In-Person Conference Winner

I appreciate everyone going above and beyond to conference with Keystone parents. We had one staff member who achieved 100% in-person conferences by the deadline. Congratulations to Sheila Montri! Please see me for your jean pass and lunch order. Thank you to everyone for your efforts!

Voice of the Parent Survey

Our Voice of the Parent survey goes from March 4-31. I informed parents in our Keystone Comments newsletter that each class that has 100% completion will receive a free jeans day. Please encourage your families to complete the survey. 

Shout Out

Anne, Monique, Teri, Jill, Stacey, Michelle M., Diann, and Stephanie for the wonderful personal gifts that you gave for Administrator Appreciation Week. Your thoughtfulness meant a lot! 

Keystone teachers who had his or her students make me cards, pictures, posters, etc. It was so great to read the encouraging messages from our students.

Cari for all of your work with WIDA testing.

Stacey, Sloane, Andria, Nicole, Jill, Lindsey, Sarah D., and Jamie for the wonderful decorations around the school to inspire our students to “get in the game and read!”

Keystone staff for your input with the 2019-20 Master Schedule and School Calendar. I appreciate your time to determine what’s best for our school.

This Week

Monday, March 4:

   ·      Perfect Attendance Assembly. Middle school teachers, please plan to attend.

   ·      Sabrina Terenzi, South Canton’s principal, visiting Keystone. We may do classroom observations.

Tuesday, March 5:

   ·      Purple Club-middle school students who qualify may wear a purple shirt and jeans

   ·      Cori Tenharmsel from NHA Service Center will be visiting. We may do classroom observations.

Wednesday, March 6:

   ·      Cori T and Nancy (DSQ) visiting Keystone.

   ·      PTO Meeting at 4:00 in the Parent Room

   ·      Sports Day-Dress as your favorite sport 

Thursday, March 7:

   ·      Trimester 2 School Store

   ·      Perfect Attendance students wear free dress

Friday, March 8:

   ·      Student of the Month Assembly (Y5s-2)

   ·      Jorvonna’s Birthday

   ·      Pay Day Friday Breakfast-4^th Grade

   ·      ½ day of school (AM Specials)-Staff PD

   ·      End of Trimester 2

School Improvement Plan

Thank you for your contribution towards our School Improvement Plan (SIP). The admin team is grateful for your hard work. As a thank you, you may wear jeans with tennis shoes on Monday.

In addition, I wanted to highlight some of the great data from our SIP. In the student attendance chart below, it shows that we have decreased the number of students who have 8 or more absences by 50% in comparison to the last two years. Great job!

The suspension chart below shows the decrease of in-school and out-of-school suspensions in comparison to the past two years. Thank you for the continuous effort that you put forth everyday to build relationships with your students, create engaging lesson plans, and enforce clear procedures in your classrooms.

2019-20 Master Schedule

The admin team will begin working on the master schedule for next school year and we would love your input. You can submit your input by clicking on the link below. I would recommend working with your grade level team to streamline the process. It will be easier to accommodate requests, if grade level teams don’t have opposing feedback. 

Please complete this questionnaire by Friday, March 1.

https://goo.gl/forms/VJVg9PbQaRiQPVVF2

Assemblies

We have three assemblies coming up. Please mark your calendars.

·       Next Wednesday, February 27 we have an all school assembly at 8:00 a.m. to kickoff Reading Month.

·       Next Thursday, February 28, we have an Anti-bullying assembly sponsored by our PTO. Grades Y5s-4^th will be from 1:00-1:45 p.m. and grades 5-8 will be from 2:00-2:45 p.m.

·       Keystone will be recognized on March 12 by people from NHA Service Center, including Todd McKee, our Chief Academic Officer. The all school assembly will be at 2:00 p.m.