EMS Staff Information

 

Staff Update Week of October , 2026

Important Dates

10/26-                       Jack B at EMS (6th-8th periods)

10/27-                        Picture Retake Day

10/28-                        EMS Parent Teacher Conferences

10/30-                        Jail the Teacher Day

10/30-                        Halloween Dress Up Day

11/4-                            Choir Concert 7pm

11/13-                           1st Quarter Academic Awards

11/13-                            Pretzel Fundraiser Kick-Off

11/17-                            Band Concert 7pm

11/20-                            Fire Drill 8th period

11/25-11/30                Thanksgiving Break

12/9-                            7th Grade Field Trip-  A Christmas Carol

12/15-                            Fire Drill 2nd period

12/18-                            PD Day 

12/21-1/3                    Winter Break

1/4-                            Start of 2nd Semester

Important Information

1st Quarter   

Thank you everyone for a great 1st quarter of the school year.  It is amazing that I am already listing December dates on this bulletin.  Please keep the positive energy flowing.  Remember....these are the "good old days".  Enjoy them.

Parent Communication

Please make sure you are completing the At Risk/ Possible Failure Spreadsheet and document your communications with parents and interventions.  See Casey with questions.

Parent Teacher Conferences (10/28)

Jaimie will provide everyone a list of their conferences prior to 10/28

Jail the Teacher (10/30)

Thank you 8th Grade Team for organizing Jail the Teacher on Friday, October 30th.  Please make sure you discuss this with your students:

Friday, October 30th, the 8th grade team will be hosting a Jail The Teacher fundraiser to help raise money for our Adopt A Family project! Each period, students will have the opportunity to bring in CASH only, no coins, to "jail" their teacher for a specific amount of time. After collecting students' money, you will bring the money along with your class to the big gym. Miss Cook will be at the door collecting and counting money ($1 = 1 minute). Students will then be able to participate in different Halloween and/or Christmas activities such as a movie, coloring pages, word searches, and line dancing. Popcorn will also be sold at specific times for $1. Teachers will have to sit in the "jail" during their time with no phones, Chromebooks, etc. (We know this will all be terrible for us) When your time is up, you will take your class back to their normal period. We suggest incentivizing the kids to bring money by telling them they will have to take a quiz or something less desirable during the period if they do not bring enough money to jail their teacher the entire time.

Common Checkpoint Assessments

Grade Level Teams, please make sure we are getting out Common Checkpoint Assessments completed.  The dates are flexible.  We just need to make sure we are getting them done and utilizing the data to improve our instruction.  Here is a link to the Common Checkpoint Assessment Dates

Jack B (10/26)

Jack B is back at EMS on 10/26.  He will work with teams during the following times:

6th period-  7th Grade

7th period-  8th Grade

8th period-  6th Grade

November Attendance Challenge

We will be having a few November Attendance Challenges.  These challenges will take place in homeroom each week.  More information will be provided this week as plans are finalized.  

Congrats to last week's Staff Goals winners:

Academic Goal-   Jack Archual

Behavioral Goal:   Michelle Rawlinson

Experience Goal:  Casey Cook 

Social-Emotional Goal:  Karla Schwenk

Student Goal Nomination Form

There is now a link for staff to nominate students that deserve recognition for one of our four goal areas (Academics, Behavioral, Experience, Social-Emotional).  The link is on the top of the bulletin.

Good Professional Reading (or Watching)

Nothing this week.