Dear SFUSD Colleagues,

Like many of you, I've been following the current events in our country as well as daily updates from public health officials regarding COVID-19. A new year has begun and we have many challenges before us – and hope for better days ahead. Did you hear this poem by youth poet Amanda Gorman at this week’s inauguration? We have many Amandas in our midst right here in SFUSD and I’m so excited they might now have a better glimpse of what is possible.  

We are doing our best to take care of ourselves, our loved ones and our SFUSD community in these unprecedented conditions. I want to take this opportunity to offer a reminder to practice self care. This slide from one of the three required COVID-19 trainings (more information about these trainings is in this newsletter) has some good reminders about self care.

Thank you for all that you're doing.

Warmly,

Vincent Matthews, Ed.D.

Superintendent of Schools

COVID-19 Health & Safety Protocols Trainings

As part of the training component of the SFUSD’s COVID-19 Prevention Program, all SFUSD employees are required to complete 3 training modules. The module links were sent out via email on Jan. 6 with the subject line “Your SFUSD Training Assignment.” For technical inquiries regarding access to the training modules, contact riskmanagement@sfusd.edu.

• If the training module does not reflect you as having completed it after you've gone through all the slides and closed out of the module, go back into the training and immediately click on TOC (Table of Contents) at the bottom-right of the screen. You can use TOC to jump ahead to the first quiz question at the end of the training. Confirm that there is an answer to the question, then use TOC to advance to the next slide and do the same thing, and continue this until the end. You will likely find that one or more questions did not get recorded as having been answered. After answering a question hit "Submit" as you originally did when you took the training, but once a question has been answered you need to use TOC to advance to/through it. If after you have done this the module still shows as incomplete, contact Risk Management at riskmanagement@sfusd.edu.
• If you are unable to click on the first quiz question, inform Risk Management. If this is the case the training didn't record a user as having gotten that far in the training.
• If you are a new user or have not accessed your Brit account in over six months, when you first log in you will get a message on the screen telling you that you were sent a verification email. If you do not see that you received an email, please check your Spam folder.
• If you have difficulty advancing slides as you go through the training or the slides freeze, the solution is usually time. Please wait 5 to 10 minutes and try again.

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