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New Items
New Business Card and Stationery Designs for the School District – for All Administrators
Previous Items
Counting Kids Workshop – MANDATORY – for All Administrators
Title I Parent Meeting – for All Principals
Parent Student Compact – for All Principals
New Items
New Business Card and Stationery Designs for the School District
From Mike Keener
The KCKPS Communications Team is proud to present an all-new design for district business cards. Below is an example of the new design.
As noted in the photo, the card is designed to handle two full lines of text for an official position and credentials (if needed), but no more than that, in the interest of business card legibility. If you have specific instructions on what order credentials should go on a card, you can request them from the print shop, but the print shop cannot add extra lines for credentials, nor can they shrink the text size to fit more on one line (again, the legibility of the card information is of utmost importance). Lastly, finalized business cards will all utilize Futura as the sole printed font (if you do not have this font, it will be modified before printing). Attached below is the Microsoft Publisher-based template for your staff to utilize for new business cards (again, please do not change any font settings).
Additionally, the KCKPS Communications Team is also proud to present an all-new letterhead (attached below). Not only have we designed new letterhead for the district at large, but we have also designed a specific letterhead designed for each school, as well as most non-Central Office based departments for your use. The header and footer are locked, and the official use font for the letterhead template is Georgia (which both Mac and Windows systems have pre-installed). Please use no other fonts on this letterhead.
In the coming week, you will receive an email with a copy of this letterhead; before you start using it, we need each of you to confirm that the information on the letterhead is up to date and correct (addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, etc.).
One last (but important!) note: Please do NOT order either of these items in place of existing business cards or letterheads; instead, please use up the stationery items that you currently have, and then order the new stationery from the print shop.
Also, be on the lookout for a new “Thank You” card design in the next week or so.
New Business Card Template (Microsoft Publisher File)
KCKPS New District Letterhead (sample) PDF (for web use only)
KCKPS New District Letterhead (sample) PDF (for print use)
Sample School Letterhead PDF (for web use only)
Sample School Letterhead PDF (for print)
Previous Items
Counting Kids Workshop – MANDATORY
From Bridgette Desmet
We will be hosting the Counting Kids Workshop on Monday, September 10th. The workshop will be at the Central Office in rooms 132-133 from 8:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
This is a mandatory meeting. If you are unable to attend, you will need to send a representative from your building.
Please RSVP to Bridgette DeSmet at 279-2232 or bridgette.desmet@kckps.org.
Title I Parent Meeting
From Bridgette DeSmet
Each school receiving Title I funds must convene an annual meeting for all parents of children who are participating in those programs to explain the requirements and the right of parents to be involved.
You can combine this with an Open House or Back to School Night – whatever works best for your families.
Please email the invitation or notice of meeting to Bridgette DeSmet – to meet a reporting requirement. Please contact Bridgette if you have any questions.
Parent Student Compact
From Bridgette DeSmet
Schools who receive Title I funds are required to create and implement a Parent-Student-School Compact. A sample from the KSDE website is attached.
Per KSDE, the following should be included in the compact:
- Describe a responsibility to provide high-quality curriculum and instruction in a supportive and effective learning environment that enables participating students to meet the state???s challenging student academic achievement standards;
- Describe the ways in which parents will be responsible for supporting their child???s learning such as:
- Monitoring attendance;
- Homework completion;
- Television watching;
- Volunteering in their child???s classroom, etc.;
- Address the importance of establishing ongoing, good communication between teachers and parents through, at a minimum:
- Annual parent-teacher conferences in elementary schools;
- Frequent progress reports to families on student academic progress; and
- Reasonable access to staff and opportunities to volunteer, observe, and participate in classroom activities.