001Hello everyone. This is Bridget Qatar, director of student policy and school operations. My pleasure to share with you our recommended 2025 2026 student, family, academic, and co-curricular handbooks. As you can see, we have several active handbooks across the school district. There is one specifically for elementary, middle, and high schools. And then covering co-curricular rules and regulations, there's a handbook for grades 9 through 12 and also specific one for grades six through eight. We also have a Jedi virtual school student and family handbook and also one specifically for Sun Prairie 4K program. District policy JA which is titled student handbook development and review guides our annual process through this activity. It's grounded in the belief that we believe our handbooks should promote a safe and positive learning environment and ultimately support high student achievement. We develop,
002review, and revise the handbooks annually as a collaborative effort between school principles, school staff, and district office leaders. We're looking to ensure our content is clear for student and families, that it's accurate, and ultimately that it aligns with district and board policy and any state and federal laws and regulations at play. And then once complete, we bring it to you annually for review before we finally publish it for students and families. Some of the updates for this school year include the following. At the elementary school level, we updated language on expectations for school volunteers and school visitors. We added an electronic link um to the district guidelines for the advanced learner pro program, making that easily accessible to families to review and then did a general review and update of our student attendance and student
003absence language. At the middle school level, we also added that link to the district guidelines for the advanced learner program. We did some revised language work around digital learning, especially around the use of schoolisssued devices. We updated some language around student deliveries to school, specifically around um balloons, noting that some students are um allergic to um latex balloons. And then we also again revised language around student attendance and student absences at the high school. Some of the changes were a bit more granular. We added to the grading scale a code for medically excused and no credit earned so that those could be used were applicable. We specified um the details around issuing graduation honor cords so that was accurate and up to date. And then more generally like at the elementary middle school levels also
004updated the attendance and student absences language for athletics and co-curriculars. We followed the direction of WIAA and any changes that they were recommending we ensured were also included in our handbook and then more specifically updated our athletic code violation information to ensure that it aligns with information in the general student handbook. And at the virtual level and at 4K we didn't have any substantial changes for the upcoming school year. So that's a highle overview of the process for you. We welcome any questions that you may have about the student or family handbooks. And I especially want to thank all of our leaders and my colleagues who helped um review um each handbook carefully and critically analyze the content and make some recommendations. So it really is a collaborative and joint effort. Thank you very much.
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