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April 22, 2019

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Kudos
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  • Kudos to Kris Thomsen who will be our new Library/Office Aide starting Monday, April 22!  Kris will be a great asset to our team in the library and is excited to start!  Congrats again Kris!  
    • Margaret Starzyk will be filling Kris's old position as special education aide, also starting on Monday.  
  • We also filled our open special education teacher position (as Ashley Parr is moving) with Joe VanDommelen.  Joe is currently a special education teacher at Elkhorn High School and has been there for four years.  Prior to that Joe taught social studies for one year at Parish Consolidated School as he is dual certified in special education and social studies.  Joe will be a great addition to our team!  
  • And... kudos to Ryan Heft as he will be taking the open Assistant Principal position at the high school starting at the start of the 2019-2020 school year.  As an administrative team we feel Ryan will be an asset to the high school and bring a strong skill set in his understanding of Essential Skills to help continue our work at the high school.  He will be missed here but we are not done with him yet!  A posting for the Dean of Students position will be coming in the near future.  
  • Great job staff on a strong two weeks of Forward Testing!  Everyone worked hard with all of our students to ensure they had the best teaching environment so all students could put their best foot forward!  
  • Kudos to Brad Ferstenou and Stephanie Rummler for your behind the scenes work with the Student Council and Leadership students to create signs for every student's locker to encourage students during Forward Testing Week!  Great job and great idea!  

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Information/Reminders
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  • April 22-23 for 7th grade:  
    • 22nd - prep for assembly in advisories 
    • 23rd - students who get the incentive will attend the incentive.  Those not will report to their 1st hour academic teacher and SSR or do iReady.  
  • April 22-23 for 8th grade:  
    • 22nd - students who get the incentive will attend the incentive.  Those not will report to their 2nd hour academic teacher and SSR or do iReady. 
    • 23rd - prep for assembly in advisories 
  • Wednesday, April 24 - Administrative Assistants Day! 
    • In order to celebrate the work Kim Moss, Jane Peterson, Pam Bauer, and now Kris Thomsen lets do a pot luck!
    • Those willing... please bring in a dish to share for a luncheon for them!  We will make sure they have time to be down in the staff lounge for both lunches in order to eat with all of you!  
  • Wednesday, April 24 - Youth Alive Assembly - Afternoon assembly schedule 
    • 12:52 - 1:42 all students will be in the gym for the assembly.  
    • 1:45 - 2:30 
      • The following students will remain in the gym though for a follow up activity with the presenter so they will not be back in advisories:  
        • Student Council
        • Leadership Team
        • YAR 
        • Campus Life 
      • Students back to advisories.  If you have less than 10 kids left in your advisory due to students staying in the gym then you can combine with your advisory partner for the 1:45 - 2:30 time frame.  
  • Wednesday, April 24 - PLC in the library.  
    • We will be looking at some formative assessments and having conversations around the use of formative assessments.  
  • Thursday, April 25 - Start of iTime rotations.  
    • 7th grade: 
      • Click HERE to see your groups for each week.  
    • 8th grade:  
      • Click HERE to see your groups for each week.
  • Friday, April 26 - Diamond House to Elkhorn Gateway Campus.  
    • Steve is creating the schedule and will share it with the team on Monday.  
Looking ahead:  
  • Tuesday, April 30 - 8th grade Partners2 Presentations
    • In order to accommodate the high school presenters for Partners2 we shifted our 6th hour elective into iTime on Tuesday and the presentation will be during 6th hour in the auditorium.  
    • This does mean that 8th grade will have one less day for the first iTime rotation.  
    • We will  still have students report to their 6th hour elective after lunch.  So, elective teachers please bring them up to the auditorium and then you can leave to prep! 
  • Friday, May 3 - Onyx House to Kenosha Gateway Campus.  
    • Steve will create the schedule and will share it with the team. 
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    Pictures from the week

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    Students using KCBs to go to Dairy Queen over lunch!

    What a cool project our Student Council and leadership team students did for the entire student body to encourage all students to continue working hard during Forward Testing week!!!  So awesome!  

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