School Photos: If you ordered photos from Lifetouch, they are in and can be picked up in room 104. Students who did not get photos taken on our retake days or need a retake will have a final opportunity to have photos taken on October 19th. Lifetouch will be set up in the cafeteria between 11-3pm that day.

Thursday, September 23, Lincoln will host its second Virtual Back to School Night. 

Last year we successfully developed a system in which each family received a personalized email with all of their students’ classes, along with the virtual login information for each of those classes. We will continue that practice this year. On Tuesday, Freshman and Sophomore families will receive personalized emails to the first two email addresses we have on file. On Wednesday, those same emails will be sent to Junior and Senior families. We have to separate the days simply because Gmail prevents us from mass-mailing more than 1500 emails in a day. All emails will come from Rachel McCormick (rmccormick@pps.net). On that email, you will find a number of things:

1. Links to optional sessions from 5:30-6:00pm, including sessions from counselors for senior parents, a session for junior parents with College Coordinator Aliera Morasch, a session with Career Coordinator Shannan Fasold about the resources offered in the Career Center and more!
2. Link to optional Livestream with admin team from 6:00-6:30pm. This is what would usually happen in the gymnasium before Back to School Night, but will happen virtually in the comfort of your home. We are currently working on a way to have a space for questions to be submitted virtually. 
3. Links connected to your students’ schedule from 6:40-8:35pm, meaning you will see all eight of the classes your student has, the times you should join that meet, and the link to that meet.

During Back to School Night, teachers will present for 10 minutes on their class, grading practices, the learning experience for students and other pertinent information. The entire event will use Google Meet with full permissions, meaning you’ll just have to click on each of the links as you navigate through the night. In the case your child has an academic center, peer mentor, or other non-academic course, you will not receive a link for that class. Instead, you could choose to join the admin team for open office hours if you have questions, or can take a screen break for those ten minutes.

Each class will run for about 10 minutes and you will follow your students’ schedule exactly (going to first period first, second period next, etc.). 

To ensure a safe and appropriate learning environment, we expect all students to abide by behavioral expectations that we would likewise expect if students were attending class in person. Additionally, we expect appropriate online conduct at all times for school-related meetings and work, including adherence to the following expectations:

·       Do not share the Google Hangout/Meet or any videoconferencing URL that is created by a teacher or the school.

·       Do not attend any school-related Google Hangout/Meet or any videoconferencing to which you have not been invited.

·       Use academically-appropriate language during all school activities and communications.

·       Behave appropriately and respectfully while participating in synchronous and asynchronous remote learning activities.

·       Be aware of the environment from which you are participating during video conferencing (e.g., do not display inappropriate items/images in the foreground or background).

·       Dress appropriately for online video conferences.

Students who violate appropriate technology use expectations during this period of distance learning, as they would in the traditional school setting, will receive disciplinary consequences. Student safety remains our top priority. Bullying or hate speech including racist, sexist, classist, homophobic, or xenophobic attacks will not be tolerated. For more information please refer to the PPS Students Rights and Responsibilities handbook. https://www.pps.net/domain/2485

All students at Portland Public High Schools have PPS student email. Students usernames are first initial, last name, last four digits of their student ID.
 
Use PPS email to contact teachers and classmates, logging in with your username@student.pps.net account at email.pps.net.

Dear PPS Families and Students,

Thank you, again, for your patience as we work through the bus driver shortage. Please know our team is exploring every option, big and small, to provide the best possible service to our students and families during this challenging time.

Dear PPS families, students and staff,

Beginning next week, families will receive a consent form to opt-in to participate in our free COVID-19 screening testing program, which is a partnership between the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) and PPS. Screening testing provides early detection of COVID-19, even when individuals have no apparent COVID-19-like symptoms. 

Dear PPS Families and Students,

We share your concern about the continuing transmission of COVID-19 in our community and remain deeply committed to keeping our students, families, staff, and community healthy and safe. Portland Public Schools plays a critical role as a partner to county and state health authorities in limiting the spread of COVID-19 in our community. We take seriously our responsibility to monitor and communicate every on-site COVID case we become aware of, so that we too can do our part to limit the spread of the virus by asking students and adults to isolate and/or quarantine^[1] from others.

Tomorrow (September 16), families will receive a brief survey (5-10 minutes) about your students and the COVID-19 vaccination.

In short, we’d like to determine how many of our students (ages 12 and older) are fully vaccinated against the virus and as we anxiously await approval for the COVID-19 vaccine for younger students (age 5 to 11), we’d like to plan for targeted outreach for families to quickly access the vaccine. The information you share will help us prioritize vaccine access and outreach to schools this fall.