Harrison Park Post

PAT members thank you for your presence at our staff meeting today. I am confident in our ability to move our students forward. Working at  Title, and now TSI school, is hard. You show up each day and are doing important work. Know that we will do this work together.  On that note, please feel free to ask questions about referrals, etc. As I mentioned, this request made me really take a look at my own practice in a good way. I know when I was writing referrals I often spent a LOT of time adding details I felt were important. As one of my journalism professors said....just the facts, Leah.  I will be in around 12:30 tomorrow as I am going on a walk through/feedback loop at Skyline K-8. If it snows at Skyline I will be here! I have this available for the first one to respond:  Pan Balance Scale

Thank you to everyone who kept things running today. I came in for a bit this morning before heading to NCI training. I will be in tomorrow.  Teacher if you have sub folders floating around your room please turn them back in to the office.  A reminder PAT members have a staff meeting @ 3:30 tomorrow. Please bring your devices. We will split between MS/K-5 at some point.  This was sent out earlier today, but I will repeat it: The parent deadline to apply for TAG is TOMORROW, Nov 29.  After tomorrow, parents will not be able to access the referral form, so if you are expecting a form to arrive, please reach out to those families and remind them it needs to be done TODAY. Teachers have until FRIDAY to complete their forms.  After Friday, teachers will not have access to the forms.    Teachers need to have the parents fill out their form FIRST.  The teacher fills out the teacher form after receiving a ping/prompt. MAP scores CANNOT be used as a w...

 Monday the 28th Leah @ NCI Training  Tuesday the 29th Picture Retake Day Staff Meeting @ 3:30  Wednesday the 30th Leah Out @ Instructional Rounds until around 12:30 ILCT @ 3:30 Thursday the 1st Safety Team Meeting @ 8:00 Friday the 2nd Leah @ Community Partner Quarterly Meeting until 12:00ish Lunch Service - Kempster, Brandt-Lazar, Jarvis I hope you all had a well deserved five days off. It is amazing how fast the time moves once Friday hits. I got up and started cleaning and preparing to host my dad's birthday dinner. I thought I would finish by 11:00, and would get to the Weekly Forecast but alas I am just now sitting down to finish it up. May the next three weeks will sail by! As I was looking over my calendar this week I see I am out of the building for several district obligations. I have noted those here.  Please take a moment to sign the thank you note for our PTA. They worked hard ensuring there was dinner and remained open all conference hours for the Book ...

The first day of conferences is under our belts. I want you to know I had several reasons to smile today! From a Thanksgiving feast, smiling parents and kids, our dedicated PTA and more. I am thankful for all of you.  Please note if you do not work the entire scheduled conference times,  8:30-8:00 today (or tomorrow), hours should be turned in. Monday and Tuesday are 12 hour days for PAT members.  If you have extended hours for last week please be sure to turn them in tomorrow. We are all making an effort to turn them in weekly! I want to give everyone a  big heads up as soon as possible. The building will be closed over Winter Break as they will be doing some work on floors and removing some of our lockers. This work will entail some asbestos abatement. The custodial staff will still be reporting to work, but all other staff should not be in the building after Friday December 16th. I will keep in touch with the contractors and if they finish up early will communicat...

 I hope you are rested up and ready to roll for conferences tomorrow. As I shared, I have a love hate relationship with conferences. They can be a lot of work to prepare for, emotional for all involved, but in the end are worth it.  It is with great sadness I share that Gladis DaRosa's husband passed away this weekend. Please keep her in your thoughts. She let me know she is open to calls, texts, etc. during this time. Feel free to reach out to her if you would like.  We will have a taco bar in the cafeteria starting at 4:00 tomorrow. Clean up will begin shortly after 5:00, so be sure to come between 4:00-5:00. It looks like we are finally getting movement on the heating issues in the building. Apparently, there were some heating elements on top of the roof that were turned off and needed turning on.....crazy that it took THIS long to figure out. They are continuing to work on issues and as I type this people are under the building looking into some other potential fixes....

 I will not be doing a Weekly Forecast for next week. I will send out a Nightly News on Sunday and Monday.  Thank you to everyone who stepped up to help out today. As you know I hate being out of the building.  Final push for conference calls tomorrow. As a reminder we will have dinner on Monday from 4-5. 

Some of you may have been visited by the district TSEL team today. Originally, we were one of many schools working with the district around social emotional learning. As the commitment to this cohort became more clear I made the decision to put this work on hold for the year. Much of this decision was made because I did not want to add additional work to anyone this year and as we make shifts next year some of this work may be abandoned based on leadership. I had the walk through date on our calendar for some time and when I officially backed out two weeks ago was under the assumption this would not take place and that today would be a fairly informal visit.That being said, the entire team showed up and we welcomed them. Emily and I met with the team prior to their classroom visits and met again when they were done for a few minutes.They visited seven classrooms total today.  Please know this work is not evaluative and feedback given will not be  identified by c...