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November 27 - December 1
November 27 - December 1
An excellent Thanksgiving break. I hope everyone had a wonderful few days off; spent with family and friends. This was my first Thanksgiving in 20 years back in the US. We spent the break doing some simple outdoor activities and had dinner with my dad at our house.
Thanksgiving is a time when we can share our gratitude. I am thankful for all the dedicated staff at Jenifer supporting the needs of our students. There is much care and time devoted to our students' success.
Dates for your diary
Dates for your diary
November 7th - Pastoral Care/PBIS @7:15
November 9th - Culture and Communication
November 10th - Teachers Vs Students Volleyball Game
November 13th - Professional Development Day (No Students)
Work Habits Completed
November 15th - Department Heads Meeting @7:15 Rm101
November 16th - Culture and Communication @3:00 Library (rescheduled)
November 17th - Whole School Extended Advisory (Additional Learning Opportunity)
Teachers Vs Students Volleyball Game
Veterans Day Activities
November 21st - Pastoral Care/PBIS @7:15
November 22nd - NO SCHOOL
November 23rd - NO SCHOOL
November 24th - NO SCHOOL
November 27 - Dec 13 - Fill the Bus
November 28th - Pastoral Care/PBIS @715
November 28th - December 13th Annual Door Decoration
November 28th - New Teacher Meeting - @3:00
November 29th - Danielson Training for New Teachers at District Office
November 29th - Guiding Coalition @7:15 Library
December 4th - QPR Training 3:00-3:30 Cafeteria - ALL STAFF
December 5th - PBIS/Pastoral Care
December 6th - Professional Development
December 7th - Culture and Communication
December 8th - Staff Party Orchards Lanes 4:00 -7:00PM
December 11th - 15th - Spirit Week
December 13th - LHS Christmas Tour @9:25-9:50 (Grade 6 & 7 Gym)
December 14th - Winter Concert
December 15th - Whole School Assembly at 2:15
Idaho Healthy Youth Survey Grades 6&8
Jenifer will participate in the Idaho Healthy Youth Survey. Students who will participate will be students from grades 6 and 8 who return the attached consent form. This form will be mailed out when we mail our Work Habits to Parents.
This is an opt in survey so we can only administer the survey to students who return the survey. The deadline will be Friday, December 1st. This will give us time to decide how and when to administer the survey.
Please use the spreadsheet below to track the opt in permissions we get returned from students. You can also bring the forms to the office and we will track responses.
Idaho Healthy Youth Survey.pdf
Fill the bus
Fill the bus
It seems fit that the character trait for November is empathy. There is the assumption that many students look forward to having Thanksgiving and Christmas break. However, there are some less fortunate students who will have little resources to fully celebrate these holidays.
Our community has responded very well to the "Fill the Bus" initiative, which starts on Monday. This initiative is a canned & non-perishable food drive to provide needed resources to families around the valley with limited resources. Please support this initiative and look for additional information from Quinn and Students' Council.
Heather contacted the Food Bank and they are in need of everything at the moment.
"We need everything. We have been extremely busy, and the week of Thanksgiving was the busiest on record, by far. Our shelves are quite depleted.
Any canned food would be great, and we always need ramen noodles, but rest assured we are in need of anything you might wish to contribute. Thank you so much for all that you do."
I also believe we have a friendly competition established with Sacajawea for the Middle School to provide the most support for the "Fill the Bus" initiative.
Vector Training
Vector Training
Vector Trainings link to the trainings done in the past--approximately 60 minutes. For certified, please add the certificate in ed folio. Classified staff are also to complete the training, but you can notify Aaron and share certificates (see below) as evidence of course completion. Due date is March 31.
November 13 - November 17
November 13 - November 17
An unexpected cold surprise... I hope we are finding ways to stay warm while this gas shortage continues. We've seen local business hit with this shortage from fast food to major manufactures. Looking at things optimistically, at least the weather today is absolutely gorgeous. Hopefully it doesn't get too cold while this gas shortage continues.
We will move some of the calendar events that were scheduled to happen this week to next week. For example, the Teacher Vs. Student volleyball game and Veterans Day activities will be moved to November 17th. Please wait till Monday to reschedule any parent meetings that might need rescheduling due to the no school days.
We have to be optimistic that by Monday, things will be back to normal. Regardless, the expectation is that teachers are all back in the building for PD on Monday, November 13th to complete Work Habits and PD in the afternoon.
Here is the latest from Avista: https://www.myavista.com/outages/wp-updates
Dates for your diary
Dates for your diary
November 7th - Pastoral Care/PBIS @7:15
November 9th - Culture and Communication
November 10th - Teachers Vs Students Volleyball Game
November 13th - Professional Development Day (No Students)
Work Habits Completed
November 15th - Department Heads Meeting @7:15 Rm101
November 16th - Culture and Communication @3:00 Library (rescheduled)
November 17th - Whole School Extended Advisory (Additional Learning Opportunity)
Teachers Vs Students Volleyball Game
Veterans Day Activities
November 21st - Pastoral Care/PBIS @7:15
November 22nd - NO SCHOOL
November 23rd - NO SCHOOL
November 24th - NO SCHOOL
November 29th - Guiding Coalition @7:15 Library
Professional DeVelopMent Day - November 13th
Professional DeVelopMent Day - November 13th
8:00-11:15 - Work Habits Completion Time
New teachers, please contact JITTs + Mentors if you need support completing.
11:15-12:15
Lunch on your own
12:15-3:30
See Attached PD Plan
2:15-3:30 - Exploratory and Elective teachers go to Sacajawea for cross-campus collaboration.
What essential standards do we share?
3:00-4:30 - Aaron and Quinn to District Office for Meeting on "Alternatives to Discipline/Suspension".
Chromebooks
Chromebooks
Chromebook Agreements:
Great news! We've had 93% of our updated Chromebooks agreements returned. We need to get all these back so please continue to collect these agreements.
We have already contacted parents of students who have not returned these agreements. We will continue to do this until we get 100% returned.
Chromebook Training:
We have opportunity for Chromebook training. I will share with the team a Google Form of what questions you have with these devices and what kind of training you would like to see.
Please continue to work through the Google Slides presentations with students until they all have been covered.
GoGuardian
GoGuardian
On Monday November 13th at 10:00, we have scheduled a Zoom call with a representative of GoGuardian which is program we are considering as a Learning Management System for our Chromebooks. I have selected a panel of teachers who will do a the demo with the representative:
Julian Washburn
Ryan Peterson
Alex Church
Heidi Wolf
Mike Renzelman
Jeremy Feucht
After the demo we will schedule a debrief with recommendations. Thank you to these teachers for sharing their time.
You can learn more about GoGuardian here: https://view.highspot.com/viewer/654d2b616723389f9040ea57
Idaho Healthy Youth Survey Grades 6&8
Jenifer will participate in the Idaho Helathy Youth Survey. Students who will participate will be students from grades 6 and 8 who return the attached consent form. This form will be mailed out when we mail our Work Habits to Parents.
This is an opt in survey so we can only administer the survey to students who return the survey. The deadline will be Friday, December 1st. This will give us time to decide how and when to administer the survey.
Idaho Healthy Youth Survey.pdfDeBrief from diana Morgan's visit
DeBrief from diana Morgan's visit
On Tuesday, November 7th, we had a visit from Diana Morgan who conducted observations on several students in grade8 who have displayed some significant behavior challenges.
I met with her at the end of her visit and debriefed. We did a P-M-I and attached is a summary.
JMS Res. Handbook 23-24
Attached is an updated resource handbook that Justin, Erion, and myself have updated as a 1-stop pleace for resources. This doc has been added to our Google Classroom as well as this Google Site for easy access. Hope this helps organize information.
If you have suggestions for improvements to communications, share these with the members of the "Culture & Communications" team.
Our Facebook page has significantly improved due to the efforts of this committee!
What's right about america
What's right about america
On Tuesday, November 7th, the Clearwater River Republican Women's Club presented the winners of "What's Right About America" essay contest to 3 students in grade 7.
The winners were
1st - Nikolai Lemus
2nd - Sage Pankey
3rd - Addison Toney
Honorable Mention - Brayden Hawkins
Please note that Jenifer Middle School students won the top 3 places out of students from Lewiston High School and Sacajawea Middle School.
Thank you Angie and Jessi for integrating the contest into your writing curriculum.
Annex Storage Cleanout
On Monday, November 13th, we will start to clean out the Annex storage room next to Mr. Feucht's classroom.
October 30 - November 10
October 30 - November 10
Engagement Survey - Please complete during extended advisory today
Engagement Survey - Please complete during extended advisory today
Attached are the engagement surveys that we will use to collect data on our student engagement. Please share these links with students during advisory and have them complete by the end of today. Please use part of extended advisory to complete the survey.
From 6th grade we have 189 responses recorded.
From 7th grade we have 156 responses recorded.
From 8th grade we have 46 responses recorded.
Chromebooks
Chromebooks
Thank you for your support and patience with the transition from iPads to Chromebooks. Julian worked to make the transition with devices as smooth as possible.
At the time of writing this update, we have 375 of 555 agreements returned. Regardless, of the final return by end of Friday, students can have full access to devices on Monday and take them to electives/exploratory.
Please work through the Chromebook presentations with students that are attached below to help famililarize themselves with these devices.
Dates for your diary
Dates for your diary
November 7th - Pastoral Care/PBIS @7:15
November 9th - Culture and Communication
November 10th - Teachers Vs Students Volleyball Game
November 13th - Professional Development Day (No Students)
Work Habits Completed
November 15th - Department Heads Meeting @7:15 Rm101
November 17th - Whole School Extended Advisory (Additional Learning Opportunity)
November 21st - Pastoral Care/PBIS @7:15
November 22nd - NO SCHOOL
November 23rd - NO SCHOOL
November 24th - NO SCHOOL
November 29th - Guiding Coalition @7:15 Library
Schedule for november 10
Schedule for november 10
Next Friday, November 10th, we will have our teachers vs students volleyball game. We will run a a special schedule that allows for extended advisory at the beginning of the day and an assembly at the end of the day. Please see the schedule below for details.
JMS Bell Schedules - Assembly+ Extended Friday Schedule.pdfCan you believe we have completed week 11 already?
The Culture and Communication team has been busy sharing the great work we do at JMS by providing weekly updates, which are posted on our website along with supporting the administration of the JMS Facebook page. Sharing our work reinforces our positive standing in our community and the importance of our institution. Thank you to the team for all your efforts!
Evaluations
Evaluations
Evaluations are going very well. It's a privilege to work with excellent teachers and support you in your efforts to continue to grow in our profession. Please let me know if you are having any issues completing any part of your IPLPs, domain 5s, or completing pre/post observation forms.
By this point you should've signed up for a time for either Quinn or myself to complete your evaluation before Christmas break.
Staff Party
Staff Party
With only 6 weeks before Christmas breaks, it is time we start thinking of how we can celebrate the holidays together. Please complete the holiday party form below if you are interested in celebrating together! Thanks Mrs. Wolf for organizing this survey for us and getting the ball rolling.
Staff Health Education
If you were not able to attend the Staff Meeting on Monday, please have a look at the presentation Ashley shared. Thank you Ashley for this information!
2023 Staff Health Education.pptxPage updated
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