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Dear Families,
I hope you are safe and well.
As we head into winter, it’s likely we will have inclement weather that in an ordinary year would cause all schools
to close for teaching and learning. This year, if a snowstorm or other weather demands that school buildings
close, all schools will still conduct remote learning on that day. All students will be expected to log on and engage
with their work from home as they do on other days when they learn remotely. Middle and high school students
who are already learning remotely every day are expected to attend school remotely, regardless of the weather.
The ability to teach and learn remotely across the system allows us to continue learning despite inclement weather
closures. You will still be notified as usual when we are closing buildings due to weather, but these will not be
days off from learning.
Your school will stay in close communication with you regarding the upcoming snowstorm predicted to affect
New York City beginning the evening of Wednesday, December 16. Please note that extra meals will be available
on Tuesday, December 15 and Wednesday, December 16 to take home.
Please do not hesitate to contact your principal if you have any questions.

Please click here for translations and additional messages for families

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Please click here for the Back To School Pledge from The Department Of Education:
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Please click this link for translated letters
https://infohub.nyced.org/in-our-schools/translations/letters/coronavirus-letters

Dial-A-Teacher Now Available for Grades K–5
The UFT has re-opened its Dial-A-Teacher Program, a homework help line for students, run by classroom teachers. This resource is available from 4:00–7:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday, for students in grades K–5. Due to limitations caused by school building closures, the help line is currently only available for ELA and math homework from teachers speaking English. The UFT is hoping to expand to other subjects, grades, and languages soon.
For more information, please go to https://www.uft.org/your-union/uft-programs/dial-a-teacher

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Click the above book to read Dave the Dog is Worried about Coronavirus.

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At this time, there are several options for free internet access, as follows:

AlticeUSA is providing free internet service for all students for 60 days. Please call 866-200-9522 to enroll.

Comcast – Comcast is offering an internet essentials package for free. To sign up for a free internet essentials package for 60 days, applicants can simply visit http://www.internetessentials.com. The accessible website also includes the option to video chat with customer service agents in American Sign Language. There are also two dedicated phone numbers 1-855-846-8376 for English and 1-855-765-6995 for Spanish.

Spectrum – Spectrum is offering free internet access for students. Beginning March 16, Spectrum is offering free internet for 60 days to households with K-12 or college students who don’t already have a Spectrum subscription. To enroll, call 1-844-488-8395.

Charter – Charter is offering free internet for 2 months. 1 (877) 906-9121

AT&T – AT&T COVID-19 response. AT&T will offer open hot-spots, unlimited data to existing customers, and $10/month plans to low-income families.

Verizon does not have special offers, but is following the FCC agreement.

Sprint is following the FCC agreement, providing unlimited data to existing customers, and, starting Tuesday, 3/17/2020, will allow all handsets to enable hot spots for 60 days at no extra charge.

T-Mobile is following the FCC agreement, plus unlimited data to existing customers, and, coming soon, will allow all handsets to enable hot-spots for 60 days at no extra charge.

This is where you will find important information for families.

Parent Handbook Download

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3uiCl6-z8IRYmNBb0dJREVkd28

Free MS office

https://nycstudents.net/

Important notice: Fight Flu

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This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-10.png — Click above to see how P.S. 176 Celebrates Juneteenth

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Virtual Learning

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We invite our families to come and play with all of us! The Boomerang Kindness Challenge begins today. Did you know that when you throw a boomerang that it always comes back to you? It’s the same way that you when you sprinkle kindness it comes back to you, too. And we want to sprinkle kindness all over our school and community.
Please take a look at Grace Flynn’s introduction to this challenge. We’re asking that all of our families take a one minute video of the many kind actions and comments that we do each day to make our school and community stronger. Please send your one minute Boomerang Kindness family video’s to us so that we can post them on our school website!