Staff Update Week of September 29, 2025
Important Dates
9/29 - 10/3 Safety Week
9/29- ICAC Assemblies (1st-3rd periods)
9/29- Fire Drill 2:23pm
10/8- Picture Retake Day
10/8- 8th Grade Field Trip- North Manufacturing Expo
10/8- Parent/Teacher Conferences 3:30-7:30
10/16- 7th Grade Field Trip- Zoo
10/16- 8th Grade Field Trip- Chagrin River Park
10/17- End of 1st Quarter
10/29- Parent/Teacher Conferences 3:30-7:30
Important Information
Safety Week
Monday- ICAC assemblies in Gym 1st, 2nd, 3rd periods
- Fire Drill 2:23pm
Tuesday- Barricade Drill
- I will make an announcement letting everyone know it is a drill
- Barricade door. Admins will go around and check each door
- Keep door barricaded until I make an announcement that the drill is complete
Wednesday- Evacuation Drill
- I will make an announcement letting everyone know it is a drill
- I will instruct everyone to exit the building quickly and safely
- Students are to meet in the parking lot
Thursday- Situational Drill
- I will make an announcement letting everyone know it is a drill - You will have to make a decision based on the announcement whether you will evacuate or barricade the room
- This is NOT a table top drill. Everyone is required to either barricade or evacuate
Friday- Tornado Drill (during homeroom)
* It is important for all staff to talk with students after the drills and explain what to do and why we do it.
FLEX Time
Flex time is an opportunity for teachers to help students get caught up and/or reteach struggling students. Students that are not working with a teacher should be working quietly on their own.
In order to assist core teachers with coverage, I have made a few changes to homeroom and 8th period coverages.
Here is a link to the 8th period and homeroom coverage changes.
If you are covering a FLEX class, do not take students to the gym or outside. They need to stay in a classroom and work on something productive or simply be quiet. Having some students go to the gym and others not go to the gym makes it challenging for teachers to keep the struggling learners focused.
(8th grade you are fine to do your grade check system)
Parent Teacher Conferences (10/8)
I will be sending an email out to parents this week so they can sign up for conferences.
Please sign up for a conference with yourself to provide yourself a break during conferences. Please do this asap before I send the link out.
Parent Teacher Conferences- Sign Up Form- 10/8/25
Please let me know if your name is missing or if your times are not correct (traveling teachers)
Learning Walks- Literacy IPG
Due to a grant the district received for Literacy, I am required to complete Learning Walks (observations) on over 50% of our teachers. I will talk about this in PLCs this week.
These observations are non evaluative. It is just data I need to gather. Here is a link to the form I need to use. I feel the form really just records good teaching practices.
Please understand that I am not expecting to see all of these Indicators in each observation.
These Learning Walks should take about 15-20 minutes. There is nothing you need to do.
Good Professional Reading (or Watching)
