I hope everyone had a great week! I was in Dallas at a Fountas and Pinnell Conference with some other principals, Teaching and Learning Staff, and our Teaching & Learning Coaches. It was a great conference with lots of new learning! Hearing all the work around literacy made me even prouder of the hard we have done with guided reading this year. Nice work!
I made the transition to Google last week (it's fabulous!) and couldn't get logged into the blog. But, it's solved now and I can write a response!
Next Week:
Just a reminder of our last week's events:
Wednesday: Fancy Pants Day - dress up to celebrate our 5th Grade Graduates! We will celebrate our 5th graders at 1:15pm at the graduation ceremony.
Thursday: Awards Day
Friday: Last Day Activities - sign up if you haven't! Also, if you need items for your event, please let me know. We don't have much money allocated toward this, but if it's cheap I can help support it.
Next Year's Updates:
- Power 1/2 Hour - Next year, Power 1/2 Hours will be 20 minutes long. The feedback I've received is that this time is too long. We will schedule 25 minutes (5 mins for transitions); however, the block will be 20 minutes in length.
- Recess Coverage: Classroom Teachers will be covering recess. This has been an on-going conversation with the PBIS Team regarding the discipline incidents we are seeing at recess. Teachers will still get a 30 minute lunch, per the master contract.
- EL & SPED Clustering: Our students who receive EL & Special Education services will be clustered next year to provide appropriate services to them, including co-teaching opportunities. Our assignments for EL are: Liz Stitzmeyer (Kindergarten & 1st Grade), Caryn Boetel (2nd & 3rd Grade), and Laurie Wolhart (4th & 5th Grade). For Special Education, the following will join our grade level teams: Brianna Luhman (Kindergarten), Katie Schuster (1st Grade), Danielle Nystrom (2nd Grade), Split (3rd Grade), Justin Lang (4th Grade), and Rachel Jewison (5th Grade).
Weekly Building Newsletter:
I am sending in a separate email - sorry!
McKinleyStrong Educator of the Week:
Our McKinleyStrong Educator of the Week goes to the entire McKinley Staff! We have had quite the year - building not ready, long (and cold) winter, etc. And, you have handled these obstacles with nothing but professionalism and 100% effort. As always, your focus has stayed on all students, all the time. There are two things I love the most about our staff - our mindset and focus on all kids (relationships & supports). I'm so proud of the work we have done this year and look forward to serving you in 2018-2019!
Have a great weekend, everyone! Enjoy your last weekend before the school year ends!
-Justin
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