Student & Family Support Newsletter
Week of August 10th
Heather, Rob, and Jade
Action Items (See list below)
1.Track your target recaptures and be ready to report out on your enrollment calls.
2. Please make sure you are checking your data daily and connecting with your SIS to make sure everything is coded correctly.
3.Ensure 100% of your teachers on campus are utilizing Move this World daily. Consult with the links included below for tech support and troubleshooting.Schedule observations of teachers to ensure Move this World fidelity.
4. Mental health providers; Begin collecting referrals and consent forms for caseloads. Use Apricot360 to input student profiles and begin logging in case notes.
5. Include parent weekly items listed below in your campus communications.
Family Engagement
Goals: 96% Covid Persistence, 90% Overall Student Persistence, 90% New Student Persistence
Recapture coding:
To ensure your data is up to date: ANY RECAPTURES NEED TO BE CODED THE DAY THEY RETURN. We are asking SIS to complete recapture coding specifically by 11:30 and 4pm (after the enrollment/persistence calls) but for them to do this they need that info from you.
Target recapture and recapture reporting on the enrollment calls:
Please make sure your APO is ready to report two pieces of data today for recaptures. 1. The students you successfully recaptured by grade level 2. Updated recapture targets for the day. Every campus should have students they are attempting to recapture. At this point there should not be anyone reporting 0 students you are contacting to see if they want to return. REMINDER: a recapture is a student that left your school that you are having return(they can also return to another campus and count for you as a recapture). It is NOT a student that you expected to show up that was absent for the day.
SEL and Mental Health Corner
Move This World Updates
I am so proud of the work of our team in getting Move This World off the ground. I “sat in” on a 4th grade classroom Move This World lesson at IDEA Innovation last week and was stunned by how engaged the teachers and students were as they listened to different styles of music and shared how that music made them feel. Seeing our program in action helped put in perspective all of the technical snags and issues we’ve had over the last couple of weeks and gave me an even greater appreciation for the tenacity and dedication of this hard-working group of people. You all cared about getting this right, and it shows! Onto the updates…
- For all log in, great level assignment, or content issues please email support@movethisworld.com to create a ticket. Include teacher name(s), grade level(s) and campus.
Report functionality continues to roll out. For now, you are able to view individual teacher progress by clicking on a grade level's course content and viewing progress. More information to come. Please email support@movethisworld.com if you do not have that function.
- Family logins: Families can now log into move this world! Each campus has one universal account that can be shared by all. Your username is your campus name, and the password is Movethisworld1 (eg Montopolis College Prep is username, password is Movethisworld1). You can confirm your campus username and password here.
- Move This World Hubsite Updates: I have updated our Move This World folder on the Hubsite with family logins, a family engagement toolkit, emoger and positive pivot scale posters, and scope and sequence/pacing guide for each grade.
- I recommend popping into Move This World classroom sessions in order to get a sense of how the rollout is going on your campus. If anyone is interested in me joining you and debriefing after, send me a message on teams!
Social Workers and Social Counselors
Reminder: We will meet for our first bi-weekly Mental Health Provider Professional Learning Community (PLC) this Thursday, August 13th from 9:00-10:30 am. We will review priorities for the start of the year, discuss our documentation system Apricot 360, norm on the universal documents we will all use, and learn more about responding to crises and critical through distance learning. Please reach out to Rob if you do not have an invitation to our PLC. See you soon!
Documentation for Licensed Mental Health Professionals:
All licensed mental health professionals (LMHPs) meeting with students in a therapeutic capacity at IDEA Public Schools are required to document their student and family interactions in Apricot 360. Please find all materials related to Apricot 360 here including documentation expectations and login information. If you are a licensed mental health professional and need access to Apricot 360, please email Rob directly.
New-to-apricot LMHPs: You should now have access to your school profiles. Please reach out to Rob if you need access.
What to include in your next parent weekly?
Move This World
We are excited to share some updates with you regarding IDEA Public School’s social emotional learning initiatives this school year. Social emotional learning (SEL) is the process through which children and adults acquire and apply the skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships and make responsible decisions. The initiatives we have selected will continue to contribute to a strong school culture in which all students feel safe, supported and valued.
This year we will be using Move This World as our foundational social emotional learning program. Move This World uses fun and engaging videos to teach core social emotional skills and will help your child develop the confidence to express their feelings authentically, manage their emotions healthily and navigate challenges successfully.
Your child will watch and engage with short interactive videos at the beginning of the school day, virtually or in-person. Each video is tied to a core social emotional learning competency, including self–awareness, self–management, social awareness, relationship skills and responsible decision-making skills.
What you can expect:
- As the year progresses, you can expect and encourage your child to carry the skills they will learn through Move This World at home. They might begin to ask you some questions about how you’re feeling or how you manage stress (and they might even offer you some suggestions, too!)
- You’ll hear your child use Move This World vocabulary, such as: the 10 Emogers (emotional management strategies), the Emotional Building Blocks (vocabulary words focused emotions) or the Positive Pivot Scale (a framework used to respond to challenges).
- You might see your child experimenting with new ways to express themselves, setting new and ambitious goals for themselves or developing a new vocabulary around their emotions.
We are also excited to share that families can access the material from Move This World whenever they would like. In order to view Move This World lessons, visit sel.movethisworld.com. Our campus username is (include username here) and password is (include password here).
Family Articles for COVID, Distance learning, and Reopening
All Students
Health & Hygiene
Mental Health/Anxiety & Stress
- Coping With Stress During a Pandemic
- Supporting your child’s mental health as they return to school during COVID-19
- COVID Child and Adolescent Mental Health Tip Sheet
- Mental Health Hotlines & Resources
General Discussions Regarding COVID-19
- Helping Children Cope with Changes Resulting from Covid-19
- Talking to Kids about the Coronavirus
- How to Help Your Kids Handle Disapointment
- Supporting Families During COVID-19
Cultural Tolerance:
Academy Students
Health & Hygiene
Anxiety & Stress
College Prep Students
Anxiety & Stress
A message from our Communications Team
For campuses that have already had their FDOS
How did IDEA do on the first day of school? Take a quick survey to help us improve your experience! Working together, we will continue to improve and ensure the success of all IDEA students.
English Survey: surveymonkey.com/r/2020fwos
Spanish Survey: surveymonkey.com/r/2020fwos?lang=es
