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Hi Roadrunners,
There was a great turnout for our annual school carnival this weekend and a big thank you to the staff members who came out for the event!
Seventeen items of note for this week:
• End-of-Cycle Goals Reflection – I’m hoping to finish everyone’s observations this week, but one final step ALL licensed staff, even teachers not on the observation cycle this year, need to complete in TalentEd is the End-of-Cycle Goals Reflection. You do not need to write a novel. A few sentences reflecting on how you did towards your goals is fine, but please complete these as soon as possible. Please let me know if you have any questions.
• Subbing for Allan this Week – Related to the above, retired principal and secondary director BJ Blake will be covering for me on Monday while I finish out a number of formal and informal observations. I actually worked with BJ my first year as an administrator when she was principal at Meadowlark and Buena Vista. On Tuesday I’ll be out of the building because I was also asked to help with interviews downtown for the new Federal & Instructional Programs Administrator (i.e. district Title 1 Coordinator), but retired principal Stephanie Cannon will be covering for me that afternoon.
• Friday Early Release PD – District School Improvement and Planning Surveys – This Friday’s Early Release PD is designated for “Planning for 2019-2020” which we largely took care of at the previous Building Goals meeting, so instead this will be time for classified and licensed staff to complete the District School Improvement and Planning Surveys. Linked here is the Classified District SIP Survey and the Licensed District SIP Survey. Let me know if you have any questions.
• Revote 2019-2020 Master Schedule Survey Results – The revote survey closed Saturday morning and the results did not change from the previous survey, with a majority of staff wanting the 15/35/10 schedule. Broken out by licensed and classified, a majority among each group was also in favor of shorter recess and lunch times, although it was much closer for licensed staff with 15 in favor of shorter supervised times (15/35/10 or 15/30/15) and 14 in favor of a 20/40 schedule. Here are the results:
40 Total Responses
72.5% Licensed Staff Responses (29 votes)
27.5 Classified Staff Responses (11 votes)Responses from all staff:
15/35/10 minutes 55% (22 votes)
15/30/15 minutes 10% (4 votes)
20/40 minutes 35% (14 votes)Responses from Licensed staff:
15/35/10 minutes 44.8% (13 votes)
15/30/15 minutes 6.9% (2 votes)
20/40 minutes 48.3% (14 votes)Responses from classified staff:
15/35/10 minutes 81.8% (9 votes)
15/30/15 minutes 18.2% (2 votes)
20/40 minutes 0% (0 votes)From here we’ll resume work on the master schedule. One compromise between those voting for the shorter or longer recess/lunch times will be to build in a 5 minute transition following recess times. Regarding a timeline to share a draft schedule, hopefully we’ll have something to share before the end of the school year for feedback.
The schedule will never be perfect and will never be all things to all people, but I do want to thank everyone for your thoughtful consideration and professionalism as we move forward. Topics impacting instruction and work environment can and rightfully do bring forth strong opinions, but I am glad this discussion happened because I would much rather concerns be brought out into the open rather than happen behind closed doors or in the parking lot.
• NEHS Senior Stroll Wednesday at 12:00-12:20 – North Eugene High School staff are continuing their new fun tradition of letting their graduating seniors visit their old elementary and middle schools, but they are changing their format so they are talking all students to all feeder school, so they’ll be at Howard for a shorter amount of time than in the past. Grads will walk down the halls, but if you want to make sure you see former Howard students be sure to be in the front lobby between noon and 12:20.
• Class Lists Reminder – Next week we will finalize class lists in Synergy for next school year, so everyone should review the linked 2019-2020 Class Lists by the end of the week to see if there aren’t any students who should be together or any changes you think should be made. After Friday I will make the lists it view only.
• Report Card Updates (print x2 but not stuff) – At last week’s Elementary Principals’ Meeting and also in an email to licensed staff were revised guidelines on how report card printing and stuffing will happen. See the above linked email for details, but the short version is teachers print two copies of the report card and deliver those to the office (also return your envelopes if you’d like us to stuff them). From there, office staff will take it (i.e. me watching “Orphan Black” in the Conference Room). This also applies to SPED reports under four pages and ELL reports. Principals were also told that Title 1, Music, PE and any other reports are to go home in Friday Envelopes on June 14th. Please let me know if you have any questions.
• 2019-2020 Class Assignments – I believe I’ve spoken with everyone potentially effected by this, but I do think there is a possibility we’ll see some added staffing before the end of the year and potentially in the fall once we see how many students register in August and September, particularly at KG and 1st. Linked here is the current 2019-2020 Class Assignments with Potential Moves. This map still include SSD’s Early Childhood Team in the building, which I’m still going back and forth with downtown about relocating to a building with a smaller enrollment. If we end up adding another 2nd grade class, which is VERY likely, Mellissa will relocate to the Title 1 Room (RM30) so I went ahead and made that change on the map. If KG enrollment exceeds our projection (there are 47 kinders enrolled or with packets out for next year, which is more than twice as many as we had last spring), a third KG classroom will move into Katrina’s Room (RM2), which is currently set for the return of Alicia Longoria and having a Family Resource Center (FRC) at Howard again. I really want to have the Family Resource back in our building again, so I’d move the FRC to Room 15, but if we end up adding a third 1st grade classroom in the fall (we’re currently at 61 kindergartners so it’s likely), we’ll move the our new 0.5 LC teacher and new ELL teacher out of Charissa’s Room (RM14). The LC teacher and EA would move into Bryan’s Room (RM13) and the ELL teacher would share the Title 1 Room (RM30). I’m trying not to touch the STEAM Room and we’ll also get some flexibility if downtown will relocate the Early Childhood Team, but if we end up adding both a KG and 1st grade class and the ECT doesn’t move, we’ll likely lose the FRC again. Let me know if you have any thoughts or ideas on any of this.
• Fire Drill Monday, Jun 10th @9:50 – While a couple grade levels are away on field trips, we’ll hold our June Fire drill at 9:50, which shouldn’t step on anyone’s morning recess or PE/Music times.
• PBIS Focus: Celebrating Your Success– The June PBIS monthly focus is Celebrating Your Success, so remember the PBIS/CFK Cheat Sheet, which matches our monthly themes with Caring School Community class meeting lessons. It’s an easy way to tie the two activities together.
• 5th Grade Clap Out, 6/14 – Not this week but next week on Friday, June 14th will be the annual 5h Grade Clap Out, following the 5th grade promotion ceremony. It will run the same as last year. 5th graders will start their walk in the cafeteria, walk around the courtyard gate to the 1st grade wing, past the library, and out the front entrance. Linked here is the Clap Out Map and Directions (the map isn’t that pretty, so let me know if you have questions where your class should stand). Here are the details:
• Friday, June 14th, classes begin lining up in their spots at 12:50
• At 12:55, 5th graders will begin their final walk through the 1st grade hallway.
• Students should clap and cheer appropriately as the 5th graders walk past.
• Staff members not assigned to students are invited to join and give a final farewell.
• Once the 5th graders have made their way to the end of the clap out line, remaining students can be dismissed.• End of Year Checklists (without Summer Tech Checkout Link) – Linked here is the End-of-Year Checklist for staff who are in charge of a classroom or other area. This form needs to be completed and signed off by me before you start your summer. Outside of some date changes, this is the same form as last year. A sign-up sheet for checkout dates and times is in the Staff Room and copies of the checklist will will go into staff mailboxes early this week. If you need any boxes, just let Crystal know. For checking out technology over the summer, we have not yet gotten a link from the Technology Department for equipment checkout, so stay tuned.
• Summer School Classroom Use Update – All summer school programs will take place on the bottom floor, but there has been a couple changes to the summer use plan I shared earlier. EEP is no longer going to be in at Howard this summer and we will instead host three additional Life Skills classrooms that will take their spot. This works out well for us because it’s a shorter amount of time classrooms will be occupied. The extended Life Skills Summer School begins June 24 – July 8, running five days a week from 8:30-1:30, but starting July 9th will run the same day as ESY, which is three days a week Tuesday-Thursday July 9 – August 1. Life Skills will still run 8:30-1:30 and ESY will run 8:30-11:30.
Staff should lock everything up you don’t want touched, but if anything does get broken or disappears, these programs will replace or reimburse. When ESY staff packing up, it’s hard to tell what’s theirs and what’s ours, so cover all your materials with butcher paper and lock your stuff up so nothing accidentally gets packed up by ESY. Two other summer school notes:
• Technology Needs – Classrooms hosting ESY will need to leave out your HDMI cables and adapters. Document cameras and ENZO keyboards should be locked up. Classroom hosting EEP can lock all tech up.
• Furniture Labels – Last summer ESY moved around a fair amount of furniture during summer school, so downstairs classrooms should put a room number on any furniture you want to make sure makes it back to your classroom.
• REPEAT: 2019-2020 Staffing Updates – Mentioned last week, we will hopefully have a Project Pass Coordinator next year pending budget approval. Also, our 3-hour Learning Center EA Job Posting closed last week. Bryan and I will be conducting interviews next week on Tuesday, June 11th after school if anyone is interested/willing to join us in selecting a candidate for this position. Also, our 6.5-hour Life Skill EA Job Posting closes on Tuesday, so please encourage any excellent people you know to apply!
• REPEAT: 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.
• 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 two weeks!
• Schedule of Upcoming Events – See the Google Calendar for future events, but here are the events of note for the rest of the year:
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
BJ Blake subbing for Allan
2:30-4:30, Allan to BEST Coordinator Interviews (Conference Room)June 4 (T)
Stephanie Canon subbing for Allan
8:30-11:45, Allan to All Admin Meeting (Ed Center)
11:45-5:00, Allan to Federal & Instructional Programs Admin. Interviews (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
12:00-12:20, 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 – 10:00-11:002:45-6:45, Allan to BEST Coordinator Interviews (Conference Room)
June 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 – 3rd10:30-12:40, 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 – 4J PD SurveyJune 10 (M)
Spring Benchmark Testing – easyCBM LAST DAY
9:15-1:00, 4/5 SPLASH Field Trip
9:50, Fire Drill
11:00, Allan Meeting w/Rob Hess (Office)June 11 (T)
9:20-10:50, 5th Grade Visit to KellyJune 12 (W)
Wacky Wednesday – Tropical Day
10:15, Howard Head Start Kindergarten Transition Tour
2:45, Allan to 504 Plan Meeting (Conference Room)June 13 (H)
Last Day for Title 1 and SPED
2:15, Allan to BEST Meeting (Office)June 14 (F)
Last day to turn in receipts for reimbursement from student body account
7:30-9:00, Allan to 4JMAPS Meeting
9:00-9:30, 5th Grade Graduation Rehearsal (Gym)
11:15-11:50, 5th Grade Lunch & Recess with 2nd Grade
12:00-12:55, 5th Grade Graduation (Gym)
12:55-1:10, Clap Out for 5th Grade (Hallways & Courtyard)June 17 (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 18 (T)
Last Day for Students, Early Release Last Day for 192 & 196 Day Classified Employees
10:00, Grab-n-Go Sack Lunches (Cafeteria)“Grab & Go” Sack Lunch Schedule
10:00 Kindergarten
10:10 1st grade
10:20 2nd grade
10:30 3rd grade
10:40 4th grade
10:50 5th grade11:10, K-5 Dismissal 11:30, Staff Last Day of School Root Beer Float & Ice Cream Sundae Party and Staff Farewell Celebration (Cafeteria)
June 19 (W)
Last Day for Licensed Staff
Have a good week, everyone!
Allan
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