{"id":1033,"date":"2021-08-16T13:18:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T13:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2021-08-16T13:18:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T13:18:01","slug":"important-back-to-school-info-revised-school-calendar-covid-19-protocol-parent-duty-sign-up-online-interest-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/?p=1033","title":{"rendered":"IMPORTANT Back to school info: Revised School Calendar, COVID-19 protocol, Parent Duty Sign Up, Online interest form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Great News!\u00a0\u00a0PCLS has been selected by Overseas Community Affairs Council in Taiwan in June 2021 to establish a Taiwan Mandarin Learning Center\u00a0<strong>\u81fa\u7063\u83ef\u8a9e\u6587\u5b78\u7fd2\u4e2d\u5fc3<\/strong>to assist the implementation of the Taiwan-US Education Initiative, emphasizing Taiwan\u2019s important role in providing Mandarin learning opportunities for students in the US and other countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, there are two centers in New Jersey: PCLS and the Murray Hill School in Warren. For a listing of centers, please visit this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ocacnews.net\/theme\/23\/article\/284056\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/ocacnews.net\/theme\/23\/article\/284056&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1629206036689000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF6sPFEYFM9LiZdAXY_c4zrxkTbww\">link<\/a>\u00a0in Chinese or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ocacnews.net\/article\/287135\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/ocacnews.net\/article\/287135&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1629206036689000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGsHfsVgJDTahNNjYRDm6km-CZ3jg\">English<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ocacnews.net\/article\/287135\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/ocacnews.net\/article\/287135&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1629206036689000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGsHfsVgJDTahNNjYRDm6km-CZ3jg\">https:\/\/ocacnews.net\/article\/287135<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<strong>PCLS will be enrolling adults 18 and older<\/strong>\u00a0to join our Mandarin class for this initiative.\u00a0<em>Anyone who\u2019s interested in the adult class, please email me.\u00a0<\/em>Class will run during the regular PCLS class time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First day back in person at PDS is October 10.\u00a0PDS have accepted our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pcls.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2021-22-PCLS-COVID-19-protocols-Aug2.21.pdf\"><strong>COVID protocol<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0Here\u2019s the current plan:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By Saturday, 9\/11 \u2013\u00a0<strong>textbooks<\/strong>will be distributed through class parents, teachers and specific admin staff. Be on the lookout for an email to pick up the textbook packets.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>September 12, 19, 26 and October 3<\/strong>: All language and culture classes will be conducted virtually<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Be sure to open the attachments for our<strong>\u00a0COVID-19 protocols\u00a0and the\u00a0revised school calendar<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some parents have expressed interests in having their children continue virtually instead of coming back to PDS. We would like to assess the feasibility and interest in\u00a0<strong>online language<\/strong>\u00a0class and may offer classes online for specific groups if we have enough interest. If interest,\u00a0please fill out this\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdsFniZiQNU24XYYLI1dEBEwKhpBGSMrUmf1JxHPEhmTuC_JQ\/viewform\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdsFniZiQNU24XYYLI1dEBEwKhpBGSMrUmf1JxHPEhmTuC_JQ\/viewform&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1629206036689000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEg_2q5sC0kU2bq6TXKBnTgswADoQ\">online Google Form<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0so we can assess the situation and the need to add online classes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have also made modifications to\u00a0<strong>Parent Duty Sign Ups<\/strong>. In most instances, if there\u2019s no change in the sign up dates, duties and number of sign ups, we did not change the sign up (e.g., class parents). But some have been deleted. You may receive a notification about cancellations in the sign ups.\u00a0Please double check on the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.signupgenius.com\/go\/20F0A49ADA823AAFE3-20212022\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.signupgenius.com\/go\/20F0A49ADA823AAFE3-20212022&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1629206036689000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHEFO0zNvbBrBtGQ2fooozPRPzCoA\">SIGNUP Genius here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally,\u00a0<strong><em>if you have not registered your child(ren), please do so as soon as possible<\/em><\/strong>. Our academic director will be ordering text books on Wednesday, 8\/18. You may need to order your own textbooks\/homework packets if we don\u2019t have your registration in time and we run out of textbooks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Thank you for your continuing support!\u00a0<\/em><em>Looking forward to seeing everyone in fall!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great News!\u00a0\u00a0PCLS has been selected by Overseas Community Affairs Council in Taiwan in June 2021 to establish a Taiwan Mandarin Learning Center\u00a0\u81fa\u7063\u83ef\u8a9e\u6587\u5b78\u7fd2\u4e2d\u5fc3to assist the implementation of the Taiwan-US Education Initiative, emphasizing Taiwan\u2019s important role in providing Mandarin learning opportunities for students in the US and other countries. Currently, there are two centers in New Jersey: PCLS and the Murray Hill School in Warren. For a listing of centers, please visit this\u00a0link\u00a0in Chinese or\u00a0English\u00a0https:\/\/ocacnews.net\/article\/287135\u00a0\u00a0PCLS will be enrolling adults 18 and older\u00a0to <a href=\"http:\/\/pcls.org\/?p=1033\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}