Staff Weekly Update
August 27th - 31st, 2018
Sincere gratitude to all of you for working so hard to make Curriculum Night a tremendous success! We had such a fantastic evening and so many comments from parents regarding how thrilled they are to have YOU as their child's teacher. I can't thank you all enough for ensuring that building the home-school relationship was a top priority. Showing them you care takes so little but it truly goes so far. Bravo!
With much respect,
Connie
Calendar Items
Mon. Aug. 27th
- NWEA: 8/14 - 8/31
- Chris Squier - Office Week at SGE
- Janelle Drisko at SGE today
- 7:00 - Connie in Elementary Principals mtg - PVE
- 9:30 - RtI mtg. - Largent, Farley, Wetzel, Spillman, Hall - conf. room
- 2:00 - Phone conference w/ parent - Largent/Oakley - conf. room
- 2:30 - Bi-Weekly Gr. Level Mtgs.
- 2:45- Parent mtg - Wetzel/Milam - Jessica's office
Tues. Aug. 28th
- NWEA: 8/14 - 8/31
- Chris Squier - Office Week at SGE
- Tech Integration day w/ Kyle
- 9:30 - LT mtg - Largent/Farley - ESC
- 11:30 - Elem. Admin. Team mtg - Largent/Farley - ESC
- 11:45 - District Autism Team mtg - Wetzel - location TBD
- 1:00 - USS Team mtg - USS Team & Dr. Slonaker - conf. room
- 2:40 - Gr. Level Collaboration mtg - Kyle & 1st/2nd grade - Media Center
- 2:45 - ACR for 1st grader - Largent, Fure, Benefiel, Andries - conf. room
- 4:00 - District Discussions - ESC
Wed. Aug. 29th
- NWEA: 8/14 - 8/31
- Chris Squier - Office Week at SGE
- Janelle Drisko at SGE today
- 10:00 - 11:00 - Diversity Phone Conference - Largent/Farley - conf. room
- 2:00 - ACR for 1st grader - Largent, Andries, Strawmyer - conf. room
- 3:00 - RtI Building Team mtg - location TBA
- 3:30 - Weekly Meeting - Largent/Farley - Connie's office
Thurs. Aug. 30th
- NWEA: 8/14 - 8/31
- Chris Squier - Office Week at SGE
- 2:30 - Optional Staff Meeting - ZTEP/ZTEP PLUS/SLOs - Location TBA
- 2:30 - Wellness Club Meeting - Leslie Frobig's room
- 2:45 - 504 mtg for 2nd grader - Wetzel/Bourff - Jessica's office
Fri. Aug. 31st
- NWEA: 8/14 - 8/31
- Chris Squier - Office Week at SGE
- RtI PLC Meetings - all day - conf. room
- 2:30 - Joy Club mtg - location TBD
Upcoming Events . . .
Fri. Sept. 7th - SMILE! School Picture Day!
Mon. Sept. 10th & Tues. Sept. 11th - Largent out for Advanced School Safety Training
Thurs. Sept. 13th - Staff Meeting
Thurs. Sept. 13th - Fri. Sept. 14th - 4th Gr. at Camp Tecumseh
(Thursday evening from 6-10PM - Largent/Farley travel to camp for the Camp Fire event)
Fri. Sept. 14th - 3rd Gr. Field Trip - Indy Zoo
Thurs. Sept. 20th - Family Wellness Night
Wed. Sept. 26th - PTO's JOG-A-THON
ZTEP, ZTEP PLUS, CLOs, SLOs, E-I-E-I-O . . . What's It All About?
If you have a question that you would like answered during this meeting, please click here to submit your question. Thanks!
Please Join Our Remind Group!
To simply *receive-only* the text messages, please text the number 81010 and in your "message line" type in the code: @k29hfe. See the image below.
As a friendly reminder, please do not share out this image or this code. Occasionally, I will get parents that try to join this "class" thinking it's all of SGE families. Should I see a name that is not a staff member or a phone number not connected to a staff member, I will remove him/her from this course. At times, sensitive information is shared through Remind so it can reach you all quickly. Thank you!
Important Announcements & Reminders
Instructional Fire & Tornado Drills:
- Please conduct an instructional fire drill “walk through” and a tornado drill “walk through” with your class. When this is complete, check off that you have done it, sign and put in Martha's mailbox on or before August 31. These will count as our August drills.
From Nurse Gorham:
- The clinic door located in the office is now locked and will remain locked to maintain school safety. Please send your students to the clinic by entering/exiting the clinic door located across from the 2nd-grade hallway.
Door Checkers, Please!
- Please assign a student or pair up with a team member to check the doors as you enter/exit the building. We've had some small pieces of mulch and/or pebbles get stuck in the threshold of the door, causing the door not to be 100% latched shut. Thank you!
Leaving EARLY afterschool and you've gotten permission from Connie/Martha . . .
- If this is the case for you, please help us by always emailing the entire office team to let them know you've gotten permission and also leave your cell # in the email message, in case we need to contact you.
- Who is the "office team?" Connie, Martha, Angie, Jen, Jessica, Hailey
LINKS TO WORK ORDERS & *NEW* GOOGLE FORM LINKS
Technology Work Orders - Reminder from Dan Layton:
- Click here to access this link.
- It is always extremely helpful if you can submit actual technology work orders for any help you need. Please refrain from picking up the phone or emailing a question.
Marquis Work Orders:
Did your trash not get picked up? Does it seem the carpet didn't get vacuumed? Please help Angie & Jen out by filling out the Marquis work order on your own. Thanks!
1. Go to the Zionsville web site
2. Click on Teachers/Staff tab
3. Scroll down about halfway
4. Look for: Custodial Work Orders by Building
5. Click on Stonegate
Click here to access the Teachers/Staff tab
18-19 PTO Wish List - NEW GOOGLE FORM LINK!
- Click the NEW LINK HERE to access this Office 365 Form
Personal Business Leave Request - NEW GOOGLE FORM LINK!
- Please click the NEW LINK HERE to access this form and then don't forget to SAVE this page under your "favorites."
- Finally, as a friendly reminder of our ZCS Personal Business Leave + good information to know for our newest staff, I have copied/pasted the email about personal days sent by Becky Coffman on 5/8/16. This is per our CBA - Collective Bargaining Agreement
- A. Amount – Each employee shall be entitled to be absent from work three (3) days each school year for the transaction of personal business or the conduct of personal or civic affairs. Such leaves may be used in whole or half day increments. Requests for personal business leave should be made 48 hours in advance in writing to the building principal. In cases of emergency or other similar unforeseen circumstance, requests may be made orally to both the substitute coordinator and the building principal.
- B. Employees are discouraged from using personal business leave on staff development days or to extend a school vacation. If used on a staff development day then the employee remains totally responsible for securing the learning lost from their being absent during that activity.
- C. Accumulation – If an employee does not use all of the personal business leave in a given school year, the remaining personal business leave shall be accumulated for use in later school year, except that no more than a total of two (2) days may be accumulated from earlier school years for use as personal business leave, so that the maximum total personal business leave available in any one school year is three (3) days earned during the school year and up to two (2) days accumulated from earlier school years or a total of five (5) days.
- D. Conversion to Sick Leave – Any unused personal business leave not accumulated for use in later years as personal business leave shall be added to the employee’s accumulated sick leave.