Welcome To StottlemyerEarly Childhood & Family Development Center

This is a reminder that the District will resume in-person learning on Tuesday, January 18, 2022, for all PreK-12 grade students. 

Here is the schedule for the upcoming week. 

• January 17 : No School - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
• January 18 : Full day of In-person learning for all K-12 grade students
• January 19-21 : Full day of in-person instruction for elementary students
• January 19 : Full day of in-person instruction for middle school students
• January 19 : ½ day of instruction for high school students. Final exams
• January 20 : ½ day of instruction for middle and high school students. Final exams
• January 21 : ½ day of instruction for middle and high school students. Final exams.  
• January 24 : Second semester begins

Wayne-Westland Community Schools has selected Care Solace, an organization determined to calm the chaos of mental health care coordination, to expand access to community mental health and substance use treatment providers for students, staff, and their families. Care Solace provides a Care Companion™ team who can quickly and confidentially find available providers in the community. Care Solace also equips school systems with a customized online tool that gives community members a way to anonymously search for community-based providers matched to their needs.

We will be sending further information sonn on how WWCS Families and Staff can benefit from Care Solace. 

Dear Wayne-Westland Families, 

While students will be learning remotely next week, we will have food distribution days to provide all Wayne-Westland PreK-12 grade students with five days of breakfast and lunch. 

Curbside Food Distribution Schedule

Tuesday, January 11th from 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Wayne Memorial High School, 3001 Fourth Street, Wayne, MI 48184  

Wednesday, January 12th from 6:00 am - 11:00 am
John Glenn High School, 36105 Marquette, Westland, MI 48185

Thursday, January 13th from 7:00 am - 12:00 pm
Roosevelt-McGrath Elementary School, 36075 Currier, Wayne, MI 48184

COVID-19 Testing for students and staff

Wayne-Westland Community Schools has nurses assigned to each school in the District. Next week, nurses will be on-site to administer Rapid COVID-19 Antigen tests to District staff, students, and families. Parents or guardians can contact the nurse at your child's school and set up a drive-thru appointment.  The test results will take 15-20 minutes. 

Sports and extracurricular events

The winter sports season will begin on January 18, 2022. There will be no sports practices, afterschool clubs, or extracurricular activities the week of January 10, 2022. 

If you have any questions, please contact your child's school. Have a wonderful weekend.

Sincerely, 

John Dignan, Ed.D.
Superintendent

Dear Wayne-Westland Families,

We believe that in-person instruction is most effective for our students. However, given certain mitigating factors such as staff shortages, the inability to offer transportation to a large portion of our students, and overall student absentee rates, we decided to transition to remote learning for the week of January 10, 2022, for all PreK-12 grade students.

We have moved middle and high school final exam week to the week of January 18, 2022.

Schedule

• January 10-14, 2022 : All PreK-12 grade students remote instruction
• January 12-14, 2022 : Full day of remote instruction for grades 6-12
• January 14, 2022 : ½ day of instruction for elementary students
• January 17, 2022 : No School - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
• January 18, 2022 : In-person learning resumes for all PreK-12 grade students
• January 19-21, 2022 : Full day of in-person instruction for elementary students
• January 19, 2022 : ½ day of instruction for high school students Final exams
• January 20, 2022 : ½ day of instruction for middle and high school students Final exams
• January 21, 2022 : ½ day of instruction for middle and high school students Final exams. Full day of instruction for K-5.

As required by the Michigan Department of Education, school districts must have a 75 percent daily pupil attendance threshold to be counted as a day of instruction.

By offering remote learning, it gives students who are in quarantine or without transportation the opportunity to log into their classes to continue to receive instruction from their teachers. Students will follow their regular school schedule.

Your child’s principal and teacher/s will share more information about Chromebook distribution, class schedules and logging into their virtual classrooms. All buildings will remain open. Please contact your school office if you have any questions.

The Champions Before and After School program will still operate each day next week but will be located at Stevenson Middle School, 38501 Palmer, Westland 48185, for students currently enrolled in the program. Students who are not enrolled, placement will be on a first-come, first-serve basis. For more information, please call 734-294-1222.

The high school athletic events will run as scheduled and information about food distribution times and locations will be sent out this weekend.

Thank you for your continued support and patience.

Sincerely,

John Dignan, Ed.D
Superintendent

2021-2022 Remote Learning Updates

Dear Wayne-Westland Families,

Covering bus routes has been a challenge this year with a reduced transportation department staff and the rise in COVID-19 cases. In an effort to alleviate last-minute cancellations, attached is a schedule of bus routes that
will be temporarily canceled over the next two weeks. This schedule will begin on Tuesday, January 4, 2022.

Our goal is to prevent a route from being canceled two days in a row and to give parents time to set up alternative transportation arrangements.

We apologize that we have to cancel these routes, it is not something we want to do, but have to do it because of an increase in COVID-19 cases and a nationwide driver shortage.

There is a possibility we may be able to reinstate a route for the day. If that is the case we will send out a robocall in the morning letting parents of that route know we will be servicing that route, however parents should still plan to make transportation arrangements for their children as we cannot guarantee that will happen.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,

John Dignan, Ed.D.
Superintendent