We would like to welcome Alicia
Searles to our team! She is our new intervention paraprofessional. She starts
on Monday. If you see her in the hallway, please give her a warm Keystone
welcome!
Welcome to the Team
Affirmations
Crystal, Emma, Megan, Jen H, Diane, Teri, Josie, and Cindy Conti, for
facilitating our PLC. I appreciate your leadership.
Robyn, Jessica W, Sandy, Megan, Lisa, Mandy, Kim B, and Stefanie for two
successful Kinder Camps in one week. I really appreciate you opening your
classrooms to visitors.
Stacey Reed and Robyn for getting all the decorations together to show
appreciation.
Stacey Reed for my
wonderful treat. You are so thoughtful.
Danielle for your
feedback and documentation creation. I appreciate you working hard to make
things positive.
Tracy for organizing an Earth
Day clean up. I appreciate you making our school better.
Robyn for providing
a lot of data so we can make an informed placement decision.
Emma, Tracy, Robyn, Jamie, Tameka, and Stacey Reed for being
facilitators during our ½ day PD.
Deb and Corey for going above and beyond to keep our school
functioning. You are true heroes for the plumbing job that you did.
Kathleen for
making such cute and delicious treats!
Jen H for all the time you
took collecting data so we can make informed decisions with student placement.
Jen H, Jamie, Tameka, and Robyn for helping me make sensitive decisions that
impact the future of our students.
Stacey Reed for
taking all my annoying phone calls and for holding your tongue when I made so many
changes.
Robyn, Jamie, Tameka, and Stacey Reed for the heavy decisions that we have had to
make lately. Thank you for striving every day to make Keystone the best place
for staff and students. I couldn’t do this without you!
Stefanie for buying
me lunch. I appreciate you including me. It made me feel special.
This Week
Monday, May 1:
· Dress Down Week for
Staff
Tuesday, May 2:
· SLT Meeting
Wednesday, May 3:
· Perfect Attendance
Redemption
· Talent Show
Auditions 3:45-6:00 PM
Thursday, May 4:
· Purple Club
Friday, May 5:
· Morning Assembly Presentation Due (Mental Health Awareness)-Layton
· Ned Show Schoolwide
Assembly 2:00 in Gym
Important Dates
May 8-12: Staff
Appreciation Week
May 9: Staff Meeting 4-5 PM
May9: Staff Meeting Snacks-3rd Grade
May 10: Dress Down & Hat Day $1.00 each
May 10-11: Arts, Beats, and Sweets
May 10: Amanda’s Birthday
May 10: Theresa’s Birthday
May 12: IAT Meetings
May 12: Payday Breakfast-SpEd
May 12: Morning Assembly Presentation Due (Asian Pacific American Heritage
Month)-Reaume
May 15: Talent Show Dress Rehearsal 4:00 PM
May 15-18: 2nd Grade ELA Interim
May 17: Talent Show 5:30
May 18: Morning Assembly Presentation Due (Asian Pacific American Heritage
Month)-Walczak
May 19: No School-Regional PD
May 22: NJHS Induction Ceremony 6 PM
May 23: Band Concert 6 PM
May 23: PLC Meeting
May 25: Y5s-3rd ORF Benchmarking
May 26: 4-8 ORF Reading Fluency
May 26: Payday Breakfast-2nd Grade
May 26: Spirit Day $1.00
May 26: Morning Assembly Presentation Due (Memorial Day)-Nelson
May 29: No School-Memorial Day
May 29: Amy’s Birthday
May 29: Robyn’s Birthday
May 30: K-2 Math Numeracy
May 31: Social Media Post Due to Jorvonna-8th Grade
*If you have an event to add or something has been forgotten, please
let me know!
PLC Meeting
Our final “Meet with Other Grade Levels” PLC is Tuesday. This PLC was designed based on your feedback and desire to meet with other grade levels to focus on a particular standard and/or topic.
Based on your feedback, a few suggested that we allow the groups to bring questions to the meeting that can be discussed with the group. You Spoke. I Listened. The last 20 minutes have been designated for open discussion. Please note that your questions must be centered around your instructional focus. It’s important that we stay on topic even during open discussion.
See this table for your group and location.
We hope this
time together has provided you with multiple
opportunities to share best practices and brainstorm innovative ways to improve
learning and drive student achievement.
Professional Development
As you know, the leadership team used your feedback when designing our ½
day PDs this school year. We are using our ½ day PD on Wednesday for
professional development AND additional prep/planning time. You will spend the
first hour and a half going through instructional content. The second hour and
a half you can prep/plan at your discretion. However, all staff must remain in
the building until 3:15 PM. See the
schedule here.
We hope the additional 6 hours of prep that our half days provide reaffirm that “you matter!” As you know, the leadership team loves using your feedback to make our school better!
COVID Team
As part of our ESSER grant, we are
required to have a COVID team. The COVID team will meet to formally review and
analyze stakeholder input and use the information from the data analysis in the
creation/modification of our school’s ESSER budget and write a summary of
findings.
If you are interested in being a part
of our COVID team, please let me know by Tuesday, April 25.
ABCD Goals
Congratulations to Ms. Robinson’s class
for spelling the word “PRESENT” and Ms. Jordan’s class for spelling “HERE!”
I love that we are still striving to
achieve our attendance goals, even as we approach the end of the school year.
Affirmations
Keystone staff for jumping
in and supporting our early dismissal on Monday.
Emma, Jeanne, and Andria for providing me with additional school
improvement feedback.
Stephanie for being
solo in the office this week. Thank you for doing two roles so well!
Robyn, Stefanie, Mandy, Megan, Crystal, Jessica W for staying late and showcasing our school to
incoming Y5s and Kinder families.
Emma for creating the Arts, Beats,
and Sweets flyer and communication.
Cindy Chuang for
organizing the coin war. I am so appreciative of all your community efforts. We
have an amazing NJHS because of you!
Jamie and Tameka for hosting a visitor and supporting leadership
development.
Teri for creating the Talent
Show flyer and communication.
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