LS Weekly Memo Weekly Memo Week 32  March 16-20, 2015

Thanks to Tasha and her class for a another great Shakespeare performance. I continue to be amazed at how well the students come to understand their characters and the language of Shakespeare.  If you are eager for more performing arts experiences, Kirstin’s class is ready to debut the play they wrote.  See her email for details.

Good luck with the final days until Spring Break.

COMMUNITY

David Out of Office 3/18 - 3/20

I need to fly back to Massachusetts for a memorial service and will miss part of Wednesday through Friday.  Chris will be in charge.

Auction – Saturday, March 14

Thanks to all who donated, attended and volunteered.  Be sure to thank Lisa Kellogg and Michelle Fitzhenry for their great volunteer efforts organizing the event.  The auction makes much of our PGD possible.

Assembly 3/20

The theme will be math.  The details are coming.  Wear a number?

Admissions Welcome Night

Thanks to those who came to welcome new families to OES - Colesie, Carole, Tracy, Melanie, Chris.  I appreciate your extra efforts.

LS Building

We have a final flurry of design meetings with THA this week.  Jon von Behren and I will be doing a final check of plans over Spring Break. I have the current version of plans in my office if you want to take a look.

Hiring Updates

• Kindergarten -  finalist selection
• 2 finalists visiting before Spring Break
• Ugina Covington - visited
• Victoria Gangotena- Monday, March 16th
• 2 finalist visiting after Spring Break
• Andie Cunningham- 4/7
• Jenny Youngblood- 4/9
• Spanish- finalist visiting after Spring Break
• 2 finalists
• Heather Cline - 4/6
• Alfredo Peche - 4/13
• Chaplain search - semifinalist interviews beginning

Chaperones - Still Needed

These are amazing experiences for our students and are only possible with your help.

Students Who Needs Extra Support

4th gr - Sophia M - see previous WM

3rd gr- Scarlet J.- Improving from recent illness. If headache or other issues, send her to the office right away.

Fifth Grade Boys on the Basketball Court- Competition is ramping up for these boys. Keep an eye on this if you are out on recess duty.

3rd Grade Soccer - same as above

Kindergarten- ZT - See previous

2nd gr - Ben K - see previous

5th gr - Peter G - see previous

3rd gr - JaSier R - see previous

• Communications - Casey Knopik, knopikc@oes.edu
• Spring Behavior - see previous WM
• Fifth Grade Expectations - see previous WM
• SST Meetings - see previous WM
• Things from Home - see previous WM
• Teacher Appreciation - see previous WM

PROGRAM

Positive Discipline Workshop Attendees Gather

Monday, March 16th 3:15-4:15

David and I would like to gather with colleagues who attended the workshop to consider next steps using the mind mapping tool.  Let us know if you can attend.  If you can attend- want to offer your room as a meeting space?

Faculty Meetings

I hope you found mind mapping a useful tool.  We will continue to work with it at our next faculty meeting 4/2. Details to be developed with IDT.

• Thursday, 3/19 - no meeting
• Monday, 3/30
• FLG
• ICC
• Strategic Planning
• Thursday, 4/2
• Common Inquiry Experience

Committee Meetings

• Inquiry Design Team- moved to 4/1 from 4/8

Team Leader Agenda 3/16

• Math Curriculum
• Cadwell plan
• Mind Maps

Financial Awards

The school offers the following opportunities each year:

• Stephenson Award (faculty excellence) - see Anne Weston email
• Graduate Studies Award - see Anne Weston email
• Staff Excellence Award -
• Lamb Endowment - See Peter Langley email

Safe Schools -

• We all need to do it.
• Teachers will need to provide TA’s with 20 minutes for the refresher or 60 minutes for the full training. See emails from Tammy Stotik.

Giving to the Building

See Tracy or me with questions.  100% participation matters.

• Remember the matching offer, your $250 becomes $500 for the school.
• You can spread payments over two years
• Both your participation and the amount you donate matter.  We are seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars from foundations and about $5Million all together

Math Feedback

Tracy has shared out both his Math Presentation and his Feedback Form

Discuss at Team Meeting so Team Leaders can make a recommendation. Tracy shared links to review

Cadwell Plans

David and I spoke with Louise this week. She had an exciting proposal for our next round of coaching.  Look for an email soon about details.

UBD Reminder - Previous WM

Lower School Building – Previous WM

PGD – Previous WM

2015-16 Budget – Previous WM

Community Talks - Here is a link

• Inspired? – Try out a community talk some time in the coming weeks.  

PGD Opportunities -  

The Role of Curiosity and Wonder in Teaching: The Value of Not Knowing

Playful Learning -

Interesting Article

How Parents Create Narcissistic Children

OPERATIONS

Packing Boxes

There are packing boxes ready in room 10.  They are on the smaller size, good for packing books. If you need larger boxes let us know and we will work with Rod.

Room 10

We are planning a major excavation, cleaning and organizing of Room 10 before the move. Look for details in the WM after break.

Culling for our move to temporary spaces? Here’s Some Donation Ideas

•Woodburne Family Learning Center- Let Kelola know

•Mary Darin, Ari’s wife, works at a school that could use gently used materials and books, talk to Ari about what you have

•Angela Hancock’s sister is an educator who could use gently used materials and books, Angela is willing to pack and send them to her.

Friendly Reminder About Toys Brought to School

It came to my attention this week that children may be bringing toys to school to use at recess. The only toy we OKed was the Rubic’s Cube. All other toys need to stay at home.

Attendance input at 8:00

After hearing from some of you and discussing with Team Leaders, we are going to return to our original attendance request so we have an accurate accounting of students in school and who arrives on time.

• 1st - 5th grades complete attendance at 8:00.  students who arrive 8:00 are tardy.
• Pk - P complete attendance at 8:15.  Students who arrive after 8:15 are tardy.

Attendance recording

Miriam has put a decision flow chart about attendance in your mailbox to further improve our records, clarifying excused and unexcused, tardies and absences.

Lunch Trays

1st - 3rd Students need practice putting trays away more carefully.   In their haste to clear, food is spilled and trays are tumbling.  Please remind your students of expectations or even practice careful clearing with your class.

The Yellow Line and Safety

Keep students back from the yellow line under the covered walkway during pick-up.  We had a student fall into the street during pick-up time when they slipped off the curb.

When to Use LS Division Only and All School

Remember lsdivisiononly@oes.edu is for confidential email ONLY

Use alllsfaculty@oes.edu for regular communication to entire LS faculty

Recess Reminders

• Students are not allowed on ACP until adult supervision arrives
• Duty teachers - be on time

 

Family’s Take Holidays and Vacations When School is in Session

See the OES Handbook for details about elective absences and homework.   

Catering and Sack Lunch Procedures

• Disinfectant – Previous WM
• Buddies to Office – Previous WM
• NEED A SUBSTITUTE OR A DAY OFF? – Previous WM
• No Cough Drops at School - see previous WM
• Lost Clothing with No Names - see previous WM
• Duty teachers be punctual  - see previous WM
• Bus Riders Check In on Thursday - see previous WM

Your Announcements

Send any announcements you have for faculty to Chris or me by Thursday each week and we will include them in the Weekly memo.  This should help reduce the number of emails we are receiving, and to maximize our time to collaborate during meetings.