ICMS Staff Newsletter
January 28th, 2024
Staff Shoutouts
Thank you to all who contributed to the discussions on Thursday and Friday! The raw and unfiltered thoughts that were shared are the first step to healing. I appreciate all of you and look forward to the action steps feedback.
Let's expand this! Let's make this accessible to all. There are many times throughout the week that a colleague does something to help out another. When you experience a moment of gratitude, please consider filling out this form so we can be inclusive of all the great things that happen in the building every day! I will also add to the hub.
A look at the week ahead......
Monday- 4 teachers out! We have subs for all but let's make sure we are all on the lookout for sub support and student behaviors.
Tuesday- Lisa out- Shannon Williams will be in to cover for her
Rosemary at Corporate from 9-10:30
Deirdre may have jury duty so be on the lookout for minimum admin availability in
the morning
WIDA Testing 2:30-3:30 in room 1:05
Wednesday- 7th grade PLC- I believe it is a data meeting with Deanna
Thursday- 6th and 8th grade PLC data meetings
WIDA Testing 2:30-3:30 in room 1:05
7th Grade MTSS meeting in Room 104 3:45-4:15
Friday- 1$ Donation Jeans Day
8th grade MTSS meeting in Room 306 3:45-4:15
Don't Forget!
There is a picture folder available for uploads. Please drop pictures of student engagement in the folders!
IMPORTANT RESOURCE UPDATE
There is staff in the resource room for most of the day however, they are running resource classes. Moving forward, we cannot send students to the resource room during the resource classes, unless there is an IA (in addition to the one that is running the resource class) in there with them. If you have students in a non-inclusion cluster that need small group testing, they will be pulled from their 5th period classes (this is just a small number of students) and take their test in the resource room then. Please continue to work with your IA's as far as letting them know when testing needs to happen.
Team Meeting Updates
In response to our feedback and restructuring of schedules, Jen and I will not be at every team meeting from here on out. Please let us know if there is a discussion you would like us to be present for and we will be there! We meet as an admin team every Friday so we are adding a piece on our agenda where we review the meeting notes and take action as necessary.