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E2 HealthFirst - What are the services at HealthFirst Network

6m · Published 05 Nov 16:45
HealhFirst Network
216 South 3rd Avenue
Wausau, WI 54401
(800) 246-5743
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There are a lot of services that are provided at health first network Jesse, what are some of the things that you do we have the WIC program which is women, infants and children went to the nutrition education program and provide supplemental food benefits for moms that are pregnant, postpartum, and then children 0 to 5 years of age. We have the breast-feeding peer counseling program we have the for families program, which is an obesity prevention program for preschoolers. Then we the farmers market program within the WIC program so families who are on the WIC program are also qualified to receive a $30 fruit and vegetable voucher that can be used at local farmers markets during the summer and fall months so that they can go and get fresh fruits and that's both then if we change course and go into the reproductive health program the reproductive health program offers several services from annual exams FTI or STD testing for STI testing a sexually transmitted infection testing. It used to be called FTD, sexually-transmitted diseases, but that nomenclature has recently changed. We do, pregnancy testing, we do referrals for individuals who are pregnant to any resources that they may need, including the WIC program we provide contraceptive methods or birth control to individuals that come in with provide colposcopy's which are biopsies that the service for individual had abnormal paps. We also provide just general labs that an individual may want and then a lot of education around sexual health. Health versus the confidential reproductive health clinic that means individuals who come in, have confidential services, and that's not being shared anywhere else that we serve adults, but we also search for teenagers within the clinic and do some pretty great programming with teenagers outside of the clinic as well just interrogate you're in charge of the teams program yes so we do the teen outreach program, and we recently implemented that down in Adams friendship. So within the Adams Friendship school district. We work specifically with sixth-grade students implementing that program so teen outreach program is an evidence-based program that has a holistic approach to education. So it does focus on reproductive health, but also focuses on things such as decision-making, goalsetting, setting boundaries, healthy relationships, things of that nature. So really encompasses a lot more than just the reproductive health side, but were happy to be able to include that in there as well know it. With this education piece that you bring out of the schools and Adams friendship. Does that encompass both Boys and Girls Club yes we serve the entire sixth-grade class. So unless someone chooses to opt out our parent would choose to opt their child out of that that is just part of their curriculum. Now that we are implemented into the school day. When we serve those to finishing which success in the program yes so will last year was our first year implementing it. We saw really great success. The students are really engaged in that and there is a community service learning component to that as well so they get to be engaged within their community, which is a huge piece of that. We were caught a little bit short due to COBIT. 19. In talking with our funder is that when we met at the end of our first program year they had relayed to us that they thought really great results. We have a previous survey and post-survey that goes along with that were able to kind of track anonymously how the students have progressed, or what is change throughout the course of the year and then just being able to meet the criteria to make sure that were implementing the program correctly and we were on track with all of that to have a really successful year so I still talk that up as a success, even though we didn't get to see it quite through all the way to the end. Due to those unforeseen circumstances, any other type of outreach programs that you do. Yes. So we do a lot of education within the schools as well so we serve eight different counties and we actually have been in at least one school in each of those counties that we serve. So we go mostly into high schools. We do a little bit of education in some middle schools as well, but we are able to provide education. STI's are sexy transmitted infections and prevention of that and then we also discuss birth control methods and just kind of safer sex practices. We touch on consent some independent overall message of getting a comprehensive look at reproductive health education along with that, we did serve on the committee for human growth and development for the Wasit school district just to help kind of sure that their education again was not only comprehensive but to make sure that it's evidence-based and accurate information that's being provided to those students as well. And of course we make sure that we're providing that sort of education regardless of what school district were in or were serving. Have you thought about taking your curriculum that you're using for sixth-graders and taking that to some of the other counties that you cover yet so that is a potential in the future and we are hoping to do that down the road when there is the opportunity to do so. Currently, as if it were just in that Adams friendship school district at this point in time, but we do hope to spread that again in the future. There is a beginner and intermediate and advanced level to each of the lessons you can really tailor it to make sure that it's going to make sense for those students that you're serving at that point in time. Just it seems as though health first network is doing a ton of things. Is there anything that health first network doesn't do someone a large misconceptions and that communities that we serve is that where an abortion provider and that is not a service that we provide is not even the service that we refer for it something and that we are aiming to prevent through access to easy contraceptive services for individuals

E10 City of La Crosse - Adam Lorentz MTU

6m · Published 15 Oct 14:03
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The city vision 2020 podcasts this month featuring Adam Lorentz from the MTU Adam thanks for joining us again a lot of things happening with the MTU this year. I think with any department a lot of things happening. There's been some big impact to our services and then how we operate, but there's also some really good things happening. Well, let's talk about was positive with the MTU. We are actually awarded to additional buttons those buses came as part of the round two of the VW settlement which was a settlement that VW settled with the government for falsifying emission records and we were awarded to hybrid buses. The purpose of the VW mitigation was to take some old boxes that produce a lot of that carbon footprint. Heavy levels of fumes out the bus replace more efficient buses were really thankful that we were one of the year that were awarded to buses and after put our fleet up to 10 new buses by the end of next year. So 10 new buses coming in 2021 Adam what is that mean for the average writer in the city of La Crosse wanted just to be an easy riding on somebody's bus that we had were mundane back from 2001, 2002 and to get those off the road obviously anything new is better. Things like needed a ride can always send this now that the fumes that come from the box you know what the lowly mission titles uniting only minutes about anything with Erica on 1015 20 years ago where you know the joke was that there is a cloud of smoke coming out of the back of the buses, so it's really just user-friendliness of the buses you know some of our new buses are equipped with charging stations for USB charging all the buses now are equipped with an anti-out monitoring system. So the riders can see where the buses are in real time so that they know exactly if the buses can be there in one minute to answer the next buses need and 21 of the things I noticed in the last few years as more and more people are using the bike racks in the front of the buses are the new buses going to be equipped with those, absolutely. Yeah, you know we work with a lot of the local bike advocate groups around the Supercross and they always call us are. That last mile they call it where you know the bike rider you want the life of these great trails throughout the La Crosse but they can get from point a to point B to utilize them variable to use the MTU to get the last mile that the nation absolutely will be bike rack and all the people at diminished abilities to get on and off the buses there any help for that all the buses are ADA equipped so buses can lower light to the curb right to the ground and all the buses are equipped with the motorized ramp. So anybody has something mobility device. We can get them in their we also have securement stations and answer new buses are equipped with more efficient and safer securement stations are people that have such a motorized scooter or wheelchair ramp this your kid against the front of the box so I don't have to worry just not getting on the bus to one third line on the box. They can feel safe and now with their time. The nation think the speaking of safety and a lot of protocols in 2020. That is that in common and I see the bus drivers using them all the time with the masks and stuff do the riders have to wear masks as well when they're on the buses yeah yeah so as to before the government order. We were putting in. Where everybody had to wear a mask on the box and obviously are bus operators are required to the that's really just the tip of the iceberg of what was done here from faculty protocol we spoke last time. The kind of getting started with some of the items but you know me have a fog or any Mr. machine that each sanitize the buses every single day. We have new chemicals that are proven to kill not only the culprit but also the common fluid other types of viruses that our cleaning staff relentlessly goes over the buses. We have used utilize the back door as much as we can to try to stop that close proximity with the bus operators the passengers and talk about positive the vessel on the positives is that we were actually awarded there's money directly to us. The federal government, which allowed us now spent care for the rest the year. So what that does is two things. One is obviously not the interaction with the bus operators that keep that up for something also was handling of cash bears and passes that you don't want to do right now but really certainly it's allowing people that are maybe have been impacted by COBIT feel financially that they know that they don't have to worry about the bus pass at the bus there for that day and month and on all the midst of all the negativity I think that's one positive that's really set out that the MTU for their people in the now obviously there's a cost to a lot of the stuff. How to cite in the getting paid for was funded federally and through the state, then also there's some local share. So on the city La Crosse is a portion that's running contact communities of the Crescent Campbell and I'll have to double that goes into it, but that, but the main course of action are capital purchases such as the buses are equipped for the buses, really. The majority of our purchases are coming gently from federal or state ranked very little amount that is actually charged by PDW and the grant fees tend to buses all or part of a grant and out of our ABL system was part of it to what's the name of the city La Crosse MTU okay so I just researched city of La Crosse and to you one last question. I have Adam's work we find out about what's happening right now, so we really try to make a good effort to keep our website up-to-date kind of right to the city La Crosse not working right on the front page of the transit was also really had an increase on enter Facebook on so we do daily updates there in daily posting to find out that is across the MTU Facebook and then also our app so I talked about a mobile app which is free download for Apple or play or through iTunes and we do updated information on there as well. Really trying to make sure that people have that information. Right then and there is a post that you know back in a row had a newspaper posting now. People That the content and then lastly people that don't have access to those items that can give us a call here rally staff year can visit the fourth, Monday through Friday minutes, occasionally on Saturday morning so that you want to call it that 608-7973 50 will be something in the morning to get more

E1 HealthFirst - What is HealthFirst Network

7m · Published 02 Oct 17:07
HealhFirst Network
216 South 3rd Avenue
Wausau, WI 54401
(800) 246-5743
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Jesse Scharfenberg, the CEO of HealthFirst Network. Let's begin with what is health first network. We are a network of clinics throughout north-central Wisconsin that serves individuals usually have lower income with reproductive health services and then with services such as the women infant and children program is about first network for a long time hasn't so we are actually at 47 years old now, so we are created back in 1973 as family-planning health services of Marathon County and as the organization has grown. We went to just family-planning health services and then back in 2016. After I was hired part of my mission and part of coming to health first with developing them new mission bring us forward. So what health services were provided through reproductive health, 40 some years ago. It looks completely different than what healthcare looks like today. The goal is really to move us forward family-planning health services had a lot of negative connotation because some individuals don't like reproductive health services are family-planning services. So going with a more generic name such as health first. Also included are with programs so we were so focused individuals would call and that receptionist is a payment plan health services and some of that. Oh, I thought I was calling the WIC program now is this an individual calls and the answer HealthFirst Network. They understand that we are network of clinics and services that offer many different services, so it's not just reproductive health is not just wickets several service so why was family-planning health services of Marathon County started 40 years ago there was a need for reproductive health services that were affordable for individuals. I know what we charge for services compared to other health care entities in our area and I know what we charge for the specific services is way less than other healthcare entities charge were you see health first network in 510 years from now growing on that part of our strategic plan is to find areas that are deserts for reproductive health care and let's fill in those gaps. That's really what we do is fill gaps and provide access to individuals who don't have access to. So we are looking at the map and figuring out where contraceptive deserts are. That was a term that was new to me when I started 4 1/2 years ago, but there's criteria that considered a contraceptive desert that individuals don't have access to birth control. So how can we help fill those gaps. How can we put clinic locations strategically in areas that don't have access or partner with individuals who are already there to provide better access to the individuals who need services which are typical client depends on the program really so far reproductive health program individuals between 18 and 24 years of age. Usually females that are coming in. They don't have health insurance so we help set them up with health insurance and lower income when looking at the WIC program. I would say we have a wide range of age anywhere from them to 14 up to 45 years of age. Individuals coming in pregnancy or with children that are really struggling to feed their catalysts, and that's one of the great benefits of the WIC program. It is not only do we get by nutrition education for that we also get to provide supplemental food benefits to them on a monthly basis to help feed the kiddos. One of the really cool things about the WIC program compared to that say snapper the food stamps program is we only provide healthy foods so we know that the individuals that are leaving are going to get adequate amounts of calcium and protein in their diet versus just giving them a check and they can buy whatever they want you mission, but there's a different clinics do they have different focuses order. They all basically running the same type program yes. So they different clinics have pretty much the same focus, so our WIC program is only in three of our clinics which would be our Wausau laying late and Tomahawk clinics, and then in all eight of our clinics is reproductive health and the really cool thing about being a network of reproductive health clinics. It doesn't matter which clinic you go to you getting the same set of services. We have the same model of services you can contact in the same way. The nurse practitioners. That is, serve you in the same way is very prescriptive so that if an individual moves throughout the states which we do see a lot of individuals bouncing between clinics to getting the same services and is delivered in the same way. So when you say reproductive services. What is that mean to somebody that just wouldn't go so reproductive health is a conglomeration of different services. Whether it's annual exams. STI testing and treatments, pregnancy testing, contraceptive methods of birth control methods for individuals. One of the big focuses after I came was shifting a little bit from just reproductive health services to more of a preventative focused so, ensuring that individuals come in for those annual exams that they're having some of those general baseline labs drawn every year. The majority of our population doesn't go anywhere else for services. So if were only focusing on reproductive health. There is a pretty large percent of the person that were missing out on so really looking at the whole person care as well as the focus knows of something that's been part of the mission since you been here in the last four years. Results of this but the whole time knows that was part of the changes that were made after I came was to really look at the whole person versus just the very small focus of the reproductive health services only. So we've really looked at making sure that were having individuals come in for those annual exams. We seen a huge increase in male clients, which is great. Our men are coming in quite as frequently for the annual exams has we would like to see them by offering the services to both men and women is extremely important to the services. Are you offering to most of our men are only coming in for STI testing and treatment, but any man can come in for consult. We can do different labs for them. We can do an annual exam for them if they would like to come in, but our main population that we see or serve the 18 to 25 year old. We don't see a lot of men in general. Outside of even health first that are going in for those annual exams between 18 and 25 years and yet be within a certain guideline of income in order to come in now that's one of the best things as there is no income qualifications for the reproductive health program. Anyone with any insurance that they can't pay. If they don't have health insurance. Anyone can walk to the door and were going to serve them with a lot of different opportunities within the reproductive health program for an individual to come in, say, is an undocumented citizen and they don't have any source of income. We can put them on our sliding fee scale and if health is your pain. They don't have to pay for their services, but they can still get those super important services we have that group of individuals that are Wisconsin residents that make less than $20 an hour and we can sign them up for F because it is the family-planning only services waiver program. Part of Medicaid. It covers all of their services that 100%, but we can say have a doctor walk in from a different location and that wants confidential STI testing, but also has private health insurance. We can build that private health insurance as well so we have so many options for individuals of whether they have health insurance. They don't but we can sign them up for something or they just don't have a payer source at all and they don't have to pay for the services that they have

E9 City of La Crosse - Art Fahey La Crosse Center

4m · Published 15 Sep 17:00
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La Crosse Wisconsin is a great place to work and play lacrosse. Vision 2020 podcast this month featuring Art Fahey from the La Crosse Center.

E20 Chris Jones 1 Word -pot malort stay woke kombucha

27m · Published 31 Aug 17:30
Chris Jones is well known for his appearance on America’s Got Talent when he made the impossible happen: Known germaphobe Howie Mandel shook hands with Heidi, Howard, and Mel live. Since his first TV appearance, Chris has performed on shows like The Steve Harvey Show, Windy City Live, Good Day Chicago, Penn and Teller, Scam School, and the Adam Carolla Show.

E8 City of La Crosse - Ian Turner La Crosse Airport

5m · Published 15 Aug 17:00
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La Crosse Wisconsin is a great place to work and play lacrosse. Vision 2020 podcast this month featuring Ian Turner from the La Crosse Regional Airport

E7 City of La Crosse - Char Wegner City Recycling

4m · Published 15 Jul 17:00
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La Crosse Wisconsin is a great place to work and play lacrosse. Vision 2020 podcast this month featuring Char Wegner from the La Crosse recycling department. I first met Char nine years ago, eight, nine years ago when the city of La Crosse first started talking about bringing the garbage carts out and bring the recycling carts out and I thought to myself there's no way that these things can be great, Char. You told me when he came in to talk to me my radio show that these things can be fantastic and I won't regret it. Just what Char you are absolutely 100% right. I love them. I really like them AI with a nonbeliever off and he actually may bring one surprise and I went from having six garbage cans a week to one garbage spin and one recycle bin and honestly my recycle bin fills up just as fast or faster than the garbage men. So let's talk about the recycling. So how are we supposed recycle etc. people say you're supposed to put everything into a bag and dump it in there that I've heard that you're not supposed to do that. What's the true city of La Crosse rules Char when it comes to recycling bins should be loose in your car to be cleaned lead and cart carrying out that is collected get transferred to tears. They stepped out that's not really like about that were putting in. It goes through a variety of different ways and Then that separate that then also that they were putting including the bank that we get to like the Walmart whenever they get entangled in the equipment that sets down the equipment we supposed to do with those bags because we all have a ton of them take them, is to have them or Walmart usually have somewhere that you can have them recycle based on them somebody I know that when we got a fact that the pain is there that says make a part. So whenever we go to the grocery store. My husband always said grab the bag they need to make crackdowns. Char Wegner's are just this month, the recycling coordinator for the city of La Crosse was talk about the bins because those bins are fantastic but how do you know that the bin that's in front of my garage is the bin that was assigned to me that question. We have been very busy making sure that everyone has the correct part did you know that when the cards were delivered. They were and find herself number on the front of your cart that identifies your personal let's say over your house. You call me and say carts missing or my carts not the right one. It's a smaller cart or like a car you can ask us what your current numbers are and will give it to you and is not right. Well, I sent letters out to the neighborhood sure how to get hold of the recycling office so that we can check her cards to make sure it right once you can contact us at 608 7897508 people getting new beds all the time when we supposed to do with her old mattresses because I know that we had our large pickup a couple of months ago and I saw a bunch of beds out there then but what are you supposed to do during the rest of the year recycling, which is part of seven rivers, recycling, recycle the mattresses so what you need to do is take them out to the county rank fell and Connie ran so that you want it to be recycled and not land so they will have a specific spot that you can have that taken care of three dollars cheaper than landfilling on wait wait wait wait wait so stupid recycle that it is a throw away a lot of people don't know that Char know they don't. It is so interesting to see how there is Michael they have staff that go in and tear the bedding and they reuse and screensaver use the word that matches had most of those items I got bailed. And then there's that recycle your vision 2020 conversations with department heads from the city of La Crosse is a podcast for hire.com production. For more information about La crosse, visit the website city of La Crosse website www.cityoflacrosse.org

E19 Chris Jones 1 Word -Drones and virtual shows

7m · Published 06 Jul 21:57
Chris Jones is well known for his appearance on America’s Got Talent when he made the impossible happen: Known germaphobe Howie Mandel shook hands with Heidi, Howard, and Mel live. Since his first TV appearance, Chris has performed on shows like The Steve Harvey Show, Windy City Live, Good Day Chicago, Penn and Teller, Scam School, and the Adam Carolla Show.

E7 Randy Nelson Extra Innings - What things will be different

6m · Published 18 Jun 12:57
Contact School District of La Crosse
807 East Avenue South
La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601
(608) 789-7600
https://www.lacrosseschools.org/
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37 years in the education business and the lasting a last dozen or so into working in administration probably didn't see this coming at all. At the at the end of your career for sure. As we look at this and we look at the on the pandemic of a look at the school closings that we've had what you think. You think will be different in the future. Randy because of this I wish I knew. I wish I could provide everyone with a really clear description of what this is going to be like I can't and I think that one thing is really it's becoming clear to me though is that it's never to be the same it. If this is our education and the way we do education the way we see education is never going to be the same essay that the most simple way because I do believe that even though our work in remote learning. We jumped into that and at times may be haphazard and not at the same level of quality. Perhaps others of face-to-face classroom. We also know that we've got. We have some some students out there. We have some families out there that like that stay like that method of delivery and usually we leave kind of remote learning and online learning as an option that we think about after everything else has failed. Well, you could try reading on that strontium online and I think it's time for us to make sure as we talk about us being the school district of choice to make sure that a remote learning opportunity is considered a viable part of education. When I extrapolate that out into the future. Just a little bit. Part of the immediate future is you don't goodness. What we do in July we got summer school and we have two schools that are on your own calendars and what's going to happen with them in July. Are we gonna be able to start school with them in July so that's one of the that's one of the upcoming questions that were having to answer were just waiting for the next kinds we want to know more about okay, what's after this current safer at home, executive order, there's gotta be something there, since you gotta be some sort of a statement that says okay here's the pattern that were in now until further notice, or until a particular date summer, waiting for that shoe to drop, so that we know better how is this can impact you live in summer school on your own calendars. I have to tell you I also think that even when we get to September. Not so certain that schools can be the same way in September is that as it was last September. To be honest with you, and I think we have to prepare ourselves for that and you know there's a whole process of gotta go through the grieving process when you realize that it's knocking to be the same, but I think once you get through that process. You also then can quickly move in the process of a gate what you can be and what's our opportunity where are we and what how can we make this great because I still think inside of a really huge challenge that were in right now. There's always opportunity our administrative team is been meeting virtually three times per week. I'd be lying if I told you that I love these virtual meetings in my face-to-face guy myself, but I'm getting really tired of these virtual meetings, but else I will be got a good group of folks and what were talking about is Chris trying to extrapolate out to the fall what you know what could this mean so were actually starting to run some scenarios, what would it be like for instance if we had to do school in the fall and we had to do social distancing can we even do it so we been exploring models. For instance, and the models of you in exploring that might be. We arty have a six day cycle ABC DEF you help and so on may be. As it turns out just so that we can only have 1/3 of the students in the school buildings at any one time that students come to school maybe two out of the six days and then their home for out of the six days. Now think about the ramifications for that home, especially if parents are starting themselves if they haven't been working to get themselves back in the workplace and trying to stabilize their homes financially and now 4/6 days. Their children are still going home want to know what is that look like and how how does that work and how do we guarantee which I don't know that we can. How do we guarantee that the parents who do send their children to school in the fall. What will be social distancing. When you've got so many things that are if common need, whether it's general going on the hall are going to use the restroom or it's the media center, or it's the the cafeteria and we would have to re-teach and help think about our kindergarten, first and second graders. Many of them who you know I think we can teach them. Certainly, here's how to do social distancing, and here's all works but since it's a whole new world that we can have to get into if we were to decide that we can even deliver school that way in the fall. I could not imagine having your job at this moment. One of the biggest challenges I think that has come about as a result of all this. Our work in equity to try to bring it together and give every student equal chance equal footing as much as we can. That really took a huge step backwards when we were required to do this now. I think that doing a remote learning situation is better than doing nothing at all, so building the relationships think connected to students is really important. I can imagine the discussion at the state level because at the state level know the guidance that we were given is okay. We need to shut down our schools by whatever date and so school is out will put in the place a lot of contingencies so that you can don't have to worry about the hours and minutes in meeting those but bargain-hunting over to shut this down what you realize that when we shut it down. Think about statewide. The number of school districts who were not able to do anything when it comes to remote learning. Maybe they're able to do some connecting and just some relationship building, but because of their circumstances or because they don't have the robust technology supports that we do here in the cross the Internet. For instance, just think about how all of a sudden students don't have access and so I think that what one of the things that has happened. State level and it translates into local level is you really see even clearer the discrepancies and also the inequities that are there. If we don't have school face-to-face if we don't have school to gather everyone coming together somehow because they're there and every home has a different learning environment. Some homes have environment that are really plush with books and supports in moms and dads that are there to help and others don't. That's no fault of the parents as much as it is a circumstance that makes it really sometimes more difficult for a child to have the resources at his or her fingertips to be able to do the homework and support the homework

E6 Randy Nelson Extra Innings - March School Closings

5m · Published 18 Jun 12:49
Contact School District of La Crosse
807 East Avenue South
La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601
(608) 789-7600
https://www.lacrosseschools.org/
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Thanks Randy, you know the challenges of the kids and the families are dealing with nowadays is a lot different than what I had to deal with with my other children as they were getting close to graduation. I got twins are graduating this year and is still, it's been different. I feel bad for the seniors in high school this year and I feel bad for the underclassmen as well because they don't have the opportunity to kinda learn from the older kids as their wrapping up the school year and I'm sure that you're probably seeing that throughout the entire school district in Trenton throughout the entire state throughout the entire country right now as we as kids are getting ready to ramp up for their next piece of life, but they haven't really had the chance to turn the pages of the last few chapters of this part of their life. Think this is one of the big challenges that were that everyone is having a not just here in our district but all over the place now and then that really is a lot about how do we come to closure. But how do we help our students come to closure. How do we get them poised and ready for the coming school year and there's a so many questions that go alongside of that. But what were looking at so many different perspectives to end the school year and in this, the graduation piece is one of the one that they were taking a look at now I we've Artie decided this. That's the best closing of summer school for June. That was rather easy to do because we were pretty much required to do that based on the last ordered that Gov. universe of made it doesn't require us to completely close school, but it does require us not to have face-to-face school through June 30. And so we will continue to support learners in this remote learning environment which some learners are finding really good works well for them and others are thinking. Boy that's not that's not gonna work well for me. So some of the face-to-face and small group things in the enrichment kinds of opportunities that we've typically had for June are not going to happen this year as a result of summer school and I were taking a look at July and getting into the July piece and we have not made any decisions in July and July happens to be our most prolific month when it comes to summer school about 80 different courses were running in July. Many of them good hands-on face-to-face kinds of classes and so we don't know the full disposition of that were moving forward and asking people to register as they have always registered for summer school, but it's very possible that summer school in July could be in jeopardy, as well. As we move forward. Read over were waiting for, the next shoe to drop on the state level or the county level or someone is okay, here's what's going to work. Now here's what we do love now here's of the, here's when the numbers are hears of the metrics are and so now here's what we can do next and so come to closure. I think has been a challenge for us. We are doing some adjusting with our curriculum as our teachers made this change from the classroom into the online environment they really had to step back our curriculum folks. We took the time to step back and say okay probably in this environment. This remote learning environment. The coverage of curriculum is not gonna be as broad as it would've been if we would've had you in classroom so actually what they did is they started working on what we would call power standards. No these are the tested standards. The most important standards that we have at the state level in each one of our content areas. Each grade level and support and have a focus on these and then what were trying to do is to make sure that we have a good degree of communication in place for the teachers for the students in the upcoming year so that they can catch up and they can they can pick up with some of the contents of the just a lot of pieces in this closure piece that need to happen, we see the school you're kind of ending now, but the kids that are finishing up the school year is here finishing up six grade now and the moving into seventh grade. There's probably going to be more of a ramp at the beginning of the school year next year to get the kids back into being in a classroom. I think we be kidding ourselves if we said that there wasn't going to be a lag but we certainly anticipate that the students who were sixth-graders this year are going to go on to grade 7 next year. We also know that due to this gap that we have in April and May of this year there's going to be a little bit a lag of the content and that's what were trying to make sure that we establish and that we document and communicate so that our teachers next year. Have a good chance to move this forward. I think our biggest challenge here along the way as we bring closure to this is there are some students who, despite our best of intentions have not reconnected with us since since March and so in a work and have to be talking a little bit there about what what and how. How do we help you reconnect and how does June look for you because we may have to do some online things in some remote things in June and maybe even July for you to be as ready as other students for our next fall

Podcast For Hire has 145 episodes in total of explicit content. Total playtime is 15:34:51. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on October 26th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on March 24th, 2024 02:20.

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