Conference Reminders and the Conference Brochures should be sent home with students on Friday. There was an email sent with the same information for you to forward to parents. Please take the time to read The Branch too - especially the information regarding conferences. As mentioned, teams/classroom teachers need to communicate with parents as to how you want parents and students to engage in the student-led portion of the conference that takes place outside your room.
Progress Reports - Related arts will have progress reports completed by Thursday morning and I will have classroom teachers print completed progress reports on Friday, November 11, for parents who do not have internet or have requested hard copies of information. There will be an email sent to parents next Friday after school that the PS Portal has been reopened and steps for them to access their child's progress reports prior to conferences. Questions - run those through BLT members and then to me if needed.
BLT went through some post-Instructional Rounds learning and sharing this morning. We hope to have some information to you soon as there are great celebrations to share and a solid foundation to build upon and continue our work toward moving from good to great! Thank you for their time this morning and leadership in this process.
Emergency Reference Guide - If you do not have a red ER Guide, notify me ASAP so we can get you one.
Internet Connection - An IT request was completed to hopefully address the internet connection issues many of you are having in the building. Thank you for being patient and continuing to turn on and off your airport several times a day. :-)
Robotics Club begins next week and will take place the first Tuesday and Thursday of the month. It will be held in the library and computer lab from 3:50 to 5:00 pm. There will be parent and 4-H volunteers leading these clubs and we have nearly 40 third-fifth graders signed up to participate! Should be a lot of fun to watch so stop in anytime!
Thank you to the third grade team for bringing in our special visitor today! I heard the students had great questions for our governor and represented Waukee and Maple Grove very well. Fun stuff! Thank you also to Natalie Shay for filling in for Kristin during her maternity leave. We are excited to have Kristin back but truly appreciate Natalie's job she did over the past 7 weeks!!
Items from District Admin Meeting - There were items to note from our Thursday admin meeting to share. If you have questions, let me know.
- Certified enrollment will show Waukee at 7,112 students. This is an increase of 431 students and is the largest growth in the state of Iowa this year.
- If you are purchasing items from a store and hope to be reimbursed, please find out if the store takes purchase orders first. If so - go that route!
- Technology purchases/requests/inquiries should go through me until Carrie returns. After she returns, requisitions go through Carrie first and then me.
- If you have an idea for a Community Education course you'd like to teach, Jeff Longman is collecting ideas for winter and spring course. Please contact him.
- Blogs - Please review your blog to ensure the required items are included. Just looking through them this week, there are several incomplete blogs sites. If you need support, let me know. Also, please review and/or have others edit your posts on a regular basis. The editing would apply to your newsletters too. Both are public forms of communication that represent us as a building and district!
No snow was spotted this week so the contest continues. I'll post the guesses soon. :-)
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