Dear Family, Parents/Caregivers and Guardians,

With an ever changing education landscape, the safety of our Chicago Public Schools (CPS) students continues to be of the utmost importance.  Earlier this year, our staff completed compliance training “Protecting Chicago’s Children”. These training sessions further ensure our staff remain vigilant about addressing any issues that could compromise the health and safety of your students.  The next phase of the Office of Student Protection and Title IX’s commitment to this endeavor is providing training on preventing and reporting abuse to all K-12 CPS students. 

The Office of Student Protection and Title IX (OSP) Sexual Misconduct and Title IX Student Training covers the following 5 learning objectives in developmentally appropriate language:

1. Students will understand CPS Title IX Policy and Discrimination Statement

2. Students will know who the Title IX Coordinator is, what OSP does, and how to get in touch with OSP

3. Students will understand what constitutes sexual harassment 

4. Students will be aware of the resources available to students who report sexual harassment or retaliation, including interim measures pending an investigation

5. Students will know what to do if they believe they or other students have been subjected to sexual harassment 

As a district OSP has collaborated across a number of departments to create developmentally appropriate sessions that will allow students to identify abuse and empower them to report any wrong doing that may have occurred. The sessions have been broken down by PreK-3rd Grade, 4th-8th Grade, and 9th-12th Grade and are all around 30-45 minutes. This training will occur at Bateman for all PreK-8th grade students on Wednesday, May 5th. 

Parents have the right to opt-out of the Office of Student Protection and Title IX Student Training. If you choose to opt your child out please return the Bateman OPT-OUT FORM by Friday, April 30th.

If you wish to teach your child this material yourself, you can access the videos to the sessions on the OSP website at www.cps.edu/osp. 

Sincerely,

Georgia Davos-Vetas

Queridos Familia, Padres/Madres/Cuidadores/Guardianes, 

Con un ambiente escolar que sigue cambiando, la seguridad de los estudiantes de Chicago Public Schools (CPS) sigue siendo de suma importancia.  Anteriormente en el año escolar, nuestros maestros y personal completaron un entrenamiento llamado “Protegiendo los Niños de Chicago”.  Estos sesiones de entrenamiento asegurado que nuestro personal se mantengan alertas para abordar cualquier problema que pueda comprometer la salud y la seguridad de sus estudiantes.  La siguiente etapa de la Oficina de Protección Estudiantil y Título IX (OSP) compromiso a este esfuerzo es proporcionar entrenamiento sobre la prevención y reporte de abuso a todos los estudiantes de grados K-12.  

La Oficina de Protección Estudiantil y Título IX (OSP) Mala Conducta Sexual y Título IX Entrenamiento Estudiantil cubre estos objetivos de aprendizaje con lenguaje de edad apropiada:

1. Estudiantes entenderán la Declaración de No Discriminación de CPS

2. Estudiantes sabrán quien su Título IX Coordinador es, que hace OSP, y cómo ponerse en contacto con OSP

3. Estudiantes entenderan que constitute acoso sexual

4. Estudiantes sabran que resources estan disponible a estudiantes que reportan acoso sexual o retaliacion, incluyendo medidas provisionales pendiente de una investigación

5. Estudiantes sabran que hacer si creen que ellos o otros estudiantes han sido sujeto de acoso sexual. 

Como distrito, OSP ha colaborado con varios departamentos para crear sesiones apropiados para diferentes edades que dan la oportunidad que estudiantes identifiquen abuso y los apodera poder reportar cualquier forma de mal que haya ocurrido. Las sesiones han estado agrupadas por PreK- Grado 3, Grado 4-8, y Grado 9-12, y todos duran 30-45 minutos. Esta capacitación se llevará a cabo en Bateman para todos los estudiantes de PreK-8vo grado el miércoles 5 de mayo.

Padres/madres/guardianes tienen el derecho voluntariamente excluirse del entrenamiento estudiantil de La Oficina de Protección Estudiantil y Título IX (OSP).  Si opta por excluir a su hijo/a, devuelve la Solicitud de Exclusión de la Presentación de La Ley De Erin no más tarde que viernes, el 30 de abril.

Si desea enseñarle a su hijo/a este material usted mismo, puede acceder a los videos de las sesiones en el sitio web de OSP al www.cps.edu/osp. 

Pueden hacer preguntas que tenga sobre el contenido del curso aquí, y el equipo de entrenamiento de OSP podrá contestarle lo más antes posible.  Gracias por ayudar a hacer CPS un lugar más seguro para que nuestros estudiantes puedan aprender.

Atentamente,

Georgia Davos Vetas

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Our teachers and staff create a home away from home & foster a love of learning in each of students on a daily basis. Especially now, let's remind them how much we appreciate everything they do for our children and community!

How can you help? See below for the schedule of each day! You can donate to the staff gifts that will be delivered on Friday, May 7th or sign up to help bring items to school!

Be sure to tag @BatemanES on Twitter and Facebook

Dear Bateman Friends and Families,

Congratulations on a successful Report Card Pick-Up day and for thriving during the first week back for Quarter 4!  We are grateful for the many parents who made appointments to engage in informative conversations about their child(ren)’s educational progress. We are also incredibly proud of our entire community for your adaptability and resilience in implementing yet another schedule for 4th Quarter. We recognize that this has been a major shift that has impacted start times, lunch times, and more to accommodate the nearly 400 students we have in the building on a daily basis. In an effort of continuous reflection and improvement, please indicate how your child’s first week of Quarter 4 went by completing this survey by Friday, April 30th.
 

Finally, as we strive to foster an antiracist, inclusive environment at Bateman and in light of the Derek Chauvin trial, we would like to provide you with some resources and tools that we shared with our teachers and staff last week to support difficult but important conversations with our children. We know so many of our teachers have been providing students a safe space to ask questions, form their own thoughts, and share their feelings and have kept social justice at the forefront of all of our units of study themes year round. Please feel free to utilize any of the following resources to continue the conversation at home with your child.

Tools our Teachers Utilize:

• Learning for Justice: Toolkit for Talking About Racism

• Facing History & Ourselves: 

  • Accountability, Justice, & Healing after Chauvin Trial

  • Race in US History Lesson Tools

Book ideas to foster discussions with read alouds:

• Race Conscious Children's Books

• Conscious Kid Book Lists

• Our Skin: A First Conversation About Race (First Conversations)

• Something Happened in our Town

• Embrace Race Book List

• The Brown Bookshelf: 28 Days Later Books

Our best,

Georgia & Kate

Dear Family, Parents/Caregivers and Guardians,

With an ever changing education landscape, the safety of our Chicago Public Schools (CPS) students continues to be of the utmost importance.  Earlier this year, our staff completed compliance training “Protecting Chicago’s Children”. These training sessions further ensure our staff remain vigilant about addressing any issues that could compromise the health and safety of your students.  The next phase of the Office of Student Protection and Title IX’s commitment to this endeavor is providing training on preventing and reporting abuse to all K-12 CPS students. 

The Office of Student Protection and Title IX (OSP) Sexual Misconduct and Title IX Student Training covers the following 5 learning objectives in developmentally appropriate language:

1. Students will understand CPS Title IX Policy and Discrimination Statement

2. Students will know who the Title IX Coordinator is, what OSP does, and how to get in touch with OSP

3. Students will understand what constitutes sexual harassment 

4. Students will be aware of the resources available to students who report sexual harassment or retaliation, including interim measures pending an investigation

5. Students will know what to do if they believe they or other students have been subjected to sexual harassment 

As a district OSP has collaborated across a number of departments to create developmentally appropriate sessions that will allow students to identify abuse and empower them to report any wrong doing that may have occurred. The sessions have been broken down by PreK-3rd Grade, 4th-8th Grade, and 9th-12th Grade and are all around 30-45 minutes. This training will occur at Bateman for all PreK-8th grade students on Wednesday, May 5th. 

Parents have the right to opt-out of the Office of Student Protection and Title IX Student Training. If you choose to opt your child out please return the Bateman OPT-OUT FORM by Friday, April 30th.

If you wish to teach your child this material yourself, you can access the videos to the sessions on the OSP website at www.cps.edu/osp. 

For questions about course content, please submit them here, and the OSP Training Team will get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you for making CPS a safe place to learn for our students.

Sincerely,

Georgia Davos-Vetas

Queridos Familia, Padres/Madres/Cuidadores/Guardianes, 

Con un ambiente escolar que sigue cambiando, la seguridad de los estudiantes de Chicago Public Schools (CPS) sigue siendo de suma importancia.  Anteriormente en el año escolar, nuestros maestros y personal completaron un entrenamiento llamado “Protegiendo los Niños de Chicago”.  Estos sesiones de entrenamiento asegurado que nuestro personal se mantengan alertas para abordar cualquier problema que pueda comprometer la salud y la seguridad de sus estudiantes.  La siguiente etapa de la Oficina de Protección Estudiantil y Título IX (OSP) compromiso a este esfuerzo es proporcionar entrenamiento sobre la prevención y reporte de abuso a todos los estudiantes de grados K-12.  

La Oficina de Protección Estudiantil y Título IX (OSP) Mala Conducta Sexual y Título IX Entrenamiento Estudiantil cubre estos objetivos de aprendizaje con lenguaje de edad apropiada:

1. Estudiantes entenderán la Declaración de No Discriminación de CPS

2. Estudiantes sabrán quien su Título IX Coordinador es, que hace OSP, y cómo ponerse en contacto con OSP

3. Estudiantes entenderan que constitute acoso sexual

4. Estudiantes sabran que resources estan disponible a estudiantes que reportan acoso sexual o retaliacion, incluyendo medidas provisionales pendiente de una investigación

5. Estudiantes sabran que hacer si creen que ellos o otros estudiantes han sido sujeto de acoso sexual. 

Como distrito, OSP ha colaborado con varios departamentos para crear sesiones apropiados para diferentes edades que dan la oportunidad que estudiantes identifiquen abuso y los apodera poder reportar cualquier forma de mal que haya ocurrido. Las sesiones han estado agrupadas por PreK- Grado 3, Grado 4-8, y Grado 9-12, y todos duran 30-45 minutos. Esta capacitación se llevará a cabo en Bateman para todos los estudiantes de PreK-8vo grado el miércoles 5 de mayo.

Padres/madres/guardianes tienen el derecho voluntariamente excluirse del entrenamiento estudiantil de La Oficina de Protección Estudiantil y Título IX (OSP).  Si opta por excluir a su hijo/a, devuelve la Solicitud de Exclusión de la Presentación de La Ley De Erin no más tarde que viernes, el 30 de abril.

Si desea enseñarle a su hijo/a este material usted mismo, puede acceder a los videos de las sesiones en el sitio web de OSP al www.cps.edu/osp. 

Pueden hacer preguntas que tenga sobre el contenido del curso aquí, y el equipo de entrenamiento de OSP podrá contestarle lo más antes posible.  Gracias por ayudar a hacer CPS un lugar más seguro para que nuestros estudiantes puedan aprender.

Atentamente,

Georgia Davos Vetas

Dear Bateman Friends and Families,

Could you hear the laughter and learning buzzing from the school? We sure hope so! We successfully welcomed a new wave of students today and our entire staff community was elated to see our students continuing to thrive together - no matter where they are learning! 

As we reflect on the day, we would like to share a few ways all in person families can help ensure all are able to have a safe and positive day:

• Follow the procedures! Please keep in mind that all procedures were developed to keep everyone safe. Please help your child follow the procedures at entry and dismissal, including the correct time and location. See the maps below to help follow the procedures. Please help us by waiting until your designated time!

  • PK -4 arrival is 8:05 - 8:15 am 

  • 5th - 8th grade arrival is 8:20 - 8:30am. 

• Complete the Health Screener Daily! A big thank you to those in person families who completed the health screener prior to 7:30 this morning. ALL students must have a completed health screener before they enter the building. If you do not receive a text, please visit cps.edu/healthscreener and please utilize the tutorials for assistance.

We quickly had to (yet again!) pivot a bit when they rain came into play this afternoon just in time for recess to begin. Our students were so understanding of indoor recess, listened carefully to the changes, and had fun playing games in their classroom or the cafeteria. Cross your fingers that the snow prediction for tomorrow stays clear of Chicago so our friends can all go outside!

Looking forward to a wonderful final quarter of the year with each of our wonderful Bateman family members! 

Our best,

Georgia & Kate

Dear Bateman Families & Friends,

We hope you have all had a wonderful start to your week! We are looking forward to the continued evolution of our school year as we are preparing for the expansion of Hybrid Learning in Quarter 4! A big thank you to the many families who were able to join us last week for our Quarter 4 Hybrid Parent Meeting. For those of you who were unable to attend, please see the recording or the powerpoint (also provided below) to ensure you are fully informed. Teachers will be emailing final details this week and we will also send reminders prior to Monday, April 19th!

Picture Day

We have added additional sign up spaces for picture day on the Sign Up Genius as this will be our only day the photographer is able to come for Remote Learners. As indicated previously, Thursday, April 15th is reserved for students in Shift B for Quarter 3. For all families who have signed up, please be sure to adhere to the following steps:

• All parents will enter through the Auditorium Doors on Sacramento

• All children must have a completed health screener prior to entering

  • Please note that you do not need your child’s student id

  • Please enter your child’s email address & birthdate

• Temperatures will be taken at entry

• Only students who have signed up can attend at designated time

• Parents will not be allowed to accompany child

• All students and parents must wear a facial covering and follow social distancing requirements

School Improvement Day

Please be reminded that there is no school for all students on Friday, April 16th. Staff will be finalizing plans for Reopening, sharing best practices for Simultaneous Instruction, and preparing their rooms to welcome more students!

Quarter 4 Supply Pick Up

If your child is continuing with Remote Learning and has classroom specific materials for Quarter 4, teachers have scheduled times and locations for Supply Pick Up on Friday, April 16th. Please see communications from your child’s teacher regarding your classroom’s pick up time and location.

Report Card Pick Up

Report Card Pick Up for all elementary schools in CPS will take place on Wednesday, April 21st. Teachers have been sending sign up opportunities for all families in order to have a virtual conference to discuss your child’s progress thus far. This is a critical time to partner with your child’s teacher to ensure your child has a successful finish to the school year!

We thank our entire community for your continued trust, support, and partnership. Please be sure that you read the entirety of the Buzz for the many community engagement events so we can all continue to #BeBatemanStrong!

Our best,

Georgia & Kate