August / September 2015

This Week

Monday

* Start Schedule Goal Setting Meetings

Wednesday

* 8:00-8:55 Leadership Team Mtg.

* Staff Development (Job Embedded): Scoring DRAs Consistently & Student Goal Setting

   - Bring your completed DRA Assessment google doc 

Friday

* 2:40-3:00 Digger Dash Assembly (Grades 3-5)

* 3:10-3:30 Digger Dash Assembly (Grades K-2)

* 5:00-7:00 Western Night

Reminders

• Please sign up for a goal setting time with either Janis (if Jenny is your evaluator) or Libby.

• If your class enters the building through the the front doors after extra recess, please make sure the double doors are closed after all students have entered the building.

• All reading data should be entered into your google document by staff development this Thursday and IC by September 4^th. If you need help with this see Kristi, Libby or Janet.

• There is a change in field trip pricing this year. The new online planner will be on the website for reference. In addition to $50 per hour per bus, there is a $1.78 per mile charge.

• If you are interested in serving on our RtI committee, please let Libby or Stephanie Brown know. RtI meetings are held Friday mornings at 8:15.

• All staff will need to complete the mandatory trainings to be in compliance with policies (district and statewide.) Here is the Link for the mandatory trainings.

Digger Dash Assembly

Our Digger Dash assembly will be this Friday, August 28^th. Here is the schedule:

2:40-3:00 Grades 3 – 5

3:10-3:30 Grades K-2

Opportunities

• If you are interested in supervising the band students in the mornings for a stipend, please let Libby know.  There is a stipend for this position.

• If you are interested in being the teacher representative for our SAC committee, please let Jenny know.  We meet 4 times a year with parents to share our work.

Go For the Gold

• Thank you for a successful Back to School night! The time you put into preparing is appreciated!

• Thank you Stephanie Braden for all of your help last week!

• Thank you Karen Petty for emptying the dishwasher!

• Thank you everyone for helping make our assessment days run smoothly!

Golden Nuggets

Lounge Duty:             Castro/Russell                       Friday Treats:  Office Staff

Morning Announcements:  Rayens

Morning Supervision: Moore, Graham, Berry, Simpson, Wilson, Hawk

Certified Staff Only
1) Goal Setting Meetings

Please schedule an initial goal setting meeting with Janis.  Goal setting meetings will take approximately 40 minutes and should be completed by September 4.  In additional to our school goals of creating and implementing performance based assessments and aligning assessments and instruction to World Class Outcomes, we would like you to come with one personal goal in mind.  Together we will define your goal and action steps.

2) Selecting Your Rubric in Inspired Ed

Please select your CITE rubric in InspirEd so that we can enter your goals.

* Go to the District website. 

* Under the A-Z tab click I for InspirED and bookmark this page.

* Login using your regular user name and password

* Your profile should be displayed.

* Click save if your accurate rubric and title are correct.

  - Classroom teachers should be listed as generalist