December Staff Meeting

December Staff Meeting

December 8th, 2015

7:30 am

"The beginning teacher teaches everything they know. The experienced teacher teaches only what is needed for the student to know at that stage."

1.  State of Union Address

• Building Referendum
• Operating Referendum

2.  Guidance Update:  Karen Sjoberg

3.  Student Updates:  

4.  Chromebook Discussion

• Please review the document about the Apps.
• Phones in the room.
• Chromebooks in the classroom

5.  Substituting Internally

6.  Any other updates

Reminders/Upcoming Dates:

Thursday, December 10th:  Elementary Winter Concert- HS

Saturday, December 12th:  ACT Test- We will not be hosting.

Tuesday, December 15th:  HS Winter Band Concert

Friday, December 18th:  Progress Reports- 6 Week of Term 2- Students will become ineligible for activities.

Monday, December 21st:  Winter Choir Concert

Wednesday, December 24th:  Starts Winter Break

Monday, January 4th:  Classes Resume

Happy Holidays!  Enjoy the family time during the Winter Break.

November Staff Meeting

November Staff Meeting

November 2nd, 2015 

Room 218

8:30 AM

1.  Laundry Items from the 1st Quarter

• Students sitting on the desk
• Student Back Packs
• Parking Lot during school
• Bathrooms
• Student  Bullying
• Grades due at 5:00 today
• Many students completing ISS today.  Karen and I will give the names in the staff meeting.
• Remind 101- School Cancellations or Delays
• Lunch Concerns
• No November Staff Meeting
• Any Other Information or Concerns

2.  Educator Effectiveness

We were told by DPI concerning Teachscape and the evaluation process. Nobody is sure how long Teachscape will be here for our evaluation process.  We will be using Google Folders to store your information, complete walk-throughs, and announced evaluations.  The Google Folders have been completed for you.  We will review the documents for discussion.

• Open up your folder
• Beginning of the Year Documents
• Danielson Framework
• You can clean-up my spelling error:)
• End of the Year
• Evidence and Artifacts
• Mid-year Documents
• Observation Information
• Final Score will be placed in Teachscape
• Completed by June 30th

The data process hasn't changed with a SLO and PPG.  You may have a department or individual SLO but will need a SLO each year.  You will be in a non-evaluator or evaluator year.  In the 3-year process, we will need to complete 1 announced evaluation and 5-walkthroughs.

Pre-meeting and evaluation will be sent to you by next week for evaluation year.  Post meeting will be set-up after the evaluation is completed.

What do you feel is a good timeline to have your SLO and PPG completed?

Mid-year Review- Evaluator Year will be completed on Monday, January 18th unless you're using a block course as part of your evaluation for your SLO.

Advance Placement Meeting

            Room 218 @ 9:30

• Karen Sjoberg will be announced as AP Coordinator
• Due to my children taking AP Test
• Will help except for any AP Test handling.
• AP Teacher's can proctor other AP Exams
• Will use St. John's and City Hall again for testing.
• Ordering of Essays for 2016
• AP World History and Calculus AB and BC review done for next year

October Staff Meeting

October Staff Meeting

7:30 AM

Room 218

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out."

1. Upcoming Important Dates

• Tuesday, October 13th- Freshman College Day @ UW Platteville
• Tuesday, October 13th- Advisory Task Force Meeting 6:00-7:30 pm
• Wednesday, October 14th- PSAT Test 8:00-1:00 @ St. John's
• Monday, November 2nd- End of the 1st Quarter
• November 4th HS Musical Matinee
• November 6-7 and 13-14th HS Musical

2.  Educator Effectiveness

• Finish up a EE meeting on  Thursday, October 22nd.
• Teachscape- no promises this will be around.
• Google Classroom or Google Folder for Information
• Will have two meetings
• Evaluator Year
• Non-evaluator year

3. Stem and Humanities Meeting 

• Cancelled for Wednesday, October 28th

4.  School Leadership Meeting

• Cancelled for Wednesday, October 14th

5. School Board Meeting

• Short and quiet meeting last night

6.  Questions/Concerns on Students

7.  Staff Input- School Topics

8.  Thought for the day?

What is the most important procedure that any teacher must have?

What is your procedure for securing students' attention?  In other words, what is one thing you do consistently, every time you need attention of your students?

September Staff Meeting

September 9th Staff Meeting

7:30 AM

Room 218

  "You become what you think about most. Let those thoughts be great."

Remember 531

Staff- Any immediate concerns or items you would like to bring up before our meeting.

1.  State Testing Dates Information

https://oea.dpi.wi.gov/assessment/ACT/calendar

• March 1st- ACT Test for 11th Graders
• March 2nd- ACT Work Keys
• March 15th- ACT Make-up
• April 25-May 27th- ACT Aspire for 9th and 10th Graders

No WKCE Testing for 10th graders in the Fall

2. Picture Re-takes

• Tuesday, September 29th 1:30-3:30

3.  Homecoming Week

• September 21st-26th
• Heather and Paula- add any information on the week

4.  Student Schedule

• Please review your attendance roster.  There shouldn't be any students listed on your rosters that aren't in your class.  If so, please send an e-mail to Karen Sjoberg.

5. Questions on any students

6.  Humanities/Stem PLC Meetings will start today.

7.  Leadership Team Meeting:  Will need to move the meeting to next Wednesday, September 16th @ 4:00.  Sorry for the date change.

8.  Meeting Schedule 

• You sure can have homecoming meetings with your committee groups.  Please remember you must have supervision with the students.  Don't send them somewhere without you supervising the group.

9.  School Internet Filter

• You may have some sights blocked because of the school filter.  Please review your sites you may be using for your classroom ahead of time.  

10.  ACT Test- Karen Sjoberg

• Saturday, September 12th

11. HS Progress Reports

• Friday, September 18th due at 5:00
• There are no extra steps for staff for the Progress Reports

Have a great month of September!!

May Staff Meeting

Staff Meeting

May 12th

Staff  meeting cancelled due to AP Testing

"If you don't have great teachers, you don't have a great school and nothing else is going to change that." -Todd Whiteaker

Announcements:

Seniors:

• Finish AP Testing this week with all the students
• Monday, May 18th  Senior Trip to Madison-  Senior List of participants will follow at the end of the week.  
• If seniors don't attend, they're expected to be at school on Monday, May 18th.  If the seniors are over 10 days, a medical note must follow for their absence of school.
• Tuesday, May 19th  Senior Finals- all the Senior Finals will be given on Tuesday.  We will follow a regular school schedule for the senior finals.
• Any seniors needed to turn in any school items.  Please send the list of items to Jan Ostrander.  ASAP
• Senior Failures are due on Wednesday, May 20th @ 8:00 am  Please send e-mail to Andy Banasik for any senior failures.
• Wednesday, May 20th  Class/Graduation Practice will begin at 8:45.  Please wait for an announcement for the underclassman.  The Class Night/Graduation practice will take about 2-hours.  The underclassman will be with us for about 30 minutes.
• Wednesday, May 20th  Class Night will at 7:00 PM in the high school gymnasium
• Thursday, May 21st- We will have seniors in school for tardiness that took place the last month as they were under contract.
• Sunday, May 24th- High School Graduation @ 2:00 and hopefully sending them off to their next life adventure.

9th-11th Students

• 10th Graders will be AP Gov't Testing- They will have open campus lunch and expected to return around 1:00.  We will confirm this with an e-mail announcement around 12:00 on Tuesday.
• Finish AP Testing- 9th Grade will be testing on Friday, May 15th.  We will follow the same format for open campus as we did with the 10th graders on Tuesday, May 12th.
• Monday, May 18th  Pops Concert
• Wednesday, June 3rd Underclassman Finals...schedule to follow by e-mail.
• Thursday, June 4th Underclassman Finals....schedule to follow by e-mail.
• Thursday, June 4th will be last day for students.  I think we can honestly say "No more snow days!
• Friday, June 5th Teacher Work Day- Grades due at 5:00
• Monday, June 8th Summer School begins with Driver's Education Classes.
• Monday, June 15th would start Summer School PE

School News:

• Art Room, kitchen, and upstairs bathroom projects will begin with the bathroom demolition starting on Tuesday, May 26th  The upstairs bathroom will be out of commission starting on Tuesday, May 26th.   There could be some noise taking place from the demolition.  If so, we may need to displace some classrooms which are located right next to the up-stairs bathrooms. (Hannah's and Krista's room) 
• Art Room construction date is Friday, June 5th
• Kitchen construction date is Monday, June 15th
• Remember, these projects must be complete by June 30th so this is why some projects are taking place during our school day.
• A Huge "Thanks" goes to the Student Council and Advisors Heather DeBruin and Paula Shedivy on the Awards Day.  Thanks!!!
• Spring Play- Great Work with a short time amount of days to get ready for the play.   Great Job Phil.
• Great Work by all junior advisors with the Junior Prom at the Dousman House and Post Prom at the PDC HS.
• Skills USA, Solo Ensemble, and State Forensics put in tremendous work this Spring.
• Spring Sports Good Luck in the WIAA Tournament
• Great work by staff who completed extra study sessions during the week.  Really great to see Friday nights used for study sessions.  Jennifer and I really appreciate the extra time and effort given to students who are willing go the extra mile trying to score well on the AP Test.  Thanks for your passion in education and students!!
• Really, many great things happening with our students and staff for the last month.  Jennifer and I really appreciate your work with students/parents.

Staff Meeting April 21st

April Staff Meeting

   1.  Testing  

1. ACT Aspire April 27th - May 1st
1. May be tested on chromebooks.
2. AP pre-registration materials
1. AP Human Geography and Government Tuesday and Thursday
2. April 29th 1:50-2:45pm - All other student test distribution
3. AP Test Schedule

      2.  Reality Check April 22nd - ice cream :)  If you can help serve ice cream during lunch that 

           would be great!

      

      3.  April 28th - 30th

      4.  Term 3 Academic Excellence May 6th during Awards Day 1:00pm
               1.  See Heather about moving this to May 6

      5.  New Board Orientation Thursday, April 23rd

      6.  Class Night is May 20th

      7.  Finals for Seniors May 18th periods 1-4 and  May 19th periods 5-10
                1.  Senior class trip?

      8.  Summer School is Online

      9.  Staffing for next year:  History position (tabled), Business Education Consolidated with 
           Technical Education, Math will add PLTW IED coursework to department

      10.  ASBESTOS - Round  2 :) April 24th - 29th.  This will affect Matt, Phil, and Mark
           Do not go in the East Wing that weekend!  :)  
      
      11.  Safety Audit

      12.  Art and Kitchen Project will begin after after April 29th.  Does anyone want to help grill for
            school lunch for the remainder of the year?  We will call it "open campus".  Project must be
            done by July 1 to be reimbursable with Energy Efficiency dollars.

      13.  2015-16 Schedule - Lunch, Homeroom

      14.  Conversation Concerns

      15.  Thoughts :)

   

   


   


   

Staff Meeting March 10th

High School Staff Meeting

March 10th, 7:30 am

"Success is going from one failure to the next with-out losing enthusiam" 

1.  ACT - Thank you to everyone that helped with this and the activity days!

• Discussion on homework during the ACT test dates.
• Thanks to Mrs. DeBruin, Mrs. Shedivy, and Mrs. White for leading the charge!!  All staff who did help with supervision of activities.

2.  Upcoming Testing 

• Spring ACT Aspire Testing Dates:  Monday, April 27th- May 6th (More information to come)

• Monday, April 27th:  3rd/4th Hour  English/Writing (40min, Writing 30 min)

Tuesday, April 28th:  8th Hour Extended-Science (55 min)

Wednesday, April 29th:  3rd/4th Hour-Math (65 min)

Monday, May 4th:  8th Hour Extending-Reading (60 min)

Tuesday, May 5th:  1st/9th Hour (Mrs. Gallagher/Mr. Banasik)

Wednesday, May 6th:  1st/9th Hour  (Mrs. Gallagher/Mr. Banasik)

• AP Testing:  Starts Monday, May 4th

          3.  Summer School Scheduling

• Changes in PE offering.
• Chinese/Spanish/Pre-Calculus offerings
• Status quo for Driver's Education
• 7th/8th grader offering for high school credit.

          4.  15-16 Scheduling

• More information to follow.  Mrs. Gallagher and I need sometime to finalize details.

          5.  Upcoming Events

• March 11th SWC Math Contest @ River Valley
• March 11th PLTW Students in Madison, WI
• March 17th/18th ACT Make-up
• March 17th HS Concert Festival with River Valley
• March 26th End of  Quarter 3
• March 27th   More information to follow for staff training.

            6.  Staff Discussion Items/Topics

            7.  TED Talk:  We all need a relationships!  Keep-up the great work.

February Staff Meeting

February, 10th, 2015

7:30 AM

1.  ACT Testing(11th Graders):  March 3rd/4th @ St. John's.

• Student Council is trying to finalize afternoon activities for the afternoon.
• Heather/Paula anymore insight or discussion?

2.  School Finances- Governor's Budget

"A piece of technology will not, can not, NEVER, ever replace a high quality teacher." From @Joesanfelippofc http://t.co/BUaqkufXrv
— Curt Rees (@CurtRees)

• $150.00 pupil cut- $180,000.00 cut (Based on 1,200 students)
• No pay new money for two years- 8% or less

3.  Homeroom Discussion

• 15-16 School year
• Twice a week @ 20 minutes....end of the day.

4.   Scheduling

• Any students not listed or need changes, please let us know.  We did have a Integrated Math Class, Tiers, and a deduction in all of our technology educations courses and students dropping to a point where entire sections being lost.  So you can see there wa a huge domino effect.

5.  School Board Meeting Review:  Monday, February 9th

• Administrators Evaluations:  Thanks to everybody who did give input for our evaluations.
• Otherwise, a pretty low key school board meeting.
• Weekend Custodians

6.  Youth Options/Work Experience

• Record number of students for next year.  CNA and other coursework and post-secondary education as we need to market our junior/senior courses.

7.  Keep the faith and working hard to build relationships with students.  WE appreciate the time given to this great profession and making a difference in a student life.

The first five minutes of class. http://t.co/AcCDrq9Ptp
— Dr. Richard Voltz (@rvoltz) January 24, 2015

Life is like a camera. Just focus on what’s important, capture the good times, develop from the negatives, and if things don’t turn out – take another shot.— Unknown

January Staff Meeting

January Staff Meeting

January 13th, 2015

7:30 am

1. 2014 1st Semester Mid-Term/Finals

Final Exam Schedule

2.  January 19th Teacher In-service Day

        

Staff Development- January 19th

• Grades are due Monday, January 19th @ 5:00

3.  ACT Test Date Reminder:

 Test Dates

4.  Any questions you may have on students?

5.  Validation on Teaching

 

 * The first semester is almost over.  Where does time go?  Keep-up the great work of working with students/parents/community.  Thanks for all you do to make this a great place to work and teach in education.  Please keep understanding how each and everyone of you can make a huge difference in a student's life.