1. Positive Influence

2. High Levels of Achievement

3. Outstanding Culture

Please share the Academic Lab Canvas page

with your AL students on Tuesday, September 3.

Academic Lab is valuable time that we have with students during the school week to promote many different initiative in our school.

Samantha has created an Academic Lab Canvas template for you all to use. Samantha made a short video explaining the components of the template and how to use it.

We will use this AL Canvas page to push out things such as surveys, digital citizenship, Naviance, bullying, and #saysomething.

An email was sent on 8/27 with this attachment.

How will you help our students reach these goals?

Goal 1: For the 2019-2020 school year, 50% of English Language Learners Levels 1-4 will meet their growth target for improving their listening, speaking, reading and writing competency in English as outlined in the WIDA (World-class Instructional Design and Assessment) standards.

Goal 2: For the 2019-2020 school year, the passing rate for English Language Arts of the ISTEP assessment for 10th grade subgroup of Special Education students will improve from 19% to 40%.

Goal 3: For the 2019-2020 school year, the passing rate for Math on the ISTEP assessment for 10th grade subgroup of Special Education students will improve from 17% to 43%.

Goal 4: For the 2019-2020 school year, ENHS will Improve the graduation rate by 1% to ensure post-secondary success and be above the state graduation rate average.

Goal #5: For the 2019-2020 school year, ENHS will meet the model attendance rate of 80% or higher from the current rate of 56% by increasing the number of students who are in attendance 96% of the 180 days or who have increased attendance by 3%.

Goal #6: For the 2019-2020 school year, ENHS will raise the rate of exposure to career counseling and career opportunities to three times per year.

Please make sure that you are not sending your students to areas that are designated for staff only such as the teacher's lounge for copies or the copy area in the front office! Many teachers print to these machines and in order to keep this information secure, students should not be in these areas.

Good job by staff for early in the school year.

Three computers on.

Ten monitors on.

One personal printer on.

Two sets of speakers on.

Ten unoccupied power strips on.

Good start but some need to improve areas. Our only way to counter rate hikes is more efficient use of power.

Shawn will be at ENHS September 20, and 23-26.

Shawn Shepherd, our account manager from American Fidelity, will be visiting the buildings in September. The point of the visit is the American Fidelity product open enrollment period for the 2020 plan year that is offered as a fringe benefit. This open enrollment period is your opportunity to speak with Shawn or an American Fidelity rep about products such as: flex spending accounts, annuities, and supplemental benefits such as life insurance, cancer insurance, accident insurance, or critical illness policies. Any benefits you chose or changes you make to the American Fidelity products during the open enrollment period will become effective on January 1, 2020. Deductions for these products begin in January 2020.

New for 2020:

Flexible Spending Accounts will be managed by American Fidelity, not AGA.

The new American Fidelity phone app with greater direct access to your American Fidelity products

Who is eligible?

All East Noble employees who work 20 hours or more per week. All employees working 20 hours or more per week must meet with the representative.

What is the “Section 125 Cafeteria Plan”?

A Cafeteria Plan is an employee benefits program designed to take advantage of Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code. Section 125 allows you to select from a variety of eligible benefits that allow you to deduct premiums from gross earnings before taxes are computed. This gives you more spendable income because current after-tax expenses, such as insurance premiums and benefits, can be paid for with pre-tax dollars.

Sign up using the following link: https://benefits.americanfidelity.com/east-noble-school-corporation

Open the HOW TO SIGN UP WITH SHAWN attachment and follow the directions to make your appointment.

We will be trying something different for accommodation sign-offs this trimester. This will give teachers more information on the special education students they serve as well as streamline the process for the teacher of record.

• Step 1: Teachers of students with IEP’s will receive emails from the teacher of record for each student. This email will have an “IEP at a Glance” attached.
  
• Step 2: Read and take note of the students testing AND classroom accommodations. Relevant behavior information will also be included. It may be helpful to create a folder in Outlook to drag these emails into, so they are kept together and organized.
  
• Step 3: Once read, respond to the teacher of record by returning their original email. It is important that you respond to the original email, this creates the “paper trail” that we are required to keep.

You will receive your emails on Wednesday August 21st. The deadline for responding to the email is August 30th.

September 2 No School

September 12 Parent/Teacher Conferences

September 20 Picture Retake Day

Sept 20 & 23-26 American Fidelity Section 125

September 23-27 College Go Week

September 24 Light the Night Walk

September 27 eLearning/Staff PD

October 16 PSAT day

October 30 Fall Fest

November 1 eLearning/Staff PD

Monday, September 2 NO PD--Happy Labor Day

Monday, September 9 ELL Strategies

Please met in the library

Monday, September 16 Caleb-ALC

Monday, September 23 Department

Monday September 30 NO PD--Fall Break

Monday, October 7 SIP Goal and ELL

From Chad Moore--

Our staff lounge could use some updates. It has a bit of a 1992 PowerPoint exciting kinda vibe going on and I think it could be improved. I have talked it over with just a few people but want to get input from everyone before I start in on it. If you have a chance, I would like some feedback on a few items. I made a survey, but if I missed something or you have another idea just email me back. Here is the survey link: https://forms.gle/RW2DK84zTR2GxBaL9

Academic Lab Teachers--

Please reach out and call 5 parents of your AL students personally and invite them to parent/teacher conferences on September 12th.

Don't forget that students should come to AL class, sit down, take attendance, listen to announcements and THEN sign out.

Thank you to all teachers for enforcing the no cell phones policy during AL.

ALL staff PD day at the High School--this includes IAs.

ALL GNC training videos are expected to be finished by the end of the day.

More information to come.

Café (AM): Arnold/Brian/Julian

Front (AM): Bell/Eakins

Front (PM): David

Bus Doors (AM): Sible/Arnett

Bus Doors 35 (PM): Strasser/Schmidt

Bus Doors 36 (PM): Mapes/Cook

Cole: Spellman

Rotunda: Prater/Edwards

Corner Of Café (AM): Terrell

Aux Gym/Concessions (AM): Potter

Samantha sent you an email on August 19th with important information!

This email contains two things:

1. Instructions on where/how to apply the asterisk symbol to an assignment you are no longer accepting
2. Instructions on how to add a class description if you use weighted categories.

The asterisk symbol is to be added in front of the assignment names in PowerTeacher Pro. The guide is attached.

If you use category weighting in your grades, you need to put that information under the class description in PowerSchool. This shows parents how grades are calculated – so if they assume your grade is by total points, and they do the math, it would be off. In addition you might add a statement that says, “Any assignment marked by an * is no longer being accepted for late turn-in.” This video will show you how to add that class description: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz7aiLBWy1pQdFdnUUtLa241cDQ/view

If you have a PBL goal, this website would be very useful.

PBLWorks

https://my.pblworks.org

What is PBL?

Why PBL?

Getting Started

Projects

· “Encourage students to offer bilingual support to each other. Students will understand material better if they explain it to another student, and the new student will benefit from hearing the explanation in their first language.”

CONGRAUTLATIONS!

This will be part of the letter that I am sending home to ENHS parents to make them aware of the high school student days off.

This past February, East Noble High School was designated by the Indiana Department of Education as a Performance Qualified High School for the 2019-2020 school year. ENHS earned this distinction because it has been rated as an “A” school for the past two years. This means that East Noble High School will be allowed flexibility with the number of days high school students attend during the 2019-2020 school year. Normally, a high school student will attend 180 student instructional days. However, East Noble High School is now eligible to exercise flexibility around the instructional day requirements as long as the total number of instructional hours provided to students during the school year meets the required time-frame of 1080 hours.

As a staff, our goal is to maintain East Noble High School’s distinguished status and ensure our students are college, career, and life ready. To ensure our teaches are prepared to meet those goals, we plan to utilize this flexibility to provide teachers continued professional development along with time for teachers to evaluate student work and goals that support them as they meet graduation requirements.

East Noble High School students ONLY will have release time with no eLearning and not be attending school on the following days:

High School ONLY No School November 8, 2019
High School ONLY released at 11:25 May 27, 2019
High School ONLY No School May 28, 2019

Café: Rexroad/Kimmel/L.Potter

Front (AM): Hoagland/Joest

Front (PM): Christian

Bus Doors (AM): Arnett/Galbreath

Bus Door (PM) 36: Noble/Rickey

Bus Doors (PM) 35: Barber/Haywood

Cole: Wizigreuter

Rotunda (AM): Wells/Mazur

Corner of Café (AM): Clark

Aux Gym/Concessions (AM): Amstutz

The Noble County JA board has put together a new fundraiser event this year. It is a Beer, Wine and Spirits Festival. This event will take place on Saturday, September 14th at 5 p.m. at the “Hidden Ego Event Venue”. Please consider spending an evening supporting your local Junior Achievement and enjoy time out with friends. I have tickets that you may purchase for this event. The general admission ticket is $35. The VIP ticket is $50 and you get to start your tasting at 4 p.m. (one hour early) and are fed as well.

Please e-mail Stephanie Leasure you are interested in attending and purchasing tickets.

Students at the MS and HS are now using Chromebooks as their loaner devices when their own student device is being repaired.

Do you know what’s different about these devices? Do you know how to help students turn in work? What if a student needs to use one for testing??

Come to room 203 this coming Tuesday, September 3rd to learn more about navigating the loaner devices – so you can help the students!

1st – 8:00 A.M.

2nd – 9:10 A.M.

3rd – 10:25 A.M.

4th – 12:05 P.M.

5th – 2:00 P.M.

Steve Garbacz, KPC Media, will print and report on a number of East Noble activities/initiatives/items if we just let him know.

Please think about what is happening in our building that you can share with Steve. We want EN to take up newspaper space! Drop him a note with news or invitations to activities happening in our building :)

Steve’s email is: sgarbacz@kpcmedia.com