I wanted to share a note from Tammy Potts regarding Earth Day volunteers that are needed:

We need volunteers for the community wide celebration of the Basehor Earth Day. This annual event dresses you in a high vis vest, complete with trash bags, and disposable gloves. We gather in the parking lot of the First Baptist Church of Basehor (near the water tower), and split up into teams. The Basehor VFW has complimentary breakfast burritos to rev your volunteer engines, and we will gather for a group photo before we head out. There'll be a team leader in each group. We'll go over safety rules. The kind folks at Perky's will nourish us with gooey biscuits on our return from our morning of litter pickup.

There'll be first, second and third place judging for teams who find the coolest of trash. Keep your eyes open!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0d45afa729a5f58-earth1#/

Any questions, please ask!

Sincerely,

Tammy Potts
Director, Basehor-Linwood Mentors and CareCats
Basehor-Linwood Virtual School, academic support

Mentor Kansas Advisory Council

A note regarding yearbooks:

For those who have not yet ordered a yearbook but would like to purchase one - please do not go online to pay for a yearbook. This does not secure the yearbook for your child since the deadline to order has passed. To secure a yearbook, please send $15.00 cash in an envelope with your child's name on it and teacher's name. The remaining extra yearbooks we have will be sold on a first come, first serve basis until they are gone.

Dear Parent/Guardian:

As you know, we are committed to supporting all students’ academic, social, and emotional learning. Part of this work involves teaching social and emotional competencies—the everyday skills students need to interact positively with others and to participate successfully in school.

Social and emotional competencies include things like picking up on how other people are feeling, understanding other points of view, resolving social conflicts, and managing emotions. Among their many benefits, these competencies help students do better academically—in fact, social and emotional learning programs are associated with academic test scores and help develop employability skills.

With competencies such as math and reading, assessments help guide what and how we teach, and give us insight into how well students are learning. For the same reasons, students complete the Social and Emotional Competence Survey, a brief survey, in which students rate how frequently they engage in behaviors reflecting social and emotional competence.

The Social and Emotional Competence Survey provides information about how well children are able to use important social-emotional skills. In addition to this survey, there are many other ways of ascertaining student social-emotional skill level, including parent, teacher, and peer assessments and school records, that can and should be considered in conjunction with survey data to develop a holistic view of student social-emotional strengths and needs. The Social and Emotional Competence Survey is a teaching tool we use to do the best work we can with all our students.

A summary of your student’s performance on SELweb survey results during the winter of the 2022-23 school year can be found in your student’s portfolio in Skyward. The portfolio is accessed by logging into Skyward and choosing “Student Portfolio” from the menu on the left. The results will be labeled as SEL Survey - Winter 2022. We ask that you review your student’s report so we can collaborate with you to continue nurturing your student’s growth. Within the report you will also find a guide to help interpret your student’s scores.

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Jess Zimmerschied, Counselor, by email at jzimmerschied@usd458.org.

Sincerely,

The Basehor-Linwood CARE Team