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Rachel Stibel, Coach Dan Young, Shae Zydek, Grace Iacopelli, Maire Sullivan, Grace Boczar, Bridget Boczar

Upcoming events: 
10/31 - Halloween
11/1 -   Parent Teacher Conferences 3:30 - 8:30 pm 
11/6 -   District Professional Development 8 am - 3:30 pm 
            Sign up for sessions by this Friday (see links below) 
11/7 -   Building Meeting @ PHS in the cafeteria
11/8 -   Distracted Driving Assembly (for those signed up)
            Tornado Drill @ 9:17 am
            P-CEP Community Open House 6-8 pm 
11/9 -   End of 1st Quarter
            
     

Food before Parent-Teacher Conferences: There will be pizza, chips, and veggies before parent teacher conferences this Thursday, 11/1. Please plan on coming down to room 406 (staff break room off cafeteria) beginning at 2:45 to fill up before the long night. 

Safeschools: If you have not completed this mandatory training, please do so ASAP. I don't have access to see who has completed it and who hasn't, which is why everyone is getting all the reminders. Here is the link again - Thank you!

Teacher evaluation: SLO goals are to be approved in OASYS by this Friday. Please hit "submit" on your goals so that your evaluating administrator can view them and then finalize them.

Parent contact: Your PHS administrative team is trying hard to hold students accountable for getting to class on time, particularly when students have a parking passes and/or 18 year old waivers, but we need your help! We learned that the automatic attendance robo call does not call home for tardies. This makes it even more important that we connect with families so they are made aware of the issue. Please mark accurate attendance, including tardies, and reach out to the parents/guardians of any student who is excessively tardy. Thank you! 

District Professional Development: Next Tuesday is District Provided Professional Development from 8 am -3:30 pm @ Salem High School. Please 
click this link for Conference Descriptions and click this link to REGISTER

Danielle Ramos taking part in a learning activity during an instructional round! 

Supporting the Wildcats at the playoff football game in West Bloomfield

Student winners of the Lions ticket giveaway!

Thanks for your patience

Hello again, 
Thanks for your patience with the repeated changes to the fire drill time yesterday. The initial change was made to try and preserve some of the instructional time that has been lost in 5th hour due to testing. I appreciate your endless patience as the time got changed, and then changed again. 

A few odds and ends below . . .

1) Parent Teacher Conferences are 11/1: Parent Teacher Conferences are on Thursday, 11/1, from 3:30-8:30 pm. Staff elected this past June to have just one conference this year instead of 2 so this will be the only one, but it'll be longer. We are using PTC Fast again this year. Please keep an eye out for an email about a week prior so that you can schedule in some breaks. Please schedule up to (6) 5 minute breaks as you see fit throughout the PT time (30 min total). We expect it to go live for families to sign-up on 10/26. As always, if your spaces fill-up, please work with the family to come up with a mutually agreed upon way to conference about their child.

2) Central Office Classroom Visits: Members of Central Office will be at Plymouth High School visiting classrooms on Wednesday, 10/24, during 1st and 2nd hours! It will most likely be me, Hal, and Mike Bender who will be making the rounds. Please let me know if you'd like us to stop by. The classroom visits will be 5-10 minutes in order to get into as many classrooms as possible while they're here. 

3) Student Withdrawal Forms: Students need an exiting grade from P-CEP when they withdraw and move to another school. Please remember to assign students a grade on the withdrawal form within 2 days of their withdrawal. Thank you!

4) Review of Evaluation process: Teachers, please have your SLOs uploaded in OASYS by 10/22. In addition, you should have a goal setting meeting with your evaluating administrator by 11/2. First observations have already begun. Thank goodness - getting into classrooms is one of the best parts of an administrative job!  

 5) Distracted Driving Assembly: On November 8th we will be hosting a national speaker, Joel Feldman, who will present a dynamic program about distracted driving hours 2,3,5 & 6 in the Salem Auditorium. Please see the attached flier. If you are interested in attending with your students, please e-mail Janet Sutherland with the hour and number of students. Janet will confirm with you regarding your attendance. Thank you for sharing this important information with your students.

6) Take care of yourself: The end of October looks like it may be a tough week with Halloween on Wednesday and a long night of Parent Teacher Conferences on Thursday. Fridays are always a challenge for us to find substitutes, even when staff call in the absence the day before. This past Friday, we had 13 teachers out and 3 of them were unfilled. Please do whatever you usually do to keep yourself healthy - get extra sleep, stay hydrated, take vitamins, whatever it takes so that we have a full staff on that Friday, November 2nd. 😉

Happy Thursday!

I recently started reading the book Culturize by Jimmy Casas so I was thrilled to learn that RESA had booked him for their learning series this year. I got the opportunity to hear him speak yesterday. He started the day by asking us to scroll through the contact list in our phone and find someone we hadn't connected with in awhile. Then, he gave us 1 minute to send a message to this person. See, as Mr. Casas explained, this was an opportunity. Life is full of opportunities - either we take them or we miss them. By mid-day almost everyone in the room had heard back from the person they texted. It was a good reminder for me that we have opportunities every day to build the kind of culture we want to have in our class, and in our school. May we not only recognize but seize these opportunities around us.

The remaining two Wednesday meetings this month are listed below: 

• 10/17 PLC meeting 
• 10/24 Building meeting (CORE Team coming to PHS)

1.  Welcome to Amy Mullins! Please join me in welcoming Amy Mullins, our new  ASD teacher. Amy started this past Monday and is in room 104A. 

2.  Emergency Drill information: Tomorrow's emergency lock-down drill at 9:17 am is a shelter-in-place. A shelter-in-place lock-down may be used in the event of hazardous material or chemical incident outside of the building or any other threat when it is determined the safety of students and staff require that they remain in classrooms; however, instruction may continue. Please be sure to:

• Check hallways/bathrooms and bring in any stray students
• Take attendance, including students you brought into your room
• Lock and close the door
• Close any windows
• All staff and students should remain out of the hallway
• Do not write hall passes for any reason
• Call my office to report medical emergency or critical information (PHS 734-582-5602) during the drill
• You do not need to place the red/green card under your door. 

3. Fire Drill on 10/16 moved to the beginning of 3rd hour: This week's PSAT shortened the afternoon hours so in an effort to minimize the impact to 5th hour the fire drill next Tuesday is now at the beginning of 3rd hour. The drill will begin at 9:18 am. 

4. Safe School online training:  Please do not forget to complete the mandatory online training that is due on 10/31. You'll need to complete both the bloodborne pathogen (13 min) and seclusion/restraint awareness training (33 min). Here is the link - https://pccs-mi.safeschools.com/ Enter your Username: (district email address) Once you log into the site, click on a course title to begin the training. Thank you! 

5.  Open Media Centers after school: Like last year, the media centers will be open for student use from 2:30 -3:30 pm on the following days: Canton - Monday & Tuesdays; Plymouth - Mondays and Wednesdays; Salem - Tuesdays and Thursdays

6.  DNA illuminate answer sheets: You can print multiple answer sheets on one sheet of paper by clinking on Adv. Options link (above the generate tab). Click the 1st box that says "multiple answers sheet"

7. Sub lesson plans: If you are absent, please communicate your lesson plans to the substitute teacher either by uploading them into AESOP or making other arrangements for the plans to be given to the substitute. While you may choose to communicate with your students through google classroom or remind, please also provide the plans to the substitute. 

8. School Improvement Link: The School Improvement Link is included in the PHS SLO Presentation on slide 24 (shared with you in Google Drive) and HERE for your reference.