Friday Focus - May 19, 2017

I am often reminded of the phrase "crisis reveals character" as I work with such an incredible staff. Fortunately, our power outage was a short crisis, but nonetheless, was a temporary crisis! I appreciate how you responded and observed many of you:

• Remaining a calm presence for students that were scared...some of you even turned it into a learning opportunity with your students (making educated guesses about what happened) or brainstorming "what if" stories.
• Lending a helping hand...several of you didn't have students with you during the power outage and helped out with little ones and getting around to each room to help spread the word on our plan.

Our days never really go as planned and I fully understand when our schedules get derailed. I appreciate how many of you always put student needs at the forefront, even when it is inconvenient for you!

Remaining Events for this School Year:
Monday - Staff meeting 3:10 (Agenda-tech news and end of year celebration/reflection activity. Please bring a device)
Thursday - Packer Youth Football camp for 2nd-5th grades
Friday - Walkathon
Monday, May 29th -No School (whew, take a breath!)
Week of May 30th - iPad Collection
Tuesday, May 30th - Bike Safety presentation 2:15
Wednesday, May 31st - Staff Appreciation Dinner
Friday, June 2nd - grade level app list due
Monday, June 5th - Report Cards due
Wednesday, June 6th - recess carnival led by 7th graders
Wednesday, June 7th - Report Cards distributed
Thursday, June 8th - 4th Quarter Dodgeland Pride Assembly, End of Year Picnic

"Nuts & Bolts" Notes:
*Just a reminder to please check the class lists draft. I will be putting tags in Educlimber at the start of next week.

"SLO's and Doc Logs and Summatives...Oh My" (ok, not exactly the same as Lions and Tigers and Bears!)

*Just like everything else on the to-do list, I'm behind in mylearningplan work too and haven't gotten to the point to give any follow-up reminders of what I haven't checked from you if you haven't turned something in yet. Here's a great reminder of: End Of Year EP Stuff

For those of you in your summative year I will be sending out an email next week to schedule our meetings. I know that many of you will not be done with your SLO's yet and that is completely ok, because your students are still learning! We always manage to work together to get it all done before you leave for the summer! :)

Blogs, Tweets & Pins...Oh My!!
*Understanding the Summer Slide: Sharing Data with Parents and Students