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Dear Dogwood Families,
Thank you for a fantastic week! We have so enjoyed welcoming our in-person 1st and 2nd graders to the building this week. It is incredible to see our concurrent learning communities in action. We are eager to welcome our in-person students in grades 3-6 to the building beginning next Tuesday, March 16th.
Please join us for our Group 7 (Grades 3-6) Return to School Town Hall tonight, March 11 at 5:30 pm. During this time we will review important information about our Return to School plans including our new schedules, arrival/dismissal plans, meals at school, illness at school and more. Please use THIS LINK to join our meeting. If you are unable to join the meeting live, we will share the recording afterward.
As always, please let us know if you have any questions, celebrations, or concerns. Thank you for all your continued support and partnership.
Your Dogwood Administrative Team,
Rachel Charlton Katie Aldridge Kim Seck
Acting Principal Assistant Principal Assistant Principal
Return to School Guides
Dogwood Family Partnership Handbook
FCPS Return to School Family Guide
Return to School Dates
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Group(s)
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Grade Level(s)/Programs Included
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Return Date
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1-4
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Preschool Autism
Preschool Class-based Students
Elementary Comprehensive Service Sites (CSS)
Adaptive Curriculum Programs:
- Enhanced Autism Class (EAC)
- Intellectual Disabilities (ID) Classes
- Intellectual Disabilities Severe (IDS) Classes
- Non-Categorical Elementary (NCE) accessing curriculum in a special education setting
Key Center and Kilmer Center
Burke School (Elementary)
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February 16
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5
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Early Head Start (infants and toddlers)
PreK (three and four year olds)
Kindergarten
Intensive Support Needs (students instructed w/ modified curriculum for at least 50% of their core courses and instructed in special education settings 50% or more of their instructional day)
Specialized Center-based Programs- Special Education:
- Vision Program at Robinson SS
- Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) Programs at Canterbury Woods ES, Frost MS and Woodson HS
- Students with 50% or more of core content areas in special education settings
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February 23
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6
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Grades 1-2
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March 9
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7
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Grades 3-6
Secondary Public Day Programs - Special Education:
- Burke Middle School
- Davis & Pulley Centers - all other students that have not previously returned to in-person instruction and Davis STEP
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March 16
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Return to School Forms
Health Screening Commitment Form
This is required for all students returning in-person and now available in ParentVUE for 45 days prior to the student’s first day of in-person instruction.
The student’s start date will be entered in the SIS Return to School tab on the Student view will trigger the acknowledgement form to appear in their parent(s)/guardian(s) ParentVUE account. The ParentVUE acknowledgments will be automatically updated in SIS every 15 minutes. At least one parent/guardian must acknowledge the commitment once prior to their child coming In-Person. If a student has been In-Person and returned to virtual, their parent/guardian will not have to submit the Health Screening Commitment acknowledgment.
Return to School Mitigation Strategies
All students will be required to wear a mask, properly over their mouth and nose all day, except when eating. Students who are unable or unwilling to comply with this mitigation factor will be required to attend school virtually until they have learned to tolerate mask wearing. This will ensure a safe environment.
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Please join us for a Chick-fil-a Spirit Night Fundraiser on Tuesday, March 23rd from 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm at the Village Commons location:
12160 Sunset Hills Road, Reston
25% of all product sales will support Dogwood! Take a night off from cooking and come on out. Hope to see you there, Dragons!
Dogwood is currently a candidate school for the International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Programme. We began our candidacy in March 2017. After four years, we are finally in the final stages of our candidacy! In June, we submitted our application stating that we are ready to become an authorized IB PYP school.
On April 8 and 9, we will have two IB educators visiting Dogwood virtually as part of our verification visit. This is the final step before we can become an authorized IB PYP school. During this visit, the IB educators will have the opportunity to virtually visit classrooms and talk to our staff, some students, and some parents. We are looking forward to this visit and the opportunity to share our learning and work from the past four years.
A few months after this visit, we will receive feedback and hopefully acknowledgement that we are an authorized International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Programme school. We would become just the second authorized IB PYP school in Fairfax County!
If you have any questions about our journey or the visit, please reach out to our PYP Coordinator, Adrienne Schumer at acschumer@fcps.edu.
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The Solution Station remains available from 9:00 am - 11:00 am on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and no appointment is necessary. |
Help for troubleshooting issues you may experience can be found on FCPS’s website: Tech Support for Families. It may be very helpful for students to bookmark this site, as it will help solve most common problems. |
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Thursday, March 11th - Family Town Hall for Group 7 (Grades 3-6) at 5:30 pm.
Sunday, March 14th - Daylight Savings Time at 2:00 am - Move clocks ahead one hour.
Tuesday, March 16th - Grades 3, 4, 5 & 6 in-person students return.
Wednesday, March 24th - Dogwood Virtual Family Wellness Chat 6:30-7:30 pm
Wednesday, April 14th - Dogwood Virtual Family Wellness Chat 12:00-1:00 pm
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