Welcome to JGE

Let the Food Services Department help you make celebrating birthdays easy, fun, and healthy!

Birthday Celebration Form

Gettysburg Area School District is pleased to offer Chromebooks to each student for use in school for the 2024-2025 school year. This initiative provides students with a valuable tool that will give them access to a variety of positive resources available in our technology-driven society. With this technology comes increased student responsibility and expectations.

The primary mission of the Chromebook Program is to transform teaching, learning, and assessment at Gettysburg Area School District. A new generation of students expects a learning environment that integrates today's digital tools, accommodates a mobile lifestyle, adapts to individual learning styles, and encourages collaboration and teamwork. The GASD School Board, along with the Staff and Administrators of Gettysburg Area School District, is pleased to support this educational opportunity for all students which will strive to meet these expectations and prepare students for their future.

Through the use of technology, the Chromebook Program will focus on improving student engagement, achievement, and acquisition of digital-age skills (from the National Educational Technology Standards) including:

• Creativity and innovation
• Communication and Collaboration
• Research and information fluency
• Critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making
• Technology operations and concepts
• Enhance teacher instruction and student learning in the following ways:
  • Increase student achievement 
  • Increase student engagement 
  • Increase academic rigor
  • Increase student attendance
  • Increase student interest in school
  • Increase personal responsibility
  • Increase student accountability in the learning process
  • Improve teaching methods 
  • Revise the current educational curriculum
  • Differentiated instruction in the classroom using technology to facilitate the classroom structure and, when applicable, instruction
  • To "level the playing field" allowing equal access to technology for all of our student population
  • Provide students, families, and the community with a variety of positive resources and programs in GASD
  • Build a bridge between the school and the community by producing graduates who will be prepared to serve the community through lifelong learning

Chromebook Handbook for 2024-2025 School Year

Please contact Dr. Jeffrey Matzner if you have any input regarding the Parent and Family Engagement Policy.

Student Accident Group Insurance Memo

Student Accident Group Insurance Brochure

Student Accident Group Insurance Memo - Spanish

Student Accident Group Insurance Brochure - Spanish

• JGE Title I Plan 2024-2025
• JGE Parent Compact 2024-2025
• JGE Parent Compact 2024-2025 Spanish
• JGE Parent Involvement Policy 2024-2025 
• JGE Parent Involvement Policy 2024-2025 Spanish

Greetings Gettysburg Elementary Families,

We hope that everyone has experienced a great start to the school year.  As the possibility for winter weather approaches, we wanted to provide you with some information and expectations in the event that the Gettysburg Area School District would move to a Flexible Instructional Day (FID).  During a Flexible Instructional Day (FID), students will learn from home and engage in flexible learning based upon the schedule and expectations below.  

• Emergency FID (students do not have their devices at home) - If an emergency FID or electrical outage/other emergency issue occurs, please utilize the teacher FID folder that will be sent home on 11/1/2024.
• Planned/Anticipated FID (students have their devices at home) - If it is a planned/anticipated FID, students will be sent home with their Chromebooks and follow the schedule below.
   

K-5 Flexible Learning Schedule

• 9:00-11:00 
  • Classroom teachers will release asynchronous(self-paced/adult supported) learning activities to students by 9am.  
  • Activities may include Seesaw, ConnectEd, offline/non-tech activities, math games, Freckle, teacher-created activities, Lexia, Google Classroom, CKLA, 95%, etc.
  • Teachers will also be available during this time frame to assist students with their learning activities via email, Seesaw Messages, zoom, google meets, etc.
• 11:00-12:30 
  • Lunch and Recess
• 12:30-2:45 
  • Students will continue to work on their assignments released by their classroom teachers.  
  • Classroom and support teachers will be meeting with small groups/individuals

• Specials/Counselors 
  • Teachers will release learning activities to the classes they teach each day prior to their normally scheduled special time.
  • Counselors will release learning activities to students via Seesaw by 11 am.   
  • Assignments should be no more than 20-30 minutes and are due prior to the next scheduled special class for that specific special (4 days). This provides more flexibility to families and allows for changes due to unforeseen circumstances.
• Special Education/Reading Specialist/ESL/Speech
  • Teachers will reach out to students/families to provide support on classroom learning activities and additional learning opportunities to meet the needs of individual students.

 

• Attendance:  Students earn daily attendance through daily engagement measure(s):
  • Completed/Submitted tasks and asynchronous learning activities 
  • A student is considered absent if the student does not have documented engagement with the learning activities or daily contact with the teacher or documentation of completion/turn-in of daily assignments. 

Thank you for your support with this process.

Sincerely,

The Gettysburg Elementary School Principals