You can see information from the March 12th school committee meeting and the Superintendent’s report from .

Are you a community member who is interested in school news?? Do you want to learn about the new LHS building project or see Dr. Hackett’s Superintendent Reports?? 天美视频 Public 天美视频 has migrated our news to ParentSquare, a robust communication tool that we can send out text, voice messages, pictures and lots more!? ParentSquare has greater capability to translate our news for everyone in the community and you can also use an app to get our communications!

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Click for the February 13, 2024 Superintendent’s Report.

Meeting will include a welcome and introductions by Dr. Julie Hackett, project overview, preliminary schedule, next steps, and Q&A.

See project website:

Based on the book by Norton Juster

Performances:

Thursday, November 2nd at 7PM
Friday, November 3rd at 7PM
Saturday, November 4th at 7PM

Tickets can be purchased online at OR at the door on the night of the show.
All tickets are $5 General Admission.

Diamond Middle School Auditorium
99 Hancock Street
天美视频, MA 02420

The Phantom Tollbooth by Susan Nanus, based on the book by Norton Juster, is an adventure story for all ages! Our young hero Milo embarks on a journey to the Land of Wisdom, where he learns of the argument between King Azaz and the Mathemagician, whose disagreement over words and numbers has led to the banishment of Princesses Sweet Rhyme and Pure Reason. Milo and his new friends Tock and Humbug are dispatched to rescue the princesses from the Land of Ignorance. They battle tricky demons and overcome many impossible obstacles along the way!

(Registration closes 4 days before each conference date)?

• Friday,?November 3, 2023, 8:00-3:00

• Friday, January?5, 2024, 8:00-3:00

Those of you who already use Sign-Up Genius for other organizations and events may use that same account for the Diamond parent-teacher registration. (An account is not required, but it is free,?and having an account will help you view and organize your conferences).? Households without Internet access can schedule conferences by calling our main office.

• All conferences will be conducted in person) unless you contact the teacher and ask for an in-person conference.

• You?do not have to sign up for conferences, particularly if you have already been in contact with your child’s teachers or you do not have any pressing questions or concerns.???

• Conferences with team teachers?are with all four team teachers?(math, English, social studies, and science?and last ~12 minutes.

• Unfortunately, the two days set aside for conferences do not provide enough time to give every family a conference with their child’s team teachers. ? Thus, we will start the conference signup process by reaching out to select families to schedule?priority conferences.????

• Priority Conferences:?You may be contacted prior to the opening of conference sign-ups to schedule a priority conference.? If you are already scheduled for a priority conference, you will not need to register during the general sign-up period with that same team or teacher.???

• Conferences with?your child’s counselors, World Language teachers, and Unified Arts specialists (e.g.,? music, special education, visual arts, technology, engineering, physical education, etc.) and individual and last 10 minutes.??

• October 13, 2023:?Team teachers began reaching out to families to schedule?priority?conferences for November 3, 2023 only? (we will run a separate signup for January 5 Team conferences in early December).

• October 18, 2023:?General conference registration opens on a first come, first served basis for all teachers EXCEPT team teachers for both November 3, 2023 and January 5, 2024.

• October 23, 2023:??registration opens for the remaining November 3 Team conference slots?

• If you already use Sign-Up Genius for other organizations you may use that same account for the Diamond parent-teacher registration.? Having an account is not required, but it is free and will help you view and organize your conferences.??

If you have any questions or need more information, please contact the main office at (781) 861-2460

We hope that this letter finds you doing well, albeit some very cold weather.? We’re reaching out to provide some additional information about our new mass communication system, ParentSquare.??

Overall, the implementation has gone well, and as can be expected with anything new, we have found that a number of questions have come up from users. Based on your feedback and questions, we’ve created a resource, which we will also post to our school and district website. We hope that this is useful as you begin to receive more communications from the district and schools through ParentSquare.

ParentSquare is intended to be a “one stop” communication hub, where the district, schools, and even eventually teachers, can communicate with families. The platform has an app, which is not required, however, with the frequency of cell phone users, we’ve received feedback over the years that an app would be helpful.? If you have multiple children, the app will provide “feeds” for each school.? You will still get communications if you don’t have the app, so no worries if you have not downloaded it.

Additionally, in order to participate in two way communications (this feature is not active yet), you would need to accept an invitation from ParentSquare.? We have a number of families that may not have accepted the invitation yet, or may have just joined.? Again, if you do not wish to take advantage of two way communications, you do not need to accept the invitation.

As always, please feel free to contact our District Database Team at familyportal@lexingtonma.org if you have any questions that are not answered in the .

Best,

Thomas Martellone,?

Director of Innovation and Instructional Technology

Dr. Maureen Kavanaugh,

Director of Data and Strategy

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Should you need help filling out the CORI form, you can view a tutorial that shows you how to fill it out. Translations below.