May 28, 2019

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Kudos

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• Kudos to Jon Nelson and Hans Block for assisting with the iReady incentives for our students and with the set up for dodgeball!  The students, we know, really appreciated it!!!  
• Kudos to our kitchen staff on a quick turn around on getting food prepared on Wednesday as they thought all of the 8th graders where going to the Holocaust Museum and had to scurry to make food for the other 8th graders in a hurry!  They handled it very well and so did our lunch duty staff!  Thank you all for your professionalism and for working to do what needed to be done for our students!  
• Kudos to Kris Thomsen for all of her behind the scenes work with our schedule for next year.  It is a very large learning curve to take on scheduling and Kris has been working diligently to assist with ensuring our schedule will be set for the start of the 2019-2020 school year!  
• Congrats to Jane Peterson who has decided to retire, joining her husband who also recently retired.  Jane will be finishing up the year with us and then will enjoy time at her cabin and being grandma!  
• To honor Jane and her retirement everyone is encouraged to come and celebrate with Jane on Monday, June 3 starting at 3:05pm at The Rivalry!  Please RSVP to Barb Berezowitz by this Thursday, May 30th if you are able to attend!  Appetizers and cake will be served!  

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Information/Reminders

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• Tuesday, May 28 - Morning Assembly Schedule! 
• 8th grade should report to the gym right after morning announcements and sit in the gym by advisory.  
• We will have all of the staff line up in front of the students (in a line) so that we an have staff share their two students for the character assembly, their two students stand by their teacher, and then pass the mic to the next teacher in line.  
• Mike Jones and Stephanie Rummler will be going first and then just they will head outside to make sure things are set up for right after the awards.  
• Once the awards are over we will have the students move to the bleachers, entering by going out the main gym lobby and through the parking lot - entering from behind the press box and into the bleachers.  
• Students participating in the Wipe Out should stay in the gym and wait for direction from Stephanie Rummler and Mike Jones.  
• 7th grade will be working on Cooper/Waller plans within your advisories.  

• Tuesday, May 28 - Band Concert at 7:00pm in our Karcher gym!  
• Wednesday, May 29 - Morning Assembly Schedule! 
• 7th grade should report to the gym right after morning announcements and sit in the gym by advisory.  
• We will have all of the staff line up in front of the students (in a line) so that we an have staff share their two students for the character assembly, their two students stand by their teacher, and then pass the mic to the next teacher in line.  
• Once the awards are over we will have the students move to the bleachers, entering by going out the main gym lobby and through the parking lot - entering from behind the press box and into the bleachers.  
• Students participating in the Wipe Out should stay in the gym and wait for direction from Stephanie Rummler and Mike Jones.  
• 8th grade will be working on Cooper/Waller plans within your advisories.  
• Wednesday, May 29 - No PLC - Use for teacher work time!  
• Thursday, May 30 - National Junior Honor Society Field Trip to the University of Wisconsin Madison.  
• Students will be leaving around 7:35 and returning around 3:30.  See Stephanie Rummler or Mike Jones for details!  
• Friday, May 31 - Afternoon Assembly Schedule 
• Cooper/Waller Visit!  
• Don't forget we need everyone to add WHERE you are for the afternoon for each session so we can locate students!  Thank you!  
• Friday, May 31 - 8th grade Farewell Dance!  
• If you are willing to assist with chaperoning let Stephanie Rummler, Ryan Heft, or myself know!  The dance is from 7:00 - 9:00pm here at Karcher in our library/ULab/conference room area.  


Looking ahead:  
• Monday, June 3 - Staff Meeting from 2:40 - 3:00 
• Everyone is encouraged to attend.  
• Tuesday, June 4 - Day in the Middle & Afternoon Assembly Schedule
• Schedule is linked on the calendar. 
• Thursday, June 6 - Field Day!
• Friday, June 7 - 8th grade recognition at 10:00 and half day with students leaving at 12:00.  We are not extending the day by 7 minutes on the last day of school... we will be dismissing at 12:00!  
• Staff... there are boxes in the hallway by the elevator for packing up your room.  Make sure you label all of your boxes and items in your rooms with your room number on them.  
• THIS is the form you need to complete in order to leave for the summer.  
• Please get your SLOs and PPGs done sooner than later as they take time to look at and submit!
• THIS is the document to use to sign up for check out times!  

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Pictures from the week

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iReady dodgeball incentive group!

iTime activities!

7th grade zoo field trip!

May 20, 2019

KARCHER STAFF BLOG

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• What a great performance by our orchestra students with the help of Dustan Eckmann and Liz Deger!  So awesome to see their growth from the beginning of the year until now!  Nice job!!!  
• Thank you to Kurt Rummler and Officer Jodi Borchart for taking our safety patrol students to the Dells for two days this past week as a thank you for all of their hard work and dedication to keeping their peers safe throughout the school year.  They go out whether it is raining, snowing, freezing, etc and ensure all students cross Robert Street safely before school and after school, put the flag up and down every day, and assist with the barricade.  Please thank these students for their time and efforts!  
• I wanted to shared that we will be recommending to the board that Annie Phillips be our new Dean of Students for the 2019-2020 school year.  There were over 78 candidates for the position, we brought in 14, narrowed it to a final 4 for a second interview, and chose Annie.  Annie comes to us as a former English teacher and instructional coach.  She is currently serving as a Dean of Students at Pewaukee High School.  We are excited to have her join our team with the background she brings along with her energetic and funny personality!  

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Information/Reminders

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• Monday, May 20 - Staff Meeting from 2:47 - 3:07
• The focus will be about the Character Assemblies, Cooper/Waller Visit, and Field Day/Final days of school!  
• Wednesday, May 22 - 8th grade Holocaust Field Trip 
• Wednesday, May 22 - 7th grade iReady incentive during iTime!  
• Ryan will get you the data on which students get to participate so you can sign them up during advisory on Tuesday!  
• Wednesday, May 22 - No PLC use for teacher work time!!!  
• Thursday, May 22 - 8th grade iReady incentive during iTime 
• Ryan will get you the data on which students get to participate so you can sign them up during advisory on Tuesday!  
• Thursday, May 23 - 7th grade Milwaukee Zoo Field Trip 
• See Barb Berezowitz or Andrea Hancock for details!  
• Thursday, May 23 - Special Education Department meeting from 2:40 - 3:15 in the small conference room.  
• Friday, May 24 - Full day inservice from 8:00 - 4:00.  
• Please be in the library at 8:00 as we have building level time from 8:00 - 9:30.  
• 9:30 - 12:00 will be Essential Skills time!  We will talk about goals, etc during our 8-9:30 time.  
• 1:00 - 4:00 is teacher work time!  
• This would be  a great time to submit and/or gather your data for your end of the year SLO and PPG for MLP!  


Looking ahead:  
• Monday, May 27 - No School!  
• Tuesday, May 28 - Morning Assembly Schedule - 8th grade will be in the auditorium, 7th will be working on Cooper/Waller Prep.  
• Tuesday, May 28 - Band Concert in our Karcher gym at 7:00pm!  
• Wednesday, May 29 - Morning Assembly Schedule - 7th grade will be in the auditorium, 8th will be working on Cooper/Waller Prep.  
• Thursday, May 30 - NJHS field trip to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  
• Friday, May 31 - Afternoon Assembly Schedule for our Cooper/Waller visit!
• Friday, May 31 - 1st ever 8th grade only dance that was initiated by our student council and leadership team!  
• If you are able and willing to chaperone please see Stephanie Rummler for more details!  The dance will run from 7:00 - 9:00 using our library, Ulab, and large conference room!  

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Pictures from the week

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Students in Life Skills with Katie Newholm working on all the popcorn orders for the building!  

Safety Patrol in the Dells with Kurt Rummler and Officer Borchart! 

All of Dawn Salbrieter's Advanced Spanish students together with their pinatas!  They are on display outside the library!

This past weeks orchestra concert!  What a great performance by all of our students along with Dustan Eckmann and Liz Deger!  

Students in 8th grade math with Mike Jones and Amanda Thate having some competitive fun with Quizlet!

May 13, 2019

KARCHER STAFF BLOG

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Kudos

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• Thank you to all of our teachers for all of the work you do day in and day out for our students, school, and the community!  Our hope was that having some lunches and breakfast provided you with a few less things to have to worry about and time to just talk together!  Thank you for all you do, truly, for our students, school, district, and community!  
• Thank you to Donna Sturdevant, Amanda Thate, Kailee Smith, and Steve Berezowitz for your participation with the first round of interviews for the Dean of Students position this past week.  The same team will be conducting final interviews this coming Tuesday with 4 candidates.  Thank again to the interview committee for your time!  And to Jane Peterson and Kris Thomsen for being the first person candidates see in the main office and talking with candidates throughout the process!  
• Thank you to our 8th grade team for taking all of our 8th grade students to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee this past Friday!  The goal is to get all of our 7th grade students on a technical school campus and all of 8th grade onto a 4-year college campus!  The goal was accomplished!  And thank you to Steve Berezowitz for setting all three trips up for our staff and students and to Jon Nelson and Dawn Salbreiter for assisting with the trip as well!  

The below article is what our staff does!

One to Grow On / Being a Guiding Light Teens Need

Carol Ann Tomlinson

Adolescence is a sea of uncertainty, but teachers can help navigate it.

Adolescents stand astride the worlds of childhood and adulthood. Their legs are wobbly, and the space below is an abyss. They are cocky—and terrified. They know everything and, for all practical purposes, nothing. They long to be accorded the privileges of adulthood while yearning (if they are lucky) to crawl back into a parent's lap. They are becoming many things, and the becoming is awkwardly incomplete. They often see themselves as wonderful when adults see them as maddening, and as maddeningly inadequate when adults see them as wonderful.

So what do they need in school? The simple answer is, "Everything." Adolescents in school need help navigating a terrain littered with sinkholes and sharp-edged rocks. They need teachers who see teaching as much more inclusive and encompassing than just providing and measuring content.

On my best days as a teacher, I have seen the world through the eyes of my adolescent students and have been a more adequate teacher for them. I have also been mentored by wise authors whose words have extended my vision of teaching. One of those mentors-through-writing is Max van Manen, an educator with Dutch and Canadian roots whose thoughts I've found particularly applicable to teaching adolescents. He suggests five elements that seem a reasonable answer to the question of what teenagers need in school. They need teachers who embrace, invite, lead, trust, and embody.

Embrace

When the teacher enters the classroom, he sees children who are big and small, coarse and finely featured; he sees sullen faces and noble appearances, ill-shaped and well-proportioned bodies—as if they were the representation of creation. And his glance, the glance of the educator, embraces them all and takes them all in. (van Manen, 1991, p. 66)

Adolescents need adults in their lives who "embrace" them, who seek to know them, who have abiding respect for who they are and who they will become. Adolescents need adults who dignify them and who make clear that they, as teachers and fellow human beings, are themselves dignified by virtue of their ongoing apprenticeships with the students. Students who have teachers who see them in this light, are, I believe, far more likely to traverse adolescence—and beyond—successfully.

Invite

Schools need to offer young people a caring and supportive environment, not only because caring teachers and caring schools tend to reproduce a caring orientation in the students, but also because a caring school climate sponsors the conditions for personal growth itself. (van Manen, 1991, p. 66)

In order to grow cognitively and academically, adolescents need what John Hattie (2012) calls an invitational learning environment—a place where they feel seen, known, appreciated, challenged, and supported. In that place, they see themselves and their peers being contributing members of teams. Not only does each team of learners provide reliable support for academic success, but it also creates opportunities for meaningful peer connections—a pivotal need for adolescents who are transitioning away from parents and other key adults as anchors for their world. Teachers who "invite" teenagers to learn understand that when a student's social-emotional needs go unmet, the likelihood of academic success is significantly, if not fatally, diminished for that student.

Lead

Leading means going first, and in going first, you can trust me, for I have tested the ice. (van Manen, 1991, p. 38)

Strong leaders take care of their students. Strong teachers are effective leaders of their students. They ask them to go on a journey that is both rigorous and rewarding. Their vision for students individually and for the class as a whole is compelling. It raises learning to a higher plane and lifts up the learner. A strong leader listens more than speaks, learns more than tells, has a sharp sense of direction, and communicates that direction clearly. These teachers honor the experience and judgment of their students by regularly seeking their counsel on ways in which the class is working well and ways in which, together, they can make it more effective.

Trust

Young people who experience our trust are thereby encouraged to have trust in themselves. Trust enables. (van Manen, 1991, p. 68)

Adolescents need teachers who trust both their capacity to learn and their intent to do the right thing. Those teachers also know that adolescence is prime time for learning the pathways to success and making sound choices. The most effective teachers provide teens with the opportunity to do aspirational work and to exercise their judgment in significant matters. At the same time, these teachers are keenly aware that most teens are relative novices in the art of learning and reasoned judgement, and so they mentor the students in developing the skills, attitudes, and habits of mind most likely to lead to learning success and to right-minded decision making. These teachers provide parameters and principles for growing independence. They eschew cages.

Embody

In some sense, (a great) teacher is what he or she teaches. A mathematics teacher is not just someone who happens to teach math. A real math teacher is one who embodies math, who lives math, who in a strong sense is math. (van Manen, 1991, p. 77)

Adolescence should be a time for dreaming and giving shape to dreams. Excellent teachers don't cover content and prepare students for tests on which they will be asked to select "truth" from a brief set of snippets. Rather, they help students see the poetry and drama in their lives, show them the long parade of human triumph and folly, enable them to lend their voices to the human song, and guide them to wonder at the reliability and flux in the natural world. Great teachers for adolescents say every day, through words and actions, "To learn is to be fully human. Let's share the joy and the struggle of finding meaning in our lives and in the places where we live."

What adolescents need in school is teachers who not only care about them, but who care for them (Gay, 2018). They need teachers who enjoy their company, but who go well beyond that to ensure that they build foundations for strong, sturdy, contributing, and satisfying lives. That seems an appropriate mission for teachers who commit to teaching young people during the most complex, promising years of their lives.

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Information/Reminders

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• May 13 through 17 - iReady math diagnostic week.  
• Please be mindful that all students will be completing the math spring diagnostic so we need to assist with a quiet testing environment for our students throughout the week!  
• Monday, May 13 - BLT Meeting 
• We will be talking about Chapters 4 in both Better Learning and On Your Mark.  
• I also hope to get a presentation from PRA of the exterior of the new middle school prior to Monday to show the team.  I have not received it yet but I am hopeful that it is shared with me so the team can see it.  
• Also discuss end of the year needs, etc.  
• Tuesday, May 14 - Last day of the 2nd iTime rotation.  
• Wednesday, May 15 - Start of the last iTime rotation.
• Please make sure your advisory students know where to go prior to the start of Wednesday's iTime.  
• Wednesday, May 15 - Your YAR students will be meeting in room 107 at 9:45 - 10:45!  
• Wednesday, May 15 - PLC in the library.  Working in your content/grade level teams looking at the formative data collected from the formative assessment given since the last PLC.  So please bring your student data to the PLC!  
• This is our LAST PLC of the school year!  
• Thursday, May 16 & Friday, May 17 - Safety Patrol students will be traveling to the Dells with Kurt Rummler.  Please thank all of our safety patrol students for all of their hard work and dedication to our school by assisting with all morning and after school cross walk, flag pole, and barricade needs each and every day (rain or shine)!  They deserve a great trip for all of their time giving back to the students and our school!  
• Thursday, May 16 - Strings Concert in our Karcher gym @ 7:00pm.  
• Friday, May 17 - YAR students will be meeting again at 7:26 - 8:26 
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Pictures from the week

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May 6, 2019

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• THANK YOU to all of our teachers for all of your hard work and dedication to our students, school, and community!  You are all truly great to have the privilege to work with and have such a care for all of our students - both when it comes to character and academics.  Thank you!!!  
• Thank you to Ryan Heft for setting up the Partners 2 presentation and the Summer Survivor presentations for our 8th grade students this past week!  
• Thank you to Steve Berezowitz for your planning and set up of the two 7th grade trips to Elkhorn and Kenosha so that all of our 7th graders had the opportunity to get onto a technical college campus.  
• Thank you to Mike Jones, Donna Sturdevant, Kurt Rummler, Rod Stoughton, Stacy Stoughton, Suzanne Dunbar, Stephanie Rummler, and Patti Tenhagen for giving up your Friday night to help with Friday Night Live!  Though our number of students was down we still provided a great place for about 100 students to be on a Friday night!  Thanks again!  

Article pertaining to formative assessments!

What are Common Formative Assessments Anyway?

By Chris Jakicic   - October 31, 2017

One thing I’ve learned as I work with schools across the country is that there are a lot of different definitions collaborative teams are using for common formative assessments, and what these teams think common formative assessments are influences how they write and use these assessments with their students. In our book, Collaborating for Success in the Common Core, we offer the following definition to help teams make sure they’re able to use their results to improve student learning:

“Common formative assessments are team-designed, intentional measures used for the purpose of monitoring student attainment of essential learning targets throughout the instructional process. In addition to providing information about which students need additional support or extension, common formative assessments allow teams to examine the effects of their practice, and gain insight as to which instructional strategies yield high levels of learning. Furthermore, the data can be used to provide frequent feedback to students that they can use to adjust their own learning strategies.”

In our definition, we look at three important concepts that we know help students achieve at high levels through the use of these assessments: they are formative (and thus occur during the learning process), they are team-designed, and they assess essential learning targets.

Formative

The first idea we included in our definition is the importance of the word formative. In working with teams, we’ve found that some teams focus on common assessments rather than common formative assessments. When teams write and use common summative assessments (think, for example, end of the unit tests), they are able to use essential standards and common pacing in their work. While this is a valuable step, we now know that it is formative assessment that truly impacts student learning. In 1998, Black and Wiliam published their revolutionary research concluding that formative assessment has a .9 standard deviation impact on student learning. This caused educators at all levels to focus on how to use formative assessment in their work. If student learning is the ultimate goal, then, high performing teams must use formative assessment throughout the learning process. High-performing teams understand that the purpose of formative assessments is different than summative assessments.

Sometimes teams will ask whether they can use their benchmark assessments as common formative assessments as long as they use them in a formative way. Here’s why we recommend that they not do this. Formative questions are intentionally written in a different manner than summative assessment items.

The first thing is that formative items are written around learning targets rather than standards. Learning targets are the smaller skills and concepts students have to learn to become proficient on the standard. When questions are written around these smaller skills and concepts, the information they provide is much more diagnostic than when written around a standard.

Additionally, most benchmark assessments are not tightly linked to concepts that students are currently learning. Sometimes items assess content that was taught in earlier units of instruction and sometimes items assess content that hasn’t yet been taught. We included the phrase “throughout the learning process” in our definition to emphasize how important we believe it is for formative assessment to occur shortly after students are taught new essential content.

When teams design their own common formative assessments, they write items to specifically match the learning targets they want to measure while they are still teaching that content. That means that before teachers move on to new content in the unit, they are able to correct misconceptions students might have that could impede them learning related concepts. This also means that teams are able to move from reporting the percentage correct each student earned to being able to report—for each student—which targets have been mastered and which still need response.

Getting their data back at this level of specificity also allows teams to examine which instructional practices are most effective either for all students or even for certain types of students. In a PLC, we start with the premise that teachers will use the instructional strategies that they believe will be most effective for their students, and that there is no expectation that all teachers will use the same strategies. High-performing teams, however, examine their results to see if a particular strategy is more effective. They also realize that, for students who need additional response, using the same instructional strategy they used the first time won’t be very effective. When teams analyze the results of a common formative assessment, they can discuss these issues and learn from each other and from the results.

Team-Designed

The second idea we included in our definition is that these assessments are team-designed to assure that the items are aligned with the learning targets teams are teaching as well as the expected rigor teams have for results. We’ve seen some examples where teams use an assessment designed by curriculum writers or from a test bank of questions and though these items might be aligned with the content taught, they aren’t always aligned to the rigor that it was taught at. This results in information that isn’t helpful to teams in planning the response. Teams can effectively use items they’ve found in curriculum materials or online, but it’s vital that they make sure the item matches the learning target they taught in both content and rigor.

Essential learning targets

The third important concept we included in our definition is that these assessments are used to monitor essential learning targets. Some teams write their CFAs around all of the content they’ve taught. When they do this, they lose the idea of a guaranteed and viable curriculum. We know that it’s impossible to guarantee that all students learn everything we teach. When a team identifies its essential standards, they are agreeing that all students will learn these standards. We expect that they will learn more than these standards, but at least these standards. Agreeing about what is the most essential content assures that students are commonly prepared as they move from grade level to grade level and course to course. This common preparation means that less time is spent on review for previous grade level standards and more time to assure student learning of the essentials. If we know with specificity what students have or have not yet learned, responding is much more precise and, therefore, effective.

In this case, vocabulary matters because your definition of common formative assessment impacts your practice. Consider whether your own work around CFAs aligns with this definition.

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Information/Reminders

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• Teacher Appreciation Week!!!
• Monday morning:  Coffee from The Coffee House, donuts, and muffins in the main office right away in the morning for everyone to enjoy!  
• Tuesday lunch:  Subway sandwiches, chips, and cookies for lunch (for everyone!)  
• Thursday lunch:  Taco Bar and desserts!  
• There will be chicken and beef taco meet with all the fixings along with an array of desserts!  
• Thank you to each and every one of our teachers for inspiring, empowering, and educating all of our students!  You are such a great staff and a privilege to work with!  Thank you all!  


• Insurance information that was shared with staff from Ruth Schenning:  
• Video of meeting held in the event you could not attend and wanted to hear!  
• Also... an email was sent on May 3, 2019 with all of the insurance information and numerous forms for you to fill out.  There is a copy of all of these forms in the main office, with Kim Moss, so that you can make a copy of all of the forms as needed.  
• If you are eligible for insurance all of our forms need to be submitted to Lindsey Rossi at the district office by May 24!  
• May 6 - May 10 - ELA iReady diagnostic testing week.  
• Please be mindful that students will be working on their spring reading diagnostic this week and be cognizant of noise levels, etc within your classrooms and hallways.  
• Monday, May 6 - Essential Skills Committee meeting from 3:45 - 5:15 in our Karcher library.  
• Tuesday, May 7 - 2nd iTime rotation... see the below links to assist with telling your advisory students where to go!  
• Tuesday, May 7 - I will be holding an 8th grade recognition parent meeting at 7:00pm in the library... this is the group that prepares the breakfast for our students and assists with a few minor things the day of recognition.  
• Wednesday, May 8 - PLC in the library (this really is the second to last one!).  For this PLC please come with your ideas, plans for creating one or multiple formative assessments that you will use between this PLC and the next PLC.  Then the last PLC (next week) everyone will bring their student data from the formative assessment to PLC to analyze.  Please sit with your grade level content peers for this PLC to plan together!  
• Thursday, May 9 - We will be conducting the first round of screener interviews for the Dean of Students position starting at 12:30.  There was a very, very large pool of candidates for the position.  Therefore, screener interviews will take place this week with a second round for those of further interest next week.  
• Friday, May 10 - 8th grade field trip to the University of Milwaukee.  All of our 7th grade students were able to get on a technical college campus and our 8th grade students onto a 4-year college campus - thank you Steve Berezowitz for setting all three of the experiences up.  
• If you have any questions please email or talk with Steve Berezowitz.  
• Friday, May 10 - Dr. Steve Plank will be at Karcher starting at 12:30 to meet with myself and Ryan Heft and also have a tour of the building so we may pop in your room for you to meet him!  
• He will also be in the district on May 24 during our inservice day.  
• He was in the district on May 2 and will be in the district on May 9, 10, 17, 24, and June 10.   

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Pictures from the week

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Now this is funny... this might be a record number of rolls in the staff bathroom!

 Ellen Murphy modeling a strategy of boxes and bullets during a mini lesson ("I do it")

Ms. Salbrieter working with a small group of students in the library!

Patti Tenhagen pulling multiple strategy groups from a quick formative assessment she gave at the start of the same class period to assist students while the rest were engaged in task cards around the room.  

Kailee Smith modeling show she organizes her thoughts in her journal and her text evidence in order to start the writing process.  

7th grade at Gateway!

Friday Night Live!!!