NASD Weekly Newsletter

An updated copy of the District’s combined 2021-2022 Health & Safety and Education Plan can be found on our website. Updates to the plan are highlighted in yellow.

Last month, the District expanded our contract tracing team to help respond to COVID-19 within the District. A member of our team may reach out to your family to confidentially discuss your case. If you receive an email from Healthcare IT Leaders, please know that this is a trusted partner.

Remote Learning Reminder

Full Remote Instruction is utilized by NASD Health Services staff for students who are learning remotely due to:

District-issued quarantine due to being a close contact of a positive individual
A doctor-instructed quarantine which will require a note
Someone in the student or staff member's household has tested positive for COVID-19
Someone in the student or staff members household has been instructed to quarantine

Students/families do not have the autonomy to quarantine themselves from school on days when scheduled to attend in-person instruction. Only NASD Health Services, Allegheny County Health Department, or medical provider can initiate the quarantine/exclusion process.

Keystone Exam Update

On October 27, the North Allegheny Board of School Directors approved the NASD Administration’s recommendation to waive the North Allegheny Keystone Graduation Requirement for all current seniors (Class of 2022) due to the change of the start date of the Pennsylvania Department of Education's Pathways to Graduation Requirement.

This requirement was supposed to go into effect for the junior class last year and was postponed due to COVID.
This change can negatively affect current seniors who thought they would have had alternative options to use that would help them meet the state and District graduation requirements.
Therefore, an amendment to the North Allegheny Graduation Requirements was approved to align with the change in the state requirements.
Visit the PA Department of Education Website to learn more about the changes to the PA Graduation Requirements.

Did You Miss the October Community Connections Seminar?

The topic was "Resources Available for All Students"

The 2021 Fall Community Connections Seminar was held on Thursday, October 21, and the topic was "Resources Available for All Students".

Watch the Community Connections Presentation

Topics discussed included the resources NA has available to help all students throughout the school year.

Members of the NA Student Services team are available for students in all buildings.
Support for students to be successful in overcoming any concerns with anxiety, depression, and other areas that create barriers in the learning process.

Presentations included:

ways to help develop and use coping strategies to be successful.
how we utilize outside resources to help support us, including MAPs (Maximizing Adolescent Potentials) from the University of Pittsburgh.
Rusty Hewitt from the Allegheny County Office of Behavioral Health on how to help our students overcome adversity and the available resources from Allegheny County.

Purchase your tickets at www.showclix.com/event/mamma-mia-na-fall-musical-2021.

Requesting Vaccination Cards

According to CDC guidelines, students that are fully vaccinated are not required to quarantine if they are considered a close contact with a positive COVID case. The main goal of this school year is to maintain in-person learning as much as possible. If your child has been vaccinated, please submit proof of vaccination to your student’s school nurse to avoid future quarantines.

If you choose to submit a copy of your child’s vaccination card, this information will be treated in the same manner as all medical information: with the utmost confidentiality, inline with FERPA and HIPAA regulations. This information will not be released to the public in any way and will simply be used to make informed decisions for contact tracing purposes.

Thank you for your assistance and if you have any questions, please reach out to your school nurse.

Athletics Updates

Stay Up to Date!

Visit athletics.northallegheny.org to stay current on all North Allegheny sports!

Resources

Missed a Newsletter?

All building newsletters are archived weekly on the North Allegheny website. This designated webpage will be updated with links to the previous week’s newsletters at the beginning of each school week by 11:30 a.m. A link to the archive is accessible on the District’s homepage and on each building’s homepage.

View the Newsletter Archive

Community Flyers

We've gathered and approved all sorts of neat flyers from around the community and put them all in one place on our website. You should go to look at them. Seriously. Do it. Right meow.

Check Out Community Flyers

Building Contacts

Main Office - 412-369-5520

Nurse's Office - 412-369-5520

Counseling Office - 412-369-5421