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this year in the meantime can we have everyone introduce themselves really quickly please which way I can start I'm Miss armendariz I'm one of the assistant principals here at Bros school I am the 8th grade administrator and parents also if you have any questions around mental health if you have any questions or concerns around special education and has an IEP you know I can help you with the well I'm I'm going to change my for like the name on my screen in case you do need to send an email please feel free to do so what about mr. Introduce yourself morning parents on mr. Troy I'm one of the counselors here specifically for 7th grade I look forward to meeting your students this year and hopefully everything goes smoothly welcome Mexico good morning parents are the instructional coach for science questions feel free to ask me and dancing for you or direct you to location to find your answer but happy to answer any questions you may have in my capacity as Nelson science goes for any other questions you can think of I'm going to head over to mr. Corral good morning parents from my name is Sam Crow on the magnet coordinator at John Burroughs so excited to meet all the new families and students to your door on welcome I'm also I'll be able to help with that tech support currently welcome and we will I'm going to turn it over to miss nap good morning everyone my name is Antoinette I'm the in history instructional coach and I'm really looking forward to meeting you all and seeing all of your students this year I'm going to turn it over to miss echeverria good morning. My name is I'm one of the coordinators for John Burroughs and I cannot wait for this exciting new school year I'll send it over to me on who is our translators on if you can be swayed as our Verizon coach send it to mr. Good morning you are so welcome to my 7th graders Logan not met in person yet but will in a couple of weeks we have a lot of information for you today if you have any questions regarding attendance or facilities or a question of please feel free to eat show me my email list on next to my name and welcome I'll send it back to Miss Lee Avenue and if we can dig her coach Jessica in Cohoes as well and that way towards Jessica if you can take a moment to introduce yourself are you doing and talk about the program real quick just really we're just making introductions of ourselves cuz Jessica that's it after school program for about 6 years already you definitely have a lot of activities for the students arts and crafts from spores and a little bit of twittering as well go ahead and let me know thank you we have Mister Lee joining us this early will be our sixth grade counselor Mr Z can you take a moment to introduce yourself and this on if you can give him Call of Duty good morning I don't think I'm able to start my video but I'll welcome and we look forward to seeing you soon thank you mr. Lee dr. Martinez has joined us. Martinez whenever you are ready arrival good morning thank you for your patience I see we have still more people coming in you taking the time we do have a second copy with the principal in the afternoon and as the school year progresses were looking at pushing that time further back so that we can maybe early evening. for parents who are working in and unable to attend the early morning went to tell please look out for that opening up 100% are you in Queen text with distribution iPad description and all that I'm coming out right now we have a lot of questions to ask what will go through or going to leave a good portion of the end for our new families those who have not had an opportunity to visit Burroughs and walk the campus we have a walkthrough video to share with you whilst are you so that we can answer many of the questions as we can and we will get some pie to our our family regarding beyond the bell I know that that's a big question and it may be so that we don't we don't get interrupted now and ask the questions. you got it. Usually get a good fortune yeah I'm the best at the time whenever you're ready can I see parents can email me a suggestion just request. it is true form again just one in Spanish and in English as well if I need a chance going to the lausd.net website a little bit easier for you. digital application on there as well go with you I'm about here as soon as school is dismissed students are to report to myself and to the other cultures usually we meet up in the cafeteria area so they are definitely supposed to check in with us and make sure you know I leave for Coach visibly sees them and honestly that's how we check in at the moment at the moment I don't know exactly how many sentence I have but definitely SMS students are able to choose what program within the beyond the bell they want to be in so we do have a sports program we have a tutoring program and then hopefully soon we'll have a dance one of everything that I know Burrows Play Time include as well so we kind of like piggyback on whatever their learning during the school three main big one that I definitely want parents to know what our room is students are not allowed to leave campus they cannot be going outside for a little bit with her friends that are not in the program and then come with us after they are to immediately check in with the fact that the bee on the bus if we do give them snacks so they do have for open I believe that's all that's available for them as well, but we give them free snacks after that first to the program another mean rules obviously respect from all cultures and students third one is there's no outside food available for Uber Eats is a big Stingray how are Postmates that's definitely a No-No for the students again like I said they have the door open or we could provide free food for them as well other than that coach Jessica there was one question that I thought was very important can a student walk home after the beyond the bell program or does a parent have to pick them up there is a section where does they my student can leave on their own or a parent will for sure always pick them up I can communication is key with us for some reason nobody will be able to pick them up. does that mean you're one of the coaches know that you know he is free to go home and Coach Jessica where can parents pick up the form for your program a conviction go to the LAUSD that website and just search up you on the bail application it'll be there and then they can just email me at Jessica. Let the air out of you is D. Net again already. email me straight and then I can send you a copy as well thank you and the hours for the program if you can clarify what time from what time to what time you'll be servicing our student program is Celeste was dismissed until 6 p.m. it is 6 p.m. sharp so if I need time do you want to pick up the student at 5 5:45 33437 perfectly fine. As long as before and the last question I promise cuz Jessica is Kenda parent can the students bring their own food to the after-school program for the trip you obviously with the whole Postmates or ubereats that's definitely something we don't want to not okay and a parents just to let you know that after school program is not mandatory it is only if you would like to participate in the program it is mandatory thank you cuz Jessica dr. Martinez back to you sir limited space MPR now the other thing that was a coach Jessica brought up with the push blade into his to put Hillary that's absolutely looking for school the hospital food delivered to our school whether it's during the daytime or in the after-school program so please be aware that that not only does beyond the bell offer but I believe it we're also going to be all free like a sack of food back to go home after school so they will have food and increment in and out meaning of students going to try I'm going to go home I want to go get some something at 7:11 and then come back we don't allow that and what happens if we have a lot of students to meet up after school around the corner and if we do get a call from the businesses that there's hanging out and doing things and then do what they do is that where you go out there and then I like I need to get back in and the thing is parents you expect your child to be anything you expect your child to be in the caravel a USB in on school grounds so if we find that parents and students are violating that policy I support court judge Jessica or I will ask that the privilege to attend I'll be revoked if we have students are abused at policy and leave to go hang out with your friends and then come back and then say I have to go to be on the belt for you again you expect us to keep your children safe that means I have to be under our care we can't we can't take care of them and I will pass that is a high-traffic area I don't have to provision out there at all first you might alright parents if you have any other questions as coach Jessica said I think in the chat box you drop your email in there if you can help us answer some of the questions in the at the bottom of your screen Yoshi gets you in a box if you and then there's a lot of questions relevant to your program if you can start answering those questions for me all right so we have a PowerPoint to get started with machine are you going to bring it up or driving it I'll write the welcome to the 2021 to 2022 school year you're opening up as you know I can be a big challenge but with everyone's help we should I do believe open up I have a very successful first day of school so we're going to go over to you right now, all right the vision for Burroughs is a top skills at interpersonal communication skills in preparation for college and the workforce to enable them to acquire the best possible job in the economy. open driving us and creating and billing and I'm hoping that's why you chose John Burroughs middle school because of that Vision which translates into opportunities for students we have a lot of Alexis from computer theater to our Advanced courses are in math that we offer for our students we have Makerspace room we have all these wonderful opportunities so that children and students can learn about not only about the future job the job that I haven't been created yet and on top of that we do have a very strong social emotional or we can click mental health support program here at the middle school to address issues as they come up and as you know. in the last couple of years and Across the Nation social emotional support so that's what makes an experience pure better online but now that we're back here on campus were going to continue with our vision and tried to provide students with the best education who are meeting me for the first time and my name is G Martinez family we will wait at the end to give you time to ask questions and go over things with your parents proud are coming back from you're I'm back I am in my office I'm not at home I'm in the medical leave so tired team available to open up the school year working very hard trapeze been working since last week and trying to make sure we have everything ready to open up the school year and make it as easy as possible all right so as you already probably screwed up ministrator is a lie anyway you have regarding 6th grade you can email her the sixth grade counselor is mr. David be his email Isabel about this PowerPoint is going to have a lot of contact information you will have plenty of resources to go to it you need help but it is the digital age so we do expect parents that if you have not had an email account investigate how you want it opportunities that are online for you to learn about your child and help your child all right that's our next level 7th grade will be the 7th grade administrator accounts are prepared with me and you have their e-mail address is there I need finally the task of 8th grade this year falls on this time and our she will be in charge of everything for eighth grade including activities and eventually culmination the counselor with 8th graders Miss Virginia all right magnet coordinator have a lot of parents are from the Corral is the point person for that you have his email address are common questions that go to hit my house how to get into the magnet program transportation we do have a high school fair not a fit parent you are probably already should have been thinking about high school applying for high school Tracy will be coming up all the things we invite High School who's a very happy to come in and John Burroughs so we will have an opportunity hopefully depending on how the social distancing parameters are going to be we may have it upside but it's a possibility they may have to be online but we'll see we'll see how it goes all right we have two and instructional coaches share the first one is Michonne has seagull in charge of the math and science area and Miss Angela map who's in charge of English and history area there are a lot of people here to help you both regarding instruction and and and other items and so there's a lot of issues with the curriculum of comes with the optional that there are a lot of people here to support you are College and Career coach is Miss great. She's helping us some shoes some opportunities for your children to be college and career-ready SAS program I am Title One program do you have both their emails are Mississippi also works at the Weekend Update that we have in Korean in Spanish to language we have to do language programs yet she will also be the point person for parent support parent volunteers left the tickets and all those items alright so you know we've been really active it broke and we won both the state and national awards and we look forward to continued and in excelling and trying to overcome has has caused some issues with with online learning and we're going to address that I should begin the new school year we had like I said we have a very big First Citizen in robotics and drama Orchestra where you believe there's a possibility that we made partner up with Cedar-Sinai this year to offer a field trip experience for some of our students we're always looking to see how we can provide the best opportunity for students to excel when are they are going to be entrepreneurs or where they're going to go to college and the reason why is because we have a sander of excellence and we don't rest until we get better at it all right so if you have been changing your address and all the things you will go to a copy of pain and profit and we have put 678 grade we made adjusting is the school year start because root beer and maybe get additional staff as we get more detail as to who specifically work with what group we will put it in the PowerPoint the attendance office Personnel that can help you out with Miss Roberts and this story and their emails are located if you have questions about it in your address or the phone number you you're not gay at home I think I got a tendon if you want to send it like an attendance paper that you can get a chance to excuse that I missed a few can contact them all right and then usually to popular rooms are in the in the Captain's Room 109 which the cost of main office after Title One office and instructions to Portland at the magnet office down the hall are going into the north building boom boom pow where the magnet look at it all right so we Daddy no parents we are a uniform I might not have been here twenty years side I saw how it died ten years ago but we are a uniform school if at any time as I go there the next couple slides you given question whether you need uniforms or you have questions about requirements of when you have the right to opt out before that occurs but if any of those things pop up as email or call me if you put them to put that would be the point I followed her District policy I am his number and email contact questions online is love to the bank when you enrolled John Burroughs Middle School what can I give you a welcome packet and we're going to do our best to go digital with that and have you downloaded but we're going to try to see if we can also print I can imagine it's a lot of paper but we're working on that so I went to China like the package will have it available on our website for download those parents who shared their emails that connect that we're going to see if we can email this to you and then again we'll see what we're trying to by the first week of school to be able to head out to us so so again anything that interests activity is something that we will be having a discussion with you and your child is pretty straightforward students will also get additional information on the packet of what they can't wear anything anything that can be destructive to the environment is something that that will not be allowed and will be addressed with you until this letter is just simply there notify it's also in the parents so you'll see the same information in the past I'm still having traffic code of the next slide is a uniform answering a question about jewelry there is no specific dress code on jewelry but if it's if it needs any of that criteria we would be dealing with that correctly and we know that I can cause harm is Lapine remember this is the Middle School so if it's something that that can can can cause harm that's something that we will talk to you but in general as as long as he's not disrupted by it doesn't disrupt the cops it's not having noticing that I'm wearing and then gets all in that or or something you know that caused the injury things like that but why discussion about it as well and see what we can do that there's something in here about half parents you know we're going to talk about lunch right now in one of the things that we have to do what we have to do social distancing we can expect students out and that potentially does mean that we may have to go in the sun and so are allowed to bring hats but only for outdoor wearing for like when they go out to lunch they can wear it and then I Optimum to go in the classroom if you would like to have your child have a hatch once it's going to cost from they have to put it in your backpack we do ask that you don't have any logo you would you know sometimes we have a president realize that a certain level represented something to do ask that you have if you can ask your child to wear a hat that they don't have any logos on them and if you can spare to Art School colors white khaki and green we would appreciate that we do understand too much fun and so things like that will be allowed with exceptions of course and guidelines and so this letter describes all of that for you as well to this will also be in our welcome letter as well to come again if you have any questions not it's not mandatory to wear school uniform bed as you can guess you know that decision was made by the committee community that exclude uniform has a learning experience at Burroughs Middle School if you have a difference of opinion. That's fine. Just contact me about that will having a discussion with you and and talk about our opted out to see you this but but like I said most of you chose Burroughs for reason and Squid next is a big part of John Burroughs middle school and again and again if you have a good let's have a conversation with you and we begin that process by talking with mr. I'm a doctor Martinez. we're getting some answers about where to get the uniforms you can get it Sonic flight so here are examples the school uniform now if you notice in Big Red Letters here it says the tired need not be purchased through the school you don't have to buy them from the school nor do they have to have the School logo on it what we is is that you best match as fast as possible the colors and as you can see the top is green like a dark green or olive green and white and what we call a polo with you which has the yellow color and the bottom is as you can see we chose two different shades of a brown there yet khaki and Anna from someplace to describe your stand and I don't know what else but we understand it you know Independent Bank is a lot of issues going on you know if you're shopping for clothing for your time these are the colors that we ask that you just met you don't have to get them through the school you can get them cheaper elsewhere at a lower price I swear he's a Pious and the same thing with a ticket if you can match it is gray anywhere from a light gray to dark gray and the green shorts and again you don't have to buy them from the school and that you don't have to have logos on them okay all right bell schedule you want I can do that. So basically at the every single day the school starts at the same time dog at 7:49 is when the first Bell for the school day will Begin by the time 7:57 comes around that indicate that that's the tardy Bell so you want your student to hear at on campus by 7 for night I know dr. Martinez and we're discussing but we will be opening campus right around 7:30 by dr. Martinez okay and that is when we were first getting their daily passes in order for everyone to come on how to safely know the regular school day dismissal is usually at 249 and parents at this time we will be asking all parents to be waiting outside for their students I'm every Tuesday movie forward it will be a 125 dismissal and we've tried to keep that consistent so that it's not as confusing and I know that it can get confusing when we have minimum days and however the first 3 days of school August 16th August 17th and August 18th will be a minimum day 12/24 Day schedule and we just need that time sure that everything at 3 are such a large campus that all the classes and all the teachers are settled for the new school year and a reminder Monday August 16th and Wednesday August 17th will be a minimum day dismissal and we only have a few of them throughout the school year but we are starting the first 3 days with minimum days dr. Martinez we now are at lunch and what lunch will look like for the for our student you have a lunch bell schedule for waiting for approval from the district normally during the school year we have two lunches the first line is only fixed rates to him and it happened before the 2nd seventh and eighth-grade students now in order to really try to maximize social distancing we need to break up the 7th and 8th grade lunch want to split them so we sent a schedule to the district once we have it hopefully we have it we will post it next week if that occurs what's going to happen is there will be three lunches at Burroughs Middle School there will be a lunch for 6th grade 7th grade and they wear a big school over 1,500 students right now and it's bigger than us and Palms yes I love it hard enough and as you know if you are aware of the middle schools on the westside those are the top three performing middle schools in so we have big attend so we're going to request we split the lunches out so that we can spread our students out during lunch are we did a walk through the campus yesterday and we're looking for places that we can put a digital tables and chairs out depending on what the requirements are we may go up between 6 to 3 ft of social distancing for lunch lunch would probably be there at the high-risk time right at the time that seems to have their mask on the time they'll be eating and talking and yelling in the middle school so we are doing our best to figure out how we can spread out the lunch area and how we can cut down the number of students in her lunch off for now it is the best that we can do without affecting other. Meaning losing I feel like if we extended additional lunch or broke it down even further we starting coaching on instructional time which means the student to do Lazada mattering you know we can't do that we are required to have a certain amount of instructional minute so natural working on for lunch and that's why I said the goal be a sped students out and some of them you know we do have a lot of shape but there's some spots where you don't have a lot of shade so they will be able to wear the the hex you're with is that with within the if you want that if not we are going to church if you have them in the shade as much as possible all right that see her fighting students or it will the student store be open for snack purchases as well my guess is that it's not going to go as fast everything we have to do things like that so if it will be open but it's not it may not be a fashion show another word we may have long lines that mean I get a draft felt remember a child's primary meal we are offering it here and at the student store as a primary meal and I I think some parents are asking if they can send lunch with their child Stacks we don't consider that Neil's those are snacks and so if the child can't get a sack we will ask if they've eaten at least took make sure that they get him you haven't had a triple A make sure that they get something to eat from the cafeteria but the shooting star is first action other items but I hope that you know that the facts are that the meal you want to turn into Romeo and then the cafeteria sister back and we will do our best to have to since they're open and fell but then they make it close early or they may be manager with another school I also worked at Mark Twain middle school as well too so they're there maybe some days we're maybe close I'm going to see a lot of school supplies in a I'm going to tell you in general we provide everything that your child needs to have an education so generally we don't encourage. what up buying supplies because again if it's pencils and color pencils we can supply that for the teachers to house we don't want families to feel like to have to go out and buy a bunch of things you know if there is a question of that creepy about whenever you ministrator but in general anything that your child needs taxes are there the kitchen we have here you're welcome to buy additional items on your own sets of whatever you eaten would how would I know I know that is and I I will do that but there are no mandatory requirements and if you let me know so I can discuss that with the teacher show up we're not telling teachers to post mandatory list online you make the things on that that that you recommend I think Friday will be a free day so that's the area that you may see some teachers posting where we at now if you can speak to the coin of a student classrooms in fifth grade good morning thank you my sweet thank you dr. Martinez so we know there are a lot of questions around how do the programs look like you know Middle School is very very different than Elementary School in elementary school and to have the one teacher once we get to Middle School at our school our teachers are cord into so they have basically kids have partners and that they will cover the academic and in addition to that they have a PE teacher and so you'll have a teacher who covers you know English and history and then you'll have the other teacher who will cover Math and Science and one of them cover is also the elective which is a college horse and then in addition as I said before they have a PE teacher so that is what a sixth grader can expect to have when they come to our school I'm in 7th and 8th grade obviously you don't you make the big leap from the seventh and eighth you have multiple teachers you know you have we tried to do it to the extent possible to keep our teachers and seems so that they can kind of all become familiar with the same bench and all kind of know you're feeling very well and so.. Point kids have a different teacher for each of the content areas I know they will probably get to this later but a lot of people are concerned about what teachers children were and we are going to first and foremost insurer that your kids know where they need to go first in the priority for that is homeroom and so we will be sharing that information if you will be coming to pick up textbooks with your kids thank you we will have that homeroom information available for you when you do pick up book and then of course we will be sending a connected message which will go through phone if we have your email address already we will also be sending it through you an email or a text depending on if you chose you to receive information that way as well so we will have multiple ways to communicate that information to you and again why is that important because that will be the first class your kid will go to once they're there they will be receiving a schedule which will tell them what their other classes are okay and so as we said in case you didn't attend last week's meeting if for whatever reason you you don't get a Kinect message you don't get an email you don't get a text and for whatever reason you miss the homeroom number next week you lost the number what-have-you we all have that information on the first day of school and we will ensure that your kids get to class and we understand even 7th graders East graders especially because they haven't been in school they may not even remember where the classrooms are it's okay we will be here to make sure that all the kids get wherever I need to go we will have staff members in yellow vest your kids or a walkie-talkie and if you're confused you don't know where to call you don't remember where to go we will make sure they to the right place again it's it's very important that you want that you do your best as parents to remind your kids you know it's going to be fine just make sure you're wearing your mask you have to be wearing your after all times I'd be practicing kids have been staying at home a lot you know. Haven't really been going on make sure they're practicing and how to maintain that mask on because they do have to be wearing that mask so there's little things you can do like that remind them it's going to be okay there will be staff here to make sure they get to the right classes around have you time to send me an email if there's a specific concern Incubus armendariz and in case parents as I know especially as we are transitioning into Middle School all of a sudden you just have one teacher you have several different teachers and I know as you know I'm a parent of an elementary school student and every single year we are just two different teachers and their expectations and now we're just pulling that right for my 7th grade parents and a paper all the sudden we have no six teachers do is at any point in time you do want to speak with your teacher about any concerns or just introduce yourself to additional me what we had in the main office was a yellow conference request form and you could put up you that however now the best way is through email teachers will be giving their shoulders and in their syllabus as you can how many are you can see their contact information but also on our website you will also see if there's a list of all our staff members and their emails so you are free to email members are teachers at any point in time however did you email them later on in the evening just expect the public to be answering you the next day and two students also have a way of emailing teachers directly through schoology as well another way of communicating what did you do this with your counselor or a great level of ministrator so again I'm the sixth grade administrator with armendariz currently is our 8th grade administrator and mr. quotes that will be our 7th grade administrator you have again if your concerns are not being addressed by either the teacher you gone to the counselor and you gone to the grade-level administrator at that point in time you are all your principal but if you have a consensus we were the teacher that's how we would elevate it our year school year is divided into two semesters or first after is the fall semester begins in August and the traditionally ends in December so that if idolizes the first semester grades are second semester traditionally begin when we come back in January and ends in June and within each semester we have for grading. So and it's it's / week 5 week you will get our first progress report card 2nd of June 10th week you will get a second progress report card the 15 week will be your final progress report card and the final report card that stays kind of in your in the system and on your child record will be this semester report card grades and that will be issued the final day of the second of the first semester which is December 17th the second semester report card grade raise our Again by we got in February 10th week in March 15th week is in April and the final one and this is the most important grade fourth grade year for your grade level all Grace are cumulative and all incoming 6th graders will be held to a credit-based system which basically means students will need to have a minimum of a c average in all classes and again cumulative from 6th 7th and 8th grade alright important ways in which we communicate our message to our parents we have our website we have a Twitter also through Schoology traditionally we had an important Day flyer that was sent home on a monthly basis but depending of because we're obviously with Cole that we don't know if we're going to be passing out flyers but anything that happens on a weekly basis you will be receiving a weekly connected message I know many of you have started receiving them already and weekly bulletin to teachers and also given out to our staff members and a year at a glance calendar that have very important dates for our school will be available in your parent packet all right so doctor Martinez I will return it back to user so I believe we were younger but in the meantime give me a can we get the textbook schedule to share with our parents I'll put it up here so we do have other opportunities for parent involvement we have a ballet program if you have that we're going to ask for volunteers soon we do have we're always big on supervision here at school we have advisory committee of the English learner advisory committee School site Council committee and Poppy like all authorized budget spending. 2 per account so it's an important group that you're part of local school district teacher plenty of opportunities for parents to get involved and I do believe we may be recording for parents to be in by the district-level are too as well so if you are interested. Look out for that information and please volunteer we have coffee with the principal on a monthly basis information with you. still waiting for coffee with principal to ask questions or if you have any contact information we are always looking for a minute. You don't just wait until is the Compensation Program concern we have a lot of parents recently posted a Cedar-Sinai pen works for return to school I don't know if we can put that flyer up here but I had to look at my website and we are beginning to offer sometime workshops as well for now they're beginning online and that's something I have to make sure I emphasized is that all the information is as of today I know have you been monitoring the news I just find a chat room I mean you've realized that concerned that your child has been vaccinated we have to be flexible it's one of the reasons why next week and one are you are best to pass up textbooks if we have the we will pass her iPads as well to we just don't know what's going to happen in a couple weeks will be wanted fully prepared for that so I do know that as of today if any changes we won't be walked at you I did see some questions about the Avengers I unfortunately do not have information on that as you may have heard if you opt out of coming to John Burroughs Middle School in person have the option of signing up for City of Angels but you they have a website that information you have any questions you would have to ask them they will not be John Burroughs Middle School teacher they will be other teachers and you will be in Rome in a different program. It's supposed to offer the thing there any experience now I do know that you do have the option to change your mind and you don't like it or for whatever reason you want are we will accept you we will enroll your child immediately yet and your shower resume so again I apologize but I don't have any more information I do have to refer you to the website for that information alright let's see again lunch we don't have the time table waiting for approval from the district we want to split our lunchtime so once we get a we will put that information every copies of principle that we have to have more updated information please check our website that's our main source of communication at Westside social media sites all right all right get pressures are sharing chair parent workshop with Wednesday August 18th from 9 to 10 there is a link to a wonderful partnership with Cedar-Sinai that that Services anti-dandruff repairing Workshop so that's the first time that will be having this year I do have the pictures of Kobe taken now so have you heard every child must have a color test on file opening 2 - 1 + before your tents is a ticket last Monday that's fine that's the window last Monday up until the day before school now you know that Monday this coming Monday August 9th we will be open again from 8 to 2 to 2:30 with no but I must tell you that I just received the report yesterday we have over 12 it is possible if it were all the parents we haven't done it yet will may show up on Monday and again all I can ask you to please be patient. We don't we don't schedule these this is what the district sent us to expect possibly long line on Monday for covid testing 100 is a lot of students all right do you pass every season will be required once the covid-19 test is online to do a daily pass every day hopefully they'll have their iPads before and they'll be able to have the clear coat Wright-Patt 60 parents will have more demos of bad as we get closer to the opening where they can take their picture of it with your smartphone and scan got as they're being entered the word student for daily pass right now we're not doing temperature checks right as of right now only when they're Outdoors for lunch for snacks in the mornings when I get hurt but there is no tickets if I'm going on in the past we're not doing 60 we're not moving moving furniture we're going to do our best to minimize the close contact in the classroom but we're not doing anything special like we did last year while we took out half the furniture. that's that's not occurring this year so this is your seventh graders Wednesday sixth graders now parents Monday you're going to be here some of your covid-19 test if you're here for covid-19 testing we are going to attempt to issue textbooks on that day if and if you have the time to stand in line I understand that some of you are destructive to to pick up I'm at work and come to school twice a week or whatever it is Monday during covid-19 testing if you are wedding to attend inpatient setting in line with Lisa Cota and the pain will try to protect books right after you do your covid-19 test so we're not advertising up again because it is very fast or push actually we're pushing it and this is just an extra day that were trying to use because we do understand that you work when you do understand that baby 2 days out of the week might be too much so if you need to Monday after covid-19 testing we will give you the opportunity to get the book and we'll do our best to get them out to you as soon as possible if that's from Monday it's not being advertised I will have we will have some signs up on Monday but that's just an extra bonus day okay the regular distribution date Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday and then we'll have to make updates on Friday and will push that schedule in the middle of the week dr. Martinez are a couple of questions regarding parents and coming in from different and they do have a foreign coca test from a from another country negative covid test in place but do they need to come back and have a negative covid test in place through a unified I don't know the answer to that I need to find out because I'm getting a lot of different ones to have another case scenario where parents are getting the color test as soon as they fly at it so that's another fairy tale there are many scenarios for coconut but I do believe I do believe the district is accepting external covid-19 test let me find out and and as I get more information on that I will post it on the website doctor Martinez I just wanted to make sure that we clarified on but textbook collection schedule so I don't want to talk about it a little bit because I think it's a bit confusing for parents baseball maybe Mystikal back and talk about it a little bit more no and give some examples so that parents know where they where they fall on the schedule and also clarify your thoughts it is Bomb by last name because I we don't yet have all of these moments are usually when we do it we do it especially collection for example we set it up for the homeroom because it's much easier for us to be okay Mister Mitchell Fox comes in this day this time right now we're doing it through last night before example and let me go to a trade on Tuesday so if your last bill students last night 12 between 9:30 to 10 a.m. for example is gone through Gomez I'll be there in about 45 students to fall between those two lodgement. you are scheduled to come in so if you don't have a time we understand just like dr. Martinez bad. We are parents to we work and we understand that you may not be able to make it here but if you can try and see the schedule it is going to help us if you are all of these numbers for Tuesday for example not as close to 555 students that we're trying to how come in on Tuesday and pick up the text now for 7th and 8th grade is mostly because most of them already have their iPad on Friday on Thursday when is the 6th grade I patched and so it's going to be even slower because they need to get their iPad and they need to be prevented what that means is they need to sit with the person who's giving them the right side and get it call synopsis ready for them to you on the first day of school and so the Thursday the process slows down quite a bit because of that but on Tuesday and Wednesday when I have the biggest numbers are 7th and 8th grade classes are bigger than our six big plastic it is going to be a challenge for us to get through all of these names and it's 30 a block my my last name again is Kota so I found between Troy and Escobar Mendoza Mendoza so if I were a student here I would come in between 9 and 9:30 on a toothache I'm going to trade if I'm a 7th grader I would come at the same time just happens to be the same time for Note 3 grade level so high last night look to see where it all look to the left and that's how you can tell what time you are scheduled to be here now I received already a few you know you have won a freighter 6th grader you don't have time to come in bookbags it's okay for you to bring in both student YouTube which which of the two days you want to bring them we will try to help you out the best in a basket just got to be aware when when you do bring to sue them or two different grade levels it slows it down a little bit because we need to go and get the book for the grade-level it's not program for we will help you we are now going to turn away anybody who comes in with two different students did I answer that question that with you right it's not trust I have to pay attention to the grade level and what day it is but it's also my second layer is the last name so I think people were just needing some clarification I'm not so thank you I'd like to point out because we are and by we I mean there's a group of anywhere from ten to sometimes 20 people are doing this so that we can get a meeting to go to the Run we will be closing the parking lot for anybody coming in at 11:50 anybody who is inside between 11:30 and noon will be  but please be aware of we do one of my Scofield and enough time to get real and get a little bit of a rash because as you can see we don't really get a rest from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. and so please just be in my phone the parking lot of 1150 anybody who's inside will be assessed. Turn off. Thank you thank you miss a lot of things that can affect the distribution we are still in recovery restriction so if for whatever reason there's a case and weeds according to a major some staff with an eye patch for 15:00 Plus student and we've been working we haven't had one week and we're doing we're pushing it too naughty for whatever reason that next week we don't get it then we are job during the school day when school begins to get those who weren't able to get it we will seek and because it's a requirement for everything. A textbook and forever change my iPad so whatever you think it done next week we will then have the first week of school to follow up on I get to say that for the first time normally because of Williams the winners Texas requirements students would have to bring your book with them every day for at least a couple of days amazing week because it's a requirement we were just in case that digital textbooks will fulfill that requirement shows Once your child gets that the textbook that they can keep him at home and we will maximize the use of digital sets weather here in school until once again once I get to Texas, and textbook they can keep him at home I'm the only have to bring the iPad and the books as needed when the teacher we need to for whatever reason but that's something that's really good because 6th grade the hard hard carry for them it's heavy but looks are heavy and him in the rolling backpacks in to become very popular at the time that starts this year we are allowed to say you want to get your folks home because we're going to have to try to find the Williams apartment through the digital textbook both a physical and a digital set all right this is the crown hi parent parent portal is so important for parents to access and you awake beyond what you can do for it and the process to access and sign up on it just takes a personal email and a pen and the parent portal pin is actually just repeated to parents via are notification in the mail in the mail. The time that hand gets misplaced or gets lost or maybe you don't even know that if that's what it's for if you do need to find out what your PIN is that you can contact us via Miss Siegel and Ms nap had access to the portal to provide you can chew I just reach out and we can get that to you and we do have a lot of resources that on our website that you can go to in terms of video tutorials frequently asked questions who would see the a map that we use at the school that you're probably familiar with is attached to is attached to a parent portal as well as we have to begin using it to upload documents this year for enrollment so if ever you need to provide a document a to regarding change if you're not able to make it to school you can upload a document to to your parent portal and then the attendance office will receive it so there's a lot of helpful for the parent portal so we really need to take advantage of it and if you do need it if we do have to parent representative that can assist as well as I myself as well I know you and also missing Yang if you need a Korean, so thank you and I think I'm brightness I think we're at the end of the parkway and I will do our best to answer them we are going to dedicate this portion to new family and is there any new students watching we want to share with you a walkthrough video and we're going to kind of talk about it since we can't have a person toward we're going to talk at 11 show you a video of her school and then answer any questions after that snap if you can bring up the Flash. how to find when you are student I'm sure if we can bring up the distribution schedule again give me just one second can you do I have sherry if I can share mine I have my straightener and the last name is Gomez with the Z you'll notice Gomez with an F on Wednesday for 7th grade 10:30 is Gomez with an the last name Hill so Gomez with the lead would fall in between those two last night and so that's how you get when your student is scheduled to be there so Gomez with the Z 10 a.m. to 10:30 on Wednesday the 11th hey let me do another example real quick Martinez and you'll notice we have a lot of Tina I am here 7th grade Mikey just regular Martinez would fall between Leon and Martina Sanchez I put all of the amethyst together or all grade levels or maybe would make it easier for me so this is we're just regular Martinez so if it was Steve Martinez what example would be a seventh grader between 11 and 11:30 on Wednesday the 11th so that's how you read the last name again it was easier for me because I didn't have a homeroom don't know if yet for me to come up with the schedule if you have any questions please email me my email is next to my name and I will tell you on what day you are scheduled all I need is your title for a level and full name and I will email you back with a day are you supposed to be thank you. Call parents play the schedule is not meant to stress anyone out if you miss it and you come at the wrong time it's okay we're just trying to figure out how we can organize hundreds of students to come we don't want everyone going up we don't want 500 shooting showing up at 10 so it's okay if you miss the band and you don't quite know where the the two letters. It's okay show up we're not going to turn you away as you can see if it works as much as we can so that we can avoid long lines to get everything is being done to consider you we could do it easier and do a different format but we're trying understand your schedule we're trying to minimize the time that you've been on campus because we don't want you having that the social distancing with other people talk we're trying to minutes don't get it it's okay wherever you think you go we're not going to turn your back and we'll give you your book and we'll go out and hopefully if it works out your 9% efficient that's crazy because again everyone is spread out throughout the day okay alright did we find a video dr. Martinez there will be no drive-thru access don't have a drive-through option for everything will be Park and pick up walk in and pick up here we go apparent you know that that's not the same as a 10 person tour but we wanted to give you kind of a brief overview the important thing of that videos where the Bungalows are especially if your sixth grade student off because most of our sixth grade teams are in Bangladesh now in those hallways will be stopped and this is why I need to emphasize again that you need to be patient with us because they're going to be long lines trying to scan and let in the school you can only imagine again 1500 so we're going to be stretched out quite a bit and I'm going to have people both in the front and in the back if there are things that you were trying to get if it's possible we may have to tell you make an appointment back because of prior priority will be to scan student let them have some food and to go to class and to help you guys especially those that are new to the school we love to a commercial question point out where it where the Bungalows and rooms are we will be there so parents is there other things that are not actual absolutely critical to the to your child at day do you have to go beyond scanning and supervision the guy is into the room as me that especially for new students okay any questions I can answer for you right now this is your time dr. Martinez a couple of questions after seeing popping up first one again on textbook email me I can tell you exactly when you're supposed to be here for textbooks my email is next to my name Morse code a r l a u s d. Net I'll be glad to send you the exact time that you supposed to be easier for the other question that I keep seeing popping up on Kobe a result a lot of you were saying that you tested on Monday and you did not get your results Please be aware that even though if you texting was on here at school and it will be done again here at school on Monday it is not something that the school overseas I unfortunately I give let me give you the number and I'll also throw in the chat when I'm done talkin for you to call and try to find out what is going on with your results the number is 213 443 1300 again I know it's not some announcer that you are wanting to hear but it is not something that will receive the school unfortunately the covid hotline 213-443-1300 is what you would call to find out what is going on with your results if you have not received it thank you I do have a couple questions I try to answer enrollment yes we are open from romanatwood whatever reason you can't complete it online reports the front of the school we have someone who will do the product before I allow you to enter and we do have stop available to help for the enrollment process throughout the week and what you will look like a true that we're having with that's right when asked blockers to give us additional guidance on what social distancing means we have not received that at this time the issues that come up with out-of-state spacing and number two is the use of lockers in the locker room so we don't know yet I will tell you that if the district is requiring that the fitness G and all the same address and they will be patient with us I've already reached out to the district to give us additional guidance on that as soon as we get more information on that we will we will get that out to you okay I'll but we we have concerns about that it's up to the parents to and so we're concerned about that is up to you want to make sure that we maximize social distancing keeping us safe so once we get him more information on both lunch scheduling and Locker used and we will share that with you as well. I wish you'd have an ID this year I do believe so again but we have to be flexible with this is as of right now we don't know what school is going to be like in 2 weeks and maybe in a month on the road so but if every time we will bring back everything I'll be happy to earn the pass included in your book we already do uniform supposed to gas first day of the school again if you already have color match the color as best as you can if there for whatever reason you know we understand you have some donations we have uniforms as well to that weekend Sharon there other things that we can try to do as well I'll let you see her a couple more questions not a problem and I seem to be another question that did pop-up Heron will uniforms be required on the first day of school and the answer is yes again we are hiding standards-based and we would like all of our students to model you know this is what it means to come to John Burroughs Middle School do it again please try to do your best to have all of us in uniform starting to 4 day of school and if you have any questions and parents I'm just going to say this as a parent myself when last year when we were transitioning back into kind of interest in learning and I took my daughter to get her covid test District happened to Luther test and so it was very I had I think I could get at least two or three times so I know how difficult it can be to get all that in place so if you do need additional support please contact anyone of us and we will try to again offer at wherever we can but anything having to do with the daily possum for that we have to do with it separate entity so please call me back hotline if they do not offer you any further support contact one of us 90 dr. Martinez he is an advocate of our parents and he will quickly send an email out to the eye doctor Martinez all right are there any other teams are there any other questions I keep coming up the baby passes what we need in our system in order for us to be able to contact fresh contact rating of mean who was on campus and where were they control our way of keeping talk about is the baby pop we have access to with cornerback board and anybody who gets scammed in for the day using the daily pass that's a QR code to wish I had one in front of me but I don't I don't have one on my phone the actress from the students already so if you have their iPad they can get their daily pass through the iPad it will give them hold on one second appropriate so it will give them the daily pass and a QR code that looks kind of like this I don't like people can share if what you're going to get. Will you present at the door what dr. Martinez said we're going to be scanning students in each and every student and staff member I will need to scan the daily pass in order for us to be cheap contact tracing jobs robot of possible girls website all along the right-hand side are our quick and easy tabs this is actually what I used to go into and get grab my daily pass as well in the morning so here we passed and there is a link to take daily pass at lausd.net and here you just login depending on what your role is so as a parent I would log in and this is where you needed your parents no information because that's what your username and your password would be once you sign in what I'm going to do and I'm going to stop by there right and I'm going to sign in one site once you find that you then you just be asked couple of health questions and let me see if I can bring that up really quickly all they do is ask you a couple of health questions you answer those questions and quick and easy you get your daily pass verification of parent student for 13 or older and get their own daily past employees students time login so that's mostly our 7th and 8th graders they can get Home Depot fall in the other category that would be the parents thanks for everything is on our website if you just take a moment to explore it will show you if you look on my screen I just logged in with my information and it just says what would you like to do would you like to book an appointment this is where you would submit your external test or because you did receive a negative covid test somewhere else this is where you would submit that or your vaccination record if you have it and but this is where I would go to get my to get my baby okay and I'm at John Burroughs Middle School next and these are your daily health check question so I do not I am not exhibiting these symptoms at this time no and I have not been near anyone the password he did okay not the end once you click proceed then you get your daddy Miss Lee I'd like to mention I saw a couple questions yes you are we welcome you to show your daily pass on your school iPad and the there were a couple questions are on access to that for an incoming parents I don't think we meant that are iPads come with Jada so they don't need to be connected to the Wi-Fi so are we have to do our Verizon program or I've had to do come with data so you are able to get your daily pass on your iPad and she needs to do it on their iPad are there any other questions that we can answer live in the Q in a box I know I saw one regarding PE uniform the first day of school you we are not requiring students to bring their PE uniform another the first 3 days and your teachers the PE teachers will be advising when you will need to bring those uniforms back one question sorry about the daily pass I can do just show their results unfortunately the district is discontinuing the use of a paper I daily passes they are requiring us to use the daily packed up our website for us. I believe the answer correct me if I'm wrong doctor machine are they cannot restore the results would be allowed to come in they must process bed right now yeah because they need to have a guy I need to be on top digit we need to be able to look it up on a computer if you need it an inductor making it I just wanted to add because I know people are practicing you know, playing with the daily pass app and so some people have successfully been able to feed results and beat are able to generate a pass like for today they just want to make sure we're clear of that you will need one for the day that you are coming to school if you have to generate that on that day and that was I think that is there was a little bit of confusion on that song again on the day that the child's coming that is the day that you generate the pass for that day and each day thereafter I did see a question I don't know if it was answered as a nasty if parents have to be vaccinated or or something I get her to get the book I did see that and I did some high school with some type of we're not doing that no it but we do as we are doing the screening as you're coming in to make sure and in your art of being allowed to come in with your child to pick up the book thing and then leave without having all those extra back Phoenician things I'm talking like that let me see her and I know that was a question regarding restroom we do have gender-specific restrooms as well as gender-neutral restrooms parents if you have any you know one of the administrator then we will be more than happy to assist all within the hallways and everything all right we are nearing almost an hour and a half into our product protocol we will still have a color and an isolation area and means that if you get a call and your child didn't meet the screen requirements or something develops during the school day we are expecting you to pick up your child immediately it would be people working and guidance medical isolation and quarantine and depending on the cases and the way the cases we will notify parents one of the things that we're looking out for with all of this is clusters want to make sure that there is no posture going on at berla I turn you don't want to be in the news for for pasta coming out of here so we're doing our best but we do have to notify you and again as we get this is all preliminary information remember we're doing this if those of you who've had children you've noticed that we both in the school years earlier and earlier when I first started out of the classroom we would we would have all of this happened in the first week of school and now we moved to 3 weeks out and so a lot of this is preliminary information much more information in detail will be sharing beginning of the week with this child we will have food in Orange Beach and we will talk about daily pass again all of this app will have workshops for parents in Parent Portal all of that would be available when school right now our focus is to get those textbooks and iPads and cogat testing done so we can open the school year smooth as possible and we want flexible to the things we want to make sure that your child has every single thing they need in case things change I'll be want to be flexible and kissing strange okay thank you I just got a one follow-up question for navigation had any student 13 or older can get their own daily pass that means for us mostly of 7th and 8th graders are able to do that so few questions about 12 years old if you are 12 and under which would mean your parent log-in under the parent account add you as a guest and then we can prop is a daily pass for you if you have any questions please email me and I can send you screenshots of what it all looks like so that stuff what you need to do your parents to add new under their account of a guest if you are married and all of that and then you'll be able to get a daily pass for you under the apparent one experiment no wonder things about the iPad that we had mentioned that we are very Verizon Grand that iPad has a data plan on it so it has internet actually built into it so that's one of the things that makes it stand apart from other schools that have I are iPads have data plans on it information when does school year start and if there's any issues with the iPads will have another team that will be available to to make sure we get that done and we had hired attendance rate for online schoology and why the reasons is because you were an I-Pass when we've been a technology school for at least 67 years and so we tend to be ahead of the curve and do things and report it to me in Italian. switch to online learning immediately because all the time real quick because I do I do I did see a couple of question there's no need to print the baby bop a screenshot of it it's enough if they do it on their iPad and you can give you a screenshot of the daily pass and that will be enough but no need for you to be Printing and every day are we do that I may or may not have the technology to be able to do that they can even take a screenshot or a picture with their phone most of our students have their phone and show up my parents regarding food they're supposed to be able to go get clarification on that today but I believe they are supposed to be three meals available to all students regardless of income if the like a light breakfast snack in the morning the regular lunch and then a bag of food to take home so they're supposed to be three meals being provided throughout the school day so again I see some of your dietary yes you are welcome to it that you are lying I want for your child when they can pick him up too any other questions do parents make sure that you know that are there any good day walking to the car and said we would do our best to to make sure that it's a great day for them my foot traffic parents I'm going to tell you something right now I've been on leave for a bunch baby I just recently started being able to go in the car and come here. Traffic is horrible and it's going to be bad give yourself extra time you need a routine now now now now and not the day before I felt those of your family that and again I have one in college now and wouldn't have school either so we want to reduce the stress in the morning we don't want to rush in the morning if you want to avoid accidents we want to put all that so give yourself extra time to start waking up a little earlier every day and get into a routine prepare make alternate route I believe at least from the way I come to there is Construction in an Arlington near Bennett I think there's some construction so there's delays there and I thought construction somewhere else and Crenshaw Crenshaw and Pico I think they were construction going on his way so be mindful if you haven't been driving the school reading the recent months take a quick drive during the day if you're able or in the weekend is there any construction don't there a lot I don't know if the Google Maps shows all the construction data but I was very surprised there's a lot of building going on a lot of road work being done and then we will be a separate meeting that will have two parents to give him a construction training that we have going on here during the school week all right anything else anything else I have to do a Bentley of each parent and have access to the same student on each of their account as a matter of fact for school in each parent have a different pin number for each student so for example I have two kids my daughter and my son was in high school my wife and I each have our own separate accounts with different Penn State safety feature but yes you can actually have account so that if Mom can not do the daily pass back in front of you I do be mindful that if your parents if you if you double Park you will be cited I'm not responsible for the website there is parking enforcement so do you know that any agency that protects your vehicle you have to adjust it with them but they're not having no there can I make calls and ask him to forgive those tickets sign I got that happened in the past I guess we're not going to let the parents going in with the students again because we have very good supervision here we monitor everything once we let all the infant me to switch gears and make sure that was a tapas are up and running and we get the remote did not get textbooks tonight that are going and it's possible we may even possible all right anything else we've had a long meeting it's going into lunch time and we'll have to see him in the afternoon again so we will be posting the video and all this information online on our website okay so please be sure you visited maybe at the end of the day we will have all this information posted if you want to see the video again and go over it again music principal I'm a little concerned about sharing a little bit too much of what the campers looks like for for for anyone that's not a part of the school community and so it's from a safety inspector but I'm a put that anyway what should I do haven't you want to look at so map it's on Google anyway right if you Google Burroughs Middle School you see the outlines but I am concerned about safety and and and and and I want to make sure that we don't get out too much information that can pose a safety issue first. If I if I if I will be online if you have any specific questions Google Maps I think our school comes up on theirs. You thank you for those of you who have an email I received quite a few of them already about the textbook I will answer hopefully within the next 30 minutes if you haven't Monday and you have not received the text you need to call that 800 number and please do not miss my niece because I have not received any other day after Monday for covid-19 testing so that means we will have to excuse your child I was one of the questions doctor Martinez in a long line and so please minimize the stress lips death of a follow-up to that if you know of any other LAUSD school that is offering the test next week you are welcome to go to those fools at well they will take a student from the district at other schools of what we joke last Monday this Monday from other school walking and they drink everybody is just the waiting to get your test results please do so as soon as that takes much longer than the covid test results to come back from La unified if you're doing it from a private but you know a family practitioner please upload with rose gold result it takes at least three to four days for them to upload information into the daily platform my son and daughter have it checked out there on Monday and I just got yesterday the email that says that they had been approved for the day I was going to say if you want them my destruction try to do it with in LA with a you can. The point of using the student ID and everything goes uploaded you do have to do a little bit of extra work if you don't you can you go to Kaiser or wherever you need to go you can't have to take a couple extra steps to make sure that's uploaded and it's uploading on time alright then but with that being said we appreciate your feedback we appreciate you know what we're going to end up meeting now we we have to take a look and see how I feel ready for next week and we have to get ready for another copy Monday afternoon so hopefully next week as you are picking up textbook and all that so thank you very much

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