TO DO:
Walt and Terry shared earlier this year, and you may have already heard this from your building engineer, that custodians will no longer be changing locker combinations during the summer. This is something you will need to have someone else complete. I believe your options are either to hire one of your current classified staff members (nutrition services, EA, secretary, etc.) and time sheet them their regular rate to complete this task, or to contact Walt Norris and ask that he provide someone who is interested in completing this task for his/her regular rate of pay (again, via time sheet). Likely, a nutrition services employee will cost between $13 – $20/hr. It is important that you have a current employee perform this task.
Informational:
In planning for next year, remember that we are not running early bird classes and have some guidelines around practices prior to school. Here are those guidelines and some additional language from Jay about sport specific PE classes and after-school practices. Thank you for communicating this information to your athletic staff.
Early Bird Athletic Practices:
- Each sport has the option of offering no more than two practices each week prior to the school start time of 8:45.
- Practices will end by 8:00, so teacher-coaches are available to assist students in classrooms, participate in meetings by 8:15 and/or prepare for the day. This allows students to access teachers for help and get ready for their day.
- Swim practices can continue in the am due to impacted facilities usage at Juniper Swim and Fitness.
Sport specific PE classes and After School Practices:
After school practices can begin at 4:00 and not before. Students can be enrolled in PE or conditioning classes that meet during the last period of the day but should not be required to be enrolled in such classes as part of being on any team. The lines should not be blurred between the last period of the school day and the 4:00 start of practices.
Our HS LA PLC team is doing amazing work around broadening our HS reading lists to include more diverse texts and authors. This team of LA teacher leaders from our high schools represent all LA teachers and will be asked to share out and gather input from those teachers for the purpose of determining our guaranteed, viable curriculum for every student. This is an equity initiative and I will need your support in ensuring our teachers are integrating these texts into their LA curriculum.
Here are the reading goals for each grade level, the summer reading task for the team and the link of the book summaries. I am so impressed with the work this team is doing under the leadership of Michele Clements, LA Teacher at MVHS. We have strong momentum going in the right direction!
See you at the Leadership Barbecue on Monday at 12:00!