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 If you were not at our staff meeting today please take some time to look at the gallery walk posters in the staff lounge. They will be up through Friday. We are using these to provide ILT and Admin for some fodder as we plan for next year. We asked for authentic feedback, the good, the bad and even the ugly. I will be out at Instructional Rounds in the morning and will be back by 1:30.  A reminder that if you would like to support at Multicultural Night it is Thursday from 5:00-7:30. We can pay one and a half hours of extended time.  7th Grade Planning Meeting @ 8:20 tomorrow morning. 

Spencer relayed a message earlier today around a student sending a message to the crisis hotline. We were able to determine who the student was and they are safe. This punctuates the need to be aware of students who may be exhibiting behaviors that seem to be different from their norm and/or are concerning and to make sure support staff are made aware if you have concerns. Additionally, as the end of the year approaches it is a good reminder to lock classroom and other spaces upon your departure. This is proactive in many ways.  We only have 83 of our rising 7th and 8th graders who have filled out the forecasting form. Advisory teachers please be sure to give students time for this task.  Thursday from 1:00-1:30 8th graders will have a presentation by either Franklin, or McDaniel around STEP Up Summer programming. Those headed to Franklin should report to the library, those headed to McDaniel will go to the Auditorium.   If students are not headed to either school pl...

Monday the 29th Tuesday the 30th Multicultural Night Meeting @ 8:20 8th Grade Behavior Kid Chat @ 8:20 Staff Meeting @ 4:00 Wednesday the 1st- Asian Pacific Islander Month Begins 7th Grade Team Meeting @ 8:20 Thursday the 2nd Multicultural Night @ 5:00-7:30 Friday the 3rd 6th Grade Academic Kid Chat @ 8:20 THANK YOU for celebrating my Birthday with me Friday. I appreciate the treats brought in and sentiments from students and staff. I am humbled by the recognition. My family and friends celebrated on Friday night, and the rest of the weekend was used for catching up on work and relaxing. Fair Warning- I am getting this out pretty earlier and will be spending a lot of time in emails etc. there may be a second edition in the event I missed anything.  Here are the OSAS Slides. Slides 18-21 have titles and I will finish them tomorrow.  Advisory teachers need to commit to:  1. spending a class period going over them on May 8th or May 10th.  or  2. using Advisory time...

I will be out until around 10:30 tomorrow morning as my makeup appointment from earlier in the week is scheduled for 9:15.  Our 8th Grade MIP students will be trying to finish up their STAMP testing tomorrow 1st-3rd periods. This was shared out yesterday.  6th Grade Team Meeting tomorrow morning in Heather Cooper's room. If you didn't already please be sure to fill this out: 2024-25 Classroom Chromebooks - Teacher Usage

Classroom teachers please prioritize taking this quick survey in regards to the use of Chromebooks for next year. We are strongly leaning towards classroom carts/sets to help maintain the limited resources we have. Simply put we will not be able to replace devices as they "crap" out and/or are lost or broken. I want to be proactive in finding ways to make what we have last as long as possible. This survey will help us make final decisions and plans for next year  2024-25 Classroom Chromebooks - Teacher Usage Some makeup testing will take place on Friday. See this message from Theresa:  On Friday I will be offering a make-up test session for Science testing during 2nd period. I understand this is last minute so if it doesn't work don't stress about sending the students. If it does, please send them with Chromebooks to the library. (I'll put hall passes in mailboxes.) Additional makeup testing will be offered on Monday and Tuesday. 

Today we celebrate Shannon and Naima! Happy Administrative Professionals Day (4/24). Their work literally keeps us trucking!   As construction continues several additional issues/projects have come up. One of these is work in the library and music room. In an effort to ensure there is enough time to complete these projects by the beginning of the school year,  I have made the decision to close the library early in order for Inline to get a jump start on this work. This greatly increases the likely of having the library open as soon as school begins. With this in mind please reach out to Valerie with any book/resource needs you may have at the end of the year. The plan is for the library to close on May 27th for packing. Packing should conclude by Monday the 3rd and the library will be offline from that point on. Valerie and Naz can support with resources beyond these dates, but early communication will be needed. Valerie put this together: Here are some important dates: May 6-...

I stacked appointments today and when I checked in for my last one they let me know the doctor was not in. Unfortunately, I may be be out again on Friday morning for a bit as it was rescheduled. The best laid plans! I will also be out of the building tomorrow from about 12:00 through the end of the day for a joint contract training.  There are flyers for yearbooks in your mailboxes. Please be sure to share them, hang them etc. with your classes! Staff meeting will take place tomorrow @ 4:00. We will meet in the library and continue or learning around supporting our multilingual students.  Here is a link to the Kid Chat docuement. Tomorrow's meeting is at 8:20 in room 122. The focus is 8th grade Academics. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1itlW-uLboDxwkCFfYYC9_hb7D2Itu3-QzPw3vXdkzok/edit?usp=sharing

Monday the 22nd Earth Day Social Studies PLC & Electives PLC @ 8:20 Multicultural Night Planning Meeting @ 8:20 Language Arts PLC @ 10:04 6th Graders in Auditorium for Forecasting During Advisory  Tuesday the 23rd 8th Grade Academic Kid Chat @ 8:20 SIT @ 10:00 7th Graders in Auditorium for Forecasting During Advisory  Staff Meeting @ 4:00 Wednesday the 24th 7th Grade Behavior Kid Chat @ 8:20 Thursday the 25th ILT Meeting @ 8:00 Science, MIP and Math PLCs Career Learning Event @ 9:30 in Cafeteria Friday the 26th 6th Grade Team Planning Meeting @ 8:20 Thank you to the 6th grade team for holding grade level assemblies! It will make a difference.  I stacked several appointments tomorrow and will be in around 12:45.  Please note we made a shift for Advisory this week. In an effort to avoid taking class time we will be using Advisory to support with Forecasting. On Monday all 6th graders should report to the auditorium during Advisory. On Tuesday we will have 7th grade...

I have been making every effort to get into classrooms more and thus far have been having more success. This was the first step and  I have been largely working on a emails, etc.  when I come in. I have not taken notes or etc.  As an Admin team, our goal is to being more active walk throughs and providing feedback in the next week or so. Just wanted to let you know in the event I have been in your room recently. This week has been one of those that is just plain busy. I have had three late nights and have had very little time to answer emails, etc. I will be working on catching up as much as possible in the next few days. Just a heads up in the event I missed something.  We are looking to update our supply list for next year. Additionally, we want to ask for input from staff to determine if there are things we should add. If you have any feedback, needs, etc. please direct an email to Shannon and CC me. Here is what we currently have: Supplies Provided For All Studen...

 Thank you to those of you who supported the Incoming 6th Grade Open House. I wasn't able to make it down the main hallway with the presentations and such. Please give kudos to our WEB students. They did a fantastic job. Watching them grow this year brings me joy.  Thank you to Gustavo, Natalia, Min and Theresa for their work on our staff PD yesterday. Even with the interruptions I came away with several takeaways.  7th Grade Academic Kid Chat/SIT @ 8:20 in room 121.

 All staff should plan on attending at least one of the grade level team meetings each week. We have not met for several weeks, but are back at it again starting tomorrow with 8th Grade (Team Planning), Wednesday 7th Grade (Academic) and Friday 6th Grade (Behavior). Here is a link to the Spreadsheet. Please fill it out if there is a student you would like to discuss ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1itlW-uLboDxwkCFfYYC9_hb7D2Itu3-QzPw3vXdkzok/edit#gid=0 ) A reminder that tomorrow night is our incoming 6th grade Open House from 6-7:30. Staff meeting will end shortly after 5:15 and we plan on opening doors @ 6:00. 

Monday the 15th Climate Meeting @ 8:15 WEB Check In @ 6th Grade Lunch 8th Grade Promotion Pictures Food Pantry 3:15-4:45 in Parking Lot Tuesday the 16th 8th Grade Planning Meeting @ 8:20 Earthquake Drill @ 9:25 Staff Meeting @ 4:00 Incoming 6th Grade Open House 6:00-7:30 Wednesday the 17th 7th Grade Academic Meeting @ 8:20 Thursday the 18th ILT @ 8:00 Friday the 19th 6th Grade Behavior Meeting @ 8:20 Principal Coffee @ 9:30 Thank you Joel, Bobbi  and all the others who helped make our Talent Show happen. We could have used five more minutes, but alas we were able to get the kids out and buses loaded without issue. Thank you as well to Mike Benson for opening his home on Friday night AND helping at the Garden Clean Up on Saturday. Apparently he just came to feed the chickens and got wrangled into helping. Additional gratitude to Phillip for his work! The fumes from Friday. have dissipated. Inline responded quickly. There was a vent that had not been capped that was sucking air from ...

Thank you for your attendance this morning. Please be sure to finish up designated supports for students. As a team this should take about 15-30 minutes at most. Our hope was to get the majority done this morning. We realize there was about 15 minutes today, so hopefully you got a good jump on it.  Natalia will be doing her own. Be sure to look at all of the tabs for your grade level to ensure students have all the supports they may need. 8th grade has to be completed by Saturday as they begin testing on Monday.  A reminder we are on the PM Assembly Schedule tomorrow (listed below)  Shout out to Karen Kempster for continuing to provide students for badges/stickers if they do not have their lanyard. We will be doing a big "sting" operation for those wearing badges.  Saturday we will be hold a  Spring Garden clean up from 11:00-1:00 in our school garden. Come enjoy getting dirty! 8th Grade Promotion pictures will be Monday. A schedule will be out shortly (possibly...