St. John-Emmanuel Lutheran School
Staff Newsletter
Week of December 10, 2018
"Sharing Christ Through Academic Excellence"
18-19 Theme Verse: "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble" Psalm 46:1
My Schedule
Monday- St John
Tuesday- Soest
Wednesday- St John, fire drill @ Flatrock, Soest Christmas service 7pm
Thursday- Soest, 1pm tour
Friday- St John
Calendar Items of Note
Dec 21- closure makeup day
Jan 9- Active Shooter training @ 3pm
Feb 15- makeup day for Nov 15th via e-learning
Staff Christmas Party
CPS Health Care Plan
By now you should have received from CPS a packet of information regarding the new healthcare plan SJE is offering as well as information on your new Further HSA account. I know that I received both and have found them helpful at this point. There is a bunch of information in both packets to digest.
If that is not enough, I strongly encourage you to contact Maureen Schneider, our account rep should you have more questions. The plan we are offering is in many ways better than what we have had and it is being offered at no cost for 2019. Her contact information is as follows: by phone: (314) 885-6721 and email: Maureen.Schneider@concordiaplans.org
3rd Quarter Chapel Offering
This year's trip is to Peru and that is where the money will go. There will also be a week's worth of print and video resources available, making it perfect for Lutheran School Week. We can talk about it more later. I want to get this to you earlier so some planning can be done in advance of that. It is our intent to focus on this more during Lutheran Schools Week.
TLSP Challenge Cup
The schools in TLSP are invited to join the 2019 TLSP Cup Challenge. This year, schools will be invited to submit their average number of service hours performed per student during the month of January 2019 to compete for the TLSP Challenge Cup. Let’s show our Lutheran spirit by serving others!
Guidelines
Service hours must be performed during the month of January 2019.
Service hours must be performed at school or as a school. For simplicity of tracking, service completed by students outside of school will not be counted toward this project.
Hours should be tracked to the nearest ½ hour.
The total number of hours completed by the school must be divided by the total number of students in the school to get a per student average.
The school with the highest per student average of service hours will win the TLSP Challenge Cup traveling trophy and an all school ice cream party.
Totals must be submitted to Alicia Levitt at TLSP by Feb. 8, and the winning school will be announced at the TLSP Winter Professional Development on February 15, 2019.
Schools are encouraged to have a champion for this project who will track service hours for the school. A sample tracking form for teachers may be found here.
Interested in doing a project that requires some funding? Check out these resources:
Thrivent Action Teams: Thrivent members are eligible for 2-$250 Action Teams/year.
GenerationOn: Register at GenerationOn to be eligible for their $250 mini-grants. They have a link to other grants, as well.
Ideas and lesson plans for service learning projects are available here:
School Commercial Contest
To celebrate National Lutheran Schools Week January 27-February 2, 2019, let’s show off what makes our schools amazing and showcase our student creativity. Last year, we gathered some amazing brain break videos. This year, we want to hear from what your students love about their school.
We invite students in classes or school groups (3rd grade, student council, robotics team, etc.) to create and submit a marketing video or commercial for their school. We encourage videos that can be used by your school on your website, for your auction or other special events, or to share with potential families.
Contest rules
Videos must be submitted electronically by Friday, Jan. 18, 2019 at 4pm, EST.
Contest entries must be original.
Teachers may support and help as required. However, as much as possible, this should be a student-focused learning activity.
Your school is responsible for obtaining a video release form for each student shown in the video. You do NOT have to submit those forms.
Please abide by copyright laws.
All video submissions must be between 30 seconds and 3 minutes in length.
Scoring
Originality 25
Video Quality (smooth transitions, sound quality, picture quality) 25
Inclusion of multiple aspects of school
(academics, music, sports, community, church, etc.) 25
Faith Focus 25
Bonus
Up to 10 bonus points may be given for use of the TLSP marketing theme “Catch the Lutheran Spirit”
Prizes: $25 Meijer gift card for each of 4 honorable mention groups
$150 Amazon gift card for the grand prize winning group
Submission:
All videos must be uploaded by Jan. 18, 2019, at 4pm EST. Use this form to submit
Winners will be announced during National Lutheran Schools Week.
No videos will be posted publicly without permission of the submitting school.
Active Shooter Training
Once training is done, I'd like to discuss and decide how we at SJE will do those drills and then practice at least once after Christmas and again later in the year.
TLSP Open House and ECE Open House
Folks it is key that we do all we can to get behind these events and support them. At a minimum, we need to maintain current enrollment numbers and at best we need to grow. If not, cuts will need to happen. We are at the break even point with enrollment and needed faculty and staff. Please do all you can to help.
Take Note
Don't forget to setup your AIR account for ILEARN so you can take required TA test
ILEARN/IREAD Required Training is Here Now!
Look for the icon that looks like the one on the right. Please let me know when you're done with it so I know all have done it. Deadline to have completed is January 4th.