Tioga School District

If you are picking up lunches IN A VEHICLE (doesn't include walking or biking), please wait in your car and the cooks will walk out and give you your meals. Again, it's not too late to sign up for lunch and breakfast! Call 701-664-2333 for more information.

A few tips as we continue with C-19: helping children continue to learn. We are here for the students and you as parents. Please email, call or text to let us know how we can help.

Attention Juniors and Seniors that ordered rings from Jostens: The ring plant has been closed due to COVID-19. They hope to have the rings sent out to those that have paid by mid-May. Contact Mrs. Klabo with any questions.

ATTENTION ALL STUDENTS and Parents! While we understand things have drastically changed with our school year, it is important to note that school is still in session and learning is still taking place. Grades still matter. Tioga Public Schools is not taking the challenge lightly and we expect the same of our students. We have truly encouraged all faculty members to operate with a “grace” mentality, understanding the challenges many of you are facing and not wanting to add to any frustration. Hopefully your educational experience is still challenging you to learn and apply new knowledge, yet not consuming your time and mentality. For high school students, we are NOT in a pass/fail mode. We are still taking grades and no changes have taken place with our grading procedures. We will still be issuing letter grade percentages. You can still fail courses and credit recovery options would then come in to play. Student’s future success was vital in making this determination. We do not want any students to be punished academically by this distance learning experience, however engagement and accountability remain vital. Your courses are still credit bearing courses. You must continue to earn credits as required for graduation. Future educational and scholarship opportunities are dependent on maintaining an equitable grade system. Most of our courses are Full Year courses and your Quarter 4 grades will carry their normal weight in final grades. Depending on your learning experience, instructors have been encouraged to enter a minimum of two grades per week on PowerSchool. Parents can still access PowerSchool to follow student performance. That being said, it is our hope that instructors HAVE changed their normal expectations and operations. This is a great opportunity to remove some of the barriers classroom education inherently faces and open the doors for teachers to teach “how and what” they may have always wanted to. Hopefully they have been able to narrow the focus to fewer, more critical standards and are finding ways to keep FUN in fundamental education. If you feel you are needing more, contact your teachers as differentiated instruction is very available in distance settings. Students, please accept your parents/guardians and their support. If they would like access to your Google Classroom or other materials to help you, share any required login information with them. It’s really the same as that daily connection with your classroom teachers. Elementary students will still be graded on a rubric scoring system, same as before. Rubrics Grading Scale: 4 – Exceeds Standard 3 – Meets Standard 2 – Approaches Standard 1 – Below Standard. We know our 4th quarter scores will not show a true reflection score of what they know, but we feel we can still get the standards out to students and give them a score for their 4th quarter efforts. We understand that they may be getting help at home or less help at home, but this will help us to reflect on what we need to readdress next fall with our students. Continue to communicate with the classroom teacher if your child is struggling and we can adjust instruction to help your child during this time of distance learning. Parents/guardians, we thank you for all the support you have given to students and teachers alike! This has been difficult on some families, and embraced by others. If there is anything we can do to help, please contact the school.

Call for Yearbook Pictures Grades 7-12 With the last quarter of school taking place by way of distance learning, and our spring sports canceled, we are short on pictures for this years publication. We would love it if you could send pictures of your online learning, and COVID-19 living to be featured in the 2020 Yearbook. It will help us fill the pages left blank because of this pandemic. Please email your pictures to kschaffer@piratek12.org with the subject line of: Yearbook Photos. Thank you in advance for your help. We look forward to seeing your pictures. - THS 2020 Yearbook Staff

Congratulations to the FBLA members that placed at the 2020 FBLA SLC! The National Leadership Conference will hopefully be at the end of June in Salt Lake City. I'm very proud of all the additional members that competed this year. Your hard work doesn't go unnoticed. -Mrs. Klabo

Tioga High School seniors and college alumni. The MonDak Area Stockgrowers Association application for scholarship deadline changed to May 1st, 2020. The application and information is located here> http://www.ndstockmen.org/foundation/foundation-scholarships/

THS Parents and Students: Tioga High School students interested in registering for Dual Credit with Williston State College - I have arranged a meet through Zoom with Williston State College Admissions. The attachments for Enrollment Guide, Early Entry Enrollment Form, and Class Schedules were emailed to your piratek12 account. Please check your email if you are interested in taking dual credit. We have scheduled the meeting for April 22nd from 12-1:30. Please look over the schedules ahead of time to see what courses you may want to take. If you have questions you can reach me at: 701-641-3255 or tlarson@piratek12 or http://doxy.me/mrlarsonsoffice Missing and thinking about all of you!

Just a reminder-it’s not too late to sign kids up for a Grab Bag lunch and breakfast. Call 701 664 2333 for more information and to add your kids’ names to the list!

Passing on a resource shared to us through Wilmac Spec. Ed. Unit. Parent Support Wilmac Multidistrict Special Education Unit has set up a Parent Support site. By following the link, you can schedule a time to speak with someone from within our behavioral health staff. This is open to all parents in the area! https://calendly.com/wilmac/parents For appointments in Spanish, please select a time on Tuesdays. Para citas en español por favor de seleccionar un horario disponible el Martes.

Good afternoon THS families! I would like to take some time to give a few updates. The first of which being the most important one to me. 1. Have a fantastic weekend celebrating Easter! Rejoice! Please take the four day weekend to enjoy with family and celebrate the Easter holiday in your special way. School can wait. 2. Students - broken record alert- PLEASE make sure you are checking your GClassroom account, piratek12.org email, and PowerSchool daily. I know many of you do not like communicating via email. We do not have a whole lot of options right now that work as well as email. Also, you must check in to your Advisory class every day. Our attendance is being simplified by this one simple task. We are making a lot of corrections to attendance, but it would be able to be managed daily through Advisory check in. 3. Seniors and Senior parents - I feel for you all in this very unsure time. I appreciate those of you that have reached out to us at the school with thoughts and ideas - all great - of ways to celebrate the Class of 2020 while not being in the building. Each year, we struggle getting the "needed things" from graduates such as pictures, forms for the paper, cap and gown measurements, etc., and that is when we are physically able to see you everyday. Now it has new challenges! Several parents have reached out with thoughts. We too would like to help, but honestly, we are swamped and are requesting you as parents to take the lead here! I would love to be able to commit more time for the different plans and ideas I have heard. And then, honestly, I worry about what the expectations would be in the future. I am going to try to set up a Senior Class listserv so that you can all share information with each other and help each other plan jointly to recognize the Class of 2020. If you are a Senior class parent and do not wish to be included, please let me know by calling the school (701.664.3606). 4. Locker room materials - If you would like your items from the locker rooms, please contact me at the school. We will make arrangements. 5. My recommendation to the school board at their upcoming meeting will be to forgive the final test policy for the Spring 2020 semester. More updates will follow. We have learned that distance education provides many challenges, but also many opportunities for students, families, and teachers. We are doing a great job! It is (mostly) getting a little easier. Parents, THANK YOU for all you have done to help. Many of you have been ultra-supportive of your children and teachers. I have encouraged "relentless communication" to our staff. I encourage students and parents to do the same! Everyone has their own unique circumstances to deal with. While this is not an ideal situation, learning is still expected to take place. Students are still to be held accountable. Grades still matter. Failure and success are still options. For students not being very diligent in their studies, the school year can extend until June 30th if necessary. The path of least resistance is to take care of what is expected of you on a daily basis. I will leave you with a quote I heard again today; "You cannot recreate the school building environment in distance learning." Missing all of our students and wishing you all a Happy Easter! Mr. Odegaard Brodie.Odegaard@k12.nd.us 701.664.3606

How about a shout out for that kitchen crew today? THANK YOU very much ladies!

Central Parents, reminder that attendance is being taken daily by your classroom teacher. Students must check in daily with them. The State still mandates us to take attendance and it counts on your child's daily attendance. Let teacher know that they are doing their work daily, by giving them a quick text or have them login and do an assignment. It doesn't have to be just between 9am to 3pm, it might be they read a book at night, do a PE activity or an assignment at night. If you are having a tough time checking in daily contact classroom teacher or contact Mr. Schaffer 701-664-3441 or tim.schaffer@k12.nd.us

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There is NO SCHOOL on Friday, April 10, and Monday, April 13 for Easter break. We strongly encourage you to take time off from school those days. Grab lunches for Thursday, Friday, and Monday will be given on Thursday so the cooks can enjoy 2 days off! We start again on Tuesday, April 14. Thanks to everyone for all you are doing! Stay home. Stay well.

The Great Plains Food Bank will be stopping in Tioga and Williston on Tuesday, April 14! See flyer for times and locations! The Great Plains Food Bank is committed to doing all we can to provide needed food assistance amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This includes continuing with our Mobile Food Pantries as scheduled. We know there are additional people in need of food assistance during this time and the Mobile Food Pantry is open to anyone in need of food assistance from any community. The distribution will consist of fruits, and veggies, but may include bakery, dairy and meat items. Clients are asked to stay in their vehicles at all times to avoid gathering of groups and Great Plains Food Bank staff will be asking basic intake questions onsite. We welcome those who cannot attend during the distribution to designate someone to pick up for them and are happy to serve those not in a vehicle. Hunger is an issue that we can do something about. Here are several ways you can help: · Post the attached flyer about this upcoming event in your office and in other places in your community. · VOLUNTEER!! Call Rachel at 701.390.2513 or email rmonge@greatplainsfoodbank.org to sign up today! · Talk about the event with your groups and in meetings you attend. · Share on your social media networks. See EVENTS on Facebook @greatplainsfoodbank.

Prom and Graduation has, with good reason, been a often asked question. We know at this point that Prom will not be held on April 18th. We do plan to host a Prom for the 19-20 school year! We just cannot set a date without knowing when we will be able to be back in the building. If we can do it in May, we will. If it has to be pushed out into the summer, we will do that. Prom may have to be modified, but we will get something put together. GRADUATION - THS Class of 2020 is still scheduled for Graduation exercises on May, 24th. While we are hopeful this will happen, we may have to make alternate plans as we learn more about when we are able to get back to the building. Rest assured, similar to Prom, and more importantly, we will have a graduation ceremony. It too, may have to be slightly modified, but we will honor the Class of 2020. Keep Sailing!

In transitioning to extended learning, we understand there have been a lot of concerns. We would appreciate your feedback to help us improve. Please fill out the attached survey to help us grow. Thank you! https://forms.gle/u1yRQcy5U45k2oFbA

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Friday Night Lights! THS is joining in. We will be turning on the football field lights at THS on Friday, April 3rd from 7:00-9:30PM as a way to honor our students, staff, and community members in this time of distance learning while school buildings are closed due to COVID-19 concerns. These lights are a symbol of hope and an assurance that you students are in our hearts and on our minds. Thanks for other ND and Minnesota schools for sharing the idea and joining in! Keep Sailing Pirates!