The admin team is stretched a little thin this week. Here is our schedule... 

Monday, October 16: Elisa & Cory are out of the building

Tuesday, October 17: Elisa is in data day meetings all day & Sylvester is covering PJHS 9:30 - 11:30

Wednesday, October 18: Elisa is out of the building in the am

Thurday, October 19: Dennis is at CJHS

Friday, October 20: Dennis at CJHS; Sylvester out of the building

Thanks to everyone for your work on making recommendations for our upcoming data day! The Data Day Schedule is now updated to include the discussion list for each team. Please let Elisa know if any changes need to be made. 

Here is the general schedule for Wednesday, October 18... 

8:45 - 11:45: PBIS Q1 Celebration (see schedule below)

11:45 - 12:45: Lunch

12:45 - 1:30: Plan Period Time

1:30 -1:50: Look at Q1 Behavior Stats, Kingsley Kudos, & Positive On Time to Class Reinforcement strategies

1:50 - 2:15: Intro to November Staff Wellness Bingo

2:15 - 3:45: PLC Time

In keeping with out "Celebration" Theme this year, we encourage you to acknowledge your fellow KJHS educators through a "Kingsley Kudos". Each week we will acknowledge those staff members who receive a Kudos and all recipients will be entered into a monthly drawing. Ready to give a Kingsley team mate a Kudos? Complete the Kingsley Kudos form. 

We are excited to report that office referrals in September 23 (122) were down 30% in comparison to office referrals in September 22 (175). In addition, out of school suspensions were down 62% in comparison to last year. In school suspensions did increase 71% from September 22 (14) to September 23 (24). We'll look more into these behavior statistics during our SIP time on October 18th. 

Family-Teacher Conference sign ups launch on Monday, October 16. 

NCHS and NCWHS students are hosting a "lunch and learn" session during each lunch period on Friday, October 20. Students can get a pass that day from Ms. Haas at cafeteria entrance. 

Struggling to understand the changes in Infinite Campus? Amber O'Day has created a video to assist you with navigating the update. 

Just a reminder that 10/13 was the end of the 1st quarter and, as such, we are resetting tardy counts. Please start tardy counts over on Monday, October 16. 

Center for Human Services counseling services at KJHS will be temporarily on hold after 10/16 as Sierra Rush is leaving the agency. We will let you know when that position gets filled. 

1. The Mo's Front Porch food truck scheduled for 10/20 has been cancelled. 

2. "Boo" is going on at Kingsley for the month of October. If you are "Boo'd" and do not wish to participate, simply pass the gift on to a colleague you would like to bless. 

3. The 8th grade teams are hosting a "World Series" themed food day on Wednesday October 25. 

~ KJHS Social Committee

1. Please remember when entering absences in AESOP, you mark half or full day but you need to put actual school times (i.e. 8:45 - 3:45) in the notes so a sub knows when they need to be at school. 

2. Please be conscientious about running copies or coming into the main office to ask questions prior to 8:00 am. We are usually busy preparing for the day and are happy to meet your needs after 8:00 am. 

Here are the Instructional Technology Tips for September.

Chess Coach: KJHS is in need of a chess coach. Please notify Elisa if you are interested. 

1. The PTO is selling Papa Murphy coupon cards for $5. If you are interested in purchasing one, please let Elisa know. 

2.  The Gobena Coffee Fundraiser is an ongoing one and an excellent opportunity to try some new, local coffee. 

3. Want to request PTO funding for a classroom project? Use this form please. 

4. KJHS PTO is doing a concessions fundraiser at the IHSA state volleyball tournament on 11/11/23. Want to help? Sign up here. 

We have several staff teams to serve on. Please check out the 23-24 KJHS Committee descriptions. Please note that you can be on the Wellness Team or 20th Birthday Team without joining the Building Leadership Team. 

Our GAP ATTACK grant has been funded!  We are focusing on students who are earning less than a "2" in any of their core classes and will be taking student referrals for the program and tutor applications soon. The commitment is one day a week after school. 

Jenny Snyder is available as an instructional coach at the middle school level. Check out her newsletter to see what's happening at the middle schools and reach out to her if you want some help in upping your instructional game! 

Please try to use Production Services for your copy needs. It costs us a lot less than running copies in the building and, with the rising cost of paper, using that district service will help our supply budget go further. Thanks!

As we discussed on Friday, our gradebooks are the primary method by which we communicate students' progress in courses. By now, your gradebook in Infinite Campus should reflect and communicate the level of knowledge and skill students have demonstrated in your classes at this time.  This will allow families to get a a more accurate understanding of their student's strengths and challenges. 

Here is the October Kingsley Family Connection which was sent out to Kingsley families earlier this week. 

1. As we announced before, Joan Fee and Tim Penhollow are providing guidance support for students L-Z this school year. In addition to "in the moment" guidance support, they are also accepting requests for student check ins and have divided up the core teams to provide more direct support. Joan is supporting Teams 6-1, 7-1, & 8-2 and Tim is supporting Teams 6-2, 7-2, & 8-1. This will help streamline communications. 

2. Debbie Brown (recently retired school counselor from Parkside Junior High) will be helping our school counseling office this year by facilitating 504 meetings for students last names L-Z . She will be reaching out to families and teams to set up these meetings as they come due and will be working with everyone to get the information needed to update our 504 plans.  

From time to time, a parent will indicated concern regarding a title in the IMC or a classroom. If this happens, please direct them to the "Request for Reconsideration of IMC Materials Form". They can complete it and submit it to Elisa.  

We have not received our field trip budget numbers for the year but we want to make sure that we share bus costs with you if you are considering taking a field trip. Each bus used costs $58.93/hour and we are required to pay for a minimum of 3 hours, even if we do not use the bus for that length of time. 

Many of you have students who have received a pass to go to the Green Room and have asked where it is at. The Green Room is located in Harmony Highway across from Mr. Rich's room and is the primary location of Ms. Rush from CHS. 

If a class with a student who has any health condition listed above is planning a Field Trip, they MUST have a trained person attend the field trip. It is the administrator’s responsibility to ensure this is in place before approving the field trip. Nurses will not be able to attend field trips.  If a trained person is not able to go and serve as a delegated care aide, the field trip will not be able to continue. Parents can not legally waive this school responsibility. Any willing staff member (teacher, TA, EOP) is also encouraged to be trained as a delegated care aide and can do so at any point during the year by completing the online course and session with your nurse.

KJ administration is recommending that one member of every core team get trained as there is no guarantee that administrator will be available to go on trips. 

If you contract COVID, the district recommends you follow the Health Department CDC recommendation of 5 days of isolation; however there is no such requirement by the district and there are no longer designated COVID sick days as that law has expired.