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February 26 - March 1, 2024
February 26 - March 1, 2024
Spelling Bee
Spelling Bee
Thank you to all the teachers who have supported the completion of the Spelling Bee. We will have our whole school Spelling Bee completed by Thursday, February 29th.
ESP and Teacher of the Year Nominations
ESP and Teacher of the Year Nominations
Please remember to submit your nominations for ESP and Teacher of the Year. We have so many great people at JMS that work to support our community. Please Please Please make your nominations in the next two weeks.
Vector Training
Vector Training
Reminder to complete your Vector training for Bullying and Cultural Bias before March 1st. Use this link to login to your account: https://lewiston-id.safeschools.com/login also attached are JoAnne's directions to find the courses that need completion: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w34BiSpxcrRBO-10mFvaQQwQi3uXnW8cWB4RgQe5t7A/edit
If you are not a teacher, please submit your certificate to Aaron. If you are a teacher, you can add your certificate to Edfolio as an attachment.
Spring Conferences
Spring Conferences
Thank you for your preparations for Spring Conferences. Attached below is the schedule we are using for conferences. Please make sure your team is using this doc or continues to update this doc so we have it centralized for the office to access and make changes if needed.
As we mentioned before, we are tight on our faculty fund so we will start to get creative with snacks and staff provided meals.
secret staff spirit week
secret staff spirit week
This was too much fun. One of my favorite parts was making up stories to students when they asked why we were all dressed up.
This was too much fun. One of my favorite parts was making up stories to students when they asked why we were all dressed up.
Committee Meetings
Committee Meetings
The only Committee Meeting we have this week at JMS is Dept Heads on Wednesday, February 28th @7:15 Rm 101.
Also attached is the committee meetings for March 11-15. I am suggesting to the Culture and Communication committee to move the meeting to March 21.
Parent Letter
Parent Letter
Attached is the Parent Letter that will be shared on Monday, February 26th. It addresses several issues
Conference Reminder
Importance of Attendance
Outside Drinks on Campus
School Wide Acknowledgement System
Appropriate Use of Technology “Go Guardian”
Strategies for Supporting Students with Conflict
ESP and Teacher of the Year
SICA Achievement Results
NAEP
NAEP
List of students for NAEP assessment is attached. This is only for grade 8 teachers. Thank you Ali for your support in making NAEP a success this year!
NAEP LIST.pdfELEOT Observation Results
ELEOT Observation Results
Eleot Observations are complete. The scores from the last two years are pretty almost identical. It was great to see how other schools look and to have other admin at our school as well.
Average score in 22-23 - 2.49
Average score in 23-24 - 2.44
The report is included in the ELEOT folder attached below.
Dates for your diary
Dates for your diary
Monday, February 26th - Board Presentation Mid Year Update
Wednesday, February 28th - Dept Heads @7:15
Danielson Training - @CRC - 4:00-5:30
Thursday, February 29th - Whole School Spelling Bee @8:30
Friday, March 1st
NAEP - Group 1 9:00 + Group 2 1:00 Library
Complete Vector Training
Nominations for Teacher of the Year and ESP Deadline
Saturday, March 2 - Wrestling
Monday, March 4 - Staff Meeting @7:55
Tuesday, March 5 - Aaron + Justin at District Office for PLC Meeting
Spring Concert @ LHS
Thursday, March 7-8 - Conferences
Monday, March 11 - Staff Meeting @7:55
Tuesday March 12
7:15 PBIS Meeting @Library
9-10 ESP Breakfast
4-6 Scratch 4 Schools @LCSC
5-6 Grade 5 Parent Night @Cafeteria
Wednesday, March 13
7:15 Guiding Coalition @Library
1:15 Professional Development @Cafeteria
Friday, March 15 - Quarter 3 Meeting with Lance
Library with Staff from 7:30-8:00
Aaron and Lance 8-9:30
Thursday, March 21 - Culture and Communication 3:05 @Library
March 23 - 30 - SPRING BREAK!!! (4 WEEKS AWAY)
February 20-23, 2024
February 20-23, 2024
ELEOT OBSERVATIONS
ELEOT OBSERVATIONS
ELEOT observations are almost complete. We should have all observations completed by the end of the week. Thank you for welcoming these observers to your classroom and sharing student engagement.
ESP and Teacher of the Year Nominations
ESP and Teacher of the Year Nominations
Please remember to submit your nominations for ESP and Teacher of the Year. We have so many great people at JMS that work to support our community. Please Please Please make your nominations in the next two weeks.
Vector Training
Vector Training
Reminder to complete your Vector training for Bullying and Cultural Bias before March 1st. Use this link to login to your account: https://lewiston-id.safeschools.com/login also attached are JoAnne's directions to find the courses that need completion: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w34BiSpxcrRBO-10mFvaQQwQi3uXnW8cWB4RgQe5t7A/edit
If you are not a teacher, please submit your certificate to Aaron. If you are a teacher, you can add your certificate to Edfolio as an attachment.
Secret Staff Spirit Week:
Secret Staff Spirit Week:
This should be an interesting week :) Let's have some fun with secret staff spirit week!
Tuesday Feb 20: All Black
Wednesday Feb 21: Stripes, animal print, or polka dots
Thursday Feb 22: Rep your college
Friday Feb 23: Formal Friday!
SICA Celebrations
SICA Celebrations
Celebrations! Thank you to all at our school who have worked to support our students and guide them to improve in key achievement areas of academics. Thank you Justin for gathering this data to share our celebrations of our student achievements. Thank you to all the teachers and instructional assistants who have played a key role in our SICA celebrations!
ELA had 208 students improve a level
MATH had 273 students improve a level
SCIENCE had 45 of 143 improve a level
On Monday, February 26th, there will be a School Board Meeting where Aaron, Justin, and Quinn will present our celebrations. We will share specific strategies that were used to work to reach some of our goals.
Peer Observations to Support Effective classroom environments
Peer Observations to Support Effective classroom environments
Thank you all for your support to make our February 14th professional development day a success. Attached are the resources needed to get started with peer observation in connection to support effective classroom environments.
Guiding Coalition and PBIS/Pastoral Care committee members will be reaching out soon to their assigned teachers to conduct observations. The objective is for us as a school to develop a culture of peer observations and start to identify those teachers who are really great at classroom management to order to support other members of our school who want to improve in this area. Additionally, we can compare the data provided from the self assessment and peer observations to see what areas as a school we need support in developing effective classroom environments.
After you complete your observation, please make sure you submit your observation form and write to the teacher you observed. Please use these prompts to write your feedback:
Feedback (email) please select a prompt:
General thank you for hosting as an observer
Something that you saw that was positive
Something that you saw that you can take back to use in your classroom
Something that was a definite strength in that classroom.
Something that was a definite strength of that teacher.
Please refrain from sharing any critical or evaluative feedback that may seem negative.
Creating an Effective Classroom Environment.pdfEmployee Assistance Program
Employee Assistance Program
Thank you to all the staff members who supported our Tammany colleagues during the past week with the passing of Kevin Olberding. Ms Turner worked with the staff and students at THS last week in her role as a member of the crisis team. Ms. McCall also supported THS in her role as a counselor. Thank you Ms. DuFour-Harrich for providing a continuos connection between JMS and THS.
Attached are resources that my be useful to members of our staff: https://www.lewistonschools.net/benefits/employee-assistance-program/
EAP
EAP
Employee Assistance Program
988
988
Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
Dates for your diary
Dates for your diary
Friday, January 26th - Fire Drill @10:30
Whole School Advisory on Friday, January 26th
Nez Perce Youth Advisory Board
Wednesday, January 31 - Professional Development - Behavior and Engagement focus
Monday, February 5 - 16 - ELEOT Observations - District Admin will be observing
Tuesday, February 6th - PBIS - Creating Effective Classroom Environment Focus
Wednesday, February 7th - Guiding Coalition - SICA Update + Prep for PD on Feb 14
Thursday, February 8th - Culture and Communication - School Culture Diagnostic
February 7-9 - Professional Development for Aaron (IPMP)
Friday, February 9 - Naglieri Opt Out deadline for Testing
Monday, February 12 - Student Carry Progress Update
Wednesday, February 14th - Early Release for Professional Development
Friday, February 16th - Pep assembly
Secret Staff Spirit Week Feb 20-23
February 20-21 - Access Assessment (2 Students)
Wednesday, February 21 - AV Students to DeAtley Center for Field Trip
Thursday, February 22 - YWCA - Field Trip for ALO Program
Friday, March 1 - NAEP - Assessment of 2 Student Groups for Grade 8
Thursday, March 7-8 - Conferences
Wednesday, March 13 - Professional Development
February 12-16, 2024
February 12-16, 2024
Thank you Quinn and Justin for running leading the school in my absence and for all the hard work during the last couple of days. It was clearly a very busy week.
This week we have another Professional Development opportunity. This PD will focus on Creating an Effective Classroom Environment.
PBIS + Guiding Coalition committees have both worked on completing the training module from SESTA on Creating an Effective Classroom Environment. The training module can be found here: https://idahotc.com/Portals/0/Resources/1241/pbis-tier-1-module-8/content/index.html#/
During PD we will review what committee members have learned from the course and provide an overview of the course for the remaining teachers who were not involved in the committees. IAs will use the time to work through the training course. We will also develop our approach for peer observations required to complete the Creating an Effective Classroom Environment assessment. The approach will be similar to how the district has structured the ELEOT observations.
Lastly, teams will have time to work on their SMART GOALs connected to engagement and behavior.
If you have not already done so, please complete your submissions for teacher of the year and ESP of the year. There is a current competition with Kelly Norwood nominated for Inland NW Awards. Please take a few minutes to VOTE FOR MR. NORWOOD!
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Committee Meetings This week
Committee Meetings This week
We have no committee meetings this week. Previous committee meeting were used to prepare for this PD.
ELEOT
ELEOT
In February we will have administrators from within our district visit and evaluate JMS using the ELEOT inventory which is attached for your reference. This is the last week for admin to complete their observations so be prepared to have people in your rooms this week, most likely on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. Admin are observing the active engagement of your students.
Dates for your diary
Dates for your diary
Friday, January 26th - Fire Drill @10:30
Whole School Advisory on Friday, January 26th
Nez Perce Youth Advisory Board
Wednesday, January 31 - Professional Development - Behavior and Engagement focus
Monday, February 5 - 16 - ELEOT Observations - District Admin will be observing
Tuesday, February 6th - PBIS - Creating Effective Classroom Environment Focus
Wednesday, February 7th - Guiding Coalition - SICA Update + Prep for PD on Feb 14
Thursday, February 8th - Culture and Communication - School Culture Diagnostic
February 7-9 - Professional Development for Aaron (IPMP)
Friday, February 9 - Naglieri Opt Out deadline for Testing
Monday, February 12 - Student Carry Progress Update
Wednesday, February 14th - Early Release for Professional Development
Friday, February 16th - Pep assembly
February 20-21 - Access Assessment (2 Students)
Wednesday, February 21 - AV Students to DeAtley Center for Field Trip
Thursday, February 22 - YWCA - Field Trip for ALO Program
Friday, March 1 - NAEP - Assessment of 2 Student Groups for Grade 8
Thursday, March 7-8 - Conferences
Wednesday, March 13 - Professional Development
Cheer Competition
Cheer Competition
Cheer competition over the weekend was a great success with our Jenifer students winning several awards and competing very well. Thank you Brooke and Mac for your support of our Cheer team.
February 5-9, 2024
February 5-9, 2024
Thank you for the work last week to move forward with our engagement goals. It was great to hear from each team their summary of their goal and strategies they are taking to address the goal. Thank you Justin for clarifying what "Learning Goals" can look like and the kinds of learning goals teams have developed. Additionally, thank you Katy, for sharing the connection between engagement and behavior using our SWISS data to tell a story of the need for continued efforts to work on behavior, specifically in our classrooms. Lastly, thank you Quinn for sharing another tool for restorative practices with the introduction with the Buddy System.
Having the whole school together for these discussions is key for working on alignment in our practices for engagement and behavior.
Happy Counselor's Week! Bonnie and Ali will be gone on Tuesday from 12:00-1:00 for a lunch break. Thank you Bonnie and Ali!
Celebration - Burro Bucks
Celebration - Burro Bucks
Thank you to all staff members in the school for their support in launching our Burro Buck Acknowledgment System. This will align our school to our core values of Respectful, Responsible, and Safe.
Attached is the Google Doc with the winners from our weekly drawing.
As we adjust to this new school wide acknowledgement system we will continue to improve. Make sure you share any questions or suggestions that you have for this system.
We are recognizing the behaviors that we want to see connected to our school values of
Respectful
Responsible
Safe
February 14 PD
February 14 PD
We have a professional development day on Wednesday, February 14th that starts at 1:15 and will finish at 3:30. We will continue our work on behavior and engagement. We will start with an introduction to the "Creating an Effective Classroom Environment" observation tool.
Teams will have time to work on engagement goals + SICA results review.
Committee Meetings This week
Committee Meetings This week
We have 3 committee meets this week:
Tuesday, February 6th - PBIS - Creating Effective Classroom Environment Focus
Wednesday, February 7th - Guiding Coalition - Creating Effective Classroom Environment Focus
Thursday, February 8th - Culture and Communication - School Culture Reading PMI
Dates for your diary
Dates for your diary
Friday, January 26th - Fire Drill @10:30
Whole School Advisory on Friday, January 26th
Nez Perce Youth Advisory Board
Wednesday, January 31 - Professional Development - Behavior and Engagement focus
Monday, February 5 - 16 - ELEOT Observations - District Admin will be observing
Tuesday, February 6th - PBIS - Creating Effective Classroom Environment Focus
Wednesday, February 7th - Guiding Coalition - SICA Update + Prep for PD on Feb 14
Thursday, February 8th - Culture and Communication - School Culture Diagnostic
February 7-9 - Professional Development for Aaron (IPMP)
Friday, February 9 - Naglieri Opt Out deadline for Testing
Monday, February 12 - Student Carry Progress Update
Wednesday, February 14th - Early Release for Professional Development
February 20-21 - Access Assessment (2 Students)
Wednesday, February 21 - AV Students to DeAtley Center for Field Trip
Thursday, February 22 - YWCA - Field Trip for ALO Program
Friday, March 1 - NAEP - Assessment of 2 Student Groups
Students of the Month - January
Students of the Month - January
Congratulations to our students of the month for the month of January!
JMS Student of the Month January.pdfTeaching Preferences for 2024-25
Teaching Preferences for 2024-25
Please complete as soon as possible. This will help determine our staffing for next year.
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