November Staff Meeting

November Staff Meeting

Tuesday, November 12th, 2013

7:30 AM

1. Bring your Cell Phones!!  Remind 101- Emergency Contact List
2. November is testing month!!  Any questions concerning the WKCE Testing Lay-out?  We do appreciate your working with class schedules and interuptions.
• Mrs Jennifer Gallagher did send-out the schedule.
• Reminder, seniors will not need to be in until 9:15 on Tuesday and 10:00 on other WKCE Testing days.
3. Recycle Bins:  Your recycle bin will be gone after Tuesday to help with book pick-up at Wylausing Academy.  We do own many school materials at Wylausing Academy that will need to be stored in our school district.
4. Three Week Progress Reports due on Friday, November 22nd at 5:00
5. Incompletes are due on Friday, November 15th, 2013
6. High School Musical:  Last week to see our high school students perform GodSpell.  Hope to see you at the event!!
7. P/T Conference:  NO P/T Conference in the month of December.  Please communicate with parents on any failures"

"Appreciate the Energy Givers"  Keep-up the great work!

October Staff Meeting

October Staff Meeting

October 8th, 2013

7:30 AM

1. After Hours
• The students can receive partial credit for students completing work in "After Hours".
2. Educator Effectiveness
• Administrators will be completing the 30 hours of video requirement in October.  There is a 2-hour test for administration before we can start the pilot group with teacher evaluations.
• Heather did discuss a "Reading Club" on Danielson.  Anything finalized?
3. Club Meetings
• Before School:  7:30
• After School:  3:45
• After Lunch
• What do we do with the other students not in clubs?
• Staff willing to help with substituting for staff during club meetings?
• If this is the path, what clubs will need to meet once a month?  FFA,
4. Start of Classes
• Please help us out with the start of classes.
5. Mandatory Trainings:  Safe School Website
• You will need to follow Bridget Wright's e-mail on the training.  Once completed you must print a hard copy and send this completion certificate to Bridget Wright in the District office.
6. WKCE Test Dates:  November 11th, 12th, 18th, 19th
7. October P/T Conference
• We will go back to Wednesday night.  It was an error reported in our district calendar.
8. Other Information

Important Future Dates:

Tuesday, October 8th/10th College Fair w/ Guidance Department

Friday, October 11th, 6-Week Progress Report:  Students may become ineligible.
Wednesday, October 16th PSAT Testing

Saturday, October 19th ACT Test Date

Friday, November 1st Work Day/End of Quarter

Monday, November 11th Veteran's Day Program

September Staff Meeting

September Staff Meeting

Tuesday, September 10th

7:30 am

1.  Super Star Moments:

• 1st week of school
• Dialogue of Pre-service:  What well?  What didn't go well?

2.  Common Planning Meeting Times:

• STEM Meeting Times:  Wednesday,  September 16th @ 3:00 in room 103.
• Humanities Meeting Times:  Wednesday, September 16th @11:15-12:00 in room 103.
• We will discuss the expectations of the PLC. in our initial meeting on Wednesday, September 16th.

3.  HSAC Meeting

• Wednesday, September 16th @ 4:00 in room 218.

Housekeeping Business:

• 2013 ACT Scores and results
• Scheduling for 2014-15 school year
• Itinerary for Homecoming this week
• Losing 8th, 9th, and 10th hour
• We're trying to find a solution to the loss class time.
• School Schedule
• Twitter Accounts:  Please complete the information and place in the Google Document.
• Emergency Cell Contact Numbers:  Please complete the information and place in the Google Document

4.  Excited about the great start to school.  Keep being Superstars!!

Staff Meeting

Freshman Orientation

May Staff Meeting

May Staff Meeting

Wednesday, May 14th, 2013

1.  High School Testing Dates

• Act Aspire Make-up:  Monday, May 20th, 2013 from 8:00-12:00
• Act Scaling Study:  Freshman/Sophomores 11:45-12:15
• AP Alternate Testing:  May 29-31st
• Senior Finals:
• Periods 1-4 Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
• Periods 5-8  Monday, May 20th, 2013
• Senior Picnic:  Tuesday, May 21st @ St. Feriole Island

2.  Important Dates:

• Graduation Practice:  Wednesday, May 22nd @ 8:45
• Class Night:  Wednesday, May 22nd @ 7:30
• Senior Grades due Tuesday, May 21st @ 5:00.  Please send e-mail to Andy on any senior failures.
• Graduation:  Sunday, May 26th @ 2:00
• 2nd Semester Finals:  Thursday, June 6th and Friday, June 7th Semester Final Schedule
• Periods 1-4 on Thursday, June 6th
• Periods 5-8 on Friday, June 7th
• Staff Check-out, Monday, June 10th
• Professional  Learning Days:  June 11th-13th
• More information to follow
• District Staff End of Year Gathering:  Please review Laura Stuckey's Google Form

3.  Congratulations Staff

• US News Silver Award:  Second Year in a row. Rated # 30 in the State of Wisconsin.
• All the hard work with AP Testing, Act Aspire Testing, and Smarter Balance Testing.
• Educator Effectiveness:  Heather DeBruin, 

Staff Exercise:

" A teacher is......."

" A student is......."

As we are wrapping up the school year, please make time to connect and leave a lasting positive impression.

Pre-Service

April 9, 2013

Staff Meeting 

Today's Meet/HSAC - Great Discussions - we will look to try to continue more of a discussion format in all of our meetings.  Thank you to all who contributed!  Google Calendar - Rschool for meetings.  

• School will end June 7th with students.  Thank you to all the staff that attended Wednesday nights meeting.  Your input was very valuable.  
• June 10th will be a teacher workday/check-out.  June 11th - 13th will be Professional Development.
• Items to be included June 11th - 13th:
• Infinite Campus
• Technology Tools 
• Common Core
• RtI - Team Building
• more to come....:)

All This Fabulous Testing LOL :) - Smarter Balance - Staff Meeting  - Today for proctors at 4:00pm.  

Testing reminder - April 16th 11th grade, April 17th 11th grade, April 18th 10th grade.  All computers will be used.(wireless too)  Testing will take place from 8:00am - 10:30am.  Test run on the 10th of April.

Make-up for Smarter Balance - April 22nd.  

ACT/Aspire - April 23rd.  Aspire/ACT Staff Info - Test Make-up for May 7th for ACT

• Attendance
• Floaters
• Computer Testing
• Change of Lunch
• Classes will begin prior to Aspire finishing
• Scaling Study (160 minutes) TBD
• Seniors will not be in school until noon  - Can I meet with them during Reality Check?

AP - April 29th - Meeting with kids 11:45am - please refer to email on test dates.