Dear Parents and Students,
We hope that you are doing okay and remaining healthy as we start this new stage in our educational partnership. Teachers had a very productive time working together to develop our plan for communicating with students so we can continue instruction and assessment even though we cannot come together at school. We wanted to share the details with you. For the Mooney family, close support and collaboration between teachers and parents is key for enabling student success and an important part of our culture. In this situation with COVID-19, there are many new and different factors affecting our lives. Moving to online instruction for student learning and assessment is something different, but we can work through this if we adults encourage the students to be accountable for their work and ask teachers whenever they have questions.
As mentioned last Thursday and Friday, classes and all extra- curricular activities will not be held at Cardinal Mooney from March 16 to April 3. Instead, students will take classes online using Google Classroom. This is the procedure for how students can access the courses:
Using their email address @cardinalmooney.com, students first accept their teacher’s invitation to the Google Classroom for each class in Quarter 3 and Quarter 4, Then they can access their Q 3 and Q4 class assignments, and they can communicate with the teacher of each course to do assignments.
Quarter 3 classes end on Thursday, March 19, and Quarter 4 classes begin on Monday, March 23. If a student has wrapped up the assignments for a Q3 course, he/she can go ahead and work on Q4 courses now. Now is the time for students to complete any tests or assignments for Q3 that are still due.
Teachers will be available each day between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. to respond to students, and they plan to check emails from students or parents during that time. They will do their best to respond to each request, each day between 8-3, but if they run out of time they will respond the next day between 8-3. The goal is for students and teachers to respond to each other within a 24-hour maximum span of time.
Tutors will enroll in their students’ Google Classrooms for a course and, using their @cardinalmooney.com email. Students can also reach out to their tutor for help.
Students should log into each class, daily (before 11:59 p.m.), and see what work the teacher has posted for students to complete. All assignments are to be turned in by the due date and time that is assigned by the teacher on the assignment.
If a student has trouble with his/her @cardinalmooney.com email, use a different email to reach out to the teacher and explain the difficulty. (For instance: I forgot my password, etc.)
If a teacher does not hear from a student within 2 days, the teacher will reach out to the student or parent. Please call the school number (330.788.5007) to let us know if you have a new phone number that we need to put on file for the parents. If a student needs books or resources, please call the school office to arrange for an appointment to pick up the materials. A student in a credit recovery class should contact Mrs. Calko if they have questions (scalko@youngstowndiocese.org).
Students taking the online Italian courses should follow the instructions they received from Mrs. Calko. She explained that they need to sign in and work online during the time of day the class was originally scheduled. If the student or a member of the family gets sick, please call the attendance line to report the illness.
If a student or parent needs to talk with a teacher, please send the teacher an email to arrange a time to have a phone call.
We are trying to abide by the social distancing process and thus will try to minimize in-person contact.
We learned today that we will be off as scheduled for Good Friday and Easter break (April 10-19). If any other change is mandated regarding the days classes will be held online or the cancellation of co-curricular schedule, we will notify you as soon as we can.
Thank you for your patience and cooperation during this transition to online learning for students. Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns. May God bless us all as we pray for strength and guidance to deal with our realities.
Sincerely,
Mary Anne Beiting, Ed.D.
mbeiting@youngstowndiocese.org
330.778.5007 ext. 166