February 25, 2019

KARCHER STAFF BLOG

2018-2019 Karcher Calendar

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Kudos

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Thank you to our advisory team: Eric Sulik, Wendy Zeman, and Sue Bekken, for all of your work and time to create a great day on Friday for our students focusing on anti-bullying and compassion. From the feedback I was given the day was smooth, the movie was impactful, and the DRIVEN students did a great job! Thanks again to everyone for your flexibility with the schedule, to some of you for covering where we were short staff... thank you all!
Thank you to Andrea Hancock and Barb Berezowitz for letting us use science time again this year for students to enter their 8th grade year electives into Skyward. It was perfect having them all together in the library and thank you to all staff that assisted with looking each students sheets over and helping them enter their requests into Skyward. Thank you Karen Gerold for all the behind the scenes work to making this happen!

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Information/Reminders

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Reminder: Please make sure your sub plans reflect the new semester and reflect the time adjustments starting February 25 to the end of the school year. Any changes you make please get a copy to Kim in the main office for your sub folders! Thank you!

Please complete by Friday, March 1.

Lucky Star Fundraiser for Karcher!!!

Staff... there will be coupons in your mailbox for Lucky Star. Each student should get one full sheet of coupons (and you should get one too). Then... if students/you bring one coupon and eat on a Tuesday 15% of your bill will come back to Karcher! It has to be on a Tuesday and you do have to have the coupon with you as they want to staple the coupon to your bill for it to count for the fundraiser. Please encourage students to go with their families and I encourage you to go as well!
This is for EVERY Tuesday in the month of March. So you could go every single Tuesday, bring a coupon every time :)
If anyone needs more coupons, etc we can print off more... students can give them to neighbors, family members, you can give them to others, etc. Simply... if you have a coupon 15% goes back to Karcher on Tuesdays in March!

Friendly reminder: Your SLO and PPGs for beginning and mid-year should be submitted. Just so you all know... if you just "save" it I cannot see it, that just saves your data/work for you. In order for me to see it you have to hit the "submit" button. I hope you notice I am not so worried about a "due date" but I just don't want this to get away from you so just make sure you are timely when your data is ready and get things submitted.
All of our 7th grade students entered their elective course requests for the 2019-2020 school year this past week during science. Our next steps will be to collect 6th grade student requests and enter them in the computer as well.
Student Led Conferences:

Monday, February 25 is the last advisory time for students to develop their slides for conferences. Please make sure you are using a little class time to review and ensure students have a quality slide for your class. Student Led Conferences is a great time to showcase what we do so please take the time to ensure your classes slide with students is quality.
Also... please monitor your own advisory students and talk with those who have not had a parent/guardian sign up yet and reach out to their parent/guardians to set their time slot.

Click HERE to see who has already signed up.
Click HERE to gain access to the link you can use to send to families to sign up.

We have sent this to families twice and will do it again this week but coming from you is very helpful!

Student Led then is this Thursday night from 4:00 - 8:00 and Tuesday, March 5 (4:00 - 8:00).
All Student Led Conferences will be in the library as we have done in the past and then parents/guardians can see all of you prior to or after their conference in your rooms. If there are specific parents you want to see I would reach out to them to ask them to conference with you!

Tuesday, February 26 - Last week of this iTime rotation!
Tuesday, February 26 - Special Education Department Meeting in the small conference room from 2:40 - 3:15.
Wednesday, February 27 - YAR students will be meeting from 9:45 - 10:45 in room 106!
Wednesday, February 27 - PLC for Academic Teachers in the library.

Elective teachers since you lost a week of prep due to extended advisory please use this time for prep this week!
Academic teachers...

All iTime groups have been made and entered into iReady. The naming for this rotation is:

March 2019 iTime - (Name)

Note... groups are not going to be the same size due to student need.
Click HERE to see where students would need to go starting Tuesday, March 5 for iTime.

A copy of your advisory with their location (teacher's name) will be in your mailboxes by Friday of this week.

This rotation is the one that will fall right before the Forward Exam. I have talked with a few staff and there is an agreement to focus on doing some review of concepts within the math area and to potentially utilize the Close Readers for the ELA side within all ELA groups. Please be thinking about this, especially our math and ELA teachers, as your leadership here for content/skills within this iTime rotation for all staff is appreciated. All ELA groups could be working on the same things you just also can see what your group needs based on the iReady data and Tools for Instruction.
So... PLC this Wednesday will be to determine what will be the focus within our PLCs. Please sit by grade level and by content - either math or ELA depending on your iTime group.

Thursday, February 28 - Student Council Leadership Workshop will be taking place in the 21st Century Lab from 9:30 - 11:30. Our students will be working with students from Milton High School Link Crew!
Thursday, February 28 - Student Led Conferences from 4:00 - 8:00.

Looking ahead:

Tuesday, March 5 - Student Led Conferences 4:00 - 8:00.
2019-2020 Budget Information:

Please stay very close to what you were in terms of your budget for this coming school year.
All forms are in Google Docs again so... please complete all of our budget information in Google Docs.

Everyone needs to print a copy of your budget sheets and hand them to Kim.

When naming your below documents please use this naming convention so that it is easy to search: Last Name - Budget Requisition Order Form, Last Name - 2019-2020 Budget Worksheet Form (Example: Ebbers - Budget Requisition Order Form)

THIS form is what everyone needs to fill out for your entire budget. This form indicates the total amount you need/will have for the 2019-2020 school year.

The above form is all Kim needs you to fill out if there are no items you need on your list prior to the start of the school year. Meaning, if you are wanting to just purchase items as you need them the above form is all you need to fill out.

Use THIS form to request items that are needed for the start of the school year.

If you are wanting/needing furniture for your classroom please fill out a separate Budget Requisition Form for these items. When looking ahead we will only be purchasing furniture conducive to move to the new building, meaning, we simply need to be consistent on colors, etc. So, keeping these items separate from your budget will assist with ensuring consistency.
Example Budget Requisition Form - if you can just print off a shopping cart list
It is preferred that all Amazon orders take place in August or later for the 2019-2020 school year as items requested now may not still be available in August.
Also... all online orders the goal is to use our BASD credit card account.

If you do not know your Function Number (Example: English 122200) email or ask Kim and she will help with what your number is.
Please send your budget information to Kim no later than March 8!

Reminder to utilize the Warehouse for items we already keep a supply of within the district versus using your budget for those items - images below are warehouse items. If you would like a copy of this Kim/Jane have it in the main office.

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Pictures from the week

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The epic Civil War Battle in Stephanie Rummler's class!

Girls Volleyball!!!

Strength and Conditioning Club!

Students in Kailee Smith and Kelly Fulton's ELA class working on annotated bibliographies.

Great strategy in the classroom to assist students with forward progress and knowing where they are in relation to the end goal!

Students in art with Ms. Pelnar - it is amazing to see the differentiation within Jennifer's classroom. Students who work ahead were preparing for the next skill/project. Students working a bit slower are given time to complete their project before moving to the "new" one. And then most students on the "new project" the monster mug! Jennifer utilizing mini lessons (I do its) with groups of students based on where they are in the progression.

Showing the success criteria for the students who are working ahead...

Students in 7th grade choir with Rod Stoughton. Rod did a fantastic job providing timely feedback and consistent and intentional modeling to assist groups of students!