A short note to herald the work being done by staff throughout the school in regards to the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that is coming into effect this month. We are working diligently to implement all of the components of the new regulation and part of the process has been incremental changes to some of our agreements and systems that help us manage information that is processed on a daily basis. We’ve done extensive data mapping and continue to work with an international working group on the topic. Many of the systems at ASW were already compliant with the upcoming regulation and we are moving quickly to assure that all systems will be fully compliant in the coming months. While we plan to have a more comprehensive campaign regarding this important new regulation, it’s a good idea to become familiar with the regulation and the stipulations therein. You are likely already receiving notices from various online companies about your participation in their systems and we will have similar as we return to school in August, if not earlier, via our PowerSchool system. We presented our comprehensive audit on the topic to the board on Monday and clarified next steps in our process. Policy was presented for first reading and we are well on our way to the next steps. If you want to learn more about GDPR, you can go to the EU website on the topic at https://www.eugdpr.org
Other items of attention:
- Please come and join us on Saturday for the Warsaw Spring Cup, our first annual invitational track meet. Along with visiting schools from Krakow, we’ll have guests from multiple schools here in Warsaw to join us for an event co-sponsored with local track club RK Athletics and our honored guest, Robert Korzeniowski, Poland’s Olympic Gold medalist race walker. The opening presentation begins on Saturday at 9:00a in the Annex Gym. Also on hand to help us in opening the ceremony will be John Armstrong, the US Embassy Economics Counselor and himself a former high school track participant. Please join us!
- There will no longer be a printed version of the calendar. All events can be found at the online calendar on the ASW website https://www.aswarsaw.org/about-us/calendar. The Academic Calendars for next school years are listed on the websites as well. They can be downloaded and printed.
- This is a reminder for all interested ASW families to sign up for the ASW Summer Camp 2018. There are still some spaces available and we are going to open it to a wider Warsaw Community on June 4th. The details are below under School Wide section of this eNotes.