LVMS Staff Newsletter
Excellence In Everything - Edition XVI
Welcome Ms. Whitten
Please welcome Ms. Kaitlin Whitten as our new 8th grade Science Teacher! Mrs. Kurth will be here until we leave for Christmas Break, and then Ms. Whitten will take over for her in January. She will be on campus this week, so if you see her, please introduce yourself and welcome her to our crew.
Ms. Whitten was born and raised in the Austin area before moving to California for high school.
She felt pulled back to her Texas roots, so she returned here for college. She attended Baylor University, and earned a Bachelor of Science in Middle Grades Education with a Science Focus. In her spare time, Ms. Whitten loves to read, travel, and snorkel. She especially loves visiting the Caribbean with her family. Ms. Whitten is excited to join the LVMS family!
Surveys
In our last few Leadership Meetings, we have been discussing ways for students to give teachers feedback, and we have created surveys for the students to fill out. I am creating Survey Monkey links for each individual teacher, and I will send those to you by Wednesday. A few things:
1) Surveys are subjective, and there may be outliers, but we think these are effective to give us a good insight into how we are connecting with our students.
2) These will be completely anonymous for the students, and the results will only be seen by admin and the individual teacher.
3) Please have your students take the surveys between December 12 - January 10th.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me or your department head.
Exam Schedule and Needs
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bH9S-tb0hwoIwMsPzb5u1jD-BxXygCBt3dXx_S7mULs/edit?usp=sharing
Exams may not be given early! If you have a student that is going to miss, they will have to make it up after the scheduled date.
Please sign up by Monday afternoon if you need assistance providing accommodations during exams. Even if you typically have support during that time, please sign up if you will need help. If you are recording your final exam in google classroom, you can archive the class each day when you finish your exam. Then unarchive it the next time you need the exam. This ensures that students are not accessing it at other times. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cVt9GDa7dRMP01GBzLG6kghf1Cr6syXBMvpJf5Z8Z7Q/edit?usp=sharing
AM Homework Help
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16Ig-ihrS-KWYlHlky3zxrxvqnjSj2EFxv02hfK-KFJs/edit?usp=sharing
Duty Schedules For The Rest of 2019!
We need someone for Walkers the last week - 12/16; please let me know who can do it!
Attendance
Coming Up!
Monday, December 9th - Boys Basketball @ Gateway, Games Start at 5:00; Girls Basketball - Open
Thursday, December 12 - Winter Band Concert, 6:00 PM - LVHS PAC
Saturday, December 14 - Staff XMas Party. 7:00
December 12 - 17: 1st Semester Exams
December 19 - January 6 - Christmas Break