Tullar Staff Updates
October 16-20
Important Updates!
- Problem Solving Team: We had one "walk-in" and one anonymous submission. Please review our problem solving document for the 10/12 updates.
- Conference Codes: Please update with your code! This document can also be located in our Tullar Hub.
- Reminder! Sign up for lounge duty. This sign-up sheet is located on the side of the fridge.
This Week
- Chad will be coming to our 10/18 staff meeting to discuss our boundaries update. My weekly family newsletter has been updated with the communication set by NJSD.
- Happy birthday to Brad on Monday!!!
- Slip into Reading this Friday!!
- Some shared a great idea.... Bring your thanksgiving pants (can you guess who that someone was based on this link??) and your favorite dessert or savory snack to share in the lounge on Wednesday! SIGN UP HERE
- Shoutout to Tennie for coming to the rescue on Friday in the office!
- Thank you Chip for always taking care of all of the color codes. We don't know what we would do without you!!!
- Shout out to Cassi, Bryce and Sarah for your support of our student and family this week!
- Thank you to Mallory, Kassi, and Erin for supporting our problem solving team on Thursday as well as helping to develop our indoor recess plan.
- Shoutout to Kaitlyn, DaNay, Joanna, and Eulalie for their team work focused on supporting our students and continuing to problem solve the challenges that come their way.
- Thank you to Ali and Jen Kurszewski for planning and preparing our Trunk or Treat event for this coming Sunday.
- All doors should remain LOCKED at all times. You may keep your door open, but the handle needs to be locked.
- Please cover your windows to ensure you have a safe spot or spots that are not visible in the event of an emergency. You should have some visibility into your classroom of your learning environment.
Please make sure the outside equipment shed is locked at the end of each recess and end of the day. The combination is 20-38-20. Thanks!
Recess Supervision: Remember to be actively moving around the entire playground. Please acknowledge positive behaviors. This is a great time to hand out paws.
Playground Expectations
Spider-what are students allowed to do, can they climb on the top portion, can they hang?
(K-2 is not allowed on the spider. 3-4 can climb on the top but NO hanging)
Monkey bars-some students are climbing up and sitting on the top.. is this allowed?
(Absolutely NO sitting on the top).
Gaga Pits-last year we had the rule 2-3 can use the front one/4-5 can use the back one... Will this change?
K-2 in the front one and 3-4 in the back one
Math Resource from Aimee Stevens
Music Concert Updates
Groupings:
K sing alone
Grades 1-2
Grades 3-4
- Concert is Tuesday, December 5th at 6:00 pm inside Pickard. All certified staff that have Tullar as their home base attend and help with crowd control or assist specific students.
- There will be a dress rehearsal at Pickard in the afternoon of December 5th. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Mystery Science
We have chosen to partner with Mystery Science to offer our K-5 teachers a free trial through June 2024. This in no way replaces the expectations for using PLTW as your science curriculum, nor is it an expectation that you use it in your classroom. It is simply a supplemental tool that you may or may not choose to use.
The following steps will activate your free account:
1. Use your school email address to sign up here: https://mysteryscience.com/start?district_id=81173.
****Already have a Mystery Science account? Great - just click the link above to add your existing account to your district's membership.
2. Explore the Mystery Science website:
Standards-aligned science units
Seasonal science & mini-lessons
Activities, assessments, and much more!
HELP BUTTON ON YOUR CLASSROOM PHONES!!!
Staff, if you check the 3 clear buttons on your phone near the screen, you will see one that says "help." This can be pressed in an emergency as it directly calls my phone and Marisa's!
Previous Updates
Refrigerators-Cale has given us permission to keep existing personal fridges until we come up with a solution in our lounge. We cannot bring any new appliances. We will need to eliminate personal microwaves. We have two in the lounge. If we need more than two microwaves, we will try it first and revisit to problem solve if needed.
Time Off is Now Recorded Hourly-As you may have noticed, your time available for leaves (e.g. sick, personal, vacation) now looks different when you log into Skyward. Hourly-paid employees may now exercise the leave that they have accrued in hourly increments.
If you are a 7.5 hour per day employee, your accrued leave will now show up as "Vacation 7.5"; 8-hour per day employees will see "Vacation 8." Instead of then seeing some number of days in your accrual, you will see your number of work days times the number of hours you work per day. Hourly employees who need to take an hour off may make their request accordingly. If you will be gone one whole day after that, you will ask for 7.5 hours if that is a full day for you. It would be 8 hours if that is your full day.
Salaried employees will also see their sick, personal and vacation time allotted as hours under the new system. As in the past, only full and half days may be exercised for salaried employees. In most cases, salaried employees (teachers, administrators, exempt staff) work 8-hour days. If you aren't feeling well, you will put in for a sick day by asking for 8 hours of leave, if you will be gone for the entire day. If you will be gone for about a half day, you will ask for 4 hours of leave.
Please call Valerie Erickson (x10109) in the HR Department if you have questions on how your leave is now appearing and how to exercise it.