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Friday, January 22, 2021

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Communications

KSHB is doing a new initiative to highlight amazing educators! It’s called “One Class At A Time” – people can nominate an educator and submit why they’re so great! The winner will receive a $500 gift card! Just wanted to spread the word to districts and their families!

Here’s a link to nominate and their promo for it !

Curriculum & Instruction

Elementary Principals

Re: Amplify Science Adoption Process/Material Distribution

In preparation for the new Amplify Science materials for the 2021-2022 school year which will be distributed this spring, Curriculum and Instruction has created a support document. This document has been prepared to explain the process of Amplify Science implementation, material distribution, as well as what to do with previous science materials. Linked within the document is a timeline of distribution, GVC revisions, professional learning, and other responsibilities for teachers, coaches, and administrators. There is also a National Geographic keep/discard document by grade level to assist in the science material organization.  If you have any questions, please contact Cheryl Beyer cheryl.beyer@kckps.org

District Inservice

This is just a reminder that Monday, January 25th from 8:00 am to 11:00 am will be District Inservice.  The locations for district in-service can be found on the district website under the Staff Links.  Please let your staff know how to locate this information.

DERA

Federal Programs

This notice includes information for SCHOOLS and DISTRICT DEPARTMENTS.

INFO for ALL SCHOOLS

SUBJECT: Family Surveys for KESA, Strategic Plan, School Improvement Plans

We’re getting ready to conduct our annual family survey that will gather data on culture, climate, equity & inclusion, and instructional programs and support for students.  These surveys are for ALL SCHOOLS and the family feedback will be used for KESA, District Strategic Plan, and in your School Improvement Plans.

It’s important for all schools to have strong participation rates in order for the responses to be a valid data source. Please put plans in place to ensure that families attending your virtual February conferences, WILL COMPLETE a survey.

A reminder that the link for requesting translators to assist in facilitating conferences can be found in the Federal Programs shared drive.  Please consider asking translators to assist family members in completing the surveys at the conclusion of the conference.  This additional support can greatly increase input from our ESOL families, which is critically important to supporting the needs of all learners.

Again we will use several communication methods to ensure families are aware of the opportunity to provide us with important information.

  • Principals should provide structured opportunities at virtual Family Advocacy conferences that will result in a strong response rate of families completing the survey.  
  • Survey link will be posted on the district website.
  • TIS department will send out the survey link to all families through Bright Arrow messages.

Please start to make plans now and collaborate with colleagues about best practices for achieving strong results in obtaining this important feedback.  Survey invitations and survey links will follow soon!

INFO for Building Administration and District Department Teams

SUBJECT: Review Bullying/Harassment Reporting Structures with Staff and Students

Please put on your quarterly meeting agendas to review the bullying and harassment policies and reporting requirements with ALL staff and students.  Refer back to the mandatory training talking points for guidelines and be sure to include the following:

  1. Identify who the Title IX Building/Department Coordinator/Investigator is for your building/department.
  2. Remind staff/students that by policy, they are required to report any Sexual Harassment or Race Discrimination incidents they experience, witness, hear about, or receive a report on from a colleague or student.
  3. Remind staff/students the required process is to report incidents of any staff or student misconduct to Building Principal/Department Manager or the Building/Department Title IX Coordinator/Investigator.
    1. If the staff member/student doesn’t feel comfortable reporting to the building, they can contact Human Resources or any of the District Compliance Officers that were listed in the final video.
    2. Staff/students can also use the Bullying/Harassment Report button on the website/student devices to make a report. Reports go directly to central office leaders.
    3. Staff/students can also use the district phone line which is 913-627-2550.
  4. Remind staff/students that Board of Education Policies for Sexual Harassment (GAAC/JGEC/AH/KN), Race and Disability Discrimination (GAACA/JGECA; GAAB/JCE), Acceptable Use and Communication Policies (IIBF/GAT), Staff-Student Relationships (GAF) are posted in the school (identify where) for their review.
  5. Remind staff/students of IIBF, which is the Acceptable Use Policy for district technology devices and internet; GAT, which is Staff Use of Communication Devices; and GAF, Staff-Student Relationships.
    1. All communication should be school or instructional related and should never violate student-staff relationship or supervisor-staff relationship policies.
    2. At NO TIME, should a staff member EVER TEXT or MESSAGE an INDIVIDUAL STUDENT for ANY reason, even school related.
    3. Individual messages between supervisors and individual staff members should remain professional, related to school/work and support the development of a positive school or work climate.  Supervisors should maintain a professional standard for all communications, at all times.

Human Resources

We will be having our next zoom session January 28, 2020 from 9:30am – 10:30am.  During this time any questions that Building Administrators or IIO’s may have they can ask our HR Staff.  Also, from an HR Standpoint, we will share any announcements or updates we may have.  We also have notes available from our last meeting on Thursday, January 14th. .

HR Power Hour

Time: Jan 28, 2021 09:30 AM Central Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85608986246?pwd=TXVQekgvNU5oN0xmWFIzREptMTN3QT09
Meeting ID: 856 0898 6246
Passcode: vt7RRK

We would also like to share the link to our HR Admin Guide.  This is a useful resource for supervisors.  You must be logged into your google account to access the link.

*Link:    https://sites.google.com/view/kckpshrguide/home

*Link is available on the kckps.org website under staff links

Evaluations

This is just a reminder that the following evaluations are due February 15, 2021:

*Administrator Evaluation Year

*Teacher – Year 3

*Teacher – Evaluation Year

*Teacher – Off Cycle Evaluation

Please make sure that you get these completed in both iObservation and in TalentEd.  If you have any issues please reach out to Jared Alexander for iObservation and DeAndre Tuggle for TalentEd.

Student Services

With the leadership of Dr. Ervin and Lisa Garcia-Stewart a new counselor data tracking tool is about to be released. Counselors are working with our Infinite Campus team to create a way to replace the former tracking tool we had in Silk with Infinite Campus. On Jan. 25th we will be training all elementary and middle school counselors on the new tool.

Why do we need this:

  • This will help us achieve a Multi-Tier System of Support
  • This tracks counselor learning targets to ensure we cover them all
  • This allows counselors to ensure they support 100% of their students
  • This allows counselors to become more intentional and effective
  • This supports our Comprehensive School Counseling Program

Who benefits from the researched based Comprehensive School Counseling Program:

  • Students
  • Parents
  •  Administrators
  • Teachers
  • Counselors

**See this PDF for the detail explanation. 

What this tool will do is allow counselors to monitor their time to better align with the KSDE and the Am. School Counselor Assoc. suggested distribution of school counselor time.

**See this elementary info PDF and this middle school info PDF to find the time distribution details.

When this will begin is Jan. 26th for all elementary and middle school counselors. They will enter their time during the next several months. We will pull data at the end of April and take a look at what we learn. This information will be available for our counselors to use while they align their goals to the building goals, which are aligned with the district goals. The more counselors know about how they use their time the more they can meet the needs of their students, staff and administration. In August we will ask all counselors to begin using this tool for the 21-22 school year. Please let me know any questions you may have.