E-mail, Web site figure in new approaches
By:Eric Schwarz
Parents of Manville students will have additional ways to communicate with the school district this year.
A new Web site will allow parents and others to send e-mail messages to teachers and administrators.
And Alexander Batcho Intermediate School is revising its system of sending printed notices home with students to make sure parents receive them.
Mike Skara, the district’s technology coordinator, who started Sept. 1, said the district has added a parental e-mail list to the district’s Web site at www.manvilleschools.org.
Through a link on the site, parents can sign up for electronic notifications of dates of concerts and other events such as report card distribution dates.
Parents are asked to include the name of their youngest child so they’ll remain on the list as long as that child is in school.
There are also links to the four schools, their personnel and other information such as a school calendar.
Another link on the Web site allows parents and students to find homework assignments posted by teachers who participate in the project.
Mr. Skara said he also plans to help the staff use the district’s several computer labs by holding after-school tutorials and designing forms and letterhead that can be accessed via a network.
James Brunn, the ABIS principal, told students Wednesday that they must have their parents sign every week that they have received printed notices for that week.
At the end of each week, the students are to bring the notices home in a sturdy Tyvek-type envelope and have the parents sign on a line indicating the notices were received.
Parents may send notices to the school in the same envelope.
See also:
Manville schools Web site