.@SteveSisolak, you state you support schools reopening.
Well, educators do also. We support schools reopening SAFELY!
Here is how you, our Governor, can support us in CCSD. 1/9
1️⃣ Ensure that there are enough vaccines for teaches to receive two doses in the preferred timeframe.
2️⃣ Encourage Superintendent Jara to make this a priority, as well as send out a statement to district employees of his plan to ensure we will not open schools until all 2/9
teachers have been given the opportunity to choose to take the vaccine.
3️⃣ Encourage Superintendent Jara to release information showing how many cleaning supply items each school possesses. This is to ensure we can turn to the community and ask for help in order provide 3/9
the cleanest learning surfaces for our students.
4️⃣ Get an update about our older schools from Superintendent Jara to see if all school buildings that are to reopen have updated HVAC systems and electrical and internet infrastructures to handle every single person being on 4/9
the electric grid and internet with minimal downtown or problems.
5️⃣ Encourage our community to also support waiting a little longer for to give opportunity to take the vaccine so we can feel safe in our classrooms, as well as provide the healthiest teachers for students. 5/9
6️⃣ Help provide more social-emotional supports and resources to improve our educators’ reach to help our students mend and move forward from these unsettling times. Most of us have never experienced something traumatic as this. Our students are suffering. 6/9
7️⃣ Do all this for your other school districts and check up on them as well. Some districts have been back and may be thriving, but they still need to be checked up on and given their kudos. 7/9
We CCSD educators and employees keep our brothers and sisters in our thoughts during these unsettling times just as they do for us. We support each other. We hope you show the same support statewide. 8/9
I want to go back into my classroom. I know my school will ensure I get what I need to provide a clean learning environment. I want to be safe and healthy also. Give my colleagues and I this courtesy so we can do our jobs, do it well, and do it safely. Thank you for reading. 9/9
I think ALL parents feel this way to some degree. We teachers wish we could do exactly this and sprinkle in more social emotional connections. I’m here to tell you, we aren’t the problem. Teachers want to slow down. However, in NV, schools are rated by various elements. 1/9
One element is student achievement through high-stakes testing. The more in target students are, the better the rating. Guess what teachers are still attempting to do? You guessed it. In some form, we are still teaching to meet those standards as much as we can. 2/9
Also, most teachers have not been encouraged to really slow down and meet needs for the here and now. Instead, we are being encouraged to do what we can for students while still sticking with pacing of standards. 3/9