Fine Arts (IARC)
Middle School Principals
Re: Art supplies
IARC is working with the Purchasing Department to have special art-friendly supply kits sent to your schools for all students enrolled in an art class first semester. These are different kits than what are available to our other middle school students through the Store Room. Therefore, it is critical your art teacher work with you to deploy the kits to every art student. The kits will be sent to the attention of the art teacher. Please make certain our art students receive the kits when your building has Family Advocacy days.
Re: Band and Orchestra instruments
IARC will be meeting with teachers soon to finalize the instrument deployment plan for students who have prior experience. The teachers will work with you to ensure our students pick up their instrument during the Family Advocacy days.
Beginning band and orchestra students will start remote learning by focusing on the targets that can be learned without an instrument. Deployment of instruments for beginning students (students with no prior experience) will take place once we return to in-person learning.
Elementary School Principals
Our 5th grade strings classes will engage in remote learning along with our other content areas. The strings teachers will meet with IARC soon for the instrument deployment plan, and I will send you all details once they are finalized. Instruments will be deployed during the Family Advocacy days. With our strings staff being in multiple buildings, we will have to work together and will likely need alternate days/times to serve all of the families. Regarding 4th grade strings, we will begin our enrollment process and launch these classes once we return to in-person learning. Please let your 4th grade teachers know of this adjustment.
High School Principals
The IARC electives available during remote learning will be limited.
- Visual Art — Art History Beyond the West
- Sumner only — IB Art
- PE — Essentials of PE, Modern Dance and Fitness & Conditioning
- Music — Choir, Concert Band, Orchestra, Music History and Music Appreciation
- Theatre — Intro to Theatre, Technical Theatre and Theatre Performance
Course names will have to be adjusted. Please work with your counselor to ensure the changes are made. Changes are needed as follows:
- With the exception of Sumner IB art, all art courses shall be Art History Beyond the West
- Team Sports, Lifetime Sports and Athletic Weights shall all be Fitness & Conditioning
- Piano Lab shall be Music Appreciation
- Marching band shall be Concert Band
Federal Programs
Federal Program Reminders for Building & District Administrators
Elementary/Middle School Title I Principals
A reminder for all Title I funded buildings, principals are required to provide (mail or post) several documents to parents at the start of each school year. These documents include School-Home Compact, Family Engagement Plan, Parents-Right-To-Know ESSA letters, and Standard Complaint Resolution Process. All templates and documents stored in the Federal Programs Elementary/Middle Schools Title I subfolder meet the 2021SY compliance guidelines regarding annual notification to parents related to highly qualified staff and other funding mandates.
Title IX Building & Department Title IX Coordinator/Investigator Information – Title IX Updated Documents & Forms
As discussed during training sessions, the new Title IX regulations require buildings and departments to identify and publicize their building or department Title IX Coordinator/Investigator. Principals with more than one assistant principal should send the name of their school’s Title IX Coordinator/Investigator to Lisa Walker by Friday, August 14, 2020. Likewise, district administrators should send the name of their department’s Title IX Coordinator/Investigator to Lisa Walker by Friday, August 14, 2020. (The principal will serve as the school Title IX Coordinator/Investigator in buildings that do not have an assistant principal.)
Title IX documents and editable forms, revised as a result of feedback received during training sessions, are now located in the Federal Programs shared drive. Please be sure to use these updated Title IX documents when filing complaints and incident reports.
Due Dates for ALL Staff Mandatory Trainings
It’s important for all staff to receive training prior to the return of students. Therefore, a reminder that all mandatory training videos must be completed by Friday, September 4, 2020. Building principals and department supervisors should clearly communicate the dates/times the Mandatory Training Bundle (1 of 2) will be facilitated through the group training setting for staff assigned to their respective building or department. Principals and department supervisors may also choose to facilitate the Mandatory Training Bundle (2 of 2) in a group setting, to ensure all staff members complete the training by the September 4, 2020 due date.
School Compliance Checklists
The deadline for principals to submit the school Required Documents Compliance Checklist has been extended to Monday, September 28, 2020.
Please contact Lisa Walker with questions.