Important Information!
10.18.2019
Hello,
I am writing today to provide you with information regarding the items listed below. Although all of the information in this email may not pertain to everyone, I am sending it all at once to limit the number of emails that come your way. With that being stated, it is expected that you read the information associated with the first TWO bullets. If ever you need to access previous important information emails, please click here. This link will take you to a Google Doc that contains previous information.
Important Dates
New Information
Important Dates
New Information
FYI- STAFF UPDATE
I am writing to request your support this morning. Mr. Berg and I will all be at the ESC at a meeting that concludes at 11:30. This will leave Mr. Loberg, Mr. Love and Ms. Ross alone to manage the building by themselves. While I am completely confident in their ability to do this, I am hoping that everyone could be supportive during this time. It would be helpful if you could be present in the hallway, actively ushering students to class and being a general visible presence during that time frame as your schedule allows. I am hoping that we will return by 1st lunch, but if we do not I am sure they would welcome your presence in the lunchroom.
FAQ
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ADVISORY CHROMEBOOK TESTING
On Monday October 21st you will be asked to help us test the WiFi capacity of our building. We are hoping to determine whether or not we can MAP test the entire building in advisory at one time. Please review the directions include in the advisory presentation prior to 8:30am on Monday. At 8:30 an announcement will be made asking you to have all of your advisory students link to a test video located on the NVMS web page. Don't worry if all your students don't have their Chromebooks, we are just doing a test run. If your students experience any connectivity issues please let us know by completing this form.
LAST CHANCE: MAP TESTING FEEDBACK
I am writing to request your feedback about this week's MAP testing experience. Click here to be taken to a Schoology discussion that allow you to leave feedback. We will use this information to plan upcoming testing experiences. If you have any insights on how students felt about this change in format, please leave that as well.
CONFERENCES
Outlined below is important information regarding our upcoming conferences.
- Conferences will be held this Thursday the 24th from 3 to 7:00.
- They will be held in classrooms.
- If you want information on how to make conference as effective as possible click here.
- Conference attendance will be incentivized. Parents who attend will be able to enter their students into a drawing for school store prizes.
- A pizza dinner will be served to staff attending conferences.
- Interpreters will be available and can be accessed in the main entrance.
FAQ: Can we wear sweats on Friday the 25th? Yes!
Informal Walk Throughs
Informal walk-throughs continued last week. The informal walk-throughs were conducted by NVMS administrators and ILT members. The goal for this trimester is to ensure fidelity of our grade level engagement plan. This week we were looking for the items below:
- Visual entrance directions;
- A warm-up activity;
- Review of the posted agenda;
- Tardy Procedure
The chart below reflects the percentage of fidelity in each grade level and content area classroom. For example, eighty three percent of the seventh grade classrooms we visited followed the tardy procedure.
The Great Migration Role Play
Reminders
TIER THREE (RED ZONE) REFERRALS:
If you are reporting an incident that involves a threat to staff or student safety, please be sure to connect with Kim Sturdy personally. Because administrators are not always at our desks during the school day, emailing or leaving a message for us might not get a timely response. You can do this by calling her or stopping down to the administration office. If you are unsure about what a tier three incident is, please click here for that information.
EMERGENCY LINE:
Safety Link:
The link found here will take you to a form to report any non-emergency conditions that could contribute to an unsafe school environment and/or to make suggestions that will improve school safety. When completing this form, it is not necessary to identify yourself*, but please be as specific as possible so we can respond effectively. All submissions will be reviewed daily and discussed at our weekly administrative meetings. This form should not be used in lieu of discipline referrals or to report emergency situations. If you have any questions about this form, please let me know and I will assist.
Important Links
You can manually add both these links to your desktop. If you do not how to do manually add these links to your desktop, please watch the video found here.
Peer Observation Submission Link
The purpose of this form is to record licensed staff peer observation dates. All peer observations must be done by the mark reporting date of each trimester.
Reppin’ Knight Pride Certificates:
The form found here has been created to provide you with an opportunity to positively acknowledge our students who are showing Knight Pride. Students who are acknowledged by staff will be given a certificate, Knight Pride tickets as well as a positive phone call home to share this acknowledgement with their family members. Please consider nominating a student next week.
Chromebook Ticket Link:
This link that follows will take you to a form to report any iPad violations that occur in your area of supervision. Click here to access the iPad ticket icon.
Education Minnesota Representative
Our Commitments:
We, the staff at North View Middle School, commit to…
- Providing challenging academic opportunities that are relevant, engaging, culturally responsive, and rigorous.
- Providing a meaningful, encouraging and safe environment that fosters the whole child, and focuses on student strengths.
- Including data driven best practices and instruction that meets the academic and individual needs of our students, improves student achievement, and promotes growth.
- Engaging in continued professional development to ensure that we are aware of our students’ racial perspectives, challenge our biases, and include practices that serve our diverse student population.
- Providing effective collaborative partnerships with the entire school community by ensuring that we encourage multiple opportunities for involvement, communication, and access.
- Modeling and implementing daily engaging multi-level reading and writing strategies within our classrooms.
- Accepting responsibility for each student’s success and celebrate that success with our school community.
Our Mission!
Committed to furthering the lives of each student by using the best practices available.
Email: bledsoed@district279.org
Website: http://schools.district279.org/nvms/
Phone: 763-585-7200
Facebook: www.facebook.com/nvmsknights/
Twitter: @NVMSPrincipal