October 4, 2024

 Hear Ye, Hear Ye

• Interventionists working hard to get to know our students and their strengths/needs.  They are matching their instructional needs to the resources we have or working to find the resources they need!  Thank you so much!

• I sat in on a few student meetings this week with educators who came prepared to share positives and next steps for their students, as well as open to suggestions and ready to work as a team with parents and other professionals.  I just love listening to our staff explain student growth, watching them be as excited for our students as parents are.  Our students are so lucky to have this quality of educators in their life!

• Shout out to all of those that have stepped in to help out with coverage from individual students, to classrooms, to helping/saving me from messing up math instruction (Thanks Sue!).  I truly appreciate all of you that help out across the building where help is needed.

What's Happening at Dodgeland?

• Monday, October 7
• Bus Duty: Fortmann, Miller, Chambers, Wagner (3K/4K playground)
• Lunch Duty for the week: 12-Ellefson, 12:30-Juech, 1:00-Bingen
• Fundraiser Packets Due to the office
• XPD registrations due to Kimi in DO
• Everyday Speech lessons start in Grades 2-5
• Jenny in a meeting from 8:30-10am
• 2nd Grade Data meeting from 12:05-12:55pm
• Jenny in meeting from 2-2:30pm

• Tuesday, October 8
• Social Media Posts due to Jessica: Wagner
• Jenny/Teresa in meeting from 8:15-9am
• 5K Data meeting from 11:35-12:25pm

• Wednesday, October 9
• Workout Wednesday (Please have professional dress for P/T conferences though)
• Parent/Teacher Conferences from 4-7:30pm
• Book Fair from 4-7:30pm

• Thursday, October 10
• Jenny at Cesa from 7:30-1pm

• Friday, October 11
• SAEBRS assessment due for grades 5K-5 (Don't forget to have students complete the mySAEBRS in grades 2-5)
• ASQ-SE2 assessment due on Monday, October 14 for 3K/4K teachers
• Jenny in meeting from 8:15-8:45 and 9:30-10am

• Saturday, October 12
• Happy Birthday Teresa!

Nitty-Gritty

• Parent Teacher Conferences
• If you would like me to attend any conferences for any of your students, please let me know.  I will do my best to be at any/all conferences that you'd like my support for or even just for me to answer questions.

• Everyday Speech
• Please watch for information from Sophie regarding the weekly/daily lessons in Everyday Speech for grades 2-5.  The information will be posted in Google Classroom under the Elementary Staff.  The goal of this is to help our students have more interaction with SEL instruction throughout the year. You do not need to add the reflect lessons unless you think it will be helpful for your class.  If you have questions, please reach out to Sophie or myself. 

• Dodgeland Den Reminders
• Because both of the after school Den staff are in classrooms at the end of the day, please make sure that you are not sending students to the den before 3pm.  The last few weeks there have been students arriving at the room prior to 3 and there is no supervision for them at that time.  Thank you for your help!

Recess Information

Playground Coverage

Please make sure that you are coordinating with other staff to cover our zones

(here is the presentation with the zones, slide 10)

on the Playgrounds. Additionally, if a student has a minor injury (needs/wants ice),

please radio the office and send them in alone or with a Junior Coach. If there is a

major injury and the student needs to be escorted, please call for the nurse or

support staff to come and assist so that no adults are left outside alone. There are

first aid kids inside of both the 2nd grade and 5th grade doors for bandaids.

Confidential - Bee Alerts

Maverick Westphal (3K), Layla Lewis (5K) and Kinsley Kadinger (5th grade) are allergic to bees.

If they are stung, please call for support as they need to be escorted to the office and assessed

(none have an EpiPen). Any updates will be added to Powerschool and shared out.

If you are aware of a student with a bee allergy that is not on the list, please share

that information with Leah and Trisha so we can confirm the allergy and add it to Powerschool.

Behavior Specialist Information

Recess/Lunch Coverage

Please take this short survey to help us determine how to move forward with coverage when staff are out without a guest teacher. If you know of anyone that may be able to be a guest teacher, please reach out to them and encourage them to apply. 

Bathroom by the Multipurpose Room

Students seem to be hanging out and messing around by the gym bathroom. Please limit the number of students allowed to use the bathroom at one time.

TechKnow Tip

As you prepare for Parent/Teacher conferences, keeping a student’s information confidential is required. Teachers should not show a live PowerSchool Gradebook with parents. It is recommended that parents log into their Parent access account to view their students’ progress and grades. If they do not have access to PowerSchool, another option is using PowerTeacher Gradebook Reports. PowerSchool Reports can assist you with conversations with your students’ Parents/Guardians. Helpful reports may include “Individual Student Report” and “Missing Assignment Report”. These reports are available for all your classes, but ensure you are only sharing specific student data with specific parents/guardians. Specific directions can be found here.

Friday Funny

Today I had the displeasure of riding around town while Ella drove to run errands.  Part of me wonders how on earth she passed her driving test, and then I remember that I was a TERRIBLE teacher for Ella so I take some blame.  But, she did share what I think may go down as one of the most interesting ways to get out of a speeding ticket.  She was pulled over in Beaver Dam going 12 mph over the limit.  The officer says, "Where are you heading to in a hurry?"  Ella says, "I'm going to work.  I work at an elementary school in Juneau and start at 9."  She then says, "I have recess duty and I CAN'T BE LATE!"  He must have thought, "Well this is original, or maybe he thought, this is a new one, or maybe he just thought she was losing it!"  Either way, she walked in at exactly 9am with NO TICKET!!

PS:  Whatever else she adds to this story I choose to ignore. I don't care which street it was, or why she thinks this wasn't that fast.  All I hear is blah, blah, blah, agree with my excuse!  (If she starts with the statement, "in my defense" you know it is an excuse coming next!). LOL