Summative/Annual Conferences start taking place next week. If you have not signed up, please do so today! Please mark your time as we will not send out reminders. If you need coverage, we'd need to know that soon as we do not have subs in place. Associates will have their review the last week of school.
Fine Arts Panera Night is Tuesday from 5-7pm. Please join us as 10% of proceeds come back to MGE. We raised $1700 from our Pizza Ranch Nights and over $3000 from the basket raffle (Family Fun Night) - wow!!
Google mail is coming soon. You will be sent an email on Monday, April 29th, with directions to update to "@waukeeschools.org" address if you have not already. You will be able to do this on your own, but district IT staff will be available to support the transition during two mornings that week. Right now...just check to see if your email (the @waukee.k12.ia.us) is correctly listed on our staff page. If it is not, complete an IT ticket. More info to come. :-)
Parent Email - Paula needs current parent emails. She will put a copy in each staff mailbox of what is currently on PowerSchool. Teachers need to mark any changes, and return to Paula. We need current emails because fall registration will be sent out to parents this summer based on what we have on PowerSchool.
Inquiry Learning - I appreciate the conversations, sharing and collaboration that took place this past Wednesday. Some great ideas/plans were shared and I look forward to the sharing out on May 1st, but I feel even better about the effect your conversations and practices that will take place within the classroom because of your learning together this spring. Teams will have 30 minutes to collaborate during our May 1st PD before you share for 5 minutes each. If you have time, I'd like to get some quick feedback on your thoughts so far.
Final Thoughts for the Week....
(...and you thought I was done with this segment)
My brother sent me this video last Friday as a "laugher" (he's a counselor and knows I am in need of counselor...I think), and as I watched it the first time, I did just that --- laugh. Of course, knowing he's a counselor, I also assumed there was a deeper meaning to the video (he's been analyzing me since he started his counseling program 10+ years ago). I think what the video is telling me is that I sometimes get so focused on what I think is "right" or "good" for me or others (family, admin team, building, etc.) that I am not open to other ideas...even my own (i.e. biting my own foot sometimes to save or protect my ideas or plan).
I will let you make your own self-analysis and application to self...not to me, please. ;-)
Now, I could be completely off on my own psycho-analysis, but either way, I'm sure my brother will chart my behavior and send me another video next week. :-)
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