Monday, September 28, 2026

Staff Update Week of September 28, 2026

Important Dates

9/28- Safety Week

9/28- ICAC assemblies

9/28- Fire Drill 2:18pm

9/30- RIMP Data Meetings

10/7- EMS Parent Teacher Conferences

10/8- 8th Grade Field Trip to Chagrin River Park

10/9- NEOEA Day (no school)

10/13- Jaimie Smith Learning Walk Day

10/15- 7th Grade Zoo Field Trip

10/16- PD Day

10/26- Jack B at EMS (TBA)

10/27- Picture Retake Day

10/28- EMS Parent Teacher Conferences

Important Information

ICAC Assemblies (9/28)

Thank you Leah Leshnack for once again arranging for the Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce to come out and speak with our students.

1st period- 7th Grade

2nd period- 8th Grade

3rd period- 6th Grade

Safety Week (9/28-10/2)

Monday (9/28)

- ICAC assemblies in Gym (1st, 2nd 3rd periods)

- Fire Drill 2:18pm

Tuesday (9/29)

- Lockdown Drill

- I will make an announcement and EVERYONE barricades in room

Wednesday (9/30)

- Evacuation Drill

- I will make an announcement and EVERYONE evacuates to the parking lot.

Thursday (10/1)

- Scenario Based Drill

- I will make an announcement and you make the decision on what to do based on the announcement.

Friday (10/2)

Tornado Drill during Homeroom

Nomination Form

Please nominate staff members that you feel exemplify one of our goals. A link to the nomination form can be found at the top of the bulletin.

Congrats to last weeks winners:

Academic Goal- Amy Smith

Behavioral Goal- Rick Johnson

Experience Goal- Jaimie Livorse

Social-Emotional Goal: Jill Forcht

Growth Plans/ HQSD

Please make sure your Growth Plans and HQSD are completed by 9/30. Using AI is not cheating.....

Email Signature updates

The district is in the process of rolling out consistent ADA compliant email signatures. This will occur building by building over the next few weeks. The signatures will be branded with the logo and information of your “home” school and will include your name, title, school main number and voicemail extension, email, district website, and the address for the school.

Once your building migrates, you may need to use Ctrl + F5 to refresh your gmail settings for your new signature to appear. Additionally, if you have a secondary building or title that you'd like to add, you can type it in a custom field by visiting this website. https://user.bulksignature.com/

Once we begin the process in October, your current signatures will be overwritten with the new automated, ADA compliant email signatures.

Good Professional Reading (or Watching)

Station Rotation

Monday, September 21, 2026

Staff Update Week of September 21, 2026

Important Dates

9/28- Safety Week

9/28- ICAC assemblies

9/28- Fire Drill 2:18pm

9/30- RIMP Data Meetings

10/7- EMS Parent Teacher Conferences

10/8- 8th Grade Field Trip to Chagrin River Park

10/9- NEOEA Day (no school)

10/13- Jaimie Smith Learning Walk Day

10/16- PD Day

10/26- Jack B at EMS (TBA)

10/27- Picture Retake Day

10/28- EMS Parent Teacher Conferences

Important Information

ICAC Assemblies (9/28)

Thank you Leah Leshnack for once again arranging for the Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce to come out and speak with our students.

1st period- 6th Grade

2nd period- 8th Grade

3rd period- 7th Grade

Barricading Doors

All teachers are expected to practice barricading doors with their classes sometime this week. We spoke about this during PLCs.

Safety Week (9/28-10/2)

Monday (9/28)

- ICAC assemblies in Gym (1st, 2nd 3rd periods)

- Fire Drill 2:18pm

Tuesday (9/29)

- Lockdown Drill

- I will make an announcement and EVERYONE barricades in room

Wednesday (9/30)

- Evacuation Drill

- I will make an announcement and EVERYONE evacuates to the parking lot.

Thursday (10/1)

- Scenario Based Drill

- I will make an announcement and you make the decision on what to do based on the announcement.

Friday (10/2)

Tornado Drill during Homeroom

Nomination Form

Please nominate staff members that you feel exemplify one of our goals. A link to the nomination form can be found at the top of the bulletin.

Congrats to last weeks winners:

Academic Goal- Janine Zampini

Behavioral Goal- Vanessa Rockwell

Experience Goal- Kelly White

Social-Emotional Goal: Nick Cramer

Growth Plans/ HQSD

Please make sure your Growth Plans and HQSD are completed by 9/30. Using AI is not cheating.....

Good Professional Reading (or Watching)

Monday, September 14, 2026

Staff Update Week of September 14, 2026

Important Dates

9/17- 6th Grade Camp

9/28- Safety Week

9/28- ICAC assemblies

9/28- Fire Drill 2:18pm

9/30- RIMP Data Meetings

10/8- 8th Grade Field Trip to Chagrin River Park

10/9- NEOEA Day (no school)

10/13- Jaimie Smith Learning Walk Day

10/16- PD Day

10/26- Jack B at EMS (TBA)

10/27- Picture Retake Day

10/28- EMS Parent Teacher Conferences

Important Information

Home Sporting Events

Just a reminder.... Students love to see staff at their home sporting events. If you can make it to a game, it would be great to see you.

Safety Week

Dave Koehnle will be joining PLCs this week to discuss our upcoming Safety Week and answer any questions you might have.

EMS Goals Reminder

Are you....

Creating engaging opportunities for students at EMS?

Supporting your colleagues by enforcing consistent building expectations?

Finding positive solutions to support each other?

Providing daily opportunities for students to reach their full potential?

Nomination Form

Please nominate staff members that you feel exemplify one of our goals. A link to the nomination form can be found at the top of the bulletin.

Congrats to last weeks winners:

Academic Goal- Amy Clendenning

Behavioral Goal- Justine Ianiro

Experience Goal- Jeff Steinmetz

Social-Emotional Goal: Autumn Budrys

Growth Plans/ HQSD

Please make sure your Growth Plans and HQSD are completed by 9/30. Using AI is not cheating.....

Patriot Day (9/11)

Thank you to Justine, Jack, and Vanessa for focusing lessons about the 25th anniversary of 9/11. I was very impressed with what each of you were doing with students that day.

Good Professional Reading (or Watching)

Real, Fake, or Deepfake? This Lesson Helps Students Decide