Month: October 2019

Contents

New Items

Family Perception Survey Link – for All Principals

Previous Items

PTA Play – for K-5 Administrators
3rd-5th Grade Student Surveys – for Elementary Principals
Educator Night at the Nelson-Atkins Museum – for All Principals
Bully Site Action Plans – for All Principals

New Items

Family Perception Survey Link

from Mike Keener
The Family Perception Survey can be found one of three ways:
1. There is a link titled “KCKPS Family Perception Survey” under the “Parent & Students” tab on the main KCKPS site menu.
2. The first slide on the KCKPS site is titled “KCKPS Family Perception Survey” and links directly to the information.
3. You can click this link directly to get to the information.

Previous Items

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.

3rd-5th Grade Student Surveys

from Lisa Walker
Please find below the link to the 3rd – 5th grade student survey. As discussed at previous principals??? meetings, this survey is an important part of the comprehensive School Improvement Planning process that all buildings are engaged in during the current school year.
The survey window will be open from October 21st through November 1st. 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 and also their school. Like the Family Perception Survey, the platform required a DIFFERENT LINK for the Karen translation and students will need to type in their school name on the Karen survey, rather than choose their school from a drop down menu.

Survey Link

Karen Survey Link

Please let me know if there are questions. Thanks for your help in collecting this important data!

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.

Register for the event here.

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.

Contents

New Items

3rd-5th Grade Student Surveys – for Elementary Principals

Previous Items

PTA Play – for K-5 Administrators
Educator Night at the Nelson-Atkins Museum – for All Principals
Bully Site Action Plans – for All Principals

New Items

3rd-5th Grade Student Surveys

from Lisa Walker
Please find below the link to the 3rd – 5th grade student survey. As discussed at previous principals??? meetings, this survey is an important part of the comprehensive School Improvement Planning process that all buildings are engaged in during the current school year.
The survey window will be open from October 21st through November 1st. 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 and also their school. Like the Family Perception Survey, the platform required a DIFFERENT LINK for the Karen translation and students will need to type in their school name on the Karen survey, rather than choose their school from a drop down menu.

Survey Link

Karen Survey Link

Please let me know if there are questions. Thanks for your help in collecting this important data!

Previous Items

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.

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.

Register for the event here.

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.

Contents

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

New Items

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.

Previous Items

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.

Register for the event here.

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.

Contents

New Items

Previous Items

Update Apple ID – for Administrators and their Staff
ESL PL on October 11 and Further PL Dates – for All Principals
Educator Night at the Nelson-Atkins Museum – for All Principals
Print Shop Orders – for Administrators/Principals
Family Perception Survey – for All Principals

New Items

Previous Items

Update Apple ID

from Joe Fives
If you recently received an email from Apple requesting an update to your Apple ID, please be assured that it is legitimate. ??You received this email because, at one time, you created an Apple ID using your district email address, perhaps to install applications on district-owned devices (or, possibly, on a personal device). ??However, Apple has always viewed accounts with a ???@kckps.org??? email address as personal Apple accounts – not district Apple accounts.

Now, Apple has allowed the district to reclaim all ???@kckps.org??? email addresses for educational purposes only, managing them through Apple School Manager and Active Directory (your district email and password). ??Managed Apple IDs are designed to help school districts comply with student data privacy requirements (as well as for other district-wide benefits).

If you would like to keep the apps, photos, and files on a device that is still associated with the Apple ID previously created using your district email address, simply click the appleid.apple.com link in the email you received from Apple, or go to https://appleid.apple.com/ while you are logged in to iCloud with that account. ??You will be asked to use another email address that is not already associated with an Apple ID. ??All of your apps, files, photos, etc. will then be moved to your updated Apple ID, thereby returning your ???@kckps.org??? address to the district.

If you have any questions, please contact the Help Desk at 279-2330 or support@kckps.org.

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.

Register for the event here.

Print Shop Orders

from Wayne Correll
To help the Print Shop, and our new Print Shop Manager, Ron Simmons streamline orders, the Print Shop is requesting that all orders and questions be sent ONLY to: print.shop@kckps.org. This will allow all Print Shop staff to see the requests as they come in, and enable them to act quickly. If Ron happens to be out of the office, those sent only to him will be delayed.

Please be sure to clearly state your need, the date needed, and attach the electronic copy if you have one.

Once Ron reviews your request, he will email you back the SI information needed to enter the order.

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.

Contents

New Items

Educator Night at the Nelson-Atkins Museum – for All Principals

Previous Items

Update Apple ID – for Administrators and their Staff
ESL PL on October 11 and Further PL Dates – for All Principals
Bully Site Action Plans – for All Principals
Print Shop Orders – for Administrators/Principals
Family Perception Survey – for All Principals

New Items

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.

Register for the event here.

Previous Items

Update Apple ID

from Joe Fives
If you recently received an email from Apple requesting an update to your Apple ID, please be assured that it is legitimate. ??You received this email because, at one time, you created an Apple ID using your district email address, perhaps to install applications on district-owned devices (or, possibly, on a personal device). ??However, Apple has always viewed accounts with a ???@kckps.org??? email address as personal Apple accounts – not district Apple accounts.

Now, Apple has allowed the district to reclaim all ???@kckps.org??? email addresses for educational purposes only, managing them through Apple School Manager and Active Directory (your district email and password). ??Managed Apple IDs are designed to help school districts comply with student data privacy requirements (as well as for other district-wide benefits).

If you would like to keep the apps, photos, and files on a device that is still associated with the Apple ID previously created using your district email address, simply click the appleid.apple.com link in the email you received from Apple, or go to https://appleid.apple.com/ while you are logged in to iCloud with that account. ??You will be asked to use another email address that is not already associated with an Apple ID. ??All of your apps, files, photos, etc. will then be moved to your updated Apple ID, thereby returning your ???@kckps.org??? address to the district.

If you have any questions, please contact the Help Desk at 279-2330 or support@kckps.org.

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.

Bully Site Action Plans

from Sean DeMaree
This year the Kansas Bully Awareness week will take place the week of October 9th, with the theme of ???choose peace???. As we work towards creating safe and respectful schools, we also need to think about our Bully Site Action Plans. Bully site Action Plans/Suicide Prevention Plans serve the purpose to promote strategies and preventions for students and staff aligned with districts priorities and goals, as well as meeting the requirements of KSA 72-8256 and the Jason Flatts Act. For ideas on prevention and awareness, visit RedCardKC.com or StopBullying.gov. Bully Site Action Plans/Suicide Prevention Plans are due on October 31, 2019, and should be submitted to Sean DeMaree. If you need any support with strategies and/or writing your plans, contact Sean DeMaree by phone: 913-627-2631 or email: sean.demaree@kckps.org.

Print Shop Orders

from Wayne Correll
To help the Print Shop, and our new Print Shop Manager, Ron Simmons streamline orders, the Print Shop is requesting that all orders and questions be sent ONLY to: print.shop@kckps.org. This will allow all Print Shop staff to see the requests as they come in, and enable them to act quickly. If Ron happens to be out of the office, those sent only to him will be delayed.

Please be sure to clearly state your need, the date needed, and attach the electronic copy if you have one.

Once Ron reviews your request, he will email you back the SI information needed to enter the order.

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.