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Secondary Vocal Music Professional Learning Session??- for Secondary Administrators
Professional Development for Elementary Art Teachers??- for Elementary Principals
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FAS Work Day Expectations??- for All Administrators
2017 Horizon Award Application Due Monday!??- for All Administrators
SILK Training??- for All Administrators
ELPA21 Results-Update??- for All Administrators
Requests for Family Advocacy Interpreters??- for All Principals
Bullysite/Suicide Prevention Plan??- for All Administrators
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Secondary Vocal Music Professional Learning Session
From Alan King
Secondary Vocal Music teachers will be participating in a two professional learning opportunity with a nationally known clinician on October 12 & 13. They will not be be participating in the building professional learning on October 12.
Professional Development for Elementary Art Teachers
From Alan King
Elementary Art teachers will be participating in a two day professional learning session on November 2 & 3. They will be absent from the building’s professional learning on November 2.
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FAS Work Day Expectations
From Executive Directors
As you plan for your FAS days this year, please note that it is an expectation that staff will still work their required number of hours, per their job description, on both Thursday, October 27th and Friday, February 10, 2017. For example, teachers will work an eight hour day on each date.
In consideration of the needs of your families, you may identify the need to have evening opportunities and therefore we encourage you to consider using your available evenings that you can require teachers to stay late.
If you have additional questions, please contact your Executive Director.
2017 Horizon Award Application Due Monday!
From Amy Jo Troyer
The Horizon Award Application is now available to view and print from the KSDE website. As a reminder, the award is intended to recognize exemplary first year teachers who perform in a way that distinguishes them as outstanding. In order to be eligible, the nominee will need to be a full-time teacher who completed their first full year of teaching in the 2015-16 school year. The nomination packet is lengthy and detailed, please ensure that the nominee receives this packet as soon as possible to begin the process. The deadline to complete and submit the nomination packet to Amy Jo Troyer is October 3, 2016.
SILK Training
From Penny Atchley
Mandatory SILK Training for Secondary Attendance Clerks on Wednesday, October 5th in room 268.
ELPA21 Results-Update
From Kristen Scott
Administrators,
The following information was emailed to your ESL staff:
I wanted to update all of you concerning information I learned today in the monthly ESOL webinar put on by the state.
Cut scores and performance categories were approved by the ELPA21 Consortium and sent to Questar yesterday. Questar now has to put that information into all of the testing data on individual students; once that is done the data will be sent to CETE. Once CETE has all of the information uploaded and configured the data will be released to KSDE. So what that all means now is that it might be November until we get the results.
Please remember that for students who were with us and already had an ILP, we are continuing with that ILP. You are creating new ILPs for any new student into our system.
If I am notified that this may change I will let you all know. Until then if you have any questions please let me know.
Requests for Family Advocacy Interpreters
From Rosie Rodriguez
Family Advocacy: October 26 ??? October 27
It???s time to begin gathering your building needs for interpreter requests. To facilitate this process, please fill out the following information and return to my attention, on or before Monday, October 17th.
Bullysite/Suicide Prevention Plan
From Tina Richardson
Reminder to complete your Bullysite/Suicide Prevention Plan by October 27. Email them to Mathia Kelsey in Student Services.