<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thank you Akeela for putting this so well. <div class="">With deep appreciation for SLT, teachers and Dyanthe, </div><div class="">Andrea</div><div class="">(mother of Neko&Moss)<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 30, 2020, at 10:07 PM, Akeela Azcuy <<a href="mailto:artgig@gmail.com" class="">artgig@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Deepest deepest gratitude to the SLT and leadership. This is a huge lift for all our teachers and staff and I want to extend my incredible appreciation for this and so many of your decisions this year to keep us anchored. I feel as though the DOE is placing our children is a turbulent ocean and TNS is doing all that you can to still the waters and bring our community together.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">With love,</div><div class="">Akeela<br class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Oct 30, 2020, at 8:01 PM, Steffie Kinglake <<a href="mailto:skinglake@gmail.com" class="">skinglake@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Thank you to the School Leadership Team for being such advocates and amazing leaders for our school community. </span><br class=""><div class="">This is a huge sigh of relief and appreciation.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Steffie, mother of Simona 3rd grade </div><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class="">On Oct 30, 2020, at 2:09 PM, Dyanthe Spielberg <<a href="mailto:dyanthe@tnsny.org" class="">dyanthe@tnsny.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-b5f54c55-7fff-e04e-880d-5fc8611a108c" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Dear Families,</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""> </p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Earlier this week, I wrote to share that the DoE had changed its policy from quarterly opt-ins to only one opt-in period for the entire school year. This was new information for all of us.</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""> </p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Our School Leadership Team, a group made up of elected parents, teachers, and me, have agreed that we will offer families </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">two additional times</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> (as originally promised by the DoE) to make the shift from remote-only to blended: after February Mid-Winter Break and after April Spring Break. We believe that this will support families to reach decisions for their unique circumstances and also keep the number of in-person students low at a time when COVID rates are rising. </span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""> </p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">We are able to offer additional opt-in periods because we intentionally created classes so that students and teachers stay together, regardless of remote-only or blended choices. In a time of so much uncertainty and anxiety, we believe that these relationships and classroom communities ground all of us - children, families, and teachers. (As students shift to blended learning, many children around the city will have new teachers and students in their classes, but not at TNS.) This is only possible because our teachers are working beyond their union’s contract expectations and many are teaching both remotely and in-person. </span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""> </p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">At this point in time, we have two cohorts (A and B) that are blended/in-person. Please remember that if a large number of our all-remote students opt into the blended program, there is a good chance that we would need to switch from a two-cohort model to a three-cohort model school-wide. This would mean that in-person students would be divided into three cohorts and attend school for 1 to 2 days per week (instead of the current 2 to 3 days per week). </span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""> </p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">If you would like to request that your child move from 100% remote to blended learning beginning the weeks of November 30 - December 7, you must complete and submit the </span><a href="https://www.nycenet.edu/surveys/learningpreference" style="text-decoration-line:none" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Learning Preference Survey</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> between Monday, November 2 – Sunday, November 15.</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""> </p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">We will be hosting a Town Hall on Thursday, November 5 at 4 p.m. to explain the process of opting into blended learning in 2021</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">. We will also share building and safety updates at that time.</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""> </p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Sincerely,</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Dyanthe</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><br class=""></div></span><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font><div class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><a href="http://tnsny.org/" target="_blank" class="">tnsny.org</a><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><a href="mailto:DSpielberg@schools.nyc.gov" target="_blank" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">DSpielberg@schools.nyc.gov</font></a></div>Preferred pronouns: <i class="">she, her, hers</i><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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