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UpComing Events
Nov 7 Share Day 315
Nov 7 Pop-Up Book Pusher Shirt Day
Nov 8 Teacher workday-students do not report-E-Commute Day
Nov 8 Report cards due for review by 3pm
Nov 11 Wear red white blue day-Veterans Day
Nov 16 Report cards go home
Nov 23-15 Thanksgiving Break
Dec 1 PTA Performance by 4th and 5th grade
Action Items
- Report Cards due for review on Tuesday November 8. Please make sure your are proofreading the grades and the comments. Please email when your report cards are ready for review. An additional best practice is to have a team mate read your comments or look at your report cards with you. Each student deserves personalized comments and each family deserves a professionally presented and accurate report card.
- *Remember Tuesday is an E-Commute Day. You are welcome to work in the building or work off-site.
- Share Day on Monday. Snack by 4th grade for whole group and then Grades 2-5 meet in a session on Conferencing and Questioning facilitated by Barbara.
Attendance--Including Action Items
As we continue to focus on ways to improve student and teacher attendance, here are some steps to help us maximize time as an important component of student achievement and youth development.
1. If a student is absent for more than 3 days (excused or unexcused), make a friendly call to the family to make sure you know what is going on and that you just wanted to check on your student. Please log these calls in Synergy under "Student Contact Log."** As students get above five absences (excused or unexcused), the office will make the friendly supportive call too.
2. Teacher Attendance. Teachers have lives too and there are many valid reasons that we have to miss a day of instruction. The challenge is that securing subs is not always a guarantee and the impact of a teacher absence often falls on the teacher's teammates who have to work with extra students or assist the sub throughout the day. Mondays, Fridays and days when there are division-wide Professional Development events are extremely difficult to guarantee sub coverage.
Please use the following two steps to help support teachers who are absent as well as the teachers who are here:
1. Please log your absence as soon as possible in the online sub system.
2. Email or text Brian (757-768-9153). Details are not important unless you want to share them, but please indicate if it is a sick or personal situation. This will give Jackie and I the maximum amount of time to secure subs.
**see email from Bonnie Lane for directions on how to enter info in the Student Contact Log in Synergy or ask me for assistance