Staff Weekly Update
Week of December 3rd, 2018
I hope you all had a great start to your week. A HUGE thank you to all of you for being so flexible and switching our Friday/Monday schedule this week!
With much respect,
Connie
Calendar Items
Tues. Dec. 4th
- Jen Evans' FMLA (11/28 - 1/6/19)
- OLSAT testing continues - 3rd & 4th
- 8:05 - AM Announcements
- 9:00 - Parent phone call - Largent & Farley - conf. room
- 10:15 - 11:15 - OLSAT testing - Wetzel
- 12:15 - 1:15 - Connie help w/ ALEKS math
- 1:00 - USS Team mtg. w/ Dr. Slonaker - conf. room
- 2:00 - Mtg. w/ RA Team - Largent, Farley, RA Team - conf. room
- 2:40 - Grade level collaboration w/ Kyle Beimfohr - 3rd & 4th Gr.
- 4:00 - Cultural Understandings District Mtg. - Largent - ESC
Wed. Dec. 5th
- Jen Evans' FMLA (11/28 - 1/6/19)
- Dyslexia/Orton-Gillingham Training (Day #4 from snow make-up day) - Largent - ESC
- OLSAT testing continues - 3rd & 4th
- Janelle Drisko at SGE all day
- 8:05 - AM Announcements
- 8:15 - 12:30 - Randee Kleeman at SGE
- 9:15 - Counseling Lesson - Wetzel/Nahrstadt
- 10:15 - 11:15 - OLSAT Testing - Wetzel
- 12:10 - 3rd Gr. Recess Group w/ Wetzel - Jessica's office
- 2:30 - 3:30 - ILEARN mtg - 3rd, 4th, and Jen Skura - Skura's room
- 5:30 - 7:30 - PTO's Shopping for Dollars at Vineyard Vines - Largent
- 6:30 - Title 1 Parent Mtg. - Farley - SGE
Thurs. Dec. 6th
- Jen Evans' FMLA (11/28 - 1/6/19)
- OLSAT testing continues - 3rd & 4th
- 8:00 - CC for 1st grader - Largent, Fure, Clare, Slonaker - conf. room
- 8:05 - AM Announcements
- 8:30 - 9:00 - New family SGE tour w/ Lynn Kissel
- 8:45 - Counseling Lesson - Wetzel/Frobig
- 9:15 - 10:45 - OLSAT Make-ups - Wetzel
- 10:15 - 2:00 - Randee Kleeman at SGE
- 12:00 - International Fair post-event mtg. - Largent/Farley - conf. room
- 12:15 - 1:15 - Connie help w/ ALEKS math
- 12:15 - 2:15 - OLSAT Make-ups - Wetzel
- 2:45 - ACR for 4th grader - Watson, Fure, Brown - conf. room
- 2:45 - 504 for 3rd grader - Wetzel & Frobig - Jessica's office
- 3:00 - Parent mtg. for Kdg'r - Largent, Fure, Shaw - Kelly's room
Fri. Dec. 7th
- ***MONDAY RA schedule today!***
- Jen Evans' FMLA (11/28 - 1/6/19)
- OLSAT testing continues - 3rd & 4th
- Payday & Jeans
- 8:05 - AM Announcements
- 8:15 - 9:15 - OLSAT Make-ups - Wetzel
- 11:30 - Counseling Lesson - Wetzel/Strawmyer
- 12:10 - Parent Mtg. - Largent, Farley, Wetzel - conf. room
- 12:15 - 1:15 - Connie help w/ ALEKS math
- 1:30 - Counseling Lesson - Wetzel/Clare
- 2:45 - ACR for 2nd grader - Largent, Delp, Kleeman, Drisko - conf. room
Upcoming Events . . .
DECEMBER:
- 13th - Staff Meeting
- 14th - PTO Dessert Dive
- 21st - End of Quarter 2
- 21st - PTO Winter Parties
- 24th - Jan. 4th - WINTER BREAK
JANUARY 2019:
- 7th - 25th - NWEA
- 7th - 31st - AIMSweb
- 9th - Law Enforcement Appreciation Day
- 9th - PTO Mtg - Evening time TBD - Parenting in the Digital Age Series w/ Dan Layton
- 11th - SBRC done by 8:00 AM
- 14th - March 1st - WIDA
- 17th - Martha out - personal day
- 18th - Martha out - personal day
- 21st - No school in honor of MLK
- 22nd - Martha out - personal day
- 25th - PTO Spirit Day - Crazy Socks
- 28th - Feb. 1st - Box Top Collection Week
PTO EVENT THIS WEEK! COME BY & SHOP + SUPPORT SGE!
Winter Party Schedules
Finally, please be sure that ALL of your volunteers have their FULL background checks done! We cannot allow for any exceptions if their full BG-check has not been done. Thank you!
ZTEP AND ZTEP PLUS REMINDERS!
ZTEP:
- A scheduled long observation (40 mins) happens this semester.
- An unannounced long observation occurs in 2nd semester.
- You will also see a secondary evaluator in your rooms for a short observation (20 mins)this year.
- Christine Squier is the district lead for ZTEP questions and would be happy to stop by and help anyone who has questions about SFS or anything else that you need. Please feel free to reach out via email or call/text her at 317-209-6187.
- You're also welcome to contact Connie/Martha, too.
- PLUS teachers will want to refer to the PLUS Checklist for details and due dates.
- Peer Observations and reflections need to occur by the end of December.
- Document your reflection on what was learned during peer observations as artifacts uploaded to SFS by the end of December.
- In SFS, the artifacts need to be named: Peer Observation #1 and Peer Observation #2.
- Please feel free to reach out to your primary evaluator with any questions. You can reach out to Kris Devereaux, the district lead for ZTEP PLUS, via email or call/text at 317-690-1438.
Please look this list over and let us know if we're missing your birthday. Email Connie, Martha, or Angie to get you added. We want to make sure that we have EVERYONE. Thank you!
Important Announcements & Reminders
Color Printer Reminder
- Our Color printer is going through ink VERY quickly. (1/2 of the toner is gone and it was put in two weeks ago. Yikes!) One reason is that there are black and white pages being sent to the color printer and not the Follow-Me Printer. It is imperative that you check to see which printer you are sending things to before you hit the print button.
- REMEMBER . . . PC1-Front Office = Color Printer
- Please be mindful as to how many color copies you are printing as this is a shared printer for everyone in the building.
Professional Development Requests
- If you would like to attend any type of professional development, please click here. Next week, this message will be moved to the "Links to Work Orders and *NEW* Google Form Links" section below and it will remain there for the rest of this year for easy access.
Please Join Our REMIND Group
- SGE (staff only) has an all-staff Remind text messaging group called: 18-19 SGE (all staff).
- To simply *receive-only* the text messages, please text the number 81010 and in your "message line" type in the code: @k29hfe.
- If you'd like to be able to text back and forth w/ me via REMIND, please download the app or create an online account.
- As a friendly reminder, please do not share this code with non-SGE staff members.
Above & Beyond Nomination Form
- On our ZCS website, any ZCS staff and/or community member can nominate the work of any ZCS employee that has done extraordinary work. If you've experienced professional support that is above & beyond, feel free to recognize them through this nomination! Please click here to nominate.
Leaving EARLY afterschool and you've gotten permission from Connie/Martha . . .
- If this is the case for you, please help us by always emailing the entire office team to let them know you've gotten permission and also leave your cell # in the email message, in case we need to contact you.
- Who is the "office team?" Connie, Martha, Angie, Jen, Jessica, Hailey
LINKS TO WORK ORDERS & *NEW* GOOGLE FORM LINKS
Technology Work Orders - Reminder from Dan Layton:
- Click here to access this link.
- It is always extremely helpful if you can submit actual technology work orders for any help you need. Please refrain from picking up the phone or emailing a question.
Marquis Work Orders:
Did your trash not get picked up? Does it seem the carpet didn't get vacuumed? Please help Angie & Jen out by filling out the Marquis work order on your own. Thanks!
1. Go to the Zionsville web site
2. Click on Teachers/Staff tab
3. Scroll down about halfway
4. Look for: Custodial Work Orders by Building
5. Click on Stonegate
Click here to access the Teachers/Staff tab
18-19 PTO Wish List - NEW GOOGLE FORM LINK!
- Click the NEW LINK HERE to access this Office 365 Form
Personal Business Leave Request - NEW GOOGLE FORM LINK!
- Please click the NEW LINK HERE to access this form and then don't forget to SAVE this page under your "favorites."
- Finally, as a friendly reminder of our ZCS Personal Business Leave + good information to know for our newest staff, I have copied/pasted the email about personal days sent by Becky Coffman on 5/8/16. This is per our CBA - Collective Bargaining Agreement
- A. Amount – Each employee shall be entitled to be absent from work three (3) days each school year for the transaction of personal business or the conduct of personal or civic affairs. Such leaves may be used in whole or half day increments. Requests for personal business leave should be made 48 hours in advance in writing to the building principal. In cases of emergency or other similar unforeseen circumstance, requests may be made orally to both the substitute coordinator and the building principal.
- B. Employees are discouraged from using personal business leave on staff development days or to extend a school vacation. If used on a staff development day then the employee remains totally responsible for securing the learning lost from their being absent during that activity.
- C. Accumulation – If an employee does not use all of the personal business leave in a given school year, the remaining personal business leave shall be accumulated for use in later school year, except that no more than a total of two (2) days may be accumulated from earlier school years for use as personal business leave, so that the maximum total personal business leave available in any one school year is three (3) days earned during the school year and up to two (2) days accumulated from earlier school years or a total of five (5) days.
- D. Conversion to Sick Leave – Any unused personal business leave not accumulated for use in later years as personal business leave shall be added to the employee’s accumulated sick leave.