Principal's Newsletter
December 8th, 2017
WOWs
WOW to Jodi FItzgerald for all your organization and communication around interventions.--Dr. DeWeese
WOW to the interventionist for always rearranging things at the last minute, conducting assessments, and being willing to go wherever you are needed.--Dr. DeWeese
WOW to Lisa McCauley and Team Preston! It really does take a village and I am so proud of the collaboration and teamwork you all are displaying to help a student succeed.
WOW to Mr. Mack for your willingness to race a student as a reward. He loved it!-- Dr. DeWeese
WOW Melissa Barth, Angie Regan, Becca Lewis, and Christina Pliske for representing The Ridge as curriculum writers. It is so hard to be out of the classroom and I appreciate all that you are doing to prepare for subs and to work on curriculum for teachers across the district.--Dr. DeWeese
WOW to Maggie McCarthy. Thank you for having parents come to your classroom to teach students about their cultural traditions. What a great learning experience for students and a wonderful way to celebrate diversity.--Dr. DeWeese
WOW to Joyce Highfill for building a partnership with a family to help a student improve in reading--Dr. DeWeese
WOW to Kristy and Kelly for the awesome lobby decorations.--Dr. DeWeese
WOW to LaTonya for spending a large amount of time problem solving a recess situation with a big group of students.--Dr. DeWeese
WOW to third grade for creating a plan to hold kids accountable.--Dr. DeWeese
WOW to Drew Moersch for putting together an awesome PBIS newsletter. Lots of great information and resources!--Dr. DeWeese
WOW to Kelly Edwards and Stephanie McCoy for your flexibility and covering classrooms last Friday. I appreciate you taking on that work at the last minute.--Dr.DeWeese
WOW to Shanna Bradley! You are so flexible and considerate with staff and students, and I look forward to working with you every day! Thank you!--Kelly Edwards
WOW to Courtney Cole! Even with the amount of high needs and loud volume you are surrounded by every day, you always have a kind voice and a lovely smile.--Kelly Edwards
WOW Julia Diekemper! Watching you with a certain student and seeing how he responds to you is impressive.--Kelly Edwards
WOW to Cheryl O’Brien! You handle your students with that gentle way of yours no matter how you are feeling. They are very lucky!--Kelly Edwards
WOW to Cheri Hosea! Listening to you talk to your class in that motherly way of yours and seeing how respectfully they respond as if they are your own children helps me realize that my similar approach will be considered an asset when I have a classroom of my own someday. Thank you!--Kelly Edwards
WOW to Haleigh Carr! You jumped right in this year and your classroom is so well managed. Every time I interact with you I feel like we’ve been working together for years. You are a great teammate for all of our teams here at Harvest Ridge!--Kelly Edwards
WOW to Emilie Molitor! I really enjoy coming to your classroom. Your kids and your expertise are welcoming every time.--Kelly Edwards
WOW to Drew Button and Chris Rector for all your assistance in the Friday Meeting set up every single week. I couldn’t do it without you two!--Katie
WOW to the PBIS team (Pliske, Moersch, Giammanco, Cole) for allowing me to train with you last week and your thoughtful discussions-it was awesome!--Katie
WOW to the Attendance Committee for being open to sharing ideas and working as a team to support our kids being here each day.--Katie
WOW to Foster, Reagan, Lloyd, Murphy and Vest for supporting all of the adults in the building as well as the kids.--Katie
WOW to Team DC for all the time you put in last Friday to support him and his family.--Katie
WOW to Dr. OH for finishing my class meeting so I could talk with one of my students and get him ready to learn.--Christina
WOW to Betsy Arnold for letting one of my students learn with you often! --Christina
Meeting Minutes
EDC Meeting
FHEA Meeting
There were no building concerns, however the admin team placed a few items on the agenda to problem solve with the team. Thanks FHEA for helping us problem solve! We appreciate the feedback and suggestions. See the link below for the minutes.
Safety and Security
Literacy Data Team
Oops Box
Climate Survey Results
The first document above shows you the data for the two surveys you took this year so that you can see the results within this school year. The second document is a comparison between our current results and where we were last year at this time. During our 2nd site visit in February we will share both of these documents. We have made a lot of growth around climate in the last year and for that we should be very proud!
Thanks to everyone for providing suggestions and ideas on the survey and for your constant efforts to problem solve. It is appreciated!
Face Time
Interventions
January 3rd Meeting Day
Surplus
Math Visits
Scaffold=minimum thing to do that will make the patterns or structures in math jump out.
Thanks to all of your for rearranging your schedules to spend time to learn more about the PBIL in math. I know that Dr. Lorton really enjoyed visiting our building and providing the PD for you. If there are any follow up supports that you feel you need in math after this week just let one of us know. We are happy to help!
Attendance Updates
We have two attendance goals as a school. One goal is to have 96% of our students at school daily and the other is to have 90% of our students attending school 90% of the time.
- 91.9% of our students are attending school 90% of the time
- 137 students have not been at school 90% of the time
- 16 students have missed more than 10 days of school
- 83 students have missed 6-9 days of school
- 38 students have missed 4-5 days of school
- 553 students had perfect attendance for the month of November
- 80 students have had perfect attendance all year
Thanks to the attendance committee for all your hard work and communication to help monitor student attendance.
Special Note
On another note, I know our schedule and timing got a little off track today with Heather Forbes and for that I apologize. We had some technical difficulties and timing issues. We will get the kinks worked out for next time. When we debriefed with Heather at the end of the day she wanted me to share with you how impressed she was at all the hard work you are putting into your students. She could tell you are really taking the time to figure things out and to help students be successful. She felt bad because she didn't feel like she said that enough to you. She wanted me to remind you that it is a journey and that it will get easier. Thanks for squeezing in some learning today and for all that you are doing. If you have any suggestions to make it better just let us know. We have two more dates scheduled with her.