Dear LPMS Community,
I hope you are having a great Friday. The purpose of this communication is to
update you on several items including safety, an upcoming school-wide trip to
OSU, and our iPad program called 1:World.
Before addressing those topics, I want to share that recently LPMS had our
first school-wide assembly of the year. I truly enjoyed the opportunity to be together
as a school community. Our staff and
student participation was awesome!
Safety
Today during our PRIDE period, we practiced a lock down
drill. Along with our monthly fire
drills, we conduct two earthquake drills each year (fall and spring), and at
least one lock down drill. It is incredibly
troubling that the unthinkable happened again this week in Nevada. While a lock down is an important safety tool
that we practice, it is also important that we give your child information if
they are in a situation with imminent danger such as an active shooter at a
mall, community building, a house of worship, or in a school. We use information from the Department of
Homeland Security and address it in as developmentally appropriate manner as
possible.
School-Wide Trip to OSU
Thanks to our Make Your Mark direct donation drive, we are
again planning a community building trip to OSU. LPMS students and staff
through a partnership with Oregon State University, will be traveling to OSU on
Nov. 15 to attend an OSU Women's basketball game vs. Sacramento State. There is no admission fee to the game. This is a great opportunity for LP students
to visit a university campus. OSU also
integrates an academic component. Permission forms will be coming home with
students the week of November 4th. Watch for more information to follow!
We will be looking for 15 (five from each grade level)
parent volunteers to help at the event at OSU on Nov. 15 from 10:45 a.m. - 1:15
p.m. Volunteers will be given free entrance to the game. We use a
great online tool called VolunteerSpot to sign up volunteers. You don't
need an account to use this tool. If you would like to help, click
here, enter your name, email and pick which grade you would like to
support. All volunteers working with/around students must also have a school
verified Criminal History Background Check (CHBC). If you haven't yet
completed a 509j CHBC within the last two school years, then there is still
time to complete this process. To start, go to LPMS Volunteers and
complete the online Criminal Background Check form. The form takes about
two weeks to process. Feel free to sign up to volunteer through VolunteerSpot
and we will verify that your CHBC has cleared just before the event. http://www.volunteerspot.com/login/entry/574196494068
1:World Update
We are continuing to prepare for our iPad program at Linus
Pauling Middle School. The next student
iPad bootcamp is scheduled to be Oct. 28 at LPMS. The Linus Pauling
student iPad checkout (i.e. roll-out) is
on schedule for Nov. 4th (grade 8), Nov. 5th (grade 7),
and Nov. 7th (grade 6). Testing
of the global proxy has been completed by Apple, Technology and other
designated District office staff. Currently, the global proxy will apply
the same basic CIPA-compliant to the iPads when they connect to the Internet
outside the District’s network. Technology is working with LBL ESD on
adding more filter rules in time for the rollouts in early November. The middle school iPads are being
re-configured into Supervise mode which will prevent the global proxy from
being deleted by students. Technology Specialist Darren Bland has been
working with our staff on training with device management and instructional
enhancement. Answers to the FAQ from our
recent iPad night have been posted on the district website. Here is the link to the district page: http://www.csd509j.net/en-us/districtinformation/keyinitiatives/1world/faq.aspx
We’ll see you at conferences next week!
Sincerely, Eric
