As part of a coordinated response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), in partnership with the Office for Education Policy (OEP) at the University of Arkansas, has developed a Parent/Guardian survey for soliciting family input on what is working now and what may be considered for the future.
Please take the survey: https://uark.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6X7aRF3ErNNXFel
Please read the following message from Gregory J. Pilewski, Ed.D., Superintendent of the North Little Rock School District.
For all parents of 2nd-5th Grade virtual students who were unable to make it to the school this past Friday to pick up your child's books and materials, those materials will be in the school office and available for pickup during school hours starting Tuesday, November 10th. Please arrive at the school office doors and then call 835-5622 to let us know that you have arrived and a staff member will bring the materials out to you. Thank you.
IHE Picture Day is tomorrow, November 10, 2020! If you are a virtual student, please report to the gym door entrance between 8am-12pm for your photos. You will go to the front of the line, only IHE students may enter the building (please wear mask). Face to face students will be called according to class. *Photos will be taken without masks.
In honor of and to show thanks to all who have served or are currently serving in the United States Armed Forces, a Veterans Day car parade will be held at Indian Hills Elementary. We would like each student to extend an invitation to their special Veteran to our parade. We ask our Veterans to meet at 8:40 am in the back parking lot of the First United Methodist Church. We encourage our Veterans to stay inside their cars until the parade begins. The parade will commence at 9:00am. Veterans will leave the back parking lot to parade down Wigwam with the students cheering them on in front of Indian Hills Elementary.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfDz1F3Jj6oRMxNPBTVRfIunevXGQyzLMriWXsZmWGvZdDdnQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
November is Parent Engagement Month!
Look for the sign below at your child's school, take a picture, and upload it to your Facebook page with #NLRSDParentsMatter.
Do the Math: Parents (Family) + Teachers (School/Community) = Student Success!
As part of our new partnership with BSN Sports, you can purchase NLR apparel at a discounted rate!
Be sure to use the promo code GRANDOPENING20 at checkout.
Link: http://sideline.bsnsports.com/schools/arkansas/northlittlerock/north-little-rock-high-school
NLRSD would like to hear back from all virtual learners about January Academic Options, please click on the following link to complete the survey.
2021 Academic Survey Option - English
https://forms.gle/JTp5sVV52BaRMJ13A
2021 Academic Survey Option - Spanish
https://forms.gle/3bs2Tr5gf7owYoK16
October 27 and October 29 will be observed as Remote Learning and Parent Teacher Conference days. Students will NOT report to school. Instead, they must log on for live instruction. Parent-Teacher Conference will be virtual and will take place from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on both days. Contact your child's school to schedule a meeting with their teacher.
The North Little Rock School District is striving to become a "High Reliability School" district within the next three years. This distinction will indicate that we have implemented best practices and procedures to improve student achievement. A part of this distinction requires our collecting data through research from our stakeholders. We need our families to take this survey to identify areas of strength and areas of need from your perspective.
Please take the survey at the following link: https://hanover-research.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eWnFsOgqyTbwtpz?group=nonstudent
Thank you for being a part of our district!
October is National Principals Month! We salute you, Dr. Coleman, the principal at Indian Hills Elementary School.
Thank you for your leadership! We appreciate your service to the students, staff, and community!
IHE Parents,
Please take a few minutes to complete this survey. It is very difficult for IHE to adjust and improve if we don't know how you feel about our school. This survey closes on October 23, 2020. We would greatly appreciate your honest feedback.
https://bit.ly/36jjlpM
Good Evening IHE Parents,
NLRSD will begin Virtual/Flex Fridays for students beginning October 23, 2020. Your child’s teacher will be sending you a weekly survey asking if your child will be in attendance Friday. Please make every effort to complete this survey each week. We need to make sure that we have adequate numbers to prepare breakfast and lunch for students. We also need to know who we will need to send breakfast/lunch as well as review packets home with on Thursdays.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the building administrators, Dr. Shanda Coleman, colemans@nlrsd.org, and Mr. Joseph Brown, brownjo@nlrsd.org.
We have attached links to our IHE Virtual Friday schedule and building plan. Our IHE staff has worked very hard to create a plan that will benefit our students and provide time for staff to plan lessons, conference with parents, record lessons, work 1:1 with select students, etc.
IHE Virtual/Flex Friday Schedules
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OQcybIs1usfY0P9ITS_Dbv5i2GPze6_HNg-6fwmnLW4/edit?usp=sharing
Indian Hills Elementary Virtual Friday Building Plan
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hwHo7RCIx1slpb2ZBwH5Fihi8vMCNOiCWPP9juOxT_E/edit?usp=sharing
Students and staff across the district are wearing red today to bring awareness to dyslexia. October is Dyslexia Awareness Month!
Ms. Stadther: My name is Emily Stadther. I have been at Indian Hills for 4 years, and I love getting to read with all my students. They work hard each and every day!
Mrs. Pool: Teaching children to read and write has been a passion in my life! I’m Harriett Pool, this school year marks my thirty seventh year of teaching. Daily, I have the privilege of helping students who struggle with Characteristics of Dyslexia. My goal is to teach children to be life-long readers, so they can be life-long learners.
If a child can read, they can succeed!
Parents,
This survey is to declare your academic option for the spring semester. Please complete this survey if your student is virtual and wish to remain virtual, virtual and would like to return to school, or at school and would like to go virtual. The survey will close on November 9th.
• You will need to complete a different survey for each of your students.
• You will need to login with their google ID and password (The same email address and password used to log into Google Classroom and/or onto the Chromebook).
English: https://tinyurl.com/y4x7upv7
Spanish: https://tinyurl.com/y6r59mpa
Join us on Friday, October 16, as we wear red for Dyslexia Awareness Month!
Students in kindergarten through third grade in the North Little Rock School District will be provided standards-based report cards instead of the traditional report cards that contain letter grades.
This is a new initiative that will show parents how students fare when it comes to the standards set by the Arkansas Department of Education.
Click on the link and please watch the video. Lori Smith, the Executive Director of Elementary Education, discusses the new grading system: https://www.nlrsd.org/article/320980?org=central-office
The North Little Rock School District is striving to become a "High Reliability School" district within the next three years. This distinction will indicate that we have implemented best practices and procedures to improve student achievement.
A part of this distinction requires our collecting data through research from our stakeholders. We need our families to take this survey to identify areas of strength and areas of need from your perspective.
Please take the survey at the following link: https://tinyurl.com/y6c2yqm3
Thank you for being a part of our district!
It's time to sign up for the October 27th and 29th, IHE Parent-Teacher Conference!
Click on the link to sign up, please. If you are unable to attend at any of the times offered, please contact your child's teacher and make an appointment for an alternate conference time.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yFC_iI1ujo2GbxkKf0pEOxBpug8LJDWCjPpl5aOnQyA/edit?usp=sharing
The North Little Rock Elementary Schools will hold individual virtual conferences with parents to explain their child’s progress in school. These conferences will be held on Tuesday, October 27, 2020, and Thursday, October 29, 2020, from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Please note that these two days are remote learning days. The school will not be open.
The virtual parent-teacher conference, which will last approximately fifteen minutes, will give the teacher and you an opportunity to discuss your child’s progress in all areas of the school program.
Please schedule a conference as soon as possible.
The Parent-Teacher Conference is an important part of our elementary reporting system. We appreciate your cooperation and hope that every parent will make a special effort to participate.
