Day 1 Need-to-Knows

• We will meet as a staff after the district welcome back for some updates and a few moments of inspiration. Time of this is TBD as last year we were way off as the union meeting went long. I'll make an announcement once people start returning, but am aiming for a meeting that is around 30ish minutes so that you can have the gift of time afterwards.
• Start Tuesday, the building will no longer open at 6 am, but 6:30 am! Those early, early, early birds, please be mindful of not using your badge before it is open so that the alarm is not activated. 
• Please check the school calendar (our shared). You will notice I have added a bit to no meeting weeks. The purpose of this was due to the outcry and the stress during November and March.
• Please be sure your level has assigned who is in charge of your bulletin board in the main hall. Some levels chose to have it as a rotation last year. This is a great way to celebrate the incredible work being done in classrooms.
• Band students will not be leaving instruments in the hall this year--thanks for understanding. At 3:30 each day (during the first dismissal announcement), please send the students down to collect their instruments. They can head to their bus or to parent pickup from there--the hall will have someone supervising. In the am, if they brought one in they can drop it off on their way in--again, someone will be there to supervise. If you prefer not to have it in the auditorium because you have a designated place in your room, that is not a problem at all! 
• All those who are not assigned to a classroom, please be outside on the first few days in the am to support getting our youngest kids on the bus. We will also need some extra hands in the PM! Thanks for keeping our kids safe.! Teamwork!
• Our tech. room was tidied up thanks to some staff members who gave up some time to get it ready for the year. In order to keep it as an orderly and ready-to-use place for classes, please be sure not to leave stuff out. The keys to the cupboards can be found in the main office (Hannah has them). Thanks for your help! 
• We will continue to use NaviGate this year for lockdown drills. Dawn placed new emergency cards in your classrooms: thanks Dawn!
• This year we have a behavioral support person who will be taking over an office in the LSS hallway. To keep with our culture of "teaching the whole child," this is not going to be called the ISS room--I know many appreciate that name change. Our TA who will be working with our kids is Jamie Osborne. Because this is new, she will be working with me, Val, and Val's intern to create a system in the support room, as well as working to create reteaching lessons related to various behaviors that the office typically sees. Once we get things up and rolling, we will be sure to communicate out process and procedures. The goals: to be able to provide reteaching when students are assigned a consequence versus simply having to sit in the office; to be able for students to take a break in an area other than the main office so that it supports their learning and keeping the office clear for parent and other meetings; to be able to find ways to push-in with students who need the most support on days where she is available. One thing that is important to note is that all behavior should still come to the main office, and never directly to Jamie unless it is a previously agreed upon behavioral plan.  More to come as this gets moving. :)