001of the AL core Alliance which is the network that oversees Harrison Morton and we're very excited for you to be able to come to this parent information you this evening um I have the distinct pleasure of being able to introduce the principal of Arison of the school uh Dr Carolyn Hamilton uh she's going to present a presentation giving uh updated information and then at the end of the presentation um if you have any questions uh there are some yellow cards that you can fill out and we'll take those questions to try to answer those before you leave all right without further Ado ladies and gentlemen Dr Carol H thank you and thank you so much for coming out for families we are very excited to see all these beautiful faces we we've been missed it's
002been too long that we haven't seen you so we're excited that we be getting to see you very very soon um as we know we have an incident morning to Virtual instruction over the last several days um we're at the point now where we will be to in person goes the there we go it's but that's okay so where transitioning back to um iners instruction we'll be using some temporary sites for our um inperson learning um this the plan that we have is to ensure that your students remain safe while continuing to um continue on their educational Journey okay so why are we moving again our top priority is to keep our students Safe Keep Your children safe okay so we are going to be relocating um this at the building at harison and they'll
003be testing a quality and some other procedures just to make sure that everything is good for us come back and that it would be a healthy this is just a temporary solution permanent we're not sure how long it will last but um you'll continue to get updates as the time goes on so our temporary School assignments if your child is in grade six they will be going to St Francis school that's at 10:33 Washington Street 7th grade L tric Dy Center um that's 7 18 Hamilton Street grade 8 gold te will be right here at D high school and gr eight purple team will go to the William Head alternative building our special Program locations autistic support students will report to tr Middle School at 8:51 nor 15 Street life skills salmont Middle School 709
004West Mass and our emotional support students will report to Rob Middle School 102 sou Street all of our specialized programs will continue continue under interrupted and teachers and support staff will relocate to their assigned programs important dates obviously today your students um engaged in a synchronous learning so they were assign um activities in Google Classroom that they can complete this gave our teachers staff the opportunity to go to the news sites and start preparing for when your students children come Monday so Monday March 3rd is going to be the first day at these new school locations um for our regular University instruction we have this um information session tonight however at each new location there will be an open house tomorrow at lric uh Willam pen and here at D it will be 11 to
00512 and at St Francis it'll be 3 to 4 that gives you can stop by see the location see the areas where um children will be engaged in learning um at those sets Transportation so we work together with our transportation department and the director is here and he will talk to you a little bit about busing good evening my name is Andrew Kap and I'm the director of Transportation for alentown school district um so when we had this problem in front of us we went to St our school bus contractor and asked for additional busing for these students to get to the locations that they will be going to um so everyone I do believe this afternoon was emailed a copy of the times that buses will depart Harrison Morton to go to those schools
006they are waved out so that there's not over gestion at one time but we're going to ask that you don't wait till the 7:45 bus so we don't have 100 kids trying to get on at at 7:45 those of you that can walk to williamon or walk to Elric or de um when we looked at the numbers that's what we accounted for that we would still have students walk to those locations because when we looked on the map of where you're located you're like a block or two away from them um so that is the bus schedule that St is going to be doing along with that you will be receiving tonight or tomorrow morning um Lanta has come out with their schedule to help everyone um there is quite detailed so it says in
007the morning what their plans are what their afternoon plans are the same buses will still be running they'll make a stop at Harrison Morton pick up some leftover kids and either take them to St Francis or William P so there is a lot of busing and Logistics going into this to make sure that we get every student where they are supposed to be now come Monday morning in Harrison Morton there will be a team of probably six or seven of us as administrators making sure that the kids get on the right buses there will be signs in every bus window saying St Francis 6th grade l try to see seventh grade so we will make sure that everyone gets on the proper buses and gets to where they need to be um other than that
008Athletics I think we're working with on busing for that I believe that's almost done and that will come out to for the busing for that probably over the weekend other than that I think that's about it thank you um and we also have a direct of Child Nutrition here to talk to you a little bit about the meals good evening my name is Gina Jenna I am the director of Child Nutrition and we just wanted to assure you that we will be providing meals for all students at all locations so when students arrive at any one of the sites that they are getting learning at we will be providing breakfast upon arrival and students will eat separate from um the other students say at De and at William pen um at St Francis the sixth
009graders are the only kids there so they will eat all together and then um we will be providing lunch as normal um every day to all the students during the school day um you spoke briefly about Athletics so we're set the bus for that but the athletic program will continue as usual there's no real changes for that um all other 21st century after school program we're also working on getting that back R um that's not finalized yet but that's in the work our academic support special education services continue without interruption or programs like um but is going to continue there's no interuption to that as well that is counselors are assigned to locations according to their grade some of them will be sharing locations like 8th grade we have two sites so Mrs Sal will
010um to between those two sites gr um one site this Ken will be here with sixth grade so that's when we continue as well our call supports we also continue um the arranging spacing for kids fees we will have our um PA of health program set up as well as it's accessible to students our teachers and staff teachers and support sta grade level program so if your child is in Seven Grade and they had Mr Wilber your child will still have Mr Wilber so the schedules and changing teach is not changing um all of the the scheduling remains as is email updates so you'll continue throughout the course of the time that we are displaced you'll continue to receive updates via Class Dojo um emails social media and all the other formats that we use
011through Messenger that's going to continue the district office also will be posting updates on our website it um and support this that way there will be a document forth coming with frequently asked questions because as we've been engaging in these informational sessions there are lots of questions that are coming up so we together a frequently Asked question cheat sheet that you can um refer to if you have any questions please reach talk to your child's School leader um or call even call S office but please reach out to us if you have any questions whatsoever we appreciate your understanding of your patience during this time I know that one of the questions that's come about especially at the high schools and at you know um William pen building is the interaction between the two students
012so I just want to assure you that our students amort students are completely separated from the rest of the building so here at dur they'll be in the gwing that we know interaction between the high schoolers and our kids we come they come in at a different time they leave dismiss at a different time they eat lunch as [Music] before question so if you have any um questions that you'd like to as we're going to just ask that you write them down on the other parts of in your hand we'll take the cards and try to answer some of the questions we'll do a question to answer session for a um a bit and then um what will happen if you have any um once we have answered most of the questions of all of
013the questions then if you have some other issues of concerns that you want to address we'll be here so if you can have individual discussions with us individually if it's related to a specific student issue okay all right so at this time if you have some questions um that not been answered or um you're interested in getting that information you can just raise the uh yellow cards and we can um take those and try to answer those questions at this time than and stuff like that the 21st century so as soon as we know everything is finalized that information will come up but in the me yeah good evening my name is Jenna monley I am the chief op off her family and Community engagement and I just wanted to address the 21st century question
014so if there are any families here who are interested in participating the 21st century our intentions are to continue to provide services and pro active schol you should have received a telephone call from one of our team members um either not yesterday today asking did you receive a phone call okay I can see if you were still interested and so we have a um low number here write now about eight families who've indicated that they are still interested in receiving um after school programming so we're be working with our transportation team to ensure that you your um child will still be able to participate and so you'll receive more information shortly around what that Lessing will look like okay all right our first question are the buses coming in front of the school uh the
015buses will be coming on Turner Street correct so all of the buses said they come there'll be multiple buses to take the students to the different um sites they will arrive there and they will also drop them back off there after the school okay yes um we have talked to health services so all of our sites are expected to have nurses there to help support students um in the event of um anything that may happen any other question for [Music] so I'm going to have um the arrival time of the buses they wanted to get the arrival time bus dis some time bus the departure time at Harrison Morton for school buses was emailed to everyone today and I do believe there's copies out there there's copies of this out there this shows when they're
016leaving Harrison Morton on the way back it's too hard for me to really judge the kids get out at 2:35 we're hoping the buses leave by 2:40 again it's going to be like a first day of school where the buses are going to run a few minutes late so they should be at Harrison Morton we're saying about 255 um there's been some questions about some lant route specific and I know 441 I guess is what a lot of students use and I'll read this from there again this will be emailed to all of you either tonight or tomorrow morning and this is directly from L and it's also on their website now both morning route 441 trips will drop off students on Westbound Lyon and they'll be able to um between 7:25 and 7:35 the
017students can then walk to the shuttle buses at Harrison Morton and then there's one bus that come that will be at Harrison won at 7:45 and then they will go on to either St Francis or William P so the 441 trips will be running 5 to 10 minutes earlier than they have just so that they can make that stop at Harrison Morton then go on to where they need to go okay so that's the morning and I believe the afternoon bust apart St Francis at 2:45 they will drop off on uh second Turner and then continue on the 441 delayed approximately 10 minutes than what you're used to because it is coming from St Francis to Harrison then on to the east side route a second afternoon rounde 441 will depart from William pen which
018doesn't fact yes it does um at 2:45 students must wait at the eastbound fourth and Tilman again we'll make sure people are out there to get you moved to where you got to go you'll get on Fourth andman any William pen students living there Union couldn't catch any lancea Bus arriving at that stop students living near Maxwell and Handover are encouraged to week for 4:41 again this will all come out word for word what I'm reading it'll come out to you guys in an email and is also posted on Lance's website okay so it's all spelled out exactly like we do in other situations at the beginning of the year they really went through in a matter of 40 hours and rerouted some buses and did some stuff for us so I want to thank
019Lanta and I want to thank s for really over the last 48 hours coming through and making this work for our students uh this question says live on the east side not far from one of the pickups and Dro offs of the bus how will my son get to the school and back if I usually drop him off at the bus stop earlyer the bus would pick him up okay so um if I'm just can you come back second just very understand question all so he's going to address that with him they has specific to give it a specific place where that can be picked up so we have a question about um this question says can you switch the child from will pin to give and the reason the answer St I'm going tell
020you why each team is is the team the course eth grade is separated in the teams so that entire team is going to be going to um that particular whatever school that is of their Four Wind pin so that means that you someone have any of the same teachers that they had before if they go to another team and if each team is you know service students differently so um we want to make sure that we maintain Integrity of the stop student we want to make sure we maintain Integrity of the students educational program so that's why we are having to go to where all of the teachers are that they had all your so the second question was the same question okay are there any other questions that we have you write down and
021as I said um once we finish our question the answers uh session if there's something specific that you like to address we'll wait around and then we'll talk to you individually if it's a a student related issue okay all right um we're going to take about two more questions we'll take more if there more but e [Music] okay this question is lanta will depart 10 minutes early yes according to what Lanta is telling us they will be running 441 5 to 10 minutes earlier okay so you need to be what they're suggesting is to be out there 10 to 15 minutes before the time comes um Atlanta is running the buses 5 to 10 4:41 5 to 10 minutes early and then it says 4:41 is running late will the bus wait um 4:41 is
022leaving 10 minutes later then it normally does right now in the afternoon because they're going to hit s Francisco to Harrison Mor and then go on the route or William pen back to Harrison Morton and go on the route so they up they will be running a little later than normal to get to the East side because they're making additional stop for us on the way to go to the east side right so they will run a few minutes late please expect that especially the first day or two while we settle into this and get a routine all right um so we kind of answered the question but just to kind of go through some things at this particular point in time um we are asking that we're having students to go with their particular
023team that they've been on all year so all sixth graders we go to St Francis seventh grader we go to heal Tri and then of course eighth graders will go to um Willam pen and go to De High School um the other thing that we just want to back to understand as we talk about and just just wanted to kind of emphasize this when at the schools where students will be with other students uh the high schools for example the students would have their own separate entr they would have their they will come in at a certain time they will dismiss at a certain time they will not have any interactions with any in the high school students they won't eat lunch the high school students they will have their separate they will have their
024own lunch shift and they will also we also have our weapons devices and of course our own security there as well so we will do our very best to monitor because as you know I remember what priority is Safety and Security of all our students okay are there any other questions before we get ready to dismiss now if you have a very h okay um as far as uh all of our special ed classes will be going to um will be relocated to other middle schools to help support so that they programming will not be interrupted so uh whatever they are the program is here in Harrison whorton that will continue at the other Middle School um as far as I stated the entrances they will the middle school students will have separate entrances to
025come in uh they will dispense they will come in at a different time they will dismiss at a different time um of course as we stated we are also providing transportation for them so they won't be on any of the buses with uh any of the other students as much as possible um and as a say we are we will have our own security there to help and monitor the area where the students are going to be located all right so the school day begins at 8: as usual that has not changed and dismissal is at 2:35 so the daily schedule doesn't change it's just a fussing it's a little different and even the throughout the day the um the periods didn't change maybe we don't hear it there by a few minutes but nothing
026major no major changes um we try to keep everything as consistent as possible so ins students come back and get back quickly into a routine I just wanted to take a moment to introduce the other building leaders at Harrison Morton because these are the faces that you'll see as you visit your children um at the new so if your child is in sixth grade you probably already know Mrs Spinosa Maria Spinosa hello everyone I'm Maria if your child is seventh grade they probably know Miss bana Miss bana is our dean of students and she will soos will be at St Francis with the sixth graders Miss Guana will be at El triy with our seventh grade students they should take charge over there a little bit um and Mrs cter is our eighth grade assistant
027principal she'll be here at um D high school and then we have one more administrator who's not here today she'll be at William k at Trexler will be [Music] they change yeah there'll be a special ed facilitator as administrator at transfer I just can't think of the name right now okay and there will be also one at um South M and one at Rob as well I know yes I don't remember the others at the two sets so all all these questions an and answers will be on our low Q&A G okay so at track the name is going to be Miss Santana s a n t a a y a n Miss Len at South Mountain and Miss B at rock those will be the all right uh do we have any other questions
028all right at this time i' like to thank you all for coming out um we certainly are looking forward to seeing you tomorrow at the open houses and of course Mondays we're looking forward to seeing you at the different locations uh parents if you have any specific questions that You' like to ask specifically related to your child will be here in the front and you can follow these please come down have a wonderful evening thank you for coming out we will see you on Monday