If you are interested in hosting an ISU PDS student for next year, please let Elisa know by March 17th. PDS candidates can be placed with an individual or a team. Below is next year's PDS roster and you can find more information about the candidates on their PDS Information Forms.

2023-24 Middle Level PDS Candidates

PDS Candidate Content Areas

Allee, Sydney     Math, ELA

Anderson, Asher ELA, SS

DeLong, Olivia ELA, Sci

Ernsting, Ashley Math, Sci

Garriott, Whitnie Math, Sci

Hunley, Grace Math, Sci

Koterwski, Joe Sci, SS

Krajack-Chavez, Alayna ELA, ESL, Read

Lindsey, Faithe Math, Sci

Salgado, Yari Math, ESL

Schluter, Natalie ELA, SS

Shanafelt, Kayla Math, ELA, ESL

Snider, Alexa ELA, SS

Thorner, Cassidy ELA, SS

Trimpe, Anna ELA, Math, Sci

Wetzel, Charlie Math, SS

Here is the IAR Test Administration/Proctor Schedule. There have been some changes so please review. 

Due to IAR testing makeups, Intervention Cycle 4 will start on 4/3/23. 

Please enter your recommendations regarding possible student referrals for Unit 5's summer school program based on the listed criteria (below).  You can compile a list of recommended students here. 

Click here for days and times and details.  

STUDENT CRITERIA

What criteria should you be using when contemplating students to refer for summer school?

• Students experiencing severe environmental factors such as homelessness, abuse, neglect or other extreme situations.

• Students in the CARES process.

• Students who have participated in Intervention over the past school year.

• Students that are earning a "1" and/or "0" in four or more subjects.

• Students with very poor attendance.

Please note:

• Students with IEPs can be recommended for this program if they are not recommended for the district's Special Education summer school.  Students would not receive compensatory services at this summer school program.

The final PTO spirit wear sale for this school year is going on now through March 24th. Check out the available design and items at the KJHS spirit wear store. 

Take a look at the March Instructional Tech Update.  In this month's issue, you will find the 2nd Episode of the Unit 5 Podcast, Grouping sections in IC, information on ChatGPT, Women's History Month Resources, Story starters with Emjoi's, and Virtual Libraries.  

Here is the March KJ Family Connection.

Our next Data Day is Monday, March 13th. Elisa will be meeting with teams prior to this date to go over their recommendations. Please complete those recommendations on the Team Recommendations form linked on the Data Day Cycle 4 Schedule. Please note that while we will have one more data day, this is the last intervention cycle for the 22-23 school year. 

Hello, we are team 8-2 and we have decided that we want to run a coffee shop on our Monday advisory mornings. We are doing this because we would like to potentially raise enough money for a team celebration.

We will complete various tasks like delivery,  being a financial advisor, advertising, communications, and the practice of being a barista. All of these jobs will benefit and allow us to learn basic life skills like, balancing a budget, communication, team work, problem solving, and leadership.

 All jobs differ from each other, a financial advisory helps them manage money to be able to buy things with an appropriate budget. If you're in advertising you will make different flyers to help promote the coffee shop and get more customers. Communication helps remind and tell people to buy coffee so that we can raise money for our team celebration. Barista’s will be the ones to make the coffee and serve customers different flavors of Dunkin coffee like caramel, cinnamon roll, vanilla, oat milk, and sugar. Delivery people will deliver the coffee to different customers throughout the building.

 To decide what job we wanted to do, we completed a survey to figure out how we would like to participate in this event. From the results of the quiz,we were put with the job that best fits us while taking in account which one we were most interested in.

 This coffee shop will launch on March 13th, and run until May 15th. Coffee will only be available to the teachers in the building, selling for $3. 

Team 8-2 communications, 

Caroline and Ella.

We will be having a spring PBIS assembly on on the early release day of Friday, April 7th during 7th & 8th hours. This will be a staff vs students assembly. If you are interested in participating, please complete the Staff Spring Assembly Participation Form. 

Hello, 

As our schedules are going to be interrupted with IAR testing, student self-paced instructional models are a great way to keep students engaged with flexible scheduling. If you have not tried a Playlist inspired by Catlin Tucker, I encourage you to check it out. 

Here are a few I have tried: the 6 Word Memoir Playlist was a quick, creative way to give students an understanding of what a Playlist was and how it worked before we did a full unit (and honestly so I could get a feel for it). This Setting Playlist, was more in depth, while the Narrative Playlist was created after student feedback and teacher reflection. 

Reach out if you have any questions about my tasks. If this sounds like something you might want to try, Caitlin shares her insights in her blog. If you are interested in co-creating a Playlist for your instruction this spring, please reach out to me or Jenny Snyder.  

Thank you! Have a great weekend!

Sincerely, 

Janel Sebeny

Kingsley Junior High School

Team 7-2 Language Arts

Middle School LA District Chair

PBIS Tier 1 Coach

IRC Past President

Please welcome Mr. Ben Heberer and Mrs. Leah Megli to Team Kingsley! Mr. Heberer is joining Team 8-1 as the Math 8 teacher and Mrs. Megli is joining the Music Team as a chorus teacher. We will formally introduce them during our SIP time on 3/6/23. 

Per Joe Adelman, Director of Operations:

Any field trip scheduled during the school day and submitted to Transportation through Trip Tracker must have a return time to the school site no later than 1:30 pm  This is necessary so that our drivers can begin the pm routes on time.  If you currently have a scheduled field trip that returns after 1:30 pm, Transportation or I will be reaching out to look at altering the return time to fit within the 1:30 pm return required or find alternatives.  

Please remind your students that all students should be scanning on and off the bus daily.  This also applies to students going on field trips and athletes traveling to competitions. This is imperative for the safety of students.

IAR testing will be on March 16, 17, & 20. Seventh and eighth grade teams should be aware that testing should not go past 7th hour on March 16th as the 7th and 8th grade choirs will be heading out to the Unit 5 all district choir event after 7th hour. Please note that there will be no advisory due to IAR testing on 3/20/23. 

When writing referrals, please be sure that time on the referral is the time the incident happened and not the default time of when you wrote the referral. Accuracy in time of incident is important as it helps us track when students are having issues during the school day. This then allows us to implement interventions that have a better chance of supporting these students. 

Hearing things about ChatGPT? Here is an excellent resource created for educators by educators explaining this Open AI resource.

Students are not allowed to leave the cafeteria during the lunch hour unless they have a pass from a staff member. If you want a student to come to your room during the lunch hour, please give them a pass to show to lunchroom supervisors.