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As a reminder, the Staff Communicator will be distributed each Thursday that school is in session, and also distributed as needed throughout the year. Archives can be found HERE.
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 First Day of School, August 23
It's HERE! We hope you have a wonderful weekend resting up and getting energized as we welcome our students back to our campuses on Monday!
REMINDER: Send your "first day" pictures to [email protected] or through private message on Facebook.
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Training Videos Due August 27
All employees should have received an email with required training videos in early July. The email was from Republic R-III and the subject was "Vector Training, K-12 Edition Online Training." Login information is your district email address with no password required. The deadline to complete watching these training videos is August 27. Please contact your principal or supervisor if you did not receive an email with your assigned videos.
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Staff COVID Vaccine Status
To help our nurses and our administrators with the efficiency of future contact tracing (as you can imagine, these can be very time consuming), we're asking our employees to share their vaccine status with us by completing the form below. Completing this form is completely voluntary and not required. However, by sharing your proof of vaccine with us, we'll be able to quickly determine that if you are exposed to a positive case you do not need to quarantine as long as you are symptom free instead of having to gather evidence during contact tracing.
This will be very helpful information, but it will be kept confidential and for district purposes only. This will also allow us to be able to determine our overall employee vaccination rate which can assist us in how we monitor future trends of COVID19 in our buildings.
Thank you in advance for taking time to complete this form and to upload your vaccine card, if you have been vaccinated. If you have not been vaccinated, please consider doing so. This form will be available throughout the year to complete as vaccines are received. Contact Health Services Director, [email protected] if you have questions.
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Updated Health Protocols
As the new school year approaches we'd like to remind our employees and families about the health-related protocols currently in place through our Return to Learn Plan. This plan will be reevaluated on September 3, two weeks into school. Below is an infographic summarizing the plan, but the full Return to Learn Handbook can be found HERE. Our goal is now, and will always be, to implement practices that will create the safest and healthiest learning environments for our students and employees. The first two weeks of school are crucial in establishing relationships and routines, which is why we want to provide the best possible opportunity to avoid traditional quarantines for large numbers of students during that time frame through universal masking. Together we can make sure our students are able to be seated inside our classrooms learning as many days as possible by adhering to these practices that worked so well for us all last school year.
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ADPP Due 8/30
 Every student in grade preschool-12 will be issued a technology device as part of the RepMO Ready plan. Our goal is to provide a digital learning device to all students for use both at school and at home. Secondary student devices will begin going home immediately, elementary devices will begin going home the second week of school and EC devices as needed. This allows the district to implement an AMI day (remote learning), if needed. Students are responsible for the care of their assigned device at all times, both at school and home. The district strongly encourages families to purchase an Accidental Damage Protection Plan explained in the online form found on the Parent Portal. Students will not be allowed to use school technology resources until the appropriate online form has been completed. To purchase the ADPP follow the link: https://republicschools.revtrak.net/protection-plan-1/ or payment can be made at open houses or in the building office. The deadline to purchase is August 30. Take note that any damage that occurs (either at school or at home) without ADPP payment will incur the full cost for repairs or replacement of the device. **Teachers please share in your newsletters!**
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Daily Wellness Check
Each day we are asking all employees and students to do a wellness check before they come to school. Following these guidelines will help everyone stay healthy!
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Be Well with Burrell Recap for Educators
Our partner, Burrell Behavioral Health is hosting a series of virtual meetings through their Facebook page that focus on "being well" as we begin the school year. Their Wednesday, August 11 session was for educators. With a focus on teachers and school staff, this segment will help support and provide practice of wellness strategies as educators and school personnel prepare for the upcoming school year. You can find the link to the Facebook video HERE.
Burrell will be hosting these weekly on Wednesdays through 9/1 on their Facebook page.
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*Class B License (or Class A) with School Bus & Passenger *Endorsements. If you don't have it--paid training is available!
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*Must be 21 years of age
*Must pass DMV/County/State/Federal background checks
*Must pass physical & drug screen
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Friday Early Release
Each Friday throughout the school year full day preschool through 12th grade students will dismiss one hour early for teacher collaboration time. Please keep this in mind when planning your student's after school plans. For details visit
Also, Tiger STRIPES will be available at no extra cost to families already enrolled from 2:30-3:30 and/or a cost of $4.00 per weekly release day for students needing care until 4:30 p.m. To attend Tiger STRIPES, families will need to sign up in advance. Registration details can be found at
**TEACHERS PLEASE REMIND FAMILIES OF THIS FOR THE FIRST FEW WEEKS OF SCHOOL!**
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District & Community Announcements
 **TEACHERS PLEASE REMIND FAMILIES OF THE OPPORTUNITY FOR FREE MEALS!** 
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Upcoming Dates
August 19: SI Day and Board of Education Meeting, 7:00 p.m. at CO
August 23: First Day of School
September 6: Labor Day - District Closed
*Reminder that every Friday during the school year full day preschool-12th grade students are released one hour early for teacher collaboration time.
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For questions or comments please contact me via email or by calling 417-732-3605.
Sincerely,
Josey McPhail
Director of Communications
Republic School District
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