Weekly Updates for Realms MS & HS Staff
2ND TRIMESTER START UP REMINDERS FIRST: Be sure your Canvas course materials are “published” so students can actually see them!!?? (Hopefully you know more about this process than I do!) SECOND: I advise you to send your Period 1 students a “welcome email” tonight with your WebEx link so they know where to go at 9:15AM tomorrow Continue reading 12-6-20 Staff Update
Thanksgiving Appreciations! Heading into our last week before Thanksgiving I am feeling SO APPRECIATIVE of all of you. Your hard work and commitment to serving our students at a high level despite the odds, your compassionate support for ALL of our students and their unique needs, the collaboration and learning together that is happening within our staff Continue reading 11-12-20 Staff Update
THE ELECTION! I think we need to be ready for anything here folks!!! ONE ask I have for all of you, is to MAKE OUR TEACHING SPACES SAFE AND OPEN EQUALLY FOR ALL, REGARDLESS OF ELATION, DISAPPOINTMENT, AND POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE. We should assume that in every room are STUDENTS AND PARENTS of BOTH/ALL political perspectives, and they Continue reading Monday 11-2-20 Staff Update
MONDAY MEETING TO REPLACE WORDS ON WEDNESDAY! With the start of LIPI this week we have agreed to move our all school weekly get together to Mondays in the 2nd half of Crew. Please have your Crew leave Crew and come to my room at 12:05PM. 11:45 Crew starts. I suggest you make it clear that you Continue reading Monday 10-26-20 Staff Update
STAFF MEETINGS, COLLABORATIVE PLANNING, AND SHARED LEADERSHIP Hey all – I am trying to make tweaks and revisions to our planning and collaborative time together to honor the newly negotiated union agreements and also provide time for us to engage in collaborative planning. I WANT YOU, OUR STAFF TO HAVE A VOICE IN IMPORTANT DECISIONS WE MAKE Continue reading 10-16-20 Staff Update
Students of Concern Thanks for working last week together to plan our Students of Concern process. I have captured some important notes from that conversation here. Please take a few minutes to read through them! Once you have read these notes (especially the reminders on “how to use the sheet”), then please be sure to update the Continue reading 10-2-20 Staff Update
New Family Orientation Night I have taken the liberty of scheduling a New Family Orientation Session on Thursday October 8th from 6PM – 7:15PM (ish?). I am HOPING that everyone can make this, but I know that, since I didn’t review this day/time with you all that there may be a conflict or two…. I am keeping Continue reading 9-27-20 Staff Update
Hey staff! Here we go! I hope you all have a great Monday with kids. Please know that you ARE likely to run into some logistics challenges: kids not present, kids struggling with iPad issues, WebEx challenges, Canvas… who knows! So, be flexible – lets try and get connected as best we can with all our kids! Continue reading 1st Week of School!
A BIG AND WARM WELCOME TO OUR NEW STAFF! Anita Thompson – language arts. Anita has been on our radar here at Realms MS/HS for a bunch of years and we are STOKED to finally have her on our team! Michelle, Karla and Anita were colleagues back at Marshall and most recently Anita has been teaching English Continue reading Mid August Staff Blog
SOCIAL GET TOGETHER… So, I feel like a real party pooper here, but I am going to hold off on coordinating something for us here. Call me crazy, but with the recent spike in cases in Oregon (and a bunch of other states), and the fact that as the weather improves on Thursday this week I suspect Continue reading STAFF UPDATE : Start of Summer!