Building Reminders

Staff,

Here are some reminders of upcoming building events to keep in mind while we approach the end of the year. Those of you who will meet with me for a summative evaluation in the next couple weeks, please review last week's blog for the reflection questions.

• End of the Day Monday, May 22nd:  Submit End of Interval SLO Review
• Tuesday, May 23rd:  Grade Level Roll Through with ITS (Raider Portal) and Learning Services
• Wednesday, May 24th:  K-3 Track and Field Day and Fun Run at 2:50pm
• Thursday, May 25th: 4th Grade Track and Field Day
• Friday, May 26th:  5th Grade Track and Field Day
• Tuesday, May 30th: Last Staff Meeting and Summer Book Checkout Starts in the Media Center
• Thursday, June 1st: Dolf out at Interviews
• Friday, June 2nd: 1st Grade at Como Zoo and at 2:15: 5th Grade Farewell
• Monday, June 5th: 4th Grade at Fort Snelling
• Tuesday, June 6th: 5th Grade at Eau Claire Waterpark, 2nd Grade MN Zoo and All School Picnic
• Thursday, June 8th (Last Day of School): 9:10am All School Meeting, 10:30am Yearbooks and 2:45pm Kickball

Highlights from this Year

At our staff meeting on Tuesday, we will begin by taking some time to reflect on classroom, grade level, department and building highlights from the year. Be thinking about the things that you're proud of and be ready to share at your staff meeting tables. I'll be using the reflections we generate as part of my report to the board in June. This is the second year all schools and District departments have reported highlights during the "state of the schools" portion of the June board meeting.

A couple of reminders, instructional reading levels are due in Skyward by the end of the day on Friday, May 19th and SLOs are due to be submitted at the end of the day on Monday, May 22nd. If you have all your data before the 19th, and you have your SLO completed, feel free to submit it before the May 22nd date. Again summative meetings will begin on May 23rd (maybe earlier if there are early SLOs submitted), and I will have Sue schedule the meetings. I will submit summative evaluations to teachers at least one day prior to our meetings for your review first. The following are the objectives I am hoping for in our summative conferences with continuing staff:

• Sum up your thoughts and perspectives on the last two-three years.
• My thoughts about overall strengths during the past three years.
• Your thoughts or feedback regarding process, feedback received.
• Talk about strategies and goals for moving forward.

I'd also like teachers who have a summative evaluation to think about this question coming into these meetings:  

As you look back over the last couple of years, how do you think things went?  What went well?  What didn’t go as planned?