September 9, 2022

 Hear Ye, Hear Ye

• Staff pitching in and helping out all over the building with recesses, bus duties, hallway directions, and a million other ways.  I am so very honored to work with such a wonderful group of people.

• Staff providing feedback and ideas of how to solve situations that have risen this week.  I have been so impressed with the hard work and out of the box thinking to make things better for all of us.

• Staff and students reviewing expectations in many parts of their day to help them make them into habits.

• Kindergarten students are LOVING school based on their own conversations! Did you know it is more fun than Disney World?!  :-)

What's Happening at Dodgeland?

• Monday, Sept 12
• Picture Day - We will start in the morning with our youngest grades.  Photographers will be using the stage.
• Mailbox Buddies pizza party at 12:30 in the PLTW room (See Sue O/Christina/Mitch for more details on participants)
• EP (Effectiveness Project) meeting in the IMC - 3:15-4:15pm
• Last day that the Story Walk will be Set up for classes to visit.  
• Bus Duty: Bingen, Juech, Vertz

• Tuesday, Sept 13
• Jenny will be in a meeting from 8:30-10am
• Social Media Posts due: Palen, Juech, Zastrow
• Paraprofessional staff meeting 3:05-3:45pm - bring a device please in Elem. Conf. Room
• 6pm - 5th/6th grade Trojan Jr home football game

• Wednesday, Sept 14
• Workout Wednesday
• Staff Meeting - IMC 3:15-3:55pm (bring a device)

• Thursday, Sept 15
• Friday, Sept 16

Nitty-Gritty

• Friday Book Give Away
• Starting at 1pm, Christina is going to set out books for students to take home and KEEP that are from the discarded book room books or from the Reeseville Public Library.  Please let your students know about this and/or take them past the tables to pick out books.  There will be books in all three gathering areas.

• Dodgeland Pilot Padlet
• Click HERE to go to the padlet of resources for those that are piloting the MyView pilot this school year.  Please use Allison for any questions you have throughout the school year and we have a virtual check in scheduled for October 6th for anyone that wants to connect with her about questions you have or to pick her brain about concerns you are having.

• Social Media Posts
• Have you signed up for 4 weeks to submit posts to Josh Kjornes for our district FaceBook page?  Please do this before the end of the week.  HERE is the sign up sheet.

• District Assessments
• The intervention team will be coming around next week to assess students in reading and math in 1:1 sessions.  This data will help determine WIN groups, RISE intervention and also instructional needs for intervention.  i-Ready and FastBridge and PALS should be ready soon for you to complete in your classrooms as well.

• Morning Duty Changes
• This week Bethany/Mandy have been supervising the 4K/5K playground before school.  However, starting next week, we are going to have to make some changes.  We are going to need at least 2 people on the blacktop/big playground, 1 person on the small playground, and hallway supervision for students transitioning.  This means that I am going to have to rework the Bus Duty chart going forward.  I will share this out when I finish it.

• Breakfast:  Students that finish breakfast are exiting the school while teachers are attempting to line kids up to get ready to come in.  Students that finish eating after 7:40am, should stay in the commons until 7:45 and be dismissed directly to the classroom to avoid the transition process happening outside.

• Next, if you are in the hallway, and students are entering the building just before 7:45, please send them to their lockers.  They too hinder the smooth flow of transition by exiting the building while lines are trying to enter or line up to come in the building.

• For morning duty, circle drive PM means that you will need to stand along the curb of the drop off line to assist students and provide supervision.  Any 3K student that gets dropped off should be walked into the building by a parent or a staff member on duty.

• Finally, I am going to apologize for my error in the procedures for entering the building.  I had originally stated that they should enter #2. and then opened the door and ushered them into door #1.  Grrr.  I will be fixing this going forward.  One because we have limited staff to be through the many hallways for supervision, so we need to use Door #2.  I had asked some students to help me with this to make a video regarding this, but I need some more footage from them to help them.  When that is finished, I will share out to show students on Monday.

• Dismissal Changes
• Shout-out to Mrs. Johnson for getting us the coolest signs ever for our after school pick up lines!  In addition, we are going to ask parents to pick up students between the first bike rack and the end of the circle drive towards the MS wing.  This will prevent students from going all the way to the end of the sidewalk and potentially getting hurt or unsupervised at the other end of the campus where buses drive through.

PD Spotlight

I had read lately the effects of a strong parent-teacher connection and relationship is on students in the classroom.  Dr. Susan Sheridan shares that when there is a strong partnership between parens and teachers, children's work habits, attitudes about school and grades improve.  They also tend to have better social skills and fewer behavioral problems.  With that in mind, I came across this article from a Montessori Teacher.  Granted, we do not use this approach in our school, but, the strategies they explain could be used by anyone.  I found them to be helpful.  I know that I have talked to a number of parents this week.  While I don't always get to be the bearer of good news, I still do my best to create partnerships to help our students in school.  Click HERE for some ideas or to confirm what you already have used successful.

Friday Funny

I'm just saying, I would love to see these in real life though!