Dawson County High School

𝗚𝗣𝗦 𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗜𝗗-𝟭𝟵 𝗦𝗨𝗥𝗩𝗘𝗬 Survey Link Below... Glendive Public Schools is committed to coming up with the best possible plan for the 2020-21 school year. In order to do this, it is imperative that we hear from you. We ask that you take a few minutes to complete this survey to help guide our planning. It is the utmost priority of GPS to safely reopen schools during this public health emergency. Your feedback is crucial to help ensure students and staff have healthy learning and working environments. During this unprecedented time, the District has been following the guidance of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the State, Dawson County Board of Health, Dawson County Health Department, and the local medical community. Throughout this pandemic, the District’s first priority has been and will continue to be the safety of our students and staff. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗜𝗗-𝟭𝟵 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘆? 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗚𝗣𝗦 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘆? The COVID-19 Survey collects your feedback so that our District leaders can gain information to build response plans in preparation of opening school under the following conditions: - Completely Online - Restricted (fully on-campus w/ CDC guidelines) - Partial (any combination of the previous two). 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗗𝗖 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 https://bit.ly/CDCrequirements We know that parents/guardians may have different opinions about the school year depending on their child’s health, grade level, etc. In order to better serve the community, we ask that you fill out the survey for each child in your care, or for each child that attends a different school. When you finish, the survey link will be available to retake the survey. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝗜 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘆? The survey takes on average 3 minutes to complete. Your answers will only be saved when you click "Submit" on the last page. Please respond to each question honestly and feel free to select "N/A" for any questions you don’t feel you have enough information to answer or aren’t comfortable sharing. Thank you in advance for helping Glendive Public School District understand your experiences and needs. Your participation is completely voluntary, and we value your feedback. 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗚𝗣𝗦 𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗜𝗗-𝟭𝟵 𝗦𝗨𝗥𝗩𝗘𝗬 https://forms.gle/QUoFGn2ACDpC4GvL9

Within the next week, GPS will be distributing a survey to gain student, staff, parent, and community input in regards to school resuming in the fall. The well-being of our students, staff, and community, as well as “Excellence in Education”, are of the utmost importance to us. Our intent is to build a plan that could be used in the event of any emergency, potential long term school closure, or the need to comply with any CDC/State/Local requirements. The current options while being compliant with Federal/State mandates are: Restricted (fully on-campus while adhering to CDC guidelines), Completely Online, and Partial (any combination of the previous two). This survey will help us gather stakeholder insight on how you feel we should proceed. GPS will share the survey via school email (students and staff), GPS website & social media pages (parents and community), and for those without online access, paper copies will be available in the district business office. We anticipate this survey taking approximately 5 minutes or less to complete. Your input is not only appreciated but is essential. Thank you ahead of time for your participation!

DCHS Summer Driver's Education Announcement If you are interested in having your child participate in the summer driver's education course, please click on the link below for details and sign up information. https://forms.gle/xePU1myHpARN7BJ47

If you are interested in trying out for DCHS cheer team for the fall 2020 season, please call the DCHS office by Friday, June 5th to put your name on the contact list. Tryouts will be held in June. Go Red Devils!988

DCHS GRADUATION IS AT 2:00 After talking with the National Weather Service and checking various other weather outlets, we are confident the rain will dissipate enough to continue with our 2:00 PM schedule.  With the significant amount of planning that goes into graduation festivities, coordinating families watching at the event and at home, speaker availability, and numerous other factors, we are excited that the weather is going to cooperate with us enough to allow our hours of planning to continue.  As we still live in Montana, please prepare accordingly.  

DCHS Graduation Weather Update: Our best weather information says the rain should dissipate by the 2:00 pm time of graduation but we are monitoring that closely. Our back up plan is to hold the ceremony in the evening at 7:00 pm under the lights. Senior Guests can begin arriving at 6:15 and Seniors will report by 6:30. We will make the final decision and send that out by 7:30 AM tomorrow morning. We sincerely thank you for all of your patience.

Please check out our Student Check out Sheet! PDF: https://5il.co/g31b

Here is how final grades will be done this year. #GPSCommunity #COVID-19

Social-Emotional Learning is very important to us here at GPS. In the final weeks of school, we will be offering many opportunities for you and your student(s) to watch and participate in some online learning in regards to resilience. Please join us Monday for this great training with Jeff Veley. If you can't make it at 10:00 am, don't worry, we will be rebroadcasting it at 6:00 pm that night. Hope you will be able to watch! Flyer: https://5il.co/frhv #GPSCommunity #Resilience

From Superintendent Schreibeis: The GPS Board of Trustees met Wednesday night and unanimously approved the recommendation to continue online remote learning for the remainder of this school year. This is an intentional decision that puts the safety of our students and staff first and foremost. While our school campuses are closed, we have an obligation to ensure our students continue to receive quality education services through the remainder of the school year, with a focus on the delivery of instruction through distance learning and providing school meals to our students. If you currently have questions or concerns about your students’ progress, please take the time to contact your child’s teacher(s). We recognize the closure of school campuses through the end of the school year brings about many questions. Please be watching for upcoming communication from your child’s principal and teacher(s) on how these last few weeks of the school year will be used to get assignments and work turned in, return textbooks and other school-owned items, and provide additional support that may be needed. More information will be coming out in the upcoming days. I also want to acknowledge the extraordinary efforts of school staff to serve our students and families with continuity of learning, nutrition, and social/emotional supports during these unprecedented circumstances. We truly have an amazing staff, awesome students, and supportive community! #GPSCommunity #WeAreInThisTogether

Please help us in celebrating our Cooks! They are always amazing and deserving of recognition, but during this transition with COVID-19, they have been nothing short of superheros! We really appreciate everything that they do for our students and staff! #GPSPride #LunchHeros

Ballots have been sent out for the May 5, 2020 Election. Below is a Flyer for the High School General Fund Levy. PDF: https://5il.co/f7p9​​ #Vote #BeInformed

The food pantry will be open today to pick up bags of food for the long weekend. Feel free to come in and grab one from the school!

Lego Contest Flyer

GPS is trying to send out emails to all of our parents to help get them set up on Infinite Campus. Infinite Campus is a district-wide student information system designed to manage attendance, grades, schedules, assessments, lunch balances, and other information about our students at Glendive Public Schools. We are sorry if you got multiple notifications. We had to send the messages out by each school. If you didn't receive an email, please check your spam folder. Also, we did not have all of our parent's email, so if you did not get an email and would like us to have it, please fill out the following survey and we will get it into our system: https://forms.gle/ArF8yRGHSmLaPJ976 If you have any questions about getting your account set up, please contact your child's school. Thank you! DCHS: 377-5265; dchs@glendiveschools.org WMS:377-2356; wms@glendiveschools.org LES: 377-2308; les@glendiveschools.org JES: 377-4155; jes@glendiveschools.org #RemoteLearning #GPSCommunity

Please read our Technology/Internet Letter for Parents. Thank you for your patience and grace during this uncertain time. PDF: https://5il.co/ey9q #BeSafe #ParentLetter #GPSCommunity

Please watch this video from Superintendent Schreibeis (2:46). https://youtu.be/B3qN43p0yx8 #GPSCommunity #StrongerTogether #KeepMoving

To honor our students, staff, and community who are dealing with the pandemic, DCHS will be joining other high schools across Montana in turning on our stadium lights this evening from 8:30-9:30. We miss you and wish you all to be safe and healthy. #DevilNation #LeaveALightOn

We know that with the new shift to online learning, more families will have to use internet more than they ever have before. Glendive Public Schools is working on ways to help families out in this difficult time. We understand that some families do not have internet which makes it difficult to get the assignments done. Please click on the link below for some information that might help. We will continue to work on solutions to help both our students and staff. PDF: https://bit.ly/3aH0d4j #GPSCommunity #DistanceLearning

Last Friday was the start of the Weekend Food Pantry Distribution at DCHS. We will be doing this again this Friday, April 3. If you are in need, please feel free to come down.