8th Grade Drive-Up Recognition Ceremony

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Good Afternoon Dragon Families!  Next Tuesday, May 26th, we will be celebrating our 8th Graders with a drive-up recognition ceremony for all of their hard work and to congratulation them on their promotion to high school. 

In order to keep everyone safe and to follow the guidelines we have been given, we have some reminders for you to know. 

  • There will be stations set up in the round-about by the school gym. Please approach the school by heading east on Cutler and turning right into the school. At each station, a staff member will bring your items to the passager side of your car.  
  • This will strictly be a drive and pick-up. No one should leave their vehicles for any reason. 
  • We will be gloved and masked. We ask that you wear masks or face coverings, as well. 
  • If you have anything to return, we ask that you place the items in a bag of some sort. We will take it from you, and set it in isolation for a week before opening. 
  • We would love to be able to visit with you, but we will not be able to visit this event. We need to comply with our guidelines, which means we need to keep everyone moving as quickly as possible and keep all social distancing requirements in place. 
  • We have designated times based on homerooms to help keep materials organized and to keep the flow of traffic: 

6:00pm – 6:30pm     Ms. MacDonald’s homeroom                    
6:30pm – 7:00pm     Mr. Wilcox’s homeroom                    
7:00pm – 7:30pm     Ms. Pickel’s homeroom 
7:30pm – 8:00pm     Ms. Herren’s homeroom 

We want to keep everyone as safe as possible. We do not want anyone to feel uncertain or unsafe. Safety is our first priority.  We also want you to be able to pick up all of your students’ belongings, including yearbooks if you did not have them delivered to your home.

Your help, support, and patience have been extremely appreciated this year. 

Ms. Herren, Ms. MacDonald, Ms. Pickel, and Mr. Wilcox  

OPENINGS FOR 4TH GRADE 2020-2021

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Please contact the front office for registration information!

School Closure Update

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Hello Dragon Families and Students!

Thank you for your understanding and patience during these unprecedented school closures. Per the Governor’s Executive order (see attached press release) our school building is closed for the remainder of this school year.

As we go into Spring Break, March 30th- April 3rd, we have some updates. There will be no lobby access for paper packet drop off or pick up during Spring Break. While no one could have anticipated this situation, our teachers have prepared continuous learning, with pass/fail grading, for all students via online instruction. This is not time off for our staff. All staff are expected to continue to deliver services to all learners. Students in grades 6-8 should work 30 minutes per class (3 hours per day) and 5th grade 90 minutes/day.

We appreciate your continued support of your students’ learning and your communication with us to make sure students are studying, learning and submitting their assignments to their teachers. Please log in to PlusPortals regularly for your students’ current 4th quarter grades. All students should be logging in to their academic classes via Google classroom or Canvas. To access class codes, please go to our school website http://21stcenturypa.com/wp/.

All students also have access to a social community called FlipGrid. In an effort to provide students and staff with a means to communicate and socialize with one another in a safe and controlled environment via video during the shutdown, we have set up a school Flipgrid account. Flipgrid is a platform for recording short video messages to post and share with others within our school community. You can access Flipgrid on a computer at their website (flipgrid.com/21stcpa) or on a phone by downloading the app on your iOS or Android device (search Flipgrid). You’ll need to enter the code for our school grid when first joining, which is: 21stcpa. you’ll want to use “Sign in with Google”, and use your school email account.

Students should check their 21st Century email accounts, complete work as assigned and continue to communicate regularly with all of their teachers. All students have assignments to complete and will continue to receive feedback from their teachers through the 4th Quarter. However, state testing in English language arts and math will not take place this year.

As our staff continues to deliver services in our Continuous Learning Plan, we will also continue to follow guidance from the Governor, the State of NM Department of Health and the State of NM Public Education Department related to social distancing and group gathering limitations. Therefore, our school building remains closed for the remainder of this year.

Please stay safe, stay healthy, and together we will get through these precautionary school closures during unprecedented times.

Thank you, 21st Century Public Academy Administrative Team
Mary Tarango, CEO
Bianca Belmonte-Sapien, Principal
Jennifer Elliott, IEP Specialist
Jeremy Peckens, CPO

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