April 25, 2025

 Hear Ye, Hear Ye

• The Project Energy performers stated that they had fun with our students and LOVED their energy.  Thank you for giving up your precious time on Wednesday.

• Shout out to the Sunshine Committee for organizing our celebrations to show love to our fellow colleagues.  Thank you all for contributing as well!

• Our students were excited to be back to school this week.  I love to hear about how much they missed us!

• Thank you to everyone that has stepped in throughout the week when we were short staffed.  I truly appreciate your time and help.

What's Happening at Dodgeland?

• Monday, April 28
• Bus Duty: Mosher, O'Toole, PE Teacher, Ellefson (meet buses by the stop sign please)
• Lunch Supervisors:
• 12:00 - Braunschweig
• 12:30 - Miller
• 1:00 - Klink
• Track meet at Dodgeland - will affect the parking lots
• School Board meeting @ 6:30pm

• Tuesday, April 29
• Happy Birthday Taylor!
• Jenny and Teresa in meeting from 8:15-10am
• Jenny in meeting from 10-11:30am
• 5th gr. Data Meeting (SEL only) from 12:35-1:25
• Social Media Posts due to Jessica: Wagner, Huso
• Lunch Detention Supervisor:
• T.Caine - 1:00

• Wednesday, April 30
• Workout Wednesday
• Petting Zoo (All day) Schedule is HERE
• Jr. Coach Field Trip from 8:45-3pm (Teresa and Blasia are gone for the day)
• 4th Grade Farm/City Field Trip from 8:40-11:45am
• 1st Gr. Data Meeting (SEL only) from 11:40-12:25pm

• Thursday, May 1
• 3rd Gr Data Mtg (SEL only) from 12:05-12:55pm
• Special 3rd Gr. activity in the IMC from 2:30-2:55pm

• Friday, May 2
• Jenny in meeting until 10am

• Saturday, May 3
• Happy Birthday Eneida!

Nitty-Gritty

• SETT program from UW-Eau Claire
• If you or someone you know is interested in the SETT program, the flyer of information is HERE.  The program is designed for working adults to take courses to transition to a teaching career. Just sharing if you are interested.

• Class Creator
• If you are a homeroom teacher you should have received an email from Class Creator that allows you to do the survey related to your students academic, behavior and special supports data for class list creation. The meetings for this task will not be until June 5, but please complete the surveys before May 30 so that I can have this ready by June 5. If you need any help, please let me know. For new teachers, you can check with your mentor/team as well.

• Spring Testing Windows
• The Aimsweb and FastBridge window for spring testing will open on Monday, May 5.  The intervention team will be coming to assess students starting that day.  Julie and Vanessa will also be in this month to do assessments with our students as well. On Monday, May 12, the i-Ready window will open for students as well. Please plan with interventionists if you need assistance for proctoring the tests. As we did in the winter, there will be no retakes. It is important that students do their best work the first time, as we do not have enough time for students to be given the test multiple times. 

• SRO joins our Staff
• As most of you know, the SRO position has been in the works for a long time and was first announced in October of this school year and now has come to fruition! The SRO is a Juneau Police Department officer that is in our school Mon-Fri and we share the cost of this position with the city of Juneau and is from the district's Community Programs and Services fund which is separate from our general fund that pays for staffing, instruction and operations. Officer Jake Borchardt (the 'ch' sounds like a k in his name) officially joined our school on Monday, April 21. He is looking forward to getting to know our students. To help with this, he would like to come into our classrooms in the next few weeks to read to your class and meet you all.  Watch for a sign in sheet email for him to come to your classrooms.  Help me welcome Officer Jake!

• Future Planning
• I know this past week was very difficult. The budget situation that we are in means that there are very difficult decisions to be made. It is painful to know that the positions that are affected will affect us all and especially our students. There have been many long hours put in studying this situation and discussing next steps. None of the plans were made hastily or without long thought. At this point, any elimination or reduction or modification in a position has been communicated with affected staff members.  The board meeting on Monday night will finalize the budgetary cuts and more details will be shared as soon as I am able.  In the meantime, please know that if you want to talk, share ideas with me, need something from me, etc, I am always here.  I can't promise anything, but know that I always want what is best for our students and staff within the parameters that I am able. 

TechKnow Tip

Looking for something to strengthen cooperative learning, problem solving, encourages persistence, and an outstanding alternative to movies?! Look no further than BreakoutEDU!! BreakoutEDU is an immersive learning game platform with both physical and digital puzzle elements to solve. A physical BreakoutEDU “room” can be time consuming to set up, so that’s where a digital BreakoutEDU “room” can come in handy. BreakoutEDU is provided to all classroom teachers through the IMC- that means you can use the pre-created materials from the site, you can create digital breakout “rooms” specific to your content, and you can create classes of students to view progress and statistics of any of the BreakoutEDU puzzles. Digital BreakoutEDU puzzles can be shared with students via link or QR code- what a fun way to keep them thinking at this time of year. Get logged into BreakoutEDU through Classlink. Try this BreakoutEDU - send Ms. Rollins a screenshot of a completed room (5 puzzles) for a fun prize!

Friday Funny

Living with 3 GoldenDoodles is quite the adventure. We have 1 ten year old doodle and 2 almost three year old doodles from the same litter in my house now. Usually we have spurts of just lots of noise and activity and then the laziest dogs ever. In fact, just yesterday, Mabel barked at a sound, but didn't even raise her head off of the couch to do it. Seriously?! But the picture below perfectly captures Molly's personality. I have no idea how she gets herself into these kinds of predicaments!