no doubt that we are going to smile and explore 621 00:53:51,760 --> 00:53:55,380 for every day to the umpteenths degrees. 622 00:53:55,900 --> 00:53:59,280 So with joy and celebration. 623 00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:04,080 And again, apologies for my initial hiccup. 624 00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:07,780 Listen, it wouldn't be a webinar if we didn't have a tech issue, 625 00:54:07,780 --> 00:54:08,080 right? 626 00:54:08,820 --> 00:54:10,140 It's just part of it. 627 00:54:11,420 --> 00:54:13,760 I mean, thank you so much, everyone, 628 00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:15,820 that has joined us to hear this. 629 00:54:15,940 --> 00:54:20,160 Also, this recording will be posted on the summer program 630 00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:24,460 important of the website, which is also linked in this presentation and will be linked in the 631 00:54:24,460 --> 00:54:29,940 communication you'll be getting in about a half hour or so. So feel free to track it down if you want 632 00:54:29,940 --> 00:54:38,120 all about communication. Pat chat. And as a parting gift, thank you to Michael and the IT team. 633 00:54:38,860 --> 00:54:46,520 And Roderico and the Alexa Keat team. It is really important for us to be accessible. So having 634 00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:56,840 this in Haitian Creole and Spanish as well. Thank you. Thank you so much and IT is the backbone of 635 00:54:56,840 --> 00:55:04,700 everything we do. All right. We'll sign off for now. Thanks for joining me and we look forward to 636 00:55:04,700 --> 00:55:10,000 seeing your littles on July 10th. Yeah, can't wait. Thanks everyone.