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New Items
PTA Play – for K-5 Administrators
Bully Site Action Plans – for All Principals
Previous Items
ESL PL on October 11 and Further PL Dates – for All Principals
Educator Night at the Nelson-Atkins Museum – for All Principals
Family Perception Survey – for All Principals
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PTA Play
from Stephanie Dickson
PTA Play still has seats for Dragons Love Tacos performance at Wyandotte High School on Nov. 12 9:45 and 11:15 shows. The Nov. 13 10am showing is booked. The cost is $2.50 for students and free for adults. Please fill out this Google Doc Form. Email stephanie.dickson@kckps.org if you have any questions.
Bully Site Action Plans
from Sean DeMaree
Bully site action plans are due on October 31st, 2019 to Sean DeMaree. Each bully site action plan should include how you and your staff are educating, preventing and responding to bullying at your school. Plans should also include information responding to the Jason Flatts Act on suicide. The latest research on bullying suggests that when we respond to bullying through supportive services, like counseling and social work, as opposed to more punitive and exclusionary practices, we actually see a sharper decline in the rate of bullying and recidivism. As you revise and complete your plans, this might be a great place to start making some shifts and/or additions. If you have any questions, or need support, email or call Sean.
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ESL PL on October 11 and Further PL Dates
from Kristen Scott
We will be pulling ESL staff this Friday for PL. They will be reporting to Washington High school from 8:00-11:00. We will be covering ESL related housekeeping as well as the district PL content that you will be delivering at your buildings.
We will NOT pull them on the December district PL day on December 20.
We will pull ESL staff on a Wednesday afternoon on January 15th to deliver KELPA information.
If you have any questions please let me know. Thank you.
Educator Night at the Nelson-Atkins Museum
from Jodie Lin
Principals, please share with your teachers:
Thursday November 14th, there is an Educator Open House. This event is open to all educators. Please pass this along to your staff. Tickets are only $5 and includes entrance to the new paid exhibit ???Queen Nefertari: Eternal Egypt???(tickets will be $18 when the exhibition opens to the public), one free beverage, appetizer plate, free parking, and entry to a prize raffle. One of the prizes is a behind the scenes tour of the museum for the winning teacher and their students. There will be other events and activities that night as well so please consider putting this into your calendar.
Family Perception Survey
from Lisa Walker
We’re ready to conduct our family surveys as a part of our district-wide School Improvement Planning process.
We will use several communication methods to ensure families are aware of the opportunity to provide us with important information. Here???s the process we will follow:
The survey link is posted on the district website.
TIS department will send out the survey link to all families through
Infinite Campus.
Principals will provide opportunities at Family Advocacy conferences to encourage families to complete the survey. Welcome centers, that include a bank of computers supported by staff members inviting families to participate, can greatly increase survey response data for your campus.
Attached is the PDF that includes the short message (9 different translations) inviting families to complete the survey, followed by the survey link. (Document is also located in the Federal Programs shared drive.)
The first page of the survey includes the drop down menu where parents can select a language in which to complete the survey. The survey link is set to loop back to the very beginning so a different individual can complete another survey. The looping makes it convenient, but also means parents will
not be routed back to the PDF page that includes the survey invitation with the 9 different translations. As a result, you may find it helpful to print a hard copy of the attached document to place beside computer, so EL families will understand what we’re asking them to do at the computer station.
Please note the survey platform required a DIFFERENT LINK for the Karen translation.
Therefore, you may also find it helpful to designate one or two computers
specifically for families who need access to the Karen survey translation.
Family survey link will be open from 10/7/19 to 10/20/19.