Core Values-Behave with Care

 

One of our Core Values is “Behave with Care.” We want everyone to focus on building positive relationships with students and classroom routines/procedures during the first few weeks of school.

One way to build positive relationships is to greet your students. It is our expectation that teachers greet their students at the door every morning starting at 7:40. This will assist with safety by monitoring our students in the hallways. But most importantly, it helps you to gauge your students’ moods so you can be proactive instead of reactive.  

Please position yourself in a way that you can still see inside your classroom and have a Do Now posted to avoid unwanted behaviors from occurring within the classroom.  

ABCD Goals

 

As I mentioned during August PD, we will be focusing on attendance as one of our ABCD goals this school year. You are a critical component of us achieving our first goal to increase our daily attendance rate using a variety of recognition and celebration initiatives.   

The first step in achieving our goal is to engage your families in our school-wide initiative by providing weekly updates in your classroom newsletters. Please feel free to create an “attendance” section where you highlight your classroom progress. For example, you could say, “Families, we had no tardies, absences, nor early dismissals for two days this week. Earning us the “H” and “E” from the word “HERE.” Once we spell the complete word, students will earn a celebration. Please help us achieve this goal by avoiding absences, tardies and early dismissals when possible. Thank you for your partnership.”

I will be communicating all our attendance initiatives to all families in my September 4 phone cast.

Technology Usage

 

As we believe in the reaching the whole child, it's important to provide our students the opportunity to socially interact. Majority of their day is spent listening and learning, so whenever it’s possible (lunch, recess, engagement strategies during lessons, etc.) we want them using their social skills. Therefore, students are not allowed on technology (Chromebooks, movies, etc.) during lunch or dismissal. Students can have the option of technology during indoor recess, but it should be an option among other things, not the only choice.

Days Off

 

As you know, we provide our new teachers with less than 3 years of experience, an additional 30 hours of professional development throughout the school year. To provide this PD, we utilized all our substitutes on those days . Consequently, we cannot approve time off on the following days due to all subs being utilized: October 18-20; February 7-9; and March 14-16. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if this causes an issue.

Shout Outs

 

Keystone Staff for your participation, engagement, and enthusiasm during August PD. I’m always proud to be a part of the Keystone team! 

Jamie, Robyn, Stacey, and Tameka thank you for everything! I absolutely LOVE our team. Thank you for everything that you have done to help us prepare for this upcoming school year.

Jen H. and Angel for taking care of our staff t-shirts. I love your creativity.

Steve, Andria, Cindy Conti, Ellen, Robyn, Jamie, Tameka, and Stacey for leading sessions during August PD.  Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise.

Stacey Ramirez for handling all enrollment situations and class roosters.

Deb, Kaylee, Corey, and Gary for making our school beautiful and doing a lot of things beyond your job description! I walk around our school with pride.

Stefanie for all your support with three enrollment events in two weeks.

Stephanie for ALL the things that you have done the past month to make sure that our August PD went smoothly.

Deb for always going above and beyond to help me with so many things. I love how you jump in without me asking and ALWAYS anticipate my needs.

Morgan and Monique for seeing me struggling with bulletin boards and offering your assistance. I was extremely grateful.

Jen H for purchasing so many items for our Family Fun Night.

Lindsey for creating all the accommodation logs.

Steve for making sure that our middle school students have  a technology class.

Ja’Rayl, Emma, Jessica, Steve, Jamie and Emma for jumping in and setting up the technology lab. You definitely have a “see a need, fill a need” attitude.

Stacey Ramirez for putting the finishing touches on the gym décor.

Stacey for all the parent phone calls that you made to ensure parents were making the right choices.

Robyn for helping bring organization to chaos. 

Tameka for making sure that breakfast and lunch runs smoothly on the first day of school. 

Alex, Sarah, and Ashley for seeing a scheduling issue and coming prepared with a solution.

Tracy for spending a lot of quality time with me ensuring that our soccer field is all set. 

This Week

 

Monday, August 29:

    ·     First Day of School

    ·     Andria’s Birthday

    ·     Y5-8 ORF Benchmark 1 (weekly event)

Friday, September 2:

    ·     Flo’s Birthday

    ·     Morning Assembly Presentation Due (Schoolwide Procedures)-Kaminski

    ·     Staff Reference Guide Acknowledgement Form Due

    ·     Leadership Catalog Due

    ·     Payday Breakfast-2^nd Grade

 

Happy Birthday

 

Andria: August 29

Flo: September 2

Happy BELATED Birthday

 

Jennifer S: July 1

Teri: July 8

Josie: July 10

Stacey Reed: July 12

Morgan: July 19

Ashley A: July 20

Mark: July 22

Sam: July 23

Jeanne: August 1

Cindy Conti: August 10

Diane: August 14

Stephanie: August 17

Tracy: August 20

Christina: August 25

Andria: August 29

There is a special gift in the mailboxes of all the people who celebrate their birthdays in July, August, and September.

Important Dates

 

September 4: Angel’s Birthday

September 5: No School-Labor Day

September 6: SLT Meeting 3:50-4:20

September 7: Intervention Meetings

September 9: Family Connection

September 9: Morning Assembly Presentation Due (Constitution Day)-Cheng

September 12-30: Grades 2-8 Fall NWEA

September 13: Staff Meeting 4-5 PM

September 13: Staff Meeting Snacks-4^th Grade

September 14: Sky’s Birthday

September 16: Social Contract

September 16: Payday Breakfast-SpEd

September 16: Morning Assembly Presentation Due (Hispanic-Latino Month)-August

September 19-23: Grades 1-2 Fall Math Numeracy

September 20: Free Dress Down for FRL Form Completion

September 21: Fall Picture Day

September 23: Substitute Binder Due

September 23: Morning Assembly Presentation Due (Hispanic-Latino Month)-Chuang

September 25: Ashley B’s Birthday

September 27: PLC (Team) Meeting 4-5 PM

September 28: ½ Day-Professional Development

September 30: Payday Breakfast-Interventions

*If you have an event to add or something has been forgotten, please let me know!