Shout Outs

Jen D., Ellen, Andria, Kari, Stacey, Tricia, Mechelle, Samantha, Julie, Monique, Cindy Conti, Julianne, Christina, Anne, Steve, Sarah D., Teri, Tracy, Jamie, Robyn, Melissa, LaQuanda and Jen H. for spending your evening playing educational games with our families.

Stacey for doing the necessary work to get us proper staff.  

Robyn and Jamie for differentiated coaching to your team. 

Andria for finding, buying, and making an icebreaker game.

Ashley for going above and beyond to support the admin team and students.  

Emma for creating an art club for students.

Sarah D. for making safety at our school a priority.

Lindsay, Ashley G. and Sarah D. for planning fun social committee events.

Sarah Z. for ensuring that we are in compliance and doing “extra” work.

Jena for organizing the book fair.

Attendance

Congratulations to Miss Maynard and Mrs. Dalton’s homerooms for having four days of perfect daily attendance and spelling the word “here.” Please continue to keep me informed when your homeroom spells a word.

This Week

Wednesday, October 23:

   ·    Unity Day (Anti-bullying)-Students may wear an orange top and jeans for FREE

Thursday, October 24:

   ·    Crazy Hair Day

Friday, October 25:

   ·    6-8 AND Specials SOM Assembly (Please Notify Families)

   ·    Spirit Day-$1.00 Jeans & 50 cent Popcorn

   ·    Kim’s Birthday

Happy Birthday

Kim: October 25

Fall Staff Engagement Survey

Our fall staff engagement survey will be coming out on Monday. Please remember that the multiple-choice questions are about Keystone; even if it says NHA. We will be discussing the survey further during our staff meeting on Tuesday. We appreciate the feedback and are committed to making our school a great place to work. We hope you are highly satisfied! :)  

A-CAP

We will be running our first truancy attendance report on October 29 for those students who have missed 10% (4 days) of the school year so far. Per our attendance policy, Attendance Correction Action Plan (A-CAP) meetings will be scheduled. It’s critical that you have been contacting families that had two and four absences. If you haven’t, it could hinder us from putting those students on an A-CAP.

A-CAP meetings are our reactive response to attendance issues. We have been striving to be proactive with attendance (perfect attendance assembly/reward, classroom rewards, and teacher contact). All of these are proactive approaches to reduce/avoid A-CAPs.

Something to think about. How would your students respond to this question “When I’m absent someone in the school misses me?” Studies have shown that when students have school connectedness, absences decrease tremendously. How can you make sure that your students know that you miss them when they are absent?  We appreciate all your proactive efforts.

Staff Meetings

As I mentioned at our April 9, 2019 staff meeting and during August PD, all Tuesdays are reserved for school meetings.

We try to consider “work-life balance” and only have after school meetings twice a month, but the other Tuesdays should be available for rescheduled and/or additional meetings.

October 15 Staff Meeting Agenda

        1.    Icebreaker

2. Good News

3. 15 Minute O3s with Jorvonna

4. M-STEP Comparison Data

5. Fall Staff Engagement Survey

6. Achievement Boards

7. Leadership Opportunities Committees

8. Announcements

9. Launch

*3:45-3:59     Optional food and socializing

*Meeting begins promptly at 4:00

Shout Outs

Keystone Staff for being flexible and understanding with the date change of our staff meeting.  

Sarah Z. for leading our SpEd meetings in my absence.

Anne for responding to my blog post and sharing parent involvement strategies.   

Jill for being Dean for the Day and assisting with admin duties.  

Ashley for attending parent meetings and providing valuable input.

Diane for collecting the money for our Breast Cancer Awareness.  

Brian, Emma, Sarah D., and Kelly for helping with Fun Run.

Brian, Emma, Sarah D., Kelly, and Julie for entering behaviors in a timely manner so we can support our students.

Ashley, Jen D., and Jeanne for working together to support a student.

Stacey for creating a “watch list” that provided valuable information to our team.

Sarah Z. for ensuring that students don’t fall through the cracks.

Jen H. and Stacey for gathering additional information to help me make a difficult decision.

Attendance Rewards

Congratulations to Miss Chuang and Ms. Jordan’s homerooms for having four days of perfect daily attendance and spelling the word “here.” Please continue to keep me informed when your homeroom spells a word.