Good morning, I hope your weekend was refreshing. This has the potential to be a long blog, take some breaks, hang
in there with me…….
First of all – this is what the week holds for us:
TUES, May 8
The K-6 Awards Assembly is at 2:30. I will put a copy of the agenda in your box.
Teacher of the Year Reception at 4:00 to honor Judy Hampel.
WED, May 9
Administrative Council at 4:00. As far as I know, we will be meeting. Be sure and get agenda items to your
grade level reps.
THUR, May 10
Kindergarten Graduation/Music Program at 2:45. (Just
FYI, as soon as I am done shaking tiny hands I will be heading to the track meet
at Fairfield.)
FRI, May 11
Play Day at 12:30. If
weather.com has any integrity at all it’s going to be a beautiful, partly
cloudy, 80-degree day with a 10 mph breeze!
Skyline Carnival at 3:45.
What a fun way to bring closure to a fun day and a great school
year!
SUN, May 13
High School Graduation at 4:00. This isn’t necessarily a K-6 event, but I want to mention it
because it has a lot to do with the great work of K-12 teachers! I want to slip on my “mom” hat for just
a few sentences and tell you how serious I am about that statement. Adam will graduate on Sunday and of
course I am very proud of him, but I am also so impressed and appreciative of
all the Skyline teachers and staff who have invested in him. He is a lucky young man to have had the
opportunity to grow up, from birth to high school graduate, as a member of the
Skyline family. It truly takes a
village to raise a child; you’ve been an awesome village for him! So whether you taught him in your
classroom, went to at a football game, laughed at his jokes or smiled at him in
the hallway – thanks!
Teacher Re-Assignment / Changes
Harmony will be moving from her middle school math/social studies
position to join the 5th/6th grade PBL team. We will be interviewing and hiring
someone in the near future for the opening this created in the middle school.
Dani will be leaving Skyline to take a position at Liberty Middle
School. We have appreciated all that
Dani has done for our students and wish her the best in her new position. We are also in the process of
interviewing candidates for this position.
RELOCATIONS HAPPENING OVER THE summer…..
We have a lot of people who are moving classrooms over the summer,
this is the plan:
The 5th and 6th Grade teachers will be moving
into Denise’s, Carrie’s, Bjorn’s and Karen’s classrooms. Denise will continue to work out of
that classroom, but will be sharing it with Michael. Carrie will be moving to where Kris is currently, Bjorn to
where Shari is and Karen to where Hannah is. The reason for this move is to keep the four PBL classrooms
in close proximity to each other.
We were highly advised to keep these classrooms together and have seen
the benefits to students when they are together.
ESL is moving downstairs to the small room next to Marla’s
classroom.
The virtual school will be located in what is now the ESL
classroom upstairs. Next year we
will have a full-time director for the virtual school. The purpose of this is to expand the
virtual school. Expanding the
virtual school has the potential to meet the needs of more students and to bring
revenue to the district.
Patsy will be setting up shop in my old office. This will give the K-8 resource room
much needed additional space and will provide a more isolated place for speech
/ language services.
Next Year’s Calendar
I had originally intended to talk about the K-Graduation plan in
this week’s blog, I guess I’ll go ahead even though it’s old news by now. Conversations about ending students’
Kindergarten experience with graduation began (actually resurfaced) in the
2010-11 school year, those conversations included administration, teachers and
parents. I am convinced that dismissing
Kindergarten two and one-half days before the 1st through 11th
graders will NOT have a negative impact on student learning and will align the
schedule with what graduation symbolizes. The number of days for our
kindergarteners will still exceeds the number required by KSDE by a very large
margin. This change will give K teachers an opportunity to bring in potential
Kindergarteners for the next year for further evaluation and if time permits it
could possibly provide them with time to sort and organize student data to
prepare for the next year.
Kindergarteners will be coming to school on the day following their
graduation to participate in Play Day.
The only possible “con” I see is that child care for families for those
two days might be an issue, if we find that’s a problem, we’ll consider that as
we plan the 2013/14 school year.
CHECK OUT
I have dug deep into the “old files” and the most recent check out
sheet I can find is one from 1999!
I’ll work on coming up with that, but in the mean time I do know that
before you leave for the summer I will need:
• A list of summer school students.
• Your supply order.
• Class splits.
I know there are also some formalities that we need to take care
of like classroom inventories, key check in/out, equipment check-in with Sue
and computer check in/out. I’ll
ask for some help from Herb and get more checkout information to you later in
the week.
MTSS Team
The MTSS Team will be meeting/training on Wednesday, May 16 in the
afternoon. The implementation
process will involve learning more and coming up with a plan that will work in
our setting with our staff and our students. Amy Wagoner and Marci Sheardon from ESSDACK will be guiding
us through this process. Amy is a
KSDE trained MTSS facilitator.
They will be facilitating the meeting on the 16th to start
the process. If you have not
signed up to be on the team, but would like to, you still can, just let me
know.
ASSESSMENT
SCORES
I have complete packets of the 3-8 Math and Reading Assessment
Results. These can be checked out
from me if you would like to review that data beyond your grade level.
I warned you from the get-go that this was going to be long and it
is, thanks for sticking with it! I
know that last week was not been an easy one. You are working extra hard, students are acting like they
are certainly ready to start summer and you’re trying hard to finish up the
school year, you’re preparing for special events and organizing field
trips. Even though it’s a tough
time of year and things can get tense, keep in mind that you are a terrific
staff, a great team and that Skyline is a pretty special place.
Have a great week!
Becca
Becca, you forgot to mention that those teachers not moving this year have to move at least three boxes of someone else's to their new home. I'm taking volunteers now.
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