Tioga School District

Happy Friday! We encourage families to participate in our Grab-Bag lunches as it is NOT income-based. If you choose to do so, please call 664-2333. Once you sign up,we assume you’ll eat every day. If, after you sign up, you change your mind, call the school or tell a cook that you won’t participate anymore. We hate to waste food! Thanks so much! Stay home. Stay well!

Good Morning Tioga High School! This is a lot different, but school is resuming session. Developing a daily routine is going to be a challenge during these strange times. Personal accountability and responsibility are at a new level. Make good decisions and we will be able to work our way through the bumps in the road. All students need to be logging in to their piratek12.org email addresses and accepting the invites to classes that may have been added to Classroom. Your teachers are to be contacting you by tomorrow. Many of them have materials posted for you already. Communication is going to be vital for your success. Talk to your teachers! Let them know if you have multiple classes over-scheduling each other. I would rather not move to using our master schedule so that all students would be occupied from 8:40-3:35, but we may have to go to a modified master schedule if we are not able to work together. We've got this! Don't get frustrated by the challenge. Embrace change. This is new for everybody, including our staff. Be flexible. Get up! Get going! Keep Sailing! Mr. Odegaard Brodie.Odegaard@k12.nd.us Bodegaard@piratek12.org 701.664.3606

If your teacher is using seesaw. This is how students can add all of our classes to one device. Underneath their name they just hit “join a class” and scan their code. This way they can toggle between classes and not have to sign in and out each time. Might be helpful to send to parents!

Miss Dauwalder's room at Central...

Pickup went very well. Thank you to all those that came. *Buses are running now with deliveries. This is much earlier than we had planned but the day has gone very smooth and everything is ready! Please be looking for your afternoon bus route delivery!

Band students: If you need reeds or band supplies to last a while, I am at Tioga High School today during pickup. Percussionists will need sticks and a practice pad at home. Mrs. Lewis

Remember we are here for you. #PIRATESTRONG #KEEPSAILING

Daily Morning Pledge with Mr. Schaffer. Here is a link to my direct school webpage: http://tiogand.apptegy.us/elementary-principal--3 When you scroll down you will see a link to click for Pledge.

A 5:00 view of what's been happening the last couple of days. It's all ready to go! Each student will be getting a CashWise tote with most of their supplies. These can then be reused to support CashWise as they have been there to support us. "Come and get it" and "we will deliver" tomorrow. Thanks to all of the staff members that helped.

Central Parents: teachers/aides/cooks/janitors/secretaries have been working hard the last few days as we prepare for distance learning. Communication will be a big key to our success for student learning during our last quarter. Teachers will be reaching out to you, if they haven't already, by Friday, March 27th on expectations. I will be available for any questions or concerns. You can email me tim.schaffer@k12.nd.us or call 701-664-3441 and I will get the message. Do not hesitate to contact me...."Work like a Captain and Play Like a Pirate!" Thanks...

Central Parents, we will have pick up tomorrow (Wednesday, March 25th, 2020) starting at 10am. We will have you pick up at Door # 9 or #10, these doors are located on the gym (Benson street). We will have aides by the door and they will get your child’s things and bring to you. If you have multiple children, you can pick up at one time. We are asking parents to pick up at the following times: grades k-1 @ 10-11am, grades 2-3 at 11am-12pm, and grades 4-6 at 12-1pm. Please practice social distancing while waiting outside the building. We will also have tables located outside with lost and found items, what is not picked up will be washed and donated. We will have boxes/totes by door #1 for library books, bookmobile books, rec wrestling singlets, basketball practice jersey/shorts/game jersey to be dropped off. If you are a bus student, we will have bus drivers drive their routes and drop off items. You will also be able to give bus drivers library books, bookmobile books, wrestling singlets and basketball jerseys/shorts/practice jerseys to bring back. If bus parents plan to pick up their student’s items, please let bus drivers know. If you are not able to pick up items please contact your classroom teacher or the school, so we can make arrangements. Teachers will be making contact to you about expectations by Friday, March 27th, if they haven’t already.

THS 7-12 Students: I will post pics later, but you should see our cafeteria right now! Thanks to a great crew, all of your lockers have been cleaned out (which will make that process easier for everyone later hopefully). We are prepared for pickup tomorrow (10-11 for grades 11 & 12, 11-12 for grades 9 & 10, and 12-1:00 for grades 7 & 8) and afternoon bus route delivery. Those time frames will help us, but come when available between 10:00-1:00 if able please. Textbooks, FCS projects, Art projects, Ag projects, band instruments; it seems like everything is leaving but the kitchen sink. It is really weird. But expect a load when you show up. Please plan to pull up parallel to the curb out the main entrance (similar to bus loading) and we will plan to deliver your materials to you in your vehicles, one, two, or three at a time. If a line forms, we will extend that to the west parking lot (out the cafeteria doors). You will not be able to enter the building. Let us offer curbside delivery please. We have probably over-packed supplies for many of you but trust that you will return materials to the school as check-in is needed - hopefully when we are back in school in the building. You may be missing some materials, but everything we have from your lockers, classrooms, etc. that we know of is packed. If you are missing materials, check what you had brought home Friday, March 13th, in backpacks, vehicles, etc. THIS IS ESPECIALLY TRUE FOR CHROMEBOOKS AND CHARGE CABLES! We packed what we could find. If a Chromebook comes home with no charger, check your backpack, etc. to make sure that you do not have it. If you need something, call me at the school (664-3606) starting on THURSDAY, and we will try to make arrangements to get things to you. There is value in making sure you keep track of your charge cords as well. Please make an attempt to do so. We may be running very low on charge cables as several have been misplaced, etc. If you have extra materials to return, bring them with and drop them off. We have NOT packed up any materials from the PE locker rooms at this time. As we learn more about how long we may be out of the building, we will look to do a lockerroom pickup as well, but would like you involved in that process. If something essential is needed, call on THURSDAY and we will try to work through that. Please be checking your piratek12.org emails as well as your k12.nd.us accounts. Your teaching staff has done a tremendous job on short notice in preparation to continue with distance education! You have messages waiting in Google Classroom as well as in Teams. Use what formats you have been using in classes, and look for announcements from your teachers on what may have changed. Many of your classes are already in the mode for a soft rollout and you should be reached by all teachers by Friday. Full scale learning has a hard deadline of April 1st. Missing you all and hoping you are doing your part! If anyone is looking for a chat, brodie.odegaard@k12.nd.us is my main school email address, but you will find me in many of your Google Classrooms now as well! Stay well! Pirates thrive in sailing uncharted waters! Mr. Odegaard

Parents/Guardians For K-6 For classroom counseling lessons, I am going to be utilizing the Seesaw app for grades K-6. I am going to have classroom teachers send home a seesaw form that will show you exactly what to do to set up your students account. This is how I will reach out to you and our students for assignments, check-ins, etc. Please make sure to download the app if you don’t already have it and follow the instructions on the paper given. Thank you! Mrs. Benson

Starting Tuesday, March 24, grab lunches will be distributed at Central by Door 8 (north corner by the gym) was from 11:30-12:30. If you have signed up, you don’t have to call. If you haven’t and want to participate, call 664-2333 or 664-3441.

Scholarship Alert! The scholarship application deadline for the Kingsley T. Davidson Memorial Scholarship Trust has been extended from April 1st to April 15th.

Please read the following letter concerning online learning and Central and THS. Thanks!

Hello from the Library! I am in the process of getting junior high and high school library books out to as many students as possible. Please let me know what you are interested in reading. I will do my best to send books home with your school supplies that parents are picking up on Wednesday. My goal is to get a book(s) to every student! Send requests to doneen.larson@k12.nd.us Thanks...stay healthy...read on! Mrs. Larson

Scholarship Alert! Reuben T. Guenthner Scholarship deadline changed to April 15th by NOON. For more information go to: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cte.nd.gov%2Fsites%2Fwww%2Ffiles%2Fdocuments%2FStudents%2FGuenthnerScholarship.pdf&data=01%7C01%7Ctom.larson%40K12.ND.US%7C1b8eddb822e749a474f108d7cf4e00c9%7Cdbbf782acef14af186c81f9201061db6%7C0&sdata=Kb%2BSNbHcseWu2y%2BcocU02bZhTr7q9UzU1xaQeuiKkiY%3D&reserved=0

Thank you to all who have completed the online survey regarding devices and home internet access. To those households who indicated that they DO NOT have internet access, the school should have contacted you with a solution to get connected as we prepare for distance learning. Please contact the district at 664-3606 on Monday if you do not have internet access and you have not been contacted by us yet!

Thomas Larson’s online office. For personal communication about confidential counseling with me, students and parents can visit the following link. It is HIPPA certified and offers video and audio interaction. I will be available during normal school hours and beyond if necessary. Please continue to use my email, and phone for texting/phone conversations. If you use the doxy.me link for secure and confidential contact and it indicates I’m not available send, call, or message me when you would like to use doxy and I will enter my cyber office. The link is: https://doxy.me/mrlarsonsoffice I look forward to working with all of you!