Monday Connection
K-3 Staff Weekly Newsletter - Week of 11/11/19
Memo from Mary and Todd
Thank you for 2nd Grade and Coach Clark for the amazing Greek Olympics! What an awesome culminating activity.
Thank you to 3rd Grade for the eye dissection! That is a memory they will never forget.
Thank you to Kindergarten for the great turkey art! So fun.
Thank you to 1st Grade for the awesome learning opportunities for teaching our students about Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. Gold Glitter glue is a necessity in 1st grade...always.
Thank you to the PBIS Team for our Golden Feather Luncheon and our 50's Day.
Thank you to the office for being so flexible with all of the events that we are doing. I know it adds extra stress.
Thank you to our specials team for diving in always and supporting however possible. You are such a valuable and important part of the team.
Thank you to our interventionists for guiding our data meetings and helping to make the right decisions for kids.
Coach's Corner - Hannah Planansky
Math is an awesome opportunity to write. The application problem is a great place to model this for your students or have students collaborate to see student models using the read, draw, write process. I would be happy to model the read, draw, write process in an application problem for your students, or side by side plan with you to incorporate more writing into your math block.
Leadership Survey
Midyear Observations
1. Observation (40-60 minutes)
a. Schedule an observation with your evaluator.
b. Provide a lesson plan for that lesson.
2. Post observation followup
a. review the observation and receive feedback
b. set goals
As we stated at the beginning of the year, this is an opportunity to help you be the best you can be in the classroom. It is truly a collaborative event of learning and growing.
Please email your evaluator a time to be observed the week of 11/4/19 - 11/8/19; 11/11/19 - 11/15/19 and 11/18/19 - 11/22/19. After the observation we will schedule a post observation meeting.
Attached is the observation form that we will be using. If you have any questions or would like to meet prior, please reach out to your evaluator.
Classified Staff:
If you are a TA, please schedule a time with your evaluator to observe you in your role. If you have a noninstructional role, please just schedule a time to meet with your evaluator.
50's Day
Informational Letter from PBIS Team.
SRO Lessons
https://forms.gle/oNV9SKZxCVWEgWJL8
Shout Outs
IC Communications
Duties
Substitute Information
You can access all the information through the intranet. https://sites.google.com/newvisioncharterschool.org/nvcs-staff-intranet/employee-absences?authuser=0
Frontline Absence request link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C0KRlsprg1BcfnKAGDpbaAf55XAkY55iKDUTdaHGw-c/edit?usp=sharing
Purchase Requests (per Pat)
All purchases must be approved in advance, including any purchase a teacher makes and then requests reimbursement for. It is still up to the teacher to secure a copy of our sales tax exempt form from the office before making any purchase as we do not reimburse for sales tax.
Each regular classroom, full time teacher (this excludes specials teachers as they have a different budget), have $150/year available to them for expenses specific to their classroom. These funds are not to be spent on regular items that we already purchase for classrooms, (which is another reason for the prior approval). If they put in their purchase request through the normal intranet process, we can usually purchase items at a lower cost through our established vendors. I try to process all purchase requests at least twice a month.
If they intend to use these funds for their classrooms, they need to do so prior to spring break.
Counselor Corner
MTSS Memo
You may VIEW the MTSS Meeting Calendar to see "Open" slots, but it will not let you directly schedule on it.
Calendar of Events
November 11
PTO Meeting - 6:30 - 7:30
November 12
50's Day of School
Parent Information Night - 5:30 - 4-8 Campus
November 13
National Kindness Day - Wear your Favorite Cardigan in honor of the Master of Kindness Mr. Rogers
Happy Birthday
Shout Outs
From Hannah:
Sara V: Shout out to Sara for jumping in to direct traffic during morning Driveline on Friday.
Nicole D. Helping explain the parking spots procedure and ensuring I had my tag correctly displayed.
Mary and Todd for their constant support and positive leadership.
Kindergarten, first and third grade teams for digging in and trying to find solutions that will best support kids during data meetings.
From Denise:
Nicole Dietz- I am so impressed at how you rallied the kids and volunteers for the Spelling Bee! You rock!!
From Kelsey:
Shoutout to Debbie, again, for being on top of everything going on while still being one of the friendliest people around.
Shoutout to the First Grade team for always being so hard at work with these kiddos!
Shoutout to Brandy for continuing to let me come into her class and observe how she works with the students, as well as helping me collaborate on which students need what kind of help for success. It's helped a lot in Spanish!
From Becky:
Shout out to Rachel Davis for being flexible on schedules so that I could help with Greece Olympics and for helping me with my projector!
Shout out to Kate Williamson for all the work with wellness committee and always sending out all the wellness emails from the district and for doing running club with me.
Shout out to Sammy Auster for helping me make the torch for the Greece Olympics.
From Debbie
The BIGGEST SHOUT OUT EVER to Nicole Dietz for being the brave soul to thaw out the cow eyeballs for 3rd dissection!!! YOU ARE THE BEST!!!!
From Brandy:
Everyone - Thank you to each and every one of you who helped in some way with the Golden Feather Lunch! The students were SO happy!
Sara and Anita - Thank you for covering my class to let me be at the Golden Feather Lunch and for letting me visit 3rd Grade for Cow Eye Dissection. I appreciate you so much!
Mary - You took your own time to bake our Golden Feather Cupcakes! You made the kiddos feel so special!
From Tona:
Heather for updating the kinder webpage each week! We appreciate you!
Ali A for always having her love glasses on.
Todd for going way above and beyond by helping me with those silly plates.
Mary for getting kids more support in the form of a new TA.
Anita & Sara for setting up some quick tests for kinders.
Mr. Marc for not getting grumpy when kindergarteners don't quite make it to a bathroom or trash can when they are sick.
Nicole for adding her cute "spin" on 50s with adorable records. Please forgive me for sending mine home...I had kids crying because they couldn't take them with them that day.
Ella for sharing one of her students with me that I just adore...he can be very trying. You know what I'm talking about girl!
Jessica for sharing new ideas.
Savannah for having amazing science projects in her Center.
Mrs lesko for helping those little bitty humans who need extra support.
Heather who loves on kiddos in a way that no one else can.
The third grade team for doing eye dissection with kids...need I say more? Ewwww!
From Third Grade:
- Nicole Dietz- Making sure the cow eyes were ready for our dissection.
- Mary Baker's Husband- Driving to Kersey to pick up the cow eyes for us.
- Hannah Planansky- For always being supportive.
- Aaron Hollingshead- Letting us use his dissection equipment.