It’s
time for staff fun…AGAIN!
To help us continue to be a team that supports (and likes each other), let’s play Compassion Bingo. On Monday, April 1, there will be a bingo card in your mailbox for a chance to win a $50 gift card.
Why did you choose Keystone?
Did you get a chance to view the first short video in the series. In the first video students, staff, and families respond to the question, “Why did you choose Keystone?” It really warms your heart to hear the great things that people have to say about our school. Check it out below.
Trimester 3 Assessment Reflection Questions
You have the choice between proficiency or growth for
Trimester 3 when responding to your assessment data. If you would like to
change your focus, please take this survey indicating
your selection by 4 PM on Tuesday, April 2. You will only take the survey if
your focus is changing.
If you do not respond by the deadline, you will
automatically default to your Trimester 2 focus. Please note that selections
cannot be changed after the deadline. No exceptions.
As a reminder, if you select proficiency, you do not have
to track your data, NHA does that for you. However, if your focus is growth,
you need to continue completing the tracking sheet after each assessment.
Please click here to
access Tracy’s video to help simplify the tracking sheet process.
If your class reaches their expected proficiency—75%
(advanced) and 50% (standard), then you do not have to complete the
questions for that assessment. However, those that selected growth would still
need to complete the tracking sheet after every assessment regardless of your
proficiency score.
Please reach out if you have any questions prior to
making your selection because again no changes can be made after the deadline.
We hope this continues to show you that we value your
feedback and respond accordingly!
ABCDE Goal-Attrition
Last week, I discussed our attrition goal asking for staff to share how they live out one of our Core Values, “Make our school the best choice for parents and students.” Thank you to Tracy, Teri, Jen D, and Danielle for sharing best practices. For the next few weeks, I will be sharing their approach to retaining students. This week, I will be highlighting Teri’s strategies.
2024-25 School Calendar
Utilize our approved 2024-25 school calendar here to help you plan for the summer and next school year. Please note that additional events will be added over the summer and throughout the school year.
Please do not share this with families yet, I am waiting for NHA to post it to our school website.
ABCDE Goal-Attendance
Congratulations to Mrs. Shroff’s class for spelling the word ATTENDANCE.
They are the first class to reach this level.
Also, congratulations to Ms. Patton’s class for spelling PRESENT and
Ms. Williams class for spelling HERE. Let’s keep this momentum going!
Affirmations
Stacey Ramirez for setting up
and counting all the votes for our Oreo Madness each day. Once again you were a
lifesaver.
Stephanie for doing a ton of research to make SAW be amazing.
Crystal for asking “do
you need help?” and proceeding to assist us with our Spring Enrollment event.
Lynn for helping us
set up and decorate for our Spring Enrollment event.
Amy, Diane, Ashley, and Ellen volunteered to be a teacher representative at our Spring
Enrollment event. I greatly appreciate you assisting with set up and clean up.
Thank you for staying until 7 PM to show perspective parents the commitment of
the Keystone staff.
Stefanie, Stacey Ramirez, Tameka, Robyn, Alex, and Stacey Reed for being hands-on deck and dealing
with my decorating behavior when it comes to parent events. Thanks for
embracing my crazy and the sacrifice of your personal time. I am forever
grateful for your commitment to all things Keystone.
Teri, Falak, Amanda, Jen S, Kathleen, Flo and Jessica G for allowing our students to showcase
their talents. You stayed late multiple evenings to ensure we had an amazing
talent show.
Flo for always
participating and being engaged in PLC meetings that may not always apply to
Y5s. I love your team mindset.
Jen H, Stacey Reed,
Alex, Tameka, Crystal, Maggie, and Robyn for your support with gathering a lot of
data preparation of a meeting determine the function of a student behavior.
Mark for always
yelling “hi” to me.
Tracy, Teri, Jen D, and Danielle for sharing attrition best practices. Thank you for
supporting our schoolwide goal.
Kayla for always
asking, “Do you need anything?” I am always grateful for removing things off my
plate.
This Week
Monday, April 1:
·
Y5s-8th
Grade Author Visit-Alan St. Jean
o Y5s-2nd 8:15-9:00
o 3rd-5th 9:15-10:15
o 6th-8th 10:30-11:15
o Lunch in classrooms
·
Reading Month Reward
Day
Tuesday, April 2:
·
SLT Meeting
·
Perfect Attendance
Rewards
Thursday, April 4:
·
Purple Club
Friday, April 5:
·
IAT Meetings
·
Morning Assembly Presentation Due (Autism Awareness Month)-Mason
·
Payday Breakfast-Jen D, Kim, and Jeanne
Saturday, April 6:
·
Stacey Ramirez’s
Birthday
·
Sarah’s Birthday
Important Dates
April 8-12: Coin War
April 8: Professional Accountabilities Due
April 9: Staff Meeting
April 9: Staff Meeting Snacks-4th Grade
April 10: Dress Down & Hat $1.00 each
April 11: 3rd-5th Grade Silent Dance Party 5:00-6:30
PM
April 12: Ellen’s Birthday
April 12: Morning Assembly Presentation Due (Autism Awareness Month)-Williams
April 13: School Carnival 12-3 PM
April 17: Dress Down & Hat $1.00 each
April 18: EL Learning Night
April 19: Morning Assembly Presentation Due (Earth Day)-Brewer
April 19: Payday Breakfast-1st Grade
April 22-26: Office Staff Appreciation Week
April 22-25: Book Fair
April 23: Team PLC Meeting
April 24: ½ Day-Staff PD
April 26: Spirit Day & Popcorn $1 each
April 26: Progress Reports
April 29: Morning Assembly Presentation Due (Mental Health Awareness)-Reaume
April 30: Social Media Post Due to Jorvonna-7th
Grade
*If you have an event to add or something has been forgotten, please
let me know!
Sham-ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS Challenge (Staff Fun)
Because you sham-rock my world with the joy you bring to our school culture with your competitive personalities, I designed some more staff fun. I have placed a shamrock necklace in your mailbox. The person who has the most necklaces at the end of the day wins.
Click here for directions to participate
in our sham-ROCK,
PAPER, SCISSORS
challenge.
Welcome to the Team
We have two new staff members starting next week. Please give a warm welcome to Mario Bynum, our new intervention paraprofessional, and Lynn Phetteplace our new Middle School Math TIR. Lynn starts on Monday and Mario on Wednesday.
15-Minute O3s
It’s time for our last round of 15-minute O3s.
As you
know, these O3s give both of us an opportunity to connect. As often as I am in
classrooms seeing the great things that you all are doing, I don’t get to hear
how you are feeling about everything. Please come to the O3 willing to share with me one thing that you like about Keystone and one thing that if we changed would improve Keystone.
I am asking ALL staff members to please use this link to sign up by Tuesday, March 19.
The
15-minute O3s will occur the week of April 8-12. I will be sending out calendar
invites on Friday, March 22. I look forward to spending this time with you!
Schoolwide Goal-Attrition
Another one of our schoolwide goals is to decrease attrition by 1% each year. At this time, we have not met this goal as we have a slight increase from last year. However, I am optimistic that we can achieve a decrease by the end of the year. What things do you do in your classroom beyond what’s expected to support our attrition goal? Those who respond to this question will receive something in appreciation. I would love to share your best practices at an upcoming staff meeting.
Affirmations
Stacey Reed and Robyn for
being acting principals while I attended PD.
Stephanie for everything that you did to ensure that our visitors felt
welcomed.
Danielle for asking me if I needed help and then proceeding to assist me so I
could leave and enjoy my birthday dinner.
Stephanie for your communication regarding the VOP survey.
Ellen, Cindy, and Andria for organizing a wonderful assembly for our Y5s-5th grade
students. I gave you a vision and you made it better than I asked for. I love
knowing I can count on you.
Jeanne for always
making sure that our lunchroom functions at a high level.
Kayla and Stephanie
for assisting me with staff appreciation week items.
Jen H for being
flexible with attendance meetings.
Nikki for using your gift
of words to craft a parent communication for me.
Stacey Reed for facilitating the staff meeting for me at
the last minute.
Stacey Ramirez for creating those amazing basketball hoops for our Oreo Madness. Your
creativity and talents continue to amaze me.
Mark for volunteering
to help me clean up the parent room after PD. It meant a lot that you took on
more to give me less.
Steve for exemplifying
care towards me. Thank you for setting a timer to make sure I left on time.
This Week
Monday, March 18:
·
“Team Up” Reading
Month Spirit Day. Find a partner and dress alike as twins for FREE.
Tuesday, March 19:
·
Family Fun Night-Ice
Skating at Artic Edge
Wednesday, March 20:
·
SPED Open House
· Spring Pictures
·
Enrollment
Informational Meeting 5:30-6:30 PM
Thursday, March 21:
·
Talent Show 5 PM
Friday, March 22:
·
Tameka’s Birthday
· Spirit Day and
Popcorn $1.00 each
· Payday
Breakfast-Specials
· Social Media Post Due
to Jorvonna-6th Grade
Saturday, March 23:
·
Megan’s Birthday
Important Dates
March 25-29: No
School-Spring Break
April 1: Y5s-8th
Grade Author Visit-Alan St. Jean
Y5s-2nd 8:15-9:00
3rd-5th 9:15-10:15
6th-8th 10:30-11:15
*Lunch in classrooms
April 2: SLT Meeting
April 3: Perfect Attendance Reward
April 4: Purple Club
April 5: IAT Meetings
April 5: Morning Assembly Presentation Due (Autism Awareness Month)-Mason
April 5: Payday Breakfast-Jen D, Kim, and Jeanne
April 6: Sarah’s Birthday
April 6: Stacey Ramirez’s Birthday
April 8-12: Coin War
April 9: Staff Meeting
April 9: Staff Meeting Snacks-4th Grade
April 10: Dress Down & Hat $1.00 each
April 11: 3rd-5th Grade Silent Dance Party 5:00-6:30
PM
April 12: Ellen’s Birthday
April 12: Morning Assembly Presentation Due (Autism Awareness Month)-Williams
April 13: School Carnival 12-3 PM
April 17: Dress Down & Hat $1.00 each
April 18: EL Learning Night
April 19: Morning Assembly Presentation Due (Earth Day)-Brewer
April 19: Payday Breakfast-1st Grade
April 22-26: Office Staff Appreciation Week
April 22-25: Book Fair
April 23: Team PLC Meeting
April 24: ½ Day-Staff PD
April 26: Spirit Day & Popcorn $1 each
April 26: Progress Reports
April 29: Morning Assembly Presentation Due (Mental Health Awareness)-Reaume
April 30: Social Media Post Due to Jorvonna-7th
Grade
*If you have an event to add or something has been forgotten, please
let me know!
School Goals-Behavior
Thank you to everyone for fulfilling one of our school goals, “Teachers will ensure all students receive at least one positive behavior (affirmation) in MyNHA per trimester.” I appreciate those who completed it for Trimester 2. I am proud to see that what we are doing is working! Our negative behaviors have decreased significantly from the first trimester. In Trimester 1 we had 845 behavior incidents and in Trimester 2 we had 578. That’s 267 less incidents from Tri 1 to 2.
We are
making progress to yield similar results in comparison to last school year.
Last month, we only had 8 more behavior incidents (YTD) and only one more in
January (YTD). Please continue to recognize positive behaviors, so students
will be encouraged to exemplify the behaviors that you want to see.
Core Values
One of our Core Values is “Do the right thing always.” It’s important to live this value out consistently. One way to do that is to sit with your students during morning assembly every Monday and Friday, as expected. With parents attending assembly, it’s critical that you are right next to your students to encourage them to behave in a manner that represents our moral focus virtues. Thank you for consistently making decisions found in NHA’s core values.
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