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Parent/Guardian Feedback Distance Learning & Return to School
Information from the survey will be used to inform ongoing planning and program implementation.
- Survey: English Version or Spanish Version
- Please complete by Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020
Thank you for your engagement!
Virtual Crossing Guard
Are your mornings missing some pizzazz? Are you feeling blue because you can no longer walk to school? If so, have we got the thing for you!
Every school day morning from 7:55 to 8:30 a.m. students can have a quick drop-in virtual crosswalk crossing with Ms. Stephens. The Zoom link is available from any Bacich teacher or admin.
Internet Safety
Many of you have been inquiring about the filters on our district devices and google platform. Here are the answers to your questions, straight from our IT director, Andrew Korff.
"The Kentfield School District employs two layers of filtering for all student internet access, both on campus and when using school-owned devices at home. The first filtering layer is provided by a service called Cisco Umbrella, which is provided to all districts by the Marin County Office of Education. This filter is automatically applied to all school-owned iPads or Chromebooks, and blocks websites based on filtering rules we have established. The second filtering layer is specific to Google. Our DNS server is configured to force all Google searches to use Google's "SafeSearch" setting, which filters out explicit content. This applies to all web searches as well as all image searches originating from our network, and also cannot be disabled. YouTube access for students is also configured to use "Restricted Mode", which similarly filters out mature or inappropriate content. Our filtering rules through Cisco Umbrella are often more stringent than Google's SafeSearch, and at times this can result in the name of a blocked website appearing in Google's search results. If a student were to click on the search result, however, they would be blocked from visiting the website itself."
Discover solutions and tips for technical issues. Submit a technical help request.
Free and Reduced Lunch Applications Available
Families need to re-apply for free and reduced-price lunches annually, even if you have been approved in the past. This year we will provide five school lunches in a box per week. You will pick up the box at Kent Middle School on Monday (or Tuesday if Monday is a holiday) between the hours of 12 and 1:30 p.m.
- Download Application in English or Spanish
- Return application to Maureen Moulton, Assistant to the Superintendent, mrnoulton@kenlfieldschools.org
District Committee Solicitation
Kentfield School District maintains a variety of district wide committees, which include Communications, Equity, Finance, Safety, Technology, and Wellness. As we prepare to launch and/or reconvene our committees we welcome stakeholder participation to support diversified perspectives and interests.
- If you would like to participate in any of our committees for the 2020-2021 school year please complete this form by September 30, 2020.