April Staff Meeting

April Staff Meeting

April 12th, 2016

7:30 am

Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again. So live life to the fullest today, and have no regrets.

1.  School Referendum

• There was no decision on the architect.
• The process will take a couple of weeks.
• Exciting time for our students, staff, and community.  People doubted the process but we should be proud of the persistance and accomplishment of educators.  Thanks for everybody who showed great persistance and belief.

2.  Testing Information

• Aspire Testing Information
• Test Date Information:  April 25th-29th
• ACT Aspire Testing Information
• AP Testing
• Preadministration AP Meeting
• Wed., April 27th- 11th/12th during 10th hour/homeroom
• Thur., April 28th- 9th grade during 1st Hour-Cafeteria
• Fri., April 29th- 10th grade during 2nd Hour-Cafeteria
• AP Test Review Date(s) After School.
• Wednesday, April 20th- AP English Literature
• Wednesday, April 27th- AP Pyschology
• Wednesday, April 4th- AP Human Geography, AP Gov't, AP US History
• Test Dates
• AP Testing Information

3.  Graduation Information

• Senior Final Date(s)
• Monday, May 23rd:  Periods 1-5
• Tuesday, May 24th:  Periods 6-10
• Wednesday, May 25th Class Night
• Underclassman Final Dates
• Wednesday, June 1st TBA
• Thursday, June 2nd TBA

4.  Important Date(s)

• Wednesday, April 13th- Term 3 Incompletes are due.
• Thursday, April 14th @ 8:40 am:  Academic Excellence Program
• Thursday, April 14th- State Tornado Drill
• 1:00 Tornado Watch/1:45 Tornado Drill
• Friday, April 15th-State Forensics
• Friday, April 15th- 3 Week Progress Reports Due
• Monday, April 18th
• Prairie Relays
• Ford Drive Fundraiser during the Prairie Relays:  Skills USA, Track, and Athletics
• $20.00 per test driver/Up to $6,000.00 Fundraiser
• Fundraiser will run from 3:00-8:00 during the Prairie Relays
• April 20th Reality Check- Seniors
• Tuesday, April 12th 3rd Hour Meeting
• Monday, April 18th 3rd Hour Meeting
• May 18th Awards Day
• Time TBA

5.  Students
6.  Summer School

• Summer School registration will be posted by the start of next week
• Registration will be completed on-line
• Any area(s) interested in the summer school options
• Currently Physical Education/Driver Education offering

7.  Summer Projects

• Energy Efficient Dollars
• Cafeteria Bathrooms:  June 6th is the start-up date
• Band Room:  Band Windows

8.  Other Information

March Staff Meeting

March Staff Meeting

March 7th, 2016

7:30

Everybody wants to be somebody.  The thing you have to do is give kids confidence they can.  You have to give them a dream.  -George Foreman

1.  Progress Reports- 6 week (March 4th)

• Extra Step for the Progress Reports
• Open back up this morning and will close at 12:00
• No School on Friday, March 25th
• End of Quarter:  Monday, March 28th 

2.  ACT Test Summary

• Two students left to test
• Went well with the 2-hour delay
• March 15th and 16th will be make-up for the students.
• Staff, Great Job with the activities.  Appreciate everybody's effort!

3.  Testing

• FORWARD Test
• Will be the 1st week of April
• History test for Sophomores
• The test will be completed in two days during the AP Gov't classes or hour as each section is fifty minutes.

• ACT Aspire Window:  April 4th-May 27th for 9th/10th Graders
• We will use blocks of class time for testing each day.
• We have been told Chromebooks will be sufficient.
• Civics Test- Starting in 2016-17 School Year
• AP Gov't
• AP US History
• English 12 students

4.  16-17 Bell Schedule

5.  SWTC Information

• SWTC Plan
• Upper Iowa or Nicolet College- Associate Degree
• Monday, March 28th may be at time, we meet with the SWTC staff.
• More information in the common planning time.
• Master Schedule

6.  Student Up-Date:

7.  Any other information:  

• Tuesday, March 15th Band Concert
• Text Driving Presentation- March 21st?

February Staff Meeting

February Staff Meeting

February 9th, 2016

7:30 AM

With so much clutter in our lives today it is those who can simplify their direction, their goals, their plans that truly achieve!

1.  16-17 Future Scheduling

• The process has started with the building of the master schedule.
• We will be using the Skyward on the student request as I did get a request from our school board concern with student numbers per section.
• Master Schedule
• Future Bell Schedule for review and discussion.  We will just digest this morning.
• Food For Thought: Future Master Schedule

2.  Progress Reports

• Due Friday, February 12th
• Student-athletes that are currently ineligible could become eligible today after 5:00.  (15th Day)
• 6-Week will be Friday, March 4th.

3. School Board Meeting

• Referendeum
• Anybody observe the school board meeting last night?

4. UpComing Dates

• Tri-State Honors Band @ UWP  Friday, February 12th
• Chinese Day:  Saturday, February 20th @ HS Gym

5. Students:

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Daily News:

• Still working with SWTC on the Associate Degree
• Reality Check:  April 20th
• Texting/Driving Presentation for students:  March 21st and we're currently waiting on the time as the program will be about an  hour for the students.

 Reminders

• March 1st/2nd ACT Test/ACT Work Keys for 11th Graders
• Meeting Monday, February 15th for the 11th graders during homeroom
• March 15th/16th Make-up
• Leadership Team on school activities
• Meet on Wednesday, February 10th at 4:00 for finalization of activities.
• ACT Aspire Window:  April 25th-May 27th for 9th/10th Graders
• We will use blocks of class time for testing each day.
• We have been told Chromebooks will be sufficient.
• FORWARD Test
• Will be the 1st week of April
• History test for Sophomores
• The test will be completed in two days during the AP Gov't classes or hour as each section is fifty minutes.

January Staff Meeting

January Staff Meeting

1/12/2016

7:30 am

1.  Semester Finals

• Thursday, January 14th and Friday, January 15th
• Extensions:  D/F Students working with staff members to complete the work or study for finals.
• Remind students about being in the library to study for future test.  Please help keep students out of the hallways.  All students must remain in the testing room for designated hour.
• Staff reminders about taking semester exams early.  You may use the designated testing hour on Friday and all semester test should be taken during the designated time unless administrative approval for early time slot.
• Semester Finals

2.  Student Schedules:  2nd Semester Class Changes

• Changes will take place on Thursday and Friday this week.  Please have students send us appointments.  We're making changes during school lunch or before school in the cafeteria.

3.  Monday, January 18th Teacher Work Day

• Professional Development:  Write to Learn
• 9:00-12:00 Humanities
• 1:00-4:00  Bluffview Staff/HS Science Staff
• Understanding WRS: Your State Pension Plan
• 1:00 Auditorium
• Grades are due by 5:00
• Set-up meetings with new staff on Educator Effectiveness.

4.  Students

• Online Students
• Faith Kober, Autumn Phelps, Duncan Ohlert,
• Juniors/Seniors Credit Trouble
• Students Concerns

5.  Reminders

• March 1st/2nd ACT Test/ACT Work Keys for 11th Graders
• March 15th/16th Make-up
• Leadership Team on school activities
• ACT Aspire Window:  April 25th-May 27th for 9th/10th Graders
• We will use blocks of class time for testing each day.
• We have been told Chromebooks will be sufficient.

6.  Prairie du Chien High School:  Great effort and work during the 1st Semester of school.  Karen and I really do appreciate the time with students.  We look forward to a tremendous 2nd Semester and some school items we will be attcking in the 2nd semester:

1. 15-17 Student Request/Master Schedule
2. Teacher Evaluation or Educator Effectiveness
3. April Referendum
4. Associate Degree with SWTC

7.  Open Forum

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?