SWAGs and KEY DATES
INTENT OF SECTION: This is designed to help make sure we stay organized and that everyone is “in the know” and nobody gets surprised by events or outings that impact schedules!. This helps you with planning and office with managing!
- week of April 3rd – quiet-ish
- week of April 10th – 8th gr SBAC – Science
- week of April 17th – 6th-8th SBAC – ELA
- week of April 24th – quiet-ish
- week of May 1st – Teacher Appreciation Week; Better World Day; Midterms at end of week
- week of May 8th – RHS Intensives Week
- week of May 15th – 6th-8th SBAC – Math; Senior Celebration Day; Rubbish Ren’d @ Saturday
- week of May 22nd – 8th Gr Travel Study; 11th SBAC – Math
- week of May 29th – 9th gr “survival Potluck”; Prom @ Saturday
- week of June 5th – last day seniors; possible MS Passages?
- week of June 12th – graduations; end of yr field days etc.!!
FIELDWORK OVERVIEW SPREADSHEET
Additional Spring “Events” and Fieldwork??
At this point, we have only 1 expedition related “evening event” (Celebration of Learning) scheduled for the 3rd trimester – it is the 9th Gr Survival Potluck on June 1st.
Other than that, we currently have a high school graduation, middle school graduation.
If anyone is THINKING about any other end of year culminations/celebrations, dances OR FIELDWORK, please let us know ASAP!! The Spring gets very FULL and start to feel overly hectic and/or unsustainable, so at a certain point we will “close the calendar” to new events!
TO DO: CREW RUN COMMUNITY MEETINGS
INTENT OF SECTION: Student leadership is one of the aims of Crew! Building a structure and some traditions around “Crew Run Community Meetings” helps us deepen the purpose of Crew and hopefully empower our students to lead our school more.
High School Community Meetings:
- Monday, March 20th: Staff Leads Community Meeting on the theme of Integrity
- Thursday, April 13th: Michelle’s Crew Leads Community Meeting on the theme of Compassion
- Friday, May 5th: Allie’s Crew Leads Community Meeting on the theme of Service
- Friday, May 19th: Senior Celebration (Jen Leads)
- Friday, May 26th: Tyler’s Crew Leads Community Meeting on the Theme of Joy
- June 6th – Senior Final Words/Videos for Freshmen
Middle School Community Meetings:
- Friday April 21st – Ursa
- Friday May 12th – Pegasus
- Friday June 9th – Cygnus
- Ongoing Community Meeting Slide Deck and Crew Run Community Meeting “Breakdown“
ARCHERY TRAINING FOR ANY STAFF
You are receiving this email because you expressed interest in completing your Archery training. Here is the link to our online course:
NASP® – National Archery In The Schools Program – BAI Manager (naspbai.org)
- Register for course
- Complete online training
- Complete online test & Pass
- The online portion (if not already completed) MUST be complete and TEST passed no later than 5pm on April 6th.
The in-person field-day will be on 4/8/2023.
Unfortunately, NASP is requiring the field-day to be completed within 60 days of the online portion, so our previous work does not transfer over. We will all have to complete all parts to get certified. Roger will timesheet us for the online training + field day.
TO DO: 2023-24 MAJOR DATES CALENDAR INPUT OPPORTUNITY
INTENT OF SECTION: Your voice matters! As we set important structures like this, your input helps us get it right!
There are about 6 slides here – the last slide has the link to the draft calendar and to a doc for any input. Ultimately, Roger will be responsible for reviewing the feedback and making final decisions. Deadline for feedback: Wednesday April 5th
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/PLANNING & SIW’S:
INTENT OF SECTION: Using our collaborative time together as a faculty in a way that feels organized, effective, focused and responsive to both our school design plan and to staff input is our SECRET WEAPON! The way we get better as a team and as a school is through learning together, pushing each other and supporting each other professionally!
There are TEN Wednesdays left in the year, SEVEN of which are building led, PLUS Friday April 14th! The ICCL team will be finalizing our plan for building agendas for these, but currently the idea is to balance the following priorities:
- time for current expeditions and other team planning
- time for grade level crew curriculum creation (AND documentation)
- time to wrap up our SLGG academic goal (and quality work protocol)
- time to dig into our YouthTruth data to see what we can learn
- time to look ahead at 2023-24 and gather input on priorities for budget/time/efforts!
Friday April 14th – no students at RMS/RHS!
We will be participating in a quality work protocol as a whole staff with time in our “2 Realms” staff groups. Our goal here is to get a chance to share and see some examples of student work that is happening in classes across the schools and to learn from each other. This will be the “wrap up” of our SLGG academic goals… the IDEA is that you bring student work that connects directly to your SLGG and that HOPEFULLY also includes some aspects of authenticity, craftsmanship, and/or complexity.
Prepare in advance and bring:
- Teachers need to hold back student work samples (same product from 2-3 different students – level 4-ish work only).
- Teachers need to provide the assignment and the rubric for the product – printed out so these are easy to read. Larger than normal font is great, if possible.
- Reflection on SLGG strategy (content teachers)
Support staff: You won’t be bringing work samples but YOU WILL be participating in this protocol to speak to access points and differentiation (SPED teachers, BYRT, Counseling etc.) EAs and classified staff: You aren’t expected to participate but are welcome to jump in if you feel like being an observer/student lense assistant.
UPDATE ON REPORTING SICK DAYS AND OTHER FRONTLINE/UKG ASKS…
We are still “figuring out” the kinks of the new HR system… so in the meantime, a few reminders:
Absences should be entered in Frontline by the teacher ASAP:
- personal days will still need to be approved by RW, so it doesn’t hurt to communicate with an email or verbally as well as we work through learning the systems
- for school business leave (usually for planning or pd but some other things too) this needs to be approved in advance by RW and please DO put a “note to admin” in Frontline so Jennifer can see what the leave is for (and figure out an account code!)
- for sick leave, just enter the absence in Frontline (ASAP is good), no approval is needed. If you are unsure if an absence qualifies as sick leave or some other kind of leave, just consult the contract
3rd Trimester Duty Schedule
As the weather improves we need to keep our supervision duties robust! There have been just a few TINY tweaks to the 3rd trimester duty schedule – please take a look!
Also, we will be reminding and tightening with our 9th graders on the ON CAMPUS LUNCH rule here… as the weather improves this will be tested. 9th graders who leave campus at lunch will be assigned lunch detentions as a consequence.
WHAT WOULD MOTIVATE TEENS TO WORK HARDER IN SCHOOL?
This is a short article that is interesting to note! We know intuitively that it is a MIX of many factors that leads kids to work their hardest, but the chance to RE-DO assignment is, according to this article and research… higher up the list that I might have thought!! Good food for though!
From the District: Request for Digital Tools for All Classes
Teachers Only: Please see this message from Dean Richards…
It is the time of year for us to begin to make requests for next year. This year the requests will come in 2 phases.
- Phase 1 – You will request digital collaboration, engagement, and productivity tools not specific to classes.
- Phase 2 – You will request all other tools (textbooks, supplemental content, digital tools, etc) that are specific to the course or subject area you are teaching
All teachers should complete both phases. Every request will be evaluated using established criteria.
Phase 1 – March 20-May 19
- Please request tools that you will use for instruction in all classes
- Request tools that you would like to use in the 23-24 school year for collaboration, engagement and productivity, such as:
- PearDeck
- Gimkit
- Padlet
- Digital curriculum, hard bound text, or digital text need to be linked to your classes and will be requested in Phase 2.
- Because teachers will have access to the following collaboration, engagement and productivity tools, there is no need to request these tools:
- Canvas
- Google Apps (Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc)
- Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, etc)
- Adobe Creative Cloud Suite
- Canva Edu
- If a request for a specific collaboration, engagement and productivity tool is denied, you will receive an email with the reason and an opportunity to make a different request
- Link to Google Form
Phase 2 – Late April-May 19
In late April you will receive an email from ‘BLP Instructional Technology’ in which you will be asked to request curriculum (physical and di