School Email

Have you been checking your school email accounts while we have been out of the building?  In talking with students, it seems like about half of you are doing this and half of you are still struggling with checking your school email.  I need to tell you, never before has it been so important for you to check your school email account regularly!

Chances are, as you check your email, you will quickly start to feel overwhelmed with how many email messages you are getting from teachers.  (And maybe also from me too for that matter.)  Whenever possible, try to get in the habit of dealing with the email when you open and read it vs going back to it multiple times throughout the day or losing track of emails because they fell off your radar.

The district realized that there are constraints with the current set up of the email system which could cause problems.  For example, if your teachers are emailing you a document that you might want or need to print, the way the system was set up before, you weren't able to do that from your school emails to home printers (only to school printers).  So they have temporarily changed some of your email restrictions and you can now either print to other printers or at least you can forward to your own email account and print the documents from there.

Speaking of forwarding emails, you can now forward your school emails to yourself at other email accounts or to your parents AND you can also receive emails from your family as well as your teachers.  The goal of this change was to allow students, teachers and parents to have easier communication options for everyone to be together on one message during a time when everything else seems more confusing.

I would ask that if your teachers are emailing you that you please respond back to them so they know you are alive and well.  Truly, that is our first and foremost concern with students.  We don't know if you are healthy.  We don't always know if you even have access to email.  So please, if you are able to get to your school emails, check them and respond!