Week of April 24th - April 28th

Thought you might find this amusing!  A few details A ton of details  for the upcoming weeks. If you decide to play Gerry Brook's game, could you leave me in a dark room with a blanket and pillow please.  :D  Just saying!  Have a great weekend!  Angie

Secretaries Breakfast

The District will be honoring secretaries with a special breakfast on Wednesday at 9AM.  Maria and Maria will be helping us cover the office.  Please be aware of this so we can go easy on them during first recess.  

We are SO grateful for Anne and Emily and all that they do for us!

Last Jefferson Gives Day - Dress Up Like Your Favorite Character

Friday the 28th is our last Jefferson Gives Day.  Plan your costume know.  We'll have more details on the announcements on Monday.

Computers May Behave in Strange New Ways!

Info from Dale:

We are working with Idaho Power on an Energy Efficiency Program.  The program is designed to provide financial incentives as well as reduce power consumption also saving the district money, which can be used for other things.

We have a list of items we will be working on the next several months.  One of these matters has been implemented.  I don’t think it will have a negative impact, but you may see a change.  Chris applied power policies to staff and student computers referenced the other day in our energy meeting.  Staff computers will “sleep” after an hour and require password unlock.  They will completely shut down at 11:00PM.  Student computers will “sleep” after 15 minutes of non-use, require no password unlock and will completely shut down at 5:00PM.

The password unlock was applied on teacher computers, because we found teachers leaving programs open while not attending their computer.  For example, grade books have been left running, making it accessible to students.  This will help provide greater network security as well as saving energy.

To take a student computer out of “sleep” mode all they need to do is move the mouse or press the space bar.

Evaluations
Toni and I will be finishing the Charlotte Danielson portion of everyone's evaluations by the middle of next week and setting up appointments.  Please make sure to accept the appointments so we know you'll be able to make the time.

BoxTop Information for the End of the Year
Prizes for current classes needing them April 27 @10.

Last collection date May 19

Last day to award prizes May 22nd.

Liz's Big Take-Aways from the Federal Programs Conference

1.  There is a huge word deficit between children living in poverty and those who are not living in poverty.  It's  a 30-40 million word deficit.

2.  We attended an intervention session that gave us a flow chart for interventions and programs to use.  It was nice to see that what we are doing is very similar to what they were doing.  I think it would be helpful for us to create a similar flow sheet and use it to help in data team meetings.

3.  There was a very powerful message with one of the speakers about being a beacon of hope for students.  One student credited a para for being the reason he graduated from high school instead of being in jail or dead.  I thought this was super powerful.  The para mostly fed the student and helped him with his homework.

Children's Choices Meeting
Dr. Stan Steiner, a Children's Literature Professor from BSU, and the reason I buy so many books, will be in the library on May 11th at 3:15 to tell us about the Children's Choice Book Award.  We are hoping to participate.  It will bring brand new just-published books to our kids next year and they get to decide which ones they like....and the books get to stay in your classrooms when it is all said and done!  If you have questions you can ask Shawn, Patti or Jody.

 22nd.