Clark High School Monday Memo
May 9, 2016
Monday – May 9
6th Six Weeks Progress Reports
(All Lunches) Universities of Alabama & Arkansas Recruiting Visit in Café
(12:00) – STST Meeting
Tuesday - May 10
(9:00 am) – Humanities Field Trip to the Nasher Museum
Wednesday - May 11
Extended Library Hours – Open at 7:00 am; Close at 7:00 pm
Thursday - May 12
(8:00 am) – AP World History Testing in 100w
(6:30 pm) – Teacher of the Year Gala at Plano Centre
Friday - May 13
(8:00 am) – AP Human Geography Testing in 100w
(3:30 pm) – Football Scrimmage at Clark East Field
(4:30 pm) – Friday Night School
May 9-3 week progress reports (All grades must be entered by 9:00 A.M. Progress reports will be distributed during 4th period)
May 12-AP World History:AM
May 13-AP Human Geography:AM
May 16-Middle School Pep Rallies at Clark 9:00-noon
May 16th-Fire drill 5th period
May 20th-Samples for your modified special education students and accommodation trackers for each of your special education students are due to your department chairs.
May 27-Campus PD Day for ALL staff-8:30-4:30/End of the Year luncheon
Jenn Rogers-May 11th
Special Education Documentation due May 20th to your Department Chair
- Include two samples per six weeks that exemplify growth on each IEP goal of the course of the IEP year
- Include the student’s full name, date, and year on each sample
- Write the number of the goal being addressed on each sample
You also need to turn in an accommodation tracker for EVERY special education student in your classes...it doesn’t matter if they receive modifications or not.
Note from Janis Williams-Teachers, I want to be sure you understand why special education is required by the district to collect this information to file away for each of your students. It is to protect you if a parent goes to the Texas Education Agency and reports that you did not following their child’s modifications or accommodations. The samples serve as proof that you were addressing the IEP goals of students receiving modifications, and the accommodation trackers serve as proof that you were providing and/or offering the accommodations in a child’s IEP. Please note this is to protect you if there was to be a TEA investigation, and yes, those happen. If questioned, you want to have documentation to support what you are doing in your classroom. Please contact Monica Luckey with any questions you may have about this data collection.
Last week was Teacher Appreciation Week...this week we are thanking our Food and Nutritional Services employees. Please stop by the cafeteria to thank Amy Tang, our cafeteria manager, and her wonderful staff for feeding our students and staff every day...twice a day!!
Good News for Schools...This weekend, Voters approved $481 million Plano ISD bond package!!
Please congratulate our May Students of the Month...Maddie Williams and Rand Al Khafaji!
It’s True...Tracy officially joined the 50 club on Monday!...she looks great!
Congratulations to Margie and Jimmy Walther on the arrival of their third grandchild...Hudson Thomas Burris was born this past Wednesday and is 8 pounds and 20 inches long.
Congratulations to Amber Carter on the birth of her nephew, Lincoln! The smile says it all...
And another baby??
Marcus Bernabo and his wife, Courtney, are expecting a new baby on Oct 31st. Little Sophie will have a little brother (or they think it's a boy anyways).