WESCLIN REMOTE LEARNING PLAN
April 03, 2020
In alignment with new guidance from the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE), Wesclin School District is required to create a Remote Learning Plan. This document will outline expectations, strategies and available resources to implement remote learning.
Our goals for remote learning are:
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Provide students with continuous learning opportunities that reinforce critical standards.
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Minimize instructional loss.
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Provide routines and structures to help students stay engaged and connected
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Attend to our students’ social and emotional needs.
Our commitments for remote learning are:
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Provide materials equitably to all students that reinforce critical grade-level standards. (These are daily and/or weekly.)
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Ensure educators are virtually available and engaged with students daily. Should an educator become unavailable an alternate contact will be made available.
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Social workers and counselors are virtually available to assist with social and emotional needs.
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Monitor and track student work performance and engagement on a weekly basis.
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Make certain an administrator is available in district every day from 8:00-3:00.
Grade level Specific Information
Grades PreK
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Teachers will be reaching out directly to the parents with student learning ideas and activities.
Grades K-2
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Content is presented predominantly through non-digital format. Packets of information are delivered either personally or through the mail.
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Work is to be completed and progress is to be shared with the teacher.
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Teachers may provide digital opportunities for students to enrich their assignments.
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Teachers may connect with the students through digital activities.
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If work cannot be completed due to other family issues, please contact your teacher and building principal.
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Students grades will be based on completion of activities but not recorded in the gradebook. (Whether we return to school or not, we don’t anticipate having any fourth quarter letter grades.)
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Teachers are available through their specified accounts (facebook, class dojo, etc.) and their Wesclin email.
Grades 3rd Grade Only
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Content is presented predominantly through a digital format through google classroom. Packets of information will be available for pick up or delivered if necessary.
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Work is to be completed and submitted to the teacher through google classroom.
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Teachers may provide digital opportunities for students to enrich their assignments.
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Teachers may connect with the students through digital activities.
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Students grades will be based on completion and/or accuracy of activities and tracked in the gradebook. Fourth quarter grades will be pass or incomplete.
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If work cannot be completed due to other family issues, please contact your teacher and building principal.
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Teachers are available through google classroom and their Wesclin email.
Grades 4-8
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Content is presented predominantly through a digital format through google classroom. Packets of information will be available for pick up or delivered if necessary.
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Each teacher will provide weekly assignments. A student should anticipate 1-3 graded assignments per subject per week.
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Work is to be completed and submitted to the subject area teacher through google classroom.
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Teachers may connect with the students through digital activities.
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Students grades will be based on completion and/or accuracy of activities and recorded in the gradebook. If students complete their required work, it is expected that the fourth quarter grade would be similar to the previous quarter grades.
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If work cannot be completed due to other family issues, please contact your teacher and building principal.
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Teachers are available through google classroom and their Wesclin email.
Grades 9-12
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Content is presented predominantly through a digital format through google classroom. Packets of information will be available for pick up if necessary.
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Each teacher will provide weekly assignments. A student should anticipate 1-3 assignments per week.
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Work is to be completed and submitted to the subject area teacher through google classroom (or other format identified by the teacher.)
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Teachers may connect with the students through digital activities.
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Students grades will be based on completion and/or accuracy of activities and recorded in the gradebook. If students complete their required work, it is expected that the final semester grade would be similar to previous grades.
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If tests/assignments that were assigned prior to March 13 need to be made up, an opportunity will be provided.
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If work cannot be completed due to other family issues, please contact your teacher and building principal.
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If work cannot be completed or a student earns a lower grade than expected, a student will be issued an incomplete until the grade can be improved.
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Except for dual credit classes, we will NOT have final exams.
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Dual credit classes follow the guidelines that are established by Kaskaskia College. Grades and assignments must be completed and graded as if students were in the classroom daily. Dual credit classes will have finals.
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Teachers are available through google classroom and their Wesclin email. – Parents are encouraged to log in to the child’s google classroom account to check for communication from the teacher.
Special Education and Related Services
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Special education teachers and related service personnel have developed lessons and activities to address each students’ learning goals and objectives. The special education teachers and related service personnel will be contacting students and parents to provide the learning activities. In addition, they are available to answer questions and can be contacted through email and/or google classroom if available. Specific questions should be addressed with the classroom teacher or the special services coordinator, Jamie Pence at pencej@wesclin.org.
English Learner
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English learners will continue to be supported, to the greatest extent possible, by the classroom teacher and Wesclin School District’s interpreter, Jessica Sanchez. Specific questions should be addressed with the classroom teacher or the Mrs. Sanchez at sanchezj@wesclin.org.
Social Work/Guidance Support
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The following individuals are able to provide you social emotional support for our students during this time. Feel free to contact them at the following email addresses:
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PreK-3rd Grade – Katie Wilke – wilkek@wesclin.org
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4th-8th Grade – Cathy Powers – powersc@wesclin.org
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9th-12th Grade – Katrina Hanke – hankek@wesclin.org or Cathy Powers at powersc@wesclin.org
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Medical Questions/Concerns
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Nurse Rita is able to assist with medical questions, concerns, and/or medical guidance. Feel free to contact her at wuebbelsr@wesclin.org.
