Week of February 12, 2018
Hello Shining Stars,
I just want to take a moment to acknowledge our Special Education educators. This year, we have had an increase in students with higher levels of need to be successful. Every day, I see these students feel positive, content, and challenged in their learning. Katie Hynes Petty has done an especially nice job ensuring that students succeed. The plans she has designed with her IEP teams are impressive and improvements in student success continue to astound me. Katie’s patience and high expectations for her students shines though. Michelle, Nikki, Susan, Justin and more have also created a very welcoming and attentive environment for their students. Thank you all for your great work. It effects us all and inspires us.
• Repeat: 2018-2019 Staff Survey, Due Feb. 19 – With staffing allocations coming out in one week, I’d like staff to complete the linked Google Form Staff Survey. I’d like to know staff members’ individual plans and preferences for the future as well as your thoughts on next year’s staffing plan and master schedule. Please complete the survey by Monday, February 19th. All answers will be kept confidential and please let me know if you have any questions.
• Building Facilities Issues – Three items you can help with:
• Send Me Your Worst Sunlight Pictures – Anyone with a south facing window is well aware that natural light continues to be an issue, so please email or text me your worst pictures of sunlight disrupting instruction by shining in students’ faces, or blowing out anything being projected, or anything else. This will help me to get Dexter to fix this.
• Notify Me of Blinds Issues – Let me know if you ever notice blinds that do not retract all the way, are not going down all the way, coming down too far, or are crooked. They’re still under warranty and we want to get these fixed now before we have to pay to have them fixed later. Alexis continues to have strange ghost-like behavior with your blinds but I know there are other minor issues happening too.
•The District is also designing a new driveway. I will have more details for you soon.
• FOSS Science Survey – Linked here is a FOSS SURVEY for teachers to fill out as to where you are in meeting your goal of teaching the first investigation of your second science kit by March 1st. If teachers need support, Allison Krieder and Sue Wilson, folks are here to help and can arrange for support in anyway teachers need.
• Earthquake/Fire Drill February 27 – Tuesday, February 27 at 1:30 will be our February Fire Drill and also our second and final required earthquake drill of the school year. For the earthquake drill, there are many resource on The Great Oregon Shake Out website to help you teach students about Drop, Cover, Hold and about earthquake preparedness. The video below provides a great practice tool. We will use the same Fire Drill Lines once we give an all clear from the office to evacuate.
• Report Card Notes – Two items of note regarding report cards going home this Friday:
• I apologize if you did not get report cards done before the lockout on Friday the 9th at midnight. We will be resetting the window to be off next Friday. You should have plenty of time for completion by then. Please remember to stuff your own report card envelopes if you are new to the building.
• Email MariCarmen when Report Cards Completed – Teachers, let her know when you are finished with your report cards. She has to run a report that saves the report cards to the student information in Synergy, but it would lock teachers out if she does it before you’re done.
• Dismissal Duty Changes:
There will be a full set of instructions about dismissal duties in your box on Monday. We are switching roles this week (mostly). Here is the new schedule. Please show up to your duty location each school day. Thanks!
Dismissal Duties 2nd Semester 2018
| Gym
2nd Semester |
Bus Loop/ Rover | Pick Up 1st -5th | Pick Up kindergarten
(library or outside in front) |
Unlock the Gates/ Check on walkers/ bikes west side. | Crossing Guard /Traffic |
| David Adee
Hernandez (2nd) Peggy Lima Nikita Brougher (K) Erin Piper (3rd) Chaves (1st) Garcia (5th) Ramirez- Tate (2nd) Baissac – Catching readers/ PBIS Flores (3rd) |
Jones (radio)
Gomez (4th)
|
Reckers ( 3rd)
Hellman (1/2nd) Screen (5th) David Barnes (1st) |
Erin Skoubo (radio) (K)
Erin Bucklew (K) Karen Ramirez Guitierrez Jennifer Harris (post check out) |
Volunteer/Dan or Craig | Nancy Schaal McHarry- Crossing guard
Ronny Mason – traffic Joel Lavin- driveway Janely Becerra- crossing Ed Rauscher- Volunteer |
Breakfast Routine Improvements:
Aline, Nancy and I worked on a draft for the breakfast routine to make it more orderly. This new plan will also be in your box. We will begin implementing this plan on Wednesday after some details have been communicated to all involved.
Here is the Plan:
Plan for Morning Cafeteria
Students will start seating by grade levels based on seating plan
At 8 AM students who have eaten will ask to be dismissed to the gym or outside
4/5 students can go outside
2/3 can go to the gym
k/1 will stay in the cafeteriaIn order to earn the privilege to go outside, students have to do the following:
- Be seated and have eaten.
- Either reading or talking quietly.
- Raise their hands to be excused.
- Students may not use the bathroom when outside or in the gym.
Margarita will excuse ⅔ students with a stamp.
Aline will excuse ⅘ students with a stamp.
Rita will do outside supervision.
Burgundee will be in the gym.
Antonio will supervise the kindergarten.
Craig will set up the grade level tents.
At 8:15 third grade students will go to the cafeteria.
Second grade students will exit through the lobby doors to go outside.
Students without a stamp who go outside or the gym will receive AyAyAy’s.
Here is the calendar for the next two weeks:
February 12 (M)
Mid Term Goals Meetings
11:45-3:45- Interviews for Bilingual EA Job (Conference Room)
February 13 (T)
8:00-11:45, Joel to Elementary Principal Meeting
Mid Term Goals Meetings in the afternoon
3:00-4:15, Racism Free Zone Meeting- Staff, Community and Parents Welcome
5:00-6:00, Site Council in the Library
6:00-7:30, Parent Group Meeting in the Library
February 14 (W)
9:00, Joel in phone conference.
2:00-3:00, PBIS Meeting
February 15 (Th)
Joel in early meeting off site.
3:00-3:45, GOTG, Guardians of The Galaxy – IPBS
February 16 (F)
West Linn Wilsonville District Visits to our school for architectural and dual immersion ideas.
3:00-3:30, PLT in Conference Room
February 19 (M)
President’s Day- No School
February 20 (T)
8:30-10:00, Classroom Observations
10:15-1:45, Joel at the big staffing meeting
February 21 (W)
3:00-4:00, Staff Meeting
6:00-7:00, Kindergarten Orientation
February 22 (Th)
8:00-4:00, Teachers and Joel at Dual Language Retreat at LCC
February 23 (F)
8:00-4:00, Teachers and Joel at Dual Language Retreat at LCC
6:00-8:00 PM, Movie Night
Have a great week everyone!
Best,
Joel
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