Month: November 2019

Contents

New Items

2020 STAR Teacher Announcement-Nomination Information – for All Administrators
4/5 Elementary ELA Cadre – for Elementary Principals

Previous Items

ESL Aide PL on November 12th – for Principals
2019-20 GARH Board Policy Update – Days to Hours – for All Administrators
BusinessPLUS Training – for All Administrators
ESL Coursework Toward Endorsement – for Administrators

New Items

2020 STAR Teacher Announcement-Nomination Information

from Ariel Kittling
The Star Teacher nomination process is a wonderful opportunity to recognize our best teachers who raise the standard of our belief that ???Excellence is Required???. As principals, we are asking that you solicit feedback from your staff on who they feel exemplifies the necessary traits of a STAR Teacher and then engage your building leadership team to establish a nomination and election process. Once your leadership team has elected a representative as the nominee for your building, please submit your nominee???s name only via email to ana.perez-sievert@kckps.org no later than Friday, November 22, 2019 at 4.00 PM.

Similar to the criteria for the Kansas Teacher of the Year, your selection should represent the teacher who best exemplifies excellence in student learning and your school community. Specifically, your nominee should be:

??? An educator with strong pedagogy
??? An educator who is innovative, creative and has a growth mindset
??? An educator who is a positive influence on students and staff
??? An educator who is engaged in the community and professional affiliations
??? An educator who will be entering into year 6 or greater of teaching in the 2020-21 school year

We will formally provide the nominee with the District application packet the week of November 25. Their district application packet will be due back to HR by Friday, January 10, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. You will be copied on the email providing them with the nomination packet so that you can support in that process as well.

The individual selected from your building will be recognized at the district???s STAR Teacher Award Ceremony on Thursday, April 2, 2019 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., at the Central Office and Training Center. An EC-5 and a Secondary Star Teacher will advance as nominees for the State of Kansas Teacher of the Year Award.

If you have any questions regarding the Star Teacher nomination process, please contact Ana Perez-Sievert, Senior Office Administrator at 913-279-2314.

4/5 Elementary ELA Cadre

from Cheryl Beyer
The Curriculum and Instruction Department is seeking 4th and 5th grade classroom teachers to represent these grade levels in work around reviewing ELA resources. We will engage in a cadre that will come together to examine and review materials to support standards based ELA instruction for 4th and 5th grade. Please share this link with teachers that might be interested.

Previous Items

ESL Aide PL on November 12th

from Kristen Scott
As part of the Step Up grant, our ESL Aides receive their own professional learning. Their next session will be on Tuesday, November 12th from 9:00-3:00 here at the Central Office.
Aides have been informed to adjust their schedule with you the building principal to ensure they are here for their session.
If you have any questions please reach out to me. Thank you.

2019-20 GARH Board Policy Update – Days to Hours

from Amy Jo Troyer
Recently, the Board of Education approved changes to policy GARH ??? Attendance, Absences, Leaves, Vacations which will allow employees to enter absences in one hour increments rather than half/whole day increments. As of close of business on November 10, 2019, all District employees will have the ability to enter their absences in a minimum of one hour increments.

We have attached an interactive PDF which details key employee notes and we ask that you share this PDF flyer with your staff. In addition, we have listed several key talking points for supervisors regarding this change:

1) Employees will have the ability to enter absences for as little as one (1) hour or as much as a full duty day.
2) Employees are advised to contact Human Resources if they notice a discrepancy in their work schedule times and the work times schedule listed in Absence Management. Human Resources can correct this for them.
3) Employees are advised to update any future dated absences they have previously keyed in, as they will not automatically update to hours once the change in the system occurs.

As supervisors, this change will also impact you, so we have listed a few things you may want to consider when approving or denying leave requests:

1) Supervisors should consider requests for time off and review the daily absences at their site to determine classroom/duty coverage needs prior to approving or denying leave requests.
2) For substitute eligible positions, substitutes will be granted for absences of 3 or more consecutive hours. Any absence of 2 or fewer consecutive hours will require staff coverage arrangements to be made at the building level.
3) You should be receiving a daily absentee report from Frontline which lists the absences for that day in your building or department.
a. To view absences in real time, you may use the ???Daily Report??? function on the home screen of your Campus User account.
b. If you do not receive a daily absentee report, or would like additional training in Absence Management to better manage your daily absences, please contact Elizabeth Faircloth at 913-279-2262.

We welcome any questions you may have and look forward to supporting you and your staff during this transition! Our team can be reached by phone at 913-279-2262.

Leave Transition PDF

BusinessPLUS Training

from Wayne Correll
We are training the substitute treasurer???s on Friday, November 8th from 1:30 ??? 4:00 pm in the Computer Lab, Room 268.
We invite all new Administrators, Treasurer???s and those that are backing them up during an absence.

We have found with our new staff, we need to offer these more often. After the holiday???s we will be targeting our Wednesday Afternoon???s With Purchasing to either Business Plus or Visa trainings. Look for more on this in the coming weeks!

ESL Coursework Toward Endorsement

from Kristen Scott
Principals,Please pass this information along to your teachers. They can apply to be part of the last cohort of teachers to earn 15 graduate credit hours for free towards their ESL endorsement. Attached is a flyer that can be shared which also has the address of where they can apply if interested. We can accept up to 25 teachers for this last cohort!
If they have any questions they can email me. Thank you.

Contents

New Items

Previous Items

Secondary ELA GVC Refinement and Resources Cadre – for All Principals
ESL Aide PL on November 12th – for Principals
2019-20 GARH Board Policy Update – Days to Hours – for All Administrators
BusinessPLUS Training – for All Administrators
ESL Coursework Toward Endorsement – for Administrators

New Items

Previous Items

Secondary ELA GVC Refinement and Resources Cadre

from Kristi Chalk
The Curriculum and Instruction Department is seeking secondary teachers to participate in an ELA cadre to enhance support for standards-based planning and instruction. This cadre will explore and evaluate new curriculum resources, which will align to the rigor of integrated reading and writing instruction. This cadre will continue to refine the Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum (GVC), including alignment to any newly identified curriculum resources. Please share this information with teachers who might be interested in participating in this cadre work.

Secondary ELA GVC Refinement and Resources Cadre PDF

ESL Aide PL on November 12th

from Kristen Scott
As part of the Step Up grant, our ESL Aides receive their own professional learning. Their next session will be on Tuesday, November 12th from 9:00-3:00 here at the Central Office.
Aides have been informed to adjust their schedule with you the building principal to ensure they are here for their session.
If you have any questions please reach out to me. Thank you.

2019-20 GARH Board Policy Update – Days to Hours

from Amy Jo Troyer
Recently, the Board of Education approved changes to policy GARH ??? Attendance, Absences, Leaves, Vacations which will allow employees to enter absences in one hour increments rather than half/whole day increments. As of close of business on November 10, 2019, all District employees will have the ability to enter their absences in a minimum of one hour increments.

We have attached an interactive PDF which details key employee notes and we ask that you share this PDF flyer with your staff. In addition, we have listed several key talking points for supervisors regarding this change:

1) Employees will have the ability to enter absences for as little as one (1) hour or as much as a full duty day.
2) Employees are advised to contact Human Resources if they notice a discrepancy in their work schedule times and the work times schedule listed in Absence Management. Human Resources can correct this for them.
3) Employees are advised to update any future dated absences they have previously keyed in, as they will not automatically update to hours once the change in the system occurs.

As supervisors, this change will also impact you, so we have listed a few things you may want to consider when approving or denying leave requests:

1) Supervisors should consider requests for time off and review the daily absences at their site to determine classroom/duty coverage needs prior to approving or denying leave requests.
2) For substitute eligible positions, substitutes will be granted for absences of 3 or more consecutive hours. Any absence of 2 or fewer consecutive hours will require staff coverage arrangements to be made at the building level.
3) You should be receiving a daily absentee report from Frontline which lists the absences for that day in your building or department.
a. To view absences in real time, you may use the ???Daily Report??? function on the home screen of your Campus User account.
b. If you do not receive a daily absentee report, or would like additional training in Absence Management to better manage your daily absences, please contact Elizabeth Faircloth at 913-279-2262.

We welcome any questions you may have and look forward to supporting you and your staff during this transition! Our team can be reached by phone at 913-279-2262.

Leave Transition PDF

BusinessPLUS Training

from Wayne Correll
We are training the substitute treasurer???s on Friday, November 8th from 1:30 ??? 4:00 pm in the Computer Lab, Room 268.
We invite all new Administrators, Treasurer???s and those that are backing them up during an absence.

We have found with our new staff, we need to offer these more often. After the holiday???s we will be targeting our Wednesday Afternoon???s With Purchasing to either Business Plus or Visa trainings. Look for more on this in the coming weeks!

ESL Coursework Toward Endorsement

from Kristen Scott
Principals,Please pass this information along to your teachers. They can apply to be part of the last cohort of teachers to earn 15 graduate credit hours for free towards their ESL endorsement. Attached is a flyer that can be shared which also has the address of where they can apply if interested. We can accept up to 25 teachers for this last cohort!
If they have any questions they can email me. Thank you.

Contents

New Items

Previous Items

Secondary ELA GVC Refinement and Resources Cadre – for All Principals
ESL Aide PL on November 12th – for Principals
NEW Updated Incident Form Available for Download – for All Administrators
Communications Department Request Form – for All Administrators
Progress on 2019-20 Mandatory Trainings – for All Administrators
2019-20 GARH Board Policy Update – Days to Hours – for All Administrators
BusinessPLUS Training – for All Administrators
ESL Coursework Toward Endorsement – for Administrators

New Items

Previous Items

Secondary ELA GVC Refinement and Resources Cadre

from Kristi Chalk
The Curriculum and Instruction Department is seeking secondary teachers to participate in an ELA cadre to enhance support for standards-based planning and instruction. This cadre will explore and evaluate new curriculum resources, which will align to the rigor of integrated reading and writing instruction. This cadre will continue to refine the Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum (GVC), including alignment to any newly identified curriculum resources. Please share this information with teachers who might be interested in participating in this cadre work.

Secondary ELA GVC Refinement and Resources Cadre PDF

ESL Aide PL on November 12th

from Kristen Scott
As part of the Step Up grant, our ESL Aides receive their own professional learning. Their next session will be on Tuesday, November 12th from 9:00-3:00 here at the Central Office.
Aides have been informed to adjust their schedule with you the building principal to ensure they are here for their session.
If you have any questions please reach out to me. Thank you.

NEW Updated Incident Form Available for Download

from Mike Keener
Download the updated form here.?? Discard any older Incident Report Forms you have on file. The form should be sent to Sharita Hutton.

Communications Department Request Form

from Mike Keener

In order for the communications team to stay on track and meet the needs of various departments, schools, etc. a request form is now available on the main district website, under “Communications & Marketing” (which is under the main “Community Info” tab).

This form allows you to submit content ideas (do you have a winning debate team, are your students doing something to help the community?).?? Please give us at least 2 weeks??? notice before the day of the event. If your request involves a website update you can send those directly to the web/graphic design specialist.

Use of this form is required for Communications requests.

Here is a direct link to the form.

Progress on 2019-20 Mandatory Trainings

from Lisa Walker
Thanks for your support in helping staff members complete the 2019-20 mandatory trainings in the Professional Growth platform on Frontline.

At the present time, approximately 63% of all district staff have completed the trainings. Please continue to encourage all staff members to complete the required trainings by our deadline of Friday, November 8, 2019.

Questions can be referred to your building IDP representatives if staff members experience problems logging into the system or accessing trainings. If needed, IDP representatives can also provide additional assistance for closed caption features and transcripts, for staff members unable to access the audio on the trainings.

Questions that cannot be answered by an IPD representative can be referred to Jared.Alexander@kckps.org.

2019-20 GARH Board Policy Update – Days to Hours

from Amy Jo Troyer
Recently, the Board of Education approved changes to policy GARH ??? Attendance, Absences, Leaves, Vacations which will allow employees to enter absences in one hour increments rather than half/whole day increments. As of close of business on November 10, 2019, all District employees will have the ability to enter their absences in a minimum of one hour increments.

We have attached an interactive PDF which details key employee notes and we ask that you share this PDF flyer with your staff. In addition, we have listed several key talking points for supervisors regarding this change:

1) Employees will have the ability to enter absences for as little as one (1) hour or as much as a full duty day.
2) Employees are advised to contact Human Resources if they notice a discrepancy in their work schedule times and the work times schedule listed in Absence Management. Human Resources can correct this for them.
3) Employees are advised to update any future dated absences they have previously keyed in, as they will not automatically update to hours once the change in the system occurs.

As supervisors, this change will also impact you, so we have listed a few things you may want to consider when approving or denying leave requests:

1) Supervisors should consider requests for time off and review the daily absences at their site to determine classroom/duty coverage needs prior to approving or denying leave requests.
2) For substitute eligible positions, substitutes will be granted for absences of 3 or more consecutive hours. Any absence of 2 or fewer consecutive hours will require staff coverage arrangements to be made at the building level.
3) You should be receiving a daily absentee report from Frontline which lists the absences for that day in your building or department.
a. To view absences in real time, you may use the ???Daily Report??? function on the home screen of your Campus User account.
b. If you do not receive a daily absentee report, or would like additional training in Absence Management to better manage your daily absences, please contact Elizabeth Faircloth at 913-279-2262.

We welcome any questions you may have and look forward to supporting you and your staff during this transition! Our team can be reached by phone at 913-279-2262.

Leave Transition PDF

BusinessPLUS Training

from Wayne Correll
We are training the substitute treasurer???s on Friday, November 8th from 1:30 ??? 4:00 pm in the Computer Lab, Room 268.
We invite all new Administrators, Treasurer???s and those that are backing them up during an absence.

We have found with our new staff, we need to offer these more often. After the holiday???s we will be targeting our Wednesday Afternoon???s With Purchasing to either Business Plus or Visa trainings. Look for more on this in the coming weeks!

ESL Coursework Toward Endorsement

from Kristen Scott
Principals,Please pass this information along to your teachers. They can apply to be part of the last cohort of teachers to earn 15 graduate credit hours for free towards their ESL endorsement. Attached is a flyer that can be shared which also has the address of where they can apply if interested. We can accept up to 25 teachers for this last cohort!
If they have any questions they can email me. Thank you.

Contents

New Items

ESL Aide PL on November 12th – for Principals
NEW Updated Incident Form Available for Download – for All Administrators
ESL Coursework Toward Endorsement – for Administrators

Previous Items

Secondary ELA GVC Refinement and Resources Cadre – for All Principals
Communications Department Request Form – for All Administrators
Progress on 2019-20 Mandatory Trainings – for All Administrators
2019-20 GARH Board Policy Update – Days to Hours – for All Administrators
BusinessPLUS Training – for All Administrators

New Items

ESL Aide PL on November 12th

from Kristen Scott
As part of the Step Up grant, our ESL Aides receive their own professional learning. Their next session will be on Tuesday, November 12th from 9:00-3:00 here at the Central Office.
Aides have been informed to adjust their schedule with you the building principal to ensure they are here for their session.
If you have any questions please reach out to me. Thank you.

NEW Updated Incident Form Available for Download

from Mike Keener
Download the updated form here.?? Discard any older Incident Report Forms you have on file. The form should be sent to Sharita Hutton.

ESL Coursework Toward Endorsement

from Kristen Scott
Principals,Please pass this information along to your teachers. They can apply to be part of the last cohort of teachers to earn 15 graduate credit hours for free towards their ESL endorsement. Attached is a flyer that can be shared which also has the address of where they can apply if interested. We can accept up to 25 teachers for this last cohort!
If they have any questions they can email me. Thank you.

Previous Items

Secondary ELA GVC Refinement and Resources Cadre

from Kristi Chalk
The Curriculum and Instruction Department is seeking secondary teachers to participate in an ELA cadre to enhance support for standards-based planning and instruction. This cadre will explore and evaluate new curriculum resources, which will align to the rigor of integrated reading and writing instruction. This cadre will continue to refine the Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum (GVC), including alignment to any newly identified curriculum resources. Please share this information with teachers who might be interested in participating in this cadre work.

Secondary ELA GVC Refinement and Resources Cadre PDF

Communications Department Request Form

from Mike Keener

In order for the communications team to stay on track and meet the needs of various departments, schools, etc. a request form is now available on the main district website, under “Communications & Marketing” (which is under the main “Community Info” tab).

This form allows you to submit content ideas (do you have a winning debate team, are your students doing something to help the community?).?? Please give us at least 2 weeks??? notice before the day of the event. If your request involves a website update you can send those directly to the web/graphic design specialist.

Use of this form is required for Communications requests.

Here is a direct link to the form.

Progress on 2019-20 Mandatory Trainings

from Lisa Walker
Thanks for your support in helping staff members complete the 2019-20 mandatory trainings in the Professional Growth platform on Frontline.

At the present time, approximately 63% of all district staff have completed the trainings. Please continue to encourage all staff members to complete the required trainings by our deadline of Friday, November 8, 2019.

Questions can be referred to your building IDP representatives if staff members experience problems logging into the system or accessing trainings. If needed, IDP representatives can also provide additional assistance for closed caption features and transcripts, for staff members unable to access the audio on the trainings.

Questions that cannot be answered by an IPD representative can be referred to Jared.Alexander@kckps.org.

2019-20 GARH Board Policy Update – Days to Hours

from Amy Jo Troyer
Recently, the Board of Education approved changes to policy GARH ??? Attendance, Absences, Leaves, Vacations which will allow employees to enter absences in one hour increments rather than half/whole day increments. As of close of business on November 10, 2019, all District employees will have the ability to enter their absences in a minimum of one hour increments.

We have attached an interactive PDF which details key employee notes and we ask that you share this PDF flyer with your staff. In addition, we have listed several key talking points for supervisors regarding this change:

1) Employees will have the ability to enter absences for as little as one (1) hour or as much as a full duty day.
2) Employees are advised to contact Human Resources if they notice a discrepancy in their work schedule times and the work times schedule listed in Absence Management. Human Resources can correct this for them.
3) Employees are advised to update any future dated absences they have previously keyed in, as they will not automatically update to hours once the change in the system occurs.

As supervisors, this change will also impact you, so we have listed a few things you may want to consider when approving or denying leave requests:

1) Supervisors should consider requests for time off and review the daily absences at their site to determine classroom/duty coverage needs prior to approving or denying leave requests.
2) For substitute eligible positions, substitutes will be granted for absences of 3 or more consecutive hours. Any absence of 2 or fewer consecutive hours will require staff coverage arrangements to be made at the building level.
3) You should be receiving a daily absentee report from Frontline which lists the absences for that day in your building or department.
a. To view absences in real time, you may use the ???Daily Report??? function on the home screen of your Campus User account.
b. If you do not receive a daily absentee report, or would like additional training in Absence Management to better manage your daily absences, please contact Elizabeth Faircloth at 913-279-2262.

We welcome any questions you may have and look forward to supporting you and your staff during this transition! Our team can be reached by phone at 913-279-2262.

Leave Transition PDF

BusinessPLUS Training

from Wayne Correll
We are training the substitute treasurer???s on Friday, November 8th from 1:30 ??? 4:00 pm in the Computer Lab, Room 268.
We invite all new Administrators, Treasurer???s and those that are backing them up during an absence.

We have found with our new staff, we need to offer these more often. After the holiday???s we will be targeting our Wednesday Afternoon???s With Purchasing to either Business Plus or Visa trainings. Look for more on this in the coming weeks!

Contents

New Items

2019-20 GARH Board Policy Update – Days to Hours – for All Administrators
BusinessPLUS Training – for All Administrators

Previous Items

Secondary ELA GVC Refinement and Resources Cadre – for All Principals
Fountas and Pinnell Consultant Work – for Administrators, Instructional Coaches, and K-3 Teachers
Updated Incident Form Available for Download – for All Administrators
Communications Department Request Form – for All Administrators
Progress on 2019-20 Mandatory Trainings – for All Administrators

New Items

2019-20 GARH Board Policy Update – Days to Hours

from Amy Jo Troyer
Recently, the Board of Education approved changes to policy GARH ??? Attendance, Absences, Leaves, Vacations which will allow employees to enter absences in one hour increments rather than half/whole day increments. As of close of business on November 10, 2019, all District employees will have the ability to enter their absences in a minimum of one hour increments.

We have attached an interactive PDF which details key employee notes and we ask that you share this PDF flyer with your staff. In addition, we have listed several key talking points for supervisors regarding this change:

1) Employees will have the ability to enter absences for as little as one (1) hour or as much as a full duty day.
2) Employees are advised to contact Human Resources if they notice a discrepancy in their work schedule times and the work times schedule listed in Absence Management. Human Resources can correct this for them.
3) Employees are advised to update any future dated absences they have previously keyed in, as they will not automatically update to hours once the change in the system occurs.

As supervisors, this change will also impact you, so we have listed a few things you may want to consider when approving or denying leave requests:

1) Supervisors should consider requests for time off and review the daily absences at their site to determine classroom/duty coverage needs prior to approving or denying leave requests.
2) For substitute eligible positions, substitutes will be granted for absences of 3 or more consecutive hours. Any absence of 2 or fewer consecutive hours will require staff coverage arrangements to be made at the building level.
3) You should be receiving a daily absentee report from Frontline which lists the absences for that day in your building or department.
a. To view absences in real time, you may use the ???Daily Report??? function on the home screen of your Campus User account.
b. If you do not receive a daily absentee report, or would like additional training in Absence Management to better manage your daily absences, please contact Elizabeth Faircloth at 913-279-2262.

We welcome any questions you may have and look forward to supporting you and your staff during this transition! Our team can be reached by phone at 913-279-2262.

Leave Transition PDF

BusinessPLUS Training

from Wayne Correll
We are training the substitute treasurer???s on Friday, November 8th from 1:30 ??? 4:00 pm in the Computer Lab, Room 268.
We invite all new Administrators, Treasurer???s and those that are backing them up during an absence.

We have found with our new staff, we need to offer these more often. After the holiday???s we will be targeting our Wednesday Afternoon???s With Purchasing to either Business Plus or Visa trainings. Look for more on this in the coming weeks!

Previous Items

Secondary ELA GVC Refinement and Resources Cadre

from Kristi Chalk
The Curriculum and Instruction Department is seeking secondary teachers to participate in an ELA cadre to enhance support for standards-based planning and instruction. This cadre will explore and evaluate new curriculum resources, which will align to the rigor of integrated reading and writing instruction. This cadre will continue to refine the Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum (GVC), including alignment to any newly identified curriculum resources. Please share this information with teachers who might be interested in participating in this cadre work.

Secondary ELA GVC Refinement and Resources Cadre PDF

Fountas and Pinnell Consultant Work

from Suzie Legg
Administrators, please see this attached flyer. This is a learning is for K-3 teachers, support staff, and Instructional Coaches.

Updated Incident Form Available for Download

from Mike Keener
Download the updated form here.?? Discard any older Incident Report Forms you have on file. The form should be sent to Sharita Hutton and Susan Westfahl.

Communications Department Request Form

from Mike Keener

In order for the communications team to stay on track and meet the needs of various departments, schools, etc. a request form is now available on the main district website, under “Communications & Marketing” (which is under the main “Community Info” tab).

This form allows you to submit content ideas (do you have a winning debate team, are your students doing something to help the community?).?? Please give us at least 2 weeks??? notice before the day of the event. If your request involves a website update you can send those directly to the web/graphic design specialist.

Use of this form is required for Communications requests.

Here is a direct link to the form.

Progress on 2019-20 Mandatory Trainings

from Lisa Walker
Thanks for your support in helping staff members complete the 2019-20 mandatory trainings in the Professional Growth platform on Frontline.

At the present time, approximately 63% of all district staff have completed the trainings. Please continue to encourage all staff members to complete the required trainings by our deadline of Friday, November 8, 2019.

Questions can be referred to your building IDP representatives if staff members experience problems logging into the system or accessing trainings. If needed, IDP representatives can also provide additional assistance for closed caption features and transcripts, for staff members unable to access the audio on the trainings.

Questions that cannot be answered by an IPD representative can be referred to Jared.Alexander@kckps.org.