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Update Apple ID – for Administrators and their Staff
ESL PL on October 11 and Further PL Dates – for All Principals
Interpreter Requests for Family Advocacy – for All Principals
Bully Site Action Plans – for All Principals
Print Shop Orders – for Administrators/Principals
Family Perception Survey – for All Principals
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Update Apple ID
from Joe Fives
If you recently received an email from Apple requesting an update to your Apple ID, please be assured that it is legitimate. ??You received this email because, at one time, you created an Apple ID using your district email address, perhaps to install applications on district-owned devices (or, possibly, on a personal device). ??However, Apple has always viewed accounts with a ???@kckps.org??? email address as personal Apple accounts – not district Apple accounts.
Now, Apple has allowed the district to reclaim all ???@kckps.org??? email addresses for educational purposes only, managing them through Apple School Manager and Active Directory (your district email and password). ??Managed Apple IDs are designed to help school districts comply with student data privacy requirements (as well as for other district-wide benefits).
If you would like to keep the apps, photos, and files on a device that is still associated with the Apple ID previously created using your district email address, simply click the appleid.apple.com link in the email you received from Apple, or go to https://appleid.apple.com/ while you are logged in to iCloud with that account. ??You will be asked to use another email address that is not already associated with an Apple ID. ??All of your apps, files, photos, etc. will then be moved to your updated Apple ID, thereby returning your ???@kckps.org??? address to the district.
If you have any questions, please contact the Help Desk at 279-2330 or support@kckps.org.
ESL PL on October 11 and Further PL Dates
from Kristen Scott
We will be pulling ESL staff this Friday for PL. They will be reporting to Washington High school from 8:00-11:00. We will be covering ESL related housekeeping as well as the district PL content that you will be delivering at your buildings.
We will NOT pull them on the December district PL day on December 20.
We will pull ESL staff on a Wednesday afternoon on January 15th to deliver KELPA information.
If you have any questions please let me know. Thank you.
Interpreter Requests for Family Advocacy
from Rosie Rodriguez
It’s that time of the year to submit your interpreter requests for Family Advocacy Days. Please click ??HERE to request your interpreter needs.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Bully Site Action Plans
from Sean DeMaree
This year the Kansas Bully Awareness week will take place the week of October 9th, with the theme of ???choose peace???. As we work towards creating safe and respectful schools, we also need to think about our Bully Site Action Plans. Bully site Action Plans/Suicide Prevention Plans serve the purpose to promote strategies and preventions for students and staff aligned with districts priorities and goals, as well as meeting the requirements of KSA 72-8256 and the Jason Flatts Act. For ideas on prevention and awareness, visit RedCardKC.com or StopBullying.gov. Bully Site Action Plans/Suicide Prevention Plans are due on October 31, 2019, and should be submitted to Sean DeMaree. If you need any support with strategies and/or writing your plans, contact Sean DeMaree by phone: 913-627-2631 or email: sean.demaree@kckps.org.
Print Shop Orders
from Wayne Correll
To help the Print Shop, and our new Print Shop Manager, Ron Simmons streamline orders, the Print Shop is requesting that all orders and questions be sent ONLY to: print.shop@kckps.org. This will allow all Print Shop staff to see the requests as they come in, and enable them to act quickly. If Ron happens to be out of the office, those sent only to him will be delayed.
Please be sure to clearly state your need, the date needed, and attach the electronic copy if you have one.
Once Ron reviews your request, he will email you back the SI information needed to enter the order.
Family Perception Survey
from Lisa Walker
We’re ready to conduct our family surveys as a part of our district-wide School Improvement Planning process.
We will use several communication methods to ensure families are aware of the opportunity to provide us with important information. Here???s the process we will follow:
The survey link is posted on the district website.
TIS department will send out the survey link to all families through
Infinite Campus.
Principals will provide opportunities at Family Advocacy conferences to encourage families to complete the survey. Welcome centers, that include a bank of computers supported by staff members inviting families to participate, can greatly increase survey response data for your campus.
Attached is the PDF that includes the short message (9 different translations) inviting families to complete the survey, followed by the survey link. (Document is also located in the Federal Programs shared drive.)
The first page of the survey includes the drop down menu where parents can select a language in which to complete the survey. The survey link is set to loop back to the very beginning so a different individual can complete another survey. The looping makes it convenient, but also means parents will
not be routed back to the PDF page that includes the survey invitation with the 9 different translations. As a result, you may find it helpful to print a hard copy of the attached document to place beside computer, so EL families will understand what we’re asking them to do at the computer station.
Please note the survey platform required a DIFFERENT LINK for the Karen translation.
Therefore, you may also find it helpful to designate one or two computers
specifically for families who need access to the Karen survey translation.
Family survey link will be open from 10/7/19 to 10/20/19.