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HOT WEATHER GUIDELINES
The following guidelines are based on the Heat Index and forecasts from the National Weather Service. The Heat Index is how hot it feels to the human body based on both high air temperatures and high humidity levels. The National Weather Service forecasts will guide how SPPS responds. Saint Paul Public Schools Superintendent Joe Gothard will consider canceling individual schools without air conditioning when the National Weather Service issues an Excessive Heat Warning.
Closure Guidelines
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The superintendent of Saint Paul Public Schools will consider canceling an individual school without air conditioning when the National Weather Service issues an Excessive Heat Warning. Before SPPS makes the decision to cancel a school, the following will be considered:
- The ability to move students and continue school at another site or area within the building
- The safety of students who may not have the resources at home to stay safe in the heat
- Whether the school building has adequate air movement (access to windows that open, fans, ventilation system capabilities, etc.)
- Evaluation of the combination of temperature and humidity indoors
- Sites with vulnerable student populations
- Prolonged heat waves
Heat Index
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The National Weather Service uses the Heat Index to guide its issuance of heat-related watches, advisories and warnings.
Weather Terms
- Heat Index - The heat index is how hot it feels to the human body based on both high air temperatures and high humidity levels in the shade.
- Humidity - The measured amount of moisture in the air.
- An Excessive Heat Watch is generally issued by the National Weather Service within 24-72 hours or when hot weather has the potential to occur. The Heat Index could be 100 degrees with an overnight air temperature above 75 degrees. The forecast may still be uncertain.
- A Heat Advisory is generally issued by the National Weather Service within 12 hours or when hot weather is likely to occur. The Heat Index is expected to be 100 degrees or higher for at least 2 days with an overnight air temperature at or above 75 degrees.
- An Excessive Heat Warning is generally issued within 12 hours or when hot weather is certain to occur. The Heat Index will be 105 degrees or higher for at least 2 days with an overnight air temperature above 75 degrees.
This information is based on National Weather Service criteria. The National Weather Service may issue these weather watches, advisories and warnings within a +/- 2 degree difference.
Families
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Here is a list of things families can do to keep students cool:
- Dress children in lightweight and light-colored clothing
- School buses are not air conditioned. You may provide a washcloth or neckband that has been cooled with water and stored in a sealable plastic bag. Students can wet the washcloth before getting on their afternoon bus
- Send your child to school with a reusable water bottle with your child’s name (students will be allowed frequent breaks to use a drinking fountain or hydration station)
- If your child has a disability or health condition that gets worse in heat, please notify the school nurse
- If your child has asthma, provide medication to the school nurse
- After school, visit a Ramsey County Cooling Center, such as a library, swimming pool or recreation center
- Parents and guardians have the right to do what’s best for their child. Absences are not automatically excused. Families must follow their school’s procedures for reporting an absence
Schools and Programs
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Although some schools do not have air conditioning, Saint Paul Public Schools (SPPS) takes extra precautions to help students stay cool and hydrated during hot weather.
- Schools with partial air-conditioning may identify “cooling areas” for students and staff
- Administrators will direct and deploy available fans to the hottest areas of the building, including for staff working in kitchens equipped with ovens/dishwashers.
- Administrators will use their best judgment on whether to hold recess outside depending on the play area, available shade, etc.
- Students will be allowed more frequent breaks to use drinking fountains and hydration stations (special drinking fountains that allow students and staff to fill reusable water bottles easily with chilled, filtered water)
- All staff may use available fans to provide direct air movement and fresh air as needed
- Staff will direct any child who feels ill to the nurse's office
- Staff will keep their window blinds closed during the day to avoid heat from the sun
- Staff will open windows for additional air circulation
- Community Education will take appropriate steps for individual programs, including:
- Evaluating the Heat Index indoors to determine whether to cancel a program
- Evaluating the Heat Index indoors to determine whether a program can be moved to an alternative site
Athletics
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- Athletics will ensure that athletics directors are familiar with the MSHSL Weather Guidelines for addressing the heat
- MSHSL recently updated its heat guidelines by using the WetBulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) method. This method measures heat stress in direct sunlight, which takes into account temperature, humidity, wind speed, sun angle and cloud cover (solar radiation)
- You may review the current and forecasted conditions for the WBGT here
- Athletics will post delays or cancellations of practices and games at spps.org/sports
- Morning practices for both indoor and outdoor sports can continue as planned
- Practices scheduled for the midday hours will usually move to the morning or evening hours
- Teams may have less strenuous practice and physical activities will be reduced
- Games will be moved to the evening hours or postponed
- During games or matches, there will be frequent breaks for student athletes as mandated by state rules
- Athletics will ensure that athletics directors are familiar with the MSHSL Weather Guidelines for addressing the heat
Notifications
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SPPS uses a variety of methods to inform families, staff and the community about school closures and cancellations including spps.org, local media, social media, and direct communication through email, text messages and phone calls.
- Families should make sure their contact information is up-to-date through Campus Parent.
- Staff should make sure their contact information is up-to-date through Employee Self-Service.
Translations
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Español: Recordatorio de SPPS sobre el clima caluroso
A medida que la temperatura sube, las Escuelas Públicas de Saint Paul (SPPS) están tomando varios pasos para ayudar a que los estudiantes estén cómodos e hidratados estos últimos días de escuela.
Aunque algunas escuelas no tienen aire acondicionado, SPPS toma precauciones adicionales para ayudar a que los estudiantes se mantengan frescos e hidratados durante el clima caluroso:
- Cuando se prevé que la temperatura sea alta, SPPS aumenta con frecuencia la cantidad de aire más frío que se ventila durante la noche en el edificio para pre-enfriarlo para el día siguiente
- Si es necesario, los edificios pueden identificar "áreas de enfriamiento" para los estudiantes y empleados
- Las escuelas tendrán ventiladores en las áreas más calurosas del edificio, incluso para empleados que trabajan en cocinas equipadas con hornos/lavavajillas. Todos los empleados pueden usar ventiladores disponibles para proporcionar movimiento de aire directo y aire fresco, según sea necesario.
- Los directores usarán su mejor criterio para decidir si el recreo se realizará al aire libre dependiendo del área de juego, sombra disponible, etc.
- A los estudiantes se les permitirá descansos más frecuentes para usar bebederos y estaciones de hidratación (bebederos especiales que les permiten a los estudiantes y empleados llenar botellas de agua reutilizables fácilmente con agua fría y filtrada)
- Los empleados mantendrán las persianas de las ventanas cerradas durante el día para evitar el calor del sol. También abrirán las ventanas para circulación de aire adicional, cuando sea posible
- Los empleados dirigirán a cualquier niño que se sienta enfermo a la enfermería. Si su niño tiene una discapacidad o condición de salud que empeora con el calor, notifique al enfermero de la escuela.
Acá hay una lista de cosas que las familias pueden hacer para ayudar a los estudiantes a mantenerse cómodos:
- Vestir a los niños con ropa ligera y colores claros
- Los autobuses escolares no tienen aire acondicionado. Pueden proporcionar una toalla o banda para el cuello previamente enfriada con agua y guardada en una bolsa de plástico sellable. Los estudiantes pueden mojar la toalla antes de subirse al autobús de la tarde.
- Enviar a los niños a la escuela con botellas de agua reutilizables. Asegúrense que tenga el nombre del niño escrito en la botella
- Los padres y guardianes tienen derecho a hacer lo que es mejor para su niño, incluyendo reportar que estarán ausentes (las ausencias por clima no son automáticamente excusadas)
Las familias deben asegurar que su información de contacto esté actualizada en Campus. SPPS enviará mensajes de voz, mensajes de texto y publicará actualizaciones en SPPS.org y redes sociales, si es que hay cualquier cambio en el horario escolar.
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Karen: တၢ်ဒုးသ့ၣ်နီၣ်တဖၣ်လၢအဘၣ်ဃးဒီး စ့ၣ်ဖီလ်ပဒိၣ်ကၠိ တၢ်ကိၢ်ခါမူခိၣ်ကလံၤသီၣ်ဂီၤ
ဖဲမူခိၣ်ကလံၤသီၣ်ဂီၤ တၢ်ကိၢ်ဒိၣ်ထီၣ်အဆၢတီၢ်, စ့ၣ်ဖီလ်ပဒိၣ်ကၠိ (SPPS) အိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်မၤကျိၤကျဲအပတီၢ်တဖၣ်လၢ အကမၤ စၢၤကၠိဖိတဖၣ်ဒ်သိးကမၤလိတၢ်မုာ်မုာ်ဒီးအနီၢ်ခိထံတသံး တသ့ဖဲအသ့ဖဲတချုးနံၣ်ကတၢၢ်ကၠိပျၢ်စှၤနွံအတီၢ်ပူၤအံၤန့ၣ်လီၤ.
ကၠိတနီၤနီၤအပူၤကလံၤခုၣ်ဒၢ(air conditioning) မ့ၢ်တအိၣ်ဘၣ်သနာ်က့န့ၣ်, စ့ၣ်ဖီလ်ပဒိၣ်ကၠိတဖၣ် အိၣ်ပလီၢ်ပဒီကတဲာ်ကတီၤ အါထီၣ်အသးဒ်သိးအကမၤစၢၤကၠိဖိတဖၣ် ကမၤလိဘၣ်တၢ်ခုၣ်ခုၣ် ဒီး တအိၣ်ဒီးနီၢ်ခိထံသံးနိသံးဖဲတၢ်ကိၢ်ခါအကတီၢ်အံၤ -
- ဖဲတၢ်ကစီၣ်ပာ်ဖျါထီၣ် တၢ်ကိၢ်ကဒိၣ်အခါန့ၣ်, စ့ၣ်ဖီလ်ပဒိၣ်ကၠိညီနုၢ် ပျဲနုာ်အါထီၣ်ကလံၤခုၣ်လၢမုၢ်နၤခီခဲအံၤ ခဲအံၤ လၢအကမၤခုၣ်လီၤပာ်စၢၤကၠိတၢ်သူၣ်ထီၣ်လၢခံတနံၤအဂီၢ်.
- မ့ၢ်လိၣ်န့ၣ်, ကၠိတဖၣ်ကပာ်ပနီၣ်ဃာ် ’’တၢ်ခုၣ်အလီၢ်တဖၣ်’’ လၢပပှၤကၠိဖိဒီး ကၠိပှၤမၤတၢ်ဖိတဖၣ်အဂီၢ်
- ကၠိတဖၣ်ကဆီလီၤပာ်လီၤကလံၤဒၢ(fan)တဖၣ်လၢကၠိပူၤတၢ်ကိၢ်ဒိၣ်အလီၢ်, လၢအပၣ်ဃုာ် ကၠိပှၤမၤတၢ်ဖိလၢအမၤ တၢ်ဖဲကၠိတၢ်အီၣ်လီၢ်တဖၣ်လၢအိၣ်ဒီး ဖၣ်ကပူၤတၢ်ပီးတၢ်လီ/တၢ်သ့ကဆှီတၢ်တဖၣ်အဂီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. ကၠိပှၤမၤတၢ်ဖိ ကိးဂၤဒဲးကစူးကါ ကလံၤဒၢ(fan)လၢအအိၣ်တဖၣ်လၢအကအိးထီၣ်ဒုးလဲၤတရံးကလံၤ ဒီးဒိးန့ၢ်ကလံၤဆှံဒ်အလီၢ် အိၣ်အသိးန့ၣ်လီၤ.
- ကၠိခိၣ်တဖၣ်ကဆိမိၣ်ပာ်လီၤတၢ်ဆၢတဲာ်အဂ့ၤကတၢၢ်လၢမူခိၣ်ကလံၤသီၣ်ဂီၤအဖီခိၣ်လၢ တၢ်ပျၢ်ကသုၣ်ကၠိဖိတစိၢ် တလီၢ်လၢကၠိချၢအဂီၢ် ဒိးသန့ၤအသးလၢ တၢ်လိာ်ကွဲလီၢ်အဖီခိၣ်, လၢအိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်ကဒု, တၢ်အဂုၤဂၤ.
- ကၠိဖိတဖၣ်ကဘၣ်တၢ်ဟ့ၣ်ပျဲအခွဲးလၢ ကအိၣ်ဘှံးကသုၣ်ခဲအံၤခဲအံၤလၢကလဲၤဟံးန့ၢ်ထံဖဲ ထံအီလီၢ်တဖၣ် ဒီး hydration stations (ထံအီလီၢ်လီၤလီၤဆီဆီတဖၣ်လၢ ဟ့ၣ်ကၠိဖိဒီးကၠိပှၤမၤတၢ်ဖိတဖၣ်ခွဲးယာ်လၢကမၤပှဲၤအထံ အီပလီဒီးထံခုၣ် ဒီးထံလၢအိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်ပှဲၢ်တဖၣ် ညီညီဖိအဂီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ.)
- ကၠိပှၤမၤတၢ်ဖိတဖၣ် ကထုးလီၤပဲတြီဖိတၢ်ဘျးသဒၢတဖၣ်ဖဲမုၢ်ဆါခီအဆၢကတီၢ်ဒ်သိးမုၢ်တၢ်ကိၢ်အသုတဆဲး နုာ်လီၤဆူကၠိပူၤတဂ့ၤအဂီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. ကၠိပှၤမၤတၢ်ဖိတဖၣ် ကအိးဃာ်စ့ၢ်ကီး ပဲတြီဖိတဖၣ်ဒ်သိးကလံၤကလဲၤတရံး အသးအါထီၣ် တသ့ဖဲတသ့အဂီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ.
- ကၠိဖိမ့ၢ်တူၢ်ဘၣ်လၢအိၣ်တဆူၣ်ဘၣ်န့ၣ် ကၠိပှၤမၤတၢ်ဖိ ကဆှၢအဝဲသ့ၣ်ဆူ ကၠိကသံၣ်သရၣ်သရၣ်မုၣ်အဝဲၤဒၢး န့ၣ်လီၤ. နဖိမ့ၢ်အိၣ်ဒီး နီၢ်ခိတၢ်ဂံၢ်စၢ်ဘါစၢ် မ့တမ့ၢ် အမ့ၢ်အိၣ်ဒီးဆူၣ်ချ့တၢ်အိၣ်သးတခါခါလၢ အဆူးဆါနးထီၣ် သ့ဝဲလၢ တၢ်ကိၢ်ဒိၣ်အဃိန့ၣ်, ဝံသးစူၤဒုးသ့ၣ်ညါနကၠိကသံၣ်သရၣ်သရၣ်မုၣ်န့ၣ်တက့ၢ်.
အဝဲအံၤ မ့ၢ်စရီတခါလၢဟံၣ်ဖိဃီဖိမၤဝဲသ့ဒ်သိးလၢ ကၠိဖိတၢ်တကိၢ်သးအဂီၢ် -
- ဒုးကူသိးနဖိတဖၣ်လၢ ဆ့ကူဆ့ကၤဘူဘူဖိဒီးအလွဲၢ်စၢ်တဖၣ်
- ကၠိဘၢးစ်တဖၣ်တအိၣ်ဒီး ကလံၤခုၣ်ဒၢဘၣ်. နဟ့ၣ်လီၤတၢ်ကံာ်ညာ်ထွါမဲာ်သၣ်(ပဝၣ်ဖိ) ဒီး ကိာ်ပးလၢနမၤခုၣ် ဃာ်ဒီးထံ ဒီး ထၢနုာ်ပံးတံၢ်ဃာ်အီၤလၢ ဖလးစတံးထၢၣ်ပူၤသ့ဝဲဒၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. ကၠိဖိတဖၣ်မၤစီၣ် တၢ်ကံာ်ညာ်ထွါမဲာ် တချုးအက့ၤဒိးဘၢးစ်ဆူဟံၣ်အကတီၢ်သ့ဝဲဒၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ.
- ဆှၢနဖိဆူကၠိဃုာ်ဒီးထံအီအပလီတဖျၢၣ်လၢအမၤပှဲၤထံသ့ဒီးကွဲးလီၤအမံၤလၢထံအီပလီအဖီခိၣ်န့ၣ်တက့ၢ်.
- မိၢ်ပၢ်ဒီးပှၤကွၢ်ထွဲတၢ်တဖၣ်အိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်ခွဲးတၢ်ယာ်လၢအကမၤတၢ်အဂ့ၤကတၢၢ်လၢအဖိအဂီၢ်, ဒ်အမ့ၢ်ဝဲ ကၠိဖိတဖၣ် ဟဲထီၣ်ကၠိမ့ၢ်တသ့ဘၣ်န့ၣ် ပာ်ဖျါထီၣ်တၢ်ဂ့ၢ်တၢ်ကျိၤဆူကၠိ (ကၠိဖိမ့ၢ်တဟဲထီၣ်ကၠိလၢတၢ်ကိၢ်ဒိၣ် အဃိန့ၣ် ကၠိတ ဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ပျဲဘၣ်)
ဟံၣ်ဖိဃီဖိတဖၣ်ကြၢးမၤလီၤတံၢ်လၢ အတၢ်ဆဲးကျိးအတၢ်ဂ့ၢ်တၢ်ကျိၤ, အံမ့လ်, ဒီး လီတဲစိနီၣ်ဂံၢ် ကဘၣ်အိၣ်ဝဲလီၤတံၢ်လီၤဆဲး ဖဲကၠိ Campus အပူၤန့ၣ်လီၤ. စ့ၣ်ဖီလ်ပဒိၣ်ကၠိကဆှၢ လီတဲစိတၢ်ကစီၣ်, text message, အံမ့လ် ဒီး ပာ်ထီၣ်တၢ်ဂ့ၢ်တၢ်ကျိၤလၢ SPPS.org ပှာ်ယဲၤအဖီခိၣ် ဒီး စိၣ်ၡၢၣ်မံဒံၣ်ယၢၣ်အဖီခိၣ် ဖဲတၢ်ဆီတလဲအိၣ်ထီၣ်တခါခါလၢ ကၠိတၢ်ဖံး လိမၤဒိးအတၢ်ရဲၣ်လီၤကျဲၤလီၤအပူၤန့ၣ်လီၤ. -
Soomaali: Xusuusinta Cimilada Kulul ee Degmada SPPS
Maadaama ay cimiladu sii kululaaneyso, dugsiyada Saint Paul Public Schools (SPPS) waxay qaadayaan tallaabooyin dhowr ah si ay uga caawiyaan ardayda inaysan dhibtoon oo aysanna oomin intii macquul ah dhawrkan toddobaad ee ugu dambeeya ee iskoollada.
Inkastoo dugsiyada qaarkood aysan lahayn qaboojiye, misana degmada SPPS waxay qaadan taxaddar dheeraad ah si ay u caawiso ardayda inay helaan qabow oo aysan oomin xilliga cimilada kulul:
- Marka heerkulka la filayo inuu kaco, degmada SPPS waxay si joogto ah u kordhisaa xadiga qaboojiyaha hawo habeenkii taasoo la soo geliyo gudaha si goobta loogu sii qaboojiyo maalinta xigta.
- Haddii loo baahdo, dhismayaashu waxay aqoonsan karaan "goobaha qabow" ee adeegsan karaan ardayda iyo shaqaalaha
- Iskoolladu waxay meelaha ugu kulul ee dhismaha keeni doonaan marwaxadaha, taasoo shaqaalaha loo keenayo ay ku jiraan kuwa ka shaqeeya jikooyinka ku qalabaysan foornooyinka/mashiinka weelasha dhaqo. Dhammaan shaqaaluhu waxay isticmaali karaan marawaxadaha yaalla si ay u dhaliyaan hawo toos ah oo socoto iyo hawo cusub haddii loo baahdo
- Maamulayaashu waxay isticmaali doonaan xilkasnimadooda ugu sarreysa haddii ay ardaydu bannaanka ku soo cayaarayaan xilliga fasaxa kooban taasoo ku xiran goobta lagu ciyaarayo, haddii har la heli karo, iwm.
- Ardayda waxaa loo oggolaan doonaa nasasho badan si ay u isticmaalaan tuubada biyaha iyo goobaha la isku harraad-tiro (oo ah goobo khaas ah ee cabitaanka kuwaas oo u oggolaanaya ardayda iyo shaqaalaha inay si sahal ah ugu buuxiyaan caagadaha dib loo isticmaali karo biyo la qaboojiyey oo sifaysan)
- Shaqaaluhu waxay daaha ku dedi doonaan daaqadaha inta lagu jiro xiisadda maalintii si ay uga fogaadaan kulaylka qorraxda. Shaqaaluhu waxay sidoo kale furi doonaan daaqadaha si loo helo hawo socoto oo dheeraad ah meeshii suurtagal ah
- Shaqaaluhu waxay ilmo walba oo xanuunsada u diri doonaan xafiiska kalkaalisada. Haddii ilmahaagu qabo naafo ama xaalad caafimaad taasoo ka sii darta xilliga kulaylka, fadlan la socodsii kalkaalisada iskoolka
Waa kuwan liiska waxyaabaha ay qoysasku samayn karaan si ay ardaydu u helaan qabow:
- U soo xir carruurta dhar khafiif ah oo leh midab khafiif ah
- Basaska iskoolka ma lahan qaboojiye. Waxaad ilmahaaga siin kartaa maro yar ama calal qoorta le’eg taasoo lagu qaboojiyey biyo laguna keydiyay bac afka laga xiri karo. Ardaydu way qoysan karaan marada yar ka hor intaysan raacin baska duhurnimada.
- U soo dir ilmahaaga dugsiga oo soo sii dhalada biyaha ee dib loo isticmaali karo taasoo ay ku qoran tahay magaca ilmahaaga
- Waaliddiinta iyo dadka ardayda masuulka ka ah waxay xaq u leeyihiin inay u sameeyaan waxa u fiican ilmahooda, taasoo ay ku jirto inay soo sheegaan maqnaanshahooda (maqnaanshiyaha la xiriirto cimilada ma helaan cudurdaar mar walba)
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