001good afternoon chris cooper here i wanted to give you a quick superintendent update from clearwater schools i've been meaning to get this out for a couple days and have some things like to share so first of all it's exciting teachers are back and working hard many have been working a lot over the summer but on last thursday we had our new teachers come back we have some amazing new staff and then on monday all teachers reported and it was exciting to get to go around and see everybody hard at work preparing for whatever the school year might bring for us we are still on schedule to start school september 1st next tuesday you will if you haven't already you will be receiving quite a bit of information from your school and obviously we're still under
002the mask order so nothing's really changed as far as that goes we will be requiring masks for all people in our school buildings we will have health screenings including temperature scanning upon entry of the building and one thing we'd ask just to make sure even even at the first school it's hard to not be there but if your children are sick that that they would stay at home because that always creates some problems but this year it will cause a lot of issues if we have symptomatic students even if it's not covered if those students come to school you'll also be receiving some information from our school nurses sometime soon the other communication is parents you should receive this week if you haven't already is uh teachers reaching out to you to schedule a parent
003teacher conference talked about this a little bit uh in an earlier update but we are having parent-teacher conferences before school which is a little different but we want to share some things with you and then learn about your children and be prepared to give them the best education we can so we'll be reaching out um hoping to conduct phone or via video conversations with each family before we start school another update there's been a lot of media attention about activities and what's going on with that the kansas high school activity association is also meeting i believe on friday to make some decisions about possibly an alternate fall schedule that will be in the spring and our athletic directors are keeping well informed about that and up to date on those things as of now our
004activities our fall sports and other extracurricular activities are on we've had students participating in those one thing i did want to let you know as everybody in the area including our league will be limiting attendance from spectators at some of those events and we are working on a system so we can let people know how that will work and working out those details some some in our league are limiting spectators to two per participant in the event that night we're hoping to uh be able to have the space to social distance and and have more spectators than that we will be requiring again masks and distancing is possible in temperature techs for spectators at our activities as well i'm excited to get to see the students it's been great to have an opportunity to meet
005with staff and visit with them this week i want to close with saying i'm wearing a pen you probably can't see it but it says kansan's can and that was the logo from the state department of education a couple of years ago and i wear that pen to remind myself that we can do this and i know in clearwater we can do this so i hope everybody is ready and excited for school to start if your students remote we will be reaching out to you and talking about a remote open house and uh it will be virtual obviously but getting all all of our processes in place thanks for listening uh if you have any questions again feel free to reach out to me your schools are all we have staff in all the schools
006and um i know the principals are getting lots of questions but are also putting out communication to parents so give us a call if you have any questions or if you hear something that doesn't sound quite right we'd love to hear from you and be able to clarify anything that we can at that time that's all i have for today stay safe you