Intermittent portal interruptions

The district is aware of the portal interruptions.  Students can continue to do BrainPopJr assignments and their half hour of iReady lessons if not previously done. Reminder: students have accessed these apps along with MyOn and others via clever.com. 

Grades will be completed for the progress reports.  Please check the gradebook for missing assignments.  Some students have not missed a beat and have participated in every event/assignment, some are intermittent, and then some have not been involved.  The good news is that students will be able to complete assignments without a penalty before the quarter ends.  😄😄😄😃

Please check BrainPopJr under EACH SUBJECT AREA for the assignments.  G Reed's Class has been cancelled now that Miami-Dade has incorporated Brain Pop into Clever and the MDCPS student portal! This is also great news as assignments can be found in the subject area sections.  This makes it easier to monitor both classes and teacher assignments for all involved.

Parents, please help with your child's readiness and involvement in the class meetings.  Some students have been in bed, eating, gaming, chatting, watching TV, or other disturbance.  Others have turned off the camera and/or microphone without participating.  I've conducted many meetings and repeated meeting information and/or lessons as needed because students are not participating, or arrive to the meeting as it is ending.  The district and administration are monitoring the meetings, involvement, lessons, time spent on apps in addition to graded assignments.  I provide a weekly overview of the tasks and allow students two weeks for completion. 

iReady should only be done 15 minutes per subject per day totallying 30 minutes daily.  Some students are going well beyond and failing lessons.  They are keeping with 45 minute guideline as provided initially during the school closure even after I've provided the updates and even spoken with individual students.  Others, have not continued with iReady lessons.  All students need to participate in iReady as this year, they will be taking the final assessment at home!  Students need to have a very quiet place away from distractions.  They will need to complete the tests over a period of days.  Both subjects require two sittings each.  Please have your child practice the protocol so that it will be comfortable for them and that they understand the seriousness of their testing environment.  They will need to keep time as not to go beyond the recommended time guidelines.  Students should recall the 50% mark from all previous tests.  This was reviewed in the meeting.  Thank you for your support in educating your children.  Keep well and safe.