Weekly outline
November 15 - November 21
January 10 - January 16
I still need a 7th grade student of the month, any nominations?
Club meeting day is tomorrow, I'll send the schedule out.
Staff Meeting Tuesday at 3:15 in the Media Center. Please review the questions I posted last week for the School Rubric Process (formerly Ed Yes!). Also, I will have the actual questions you answered available on Tuesday. The Survey was returned with the information you submitted, thank you for the help.
The next DEC meeting has been moved from April 13th to Tuesday, April 12th.
If you are on the Evaluation Committee (Marcia, Barb, Matt, Malena) the next two dates have been set, Monday, January 24 and Wednesday, February 2 both at 3:10 pm in the HS Conference room.
Parent meetings have been set for February 1st and 2nd. 8th grade at 6:00 pm on February 1 and on February 2, 11th grade at 5:00 pm, 10th grade at 6:00 pm and 9th grade at 6:46 pm.
Thought for the week
If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai LamaJanuary 17 - January 23
The Gratiot County Substance Abuse Coalition is continuing to work on their "Parents who Host Lose the Most" Campaign. Is there anyone interested in working with this group to get the anti-drinking message out? They have posters to hang up and they will be into talk to students about signing a pledge not to drink. If you are interested, let me know and I'll get you the information.
Thank you Bobbi Wendling for volunteering the do the spelling bee for the 7th grade.
Exam week is next week, I have only heard from one person that there is a conflict. We have that one covered. If anyone else has found a problem, let me know.
Grades are due for the semester on Monday, January 24 at 3:00 pm. Please be prompt with your grades we want to get the reports in the mail by Wednesday.
There will be a Board Meeting on Monday night, our new Board will be present. If you have items that should be reported to the Board, please get them to me ASAP. My report has to be typed and copied by 3:30 pm.
Good job Barb Brown on the assembly last Friday. Joe Sherwood did a nice job and it was nice to see Adam Hunt back in the building
Thought for the week
Simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Angel RuizJanuary 31 - February 6
LuAnn, Edith and I will be out of the building on Monday and Tuesday. We will be at the RESD looking at new programs that may replace SchoolMaster. If you need me Karla and Ryan have my cell number. I think we will be back on Tuesday afternoon.
Student of the Month nonimations are due on Friday. I'll send out the forms this week.
The following students are on hall detention, please do not let them out of class, Shelley Jenks and Dylan Abbott.
Thought for the week:
The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears. ~Bill Vaughn
February 7 - February 13
I'm hoping Monday we will be back on schedule after the 5 day snow break!
Marcia, LuAnn and I are hoping to start the scheduling process this week. We will start with the Juniors and the 8th graders. The Juniors to make sure they are on track to graduate and the 8th graders because they don't have much choice.
Staff Meeting on Tuesday @3:15 in the Media Center. We will be looking at the School Data Profile/Analysis, the second piece of the School Process Rubrics (Ed YES!)
The Evaluation Committee meeting has been rescheduled for Wednesday, February 9 at 3:10 pm in the HS Conference room. (Marcia, Malena, Matt and Barb)
There will be a meeting for Brandon Jessup on Wednesday, February 9 at 4:00 pm. This is the earliest his parents could meet. His father works in Saginaw and he is leaving work early to meet with us. If you have Brandon please make every effort to attend this meeting, at this point he is not eligible to graduate in May.
Just a reminder to get me your students of the month, I have a high school student already for January. We are running behind on this too
Club Meeting Day will be on Tuesday, I'll send out the times on Monday.
Thoughts from the Asylum
*Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
*Why do Americans choose from just two people to run for president and from 50 for Miss America?
*A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
*The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!
*Hospitality: making your guests feel like theyre at home, even when you wish they were.
*Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others whenever they go.
*Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Have a great week
February 14 - February 20
For our next staff meeting, please be thinking about what assessments you use in your classrooms for measuring the growth of your students. This is one of the pieces that has to be put in the new evaluation. (February 22)
Scheduling update: Mostly finished with the juniors, about 10 into the sophomores. I am hoping to finish by next Friday, cross your fingers for me.
I have a CMU student who would like to student teach in Math, any takers?
Parent meetings have been rescheduled for Monday, February 14. I know this is short notice but if you can make the meetings it would be appreciated. 8th grade 5:00 pm, 11th grade 5:45 pm, 9th and 10th 6:30 pm.
Thought for the week
Ridin' the storm out, waitin' for a thaw out
On a full moon night in a rocky mountain winter....
I'm not missing a thing,
Watching the full moon crossing the range
Ridin' the storm out
Ridin' the storm out
~REO Speedwagon, Hi Infidelity Album 1981February 21 - February 27
Thank you for your work on Data Director last Friday. There is a lot of great information for us to use as we work toward student achievement and increased student success. Please keep a list of your question for March 11 when Kathy will return for a follow up visit. I have also been working in Data Director and am willing to help with questions if I can. One problem I saw as with Data Director some of you need access to more students, if that happens I can log you in under my name and you can see all middle school and high school students. Just let me know if you need that access.
Student teacher update: Becky Willman will have a student teacher in the fall, Barb Giles and Mark Bleiler will share a student teacher in the fall both from CMU. John Kolat will have a student teacher in the fall and Liz Loyselle will have a student teacher in the fall from Alma. These are all pending the interview process. Student teachers are suppose to be contacting the host teacher in the next few weeks. Thank you for taking these teachers, I know it is a lot of work to have a student teacher in your room, but we all got our chance and they need good teachers as role models. We are just the staff to provide a great student teaching experience for these new teachers
Just got an email from Chuck Sandrow at AC and Joe will have a student teacher next winter semester.
Tuesday is color day for spirit week, the staff should wear their Heart shirts. If you participate in spirit week each day you can wear jeans.
A Tornado Drill will be held at some point this week. We will only have 4 fire drills left after the Tornado Drill:0 We will get them all in!
Staff Meeting: We will once again be working on the School Data Analysis/Profile. I will bring the results perception data from the staff and the community. The student data has been gathered and Ginny will be tabulating that information to use at the next staff meeting. I will also look at some other areas of the Data Analysis that we will need to "reflect" on.
Thought for the week
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. ~Leo Aikman
February 28 - March 6
We will end the Marking Period on March 18, this will allow us to get Report Cards printed and mailed before Spring Break. Otherwise they will be hanging out there for two weeks.
Student of the Month nominations are due at the end of the week. I will attach them to the email.
For the Month of March, we will be donating to BEA Scholarship fund. If you choose to take part in this donation you will be asked to donate $5 a week to wear jeans on Wednesday. If you are willing to pay on Wednesday the donation will be $15 for four weeks or $5 per week if paid by the week.
Be thinking about the local and State assessments that we use to measure the growth of our students. We need this for the new evaluation that will be in place next year. I will be asking the staff to give me this information on Tuesday, March 8 at our staff meeting.
Evaluation Committee: our next meeting will be on Wednesday, March 9 @3:10 pm.
Thought for the week:
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? ~Stanislaw J. Lec
March 7 - March 13
Staff Meeting on Tuesday, March 8 @3:15 pm
On the agenda:
What assessments do you uses to measure student growth?
Data Director
In-service on Friday
Mock Rock/Talent Show
Evaluation Committee will meet on March 9 @3:10 pm in the High School conference room.
Thought for the week
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
March 14 - March 20
Thank you all for your work on Friday, Data Director will be a valuable tool as we continue to look at student achievement and school improvement.
The next staff meeting we will be looking at staff demographics as a part of the School Data Analysis for the State.
Just a reminder to let Malena know if you are willing to serve on the NHS Facility Council. The Council will meet between now and next Thursday to discuss potential inductees for NHS this year.
If you have book requests or capital outlay requests (like desks, white boards) please get those to me by the April 8. I'll attach the form for books, just email me your capital requests.
The Marking Period ends on March 24 as decided in the staff meeting on Friday, March 11. Grades should be posted by 3:15 on Thursday, March 24 and LuAnn will upload them to the web on Friday.
Janea from the Gratiot County Substance Abuse committee will be back in the building to hand out commitment sheets to the students in the Middle School on Friday, March 18.
Upcoming events
MME make-ups Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday this week
Mock Trials will be on Wednesday and Thursday this week
The Renaissance Dinner will take place on Saturday night
Students will be leaving for Washington DC on Sunday
March 21 - March 27
Data Projectors - We are looking at Data Projectors for classrooms K-8 at this time, I need to know if you are interested in having one in your room and if you will use it. Please let me know. High School staff you will be next but the push is to complete K-8 by September. The Education Foundation gave the school $2500 toward the data projectors, other monies used will be from earmarked grants.
Monday - NHS Blood drive 9 to 3 in the MS gym.
Staff Meeting on Tuesday
More School Data/Analysis
Mock Rock/TVC Talent Show on Thursday next week.
Grades due by 3:00 pm on Thursday, March 24.
Thought for the week
"Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life."- Ernie Harwell
March 28 - April 3
April 4 - April 10
Welcome back! I hope everyone is refreshed and ready to finish the year.
Some reminders as we get going again:
Textbook requests for next year are due by Friday, April 8.
If you have items for Capital outlay ie. desks, chairs, music stands, please give me specific numbers and have that to me by email by Friday.
As I look ahead to next week we have the NHS induction ceremony on Tuesday, April 12 at 7:00 pm.
Middle School health fair for 7th & 8th graders will be on Friday, April 15.
We will have to go alphabetical to get all the students through in the morning. We will go 7th grade 1st half of alphabet 1st hour, 7th grade 2nd half of alphabet 2nd hour. 8th grade 3rd hour 1st half of alphabet, 4th hour 2nd half of 8th grade.
Staff Meeting next Tuesday we will be working with Jim Tuman on Peer to Peer aggression.
Students of the Month are due on Friday. I'll send out the forms.
Thought for the week:
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
- Joe Paterno
April 11 - April 17
Jim Tuman will be here on Tuesday, April 12 for the Middle School students, the assembly will begin around 10:30 am. It will last approximately 2 hours then Jim will go to lunch with the students. Jim will be at our staff meeting on Tuesday to work with us as a staff. On Wednedsay, we will have an assembly for the high school beginning at about 10:30. He will then go to lunch with the HS students. We will need to switch lunch hours on Wednesday to accommodate Jim, so Middle School will eat lunch at 11:41 and the high school will eat at about 12:30 pm.
The last DEC meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, April 13 in the HS conference room.
7th and 8th grade teachers, the health fair will be on Friday during the day. We will call students alphabetically starting with the 7th graders.
The Ag. Advisory is sponsoring a Career Fair for the High School. It will be held on April 21 from 8 to 11:30 am. Be thinking of a plan to get kids to the Media Center during that time.
8th grade vs Staff basketball game will take place on April 21 during 7th hour. if you would like to play see Captain Paul
Thought for the Week
"When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone
telling you you're nuts." -Larry Ellison
April 18 - April 24
Clubs and organization looking for community service opportunities, the Village/Chamber will be planting trees on April 30. It will start at 8:30 am and there will be a cookout at noon for all who participate.
We are down to the last few weeks before I have to turn in Emergency drill documentation so we will have 1 fire drill per week for the next three weeksBe prepared!
The TVC Talent Show will be tomorrow April 19, at 1:30 in the Gym. This is for High School only.
The Ag. Career Fair will be on Thursday, April 21 in the Media Center. The speakers will be available from 8:00 through HS lunch hour.
Thought for the week:
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
April 25 - May 1
Just a reminder that clubs and organization looking for community service opportunities, the Village/Chamber will be planting trees on April 30. It will start at 8:30 am and there will be a cookout at noon for all who participate.
Staff Meeting tonight: Erin, Bobbi and Mike will present Peer to Peer Aggression. We will also be looking at Staff Demographics for the School Data Profile/Analysis.
Prom is Saturday this week.
Next month our extra jean day proceeds will go to the OM teams that will be traveling to Maryland for the World Finals.
May 3 the 8th graders will be traveling to Lansing to watch the Lugnuts game. The buses will pull out at 8:30 am and return around 2:45 pm.
Mid-term grades are due on Monday, May 2 at 3:00 pm.
The sports boosters are looking for volunteers to help at the HS track meets if you are interested contact Jayne Doyle or Lia Gulick.
Just a reminder that when you are in the building late at night or on the weekends, please make sure that the building is secured. We have had the building left open a couple of times. Thanks for your attention to this matter.
Thought for the week:
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
May 2 - May 8
The first week of May! We are winding down another year. The month of May will be busy and over before we know it!
Prom is over for another year! It was a great night, thanks to all the adults who helped out and chaperoned the dance. I love seeing the kids all dressed up, they looked great!
Mid-term grades are due on Monday, May 2 @3 pm!
Student of the Month nominations are due on Friday. I'll try to remember to send out the forms on Monday (I don't have them at home). An email with the student name and why you chose them would also be fine. The reason is helpful when I put them on the website and in the paper.
Box Tops for Education will be collected by Bobbi Wendling and her Writing Workshop class. Bring your saved Box Tops to Bobbi's room or the office and we'll start collecting them to day.
Volunteers needed by the sports boosters to help at the track meets. Let me know or contact Jayne Doyle to help.
Ideas needed, if you have any ideas on how to cut costs please let me know your ideas. We are going to need to pull together to get through this current budget bump.
MS staff, what do you think about having the awards assembly on May 26 at 2:00 pm? That is graduation day and we could use the stage and seating already set up for the night? I know this is a change but think about it and shoot me an email.
Extra Jean Day for May with support the OM teams that are going to World Competition in Maryland. $20 for the month to wear jeans on Wednesdays.
Thought for the Week
"Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit." ~Conrad Hilton