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.
