domingo, 20 de enero de 2019

January 21, 2019



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Kudos
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  • Thank you to Harvey Kandler for all of your time and dedication to Karcher Middle School.  After 20 years of service Harvey has decided to resign from BASD.  When you see Harvey this week thank him for his service and wish him luck in his future endeavors!  
  • Thank you to our staff for your efforts with our winter iReady diagnostic.  We still have a few students needing to complete their winter assessment so be cognizant of noise in the hallways.  
  • Thank you to Karen Gerold for looking through every student's schedule for term 3 in hopes to be proactive for the start of term 3!  Your efforts and time are appreciated!
  • Thank you to Bobbi Smith, Cynthia Orzula, and Stacy Steeples for your understanding as we worked to make adjustments to your schedules this week to meet the needs of our students - we truly appreciate your flexibility and understanding!  
  • Kudos to Mike Jones and Grace Jorgenson for taking some of our students to the Math Meet.  Though it was a tough meet for our students we appreciate that you provide this challenge and opportunity for our students!  
  • Boys basketball wrapped up this week... thank you to Eric Sulik, Kurt Rummler, Mike Jones, and Ryan Hoffman for your time and commitment to our boys basketball program at Karcher! 
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Information/Reminders
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  • Open Special Education Aide position:  
    • If anyone knows someone looking for a special education role for 5.83 hours please encourage them to apply for our open position!!!
  • Teachers:  Please have your advisory students take a look at their second semester schedules an note changes that are coming up so that they are ready for second semester.  All schedules have been looked at and tweaked but this check also assists to ensure all schedule are complete and accurate as well.  If you notice any issues with any student schedules please email Karen Gerold of what you notice and we will look into it.
    • Also... one thing some students will notice is a "double booked" class period.  If you see this that is "normal" right now.  For example... we have some students who wanted Continuing Spanish but it was full.  So we did put a few students in Advanced Spanish (all year) that only wanted 1st semester Continuing Spanish. We cannot drop Advanced Spanish until grades are posted so these students will look as though they have Advanced Spanish and another elective in their schedule for the same period... this is "normal" for right now.  If they are not sure what is correct please have them see Steve Berezowitz or myself about their schedules.  
      • This is something we will look into adjusting for next school year so we don't have these types of situations in schedules but it is what it is right now!  

    This week: 
  • Monday, January 21 - Staff Meeting in the library 
    • I will be sharing some images of other new buildings to give staff some thoughts and connection to some of what the architects have brought up in the User Group meetings.  All staff are invited to attend.  
  • Monday, January 21 - MTSS District Committee Meeting in our Karcher library from 3:45 - 5:15.  
  • Tuesday, January 22 - End of 2nd Quarter
    • Just a reminder that our comment codes have changed from the 72 that have been in Skyward to the Karcher Learning Habits Rubric.  Please use at least one comment for all of our students... you are welcome to use more than one but please utilize a minimum of one per student.  
      • Click HERE to see the rubric with the 3 digit codes noted with each corresponding comment. 
      • Click HERE to see a list of the codes and descriptions. 
    • The grading window is open and will close on January 25 @ 3:15.
  • Wednesday, January 23 - Full day inservice 
    • Staff will be starting in the BHS auditorium from 8:00 - 9:00 
    • We will then start as a building in the library at 9:30 
      • As a district we are wanting some data behind our work so we have two progress monitoring tools we will be utilizing to assist with knowing where everyone is with Essential Skills and the "I do it" portion of the GRR Model.  Therefore, we will start in the library to work through these and then you will have the rest of the time to work on your Essential Skill work until 11:30.  
    • 12:30 - 4:00 is teacher work time!  
  • Thursday, January 24 - Start of Term 3!  Students may have different electives they are attending for term 3 so please ensure your advisory students know where to go!  
  • Friday, January 25 - Grade posting for term 2 are due by 3:15.  
Looking ahead:  
  • Monday, January 28 - Eric Burling will be coming over to talk with our 8th grade students about freshmen year scheduling in the auditorium.  Staff will take attendance and then bring your advisory to the auditorium.  Please stay for this presentation so that you can answer questions later if your advisory students ask!  Students will be getting their course books and requests forms at this time.  
    • Freshman Open House is on February 4 - we have informed parents/guardians and have extra handouts about this in the office.  Please encourage students to attend.  
  • Tuesday, January 29 - Strings Festival 
  • Wednesday, January 30 - iReady Training for our academic, special education, and interventionists.  Thank you to all staff for securing your subs for this day!  
    • We will start at 8:10 in the 21st Century lab with 8th grade going first until 11:10.  Then 7th grade will start at 12:00 - 3:00.  Please be on time and have your sub plans set according to this schedule - 8th grade teachers please note, in your plans, where the subs should go after they are done with you.  They will all be taking lunch at 11:24 but then their 5th hour will start at 11:56 in _____ person's room.  
    • Here are the pairings for our subs:  
      • Sturdevant/Hancock
      • S. Rummler/Botsford
      • Geyso/Murphy
      • Jones/Tenhagen
      • Weis/Berezowitz
      • Schmidt/Ferstenou
      • K. Rummler/Smith
      • Stoughton/Jorgenson
      • Riggs/Varnes
        • Riggs.. we will have you attend with 7th in the afternoon
      • Fulton/Thate
      • Ebbers/Zeman
      • Newholm/Bekken
  • Thursday, January 31 - Morning Assembly Schedule with 8th grade attending in the auditorium and 7th grade has extended advisory.  
    • Here is the Google Document for the Character Awards as we do not want to double up on any students.  Ideally you are also picking students who have not been student's of the week... looking to pick students who always do the right thing, might be your quiet leaders, etc.   
  • Friday, February 1 - Morning Assembly Schedule with 7th grade attending in the auditorium and 8th grade has extended advisory.  
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    Pictures from the week
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    Students in Art working on student choice, digital portfolios, or wrapping up their assigned projects!





    Students in your hallways... showing the need for some collaborative space in the new building.


    Students conferring with each other in 7th grade math with Ms. Netteshiem!  

    Students in Ms. Berezowitz's class observing cardiac muscle tissue, lung tissue, bone tissue, and nerve tissue! 



    Students in Ms. Jorgenson's class determining circumference and area.  





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