April 12, 2020

KARCHER STAFF BLOG

2019-2020 Karcher Calendar

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/KarcherMiddleSchool/

BASD Staff Blog: https://basdstaffnews.blogspot.com/

______________________________________________________________________________

Kudos

____________________________________________________________________________________________________

Thank again to Briana Harris and Suzanne Dunbar for taking the lead and working to put a lip singing video together on behalf of Karcher staff! It was great to see the participation! Thank you to all who were willing to put yourselves out there! Excited to see the final product!
Also, thanks again to Stephanie Rummler, Suzanne Dunbar, and our leadership students for putting together the chalk drawing video, that will come out soon! It is a great way to get our students engaged and connected to each other!
Stephanie Rummler also worked with our leadership students to get some Karcher dress up days going! Below is the list of days!

Scott Staude and his family welcomed their newest family member, Louie! He slept through the night starting day one!!! But... from the time he woke up he made 7 mistakes in the house is a very short period of time! House training here we come right!!! Louie is a double doodle! What a cool Easter gift!!! Congrats Staude family!

Article this week:
This is a GREAT article talking about the balance of teaching and parenting at the same time! We know a lot of our staff are continually working on "finding the balance" of taking care of our Karcher students while also maintaining "normalcy" with your own families at the same time. May this article be of some help and reflection.

______________________________________________________________________________

Information/Reminders

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

New Construction Information

Click HERE to access the new building blog!

This week:

Monday, April 13: Inservice Day!

8:00 - 12:00 is Essential Skill time throughout the school district.

As we talked with all staff this week, please focus on your Essential Skill work that is necessary when thinking that come August 17th we will be using a standards-based gradebook.
Updating rubrics (tweaking them), tweaking/creating drafts of common formatives or common summatives, and/or overall needs for your Essential Skills.
Please make sure your "Essential Skills at a Glance" is up to date and accurate. Remember... then language noted in your at a glance document is what you will see in your gradebook in Skyward.
Annie and I will have a Zoom up and running throughout the time frame from 8:00 - 12:00. We will invite everyone into the Zoom... only come in if you have any questions! You can come in, go out, come back in, etc throughout the time frame. This will allow for an easy way to ask questions, etc throughout your Essential Skill time.

Scheduling Committee Meeting for those on the committee will be from 1:00 - 2:00. Information pertaining to the committee was sent to committee members last week!

Team meeting schedule (due to 4 day week)

Tuesday: Onyx 7:30 - 8:15, Student Services 8:15 - 9:00
Wednesday: Normal schedule

Silver 7:30 - 8:15, Interventionists 8:15 - 9:00, ESL 9:00

Thursday: Hive 7:30 - 8:15, Diamond 8:15 - 9:00
Friday: Normal schedule

Electives 7:30 - 8:15

A parent request...

Could staff share out, during their first time they share for the week, what skills will be assessed or "turned in" for that week. This could help students keep track of what is "turned in" skill wise versus what is supportive tools for a skill being learned.
I know the elective team started thinking about this as a potential additional way to help students navigate what skills you are wanting to assess and when... thinking that putting things in the gradebook ahead of time shows students what they need to complete skill wise for the week.
Please think about how to streamline your "what" from your "how" items so students know explicitly "what" you are asking from them in order for you to give them feedback around a specific skill.

Thank you to our Silver House, BLT, and leadership students for thinking through how to provide students with more focus per day as feedback has been trying to do all 7 classes everyday has been tough for students. Therefore, the below schedule was created by our teams and will start on April 14th! Thanks again for your care and concern of our students to ensure they are having success at home.