HS Building Leaders, I continued to be humbled by the work you are leading with staff, students and parents. Know that I appreciate the dynamic challenges you face and want to help you be the best you can be in your ever-expanding roles!
TO DO:
*Please continue to share your thoughts related to the SBAC Student Engagement ideas Jay discussed at our meeting Monday. To recap:
- Students who meet SBAC earn a .5 for math passage and .5 for reading with no grade impact
- Students who exceed SBAC earn the same credit and a weighted grade on their transcript.
- Jon offered the idea of credit based on significant improvement on the SBAC test.
*The Gallup Student Poll closes permanently on Oct. 26. Our district’s target is 90% participation. Dave Van Loo sent the participation percentages by school last week so you can see where your school stands.
*Thank you to those who have completed your MAC Survey. If you haven’t already, please do so AND encourage your staff to complete theirs, as well.
Informational:
Here is a note from Mara Stephens, our District Project HELP Coordinator and Homeless Liaison: With our first MAC survey behind us, we’d like to encourage folks who haven’t already done so, to move to spring MAC trainings. What this means is that you will do an additional MAC training in or around May 2019, but then everyone is trained for 12 months. This helps relieve the pressure of getting almost 1400 staff members trained in the fall of each year. Thank you for your support for FAN at each of our schools!
We reset the link regarding start time info. Here is the link again.
Calendar:
Debbie Watkins is encouraging all administrators to attend a training on reasonable suspicion planned for Wednesday, Nov 28 from 2:00-5:00. Jeff Wright from Bio-Med will lead a session in the board room.
More info from Debbie: This training will incorporate our current district policies around reasonable suspicion testing and the drug free workplace. Please know the intent of this training is not to transfer responsibility of detection, confirmation and processing to the schools or departments. This opportunity is to help train you on the signs to look for so you can be more confident when you come in contact with someone potentially under the influence at work. We will always have a district office team of people prepared to assist you with these situations. Plan on sending minimally one admin from your team and RSVP those names to Debbie.
I am attending the iNACOL conference Sun-Wed this week and will be back in the office Thursday, Oct 25. I will check email and have my cell on me. If you have an emergency and need “boots on the ground,” please contact Jay.
- Grad Coach Mtg – Oct 29, at 2:00, Ed Center
- HS Principal Mtg – Oct 31, 7:15 at Jackson’s Corner (eastside)
- Parent Conferences – Nov 1 from 4-8pm. (Comp time is in April – just like last year)