domingo, 25 de agosto de 2019

August 25, 2019


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Kudos
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  • Kudos to Jenny Geyso, Stacy Stoughton, Rod Stoughton, and Barb Berezowitz on your commitment and work for the BASD BASH that took place on Friday, August 16.  What a great 2nd year in a row event for the staff with such a great purpose to bring staff and the community together to raise funds for student scholarships!  So cool!  Nice job!  
  • Congrats to Briana Varnes who got married this summer!!!  Briana will be changing her name to Harris.  Congrats Briana!!!  
  • Congrats to Amanda Thate who had their first baby, Benjamin "Benji" Irving Riggs coming in at 8 lbs 2 oz & 21 inches long on August 22!

  • New staff:  
    • Matt Nelson - student teacher term 1 with Stacy Stoughton and term 2 with Patti Tenhagen and Jeri Nettesheim.  
    • Melissa Rothering - long-term sub for Amanda Thate during first semester. 
    • Scott Staude - 7th grade math
      • Scott comes to us from our Dyer building where he taught 5th grade math for numerous years.  
    • Ryan Hoffman - 7th grade STEM 
      • Ryan has been teaching at Dyer Intermediate and will be coming to Karcher first semester for periods 1 and 2 to teach STEM.  
    • Trent Tonn - 7th grade Art 
      • Trent has been teaching within the school district as an Art teacher and will be at Dyer Intermediate along with Karcher second semester during periods 1 and 2 to teach Art!  
    • Joe VanDommelen - 7th grade special education 
      • Joe is a Burlington resident who was teaching at Elkhorn High School within the special education department for 4 years.  
    • Lisa Iniguez - Main office secretary 
      • Lisa is a Burlington resident with students in the district who has held secretarial positions for numerous years.  
    • Annie Phillips - Dean of Students 
      • Annie was first an English teacher for 12 years along with being an instructional coach within the East Troy School District.  Last year Annie took the Dean of Students position at Pewaukee High School and the only job she was willing to leave for was one at Karcher!  
  • District new staff you might want to know about:  
    • Jill Sheeley - Director of Health Services.  Jill has been a school nurse for numerous years with the Waterford area schools so she comes with school nursing experience.  
    • Amber Berhorst- District secretary - Amber would be the secretary to contact about keys or swipe cards at this time.  
    • Becky Sagedal - Community Education Director 
    • Trisha Skiles - Athletic Department Secretary 
    • Debra (Deb) Matson - Director of Food Services 

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Information/Reminders
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  • General Information:  
    • Here is our 2019-2020 Karcher Calendar.
      • PLCs have not been set yet as we will discuss this further with our Building Leadership Team.  
      • On the first page of our Karcher Calendar you will see links to our bell schedules, teacher schedules, literacy website, advisory website, etc. 
    • If you have changed rooms or are a new staff member, please see Kim for directions as to reprogram your phone.
    • If you have already ordered supplies our staff has been working on putting items/boxes directly in teachers classrooms.  However, items are coming in daily so please check the main office if you believe things should have come in and they are not already in your classroom.  
    • If you plan on ordering anything from Amazon or another company for any orders not placed yet please talk and sit with Kim in the main office for needed orders.  
    • Students will be getting issued new chromebooks this school year that will be issued to them for the next 4 years. As a district, we do have the ability this time around to charge students for intentional damage to their chromebooks.  
    • Please note the hours we have academic and applied academic sections as they have changed from this past school year.  The reason for the adjustment was due to the need for additional elective staff to assist with the incoming 7th grade class.  Therefore, two applied academic (elective) periods for 7th grade have been moved to 1st and 2nd hour so that we can have consistent additional elective sections for our 7th grade class.  To assist with the sections Ryan Hoffman and Trent Tonn will be coming over from Dyer to teach the additional elective sections.   
    • Staff room adjustments:  
      • Ryan Hoffman will be teaching out of room 3, STEM, during first semester. 
      • Trent Tonn will be teaching out of room 11, science classroom, during second semester.  
      • Zane Bale will be moving to room 108 on the second floor. 
      • Joe VanDommelen, new special education teacher, will be in room 25 (across from Kailee Smith).  
      • Scott Staude will be in room 20 as a new member of the Onyx House and will be teaching math.  
      • Briana Varnes (Harris) will be moving into 7th grade and will be in room 19, she will be co-teaching with Staude.

  • Staff trainings:  Everyone needs to complete the following three trainings and then submit your completion to the correct district people (noted below).  This will be talked about at our opening district meeting but thought I would get this to you prior for those wanting to get these out of the way!  Might be a good idea to use a few minutes of teacher work time to complete these!  


Mandatory Training - send completion to Kim Moss 



    Bloodbourne Pathogens - send completion to Jill Sheeley 



    Threat Reporting - send completion to Kim Moss 



    • Inservice information:   
      • Monday, August 26 - First day back for all teaching staff! 
        • This is an 8:00-4:00 workday - the entire day is teacher work time (on your own). 
        • All special education assistants that need to be recertified for MANDT will have a training from 8:00-11:30 in the Karcher library. 
        • Biometric screenings are from 7:00 - 12:00 at Burlington High School or Dyer Intermediate School.  You can sign up for any time that works best for you.  
        • Here is the link - more information, if needed was shared with you from Jill Sheeley.  
          • https://www.ehealthscreenings.com/signup.

      • Tuesday, August 27 - Inservice from 8:00 - 4:00 (all staff should be in attendance)
        • 7:30 - 8:00 - Coffee and light breakfast in the BHS commons.  
          • As of right now we do not believe Vitality will be coming (from what I know) prior to the start of the day.  
        • Open Convocation in the BHS Auditorium 8:00 - 9:00. 
        • Building level meeting with all Karcher staff in our Karcher library 9:30-11:30.
          • FYI... if the opening convocation runs longer than 8-9 whatever time everyone gets back to Karcher and meets in the library we will begin our 2 hour building level inservice.  Then lunch would shift, etc.  It if happens it happens... nothing to worry about!  
        • Lunch on your own.  
        • Teachers:  12:30-4:00 
          • Teacher work time (TWT).  
        • Special education aides:  
          • 12:30 - Meet in the Karcher library for a meeting with our special education teachers.  Once this is complete you will have time to review IEP information until 2:30.  
          • 2:45-4:00 - Health Training in the BHS Auditorium 
          • 4:00-5:00 - New aides only... payroll information in the BHS auditorium

      • Wednesday, August 28:  Inservice 8:00-4:00 (teachers only)
        • 8:00 - 12:00 will be Essential Skill work time.  
          • We will start in the library at 8:00.  
          • All K-8 elective teachers will be coming to work on essential skills with our elective teachers.  They too will be starting in the library with us.  
        • 1:00-4:00 - Teacher work time on our own!  
      • Wednesday, August 28 - Karcher Open House from 7:00-8:00pm.  Please be in your rooms and ready to go no later than 6:45 as we will open the doors promptly at 7:00.  If you come in any of the doors prior to 7:00 please do not let families in with you!  
        • Elementary Open House from 5:00-6:00 
        • Dyer Open House from 6:00-7:00 

      • Thursday, August 29 - Inservice 8:00-4:00 (teachers only)
        • 8:00 - 12:00 will be Essential Skill work time.  
          • We will start in the ULab at 8:00.  
          • All K-8 elective teachers will be coming to work on essential skills with our elective teachers.  They too will be starting in the library with us.  
          • Everyone but special education and interventionists will be working on Essential Skills.  
        • 8:00-10:00 - Special Education teachers and interventionists in the Karcher library focusing on further understanding of AIMSWeb.  
        • Interventionists will then have time from 10:00 - 12:00 to look at student data for interventions, etc. 
        • 10:00-12:00 - All BASD special education teachers in the Karcher library with Kathy Merlo. 
        • 1:00-4:00 Teacher work time (TWT).  

      • Friday, August 30 - No School 
      • Tuesday, September 3 - First day of school!  
        • Note the first and second day of school we have different bell schedules!  
    • New building information:   
      • Scherrer Construction will be using two of our current classrooms, rooms 38 and 39 (old FACE room and orchestra room), as their staging/meeting areas for the new construction.  We will be changing the cores to the actual doors so no one from the construction side will have access to the rest of Karcher.  They will be creating new exterior doors from the classrooms to the football field to provide them with meeting space throughout the construction.  The reason for this is to avoid the need for them to use half of the field across Wainwright street for their staging/trailor area (where we hold recess, field day, etc).
      • Therefore, Orchestra will be moved and taught in room 36 (the band room).   
      • Due to the fencing for the new construction being in place staff who preferred parking in the back parking lot will now need to part on any neighboring street.  Please be mindful that no one can park in the recess area when school is in session with students.  All other usual parking locations staff can still use.  
      • Though the fencing is up we are still allowed to use the football field for Field Day, PE classes, etc until we see any equipment being placed within the football field area.  
      • The ground breaking ceremony for the new building will be on October 16 @ 5:30pm.  





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