January 19 Update

Happy End of the Week! 

I hope you enjoy your e-Learning Day and Teacher Workday tomorrow!  

Impact:

Take the 3 minutes today to watch the below video.  When the days get tough, we can often find ourselves focused on what went wrong, what we didn't do, or if were enough.   Watch this video and remind yourself - YOU, yes YOU, make an impact.  You make an impact.  Everything you do makes an impact.  Take some time to watch this, reflect, and remind yourself - YOU are enough.  

Paraprofessional Appreciation Week:

Next week is Minnesota Paraprofessional Week.  This is a week we celebrate our paraprofessionals and Educational Assistants and all they do for our students.  A huge thank you to Bernie, Kara, Stacy, Abby, Grace, Mary, Samira, Jenn, and Jessica for all they do!  Their roles at McKinley are invaluable.

Please take some time this week to celebrate these educators!  They are amazing!  

Late Starts & Breakfast:

Due to feedback, we are going to be offering breakfast on two hour late start days.  The plan looks a little different, so take some time to read the plan below -

• From 9:40-10:00, our kitchen serving line will be open.  Students can go through the line, put in their PIN number, and return to their classroom to eat. 
• Your team will want to create a plan to have an adult walk a group to the lunchroom to get breakfast when they arrive.  We don't want to wait until all kids have arrived, as we will have 500 kids in the line.  You and your team can create a plan to get kids down.  
• Mary and Jolene will also be in the lunchroom to help students.  
• Breakfast will end at 10:00am.  This is mainly due to Jill, Laurel, and Stacy needing to get ready for lunch (which starts at 10:55am).
• This is a trial run.  If you have feedback after our first one, please let me know.  

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Have a great weekend!

Justin