Monday, February 16, 2015


February 2015

Calendar
·      Wednesday: Conferences – no staff development
·      Thursday: AP meeting – Libby
o   Specials program – 6 pm
Reminders
• If you have any conferences that you would like Jenny or Libby to attend, please let them know.
• Due to conferences we will not have staff development this week.
• Please turn in your midyear reading assessment scores to Kristi, either in her box or electronically.
• Teachers please submit a class picture to grephotos@gmail.com for the yearbook.
  Please walk your student out of the building at the end of the day!
• Please see Technology norms below.

Happy Birthday
Becca McMillan – February 22nd
Liz Pearne – February 22nd

Go For the GOLD
• Thank you teachers for an amazing PLC day!
• Thank you Karen Petty, Karen Warner, and Kerry Dazzio for sharing your expertise on Friday!
• Thank you Megan Fleet for all of your help with PARCC!
• Welcome Belinda Radich!

Golden Nuggets
Lounge Duty: Pearne/Steckler       Friday Treats: First/Second
Morning Announcements:  Lautenbach
Morning Supervision: Martino, Woolums, Cieply, Hurley, VanderVeen, Holtzer

Tech Norms
  • No laptops/iPads will be available with subs. Our biggest issues of the year have occurred when subs are supervising technology.
  • Remember, when you check the carts out, you are ultimately responsible for the laptops. It is essential you are actively proctoring at all times.
  • Keep in mind laptops are each $1,000
  • Check to ensure there are 15 laptops in each cart immediately when you receive it and when you return it. If there is one sent to the shop, I will have a sticky note taped to the power cord, if there is not a sticky note assume that it is missing.
  • Inform Megan right away about any laptops/iPads that are missing
  • Devices should be used on desks or solid surfaces where it is easy for you to see what they are doing without them noticing you observing. This is how you can make sure they aren’t emailing/searching when they aren’t suppose to.  
  • 4 responsible kids should be consistently bringing the carts back and forth. You pick the 4 responsible students, please refrain from students picking other students. This is when they are picking their friends and racing through the hallway.
  • Transporting laptops should NOT be considered a movement break for kids or a trust builder.
  • Students should have assigned laptops/iPads that they always use. For example, even if they have a different COW, they always use laptop #2. Then when things go wrong you can tell someone who had the laptop in your class, instead of trying to narrow it down from 250 4th & 5th graders.
  • Your students can “erase” pencil marks or smudges with a wet wipe on the top of the computer, the keyboard, the mousepad, anything EXCEPT the screen.
Custodial Request Form
Click here for the custodial request form.


New Work Day System Will Replace Employee Self Service
Please Complete the Following:
1) Please log into our current ESS (Employee Self Service) and enter missing dependent SSN’s, update emergency contacts and fill in your education.


2) Please Review Your Paystubs on:   https://www.atsprintfreedom.com/login.aspxAs we complete our transition from Oracle payroll into Workday, please go out and review your recent pay stubs ensuring that you have been and are being paid as expected.  If any expected hours or additional pays or changes in status are not reflected in your March 20, 2015 pay check, the last day to make any manual pay adjustments for the current pay day will be March 27, 2015.   Please know again, that the deadline to submit any of these changes in status is February 25, 2015 (it’s a short month)!  Your pay reflected on your March 20, 2015 pay check will represent your pay data that will be transferred into Workday to inform yourApril 20, 2015 pay check.  Please help us to help you in ensuring the greatest success possible in our Go – Live Payroll in Workday effective April 20, 2015. 

Clicking here to view your pay stubs and your W-2s for last year.
Access ID = DCSDK12
User Name = First name initial, middle name initial and last name (bjbetz for Bonnie Betz)
Password = last 4 digits of your social security number

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