September 25, 2016

Great Things Noticed:

Nuts & Bolts:

• SGO's are due October 15th

• Our inservice on October 10th will be focusing on our Student-Led conferences. Make sure you are discussing this at team meetings to come up with a plan for how students will present their information and work.

• Teachers will be required to submit two PDP’s before meeting with John and Tim.  Once PDP can be a grade level or school-wide goal such as Student-Led-Conferences, while the other PDP should be tied to one of the Domains in the Danielson Model.  PDPs can be created in the Genesis Evaluation Portal. Once logged in, access the Professional Development Tab, choose Plans, then Create New Plan for 2016-2017.  You will then be walked through the process of creating your PDP. Genesis will ask you to fill in the same areas as the State PDP Template & Sample PDP. When you decide on your PDP and begin inputting the information, you will be asked to identify start/end dates.  Start date can be 10/1/2016 and end day will be May 1st. Please let John or Tim know if you have any questions.

• Please be sure to put any after school, or grade-level activities on our Parent Calendar, we will be sending it to parents at the end of the week.

• This Thursday team meetings will center around our I&RS process. Please bring any questions or concerns you might have.

• Don't forget to make your song requests for the morning. You can submit requests as many times as you like.

• Our first Spotlight will be taking place on Friday October 7th.  We will begin calling you down one grade level at a time beginning at 2:20.  We will be reviewing our three core values at the Spotlight, please be sure to connect our award winners to one of those three values:
• Find Your Passion
• Strive for Excellence
• Be Kinder than Necessary

Dates:

September 26 Faculty Meeting

September 28 6th Grade leaves for Frost Valley

September 28 Board Meeting 7:00 PM

October 3 Faculty Meeting

October 5th First Parent Outreach meeting with parents at 7:00PM
October 7th Spotlight - 2:20 in APR

October 10th Inservice Focusing on Student Led Conferences
October 11th Parent meeting for SLC

October 15th SGO's due

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