001Welcome hot dogs to the February Community Schools of Frankfurt town hall. Today's town hall will be a district communication to parents regarding online registration and the CSF philosophy when it comes to virtual learning on weather closing days. Thank you for tuning in and taking time out of your day to listen to important information on both topics. My goal for this town hall today is to share two important pieces of information. one, the importance of parents, guardians submitting your child's registration prior to next school year, which is August 5, 2026, and the factors considered in delaying and closing school and the reasons why CSF has not utilized virtual learning days when so many other districts use these virtual days. If you are a current parent of a student in the Community Schools of Frankfurt, you know,
002leading up to this school year, we implemented an online registration. In the past, we would only ask new families to uh register at the beginning of the year and we did a paper registration at that time. The downside to only new families registering is that we had a lot of incorrect data in our student management system because student information changes uh from addresses, phone numbers, emergency contracts, etc. It is imperative that all returning students get registered for classes every year. We also know that in this first year of implementation, we had some glitches and confusion about which link to use to register. With this stated, we have made adjustments to the system to make the process more simple and efficient for returning families as well as new families to the district. On March 2, we
003will open up fall registration for returning families. We need every returning student to be registered to ensure we have correct information for each student. We realized during a recent security drill that we had a lot of students at one school who did not have emergency contacts listed due to families who did not register the returning students. As you can imagine, if we do not have the contacts listed, we can't release a child to someone who is not on that contact list. This is one very important reason we need every student registered each and every year. On March 2, Community Schools of Frankfurt parents, we ask you to take the time between March 2nd and the beginning of next school year, which is August 5th, to register your child. Registration will involve reviewing existing information, revising
004addresses, phone numbers, contacts if needed, and filling out annual forms. This process will take less than 20 minutes per child. Accuracy with yearly registration allows for accurate student information, accurate student numbers to help with staffing, student safety during the school year, and the ability to communicate effectively with families. At this time, we're going to take a break and go to Eric Farley's Frankfurt fun facts. Welcome back to another episode of Farley's Fun facts. Today I'd like to talk about our community prek program here at the Community Schools of Frankfurt. Currently we have four community prek classrooms. They operate from Monday through Friday and they are full day programs. Something very unique about our community prek classrooms here at the community schools of Frankfurt is that they are operated by licensed full-time teachers as well as
005a full-time pair professional. Our classrooms do not exceed 22 students here at the community schools of Frankfurt. It's a great opportunity for anybody who turns four years old prior to August to come and be a part of a program that we have seen great results in. And what I mean by great results is that 98% of our kids who attend our pre-K program pass what's called the kindergart kindergarten readiness assessment. Meaning they have knowledge of letter sounds, names, as well as basic mathematics and other skill sets that are offered through what's called the prek foundations which are essentially are the state standards. Our prek program is topnotch and something we want to continue continue to see here at the community schools of Frankfurt. If you're interested in registering your child, please make sure you contact
006Blue Ridge Primary or Sunrest Elementary. That's all for Farley's fun facts. Have a great day, hot dogs. Welcome back, hot dogs. I hope you enjoyed that Farley Frankfurt fun fact. Winter weather has been in hibernation for the past eight years. It has been six school years since we had three or more school cancellations due to weather. In 2018 2019, we canceled four times. Before 2018-19, it was 20145 that experienced five closings due to weather. Three of the five were in January. And before that, it was the 20134 school year with eight closings and seven of the eight of those closings were in January. Each year, the board approves a school calendar two years out with four built-in snow days. The calendar committee is meeting currently to create the 2027 2028 calendar. These days are built
007into January. These makeup days, one is in January, two in February, and one in April. If we have more than four weather days, the days will be added to the end of the year, as in the case this year. if we have any more. This of course impacts graduation. But most of all, these days added take place after all of the end of the year summit of state testing and instruction timeline for the school year. We will explore adding some more makeup days in in March or April. Some have asked why don't we offer virtual learning like a lot of other schools in Indiana. Well, if we learned one thing from three months students were not in person due to the corona virus pandemic, there was a mass amount of learning loss that we are
008now just coming out of five years later. Virtual instruction at its best pales in effectiveness to live in-person instruction. Virtual learning especially in the elementary school lack the effectiveness to provide academic growth and also it requires a parent to be home to assist. We know that this is difficult for families in most situations with virtual learning days. Breakfast and lunch do not get served and are not provided by the school. Some staff such as bus drivers, pair professionals, they lose out on days of work or multiple days of work depending on the type of virtual learning that occurs. The final burning question that you may have is how in the world do you decide on not closing, closing, or delaying school? Well, this decision starts with a partnership that I have with uh the other
009area superintendent in Clinton County along with two superintendents in Carol County. When a weather event is forecasted, we all begin sharing thoughts and opinions about the impending forecast or the current conditions and the impact on the school delay or closing. For cold temperatures, I use the National Weather Windshield Chart. This chart enables me to to decide uh how cold is too cold for snow and ice. It depends on reports from the county highway, the Indiana Department of Transportation, Clinton and Carroll County Superintendent, Frankfurt Police Department, police chief, county travel status, and school parking lot status. For fog, it depends on the amount of vis visibility at the time and the staff and students arriving and driving at school. All decisions made regarding school closing and delays are made with the safety of students and staff
010in mind. I hope all of you spread the word to ensure that we get all community schools of Frankfurt students registered for school prior to August 5th. I hope you also have a better understanding about all of the nuances that are considered when making decisions about school closings or delays. All decisions made are considered with the safety of students and staff in mind. Signing off from the hot dog town hall at Frankfurt High School. Have a wonderful day and enjoy roaming with Roa at the Sunrest Elementary prek classroom. Thank you. I hope you enjoy this session of Roaming with Roa. I'm at Sunrest Elementary in the uh preschool classroom and uh I'm I'm here today to ask kids what they love about Sunrest Preschool. Uh always great to hear the answers kids give me and
011uh especially from our littles. So enjoy this session of Roaming with Roa at Sunrest Preschool. Mr. Ragsdale is going to put this on camera and you guys are going to be in stations, I think, and then then Mrs. Miller will send you over and I'm going to ask you the question, what do you love about Sunrest Preschool? So, be thinking of that right now. What's our letter of the week? >> G. So, you have the uppercase G and the lowercase G. Uppercase G's are red, lowercase G's are yellow. What is this a picture of? >> A present. Now, does P- present start with the G-g sound? >> No. So, what's another word for present? >> Gift. Gift. Okay. All right. Do we know what we're doing at each station? >> Do we play during this
012time? >> No. >> Because if you play during work time, what are you not going to do during play time? >> Oh, then we will not play during work time or during play time. You work during work time. you play during playtime. Okay? If you're playing and messing around and not doing the activities that I have planned, then you're gonna have to do them when we play >> because that is how our brains learn. Understand? >> Okay. Are you ready to show everyone how great you are? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Look up at the board. I want you to quietly with walking feet find your station and go to it. >> Isel, do you need help? What are you guys doing in this station today? >> I'm matching the letter. >> You're You're matching the
013letter. Okay. Well, I I I'd like to ask you a question. Is it okay if I ask you a question? Bryce, what do you love about Sunrest Preschool? >> I'm working with Mrs. Amber. >> All right. >> Doing sisters. >> I like M Skittles. >> Giving you Skittles. How do you earn Skittles? >> To be good. >> Oh, okay. Do it. working hard in your classroom. All right. Thank you, Liam. Can you can you guys tell me what you're doing in your station right here? >> Um on the station and the keys locking. >> Oh, you're locking the keys. And the keys have Do they have letters on them? >> YEAH. LOOK. >> OH, >> I HAVE LOCKING KEYS. >> What letter is that? What letter do you have? >> P. >> You have P.
014What do you have? What letters do you have? >> What letter? Can you tell me? >> R N. >> R. >> Yeah. I love Miss Miller and Miss Amber. >> You love Miss Miller and Miss Amber. >> I I love I love everybody. >> You love everybody. Okay. >> Stations. >> You love stations. Okay. >> I love Valentine's. >> You love Valentine's. All right. That that's coming up. Get some good get some good stuff during that time, don't you? >> What? My name my name is My name is Dr. Roa. Do you have any questions for me? >> Do you have any questions for me? >> What question do you have? >> What question do I have? That was my question. I wanted to see I want to see the great things you're doing here
015in Sunrest Preschool. You guys are doing some really good wonderful stuff here. >> I love Valentine. >> Do I love Valentine? Yeah, I love Valentine's. Is that your only question for me? If I love Valentine? >> Yeah. >> What are you guys doing at your table here? You're you're cutting out what what are you guys cutting out? >> Letters. What do you love about Sunrest Preschool? >> Um library. >> You love the library. All right. >> Doing stations. >> You love your station time. >> Yeah. Playing. >> You love playing. You love it. Playtime. >> I act when we sing our ABCs. >> You love to sing the ABCs. Miss Morrow, what what is your role here in Sunrest Preschool? I'm a pair of professional and I go to different classes. >> You go to
016different classes? >> Yeah, I'm here for like 20 minutes with preschool and I help help around with centers. >> All right. Thank you very much. What are you guys doing at your station here? >> What letter is this? >> Coloring. >> You're coloring. Okay. What letter are you guys working on today? >> G. >> Letter letter G. Okay. What do you love about Sunrest Preschool? >> Station. My secret one. My secret butterfly. your secret one. >> Yeah. >> You have a secret station. >> Yeah, I have a secret station. >> Oh, you have a secret station. What is your secret station? >> Um um cable. >> What's that? >> Red cable. Like you're working at >> Okay. Like they're working at there. That's That's your secret station. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> I like to
017have movie theaters. >> Oh, movie theaters. Okay. >> Games. All right. You have a lot of fun in here, don't you? What do you love about Sunrest Preschool? Feeding the hate monster. >> You're doing what? >> Feeding the hate monster. >> Feeding the monster. >> The heart monster. >> The heart you just did at the station. >> Oh, the heart monster. Okay. Thank you. >> Feeding the heart monster. That must have been a great station there. All right. Thank you, Mrs. Miller. What do you do here at Sunrest Elementary? >> I'm a preschool teacher. >> Okay. And uh what is your favorite thing about preschool at Sunrest? I love the aha moments when finally we're learning our letters every single day and they just finally click >> and they're so excited. >> Say please. >>
018Well, I am just so impressed about how all of your kids knew exactly what to do and where to go and when they sat down at their station they were doing exactly what you asked them to do. What a great group. >> We have tried very hard, haven't we? >> Cuz we have to get ready for kindergarten. >> And they have their routines down. They've got their letters down. I love it. So, thank you, Mrs. Miller. Appreciate it. Yes. >> Mrs. Santiago, what do you do here at Sunrest Elementary? >> I'm the bilingual secretary. >> Bilingual secretary. Uh, we just asked a question to preschoolers. What do you love about the Sunrest PreK program? >> Oh my gosh, so much actually though. Um, they those kids like seeing their faces light up when they learn
019their letters and their sounds. That's like I think that's the biggest one. >> The aha moment is what this is about. That's right. Call it. Yep. That aha moment. >> All right. Thank you, Mrs. Scott. Uh, I asked, "What do you do here at Sunrest Elementary?" >> I am the ECA treasure/ secretary. >> All right. What do you love most about the Sunrest PreK program? >> Uh, I like the littles. I like the fact that they can learn and get ready for kindergarten. >> I do, too. All right. Thank you, Mrs. Scott. What is your favorite thing about Sunrest Preschool? >> Doing the work. All right. Do you do you have a favorite letter of the alphabet? >> Yeah. >> What What is your favorite letter? >> A. I love it. Thank you. >> Do
020the work and listening. >> Doing the work and listening. Thank you. What do you like to do at Sunrest Preschool? >> I like to do >> You like to play >> Numbers. Okay. >> Work. >> You love to work. I love it. Thank you. >> Playing. >> All right. >> You love to work. Thank you. I love it. Eagle tickets. >> Eagle tickets. All right. Thank you. I hope you enjoyed this session of roaming with Roa at Sunrest in the preschool classroom. Kids are great. Hope you were impressed with I mean I watched kids just go to their stations. They knew exactly what to do. They've got their routines down and the majority of them enjoy working. So great to see that here at Sunrest. you send your kids to Sunrest or Blue Ridge in
021the preK program, you will not be disappointed. The the kids learn a great deal in a year and the teachers do a great job of preparing them for kindergarten. So, hope you en enjoyed this session of roaming with Roa. Thank you.