May/June

This Week:

Monday

* No School

Tuesday

* 8:00 - Staff meeting in the Gold Mine room

* 8:00 - Dalcerri/Rayens to Outdoor Ed

Wednesday

* Send yearbooks home

Thursday

* 11:00 - 5th grade to Tallman Park

* 3:45 - Clap out for 5th graders

* 4:30-? End of year staff party at the Brewery Bar III in Lone Tree.

Friday

* Teacher Work Day

* 3:00 - Release EPRs

Reminders
• Our end of the year staff meeting will be Tuesday, May 31st at 8:00 in the Gold Mine room. Breakfast will be served!
• Our clap out will be Thursday at 3:45. Libby will come around and tell you where your class will be for this event.
• Please put your end of year checklist in Kristi's box by the end of the workday on Friday.
• Please approve your contract in Workday.
• Release your EPRs between 3:00-3:20 on Friday. 

• Our End of the Year party will be at the Brewery Bar III in Lone Tree. Appetizers will be provided. We hope to see everyone there!
• Click here for next year's revised schedule. Specials and lunch times have been pushed back five minutes.

Spring EPRs
* In your end of year communication to parents, please include the following regarding spring EPRs: 

SPRING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PROGRESS REPORT

We are celebrating students’ growth through Elementary School Progress Reports (EPRs).  EPRs will be released to parents on Monday, June 6^th, at midnight through Parent Portal.  You will be able to access your child's EPR on this date by following the directions below.

·          Go to the Gold Rush Website - gre.dcsdk12.org

·          Then to Parent Resources

·          Then to EPR.  Use your Parent Portal credentials to log in.

·          Then click "view Elementary Progress report" under your student's picture

Click here for additional information in the school blog.

Backing Up Computers
All teachers need to back up their computers before they are re-imaged. All teachers need to attend a session on either May 31st during the day or on June 1st before school (see details below). Please bring an external hard drive if you want to back up personal pictures and music. Otherwise, it will be lost. Please refer to Jenny's email on May 26th.

Tuesday, May 31st
Megan will come to the following rooms during grade level plan times to help teachers back up their files for re-imaging.

9:15-9:55     Wilson
9:55-10:35   Hawk
10:35-11:15 Kramer
12:15-12:55 Brown
1:15-1:55     Graham
1:55-2:35     Castro
2:35-3:15     Martino
3:15-3:55     Meredith

June 1: 8:15-8:55 in the tech lab.

Installing new hard drives

·      Thursday (4PM @ Lab)

o   Drop off your teacher computer

o   All bookmarks, photos and music must be backed up or they will be lost

·      Friday (9-3)

o   Install new hard drives & reimage teacher computers

o   Turn all ipads, chrome books, classroom computers, carts, headphones and power cordsto your grade level table in the RtI room

·      Friday (3-4), Monday (9-11), Tuesday (9-11) or August 1 (8-9)

o   Pick up your computer @ lab

o   Create an administrator account

o   Restore your files/bookmarks

Directions for backing up files

Directions for restoring files

Yearbooks

All yearbooks must be distributed on Wednesday, June 1, 2016. There is a sticker inside of each book that was generated from the spreadsheet of yearbook purchases. It has the student’s name, teacher and grade. If there isn’t a yearbook with a sticker for a student, they did not order one.

If there is more than one sticker for an individual student, they ordered more than one so give the yearbooks to them. Don’t send it back to the office. If the sticker does not have a teacher’s name on it, they are either preschool or they no longer attend Gold Rush. You can bring those to the office.

A limited number of extra yearbooks will be sold Thursday morning, June 2 in the office on a first come, first serve basis beginning at 8:00AM. Checks only ($20). Parents must be present to purchase.

Go for the Gold
• Thank you Karen Warner for a fantastic Field Day! You are amazing!
• Thank you Karen Petty, Megan Fleet and Kerry Dazzio for running stations at Field Day!

Happy Birthday
Shelly Williams - June 1st
Shayli Turner - June 3rd
Karen Warner - June 17th
Victoria Bartony - June 24th
Kerry Dazzio - June 25th
Kathryn Kramer - July 1st
Kimberly Peters - July 6th
Abbey Lewis - July 19th
Libby Bergner - July 24th
Bev Holtzer - July 26th
Jen Poli - July 27th
Diane Brown - July 30th
Carolyn Bettner - August 4th
Annelise Lawerence - August 4th
Sherry Dowling - August 5th

Golden Nuggets

Lounge Duty:   Simpson/Braden                       Friday Treats: No treats!

Morning Announcements: Dalcerri

Morning Supervision:  M. Lewis, Meier, Castro, Evans, Poli, Lautenbach

May/June

This Week

Tuesday

* 8:30 Kimberly's baby shower in the lounge
* Meier/Moore to Castlewood Canyon

Wednesday

* SD: Collaboration with SPED around EPRs. 
* Graham/Woolums to Castlewood Canyon
* Holtzer/Hawk/Lautenbach to Outdoor Ed

Thursday

* Field Day

Friday

* Jenny at Legend graduation

Reminders

• There will be no library classes this week.
• If you need more support with EPRs, please come to the Gold Mine room on Wednesday during your staff development time.
• If you need to collaborate with SPED around EPRs, please go to the Gold Mine room during your staff development time on Wednesday. Otherwise, staff development is OYO.
• All teacher laptops need to be turned in to Megan on Thursday, June 2 by 4PM so that hard drives can be replaced. Megan will email teachers when the District technology committee is finished. 
• Jenny will be in the Gold Mine room on Thursday from 8:00-8:40 to answer any questions about contracts and/or compensation. Click here for the 2015 2016 salary increases and click here for the District pay bands. 1st third, middle third and 3rd third on the salary increases refers to your salary in relation to your pay band, not where you scored in the range of partially effective, effective or highly effective.
• Teacher contracts are available in Workday. Click here for additional information.
• Field day is Thursday! Grades 4 & 5 plus Meredith & Russell will be from 9:15-12:15. Grades 1 & 2 plus Castro, Schwartz, and Shepperd will be from 1:00-3:45. 
• Field day for all kindergarten classes will be Tuesday, May 31st.
• Our end of the year staff meeting will be at 8AM, Tuesday, May 31st in the Gold Mine room. Breakfast will be served!

Opportunities
• Jenny is looking for teachers who are interested in attending the Create Something Great Professional Development Conference with her on June 7-9. Click here for the website. Please email here by Thursday if you are interested.
• We will have four leadership opportunities next year: Leadership Team, Technology team, RtI committee, and creating posters for WCO. Please let Jenny know who is interested from your team. 

Go for the Gold
• Thank you Karen Petty for being flexible and holding Music in the Gold Mine room!
• Thank you Karen Warner for sharing your space!
• Thank you Becca McMillan, Nicole Moore, Emily Fluhr and Christy Schwalick for helping with car loop in the rain!

Golden Nuggets
Lounge Duty: Petty/Golish                         Friday Treats: SPED/SPED EAs
Morning Announcements: Hawk
Morning Supervision: Shepperd, Widdeson, Meredith, Braden, Kramer, Dalcerri

MAY/JUNE

This week
Monday
* 9:00-10:00 3rd grade to Cimarron
Tuesday
* 9:00-11:30 Instructional walk-throughs in classrooms
Wednesday
* JE: Class placement, EPR info, Thursday Folders 
Thursday
* 8:15-9:15 Math Olympiad celebration
* 1:45-3:45 5th grade health talks in the cafeteria
Friday
* 8:00-8:45 EPR refresher session
* 1:00-3:30 Golden Ticket Theater (see schedule below)

Reminders
• Music will be in the Gold Mine room this week.
• The district will be doing instructional walk-throughs in classrooms on Tuesday from 9:00-11:30.
• All grade levels and specials need to attend staff development this week. Click here if you want to begin your EPRs prior to Wednesday. 
• The EPR refresher session has been moved to Friday, 8:00 in the Gold Mine room.
• Golden Ticket Theater will be presenting "The Lion King" on Friday in the gym. Show times are as follows:
     1:00-2:00 Grades K, 1, & 3
     2:30-3:30 Grades 2, 4, & 5
• Field Day will be Thursday, May 26th for grades 1 - 5. Grades 4 & 5 plus Meredith and Russell will be from 9:15-12:15. Grades 1 & 2 plus Castro, Shepperd, and Schwartz will be from 1:00-3:45.
• Field Day for ALL kindergarten classes will be Tuesday, May 31st from 9:30-11:15.

Substitutes 

* May is an extremely busy time for subs and we are often without 

  coverage, especially on Fridays. Please be mindful of being out this 

  month.

End of Year Checklist

* The End of Year Checklist is in your mailbox.

* Please shelve your book room materials.

Transition Folders

* Please include a hard copy of students' most recent DRA or F & P 

  assessment.

* Please include blue & pink class placement sheets.

* Please include a letter to their new teacher.

* Extra articulation folders are in the conference room.

* Place blue folders in the new teachers' mailbox by 3 PM on June 

  3rd.

EPR 

* Classroom teachers release their EPRs on June 3rd 

  at 3PM. Please do not release them prior so all 

  teachers have time on the workday to complete them.

* K-3 teachers need to enter all students' DRA scores.

* 4 & 5 grade RtI & READ Act students need DRA scores.  

End of Year Staff Events

* Staff Meeting - Tuesday, May 31, at 8:00 @ the Gold Mine Room

* Teacher Party - June 2nd at 4:30 @ Brewery Bar III in Lone Tree

Technology Re-imaging & Reallocation

May 31

* Megan will be available to help teachers back up their files during their plan time.

June 1

* Megan will be available to help teachers back up their files @ 8 AM in the lab.

June 2 - June 3

* Re-image teacher computers @ technology lab

* Bring all classroom computers, chargers, headphones, ipad carts and chrome book carts to the RtI room and leave them on your assigned grade level table.

* Turn in teacher ipads to Megan for updating.  Ipads will be returned to teachers in August with classroom apps uploaded on them.   

Mark Your Calendar

·    August 1 = First Day of School

·    August 5 = Meet Your Teacher

·    August 18 = Assessment Day

·    August 19 = Assessment Day

Rolling Start

·    There will be the following two bells next year:

o   8:20 signals when students will be let into the building

o   8:30 marks when school will officially start

o   There will not be an official tardy bell. Students will be tardy after 8:30

·    Teachers will all meet their students outside on the first day of school for a flag ceremony and then walk them into class. They will receive a map of where to meet their kids August 1st.

·    Teachers will train their students how to walk to their class on the first day of school.

·    We will officially start the rolling start on the second day of school.  Parents may not walk their students into the building.

·    Jenny will draft information for parents that will go out in May.

Beginning of the Year

·    All teachers will report back on Monday, August 1st (see the first week back schedule below).

·    Teachers will only need to report on one of the workdays throughout the school year.

·    We are working to add a collaboration time at the end of the first assessment day so teachers can talk about the students from the previous year.

Monday August 1 Welcome Back All Staff	Tuesday August 2	Wednesday August 3 Staff Development	Thursday August 4	Friday August 5 Meet Your Teacher
9:00-10:00 Welcome Back Activities “Balance”	Time in Classrooms	8:45 Investigations Training	8:45 Math Formative Assessments / Differentiation	8:45-9:30 Time in Your Classrooms
Time in Classrooms	Time in Classrooms	Investigations Training	Math Formative Assessments / Differentiation	Meet Your Teacher 9:30-9:55 10:00-10:25 10:30-10:55 11:00-11:25 11:30-11:55
		10:30-10:45 Break	10:30-10:45 Break
Time in Classrooms	Time in Classrooms	Investigations Training	Math Formative Assessments / Differentiation	Meet Your Teacher Continued
Lunch On Your Own	Lunch	11:30-12:45 Lunch	11:45-1:00 Lunch	12:15-1:15 Staff Lunch Out
Time in Classrooms	Time in Classrooms	Investigations Training	Time in Classrooms Articulation 1:00-1:30 1st Grade 1:30-2:00 2nd Grade 2:00-2:30 3rd Grade 2:30-3:00 4th Grade 3:00-3:30 5th Grade	Time in Classrooms
		1:45-2:00 Break
Time in Classrooms	Time in Classrooms	Investigations Training	Time in Classrooms	Time in Classrooms

Happy Birthday
Betsy Zankey - May 21st
Ashley Dalcerri - May 22nd
Elizabeth Meuli - May 22nd

Go for the Gold
* Thank you Karen Petty for a great choir concert!
* Thank you Stephanie Brown, Ali Garcia, Jamie Marchese, and Betsy Zankey for kindergarten orientation!
* Thank you Christy Schwalick and Amanda Widdeson for covering classes for all of the IEP meetings!
* Thank you Jamie Marchese for fixing the paper chains in the 2nd grade hallway!
* Thank you Stephanie Brown for writing EPR comments!

Golden Nuggets
Lounge Duty: Dazzio/Warner                              Friday Treats: Specials
Morning Announcements: Holtzer
Morning Supervision: Rossi, McMillan, Russell, Bettner, A. Lewis, Rayens