Scarlet News and Notes
January 11, 2019
Assuring Learning Excellence and Readiness for a Changing World
It's finals week! Some of this information is review, but important for this week. I hope you have a fantastic last week of semester 1!
End of Semester One
Final exam days are Thursday, January 17th and Friday, January 18th. You can find the schedule for those days, and more information here:
All classes must meet during their 80 minute final time. If you administer your final early, please remember to have a meaningful learning activity for the students to engage in during the scheduled final time.
Our work day is Monday, January 21st. We will have a staff meeting from 8:00 - 10:00, and the rest of the day is yours for grading and prep. Please have all grades finalized by Monday, January 28th. Email Jodi once you have posted your grades so she can go in and make sure they are ready to be uploaded to transcripts. Please let me know if you won't be able to make this timeline.
2nd Semester
The Week at a Glance
Monday
BLT meeting at 3:15pm in the conference room.
Tuesday
I will be out of the building all day at an AVID event in Roseville.
Events: Alpine Ski 5:00pm Mt. Kato
Girls' Hockey 5:15pm at ASA
East/West Girls' Basketball 6:00pm at MSU
Boys' Swim and Dive 6:00pm at MSU
Gymnastics 6:30pm at K & G
East/West Boys' Basketball 7:45pm at MSU
Thursday
Scheduling Task Force meeting 7:45am Conference Room
Finals - hours 1-4
Friday
Finals - hours 5-7
Events: Gymnastics 6:30pm and K & G
Boys' Basketball - 7:30 at West
Tech Department Restructure
In the past months the district tech department has been looking at the organization, structure, and balance of the building technician positions throughout our district. After much thought and discussion, it became apparent that a restructure was needed to honor the job duties of our lead technicians and better balance the work load of our building technicians.
Aaron Daby has been West's building tech for almost 20 years. Aaron is also a lead technician. In this restructure, Aaron will be moving to an office downtown and Joe Urban will be our new building tech. Joe's first day will be January 21st.
Please join me in thanking Aaron for all of his work supporting our students and staff. Aaron is not only a tech genius, he is one of the kindest people I know, and will be greatly missed. Even though he won't be based at West, he knows, "once a Scarlet, always a Scarlet" and has told me he will still be around. Thank you, Aaron, and good luck to you!
PD Requests
The Professional Development Committee will be meeting 2 times from now until the end of the school year to review professional development requests.
- February 14th, 2019
- April 18th, 2019
Please have any PD requests submitted to Michael Johnson or Brian Hansen by those dates.
Funding Request Form - Print VersionPD Opportunity - Mental Health First Aid
Upcoming dates include: 1/24, 2/14 and 3/28
If you are interested in this course, please let me know.