NOTICE OF POSSIBLE COUNCIL QUORUM

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a quorum of the Quilcene School District Board will be attending the 2020 WSSDA Annual Conference on November 23^rd, 2020.

No School Board action will be taken.

Dear Ranger Families,

After meeting with Dr. Locke yesterday, Mr. Redmon has made the call to move to Step 1 of our reopening plan (K-12 remote learning) beginning November 30th. We will then reassess our ability to offer in-person learning in mid-January.

There were several factors that were taken into account when making this decision:

• Jefferson County is seeing the beginnings of community spread; not all cases can be easily and quickly traced.
• The number of cases per 100,000 people is about 111, and the positivity rate over the last two weeks is about 3%.
• Up to this past weekend, cases happened within households and it seemed the cases were a blip on the radar. It’s clear to the health department that we are now in a trend, not a “blip.”

While our staff is actively preparing for remote learning after Thanksgiving, we will continue with regularly scheduled in-person learning this week.

Over the course of the next several days we will be communicating regularly through our website, Facebook page, Class Dojo, and Remind on items that include continued weekday meal deliveries, material deliveries, and what education will look like beginning the week after next.

While we hoped it wouldn’t be necessary, our staff has been actively planning for this eventuality for months. Consequently, this won’t be a mirror image of last March. Some of the big changes you’ll notice will be in teacher’s abilities to leverage video and other technologies to increase student engagement. In grades 9-12 all students will have a single page to visit daily that will list direct links to all assignments, meetings, and tasks.

Our ability to bring students back on-campus is completely dependent upon our vigilance in reducing the spread of COVID-19. As a community, we can do this.

Thank you, and please don’t hesitate to call with any questions,

Sean Moss

K-12 Principal

• Do not come to school sick, or if you have been exposed to someone with COVID-19
• Always wear a mask at school and when out in public
• Wash your hands regularly
• Maintain six feet of distance between you and others when outside your house
• Do not have indoor social gatherings with people outside your household
• Limit outdoor gatherings to five people
• Quarantine for 14 days after out of state travel

• Wellness screenings and temperature checks
• Masking
• Maintaining physical distancing
• Anyone with symptoms is sent home
• No visitors in the school
• Increased cleaning of surfaces

We have decided to scale back our practices a bit due to the rising cases of COVID-19, so we have cancelled all late practices (4:45 to 6:15).

Practice on Monday 11/16/20 will be boys basketball right after school.  Boys will also practice Thursday 11/19/20 after school.

Girls basketball will practice after school on Tuesday 11/17/20 and Friday 11/20/20.

The only change is there will be no late practice.

Next week (11.16-11.20) we will again be in Step 4 of our reopening plan.

For a detailed explanation of this along with an overview of items covered during Monday evening's Virtual Open House, please view the following video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fE88F9KmyHIpbrGVWcrP7QaQ9_oQWgwL/view

We will be making a few adjustments to our hybrid plan after Thanksgiving Break, including changing which high school students are in which cohorts. A letter from Mr. Redmon explaining these changes in details can be viewed using the following link: https://www.qsd48.org/District/News/2156-Superintendent-update-11-05-20.html

Lastly, county COVID-19 cases have been increasing recently. Please remember to wear masks, practice social distancing, and wash your hands frequently.

Thank you,

Mr. Moss

Quilcene School District's Special Education department is seeking to strengthen family and community partnerships by creating a Special Education Parent Advisory Committee (SEPAC). SEPACs are a parent led committee that provides input to the district to help shape programs and policies to better meet the needs of students with disabilities. 

For further information, please contact the Director of Special Services, Brianne Barrett at bbarrett@qsd48.org.

We are excited to launch Buswhere, a location tracking service for all our bus routes. Buswhere is an app which allows you to see the location of your child's bus in real time on your phone and to receive notification when the bus is approaching your bus stop. Buswhere allows you to download a free Android or iOS app to track the bus and view ETAs at any stop along the route.

If your child rides a bus to school, you should have received an email yesterday from Buswhere with information on how to register to secure your account.  During registration, you are automatically assigned to the closest stop (you can edit that at any time) and will receive a notification when the bus is getting close to your stop.

If you did not receive the email from Buswhere please contact our Transportation Supervisor Lee Ann Maki-Van Berkom at lmaki@qsd48.org or 360-765-2904 in order to get setup with access.

Access is secured with a login and controlled centrally by Transportation Supervisor to make sure only authorized parties can view the bus’s location.

Hello Rangers!

• School will start 10 minutes later than our current start time. Buses will pick up students 10 minutes later than we have been, and arrive at school at 8:20 instead of 8:10. If you are bringing your students to school, please do not arrive before 8:20 - we will begin the health screenings at that time.
• Kindergarten will add another day to their week; Starting Monday, November 30th they will come to school Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday
• Grades 1-5 continue in-person learning on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Over time, we will add more grade levels to a four-day-per-week schedule as we are able.
• Grades 6-12: Each grade split into cohorts “A” and “B”. Cohort A at school on Monday and Tuesday, cohort B in school on Thursday and Friday. Cohorts will be reorganized to ensure equity. The new groups will be determined in the next week or so - you should hear from your child's teacher or the school office of any changes for your child. 
• This new plan will be our default learning modality, unless or until Jefferson County Risk Level reaches “high” (>75 cases per 100,000 residents over the past two weeks) - per DOH guidelines.
• Other factors that may cause us to move to a more remote learning mode: Jefferson County Public Health (JCPH) recommends a change, evidence of community transmission in Quilcene, testing positivity rate > 2%, or high-risk levels in Kitsap or Clallam counties. 
• If conditions warrant, and in cooperation with JCPH, Quilcene will return to remote learning until the risk reduces to the moderate level.