OKC Midhigh VLC
#LevelUP #Keepchoppingwood
August 7th-11th
The vision of the OKC Mid-High is to create a purpose driven community of academic success and personal accountability through consistent communication, intentional instruction, and meaningful relationship-building.
This Week's Priorities
- Keep scheduling and completing ILPs. At this point it should have been an email, call, text.
- Any new ILPs are due on the 10th.
- Work on preparing for open house on Thursday.
- Work on filling in all new 2023-24 sheets.
- Work on getting your room prepared for open house.
- Continue lesson planning.
- Complete any new ELCs.
What's Happening in the week ahead?
๐Monday, August 7
- Remote Work
- Finish Scheduling any new ILP's
- Complete any new ELC's
- Work on schedule
- Prepare for a fun open house
- Finish Scheduling ILP's
- Complete any new ELC's
- Prepare for a fun open house
๐Wednesday, August 9
- ILPs/Working in your rooms
- Prepare for a fun open house
๐Thursday, August 10
- NEW ILPs due
- Dedra Stafford PD in James room @12:30pm
- ILPs/Working in your rooms
- Prepare for a fun open house
๐Friday, August 11
- ๐ดUP LUAU ๐๏ธ
- Remote Work
- VLC SpEd teacher training via Zoom with Aspen
- Finish Scheduling any new ILP's
- Complete any new ELC's
๐OPEN HOUSE ๐ซ
We have attached some ideas but can also get you some more if you are looking for a certain theme. We can help you come up with something that parents and students will love.
A huge thank you to Elisha for making our flyer and passports. If any of you have any decor that would match our theme please bring it. We will decorate the front area. This could include vintage suitcases, globes, travel decor, etc.
Admin will provide cookies, water and punch. If you all would like to add something please feel free to do so. You may also want some candy or snacks in your own room. We all know that candy and food will encourage more people to come and stay for the whole thing.
Save the Dates
Virtual Learning Centers
Site Closure
2023-2024
The following dates represent holidays or remote learning days that the virtual learning centers will be closed:
September 4, Monday - Labor Day
September 25, Monday - Fall Professional Development
October 9 - 10, Monday - Tuesday - Remote Learning Days
October 11, Wednesday - 13, Friday - Fall Break
November 10, Friday - Veteranโs Day (observed)
November 20, Monday - 24, Friday - Thanksgiving Break
December 15, Friday - EPIC Employee Appreciation Day
December 21, Thursday - January 5, Friday - Winter Break
January 15, Monday - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
January 29, Monday - Winter Professional Development
February 19, Monday - Presidentsโ Day
March 15, Friday - Remote Learning Day
March 18, Monday - 22, Friday, Spring Break
March 29, Friday - Remote Learning Day
May 27, Monday - Memorial Day
June 19, Wednesday - Juneteenth
June 24, Monday - July 5, Summer Break
Save these important dates:
- August 7th/11th- Remote
- August 11th, Level Up Luau @ Sandersโ house
- August 14th, Monday- OKC VLC Site PLC
- August 15, All SpEd Teacher PD @Quest church 9 a.m.-3:45 p.m
- August 16, OKC VLC PD Am/PM Session @9am @OKC Site
- August 21, Monday - 1st day of school!
- October 3, Tuesday - Parent Conferences
- October 5, Thursday - Parent Conferences
- October 5, Thursday - World Teachers Day
- October 23, Monday- Picture day
- October 23 - 31, Monday - Friday, Red Ribbon Week
- November 15, Wednesday - National Education Support Professionals Day
- January is School Board Appreciation Month
- January 9, Tuesday - School Resource Officer Day
- March 12, Tuesday - Parent Conferences
- March 14, Thursday - Parent Conferences
- March 15, Friday - National Preschool Teachers Appreciation Day
- April 1, Monday- Picture day
- April 3 - 7, Monday - Friday - Assistant Principal Appreciation Week
- April 5, Friday - Paraprofessional Appreciation Day
- April 24, Wednesday - Administrative Professionals Day
- May 1, Wednesday - School Principalsโ Day
- May 3, Friday - School Lunch Hero Day
- May 6 - 10, Monday - Friday - Teacher Appreciation Week
- May 7, Tuesday - Teacher Appreciation Day
- May 10, Friday - School Nurse Day
- May 31, Friday - Last day of school
*ALL scheduled PLC/PD dates are considered mandatory and
attendance is required. Epic will deduct $500 from your bonus for any missed sessions.
Epic Learning Communtiy
Complete any new ELC's as they come out. Great job getting the other ELCs done.
ILP's
Setting Up ILP Appointments
- If there are siblings, make sure to arrange times with other teachers to help save time for families.
- Remind parents to bring birth certificates, shot records, and any academic records/paperwork including; SPED IEPs, 504s, Related Services (RSO) like speech or occupational therapy, or medical diagnosis papers.
- Remind parents to have students bring their computer so you can help them log in and check their email and clever.
- Appointments should be for at least 1 hour. It may not take you this long but we want to have time to focus on relationships!
- Families will need to meet you at the center - appointments will happen in your room. In July Tuesday- Thursday between the hours of 9-3pm. If you need to do them before 9a or after 3pm please communicate with BOTH Sanders and Ashley. In August they can come any day between 9am-3pm unless it is a virtual day on our calendar.
- Don't forget to invite SPED as necessary.
Conducting ILPs
- Students MUST be present to conduct the ILP.
- You must fill out the Child Nutrition Forms for every family. We paper copies if family does not know their information but please try to prep them for this before they come.
- Remind families to opt-in for BrightArrow communications (school-wide announcement program). More information to come on this later.
Rosters
- Remember that rosters are subject to adjust, it's good to tell parents this as well so they aren't caught off guard.
- Admin makes all roster decisions. Very few moves will happen and must be approved through Sanders.
ILP Hard Copy Paperwork
- Paperwork needed: Pick up list, emergency contact, additional contacts, drop off/ pick up, medication request, permission to photograph, site closure dates, technology agreement, health services, care & use of computer. Please make sure these forms are turned in to Candy. Every student must do a new one.
Book Donations from Native American Programs
We are so excited about getting books for our classrooms. Each classroom will receive a book tote of library heavy-duty wrapped books for their classroom. Due to these books being purchased with federal grant funds, we are required to do an inventory of them each year. Therefore, these books will have a tag that must stay on the book. It is imperative that you have a checkout system for these books.
Child Nutrition Updates
We have some great news from our Child Nutrition department! We are no longer following the National School Lunch Standards due to not qualifying for the state programs.
What does this mean?
- First, all meals and snacks are provided by Epic (not the state) free of charge to our families. This is a huge blessing to our families!
- Second, we will now have larger portion sizes and better food items!!
Other news:
- Please note that no staff is allowed in the kitchen area. If you need something you will need to get with admin.
- Employee meals are not free. Everyone has a Mosiac code and it will need to be used any time you eat a meal provided by Benchmark.
- Staff training (and refreshers) for the Mosiac program will be coming soon
Level Up that data
ILP completion
Please make sure you are CC'ing admin on emails to families that you have contacted multiple times. Please only use the โmultiple attemptsโ script not the drop script. We cannot drop any students yet and we will need to continue to document that we are making attempts. Please document by leaving a log entry each date you tried to contact. Admin will be reaching out this upcoming week, but we need to make sure everything is properly documented before we do so. Also, if you are in the red, we will need to meet about your plan to be completed by the 3rd. The students who arrived on your roster after the 24th will have an extended deadline. You will have until August 10th at 5pm to complete those.
๐NEXT LEVEL Greatness!!๐
NEXT LEVEL Staff Member of the Month
What to look for when voting for staff this year:
- Do they model our vision and our aspirations?
- Did they level up this month?
- Is the staff member a positive member of our team?
- Is the staff member a leader within the building?
- Does the staff member join in collaboration efforts?
- Does the staff member put the students first?
- Does the staff member have a great relationship with all team members?
- Does the staff member have a great relationship with parents?
๐๏ธLevel Up to Greatness! ๐๏ธ
Shoutouts
Have you seen a team member LIVING our vision? Have you experience one of your teammates reaching out to help you or our students? Have they LEVELED UP? Are they still chopping wood? Shoot us an email, chat, or sticky note on our desk of who you would Ike to shout out each week.
๐๏ธMS team ILP% above the district goal
๐๏ธOur whole team for our average being above district goal in ILP completion!
๐๏ธJohnny for being 100% done with ILPs, your communication is phenomenal.
๐๏ธBrad, Ed, Bishop, Andrew for being above district average and in the green with ILP completion.
๐๏ธBishop for "efforting" in putting together a bulletin board.
๐๏ธKatie and Kelli for working so hard on their room, it really is a place kids will want to be.
๐๏ธCaitlyn and Will for jumping in and doing a lot of prep for classes already.
๐๏ธWill for being proactive about everything and always trying to help anyone.
๐๏ธElisha and Will for filling in up front while Candy was out.
๐๏ธJennifer for continuing to offer guidance, assistance, and going the extra mile for High school
team and our whole building in general.
๐๏ธKelli and Amy for being team players and helping out Heritage side with their needs.
๐๏ธAll of you for being on time and ready to learn at the PLC on Friday! I appreciate your professionalism more than you know. I received a message on Friday about how you all stood out as leaders. This made my principal heart happy and I continued to be so grateful to work with such amazing people.
Middle School Important Information
Grade Level Meetings:
Click the picture for your running grade level meeting agenda. This is great to keep handy to make sure you are not missing important announcements and updates.
High School Important Imformation
Grade Level Meetings:
Click the picture for your running grade level meeting agenda. This is great to keep handy to make sure you are not missing important announcements and updates.
Our Compliance Specialist this year will be Aspen Yount again. There are some updates from the SPED department.
- Forms such as IEP requests, 504 requests are now in the ticketing system
- If a family tells you there is an IEP we must know the previous district they are coming from
- All SPED training (Kelli, Mary, Ethan, Katie) at Quest Church on 8/15
- New curriculum for OAAP students is Teachtown! It launches 8/1
- Please push all OAAP ILPs to after August 1st, if you have already done them that is ok we can come back and education the parent later.
๐Happy most excellent Birthday to๐:
August
12- Micheal Bishop
September
28- Logun Gill
Join a Club or Start a Club
Please let us know what clubs you want to be part of this year.
Academic Leadership Team (ALT)
Leader- Katie Spencer
Members: Bishop, Jennifer, Caitlyn, Ethan, Kelli
Operational Leadership Team
Leader- Adam Jester
Members: Amy, James, Caitlin ,Mary, Brad, Kelli
Safe and Healthy Schools Committee
Leader-Adam Jester
Co-leader- Amy Harris
Members: Kelli Goodnight
Ask the Experts:
- Powerschool-Nick and Adam
- Apex-MS-Caitlyn, HS-Adam
- Star Testing-Johnny
- Freckle-Caitlyn
- Formatives- Caitlyn
- ETI-Caitlyn/Donahue
- Schoology-Logun
- Mentor Relationship building-Bishop
- Mentoring Data reporting-Brad
- ICAP-Elisha/Clevenger
- High School Grad Checks-Jennifer/Nick
- Nextstep-Adam/Nick
- Google Suite-Katie or Ethan
- Paras as Partners: Elisha/Suzanne
- ELL HS-Jennifer, ELL MS-Johnny
- SPED- Katie
- ALL things: MS: Caitlyn, HS: Katie
Clubs and Organizations
Art Club: Angelica
Book Club: Angelica
Bible Club: Mary, Andrew
Graphic Design: Ethan
Mock Trial: Adam
Curtain Call: Katie, Suzanne
Student Leadership: Kelli/Logun
Picture Perfect: Johnny
3:30 Club: Adam and Logun
Peace Garden: Brad
History through Films- Bishop
Monthly Meetings
1st Friday: OLT/ALT Meetings
2nd Friday: Grade Level Meetings
3rd Friday: Department Meetings: Math, ELA, Science, SS, SpEd
4th Friday: Grade Level Meetings
OKC Virtual Learning Center
Admin Team:
Sheila Sanders, Principal
Ashley Ross-Smith, Assistant Principal
Nick Aspinwall, Teacher Development Specialists
Kim Nelson, Managing Director of Virtual Learning Centers