The Key Notes : May 2023

O3s

As a continuous effort to provide you with adequate time to meet the EOY deadlines, we have canceled O3s for the last two weeks of school.

Salary Letters

Starting on Tuesday, you may stop by my office at any time to pick up your 23-24 salary letter.

Trimester 3 Positive Behaviors

Please make sure you have entered a Tri 3 positive behavior for every student in your homeroom by Friday, June 2. I will be running my report the following Monday. This needs to be completed as part of your EOY tasks. Thank you for your commitment to strengthening our partnership between home and school through positive acknowledgment of our students. This initiative has made a huge impact on our school culture (more to come next week).

June 6 Staff Meeting

Our last staff meeting is in two weeks. As you know our tradition is to have our last staff meeting at a restaurant. We love wrapping up the school year in a fun way. We go over our agenda items, then the admin team purchases appetizers and pop for everyone. We are in the process of reserving a restaurant. I will have the specific location in the final blog post next week.

In the meantime, I wanted to give everyone time to prepare. All salaried employees are required to attend, and we strongly encourage our hourly staff to come out too!

As this is a staff meeting, students cannot attend. I am leaving my daughters at STARS and picking them up afterwards, so I can focus on the meeting and spend quality time with each of you!

Affirmations

Jamie for spending 5 consecutive school nights supporting school events. I appreciate your sacrifice of personal time to show your support to others.

Jamie, Diane, and Cindy Chuang for spending your evening with our students at our middle school bowling night. Thank you for being a valuable contributor to our enrollment efforts.

Ashley A for making sure our Tuesday went smoothly. Thank you for always asking questions with possible solutions.

Jeanne for making me feel special. Thank you for spoiling me.

Tameka, Robyn, Jamie, and Stacey Reed for always doing whatever it takes to make Keystone great. Whenever we are lacking in an area, you spend your time and finances to pick up the slack.

Stacey Reed for providing me with reports at the last minute.

Kathleen, Ellen, Cindy Conti, and Andria for adjusting your schedule to provide me with valuable data that impacts important decisions.

Sam for writing the lyrics to a humorous, but meaningful song.

Steve for capturing memories in a creative way. Your hard work will be treasured for years to come.

Jamie for completing all the safety drills.

Cindy Chuang for having NJHS place kindness rocks around the school. They are a huge success because that’s all our elementary students talk about at recess! Thank you for spreading kindness throughout our school.

Jen H for checking on me. I appreciate you, friend!

Eric for an amazing spring band concert. The work you have done with our students is phenomenal.

Cindy Chuang for your unwavering commitment to NJHS! The induction ceremony was so well done. You made this the prestigious event that it’s meant to be.

Sky, Megan, Jessica, Jen H, Robyn, Tameka, Amy, Monique, Danielle, and Ashley B for coming prepared and attending retention meetings. You were a valuable contributor in making the right decision for our students’ future.

Stacey Ramirez for getting an enrollment response from all our families.

Danielle for your selflessness in asking if there was anything that you could do for me.

Tameka for so many hours spent on PD logs. Thank you for taking care of that compliance task.

Stacey Reed for being a true friend. You staying late to assist a colleague was something that amazed me.

Robyn for handling difficult parents with ease.

This Week

Monday, May 29:

· No School-Memorial Day

· Amy’s Birthday

· Robyn’s Birthday

Wednesday, May 31:

· Social Media Post Due to Jorvonna-8^th Grade

Thursday, June 1:

· Purple Club

Friday, June 2:

· Y5s-5^th Grade Field Day

· Lunch in Classrooms

· Trimester 3 Positive Behaviors Entered

Happy Birthday

Amy: May 29

Robyn: May 29

There is a special gift in the mailboxes of all the people who celebrate their birthdays in June.

Important Dates

June 5: Trimester 3 School Store

June 6: Move Up Day

June 6: Staff Meeting

June 6: Staff Meeting Snacks-Leadership Team

June 6: School Store Prize Redemption

June 7: Perfect Attendance Prize Redemption

June 8: 8^th Grade Promotion

June 9: Last Day of School-Report Cards Go Home

June 9: ½ Day Dismissal 11:20 AM

June 9: Kinder Promotion

June 9: 8^th Grade Clap Out

June 9: Dress Down Day-FREE

June 9: Ja’Rayl’s Birthday

June 13: Sandy’s Birthday

June 15: Alex’s Birthday

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

EOY Items

On June 6, you may start to slowly take things down in your room. As much as I appreciate our staff’s desire to share with each other, no unwanted items can be brought/left in the staff lounge. That includes food from your EOY celebrations. I want to avoid treating the staff lounge like a swap meet/flea market. 😊

If you have items that you no longer want, please keep them in your classroom, take a picture, and send an email to the staff. If no one wants your item(s), you will need to dispose of it.

EOY Classroom Celebrations

To ensure that we make our daily attendance requirement (75%), EOY celebrations must take place on the last day of school, except kinder who will do it on Thursday. The time and activities are at your discretion.

August PD Raffle Basket

As always, we are seeking your feedback. Please take this 2-question survey to share your suggestions for our August PD raffle basket items. We want to make sure we have items that you value winning. If there was something that you liked last year, make sure to request it again this year. We only buy items that are generated from the current survey.