Transportation
At pickup, student says their sibling is sick and isn’t coming. The teacher believes them, and leaves. Their sibling was wrong and the student is left behind.
What is pickup procedure, i.e., checking and confirming with directors before leaving the school?
All of the staff are gathered on one side of the room while two kids are playing rough. There is an injury because no one breaks them up early on.
What is staff spreading out to different physical areas to oversee outside play/hafsakah, stopping horseplay, and keeping an eye on interactions between children with active monitoring?
You come to Erica and ask why your paycheck isn’t accurate. It turns out you forgot to clock in a couple of days.
What is signing in?
You continually miss the start of the activities by 10 minutes so the kids don’t get to finish any given one. They start to act out.
What is following schedule and using a timer?
A kid goes home and says “I didn’t learn anything” - and the parent is angry because they believe it.
What is weekly blurbs to families and providing access to curricular materials?
During van pickup, a child has to go back inside to the bathroom, and you are late to your next pickup. The next school didn’t realize you’d be late, and they’re angry.
What is transportation communication procedures?
You’ll probably send the kid back into the school, and need to make sure everyone knows
Staff → Director → School
A small fire breaks out in the building and the fire alarm goes off. Everyone stays in place and ignores it, thinking it’s nothing.
What is following emergency procedures?
While the staff is preparing snack/nishnushim, the kids have unstructured time and get into trouble. A kid skins her knee as a result.
What is preparing snack ahead of time?
During snack/nishnushim, you accidentally provide the wrong snack.
What is reviewing the schedule?
During a school day out, a parent comes to pick their child up early and is angry to discover that they're in the middle of an activity.
What is communicating with families?
The staff member arrives at school and can’t pick up one of the kids, because the van is missing a booster.
What is checking your van checklist against the After School Log, and staff meeting?
One of your kids has had behavioral issues that have resulted in violence before. They badly hurt another kid, and Erica decided to remove them from the program. The parent has never received documentation of previous behavior incidences, so they are shocked and outraged their child has been removed.
What is incident report and communicating behavior challenges to Erica?
On Monday, you arrive to the room and see that someone came in over the weekend and changed/messed up the room.
What is locking the door?
None of the markers work in the container of markers when kids are in the middle of an activity. They are unable to complete the activity. A kid starts to cry.
What is monthly checks?
A parent doesn’t realize that it’s a Jewish holiday, and that Sababa is not open. When back in office, you get an angry call saying their kid was left at school during pickup.
What is beginning of school year emails, site calendar, and weekly updates?
Still somewhat far from the synagogue, the staff has a minor accident with children in the car. They don’t have the insurance information on hand, and don’t know what to do.
What is bus binder checklist and emergency procedures?
And call Erica!
Security says that a parent dropped off a medication to be disbursed to their child upon arrival. Erica has no prior information about this, and can’t get in touch with the parent. When they arrive for pickup, they are upset that you didn’t administer the medicine.
What is follow the medication policy?
Three staff end up with the same day off, and Sababa is understaffed.
What is communicate with Erica?
The activity of the day is more geared towards littles, but the day has mostly bigs. The kids get bored and start clowning around. One jumps off a chair and twists his ankle.
What is following cirriculum/communication?
A parent tries to change the dates of their kids’ attendance at Sababa on September 28th, to take effect on October 1st. They notice an extra charge on their account for October for the last minute change, and they are angry, saying they didn’t know the policy.
What is the parent handbook, and communicating expectations?