February 7, 2021

KUDOS!

KUDOS to our counseling department, Steve Berezowitz as it was Counselor's Week last week! Steve has done a marvelous job stepping up and assisting any way he can! Thank you also to Nicole DeLassus and Kristen Suiter who have been with Steve for parts of their day as they work on getting their counseling practicum hours!
A BIG thank you goes out to Dawn Salbrieter, Jon Nelson, and Amanda Thate for your continued willingness to support your colleagues when they are needing to teach from home due to quarantining - Legit GEESE!
Thank you to all of our elective staff for your efforts with putting together the course booklet (course descriptions) and the course proposals for the board. We have 17 new courses going to the board (which sounds like a lot) but as are also moving from semesters to trimesters so that splits courses up into 3rds. Thanks again to Dawn Salbrieter, Jennifer Pelnar, Rod Stoughton, Dustan Eckmann, Eric Sulik, Ryan Hoffman, Jon Nelson, and Hans Block for doing the bulk of the work!
Kudos to our 6-8 BLT team as they have done a nice job building consensus around some ins and outs for the new 6-8 building. They continue to meet weekly until everything is flushed out! Members: Kurt Rummler, Stephanie Rummler, Barb Berezowitz, Andrea Hancock, Pattie Tenhagen, Jess Maike, Jenny Trewyn, Melissa Miskell, Amanda Thate, Alyssa Riggs, Steve Berezowitz, Dawn Salbrieter, Eric Sulik, and Jon Nelson.

Article this week!

Great reminder of ways to continue to build relationships with students! Link :)))

Information/Reminders:

Black History Art/Essay Contest!!!
BASD has partnered with BCDR for a student art and essay contest centered around Black History! It would be AWESOME to see a strong participation rate for this!
The due date for grades K-6 will be February 18th by 3:00!!!

Monday, February 8 - K-12 District Essential Skills (Grading Practices Team) meeting from 3:45-5:15 via Zoom. The link will come from Annie Phillips.
Monday, February 8 - Seeking board approval of the use of trimesters and our new elective course proposals. If you have interest in tuning in you can access the live-streamed board meetings from our BASD website under "district".

Depending on how the meeting goes we will then move forward with our course selection booklets for our current 5, 6, and 7 grade students to select their electives for the 2021-2022 school year.

6-8 BLT Team Meeting from 12:00-1:00 via Zoom (Annie will share the link).
Special Education Staff Meeting - we will be meeting at 2:00 by the old orchestra room doors at old KMS to visually see the spaces at new Karcher (this is the music hallway by Rod/Dustan's old classrooms).

You might want to just park on Wainwright/Alice and come in the doors that way - but don't park in the recess area!

ALL staff (certified & non-certified) are asked to be in the virtual attendance from 8:00-11:30. Non-certified staff, you have hours for the 12th on your return to work notices but they were subject to change. Therefore, wanting you to know the hours shifted a bit!
ALL Staff:

Both the 8:00 and 8:30 items will be delivered via Zoom. Everyone will need their own computer as everyone will be going back and forth from whole group to breakout rooms! So... please make sure you have a space and computer to do so!
8:00-8:30 Welcome from Dr. Plank, Longevity Awards
8:30-11:30 Reggie Jackson Presentation
11:30 on... enjoy your afternoon off!

This time for 7-8 teachers will be to purge and organize materials that are currently in old Karcher.

We have shifted/switched the building level time and teacher work time so that we can be in the new building for a portion of our building level time!

Pictures from this week!!!

Some of our 8th grade orchestra students enjoying their time with Mr. Eckmann.