Author Archives: gaston_e

March 9, 2020

While we lost an hour of sleep this week, the good news is we only have students for 3 days this week AND spring break is only two weeks away!!! Sign of the Week: Nice to see you. Please click the link here. Technology hates me today and refuses to embed the video like usual. Apologies. […]

March 2, 2020

It’s Classified School Employees Appreciation Week. Many thanks to our incredible classified staff. Your hard work and dedication, which often goes above and beyond what is expected, helps make Madison such a great school. We appreciate and thank you for all you do every day!!! Sign of the Week: As soon as the video is […]

February 24, 2020

Four more weeks until Spring Break – not that I’m counting… Sign of the Week: This week’s sign is “have a good day!” Many thanks to our interpreting staff for these videos. They’ll now be the first item on our blog each week. Earthquake/Fire Drill Monday at 11:10 – We will be doing our 2nd […]

February 17, 2020

  I hope everyone enjoyed their 3-day weekend! Only five weeks until Spring Break. Repeat: 4J Secondary School Climate Survey – Please plan a time during Focus to have students take this survey. It needs to be completed before the end of February. This one is different than the one we gave earlier this year. […]

February 10, 2020

Many thanks to Audrey, Mary, Rechelle, our volunteers, Tim and his wife, and anyone else I missed for planning and supervising a very successful Winter Activity Night. Over half our students bought tickets and with the exception of one incident, it was a very successful event. 4J Secondary School Climate Survey – Please plan a […]

February 3, 2020

This week is National School Counseling Week, so send some love over to our fabulous school counselor this week. We are so lucky to have such a phenomenal counselor in Anne. FastBridge is Ready – Our testing window for Winter screening is now open in FastBridge. ELA and Math teachers, please plan on spending 2 […]

January 27, 2020

I’m pretty sure that 4 day week was actually 238 days. One thing I noticed in some of the tougher moments this week was how much you have each other’s backs. Whether it’s taking a second to check and make sure a colleague is okay or sitting down together to share in the aftermath of […]

January 20, 2020

While we didn’t get the snow I had hoped for, having two 4-day weeks in a row isn’t too terrible. New Fillable Major Referral – Rechelle updated the major referral to better match the information that needs to get entered in Synergy. I’ve updated the form on the “Behavior” tab on the blog. The document is […]

January 13, 2020

We survived the first week back from break! Hopefully the kids remembered most of what you taught them last year 🙂 This is our only full week in January. If you’ve been keeping an eye on the weather, either through teacher friends or the NOAA forecasts, this might be an unexpectedly short week. Let’s make […]

January 6, 2020

I hope everyone had a relaxing break. I spent a lot of time reading, binge watching things on Netflix, and pretending to be interested in Caitlin’s video games 🙂 I’m excited to welcome students back tomorrow. In these first few days back, remember to use our W.O.W. strategies. When we greet students at the door, […]