**IMPORTANT**

PLEASE FILL OUT THIS FAMILY SURVEY TO HELP WITH TECHNOLOGY DEVICE DISTRIBUTION FOR DISTANCE LEARNING.

Summer 2020 Reading and Technology Resources

 

Emergency Housing Support: 

- if you are displaced by recent events, call the Red Cross: 612.871.7676, extension 1
- Ongoing housing crisis, call the Hennepin County shelter team: 612.348.9410

Meals and Food:
- MPS food box pickup is operating as usual - dates and locations.

- Twin Cities Mutual Aid - detailed map of sites distributing and receiving food, diapers, cleaning and hygiene products.

- MN Food Helpline: Map.  Or call hotline: 1-888-711-1151 - 10am to 5pm - Monday-Friday
- FOODSHELVES: Map

Medication - Pharmacies:
- Call your regular pharmacy, it may be operating but with special instructions. If your regular pharmacy is not open, call 651.201.2825 or email pha.inspector.hlb@state.mn.us

City of Minneapolis - general resources for food, clothing, financial, medication.

BANCROFT IS A MEAL PICKUP SITE ON MONDAYS   10:00am to 2:00pm

This service will be available through August!

MPS offers WEEKLY food pick up at 10 sites each day. Each food box now contains 7 breakfasts and 7 lunches. One box per child, per week. Make sure your household has adequate refrigerator space to store food.

SOOMAALI: Cuunaada Carruurta inta ay xiran tahay

The Bancroft PTO has set up an online student directory to help classmates and families stay in touch with each other outside of school. Now more than ever we want to see our students and families stay connected with each other - especially during the summer months.

Please contact the Family Liaison: linda.dorow@mpls.k12.mn.us  Or leave a voicemail: 612.668.3574

Looking for books/recourses to talk to your kids about racism and social justice? Here are a few really good sites that MPS Library Media Specialists are recommending:

https://sites.google.com/mpsedu.org/hall-media-center/vital-talk

https://socialjusticebooks.org/booklists/?fbclid=IwAR2vvmltiVOmSVZ95KJNexwPNVHMJGZVjn5HmzLgOSh6SVct-MvMo6Kvd80

https://sppl.org/blogs/post/resources-on-race/

Center for Racial Justice in Education:
RESOURCES FOR TALKING ABOUT RACE, RACISM AND RACIALIZED VIOLENCE WITH KIDS

MPS - 
How Families and Caregivers Can Support Their Children

New family/student registration information will be provided here on how and when to register your 2020-2021 High 5 or Kindergarten students. We are delighted to have you and your child join the Bancroft school community! We look forward to meeting you in person!

Welcome Letter - English & Español

Our brand new kitchen and our discerning students were featured in an MPR News story, "Schools add healthy, local to the menu - and some kids eat it up."

Check out the video too!

Click on the link below to register your student.

SCHOOL REQUEST 

Requests submitted on or before February 7, 2020 will be included in the school request lottery. Placement for subsequent registrations will be based on available spaces in the school.

TODOS pertenecemos a Bancroft!!

Annagu dhan waxaan ka tirsan mahay Bancroft!