U46Engage: The Newsletter
August 2020
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The 2020-21 school year is underway for our K-12 students, and it will begin on Monday, Aug. 31 for our preschoolers.
While the start of the school year certainly looks different than ever before, we are excited to welcome your children for another year of learning and growth. Our families are obviously excited too - we received nearly 600 replies to our request for first day of school photos! We’re sharing some of them on our U-46 Facebook page with the hashtag #U46BacktoSchool, and we’ll soon feature a slideshow on
u-46.org/backtoschool, which is also where you can go for answers to technology questions, information on attendance policies, and more.
We are also launching a new platform for our monthly bilingual newsletter, called U-46Engage. We hope you find this newsletter easy to read, informative, and a great resource.
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School District U-46 is planning a series of virtual bilingual learning opportunities for our families through the 2020-21 school year, starting with one all about Chromebooks on Wednesday, Aug. 26.
All webinars will be streamed live via Zoom but limited to the first 500 individuals who sign up. The sessions will also be recorded and posted on our website after the events.
To see the current schedule for U46Engage: What You Should Know webinars, please visit
u-46.org/webinars
Adtional webinars will be added in the fall; please share topics that you would like to see covered in future webinars on this
online form.
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Our U-46 Safety Measures can be found on our COVID-19 website under Resources at
u-46.org/safetymeasures. Visitors are by appointment only at the District and school sites and all visitors must follow our posted safety measures, including certifying that they are entering U-46 facilities without a fever or any of the other symptoms associated with COVID-19.
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In order to maintain safety and health, School District U-46 is cancelling all international trips scheduled for the 2020-21 school year. School leaders and trip sponsors will provide details about refunds and any information related to any previously scheduled trip. The District is cancelling all local field trips and all domestic U.S. trips planned for the first semester which runs through Jan. 15. A decision about second semester local field trips and domestic U.S. trips will be made by mid-November.
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The Food & Nutrition Services department has distributed nearly 2 million meals at school sites across our District since mid March when the COVID-19 pandemic first closed school doors. Distribution of breakfast and lunch meals, at multiple school sites, will continue for students in U-46 during Distance Learning.
To pick up their meals, families will need to show a unique barcode they will receive via email. The barcode can be printed at home, saved on a mobile phone, or printed at the food site. The meals can be picked up by the parent, a sitter, relative or neighbor as long as the barcode is shown and scanned.
The meals will be available to all U-46 students, who will pay on a sliding scale. Those who qualify for free meals when school is in session will receive the meals for free, while those who qualify for reduced meals might pay 30 cents for a breakfast, for instance.
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