Preventing Slips and Falls

 

Week of 12/18/23

 Something Personal 

Wishing you and yours a fabulous break and a promising New Year! 

Something Professional 

DEI Staff Meeting for 1/23: 

On 1/23 we will have our second district organized staff meeting around DEI. Last year we did community circles, and this year we are doing breakout sessions based on an instructional strategy (that supports DEI). We need you to express your interest in breakout sessions. Please fill out the survey below so we can get it organized! 

CLICK HERE TO FILL OUT THE FORM!

Team Tre--Ordering extended until this Friday

As many of you know, this past spring the Barton Family learned that Tre, Michelle and Neil's son, has a cancerous mass growing in his brain.  He started chemo and radiation in May and just finished another treatment this week!  Please show your support for Tre and the Barton Family by purchasing a TEAM Tre t-shirt. Let's make this a great fundraiser for the family or one of the many local organizations supporting the family during this time.🤍

Tips when ordering... Enter your own address when you reach shipping so it matches with your billing address. Then in the comment section list your connection to the family (ex - Greece CSD Paddy Hill, Greece CSD Facilities, Hilton CSD Quest, Family, Neighborhood, etc.) as this will help us get shirts to the right location. The link will be open till 12/15 and shirts will arrive early to mid January.  Please reach out to anyone below with questions. Thank you for your support! 

 

Save the Date! 

From Jess Pignato for those Interested! 

Week of 12/11/23

 Something Personal 

I currently have the pleasure of co-leading a book study with the extended cabinet based on the book Radical Candor. Although this book has a heavy emphasis on leadership roles and how radical candor becomes a useful tool to communicate as a supervisor, there is a ton of carry over to the work we do with one another, as well as how we communicate in general with our students, our families, and one another. 

The book breaks down four types of communication: 

Radical candor (a warm demander would use radical candor, no??), which is the goal when communicating, occurs when you have a lot of care for the other person, and you intentionally make a lot of emotional deposits, but you can also be honest and direct regarding what you need. When you have to challenge, you are honest yet never make it personal. 

To learn more about radical candor, check out the video below: 

I'd encourage you to chew on this idea and consider what radical candor might look like within your job. 

Something Professional 

Student Action...Let's GO!

NEW Tues 12/19 Deadline for Girlbucks Slime Orderss

 Kayla Shaw and Lucy DiBattisto run a little non-profit called “Girlbucks”. They are selling customized homemade slime as stocking stuffers for the holidays.  All proceeds go to purchasing food for the Hilton Cadet Cupboard.  Below is the order form for slime. Please give cash to Kristen and either print out the order form or email her the details by the end of the day on Tues 12/19. All orders will be brought to school by Fri 12/22. There are so many choices!

 

Holiday Breakfast: CIA Reminder

When: Tuesday, December19th at 8 am

Where: Café 

What: Staff Holiday Breakfast...all are welcome! 

Link to sign up: CLICK HERE!

Need-to-Know:Most people enjoy warm items so consider a breakfast pizza, a casserole, or a quiche.

Please bring an empty mug for coffee, juice, tea, or cocoa.

MTSS Consultation Data

Current MTSS problem solving meeting data: 

Total Forms	27
Level Breakdown	K: 2 1-2: 11 3-4: 5 5-6: 9
Gender	M: 17 F: 10
Reasons	SEL: 8 Academic: 11 Screening: 4 504 Request: 4

From Office of Instruction

Interventionists will begin putting goals and progress monitoring data for some students into e-doctrina.  This will trigger emails to those associated in IC with those students.  Attached is a tip sheet for how teachers can set up a rule in their email to automatically route the eDoctrina notification emails to an email folder set up for this purpose. This would keep the emails from cluttering anyone's inbox but would also make them available to teachers who have the student on their roster. 

Week of 12/4/23

 Something Personal 

One of the harder conversations to have with our own children is that life can be really hard, quite unfair at times, and down-right tricky. Stress is everywhere and is there for the taking. But despite that, and with so much out of our control, we still can choose gratitude, happiness, and joy! Joy...this time of year that word pops up a lot! 

This week I stepped away for one day--just one day--and returned to my office looking like the elves workshop. I can be the Grinch, or so I've been told, but it was great how the fun of others quickly became my joy and laugh for the day. A place where we can have some fun and find some joy is the kind of place I want to be. 

Choosing joy is hard sometimes, but our learners provide us with the perfect example of what this can look like. As a building, and as a larger culture, I admire how we find time to play, joke, and take great care of one another. To me, that is joy--as wild as this month can be, I hope you find plenty of joy and laughter. It's there to notice! 

Something Professional 

Team Tre

As many of you know, this past spring the Barton Family learned that Tre, Michelle and Neil's son, has a cancerous mass growing in his brain.  He started chemo and radiation in May and just finished another treatment this week!  Please show your support for Tre and the Barton Family by purchasing a TEAM Tre t-shirt. Let's make this a great fundraiser for the family or one of the many local organizations supporting the family during this time.🤍

Tips when ordering... Enter your own address when you reach shipping so it matches with your billing address. Then in the comment section list your connection to the family (ex - Greece CSD Paddy Hill, Greece CSD Facilities, Hilton CSD Quest, Family, Neighborhood, etc.) as this will help us get shirts to the right location. The link will be open till 12/15 and shirts will arrive early to mid January.  Please reach out to anyone below with questions. Thank you for your support! 

 

Bivona Lessons (SEL)

Due to staffing issues at Bivona, lessons this year will not be held during health (minus one K room where we had to fit it in). The schedule will be shared out in the near future. 

Highlighting Students (IB)

Last year, we began a project to identify students within the district who exemplify the IB learner profile traits (inquirers, knowledgeable, thinkers, communicators, principled, open minded, caring, risk takers, balanced, reflective).

If you teach or know of a student who embodies one or more of the learner profile attributes through actions inside or outside of school, please contact Steve Cudzilo or Grace Scism so we can reach out to the student and family and highlight them!  Students would be highlighted with the posters you see hanging in the security entrance.  We hope to receive enough submissions that we can rotate these posters on a quarterly or semi-annual basis.  Thank you for helping us to highlight our students.

“Incredible things can be do​ne simply if we are committed to making them happen.”

-Sadhguru

Stephen Cudzilo

IB Middle Year Program Coordinator

Hilton Central School District

Remind? 

For some reason, those that were on Remind last year, and part of our Lead Learners class, did not all get transfered over this year. If you are not getting the reminders from me, and you would like to, please use the link below to join the class. 

CLICK HERE TO JOIN!

Furniture Reminder

If you have not done so yet, please fill out this spread sheet. Gracias! 

Click here to fill out!

 Vertical Teams

When: 12/12/23 @ 8 am

Where: QUEST Cafe 

What: We will go into our vertical teams, but before that, we will be taking a survey for our SIT team on communication and volunteerism. 

Need-to-Know: The One School One Book group will be using this time to form an additional adhoc group, so if you are interested in joining them, feel free to peel off of your current group to support their efforts. 

Another Need-to-Know: At SIT this week, it was discussed that TA's sometimes want to be part of this work. Please know this is open to anyone as the goal is to serve our incredible school. 

SIT Update

• SIT reviewed that we are in the process of working on budgets. Make sure your team and department is represented at the meeting in January! See last post for details!
• We are moving up the timeline for schedules this year. Our goal is to have the building schedule complete by the end of March, so that level leaders and interventionists can have a shot at building classroom schedules that fit with interventions and tier 1 instruction. 
• SIT unpacked the parent/family survey. Our hope is that we get a good number of staff also complete the survey. From there, we will share best practices, our findings, and our actions going forward. In the words of Brene Brown, "clear is kind!"