Pleasant Valley Staff Newsletter
Week of June 1, 2020
Our mission is to empower and inspire a community of lifelong learners and leaders.
Hello Everyone,
Thank you for being a staff that does "Whatever it Takes!" to support, honor, and celebrate our leaning stars! Last week's traditional Grade 4 Clap Out and the End of the Year Parade for all grades were BOTH fully staffed, and the faces of our learners showed that they were STARSTRUCK by your presence and enthusiasm! Also, thank you to all that came in to clean out lockers, closets, and to help with organizing student files for next year!
We must say "see your later" instead of "goodbye" to several of our Super Stars who are moving on next year.
Congratulations again to Debbie Youngman on the newest chapter in her life called retirement, though it is impossible to retire from being a great person!
Congratulations to Caitlin Sabo on her promotion to the director of our district's newest school community, ACES- Center of Education! Caitlin has had a genuinely positive impact on our strong academic RTI structure, special education services that our students receive, as well as the overall student-centered climate we have established at PV!
We wish Kim Tomco-Karaffa the best of luck in her new position at ACES. Kim is a model educator and colleague! We will miss her leadership and guidance with special education, transitions, our Student Council, and with our solution-based Building Forum Team.
We wish also wish JoAnn Koscianski best wishes in her new position as the head secretary at Valley Forge. JoAnn has been instrumental with the day to day, week to week, month to month, and year to year operations at PV. We are fortunate that she has this upcoming week to transition from PV to VF.
We will miss all of you! You have all left a great imprint on our school community! Please feel that PV is your extended family and home away from home always! And please know...Once a Star, always a Star with us!
We welcome Debby A'Lessio-Brown to our Kindergarten Team! She comes to us from Renwood as an IS. Debby will go by Debby Brown. Welcome to PV Debby!
We will see Tiffany Duke in a different but, past familiar role in Grade 3 STEM.
We welcome Heather Skebo as our new school psychologist. She joins us with plenty of experience from a large elementary setting! Welcome, Heather!
We also welcome back and in a new role to Eileen Albert as our new school secretary. Eileen previously worked as a clerk at PV and will be joining us from Normandy. Welcome back, Eileen!
Your Very Proud Principal,
Stephanie
Teacher Work Days June 1-4, 2020
Certified staff, please use the document named PV June 2020 PD included in this newsletter's email as a framework to complete the 3-day outlined learning activities. All PD activities are considered self-directed professional learning options/fall planning collaboration. I do suggest that the time to be used to navigate through established resources/planning tools so that we feel confident for whatever Fall brings and to move from just assigning work to using electronic tools for instruction.
Each grade level BLT member will be inviting TBT members to participate in the TBT portions on Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning. Each individual can decide how they will participate- at the building in a classroom(s) or remotely at home.
With all of the celebrations and togetherness that we had on Thursday and Friday; the PV admin team will not be holding a staff meeting on Thursday. Still, we will have a standing Google Meet that we will send out in case anyone or any team has questions that our admin team can answer for you on June 4th 10:00-11:30 am.
Looking ahead....
6.1-6.4 Building Open for Teachers 9-3:00 pm
6.1-6.3 PD
6.1 All Student Work Due
6.2 End of the Quarter Grade Entry
6.4 Admin Office Hours Via Google Meet or in-person 10:00-11:30 am
6.4 Grades due by 2:00 pm
6.5 Summer Break!
Important Links
Gifted Teacher Resources
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tUNcwuIouYPYgcC9F_-0nz2wVZqfkKt9
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B0cHEDgUpSmRRkZSYnhwMVlQOUk
Elementary Curriculum Folder
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ACq1KerGN8VWUk9PVA
ELA K-5 Curriculum Maps
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1u36HP8Gl_yYmUQysdu8iT_ib0mzYMfvU
TBT Folder
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/122w2faMIEQJJfBVfFnxL2SnoWKjckCVl
7 Habits Resource
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B-2I1VrA_LvhNXoyQkZvUWJvWlE?usp=sharing