COVID-19 Update: 3.25.2020
With the upgrade of the COVID-19 level in Putnam County, GCSC is making some adjustments to continue to protect our employees and families. As of 3:00 pm this afternoon all staff have been sent home to shelter in place. We will be checking buildings daily for routine maintenance issues, but no staff will remain in buildings longer than one hour.
We will be changing our delivery of "grab and go" meals from daily to weekly. Our current plan will stop serving packs on Friday March 27, 2020. We will begin serving bulk grab and go packs on Wednesdays only beginning Wednesday, April 1, 2020.
Please continue to go to door #3 at GHS and our Food Service Staff will ask for the number of children, under 18, that you are caring for and then they will roll a cart with food for that many children out to the curb. We will be asking you to load your own vehicle to minimize the time of contact. When you have finished loading, our team will return, collect, and sanitize the cart for a vehicle down the line.
COVID-19 Update: 3.21.2020
With Governor Holcomb’s announcement to close all Indiana school corporations this week through May 1, 2020, Greencastle Community School Corporation will comply with this directive. All schools, Central Office, and the Transportation Center are closed. Since we are on spring break March 21 - March 29 all buildings and offices are closed to the public.
During the week of spring break, we will not have any eLearning days. Some teachers have indicated that they will still be responding to emails and looking at lessons during this time away. We thank them for going above and beyond as they stay at home with their families. Please do not expect all teachers to monitor during spring break.
Lessons will pick up again on Monday, March 30, 2020. We will continue the pattern of eLearning days on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Thursday and Friday will be off days. With the Governor granting school corporations 20 waiver days (days that will not have to be made up after return to normal) we must complete 160 instructional days as of now. More changes may come from Washington D.C. or Indianapolis, as plans are ever evolving. By doing eLearning the first three days of each week, it allows teachers to provide and monitor quality lessons while giving students five days to work on those lessons.
As I have video chatted with teachers, I am learning that they are wondering how the lessons are going. It is tough to put a lesson out there and not be able to see and hear students give feedback. Parents, to that end, please feel free to email with your child’s teacher. We are not expecting you to do our work, just monitor your child in their completion of work and provide feedback to their teacher. We are still in this together as a team; Parent + Teacher = successful Student.
Please take it easy over spring break. Enjoy being together as a family! Life is tough, especially with today’s world, but we will get through this and will appreciate our “normal” a lot more when we get back to it. Have an AWESOME spring break!
eLearning Day Outline:
During eLearning Days, as we have done in the past, teachers will communicate with students via Canvas/Google Classroom and emails. Please remember to “take attendance” Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday of each eLearning week by going to the eLearning link on the GCSC website below. Primary schools may use IXL for attendance.
http://www.greencastle.k12.in.us/e_learning
Here is the schedule for the weeks in question:
Week of March 16-20 eLearning Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Week of March 23-27 Spring Break No School
Week of March 30-April 3 eLearning Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Week of April 6-10 eLearning Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Week of April 13-17 eLearning Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Week of April 20-24 eLearning Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Week of April 27 - May 1 eLearning Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Week of May 4-8 TBD
Individual buildings may send additional information later. Please email your child’s teacher or building administrator with any questions.
This is an extremely challenging time for all of us. We appreciate your patience and continued support of our students as we work through these issues.