{"id":10412,"date":"2025-09-12T13:43:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanliteracycenter.org\/?p=10412"},"modified":"2025-09-12T13:51:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:51:21","slug":"welcome-back-weekly-announcements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanliteracycenter.org\/id\/2025\/09\/12\/welcome-back-weekly-announcements\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome back! Weekly Announcements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We will be posting an overview of the announcements for each week here on the website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Week 1: Sept 8-Sept 12 Announcements<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Student and tutor responsibilities &#8211; Paula<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tutors:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Be here every week, on time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prepare lesson plan every week&nbsp;&#8211; please stick to one Stand Out lesson per week for pacing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Assign homework every week using your students workbook. Go over the instructions with her so she know how to complete it at home.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Communicate absences with us using the <a href=\"https:\/\/dominicanliteracycenter.org\/id\/tutor-resources\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"172\">absence form on the website<\/a> or email.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Students:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Be here every week at your scheduled time (do not make doctor appointments during class time)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Be here on time to hear announcements<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do your assigned homework<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Communicate with your tutor<\/strong> if you are sick and need to miss class. Your tutor will communicate this with us, so you do not need to.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Attendance, red book, substitute policy &#8211; Sr. Jane<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Every tutor and student has an attendance sheet with all class dates. Every class date is listed, so please plan accordingly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The tutor must fill this out throughout the semester &#8211; we will collect attendance sheets at the end of the semester for grant reporting.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you miss a class, please try to make it up either here or at a public library. If you need to reschedule a class at the Center, you can see the back of the attendance sheet for all of our class times.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The \u201cRed Book\u201d is for any dates you know you will miss in the future. If you are marking a planned absence, please circle \u201cOUT.\u201d This helps us know that your classroom is available for someone to make up a class. If you want to make up a class at the Center, ask any of us and we will see if there is a room available and get you signed in.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you are going to miss two or more consecutive classes, and you let us know at least one week prior to the first absence, we can provide a substitute tutor. There is a <a href=\"https:\/\/dominicanliteracycenter.org\/id\/tutor-resources\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"172\">request form on the website<\/a> under Tutor Resources, or you can email Sr. Jane or let us know in person.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Emergency contact form and photo release &#8211; Claire<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tutors, please fill out your emergency contact form and help your student fill hers out as well. We need these back before you leave the building for compliance and safety reasons.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Please note that students should not put their address or place of work on the form anymore. We only need to know city and zip code.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The photo release is included on the form. If you are not comfortable sharing your photo outside of our building, please put an X through this section or write &#8220;no.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Claire will be coming to classrooms starting next week taking photos of each student and tutor together.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We will be posting an overview of the announcements for each week here on the website. Week 1: Sept 8-Sept 12 Announcements Student and tutor responsibilities &#8211; Paula Tutors:&nbsp; Students:&nbsp; Attendance, red book, substitute policy &#8211; Sr. Jane Emergency contact form and photo release &#8211; Claire<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":10434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"wds_primary_category":47,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":47,"label":"Announcements"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/dominicanliteracycenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PXL_20250816_201123245-edited-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"claire","author_link":"https:\/\/dominicanliteracycenter.org\/id\/author\/claire\/"},"comment_info":3,"category_info":[{"term_id":47,"name":"Announcements","slug":"announcements","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":47,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":47,"category_count":1,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Announcements","category_nicename":"announcements","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominicanliteracycenter.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominicanliteracycenter.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominicanliteracycenter.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominicanliteracycenter.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominicanliteracycenter.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dominicanliteracycenter.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominicanliteracycenter.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominicanliteracycenter.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominicanliteracycenter.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominicanliteracycenter.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}