PARENT ESSENTIALS
Resources
Forms, Links, Handbooks, etc
🍿 Popcorn & Pickles this Friday, Sept 11
Forms, Links, Handbooks, etc
💊Authorization to Dispense Medicine
🚗Unaccompanied Dismissal (High school only)
📆 Official School Calendar (pdf)
🖊 2026-2027 School Supply List
WIDE is introducing Cell Phone-Free Classrooms to help educators remain fully present and focused on children throughout the school day.
Teachers will store personal phones in designated areas and use school-provided devices only for documentation and approved classroom purposes. Families are also asked to put phones away during drop-off and pick-up, enter classrooms without phones, and hold personal calls or detailed conversations away from children.
This shared commitment is about being intentional, not perfect, and creating a school community where every child feels seen, heard, and valued. Your presence matters.
Please remember not to pull through the fire lane
Please drive slowly - there are a lot of littles moving around in the mornings and after school.
Students should be dropped off at their classroom by 8:15
Pickup is at 3:30
We do not have a drop off/ pickup line
Students should be dropped off at their classroom by 8:15
Pickup is at 3:30
Parent/Guardians must inform the school of any alternate adult picking up a student either through email or a phone call, if the person appears on the pick-up list. The alternate person is required to show a photo ID and sign the student out in the main office located in the WIDE School building prior to proceeding to classroom for pick up. We will only release your child to individuals listed on the pick-up list. (If necessary, you may add to or change the list of named individuals during the course of the year.)
No cell phones or smartwatches are allowed. There is a phone locker at the front for students to lock their phone during the day. They will be given access to it if it is needed for an assignment or if they are going off campus for lunch.
if your child is not feeling well for any reason you will need to find alternate care. If your child has a fever (100 degrees or above), is vomiting or has diarrhea, he/she must stay home for at least 24hrs after he/she is symptom free. Please do not bring your child is he/she has a contagious illness or exhibits any of the following symptoms:
● Fever of 100 degrees or above
● Vomiting, in excess of typical infant spit-ups
● Diarrhea
● Conjunctivitis (pink-eye)
● Consistent complaints of ear or stomach pain
● Bleeding other than minor cuts and scrapes
● Excessive greenish nasal discharge, indicating possible infection
● Head lice
In general, if your child is too sick to go outside and play, then your child is too sick to attend school. Any child requiring prescription medication will need to be kept at home for a period of at least 24 hours after taking the first dose of medication or until the child is no longer contagious.
When you visit, please check in at the front desk.
In order to protect the safety of our children, all visitors must sign in and provide the office with a picture I.D. No more than 2 visits in one month are allowed without an FBI background check with fingerprints. That can be arranged through the office.
A visit to the classroom should be arranged with the teacher in advance. We ask that during classroom visits adults remain silent, so as not to disrupt the students.
If you are visiting for lunch, please sit with your student at the white tables in the lobby. Lunch can be purchased for $5.00.
WE REQUIRE THE FOLLOWING FROM OUR PARENTS:
MEETINGS
Attend mandatory in-person meetings - Not offered via Zoom
Attend meetings as they are provided for upcoming events
If further understanding is needed, attend the offered parent support meetings
Maintain open and positive communication with the teaching team
School-Related Work
Read all communications sent
Read newsletters twice a week
Check homework
Resist temptations to “save” your child
Find new ways to stay on top of the information
Snooze emails to a time of the day you can read them
Set alarms to remind you to take actions
Create family calendar with reminders
iPhone offers location-based reminders
Participate in the WIDE annual Poetry Night
Support your student in the WIDE annual Investigation Fair
Family Growth
Resist temptations to “save” your student
Have the time and willingness to educate yourself
Read suggested books/materials
Come to meetings
Be open minded and flexible
It takes time… it usually takes a school year to acclimate
Volunteer Hours
Each family is required to donate 15 hours a year
Like so many other important decisions we make for our children, we must research. To support you on your journey, we’ve curated a collection of resources focused on project-based learning, emotional intelligence, and the development of soft skills.
Stop by our Parent Resource Center - located at the front of the school near the library - to browse our collection of parent-focused books and enjoy a cup of coffee.
Understanding Project-Based Learning, the Reggio Emilia Approach, and Innovation in Education
☞ Ted Dintersmith TED Talk: Prepare Our Kids for Life, Not Standardized Tests
☞ What Are Schools For?
☞ What Schools Could Be
☞ The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia
☞ Experience in Transformation
☞ Children Reinvent Arithmetic: Implications of Piaget’s Theory
☞ Learner-Centered Innovation
Supporting Emotional Intelligence, Mental Health & Soft Skills
☞ The Conscious Parent by Dr. Shefali Tsabary
☞ Talk to Me First by Deborah Roffman
☞ Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop ☞ Talking by Susan Cain
☞ The Awakened Family by Dr. Shefali Tsabary
☞ Love and Logic