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Welcome to the
2021-2022
School Year!!!!
School Year!!!!
We have had sooo much fun together this week! You all have been SO Positive and engaged in the work we did during our professional learning experiences this week and I know ALL of OUR students will benefit as a result of it!!!! 🎉🙌🏽😃
Welcome Back Adams' Fam!!
PLEASE ask questions if you have them - your team is an amazing resource for this - or ANYONE on campus including your admin team, Hollie Change (dean), Renee Geyer (Title 1 Specialist), or me! We want you to be successful - let us know how we can help you!
One way to make sure you're starting off on the right foot is to make sure you thoroughly read through this - the Friday Flash every week! If you feel like there is a helpful document that needs to be in here - or something you'd like me to feature - let me know - I love getting ideas from you!
Also, please make sure that you and your teammates have access to the following: the Adams' Master Calendar, my calendar, school Webex's, the 21-22 Google Drive (for teachers). If you don't have access to any of these - please contact our amazing secretary Lupita Consuelo Valencia and she'll get you squared away.
We are going to try and make some changes to the way we use Webex so that it clears up some communication issues. In the "21-22 Adams Teachers" Webex based on feedback from teachers we are going to only allow Admin to add new posts. Everyone is welcome to reply to the thread that it pertains to only. If you don't know how only to reply to a thread - ask a friend or me! The goal is to make sure those important communications do not get lost and we can stay on top of the important stuff. We do have a "Just for Fun" space that everyone is welcome to post in - please do!
I'm so excited about our team/Adams Fam this year - I have high expectations for you all - I can't wait to see how much we all grow and learn from each other and what we're able to get our students to accomplish!!!
Adams team - We got this!
Stephanie 🐯🧡
If you haven't done this yet - DO IT NOW!
Classified Staff:
Child Abuse Mandatory Reporting Video: http://www.mpsaz.org/security/forms/
Child Find and Confidentiality Video and Verification: http://www.mpsaz.org/special_ed/sch-admin-smart/
Certified Staff:
The videos are a part of the checklist PLEASE WATCH:
Child Abuse Mandatory Reporting Video: http://www.mpsaz.org/security/forms/
Child Find and Confidentiality Video and Verification: http://www.mpsaz.org/special_ed/sch-admin-smart/
We updated the Staff Handbook which has a lot of very useful information for Adams' staff members - so PLEASE look through the items that are available to you here: http://www.mpsaz.org/adams/staff-handbook/
If you feel like there is something that would be helpful to everyone that is not there - please email me so we can fix that!
Welcome Back Everyone! So happy to start the 21-22 school year with each of you!
I know it's going to be a fantastic year!
Welcome Back!!
I enjoyed seeing everyone this week and feeling the excitement in the AIR!
PBIS- tickets are on the way! Colors were changed because we can use the free paper from the district which saves us MONEY!
SLIT- Presentation and Information coming soon! Cliffhang
Much Love- Dean Chang
But please check the Adams Master Calendar for updates - and let me know if you don't have access ASAP!
Friday 7/30
All Staff Breakfast provided by Trinity Church: 7:30-8:30am in room Cafeteria
New To Adams' Teachers: 8:30-9:30am
All Teachers Meet the Teacher: 4-6pm
Monday 8/2
Get ready for your students 😍
Tuesday 8/3
First Day of School!!!!🚸🏫🎒
All staff Meeting in Teachers' Lounge: 2:15-?
Wednesday 8/4
All Teachers FastBridge Training: 12:30 - 3pm (required district training for the new assessment tool)
We will be sending out the committees document out as soon as it has been updated. Every certified staff member that is at Adams only needs to sign up for at least one committee. IF there is a committee that you were thinking about that you'd like to start up - let me know and we can get it figured out!
The Staff Duty form is also making its way through campus - you will sign yourself up for 3 duties unless otherwise approved/indicated by admin. We share it with people who have restricted schedules first and then release to others who have more flexibility w/schedules until everyone is signed up.
We have several prospective volunteers that may be willing to help clean up our gardens! The goal is to empty out all of the ones that have been overrun with grass/weeds and then district did tell me we can get liners from them that will prevent that from happening again and then we can refill with the soil that was moved under the trees and then plant something beautiful 🌱
Thank you to our community partners Trinity Church for donating Friday's breakfast!!! 🥯☕
I hope you noticed my intentional infusion of WICOR during our 7/28 professional learning 😉
AVID is how we do things at Adams - it is at the heart of all we do! Writing Inquiry Collaboration Organization Reading WICOR is a big way we ensure rigor in our lessons. Here are a couple of resources to help refresh or learn more about it!
You all have access to MyAVID.org - if you don't know your login or password please contact Renee Geyer.
Classrooms are looking FABULOUS! Thank you so much for all of your hard work to make it all come together!
Thank you for EVERYONE's positive attitude's this week - my heart is happy!
Thank you so much to our amazing team leaders for being problem solvers - a solution focused mindset does wonders for our campus - thank you😍🥰
The Tribes info is a repeat in case you didn't get a chance to look at it last week - but I'm also adding the digital copy of the PLC packet that I gave out on 7/28
Tribes at Adams is essential for our Social Emotional Learning - looking through our google drive for something I came across these documents that I thought would be useful to you all! PLEASE review them!
I just added a Kagan Folder to the Adams' 21-22 google drive - check it out!!!
Proud to be an educator!