Evaluations

Your evaluations are done! Please stop by my office this week to sign and receive your copy!

Out of the Building

Kim and I will out of the building on Wednesday afternoon (12:30pm-4pm) for a McKinney-Vento audit at the WISD. Please see your team lead, Jen, or Megan if you need anything.

Important Dates

Please view the right side of the blog for Important Dates in

 

This Week

Tuesday, April 28:

·       Staff meeting-wear your baseball shirt and/or hat with jeans.

·       Gyulveszi’s Moral Focus presentation

Wednesday, April 29:

·       Groover’s Core Democratic presentation

Thursday, April 30:

·       Specials Awards

Friday, May 1:

·       McGinn-flag bearers

Curb-side-Ryan

 

Lunch Duty

3^rd-Boe

4^th-Heires

5^th-Brown

*Don’t forget that the highlighted name is responsible for staying in the gym the entire time working the microphone. Thanks!  

Grade-level Meetings

It is my intention to meet with everyone this week during your grade-level meetings to discuss Unit 6 of Reading Street, so please plan to be available. We will again look at the testing schedule to determine which assessments to administer.

This Week

Tuesday, April 21^st:

·       PLC meetings

Friday, April 24:

·       Moody’s flag bearers

·       Progress Reports issued

·       $1 Jean day-Movers for Moms

Curb-side-Gyulveszi

 

Lunch Duty

3^rd-Moody

4^th-Wagner

5^th-Ryan

EOY Evaluations

I enjoyed meeting with all of you to discuss your EOY evaluations. It was nice reviewing the wonderful achievements that each of you have contributed to South Arbor. I feel honored to be a part of such an amazing team. I know that I say it a lot, but I truly mean it.  I love being the dean of the Intermediate hall.

I will be working on finalizing your evaluations by adding comments over the next two weeks. As I complete them, I will send you an email to come to my office and sign. Once I have your signature, I will provide you with a paper and electronic copy.

Reading Street Testing Schedule

To reduce anxiety and ensure our students can focus on one assessment at a time during this testing period, we discussed during grade-level meetings amending our Reading Street testing schedule. We will continue these conversations for Unit 6. Please see below as a reminder.

Unit 5
Grade Level	Weekly Test-Level 1	Unit test- Level 2	Reason
3rd grade	Administering Unit 5, Week 4 and 5 assessments	Administering Unit 5, Level 2 assessment	Student not taking M-STEP at this time
4th grade	Administering Unit 5, Week 4 and 5 assessments	No Unit 5, Level 2 assessment	M-STEP
5th grade	No weekly test for Unit 5, Week 4 and 5	Administering Unit 5, Level 2 assessment	M-STEP

Lunchroom Help!

It seems the behavior in the lunchroom is getting worse. Even with our wonderful parent volunteers helping to open food packets and answering student questions, most do not feel comfortable enforcing lunchroom expectations or correcting student behavior (which is completely understandable). However, it makes it increasingly difficult for me to manage almost 300 students’ behaviors alone. Almost every day, I have to deal with discipline issues after lunch. I need your help. Please have daily conversations with your students about appropriate lunchroom behavior. I really appreciate your support.

M-STEP

As you know, M-StEP begins the Tuesday we return from break for 5^th and 8^th grade. I will be busy during that time, but if you need anything, please do not hesitate to seek me out. I may not always be visible, but I am here for you. J  

Happy Birthday

Ryan-April 17

This Week

Monday, April 13:

·       College shirt day

Tuesday, April 14:

·      IAT meeting

 

Wednesday, April 15:

·       Ryan’s Core Democratic presentation

Thursday, April 16:

·       Intermediate Hall Awards-Caring

·       Middle School Information Night 6-7:30

Friday, April 17:

·       Ryan McLoone’s b-day

Curb-side-Brown

Lunch Duty

3^rd-Groover

4^th-McGinn

5^th-Gyulveszi

*Don’t forget that the bold name should verify that we have three parent volunteers before leaving the gym. They are responsible for staying in the cafeteria if we are short on parent volunteers.