Staff Weekly Update
Week of March 25th, 2019
With much respect,
Connie
Calendar Items
Mon. March 25th
- WELCOME BACK, ABBY ANDRIES!
- Janelle Drisko at SGE - all day
- 8:05 - Morning Announcements + Morning Movement Minute
- 8:30 - 10:30 - Melanie Bowlin at ESC
- 10:00 - Largent in meeting w/ Sarah Barnes - Connie's office
- 11:40 - HS Peer Mentors
- 1:00 - 3:00 - Largent, Farley, Wetzel, Squier in meeting - conf. room
- 2:40 - Bi-Weekly Gr. Level Meetings
- 3:00 - New Teacher Academy
Tues. March 26th
- 8:05 - Morning Announcements + Morning Movement Minute
- 9:30 - K-12 Counselor Mtg - Wetzel - ESC
- 11:35 - ZeekSquad w/ Kyle Beimfohr
- 11:40 - Lunch w/ 3rd grader - Largent
- 1:00 - USS Team mtg. w/ Dr. Sloanker - conf. room
- 2:40 - Technology Integration Mtg. w/ Kyle - KDG
- 4:00 District Discussions Mtg - ESC
Wed. March 27th
- Largent out 1/2 day AM
- Janelle Drisko at SGE - all day
- 8:15 - 12:30 - Randee Kleeman at SGE
- RtI Team Mtg - Tammy's room
- 3:30 - 5:00 - Connie/Martha in meeting
Thurs. March 28th
- GLOBAL SCHOOL PLAY DAY + DRAMA CLUB PLAY
- PTO Spirit Day - Wear your favorite Spring Break vacation shirt!
- 10:15 - 12:00 - Randee Kleeman at SGE
- 11:00 - 12:00 - Brief Literacy Coach Mtg - Largent & Spillman - PVE
- 12:15 - Lunch w/ KDG'r - Largent
- 1:00 - Staffing for KDG'r - Slonaker, Fure, Shaw, Largent - conf. room
- 6:00 - Spring Drama Club Play
March 29th - April 5th - SPRING BREAK!!
Weekly Absence At-A-Glance
Upcoming Events . . .
April 2019
- 11th - KDG Round UP
- 12th - Office Team Meeting
- 18th - Staff Meeting
- 19th - 4th Grade Hoosier Exhibition
- 24th - Administrative Professionals' Day
Teacher of the Year and Someone Special Awards
Our Teacher of the Year is: Liz Lauer-Jones
Our Someone Special is: Deputy Steve Todd
Everyone on the final list was beyond worthy. We are truly blessed at SGE to have so many staff members that are incredible student-advocates but also professionally passionate and driven!
Thank you, Barb and Cindy!
Last but not least, I would be remiss if I did not extend our sincere gratitude to Cindy Dowers! Her last day was this past Friday and she did a lovely job of filling in for Abby Andries. Prior to coming to SGE her professional experience was all at the secondary level, but after her experience with us, she expressed a strong consideration for the elementary level. This is due to the wonderful professional partnership she felt with all of you, combined with our amazing students. This certainly speaks volumes of SGE! We also wish Cindy they very best!
Welcome, Jeannine Robling!
Jeannine Robling is a certified teacher who comes to us from the Carmel Clay School district, where she spent 10 years as an ENL (English as a New Language) instructor. She is originally from Maryland where she earned a B.A. from Towson University. She then went on to complete a post-graduate publishing program at NYU. Jeannine lives in Zionsville with her husband, Alex, and two teenage sons. Jeannine loves working with children and is thrilled to be part of the Stonegate community!
Additional Announcements & Reminders
Color Printer Reminder
- REMEMBER . . . PC1-Front Office = Color Printer
Please Join Our REMIND Group
- SGE (staff only) has an all-staff Remind text messaging group called: 18-19 SGE (all staff).
- To simply *receive-only* the text messages, please text the number 81010 and in your "message line" type in the code: @k29hfe.
- If you'd like to be able to text back and forth w/ me via REMIND, please download the app or create an online account.
- As a friendly reminder, please do not share this code with non-SGE staff members.
Leaving EARLY afterschool and you've gotten permission from Connie/Martha . . .
- If this is the case for you, please help us by always emailing the entire office team to let them know you've gotten permission and also leave your cell # in the email message, in case we need to contact you.
- Who is the "office team?" Connie, Martha, Angie, Jen, Jessica, Jae, Deputy Todd
***IMPORTANT LINKS***
Professional Development Requests
- If you would like to attend any type of professional development, please click here.
Technology Work Orders - Reminder from Dan Layton:
- Click here to access this link.
- It is always extremely helpful if you can submit actual technology work orders for any help you need. Please refrain from picking up the phone or emailing a question.
Above & Beyond Nomination Form
- On our ZCS website, any ZCS staff and/or community member can nominate the work of any ZCS employee that has done extraordinary work. If you've experienced professional support that is above & beyond, feel free to recognize them through this nomination! Please click here to nominate.
Marquis Work Orders:
Did your trash not get picked up? Does it seem the carpet didn't get vacuumed? Please help Angie & Jen out by filling out the Marquis work order on your own. Thanks!
1. Go to the Zionsville web site
2. Click on Teachers/Staff tab
3. Scroll down about halfway
4. Look for: Custodial Work Orders by Building
5. Click on Stonegate
Click here to access the Teachers/Staff tab
18-19 PTO Wish List - NEW GOOGLE FORM LINK!
- Click the NEW LINK HERE to access this Office 365 Form
Personal Business Leave Request - NEW GOOGLE FORM LINK!
- Please click the NEW LINK HERE to access this form and then don't forget to SAVE this page under your "favorites."
- Finally, as a friendly reminder of our ZCS Personal Business Leave + good information to know for our newest staff, I have copied/pasted the email about personal days sent by Becky Coffman on 5/8/16. This is per our CBA - Collective Bargaining Agreement
- A. Amount – Each employee shall be entitled to be absent from work three (3) days each school year for the transaction of personal business or the conduct of personal or civic affairs. Such leaves may be used in whole or half day increments. Requests for personal business leave should be made 48 hours in advance in writing to the building principal. In cases of emergency or other similar unforeseen circumstance, requests may be made orally to both the substitute coordinator and the building principal.
- B. Employees are discouraged from using personal business leave on staff development days or to extend a school vacation. If used on a staff development day then the employee remains totally responsible for securing the learning lost from their being absent during that activity.
- C. Accumulation – If an employee does not use all of the personal business leave in a given school year, the remaining personal business leave shall be accumulated for use in later school year, except that no more than a total of two (2) days may be accumulated from earlier school years for use as personal business leave, so that the maximum total personal business leave available in any one school year is three (3) days earned during the school year and up to two (2) days accumulated from earlier school years or a total of five (5) days.
- D. Conversion to Sick Leave – Any unused personal business leave not accumulated for use in later years as personal business leave shall be added to the employee’s accumulated sick leave.