Good Afternoon BRSSD Community,
A parent-teacher conference is an excellent opportunity to discuss your child's progress, share your child's strengths and needs, and work with the teacher to help your child do well in school. This year, these conferences are more important than ever before.
Conferences at all schools other than Ralston will be held on November 17, 19, 20, 23, and 24th. The District and Faculty Association have been working collaboratively to develop a Parent/Teacher Conferences plan for the 2020-2021 school year. On these days, classroom teachers' synchronous (live) instruction will not be expected to exceed 2 hours. Asynchronous work will be assigned to fulfill the remaining instructional day. Specials (science, music, and PE) will occur at the regularly scheduled dates/times. Speech, reading, and learning center schedules may change if these specialists are asked to join conferences. Teachers will be sending out the conference schedules soon if they have not already done so. Please be on the lookout for that communication. Thank you in advance for your flexibility!
San Mateo County moved into the Orange Tier of the State's framework based on our 1.6% positivity, 3.7% Healthy Places Index positivity, and adjusted case rate of 3 new cases per 100,000 population (all measures seven day average, seven days lagged data). Our social behaviors and county measures are taking San Mateo County in the right direction regarding COVID-19 community spread.
Our next Board meeting will be on Monday, November 9th, at 6:15 pm. Our planning and preparation to offer a hybrid option for families continues. At the November 9th meeting, District staff will provide a comprehensive update presenting our timeline and identifying January 19th as the starting point for our phased approach to offering hybrid instruction. We will begin our community outreach with school based community Town Hall meetings. These meetings will be scheduled for the week of November 16th and specific dates, times, and log-in information will follow soon. You can find information about our Board Meeting on our District website at brssd.org. The Board Meeting agenda and supporting documents will be posted next Friday afternoon, November 6th.
The Special Programs Department is offering a parent night November 17 from 6:00-8:00. Topics will include accessibility tools for Distance Learning and managing behavior at home. You can read more about it here and RSVP to attend.
We wish you all a happy, healthy, and safe Halloween! We hope you enjoy the creativity of Ralston Middle School's animation students. Together 163 sixth, seventh and eighth grade students created a magical Halloween doodle. The soundtrack is from an archived version of the Ralston Middle School Honors Band playing John Williams' Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Finally, below are some creative Halloween ideas from the City of Belmont on how to make Halloween fun and safe.
Sincerely,
Dan Deguara
Superintendent
