Week of June 5, 2017
Buenos dias estrellas brillantes,
Summer is approaching and this is our final 5-day week of the school year!
Some items of note for this week:
• Pack!– If you have not made significant progress on packing, this is a warning. You need to pack more! We really need to get this building packed. Please set aside some significant time in the next week to make adequate progress. The library is 100 percent ready to place boxes in it. I encourage you to fill it up with boxes.
• 2017-2018 Music & PE Staffing – Our Music staff for next year will look very familiar, with David Adee coming back Fall and Spring. What is new is that we will have PE with the same teacher all year. We will get to have Ronny Mason back again next year for both semesters. This will be GREAT for our students because they will learn her routines once and keep things consistent for kids all year. We also get Ronny just a little bit more than this year. We plan to use some of that time to start some PBIS incentives for students and possibly other supports.
•Classified Work Day Plan for June 26- Contingent plan: As you may know June 26 is the last contract day for 196 day staff. It is due to the weather make up days.
This means that classified staff should come up with a plan to make up their final hours. One or two of you have already communicated you plan with me. Since no one can be in the building on the 26th, I must have a plan of how you will work that final day. There are a several options. 1. Come and work your shift on a Saturday to help someone pack. 2. Come work your hours spread over 1 week or two. 3. Work an evening event in the next few weeks such as 5th promotion or supporting Alicia in one of here events.
• Student Intent to Return Forms Due Friday – Downtown has created a process for confirming students returning next school year, which involves office staff putting together Returning Student Verification Form Packets (an Intent to Return form and a Student Information form stapled together) and classroom teachers sending them home on Monday. MariCarmen and Yasmin worked super hard on Friday to get these ready for you. Please get them out first thing on Monday with your newsletter packets.
Students should return all forms by this Friday. Teachers should give MariCarmen signed forms as soon as you get them so she can and enter them into a spreadsheet that we have to turn in by next week. The reason for the new process is that downtown wants to have better data for when they decide where to allocate “fix-it” funds for schools with enrollment bulges.
• NEHS Senior Stroll Thursday at 11:15 – North Eugene High School staff has the cool idea of letting their graduating seniors visit their old elementary and middle schools this Thursday. They are first holding a Goodbye Assembly at North and from there will make groups based upon what school graduates want to stroll through. If all goes according to plan, they should get to Madison/River Road/ El Camino del Río/Howard by 11:30, where they will stroll through the schools and load buses to depart by noon. Let me know if you have any questions.
• Report Card Grading Day Expectations – Not this Friday, but Friday next week is the elementary report card grading day. This is a regular work day for all staff, with the exception of the very few student-contact-days-only staff. HR has said it is allowable for licensed staff to work from home this day if they notify their administrator (me) in advance, but be sure to make plans ahead of time if you need to collaborate with colleagues for grading. Also, be sure to use this time for grading and not use it to run errands around town. Teachers are highly visible members of the community, so keep in mind public perception. HR has said if working off-site on grading days is abused, we will not be allowed to continue the practice.
• ODE Summer Academies 2017 – Teachers should let me know if you’re interested in this summer professional development opportunity, so I can put in an application for our school. Focus and Priority schools will automatically qualify and other schools with low growth scores in SBAC- OAKS will get higher priority in getting in. Linked here is a the Summer Academies Flyer. If this opportunity is of interest to you, let me know by the end of the week. I already have 4 interested employees. It’s free to us as a priority school too!
• Reminder: Class Lists Due Friday June 16th – Thank you teachers for working in your PLC last week to complete the placement lists as a draft. Jennifer is completing the Placement Card for all staff. They will be in your boxes on Tuesday. They will not be differentiated by gender this year so please do not expect green and yellow placement cards. Lists and cards need to be completed by the end of next week, Friday, June 16th.
• Barnes & Noble Summer Reading Program (Free Books for Kids!) – This is obviously a marketing ploy, but the Barnes & Noble’s Summer Reading Program will give kids a free book if they fill out a Reading Journal (available in both Spanish and English) of what they read over the summer and who they would recommend those book to. They can then redeem their completed journal for one of the free books listed in the journal.
Teaching and learning with the emerging bilinguals:
Calendar for the Remainder of the Year:
June 5 (M)
Regular Day
June 6 (Tu)
8:15-11:15- Joel at Elementary Principal’s Meeting
2:00-2:30- Assembly- School Wide BEST Strings Performance in Cafeteria
3:00-4:00, Final Staff Meeting of the year (Room 18)
June 7 (W)
9:00-11:00, Joel at construction meeting.
1:45-2:45- PBIS Meeting in Room 9
1:45-3:45- PLC Time – Professional Development on Imagine Learning software for 2017/2018. Extended contracts provided.
4:00-5:00- Joel at the North Region Meeting
June 8 (Th)
11:10-11:45, NEHS Graduates’ “Senior Stroll”
8:00-2:30, Final Data Team Meeting #6 (Room 18)
June 9 (F)
Now a REGULAR SCHOOL DAY
4:00-5:00 New Building Tour
June 12 (M)
3:30-5:00, Joel at Immersion Task Force Meeting (Parr Room)
June 13 (Tu)
4:00-5:30, Final Site Council Meeting: Transitions for new members and thank you for old members.
June 14 (W)
9:00-11:00, Joel at construction meeting.
1:45-2:45- PLC Time- Focus:Aligning report card information across grade levels.
June 15 (Th)
9:00-11:00, Field Day
11:00-12:15, School wide BBQ
June 16 (F)
No School – Grading Day
4:00-5:00 New Building Tour
Classroom placements due.
4:00-5:00 New Building Tour
June 19 (M)
Regular Day
4:00-5:00, Joel to All Admin meeting.
June 20 (Tu)
8:15-11:15- Joel at Elementary Principal’s Meeting
Regular Day
June 21 (W)
9:00-11:00, Joel at construction meeting.
1:45-2:45- PLC Time- Let’s pack together!
4:00-5:00, Joel to North Region Principals’ Meeting
June 22 (Th)
The Last Day of School (Dismissal 11:40)
Permanent Records and Cumulative Files updates due.
June 23(F)
Last work day for teachers. All employees must be out of the building before 12:00 AM-(Midnight).
June 24 (Sa)
Salvage and Asbestos Abatement begins in the old building. No teachers or classified staff may be present.
June 26- Technically the last day for classified staff (come up with a plan to work before this date)
June 30- Joel’s last day of work.
July 10- Old building torn down.
July 26- Joel back to work.
July 31 – Potential move in date for Joel.
August 21- Potential move in date. (Construction dependent)
September 6- First Day of School in a brand new building!
3 weeks to go. ¡Se se puede!
Joel Lavin