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.

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. 

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

Here is a draft of the IAR Test Administration/Proctor Schedule. Please review and provide feedback by 3/8/23. 

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. 

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. 

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.

Here is the February Family KJ Connection.  

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.

Check out the February Instructional Tech Update. Here are the highlights:

• Unit 5 started a podcast series called Inside Unit #5 for our community to listen to which is linked.  This is hosted by our very own teachers in Unit 5.  

• IC Updates:  There have been lots of questions about score copier, so it is included.

• Black History Month is the whole month of February, so there are lots of instructional resources for this month you can use. 

• Canva - Canva's premium is available to all teachers and students in education.  All you have to do is register your education account.  The instructions are included, as well as an activity for you to create your own Canva banner for Google Classroom.  

• Phet Simulations have been around for a while, but they have been transitioning these to HTML 5 over the last several years.  Check this resource out there is lots to find here! 

There will be 3 different summer school options this year for middle school students: Extended School Year (ESY), regular summer school, and Freedom School. ESY is reserved for students with IEPs, summer school is for those students who struggles academically during the school year, and Freedom School focuses around literacy connected to African-American History and Civic Engagement. ESY will be hosted here at KJHS and summer school and Freedom School will be held at CJHS. Here are key dates & events surrounding the 2023 summer schools: 

• Postings for Summer School Administrators - week of 2/6

• Select Summer School Administrators -  week of 2/20

• Posting for teachers, supervisors, and administrative assistant - week of 3/13

• Set-up interviews for internal and external applicants - week of 4/3

• Create and send out letters to parents of recommended students inviting them to the summer program - week of 4/10

• Send a final list of summer school students with appropriate data to the First Student - April 28th

Janel Sebeny!

Janel has received the Award of Meritorious Service from the ISBE "Those Who Excel" award program. Janel will be recognized at the Those Who Excel and Teacher of the Year Award banquet in April. Congratulations Janel on this state wide recognition of all you do for KJHS!

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. 

Here is the Q3 PBIS Celebrations information that was sent out last week. Sixth grade will have their Q3 PBIS celebration on 3/23 and 7th and 8th grade will have their Q3 PBIS Celebration on 3/24.