As our students return this week, remember that many of them didn't really enjoy their week away from all of you. Some of the kids that are the toughest, need you the most.
Thanks for being a place where students can feel loved and safe!
I hope you had a great week that allowed you to rest and be ready to conquer the last 8 weeks!
Important Information:
* Faculty Meeting - We will have a faculty meeting on Tuesday, March 22 at 7:25 a.m. in the library. A light breakfast will be served.
*Reflection Meetings - I would love to meet with all of you over the next few weeks to get your feedback about how I can support you and ideas for making learning opportunities better, ideas for the master schedule, etc. I am thinking we could have a 15-20 minute individual conversations and use these questions to guide our conversation:
* What are your reflections for the year? Good things? Struggles?
* Your goals moving forward.
* What do I need to keep doing, stop doing or change to help you do your job better?
Please sign up for a time that works for you. I know that time is an issue, but we will do our very best. I have created a google sheet for you to sign up on with times that work for me for now. If any of these times do not work, please let me know and I will work with you individually. I know that your feedback will help our school grow and continue to be a better place for our teachers and our students. Sign Up HERE
* Dual Credit Teachers - Please remember you will need to do your REQUIRED Ivy Tech on-line training by April 1st. The training will take you some time to complete (it has taken some teachers a couple of hours). Please see Dana if you need help with this.
* NHS Induction - NHS induction is Tuesday, March 22 at 6:00 p.m.
* WIN/Lunch Assignments - Thank you for talking to your students about tightening WIN. I had several students stop and ask great questions and I know they were because you were preparing students for this change. Reminder that we are working to tighten WIN/lunch. Please use WIN for remediation/learning - coding out 10-12 students that need academic help. I appreciate some of you want to eat lunch with students - please do this in the cafeteria or make special arrangements. Please do your best to take good attendance. We are printing WIN documents daily and looking at attendance daily to follow up with students in the wrong locations. Please let us know if you have questions!
* Professional Development Day: Our next Professional Development day will be Monday, April 4th. Students will not have class on this Monday, but we will have PD. A schedule of events will be sent out soon.
* Professional Development Resources: The Central Education Center (Keep Indiana Learning) has posted many great resources for teachers. You can sign up for what you are interested in. I have participated in many of their events and they have been worth my time. Please see a list/link below. I encourage you to take advantage of the opportunities!
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Legislative Update: Please find an update on the legislative process below. This information is from the Indiana Association of Secondary Principals!
Bills that DID NOT Pass (the work you did connecting with our legislators made a difference!):
* Partisan School Board Elections - The idea that school board members would have to declare their parties or run in a primary showed up in at least 7 bills - none of them made it out of committee.
* Special Education Conflict Resolutions (HB 1107) would have not allowed schools to defend themselves in public - was defeated 0-50 (even the person that wrote the bill ended up voting against it)
* Materials Harmful to Minors (SB17) - Did not advance. This would have allowed parents to have control the types of books and resources we provide to students.
* SB 67/HB1134 - CRT Bill - Bill would have made us post our curriculum on-line and run all of it through a committee of parents, not allowed schools to help students with mental health issues, etc. - Didn't get a third reading and none of the tenants of the bill made it into other bills, which was amazing!
Bills that DID pass:
* Participation in School Sports Bill - Prohibits a biological male (trans females) to participate in female sports (This will be challenged in court.)
* HEA1093 - No letter grade this year, authorizes DOE to study machine scoring, requires teachers to discuss student state test data at school parent conferences, new e-learning language (virtual student instructional days) which would only allow schools to have 3 virtual days that are asynchronous
* HEA 1130 - requires testimony at public board meetings (we have always done this)/ allows school boards to set time limits and take measures to ensure that meetings are safe
*HEA1031 - DOE must apply for assessment flexibility waiver with US Department of Ed that would allow us to only test in 3,5,8,11 grades moving forward, DOE must have research study in standards and how they can be streamlined and created the adjunct teacher permit (no education degree or bachelor degree),
*SEA 2 - Allows for schools to receive 100% funding for virtual students, requires DOE to collect and conduct a study on early graduates (could affect funding in the future)
*SEA 82 - FAFSA Bill - only requires schools to send information to families about the FAFSA/most of the burden ended up on the Commission for Higher Ed and not our counselors, so it is a win!
*SEA 290 - DOE Career Coaching Pilot program/ null of school letter grade for 2022-2023 school year
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