Informational Items
For All Administrators
Trauma Sensitive PD Scholarships (please share with your staff)
from Student Services
The Trauma Sensitive and Resilient Schools Initiative is offering PD scholarships this summer! Student Services will pay the registration fee for any staff member who is interested in attending a training related to: trauma, social-emotional learning, or diversity, equity and inclusion.
Trainings must be completed over summer break and attendees will provide a 15-20 minute presentation on their learning.
Please have staff complete this form if they are interested!
Art Uploaded – Digital Student Art Show
from IARC
KCKPS launched our digital art show – Art Uploaded. Please see the postcard for the link. This link will be shared on the district’s social media. Additionally, art teachers shared with their students. Please take time to view the show and share on your respective school platforms.
Use the menu in the upper left to quickly find your respective school.
PACT Program Updates
from Student Services
We want to remind all teams we have drug/alcohol prevention and recovery resources available for students and families. One of those resources is the PACT program. The Positive Alternative for Children in Trouble Program ( PACT), is designed to offer Middle and HighSchool students and his/her parent(s) an alternative to a first-time, long-term suspension for an alcohol or other drug offense (Code of Conduct – Class II). However, schools can refer ANY student that can benefit from it. These sessions are conducted in English and Spanish in the evenings from 6:00 – 8:30 pm for four consecutive weeks. To refer a student, please fill out the PACT contract and complete the PACT referral form. The last group of this school year will start on May 9th.
In addition, we have a partnership with First Call, an organization that provides resources to the community to reduce the impact of alcohol, drugs, and addiction. They are available to provide presentations to schools (all levels) on a variety of topics related to substance use and mental health, including vaping.
If you have questions or need additional information, please contact Naomi Tolentino, Program and Prevention Specialist for Students Services via email (naomi.tolentino@kckps.org) or via phone (913-568-0147/913-279-2247).
Links:
PACT Contract
PACT Referral Form
For All Principals
Assessment Updates
from DERA
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- KAP General Assessment: Monday, March 21 – Friday, April 29
- DLM: Monday, February 7 – Friday, April 29
- FastBridge Screener:
- Early Childhood: Monday, April 25 – Friday, May 20
- K-12: Monday, May 2 – Friday, May 20
- Review Assessment Schedule for further details
KAP Reminders
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- Review and conduct one building mock monitor visit for each grade for ELA, Math, and Science for your campus – Use the State Monitor Quality Assurance Checklist under the HELP tab in KITE to submit for your building in meeting compliance requirements.
- Use Kansas State Assessments OPT Out form if a parent refuses to allow a child to be assessed. Keep on file and the Building Testing Coordinator records SC-27 in KITE. Remember that this is the final step after conferring with parents and confirming that they are refusing their child’s participation in KAP testing.
- You are not required to test students who transferred to your campus from outside of the district after March 21st.
- Buildings submit testing irregularities & security breaches to dera@kckps.org, completing the attached form signed by the Building Testing Coordinator and Building Principal.
- KAP Completion:
- Keep an eye on your building’s KAP completion rate:
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- KITE > Dashboard > Testing Summary
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- Which kids have not been tested?
KITE > Reports > Data Extracts > KAP Test Administration Monitoring
Trauma Sensitive and Resilient Schools MiniGrant
from Student Services
Reminder about mini-grant funding:
– $500 to spend by August 1, 2022
– Funds must support your implementation of Trauma Sensitive and Resilient Schools.
– You must be able to articulate how these funds will help you achieve your TSRS Goal (or BSEL Goal)
– You must request funds BEFORE you spend them. Student Services will no longer approve the use of mini grant funds without prior approval.
As always, please let Brittany Talley know what questions you have, or how she can support your work!
For Elementary Principals
2022-2023 Elementary Instructional Minutes
from Curriculum & Instruction
The Curriculum & Instruction Department has prepared the 2022-2023 Instructional Minutes for elementary. Please note ELA minutes have been updated to accommodate our newly adopted K-3 resource, CKLA. The new minutes also reflect our district’s emphasis on MTSS.
Elementary ELA PD Opportunities
from Curriculum & Instruction
Building administrators are welcome to participate in the upcoming PD for Instructional Coaches, which will be focused on new elementary ELA materials. PD occurs on Fridays and begins at 1:00pm in Central Office Room 132. Here are the topics:
April 22nd: Getting to Know the Knowledge Strand
April 29th: Lesson Internalization & PLCs with CKLA
May 6th: Rachel from CKLA, Q&A Session
May 20th: Unveiling the New GVCs
Reminders
New Hire Orientation Adjustments
from Human Resources
Understanding that principals and supervisors are most anxious to have their new hires begin as soon as possible, the days of orientation have been moved up. New hires will now attend training the Friday, Monday and Tuesday prior to BOE approval and will begin their job on the Wednesday following BOE. Their pay will begin on the first day of orientation, which is on that Friday.
Additionally, if the new hire does not show up for all of orientation, they will be docked those days, and they won’t be able to start their job until they have had all three days of training. This means that if an employee doesn’t attend the full training, it will be another two weeks until the next training is offered again, and their start date will be delayed until they attend.
Prior to day 1 of orientation, each new hire will receive multiple communications from Human Resources reminding them of the importance of attending.
Questions should be directed to Sherrie Piedimonte. Sherrie.piedimonte@kckps.org or 913.235.8902
Lump Sum Information
from Communications
Please share this with your certified staff:
This year’s Lump Sum Request/Rescind form is available now through April 29th. You can find the information at the top of the Staff Links page on the website.
KCKPS Mobile Minute
from Curriculum & Instruction
Please share with your staff that the new Mobile Minute is available. Within this edition, you will find drop-in Canvas/tech office hours, how to turn off grade summaries in Canvas, and lots more!
3rd-5th Grade Student Surveys Open April 1 – April 30
from Federal Programs
The window is open for the 3rd-5th grade student survey! Surveys will run 4/1/22 through 4/30/22 to gather data on culture, climate, equity & inclusion, and instructional programs.
DATA will be used for KESA, District Strategic Plan, and in your School Improvement Plans. It’s important for all elementary schools to have strong participation rates in order for the responses to be a valid data source.
Please work with your teachers to make sure ALL 3rd – 5th grade students have an opportunity to participate in the survey. The first page of the survey includes drop down menus where students will select a language in which to complete the survey, their race/ethnicity, and also their school.
English, Spanish, Hakka Chin, Hmong, Kiswahili, Nepali, Somali, Arabic, Burmese Survey Link
Thanks for your help in collecting this important data! For questions, email or call Lisa Walker.
Student Centered Coaching Training
from Curriculum & Instruction
Please reserve the following time on your calendar in order to attend an upcoming Student-Centered Coaching training with Julie Steele on Tuesday, April 19th:
Secondary Principals from 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Elementary Principals from 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
The training will take place at Central Office, rooms 131-133. Instructional Coaches will also be in attendance. For questions, contact Darcy Swan, Director of Curriculum and Instruction.
New Staff Intranet Launching Soon/Review of District Forms and Departmental Pages
from Communications
Due to new and ongoing issues with the old intranet system, we are launching a temporary (but more user-friendly and accessible) staff intranet for everyone’s use. The new, temporary intranet will also have a section titled “Administrators’ Corner,” with links to this newsletter’s homepage, admin-only form links, and more.
Before we launch this temporary intranet, however, we need a lot of old data updated or even removed. To start, there is a page that housed a number of all-purpose forms and manuals; if your department handles any of these forms (or used to), please visit this link and send any changes needed to forms or links directly to Mike Keener as soon as you can, as it will help speed along the live launch of this new intranet page. Additionally, let him know about any other content on either the live site (or old intranet) that needs to be edited for inclusion on the new site.
New District Letterhead
from Communications
Please use this letterhead template for district communications.
Electronic Reporting Forms for Injuries and Incidents
From Communications & Marketing
Just a quick reminder that many of the forms you need when it comes to incidents are now electronic.
Student injury forms have now been included to the list.
To find the reporting form for students go to this link: https://form.jotform.com/212366215525047
To make the reporting of workman’s compensation accidents less time consuming, the Supervisors Accident Report is now an electronic form.
Regardless of severity, immediate supervisors & directors are required to report all work-related injuries within 48 hours to Risk Management.
To do so, please use the following link: https://form.jotform.com/212304621025035
The Incident Report helps document any incident involving non employees.
This includes our students, visitors, parents and guardians.
The incident form is to be filled out for a number of situations including: a child is missing, if a student is injured in a way that could require medical attention in the future, police have to be called during an incident, there is a fight, or even to report property damage.
An example of a fight that needs to be recorded- a fight that breaks out that others are around and it may have been recorded. A fight that someone may not realize they are injured immediately but could later on in the day. Fights that do NOT need to be recorded: two kids on the playground hit each other in the arm over a ball.
There may be other incidents that could also require use of this form.
If you have questions about whether an incident falls into this category, please reach out to your IIO.
Here is a link to the Incident Report form: https://kckps.org/incident-report/