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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;min-height:16px"><span style="letter-spacing:0px;color:rgb(255,37,0);font-size:12px">PLEASE do not reply to this email, contact </span><a href="mailto:HasmigMinassian@berkeley.net?subject=" style="letter-spacing:0px;font-size:12px"><span class="gmail-s2" style="letter-spacing:0px;color:rgb(71,135,255)">HasmigMinassian@berkeley.net</span></a><span style="letter-spacing:0px;color:rgb(255,37,0);font-size:12px"> for more information.</span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;min-height:17px"><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p4" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><span class="gmail-s1" style="letter-spacing:0px">Dear BHS Community:</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;min-height:17px"><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p4" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><span class="gmail-s1" style="letter-spacing:0px">For the past 5-7 years at Berkeley High School, teachers have found classroom cell phone use to be increasingly alarming and distracting. Teachers have tried a variety of classroom cell phone policies but without the consistency of a whole school model, we've made little headway. </span></p>
<p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;min-height:17px"><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p4" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><span class="gmail-s1" style="letter-spacing:0px">This school year, the Universal 9th Grade is piloting the <b>Yondr pouch</b>. The Yondr system is one used by several local districts to manage technology with a simple magnetic locking pouch. Upon entering a classroom, a student will pick up a neoprene pouch, insert their phone, and snap it shut (it locks). They keep the phone in their possession the whole time (in their backpack) and upon leaving the classroom, they tap the pouch against a magnetic base and release the lock. They take their phone and leave the pouch for the next user. The communal ritual of this system, along with the phone being all the way out of sight, removes the power struggle that so many teachers face when trying to get students to put their phones away, one at a time. In the first four weeks of school, the Yondr pouch has made a huge difference!</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;min-height:17px"><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p4" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><span class="gmail-s1" style="letter-spacing:0px">Initial funding for U9 Yondr Project was provided through a U9 grant from the Berkeley Public Schools Fund. In September, the Berkeley High School Development Group voted to provide the next $5000, but <b>an additional $6000 is still needed to fund this pilot for the entire school year.</b></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;min-height:17px"><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p4" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><span class="gmail-s1" style="letter-spacing:0px"><b>Please consider donating to the U9 Yondr Project.</b> We truly believe this will change the culture around cell phones in class and allow for both students and teachers to dedicate and focus their time on what the classroom is for: learning and teaching.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;min-height:17px"><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p4" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><span class="gmail-s1" style="letter-spacing:0px">To make a donation, please mail checks to BHSDG, P.O. Box 519, Berkeley, CA, 94701, with the “U9 Yondr Fund” in the memo or donate online at <a href="http://bhsdg.org/wp/u9/"><span class="gmail-s3" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;letter-spacing:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">http://bhsdg.org/wp/u9/</span></a>. </span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:15px Arial"><span class="gmail-s1" style="letter-spacing:0px">Thank you,</span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font:15px Arial;min-height:17px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:15px Arial"><span class="gmail-s1" style="letter-spacing:0px">Tonia Coleman<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>Hasmig Minassian</p><p class="gmail-p4" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">
</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><span class="gmail-s1" style="letter-spacing:0px">Vice Principal, U9<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>U9 Teacher Leader</p>
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<p class="gmail-p6" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(87,124,173)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="letter-spacing:0px">Nicole Chee, Jenny Fosket, and Chaghig Walker are the parent-volunteer facilitators of the E-tree; please direct any questions about the E-tree to them at <a href="mailto:bhs-owner@lmi.net?subject="><span class="gmail-s4" style="letter-spacing:0px;color:rgb(87,124,173)">bhs-owner@lmi.net</span></a>.</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p6" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(87,124,173)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="letter-spacing:0px">BHS E-tree archives: <a href="http://lists.lmi.net/pipermail/bhs/"><span class="gmail-s4" style="letter-spacing:0px;color:rgb(87,124,173)">http://lists.lmi.net/pipermail/bhs/</span></a></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p6" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(87,124,173)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="letter-spacing:0px">BHS website: <a href="http://bhs.berkeleyschools.net/"><span class="gmail-s4" style="letter-spacing:0px;color:rgb(87,124,173)">http://bhs.berkeleyschools.net/</span></a></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p6" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(87,124,173)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="letter-spacing:0px">BUSD 2019-2020 Calendar: <a href="https://www.berkeleyschools.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/BerkeleyUSDCalendar-K12-2019-20-v6.pdf"><span class="gmail-s4" style="letter-spacing:0px;color:rgb(87,124,173)">http://bit.ly/BUSDCalendar1920</span></a></span></p>
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