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Please have through page 22 of High-Impact Instruction<\/strong><\/em> read by Oct. 21, our next Horizontal meeting. We’ll be spending the first 45 minutes of our meeting discussing this section. __________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please take some time this next week to update your Measure 98 (HS Success) Plan in Google Drive<\/a>. Your initial school year balance (of $2,000 or $4,000) has now been doubled due to the recent full funding of this Measure. Let me know if you have any questions about this. ___________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n As you are aware, fall parent conferences are quickly approaching (Oct. 23 & 24). If you haven’t begun conversations with your ELL teacher about how many parents might need interpreter services for their conference, please begin to do so. Connected to this, please begin putting a plan together of how many, and at what times, you’ll be needing an interpreter during your conference hours. We do not know interpreter availability yet, but I’d like for you to be ready with a plan when we do. (There could be an even worse drain on interpreters this year as every school in our district has conferences on Oct. 23 – last year our high schools did not hold conferences on that Wednesday.) ________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n THIS and THAT:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The last few days you may have noticed some positive changes with your late busses<\/strong>. There were about 15 route changes made on Wednesday of this week, with an eye on eliminating students arriving late to school (and hopefully also leaving earlier in the afternoon). _____________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n We will be bringing a Master Schedule Building Workshop<\/strong> here to our district. If you or your schedule builder have never attended this training, I hope you can take advantage of this opportunity to attend. At this training, attendees will be empowered, weighing all potential constraints, to build the most effective master schedule possible. This will help you meet the goal of scheduling the most student requests possible which is a definite factor in their success! We do not have the dates yet (it is a 2-day training) but will let you know as soon as we do. Middle schools will have seven free slots (one per school), while a second participant from your school will only cost $200 – that’s a good deal! The only thing to do at this point is to think about if you would want to have someone (or multiple folks) attend from your school. _________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n You may or may not have heard by now that this year’s Principal for the Day event <\/strong>(sponsored by Ed Foundation) will be held on Nov. 1. A catered lunch is planned for participating principals and her\/his “guest principal” at noon at the Ed Center. If you have any questions or know of someone who might want to be a guest principal, please contact Michelle Johnson (x5660). _____________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n Evaluations and SLGGS for 2019-20:<\/strong>\u00a0Remember that Contract teachers who are on an evaluation cycle will receive SIX mini observations and complete SLGGs, a self-reflection and a summative evaluation. \u00a0Contract teachers who are not being evaluated this year will receive THREE mini observations and complete the SLGGs.\u00a0 ALL Temporary and Probationary teachers get TWO FORMAL observations prior to the end of Feb. For a mini observation to be considered \u201clegit\u201d you must debrief with the teacher within 72 hours of the observation. And finally, counselors will have a new goal setting sheet – specific to counselors – in TalentEd, so don’t be surprised by this change. __________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here is an HR Update<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n The District has secured a new pre-employment drug testing provider who offers expanded drug testing hours (Monday through Saturday).\u00a0 This will allow our administrators to offer positions on Friday<\/strong> because testing can be performed all day on Saturday.\u00a0 However, with those extended options comes the additional challenge of making sure an applicant is available on Saturday to go to the testing facility.\u00a0 As before, please make sure you know the applicant is available to meet the 24 hour time frame to complete the pre-employment drug test. It is extremely helpful to share the information below instead of directing the applicant to call HR.\u00a0 Also, we are requesting that applicants come to our office by 3:00 on Friday afternoon in order to facilitate the paperwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please inform the applicant they should report to the Human Resources office who will be expecting them and will have paperwork ready for their arrival. Please make sure to restate that we are offering the position contingent upon completion of our pre-employment hiring steps and they have until (insert specific time\/date) to make sure the process is completed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n We caution against having the applicant call our office in case we are occupied with new hires and phone calls and are not able to get back to the person right away. They could lose valuable time waiting for a return call, when in fact we have paperwork already prepared for their arrival.\u00a0 We really appreciate your care and effort in helping communicate the steps when making the offer to our applicants. We love knowing they are informed on the next steps and will welcome them and guide them through the process. __________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n This was sent directly<\/a> to your building 504 coordinator<\/strong>, but wanted you to be aware of this upcoming training<\/strong> as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TO DO: Please have through page 22 of High-Impact Instruction read by Oct. 21, our next Horizontal meeting. We’ll be spending the first 45 minutes of our meeting discussing this section. __________________________________________________ Please take some time this next week to … Continue reading