September 7, 2020
IPS Families,
By now you have received the call from Mr. Hegedish, our superintendent, that we will not physically be in school on Tuesday 9/8 and Wednesday 9/9 due to the anticipated heat. IPS does not have air conditioning in the majority of the building. Having students and staff wear masks in the anticipated heat over the next two days will make it even harder for our students to learn.
Having only 3 days of school, we have not had the opportunity to teach our students how to access the online educational resources for our distance learning plan we have worked on this summer. The next two days will look much different than if this were to occur a few weeks from now. You can expect an email from your students teacher with assignments, google meeting links, and/or learning activities to complete from home over the next two days.
Kindergarten teachers will be reaching out to families to schedule individual appointments in order to give the KRA (Kindergarten Readiness Assessment) to students over the next two days. This will be given in air conditioned parts of the building, and if families can get their student to school. If they cannot, we can give it later to students.
Please see email last week:
Remote Access - Important Please Read!
On your child’s first day of school, they received a letter containing personalized login information for Clever/Google. I recommend placing this in a safe place and taking a picture of it to keep the information on hand.
In the coming weeks, your child will be working on familiarizing themselves with a Chromebook while accessing both Clever and Google Classroom. These two apps will be utilized by all of our teachers should we pivot to a remote learning environment. To become familiarized with some of the basics, Mrs. Morosko (Technology Teacher) has provided three tutorials. It is my hope that if you need to use these resources in the future, your child will be able to teach you!
Thanks,
T.J. Ebert
Principal
Independence Primary School
7600 Hillside Road
Independence, Ohio 44131
(216) 642-5870
