SEL Concerns Ticket Please use this if you have concerns with a student’s lagging SEL skills and you would like to do some collaboration with us (Heidi T. and/or Brian) to problem solve. Thanks!
FYI Ticket Please use this if you have an incident or recurring incidents with a student. This helps us with follow through, communication and data. Thank you!!!!!
Info from Heidi and the Highland Culture of Care Team: Our character trait for the month of April is honesty/trust. This falls under the SEL competencies of Self-Awareness and Responsible Decision-Making.
Here is a quick read on simple and effective ways to integrate SEL into your day. This is from the folks that I got the SEL journals from. As always, please let me know if you are looking for any resources.
I (Heidi T.) will be gone April 18th-20th. I have a sub for most of the time I am gone to help cover Nessie’s Nest, recess, lunches and bus.
Quick Breakfast Reminder: Breakfast is available for all students before school. If kids would like to grab a breakfast and save it for snack, that is fine but they need to do it before school. Thanks for helping to remind your students about this! Speaking of nutrition services, Linda is going to be out for the rest of the year and Debbie is here to replace her. Pop down, say hi and introduce yourself when you can.
Bus: We have noticed more and more bus riders lining up for the bus as early as 2:00! Please don’t send your bus riders until after 2:10. They are gathering outside of Susie’s classroom and this can be distracting to other students and they are not supervised until 2:10. The bus doesn’t need to leave until 2:18 so sending your bus riders at 2:15 is fine as well! Thank you!!
Staffing Plan: Thank you all for your time and effort on the plan. I will be having more conversations with Skip and Tammy over the next few days as ours is finalized. Once all the plans are in, then there will be some time spent on placing teachers returning on leave and possibly some transfers due to changing enrollments – this could take weeks. Once the district wades through that we will start to see some schools get a green light to hire for any openings. I will keep you posted on how things are shaking out for us.
Different Blend Ideas: This link is the document I shared via email earlier, but it’s here for reference.
Spring Dibels Day; Our final spring dibels screener day is Friday 5/27. This should already be on the calendar.
Culmination Planning: Please use this link to input information regarding your culmination plans.
Sustainability Alert – please remember to turn off any extra sparkle lights, lamps, etc. These are being left on frequently. This can add up to a lot of unnecessary power draw over time.
Foundational Skills Adoption Update-from Julie
- Please share community viewing sessions and digital resources in your family newsletters.
- 4/6-4/28-committee members field testing lessons, materials on display at 5 sites
- 5/4- Foundational Skills committee consensus meeting 1:30-4:30pm
iPad collection – Just an FYI that directions for iPad collection will be coming out soon. Skip recently met with Christie Boen, Tracy Howk and Roy Fuller to brainstorm the steps we will be taking for this process. The goal was to make it as easy as possible for teachers and librarians.
Parent Newsletter Link – linked here is the parent newsletter. If you ever need to find it, it’s always on the school website each Friday.
High Leverage Teaching Strategies
Week Preview:
- Monday 4/18
- Tuesday 4/19
- Storyline Team Meeting 2:30-3:15
- Wednesday 4/20
- SIW – Teacher Prep or Optional Ed Network
- Thursday 4/21
- EBISS/MTSS for Kindergarten & First Grade
- 8:00-9:30 = 1st grade
- 9:45-11:15 = Kindergarten
- EBISS/MTSS for Kindergarten & First Grade
- Friday 4/22