FMS Staff Bulletin (#25)
February 12-16
Purpose Statements Are An Expectation EVERYDAY!
Use STOIC In Your Zones Every Period
Check your Mailboxes
LCA Talking Points
Upcoming Friday PLs
- Friday, February 16: De-escalation Training w/ Jossalin Hannah
- Friday, February 23: Double Dot Day (See District Training locations from Curriculum Facilitators)
A reminder that all teaching and para staff will attend this Friday (February 16) Professional Learning.
More Media Coverage
Licensure
HRS-Level 1
- Tuesday, February 13 @ 7:15AM in 332 Lab
- Thursday, February 15 @ 3:00PM in 332 Lab
If you have any questions please see me.
Period 2-Coming Up
- February 21: Missing Work Lists
- February 22: Safe & Civil Lesson through Office Mix
- February 26: Grade level determines
Parent-Teacher Conferences
Details
- Monday, February 12th from 3:00-8:30PM (Dinner provided by PTA)
- Tuesday, February 20th from 3:00-8:30PM (Dinner provided by Office Staff)
The link to sign up for conferences will be activated Monday, January 29th and will close at midnight on Friday, February 9th. In the next couple weeks teachers will receive access to block off times for dinner/breaks.
Grading
Other Information
End of the Year-Extra Day
- Friday, June 1: Staff Professional Learning (All Day)
- Monday, June 4: Teacher Work Day (We will look in the possibility of Saturday, June 2 ***subject to change***)
Taking Attendance
I would like to provide a little background on the emphasis we've placed with attendance the past couple weeks and why some of you might receive a friendly reminder from Nicole Weaver in Attendance. The object is not for us to get you in a "gotcha moment". Please see the main reasons below:
- Student Safety is #1. We need to know where students are. When a student's attendance is not accurate it puts us in a bind trying to locate a student or when they show up absent in one class, but not in another. Students marked absent generates responses and contacts from the school. Again, if this is not accurate those calls don't go out.
- Our district is working to provide buildings with more accurate data to help drive decisions for our Tier Teams. One of these data points include that we have teachers taking attendance each period. Looking at this data we have identified areas in our building needing attention.
Thank you for your help with the attendance. Please see me if you have any questions.
LBA
Iowa Assessment Update
Iowa Assessments are still a couple months out, April 2-12 to be exact. However, there are some changes that will impact staff and students.
Spotlight Students
Hallway Supervision
Safe & Civil: Supervision
PLEASE ADD YOUR SUPERVISION ZONES AND INSTRUCTION TO YOUR SUB NOTES
Entering Absences (Timeclock & SEMS)
At our District Secretarial meeting today, we discussed payroll and what the responsibility is of staff in regards to clocking in/out and requesting leave. HR and payroll both agreed that staff need to submit requests through the time clock! This includes hourly staff and teachers. Their theory is if you can send an email to say you’re going to be gone for whatever reason, you’re also able to go in through the time clock and request your time. They do not want secretaries to have to do that. If you’re sick, you have a child sick, you know you’re going to be gone, etc you NEED to put that request through the time clock. You are responsible for your own time. This also allows you to see your leave balances as well.
If you’re having problems submitting a request whatever reason you can email me and I can assist in adding it. If you are gone and you do not submit a request of leave through the time clock and there’s no email/voicemail saying that you’ll be gone and what time you would like to use, I will not be adding it and trying to guess what you would like to use. HR and payroll are trying to hold staff accountable for their own hours/requests.
Reminder to Paras and hourly staff; you may access the time clock by; Cell phone, Computer with internet service, Time-clock machine.
Payroll is hoping that it might help alleviate the number of missed punch in/outs. Please see me if you need assistance in locating the webclock on the district page. As always, please fill out a pink form if needed and turn it to me.
Timeclock link: https://crcsd-tcplus.cr.k12.ia.us/app/webclock/#/EmployeeLogOn
This Week
Monday
- 8th Grade PARRT Assembly (make-up), 11:00AM
- 6th Grade Team Meeting, Room 320
- Parent-Teacher Conferences, 3:00-8:30PM
Tuesday
- HRS Make-up Session, 7:15 in 332 Lab
- 7th Grade Team Meeting, Room 434
Wednesday
- 8th Grade Team Meeting, Room 232
- BLT, Room 320 @ 3:30PM
Thursday
- Team Leaders Meeting, 300 Conference Room @ 7:15AM (Teacher & Para Staff)
- HRS Make-up Session, 3:00 in 332 Lab
Friday
- Staff PL: De-escalation Training w/ Jossalin Hannah
Lucas Ptacek
Email: lptacek@cr.k12.ia.us
Website: franklin.cr.k12.ia.us
Location: 300 20th Street Northeast, Cedar Rapids, IA, United States
Phone: (319) 558-3694
Twitter: @FranklinBolts