http://blogs.4j.lane.edu/chinn/?p=9006
Howdy Everyone,
Hope you all enjoyed your 3-day weekend!
Sixteen items of note for this week:
• Revote 2019-2020 Master Schedule Survey: DUE FRIDAY – At last Friday’s Early Release PD, a number of teacher expressed confusion and lack of time to complete the survey regarding next year’s Master Schedule and recesses & lunches and requested a revote. Linked here is a Revote 2019-2020 Master Schedule Survey regarding recess and lunch length of times. I’d encourage ALL staff members, both classified and licensed, to complete the survey. Even if you do not have a strong opinion, please complete the survey anyhow to let your preference be known. You’ll need to be logged onto your 4J Google Account to complete the survey, so let me know if you have any trouble logging in. The deadline to vote is Friday.
• Fire Drill Wednesday @9:10 – This Wednesday at 9:10 will be the May Fire Drill, so please plan accordingly.
• REPEAT: 2019-2020 Staffing Updates – Mentioned last week, we will hopefully have a Project Pass Coordinator next year pending budget approval, but we currently have a 3-hour Learning Center EA Job Posting that closes Tuesday and a 6.5-hour Life Skill EA Job Posting just went up and will close next week on Tuesday, June 4th. Please encourage any excellent people you know to apply!
• 2019-2020 Leadership/Building Rep. Positions – Each year all leadership positions are considered vacant and anyone can sign up for one, with the exception of CTL positions, which downtown generally likes to keep consistent. The current list of leadership/rep positions are; Garden, IPBS, PBIS, Site Council (two open position), Social Committee, Taking it Up, and TLT. If you would like to sign up for a leadership or rep position, follow this link to the 2019-2020 Leadership/Building Rep. Positions Google Sheet. You’ll need to be logged onto your 4J Google Account to view or add your name. If we have multiple candidates, we’ll do an email vote for those positions. I also added rows at the bottom if anyone wants to lead a new position.
• Friday Early Release PD – This Friday’s Early Release Math PD is for “PLC Focus for 2019-2020.” Downtown is not requiring schools to have a math focus and are having schools on this Friday review a significant amount of data to determine if the PLC focus for next year will be reading, writing, or math. However, ESSA schools like Howard, were told we may not need to do as extensive of a discussion since ESSA teams (in our case, licensed Site Council reps) already reviewed this data and it’s pretty clear that math is our main area of deficit of these three ares. My plan will be to do an appreciated presentation on see if staff come to the same confection or if we want to take the time to do the same deep data dive. We’ll meet at 2:30 in the library if it’s ready to go, and if it’s not we’ll relocate to a volunteer’s classroom.
• REPEAT: Oregon Children’s Choir Assembly, THURSDAY – This Thursday at 9:50 in the gym will be an optional assembly for classrooms to come see the Oregon Children’s Choir, which our very own music teacher, Siera, works with. See the linked Assembly Map & Directions for details!
• REPEAT: Roadrunner Award Assembly, FRIDAY – Linked here is the Roadrunner Award Assembly Map & Directions happening this Friday. K-2 will be 8:45-9:10 and 3-5 will be 9:20-9:45. Teachers should choose 2-4 students who have demonstrated exceptional Roadrunner Behaviors (Safe, Kind, and Responsible). Certificates and parent/guardian invitations are located in the filing cabinet by Elizabeth’s desk. Be sure to get certificate to me before Friday so I can get them organized before the assembly.
• PTO Meeting Updates – Thank you to the staff members who came out for the May PTO Meeting. The main items of note are the Annual Howard School Carnival happening this Saturday from 11:00-3:00, so be sure to get your student pumped to bring their family and to attend. The other main item of note is that all board positions for next year are filled, with the notable exception of President and Vice President. If staff know of any parents (or are a parent yourself) willing to take on one of these key board positions, the duties of the position can be found on the Howard PTO Website.
• Report Card Resources – If it’s helpful, remember there is the 4J Elementary Report Card website, which has information on comments (smaller space so make comments individual and not generic), the Report Card Bridge Document (matching the math CCSS to each section of the report card), tips on report card printing, and info on Synergy Grade Book.
• Care Team Resources – Linked here are a few resources that came out of last week’s Student Care Team Meetings:
• Womenspace Mens Resources – Man of us are familiar with the excellent resources offered by Womenspace, but we learned at our last meeting that they also offer many of the same services to men who find themselves the victims of lntimate Partner Violence or in need of legal advice or other help finding resources.
• EUGfun 2019 Guide – EUGFun! lists a plethora of fun free activities happening across Eugene over the summer. Copies of this can be found on the EUGfun! website and there are also booklets available in the Staff Room.
• Family Court Assistance Office – The purpose of the Family Court Assistance Office is to help the increasing number of self- represented litigants in domestic relations cases (divorce, custody, or parenting time proceedings). Office staff can inform self-represented litigants of court procedures and available court forms, review documents, and provide information about legal services and other resources available in the community.
• Safe Families – Support for families in crisis get back on their feet. When a crisis strikes, many rely on relatives and friends, but for some families, this is not an option. For families out of options, you can call Safe Families and they will work to arrange care for your child with one of their certified Host Families. How it works:
• Parent(s) maintain full custody
• 100% Voluntary Placement and Hosting (Host Families are not paid)
• Children go home as soon as the parent(s) are ready
• Children ages 0-18 are eligible, including parenting teens
• Volunteer families are trained, and screened with background checks & home studies
• Stays can be as short as a couple days and as long as a year
• They are committed to reuniting parents and children as soon as possibleFor more information or to get help, contact Angela Albin at (541) 349-2870 or AAlbin@safefamilies.net, or visit their website. https://eugene.safe-families.org/
• District McKinney-Vento Student Data – Linked here is the district-wide McKinney-Vento Student Report. These totals represent students for the entire school year, not necessarily who’s in buildings now. I continue to be shocked at how many more homeless students and families Howard serves compared to any other 4J school (Howard, 68, Edison 47, Awbrey Park 40, Chavez 29, McCornack -21 [River Road is no longer even on the list]). We’re only surpasses by Churchill High School by one student and they have an enrollment of over 1,100 students.
• REPEAT: Summer Reading Staff Picks! – Send me your Summer Reading Staff Picks! Email me or let me know in person any books you’d recommend or books your’e planning to read this summer and I’ll post everyone’s picks in my final weekly announcements of the year. Another book on list is The Curious Chronicles of Jack Bokimble and His Peculiar Penumbra by James DeMonaco, which sounds a bit like a cross between Roald Dahl and Ray Bradbury, but what most intrigues me about this book is the author is also the write/director/producer of the fascinating and terrifying Purge film franchise.
• Barnes & Noble Summer Reading Program – Sure it’s a marketing ploy, but kids can earn a free book by picking any book to read, completing the linked reading journal (English or Spanish), listing the book title and their favorite part, and after eight books, redeem their journal for a free book at Barns & Noble. See the linked website for more details.
• District Admin Updates – The new principal at River Road/El Camino del Río for next year will be Karen Ramirez Gutierrez. Karen is currently assistant principal of Kennedy Middle School and has served as the district’s elementary summer school administrator for several summers. Before becoming an administrator, Karen taught at Camino del Río and Buena Vista. The new principal at SSD’s Fox Hollow Campus for next year will be Leila Schuck, who has served as a special education administrator since 2015 (and as Howard’s SSD administrator), and was previously an elementary and middle school behavior teacher, learning center teacher, and SPED consultant. Joyce Smith-Johnson is moving to the district office after a year as the interim administrator of the Fox Hollow Campus. Joyce was previously principal at Holt and before that was a SPED teacher and a staff development specialist in 4J. Current admin openings in 4J include an AP for Kennedy Middle School and a Federal Programs Administrator. See the linked email for full details, including Nutrition Serivces admin updates.
• Schedule of Upcoming Events – See the Google Calendar for future events, but here are the events of note for the rest of the year:
May 27 (M)
No School — Memorial DayMay 28 (T)
BOGO Book Fair
Artist in Residence Continues
Spring Benchmark Testing – easyCBM Continues
8:15-12:00, Elementary Principals’ Meeting, Trinity Welch-Radabaugh subbing (Ed Center)
9:15, Kelly Pilots visit 5th Grade (Cafeteria)
2:45-3:30, IPBS Meeting (Erin’s Room, RM22)May 29 (W)
BOGO Book Fair
9:10, Fire Drill
9:15, 5th Grade Visit to Kelly
2:45-4:45, Site Council/ESSA Meeting (Conference Room)May 30 (H)
BOGO Book Fair
8:10-8:40, 3rd Grade Delgani String Quartet Assembly (Gym)
8:40-10:30, 5th Grade Planetarium Field Trip – Cortez/Stone
9:50-10:40, Oregon Children’s Choir Assembly – Optional (Gym)
9:55-12:00, 5th Grade Planetarium Field Trip – Rock/CallihanMay 31 (F)
Title 1 Progress Monitoring Day – No Groups
Book Fair Clean-Up & Breakdown (during school) – Library Closed
Last Day to Use School Credit Cards
Supply Lists Due to Lori
8:45-9:10, K-2 Roadrunner Award Assembly (Gym)
9:20-9:45, 3-5 Roadrunner Award Assembly (Gym)
10:30-12:45, All School BBQ (Cafeteria/Courtyard)
2:30-3:30, Early Release PD – PLC Focus for 2019-2020 (Library?)June 1 (SA)
11:00-3:00, Howard Carnival (Gym/Cafeteria/Courtyard/Playground)June 3 (M)
Artist in Residence Continues
Spring Benchmark Testing – easyCBM Continues
Library close out book fair and inventory prep
All staff library books due
2:30-4:30, Allan to BEST Coordinator Interviews (Conference Room)June 4 (T)
8:30-12:00, Allan to All Admin Meeting (Ed Center)
4:00-6:00, BEST – Parent Presentation (Cafeteria)June 5 (W)
Monthly Walk & Roll to School Day
Library Inventory Begins
10:15, Howard Head Start Kindergarten Transition Tour
11:20, NEHS Senior Stroll
2:30-4:30, Allan to Pay Grade Evaluation Committee (Ed Center)
4:30-5:30, Allan to North Region Principals’ MeetingJune 6 (H)
Last Day of BEST
8:30-12:15, Data Team Meetings (Conference Room)
1st – 8:30-9:30 2nd – 10:00-11:00 5th – 11:15-12:15June 7 (F)
8:00-11:20, Data Team Meetings (Conference Room)
8:00-9:00 – 4th
9:10-10:10 – KG
10:30-11:20 – 3rd
10:30-12:40, June/July Birthday Lunches With the Principal (Community Room)
1:25-2:00, EA Supervisors Meeting (Title 1 Room, RM26)
2:30-3:30, Early Release PD – Planning for 2019-2020 (Library)
And checkout this year’s 5th grade group photos, which will go up in the Community Room later this week (sorry for the low res quality, but not all students had permission so I had to keep it blurry).
Allan
