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From Tammy and Karen<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Welcome 2025! Here’s hoping the first blog of the year finds you rested and ready to stay the course with all the great work that is going on out in our schools and district! We appreciate and celebrate you! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What schools do Tammy and Karen support? <\/strong> We know many departments are unaware of how we have divided up schools this year. This link <\/a>is to provide you with a list of which schools Tammy is the lead support person and which schools Karen is the lead support person. As always, we support them all, but this helps you know who to call first. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Staff Probationary Letters: <\/strong>Earlier today, you received a couple of emails from Triz de la Rosa in Human Resources regarding the letters you need to fill out recommending your year 3 probationary teachers moving to contract status. It is imperative that you have those done and uploaded to the Google folder no later than January 24th. We have moved up the deadline this year, so please don’t let this timeline slip by. Which truly means, please don’t make Karen and I reach out to you at the last minute because you didn’t do them. Wink, wink!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Progress Report Deadlines: <\/strong> January 31 is the official day that staff should be working on report cards and the official cutoff for elementary reports is Sunday, Feb 2 at 5:00 pm. Please make sure you communicate that early and often, so that we are not caught in a situation where a school has not submitted their cards and rollover to the next semester becomes tricky. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

January 31 Progress Report Work Day: <\/strong>Per Article 15.8 of the CBA, Certified Employees are not required to report to their work site on end-of-term workdays but must remain available by phone. If a supervisor has articulable concerns about a Certified Employee’s timely completion of professional responsibilities, they may require the Certified Employee to report to the work site. Please reach out to Tammy or Karen if you have any questions about this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For our January Site Visits: <\/strong>The next round of site visits over the next 2 weeks, Karen and I are dividing and conquering, each visiting our individual schools. The visits after that will be joint visits. In case you missed it in your calendar invite, here is our agenda. We really want to focus on celebrating your school and helping you achieve your hopes and dreams for the remainder of the year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How can you carve out time for Sources of Strength? <\/strong> Jennifer, Karen and I have received a few emails asking how to make time for the new counseling lessons around suicide prevention. Know that the counselors have been working this week on actually condensing the lessons into fewer than originally communicated (2-4 depending on grade level). Here are some ways in which you can help make time for that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n