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JFK School Community,

Good Afternoon, we hope this email finds you and your family safe and in
good health. These unprecedented times have disrupted our daily lives; however, as a school, we continue to ensure the teaching and learning process continues for our students. We need your support more than ever with this shared endeavor. Imperative to your child’s academic development, is the establishment of daily routines and practices that reinforce the educational process.

At this time, our district and curriculum coordinators are working on additional learning packets. We will focus on a five day packet and anticipate that this will become our basic work schedule. Educators will communicate their specific directions with this expectation as they may vary. We ask parents/guardians to assist your child in organizing and storing the paper packets that have already been distributed. Unfortunately, at this time, we are not permitted to set up a collection point. Once we have clearer guidance, we will communicate what our collection plan will entail.

As we learn effective practices and adjust to the virtual learning environment, several key items need to be communicated. First, we need your child to login into their Enfield Microsoft 365 account on a daily basis (Login here: https://login.microsoftonline.com -additional login directions can be found below). Within the 365 online suite, there are a multitude of applications and workflow tools that we can take advantage of to enhance the distance learning process.

Second, we ask that you focus your attention on the Microsoft Teams application. Through this platform, educators will assign mandatory learning packets and provide additional enrichment opportunities. This platform also enables our educators to post videos, disseminate resources, assign activities, set deadlines, collect work and grade activities. For those students/parents/guardians without access to wi-fi or a device, we plan to disseminate hard copies of assignments during the meal distribution times at JFK
starting Wednesday, April 1st, 11:30AM -1:00PM. While educators will not hold live scheduled classes, if your child needs additional help with a concept or skill please have them contact their educator to arrange for a support session. If you would like to learn more about Teams please see the following links:

• For Students
• For Parents/Guardians

Third, there have been some questions and concerns in terms of grading. We are developing collection procedures for grading the first learning packet that was distributed. Moving forward, work collected via Teams and/or electronic submission will be graded utilizing normal procedures. Students will receive credit for learning packets while enrichment opportunities will be utilized for supplemental learning.

We ask that you review basic conduct and expected behaviors in the virtual learning environment with your child. Please remind them that these spaces are for academic discourse and dialogue. It is not a social media outlet nor an open forum venue. Communication must be appropriate and relevant to the teaching and learning process.

Last, the well-being of our students is very important, and our school counselors play an integral role in ensuring that students are emotionally safe. During this time, school counselors are available by email to provide support (Monday – Friday from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm). If your student has a 504 plan, school counselors will be communicating weekly to ensure that student needs are being met. School counselors will meet weekly with academic teams to discuss any academic or social/emotional concerns of their students. Along with services provided by our school counselors, our Community Health Center (CHC) social worker will continue to meet with clients. As our school counselors will be periodically checking email throughout the school day, please contact 211 for any situation that you deem a crisis and/or mental health emergency.

There are other resources available to families here:

• If you or your child are experiencing an immediate safety concern call 911.
• If you or your child are experiencing a behavioral mental health crisis call 211.
• If you would like to access support services, please contact the following:
• For children over 8 years of age, please call Youth and Family Services at 860-253- 6380.

• For children under 8 years of age, please call the Family Resource Center 860-253-5214.

Respectfully,
JFK Administration

Office 365 Directions: BELOW

Go to portal.office.com or search Google for Office 365 and choose login. If a student's name is: Ex., John Doe with an ID# of 12345:

Sixth-grader (Class of 2026) username: jdoe26@enfieldschools.org password: Jd12345

Seventh-grader (Class of 2025): username: jdoe25@enfieldschools.org password: Jd12345

Eighth-grader (Class of 2024) username: jdoe24@enfieldschools.org password: Jd12345

*If a student is new to Enfield, the student should add an ! to the end of the password.