BOO - it’s me, the principal!! Seriously, I hope I haven’t been completely invisible, but I
sure don’t feel like I’ve been quite where I need to be the last couple of
weeks and have lost some of the pulse that I would like to have on K-6. I’ve also missed getting a blog posted
the last two Mondays, so here we go, better late than never! For the last
couple of weeks I’ve been a little distracted with the prom, the testing audit
(that got cancelled once we were all ready), the needs assessment and then the
National Honor Society banquet came immediately after all that was over and now
pre-enrollment for high school has got to get revved up and rolling in order to
have a master schedule done in 19 school days – and oh yea, there’s a few
graduations to squeeze in! Regardless
of all that clutter on my schedule -- my highest priority and defintely my biggest
joy of this new job is to support you in your roll with your students,
so be sure and let me know what you need.
As I’ve told you before, when things get crazy I could miss the
blatantly obvious, so be sure and communicate with me – spell it out, you won’t
offend me by doing so, and we’ll get on the same page a lot quicker.
I think my favorite part of the last couple of weeks has
been the needs assessment that ESSDACK came and did with our staff and students. Specifically, I loved taking them
around to the classrooms and watching you and your students teaching and
learning. As I went from room to
room I was honestly just so proud of what was going on in the classrooms and
the entire school, it was a great feeling. I’m going to email you their report; I think it will be a good
“road map” as we work toward school improvement. When you have a chance to look at it I would certainly
welcome any comments that you have about it. We will take a closer look at it at the May faculty meeting. Another thing to be thinking about for
the May faculty meeting is the OWLS area.
We need to consider how that fits into our vision and what needs to be
done in order to it to accomplish it’s purpose.
I think K-6 is DONE with state assessments – YEA! And here’s how things are stacking up
for next week:
- 3
rd Grade is off to the Cosmosphere on Monday.
- Tuesday is the health screening.
Thanks to Karen for getting that organized for us. I’ll probably get my name on the list
and get stuck, but I already know the report will say something like “hey
sister - you really should eat your veggies and exercise!” …. sounds like a
good summer resolution!
- Tuesday is also the PBL Dinner Theatre that they have been
working so hard on.
They will be
providing a meal and entertainment to over 200 people!
- Brenda, DeGaye and Karen have worked hard to put the Science
Fair together for next Thursday and Friday.
That’s a great event for our students!
- I’ll be hosting K-2 principal’s club on Thursday and 3
rd
and 4th on Friday of next week.
Morgan and I are headed to Manhattan (or as she says,
“Manhappiness”) for KSU Open House this afternoon. I hope you have an awesome weekend! You
are a great staff and I am truly thankful for all of you and the awesome
team you form and most of all for the great things you do for our kids! Thanks!
Becca
