The Dodgeland Download (DES): January 2, 2023

What's Happening At Dodgeland?

You may have noticed that the Elementary Gym is closed this week. During break and continuing through this week, there have been a number of people working on the upgrades to the lighting and sound equipment for the stage in the elementary gym/multipurpose room. While this work is being done, we can not use the gym for PE classes, Dodgeland Den or for indoor recess. Michael has a plan all set for the Elem. gym classes using the MS gym and he will communicate how to transition classes to and from PE this week. Indoor recesses will have to be held in classrooms for all grades this week if that becomes necessary.

Later this winter, there may be one more week where this will be necessary, but will be communicated ahead of time. I am so excited to see these changes for the space!

Each year a school safety assessment is conducted as a requirement of Wisconsin Act 142. Our recent school safety assessment only had a few areas of deficiency noted that are being addressed. One deficiency applies to many of us: (myself included) "Security Procedures/Guidelines #3: Photo ID cards/badges are issued to all employees and are visible." Please remember to wear your school ID each day. If you lost your badge, please reach out to Kimi so she can provide you with another one. If you did not have your picture taken, you will need to go to the District Office for Kimi to take your picture to print your badge. If you need a badge holder, etc., see Kimi for that as well.

When you return, you will see a small gift in your mailbox from me that now is a belated Christmas gift. Lexi did most of the work for creating these small gestures, and I love how cute they look! It's so weird to think that we were in the middle of a big winter storm when we left when you look around the building now. Wisconsin weather I tell ya!

Starting on January 9th, you can schedule the mid-year reading and math assessments. Please let your special education and interventionists know when you plan these so that you can provide the accommodations students need to do their best work on the assessments. Having accurate information will help us provide the instruction that they need for the rest of the school year.

Are you interested in teaching summer school this year? Do you have questions about it? We are able to go back to adding in a number of courses that needed to be on hiatus due to COVID or construction. In addition, we have two sessions, so maybe you are only interested in one of the 2 sessions??? Please click HERE to let me know about your interest. If you don't know what you want to teach, we can work together to determine that too! If you want to be on a list to sub for the summer, let me know that too.

Before break, Brad and Josh worked on creating contact information for email and a phone extension so that parents and staff can connect with the Dodgeland Den staff. (I don't know about you, but sometimes I don't know which person I need to send the emails too!). Below is the contact information for this program. The emails will go to Michael, Ella, Chris, Michelle and myself.