Welcome Back!
Deerfield 2019-20 Beginning of Year Meeting
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Pick up:
- To Do Folder (with your name)
- Sub Folder
- Key Fob for your door
- Crisis manual coming SOON
- Staff Handbook - now on Team Drive
- Indicate if you need any posters or cards
- Committee List coming soon!
Welcome New Team Members!
Miranda Renyer - 1st
TBA - 1st
Megan Freed - 3rd
Natalie Rabiola - Library Media
Michelle Hindman - ISA
Rachel Gardner - IRR Paraeducator
Samantha Hemphill - Head Custodian (starts August 15th)
Jackson Lockwood - Night Custodian
Andy Pelsma - PE
Sarah Whittier - Social Worker
Nick Burgoon - PE (if needed for an additional section of PE)
Julie Alley - 1 section Music
Shana Talley - 1 section of Art
Social Commitee Update - Amanda Davis
Team Builder - Caitlin Feighny
Team Builder: Sign up with your partner to lead a Staff Meeting Team Builder:
Please take a moment to talk with your Team Builder Partner/s and sign up for a team to lead our staff in some good old-fashioned teamwork! Team Builders should last approximately 5-15 minutes and take place at the beginning of each staff meeting. Only one team should sign up for each staff meeting date. We would like team builders to be focused on the staff getting to know and building relationships with one another (an added bonus being if they can be used in your classroom). Partners are listed below:
Roman, Rabiola, and Hurst
Humburg, Richardson, and Bonner
Soileau and Hart Bechard,
Bailey, and Pelsma
Leibach and Edwards
Bland and Hodges
Thornburgh and Gardner
Renyer and Fowlkes
Clover and Williams
Mediavilla and Pierce
Lansbury and Bobey
Sheffler and Walters
Davis and Appleman
Bailey and Feighny
Freed and Morgan
Herrera and Neises
August 8th Building PD - Deerfield Library
Agenda
8:00 PTO Breakfast in Library
8:20 Welcome Back
Deerfield Vision
District Strategic Plan- connection to KESA Goals, intiatives and curriculum accountability
What's coming up - GEI Process (formerly SSP), PLC Collaboration Format
Redesign updates
Committee reports
Time to read all the curriculum updates and attachments!
Time to review IEP / Student Improvment Plans
Time for mandatory training
Time to view Sched for August 9th and 12th.
Time to get your workbooks and materials from hall
Time to get materials from counselor
Lunch on your own
Big Ideas / Learning Targets
I know how our school vision and KESA goals align with the District Strategic Plan.
I know the five goals of the strategic plan.
I know how I will address the Cohesive Curriculum goal.
I know how to double the rate of student learning by having clarity for learning.
I know how I will address the Data Informed Decisions goal.
I can find curriculum information to create clarity of learning.
I know the curriculum updates (or at least where to find them).
I know the Redesign Core Team members.
I know where we are in the Redesign process.
I know my students SSP/ IEP / 504 Plans.
I know the details of mandatory training.
I know which PD sessions I will attend on August 9th and 12th.
I know we will soon be learning more about:
- Transitioning SSPs (GEIs) to PowerSchool.
- Performance Matters - a PowerSchool data warehouse component (so excited!!)
- Structuring Collaboration to focus more directly on the 4 PLC questions and creating common assessments to make data informed instructional decisions.
District Strategic Plan 5 Goal Areas
Acceptable Use Form
DF IPad Distribution to Start the Year
Review Student Plans - Kyleigh
Today's time will be used to familarize yourself with student plans.
Later:
There will be training on how to enter new SSP plans (now called the GEI process) on to PowerSchool
DISTRICT PD AUGUST 9TH DETAILS - Caitlin
August 9th District Professional Development Day
8:00 a.m. -4:00 p.m.
Southwest Middle School and Sunflower Elementary
2511 Inverness Dr.
DISTRICT PD AUGUST 12TH DETAILS - Caitlin
August 12th District Professional Development Day
Click Here for the August 12th PD Schedule
(I do not see an activity on MLP yet)
Notes for August 12:
8:00-9:00 a.m. at the Lied Center of Kansas
1600 Stewart Drive
We will sit as a school and show our school spirit! Wear your Deerfield Shirt!
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. at Sunflower/Southwest Middle School
We don't want you stuck in traffic! The district has partnered with First Student to provide shuttle buses.
GETTING TO THE LIED CENTER:
Park and catch a 7:15 a.m. shuttle to the Lied Center from one of three locations:
1. YSI/Clinton Lake Youth Sports Complex parking lot, 4911 W 27th St.
2. Southwest Middle School (and Sunflower) parking lot, 2511 Inverness Rd.
3. ESC north parking lot,110 McDonald Dr.
OR, Carpool to the Lied Center and leave your car there for the day. (Please allow plenty of time if you are carpooling to the Lied Center. Note one-lane traffic due to construction at 19th and Iowa.)
LEAVING THE LIED CENTER
Catch a 9:15 a.m. shuttle to Southwest Middle School for the District Professional Development Day. Food trucks will provide lunch!
LEAVING SOUTHWEST MIDDLE SCHOOL
Catch a 3:45 p.m. shuttle back to where you parked:
1. YSI/Clinton Lake Youth Sports Complex, 4911 W 27th St.
2. ESC, 110 McDonald Dr.
3. Lied Center, 600 Stewart Dr.
August 13th - Classroom Prep, Sneak Peek and School Social
8:00-10:00 Staff meeting in Library (TENTATIVE SCHEDULE)
- GEI PROCESS
- PLC/COLLABORATION EXPECTATIONS
- CI3T Primary Plan, Proactive Plan, Updated BEHAVIOR EXPECATATION MATRIX
11:00 (or 11:30) PTO Luncheon in the Library
10:00-3:30 Room Prep
5:45-6:30 Sneak Peek (students and parents invited to peek at their new classroom!)
Wear a Deerfield T-shirt!
PLEASE MAKE A SIGN IN SHEET TO HAVE YOUR PARENTS SIGN IN WHEN THEY COME TO SNEAK PEEK. tURN INTO JONI
6:30-7:30 PTO Social on front lawn (everyone makes their way outside for a popsicle social!)
All certified staff are asked to be at school from 5:45 to 6:45 at minimum. (This hour of time will be comped out on a last day of school in December)
August 14th 1st Day of School for K-5 Students!
WHAT NOW?
- REVIEW SSP/ IEP / 504
- REVIEW PD SCHED FOR AUGUST 9TH AND 12TH
- WATCH MANDATORY TRAINING VIDEOS (TAKES ABOUT AN HOUR)
- UPDATE/ CREATE YOUR TEACHER WEB PAGE
- ENROLL IN HEALTH BENEFITS
- PICK UP YOUR MATH EXPRESSIONS WORKBOOKS, HANDWRITING WORKBOOKS (K, 1, 3) FROM FRONT HALLWAY (TAKE ONLY ENOUGH BOOKS FOR YOUR CURRENT CLASS ENROLLMENT PLUS 1)
- PICK UP FROM NICOLE'S OFFICE: DEN TEACHING MANUAL, COUNSELING NOTEBOOKS, CALMING BOX
Committee Updates
Farm to School
Business Partner
REMINDERS and FYIs
FYI
DLT will be separate from Redesign Core Team.
- To Do: Decide which non-redesign grade/job alike colleague will serve on DLT and let Joni know!
E-Team will be separate from Redesign Core Team.
- To Do: At this point the district has asked us not to reassign any new members to E-Team, however if you are on the Redesign Core Team you do not need to attend e-team meetings.
Site Council will continue with no changes (unless you let me know)
Meetings will be placed on the Gmail Deerfield Calendar soon.
Staff Handbook and CI3T Handbooks will be updated and placed on the Deerfield Team Drive: Handbook Folder. (I still have the handbooks you turned in last spring just incase there were items in there you needed.)
Calendar of Events
Aug 1-13 Benefit Enrollment
Aug 8 Building Professional Development (sign up on MLP - Deerfield Beginning the Year Meeting)
Aug 9 District PD Day
Aug 12 District PD Day
Aug 13 Staff Meeting and Classroom Prep Day
Aug 13 5:45-6:30 pm Sneak Peek
6:30-7:30 pm Ice Cream Social - front lawn
Aug 14 1st Day of School!
Aug 14-Aug 26th Teach the Deerfield Expectations (videos on Team Drive) Optional Lesson plans
Aug 20 7:00 pm 1st PTO Meeting - Cafeteria
Aug 26 Deerfield Fund Raiser Begins
Aug 25 BOY Assembly 8:15 - Gym
Required Mandatory Training - Due by September 13th
Watch Mandatory Training – sign off that you have watched this video on the link to the right.
Watch the Automated External Defibrillator Training Video sign off that you have watched this video on the link to the right.
Watch Emergency Safety Interventions PowerPoint- sign off that you have watched this video on the link to the right.
Watch Worn Out Welcome Math (homelessness) – sign off that you have watched this video on the link to the right.
NEW: Watch SPED and 504 Presentation - sign off that you have watched this video on the link to the right.
School Website Minimum Expectations
The district expects all certified teachers to have an "About Teacher" welcome page on their school's website with basic contact information. The About Teacher page is an easy-to-complete template. Go to the Deerfield Website. Sign in with your district username and password. Click on Site Manager. You will see only those sections assigned to you on the left side of the screen. Here's how to complete the page.
For your information, below are the district’s minimum expectations for staff pages:
- “About Me” tab includes a prefix (Dr., Miss, Mr., Mrs., Ms. and/or preferred pronoun(s))
- Teacher’s name
- Brief professional biography
- Photo (photos should be a standard head shot, such as a school yearbook photo).
This space should be left blank if a teacher prefers not to display a photo of his/her/their likeness.
- “Details” tab includes
- school email address
- school main phone number (and/or teacher extension)
- (optional) degrees and certifications.
Benefits Enrollment August 1 to 5pm August 13
Benefits Open Enrollment for the 2019-2020 school year will be held August 1 to 5 p.m. August 13. Benefit elections/changes made during open enrollment take effect on September 1, 2019, and remain in effect through August 31, 2020. There are no changes to any benefit plans this year. Medical rates will increase. Dental and vision rates remain the same. Voluntary benefits rates will only change if you make changes to your plans or if your age band changes.
Benefits enrollment is passive for all plans, except medical and dependent day care flexible spending accounts. If you want to begin or continue either flexible spending account, you will need to log into Employee Online to elect those plans. Visit the Benefits SharePoint page for plan information and updated rates.
~Sarah Hamlin, Human Resources supervisor