LSLC and SSC Orientation for Parents and Staff September 12 @ 3pm via Zoom

Link to Dr. K's Zoom Room

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Strategic Plan Town Hall Tues @ 7pm

 

For info on LAUSD's new strategic plan, visit Dr. K's Zoom room Tuesday, August 23 7pm.

Para obtener información sobre el nuevo plan estratégico de LAUSD, visite la sala Zoom del Dr. K el martes 23 de agosto a las 7 p.m.

Schoolwide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SW-PBIS)

LAUSD implements Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) district-wide. Each school in LAUSD must create school-site matrices, classroom matrices, minor-major matrices and more. 

The following documents are the current prevailing documents that govern student behavior, discipline, rewards, consequences., etc., at Walgrove Elementary. All documents were approved by the previous LSLC and will be revisited by the 2022-2023 LSLC at the first LSLC meeting, which will be Thursday, October 6 at 3:00pm in Dr. K's Zoom room. 

In addition to posting the documents in classrooms and around campus, Walgrove teachers share the documents with students and teach overt lessons on the pertinent concepts. 

The decision-making body that resides over the area of student discipline at Walgrove is the LSLC. 

The LSLC is comprised of the principal, elected classified staff, elected certificated staff, and elected parent representatives. 

Last year's LSLC was comprised of:

• Principal Andrea Kittelson
• SAA Tracy McCarthy
• UTLA Rep and Gen Ed Teacher Jackie Lettieri
• SDC Teacher Kathy Elkins
• Gen Ed Upper Grade Teacher Lynn Webster
• Gen Ed Lower Grade Teacher Elvia Perez
• Parent Reps Shaina Shapiro and Maria Boyd
• Alternate Teacher Alejandra Biolatto
• Alternate Parent Danielle Barto

This years LSLC will be comprised of all those elected on Monday, September 19. 

For information on how to become a part of the LSLC, please read this information on the LSLC and then come to LSLC orientation meeting Monday, September 12, 2022 at 3pm in Dr. K's Zoom room. 

PPT Shared at Assemblies

If you have any questions, concerns or big ideas, please contact me: andrea.kittelson1@lausd.net or stop by Coffee and Diet Coke with the Principal any/every Friday at the Council circle in the Wildlands following the Friday morning assembly.

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EL Master Plan Meeting for Parents of English Learners Tues Aug 23 @ 6pm

  

Tuesday, August 23, 6pm in Dr. K's Zoom room

Angel City Youth Chorale Starts 09/13

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Important 2022-2023 COVID Info

2022-2023 COVID Safety Protocols

In alignment with the July 29, 2022 guidance from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Los Angeles Unified is implementing the following safety procedures:

Masking: 

• Indoor masking is strongly recommended at all Los Angeles Unified schools and workplaces. 

• All schools have surgical masks available for distribution upon request to any student or employee. Daily Pass: 

• Students and employees DO NOT need to generate a Daily Pass QR code to enter school campuses. There will also be no screening for symptoms at the door. Parents, please screen your own children and do not send them to school when they are sick. 

• The Daily Pass will continue to be used to upload COVID-19 rapid antigen test results and vaccination records, monitor positive cases and to notify close contacts of a person who has tested positive. COVID “Response Testing:” 

• Similar to our summer school programs, Los Angeles Unified is implementing a “response testing” protocol using at-home rapid antigen tests. 

• Weekly asymptomatic COVID-19 testing is no longer required. 

• Testing will only be required for those experiencing COVID-19 symptoms or those who have been in close contact with a person who has tested positive. 

• Symptomatic students, employees, and close contacts will be provided with an at-home rapid antigen test by their school. 

• Students who become symptomatic or ill while at school are required to wear a mask while being treated at the health office and waiting to be picked up by a parent/guardian. School administrators will provide a rapid antigen test kit for the symptomatic student to take home. 

• Employees who become symptomatic or ill while at school are required to wear a mask while picking up their rapid antigen tests and notifying school administration that they will need to go home. 

• If parents have questions they can call their school site or the Family Help Desk at (213) 443-1300.

 Use of Rapid Antigen Tests: 

• The California Department of Public Health recommends that “antigen tests be considered the primary option for detecting COVID-19 in schools, compared to PCR tests.” The antigen test provides rapid results for individuals who have virus levels that are high enough to transmit the virus. The PCR tests have a high level of sensitivity and can pick up low levels of the virus both before and after infection. This may cause students to unnecessarily miss school with low levels of the virus despite being asymptomatic and not being a risk to transmit to others. Therefore, the antigen tests will help to ensure that every child has access to in-person learning while maintaining a safe school environment. Back to School Rapid Antigen Testing: 

• At-home rapid antigen tests were to be distributed to all students and staff to be taken no more than 48 hours prior to entering campus for the first day of school. 

• At-home rapid antigen tests will also be distributed at the end of the first week of school. All students and staff should take a rapid test no more than 48 hours prior to entering campus for the second week of school. Positive Test Results: 

• If an individual tests positive on a rapid antigen test, they should upload the result onto the Daily Pass. 

• Individuals who test positive must isolate at home and may be released from isolation on Day 6, provided: 

> Symptoms are improving; 

> They are fever-free for the past 24 hours without fever-reducing medication; 

> They have a negative test result from a rapid antigen test taken on or after Day 5; and

> They upload the negative test result to Daily Pass 

• Employees eligible for shortened isolation (returning after Day 5) are required to wear a highly protective mask at all times in the workplace around others, except when eating or drinking, for 10 days after the date of the positive test. 

• Students ending isolation early (after Day 5) are strongly recommended to wear a highly protective mask when around others, except when eating or drinking, for 10 days after the date of the positive test. 

Isolation Period Definition: 

• If the individual who tests positive is asymptomatic, Day 0 of isolation is the day the individual was tested. Day 1 is the first full day following the day the individual was tested. 

• If the individual is symptomatic, Day 0 of isolation is the day of symptom onset, regardless of when the individual tested positive. Day 1 is the first full day following the day that symptoms started. 

Procedures for Identified Close Contacts: 

• Student close contacts, regardless of vaccination status, and employee close contacts, regardless of booster status, can remain at school or work following exposure to a positive case as long as they: 

> Monitor for symptoms; 

> Remain asymptomatic; 

> Wear a highly protective mask at all times indoors (except when eating or drinking) for 10 days following the last date of exposure; and 

> Test negative with a rapid antigen test between 3-5 days after last date of exposure. 

Close Contact Definition: 

• A Close Contact is a person who shared the same indoor airspace with the infected person during the infectious period (beginning 48-hours before the positive test result or symptom onset) for 15 cumulative minutes or more over a 24-hour period. 

• Site administrators may limit designation of close contacts to individuals who were within 6 feet of the infected person for 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period. 

• Persons with an outdoor exposure at school are not considered close contacts. 

Notification of Positive Cases: 

• Administrators will notify classroom teachers of uploaded positive cases during the identification of close contacts 

• All employees at a site (and union designees) will receive email notification when there is an uploaded positive case COVID Dashboards.

• The COVID dashboards will continue in the 2022-2023 school year. Rapid antigen tests will be the primary method for response testing and will be reflected on the dashboards. If PCR tests are uploaded into the Daily Pass, those will also be reflected on the dashboards. 

Meals: 

• Los Angeles Unified will maximize use of outdoor spaces for meals. Each school will have additional information on how they are utilizing outdoor space to keep our students safe. 

• Schools will offer breakfast for students at the start of the school year. In the event students in a classroom are required to wear masks, other breakfast location arrangements will be made. 

Vaccination: 

• Our employees are already vaccinated. We encourage all eligible students to be vaccinated as well, and all members of the school community to receive any boosters for which they are eligible.

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Visitor Policy Fall, 2022

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After School Programs in a Nutshell

STAR and Beyond the Bell are two after-school programs that Walgrove offers. Typically, they are slightly different from one another.

STAR is a program that typically costs money, but for us it is grant-funded. So, it is free for families. It is somewhat structured and is usually first-come first-serve (people apply during the previous  Spring). However, this year, the STAR czars say they are accepting all applications. 

In STAR, there are teachers (generally one for every 20 or so kiddos) and rotations (homework; activities like crafts, dance, and chess; outside play). The expectation is that all students stay for the duration every day unless they have a regularly scheduled activity like piano lessons or karate. (But Richard can be somewhat flexible so long as there is communication and the parents sign the required early release forms.)

BEYOND THE BELL is funded differently, has more open enrollment, and is less structured. (During COVID the two programs were combined.) There is a "coach" and one or two more staff members, depending on enrollment. 

Usually, both programs require regular attendance until 6pm. However, Walgrove STAR Director Richard Medina has strived to allow more flexibility. Though, he must have folks sign early release forms. If you know you will have a regularly scheduled class like choir or karate or something, then let him know and sign a form for that. If you have an emergency and have to pick your child up earlier than expected, then let him know and sign a form for that. What we (Richard, the STAR funders and I) don't want is for people to use it as random babysitting where they only use it sometimes or for only a half hour every day or in other ways that disrupt the fidelity of the program and undermine the grant requirements. 

Here is the application for STAR/Beyond the Bell: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uQl8NRShtlRogoWgIXMfVJ9okt_yDWlQ/view

Please email your completed app to andrea.kittelson1@lausd.net and richardm2@starinc.org

There are also paid classes like skateboarding, drumming and other such activities through STAR NOVA and STAR GALAXY. Richard will share more info about those as they happen. Those are occasional and for just a few weeks. 

We will also have Angel City Youth Chorale after school in the auditorium one day per week. That day has not yet been set. Last year, it was Tuesday. Kids don't have to be in the after-school program to join choir. If they are in the after-school program, they can attend choir. Students perform in December and June at Royce Hall along with the Angel City Chorale. 

We will also have violin in the auditorium once or twice per week with Danielle Villalobos who provides the violins. The students perform at events like the Holiday Program and the Monarch Fest. 

Additional programs outside of Walgrove include the Venice Boys and Girls Club and Penmar Park. They have programs for a small free. Often, when enough Walgrove students enroll, the organization sends a van and pick kids up in the front office after school. Then, parents pick their kiddos up at the Boys and Girls Club or Penmar Park at 6. (I do not know how flexible that pick-up time is.)

Overall, we do what we can to provide for kiddos a safe and fun place to be while their parents work!

Feel free to ask questions of Walgrove STAR Director Richard Medina at richardm2@starinc.org

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