HERE is the list of schools for each Nutrition Services Area Supervisor.

If you need early morning assistance, please contact David Paul at 3-2164.

Principals,

It is that time of year again – Time to select your student photography supplier for the 2024-25 school year! You can select from three suppliers:

• Inter-State- BROCHURE HERE
  
• Lifetouch- BROCHURE HERE
  
• Strawbridge- BROCHURE HERE
  

Attached are the companies package prices. Also, attached is your photography selection from last year.

Please review the information and

• If you would like to keep the same supplier as last year, you do not need to respond.
  
• If you would like to change your selection, please send me your selection choice by the end of day on Friday, April 12th, 2024.
  

Grad Images is available for Senior Commencement Pictures. The package pricing sheet is attached HERE.

Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions.

Attachment: Copy of student Photograph Company Selections

ATTACHMENTS:

1. Evac drill summary form
   
2. Evac drill instructions
   
3. Evac drill driver doc
   

Are you #WPS PROUD of your Nutrition Service and Kitchen Staff? We invite you and/or your school team to nominate any member of your Nutrition Services team who has demonstrated outstanding performance, exemplary customer service, exceptional work ethic, or other notable qualities for the prestigious "Round of Applause" Award. Each nominee will be formally acknowledged at our upcoming Oscar Award in-service event on April 12th. Please take a moment to submit your nominations via the provided link: Nomination Form. Thank you for your support in celebrating the dedication and contributions of our Nutrition Services team.

On 2/28, First Student, Wichita Transit, and EverDriven are aware of the altered schedule. Northeast Magnet’s buses will roll at 12:00, 8:00 schools will roll at 1:00, and Chester Lewis will roll at 2:00. Note: The Dismissal times are an hour later than typical alteration times.

Any bus rider who needs extra time on the ACT per their IEP, will have a student transportation vehicle waiting for them at normal dismissal time, provided assessment coordinators communicated these needs to the Assessments & Research Office

There will be no district provided transportation to WSU tech, Friends University, or Future Ready Center campuses on this day. If you do not need your 801 activity buses that serve clubs and athletics at 5:30-6:30PM, please reach out to the transportation office and cancel them.

Attachments: KSDE POLICY , SMART SNACKS TALKING POINTS, SMART SNACKS PDF, EXEMPT FUNDRAISING

Please the attached information regarding Smart Snacks in Schools regulations and fundraising.

To summarize, the policy set by the Kansas State Board of Education regarding exempt fundraisers is as follows:

“One exempt fundraiser per school organization per semester that does not meet the Nutrition Standards for All Foods Sold in School during the school day on the school campus will be allowed. The length of the organization’s exempt fundraiser cannot exceed two (2) days.”

Fundraisers must be documented by school personnel. In our schools, this is typically the Bookkeeper, so please share this information with him or her.

Page 6 on the third attachment will provide guidance on how to determine if an individual item meets the Smart Snacks in Schools standard.

If you would like to send me your calendar of fundraising events, I would be happy to review it for compliance. If you have any questions, please let me know.

Attached HERE are the Instructions for the Perry Weather notifications.

It’s that time of year where Scholastic is having Buy 4 packs of My Books Summer, get 1 Free! Please see attached Order form as well as a MBS flyer (Scholastic’s My Books Summer, Buy 4 Get 1 Free!) and a Title list for this year’s packs (2024 My Books Summer List).

This is the most current spreadsheet for the 23-24 school year? We’ve provided last year’s spreadsheet and requested that they begin planning their book purchases

ATTACHMENTS: Attachment 1, Attachment 2, Attachment 3

Buses will roll at 12:10 for the high schools on the last two days for the fall and spring semester.

December 13 and 14

May 22 and 23

ATTACHMENTS: Evac Drill Summary Form, EvacDrill Instrictions

New to this school year, quarterly meetings will be held for school staff and bus staff at schools. These mandatory meetings are similar to the “Meet your Driver” meetings during dry runs in August. Please plan for your school to talk with your bus drivers and monitors on the date/time designated in the flier shown here.

Please encourage coaches and club sponsors to cancel late bus runs/activity buses if they realize that students will not need the services, especially if they cancel their after-school activity. They can cancel the late bus by calling 973-2190 or by letting the school’s transportation clerk know.

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Suicide Prevention Training

All Nutrition Services staff members completed the Suicide Prevention Training at our mandatory back-to-school in-service, held on Monday, August 7th.

Breakfast in the Classroom

Any staff member who will be involved with Breakfast in the Classroom is required to complete training prior to working with the program. This is an annual requirement.

Here is the link to the training.

We will be providing this information to the Satellite cashiers in a separate communication.

Catering Order Form

Nutrition Services Catering Order Form is an electronic form and is located at www.usd259.org/catering . Please do not submit orders on the previously used Excel form.

Attention After-School Programs

If you have plans to have any type of after-school program, including tutoring and you are be interested in providing a Super Snack to your students, please contact Adrea Katzenmeier (AKatzenmeier@usd259.net) or Kem Moore (KMoore2@usd259.net).

Please do not arrange this directly with Nutrition Services staff members at your school.

We need to ensure your school is set up and approved for meal service under the Child and Adult Care Food Program with KSDE and ensure that we have the food available to provide meals, so please provide us with two-week’s advance notice.

PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL SCHEDULE

NS SUBS & FPC

Request for Information on Eligibility for Child Nutrition Program Benefits (6A Form)

It is critical that the 6A form be filled out so the correct staff members can access the meal benefit status and account balance for students.

Link to the 6A form: 23-24 Request for Information on Eligibility for Child Nutrition Program Benefits (6A)

Smart Snacks Rule Talking Points

• Smart Snacks Rule nutrition standards apply to all foods sold outside school meal programs, on school campus, and at any time during the school day (midnight to 30 minutes after the end of the school day).
  
• Fundraisers
  
• All foods that meet Smart Snack standards may be sold at fundraisers on the school campus during school hours.
  
• Smart Snack standards do not apply to items sold during non-school hours, weekends, or off-campus fundraising events.
• KSDE Policy: “One exempt fundraiser per school organization per semester that does not meet the Nutrition Standards for All Foods Sold in School during the school day on the school campus will be allowed. An organization is defined as a school group that is approved by the local board of education. Length of the organization’s exempt fundraiser cannot exceed 2 days.”
• Sponsors must track exempt fundraisers.
• KSDE Policy for Exempt Fundraisers and Exempted Fundraising Tracking Tool can be found at: www.kn-eat.org/SNP/SNP_Menus/SNP_Guidance_Smart_Snacks.htm
  
• TRACKING TOOL HERE
  
• Resources:
  
• Alliance for a Healthier Generation – Smart Snacks Product Calculator
  
• www.healthiergeneration.org/calculator
• USDA Smart Snacks in School Webpage
  
• http://www.fns.usda.gov/school-meals/smart-snacks-school
• KSDE Smart Snacks page at www.kn-eat.org, School Nutrition, Guidance, Smart Snacks in Schools
  
• www.kn-eat.org/SNP/SNP_Menus/SNP_Guidance_Smart_Snacks.htm
• Free Recipe Analysis websites:
  
• http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator.asp
• http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/recipe_analysis.php
• http://www.myfitnesspal.com/welcome/learn_more
• http://www.choosemyplate.gov/supertracker-tools/supertracker.html
• Required Documentation for food products sold under Smart Snacks Rule:
  
• Nutrition Facts Label
  
• Ingredient Label
  
• Product Calculation for Nutrient Standards
  

Adding and Deleting Students

FirstACTs is a web-based tool for drivers and monitors to easily communicate incidents on the bus. ​Designated school personnel will have a username and password to FirstActs that allows them to ​read the referral/communication and communicate actions taken. It is necessary for these to be ​processed on a weekly basis.

For other behavior related information, please be sure to log on to the staff only page at

usd259.org/transportation or our Teams page for information and materials related to our Bus

Behavior Management Program. The following materials can be found there:

-High School and K8 Student Expectations on the Bus Acknowledgement Form

-CHAMPS/BUS RIDE Student PowerPoint Lesson with video embedded

-Additional lessons to help address specific misbehaviors on the bus

-CHAMPS/BUS RIDE Posters

-Bus Behavior Matrix (Tier Document)

-Bus Behavior Consequence Matrix

-School Bus Individual Behavior Plan

Every daily bus rider must receive the student bus riding lesson.

Chronically Early/Late Buses

Drivers/Monitors Entering Buildings

Drivers and monitors may enter your building to use the restroom. Please communicate to them the most direct route from their loading zone to the restroom. They do not need to scan into Hall Pass.

Field Trip/Charter Requests

First Student’s Charter Coordinator is Tina Tice (316-554-2674). It is important to follow your charter schedule and maintain the designated pick up and drop off times. Delaying loading or unloading

could result in a disruption of service for other routes and home to school transportation at other sites. All field trip buses should have a bus roster of riders provided to the bus driver and school office prior to leaving on the trip. This is not a class list but a list of riders on each bus. This information is critical to have in a bus emergency situation.

New Rider Form

Please use the New Rider Form for students new to a bus stop. The student will use this form as a bus ticket until he/she is officially added to the run sheets. During the first 2 weeks of school,

students not listed on the bus run who show up at a general education bus stop will be transported to school. The driver will notify the bus supervisor that the student needs a New Rider Form. New stops cannot be added using a New Rider Form.

Seating Charts

Please assist bus drivers with seating charts. Pre-k – 8th Grade seating charts are required.

Severe Weather/Emergency Procedures

Please make sure that you are familiar with the location of your green bus door and that the green

bus sticker is adhered to it. Also keep in mind that the green bus door needs to be unlocked anytime you receive notification of a severe weather threat or warning, regardless of the time. The green bus door is the designated school entrance location provided to all bus drivers that they can access in the event of severe weather when shelter is needed for them and their bus riders.

If a bus crash/incident occurs, the school is responsible for sending out parent notification. The transportation department does not have access to bus runs in Parent Link, schools do.

Space Available Requests

Space Available requests for siblings of students that qualify for transportation on regular education First Student buses can be sent to your transportation scheduler. Space available requests for any other students will not be considered until after official count day on September 20th. Please hold any space available requests for non-sibling students on regular education buses and submit their names on the space available spreadsheet after September 10th. Any space available requests for students

to ride a special education bus will need to be submitted individually by using the request form after September 10th.

IEP teams must thoroughly discuss eligibility for SPED transportation each year. Teams should not automatically give students the same type of transportation year after year without discussion. SPED transportation does not necessarily need to be different than what other bus riders receive.

Students with transportation as a related service have a bus input form. The input form includes required accommodations related to transportation (from the IEP) and preferences for the student, such as things they like and dislike (according to their bus driver from last year). Each student can also have individualized preference items left on their bus to help them have a successful ride. These items may include books, coloring sheets, a teddy bear, fidgets, etc. IEP managers are encouraged to collaborate with transportation when drafting the transportation service section of the IEP.

The transportation department communicates the appropriate individualized needs of students from IEPs, including providing BIPs and medical plans. School personnel must provide the bus driver/monitor emergency medical plans for bus riders. School nurses must also email these plans to Kristia Kastens.

It is highly encouraged for school personnel to also discuss the “needs to know” information with drivers/monitors. A great time to do this is during Meet Your Driver meetings.

Staging Locations for School Buses

Staging maps for every site are kept on file in Transportation and shared with First Student. All bus staging changes must go through the Transportation office before implementation. The district works carefully with the First Student safety team to make sure each staging area is safe for bus riders, pedestrians and parent traffic at each school.

Suicide Protocol on the School Bus

Any bus driver or monitor who identified a student as expressing suicidal thoughts will take every

threat serious. 9-1-1 will be called and the school and parents will be contacted. The next time the student arrives to school, school staff will stay with the student and a Wichita Public Schools Suicide Protocol will need to be conducted on the student.

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