February 11, 2022
Happy Friday, I hope everyone has had a great week. It is starting to get to that time of year when requisitions will be due for next school year. I will be putting some information in your mailboxes today about the weblink process and due dates. If you know you will need some supplies locally, ie for labs from Walmart, please email me on a dollar total to set aside. Keep in mind my funding is limited, so I may not be able to approve everything.
We are also getting to the time for summer maintenance. Please look around your room to see if something needs to be repaired or replaced or if your room needs to be painted. We do have several projects that will be taking place this summer. We will be getting a new HVAC system, so all the classrooms in the hallway by the office will be getting new units and the units on the roof will be replaced. This will allow us to circulate fresh air instead of recycled air. The other big project will be the installation of cameras in the hallways. Parts of our building may have limited access during both of these projects.
I put this in last week, but thought it would be a good reminder. The bold text is new from last week.
I wanted to start getting some dates out there so you are able to plan for the rest of the school year. The Seniors last day of class will be on May 13. They will have semester test on May 16 and 17. Graduation practice will be on May 18. Kyle and I will be meeting with Seniors on Monday during advisory to go over this with them. For all the other grades, the semester tests will be on May 24 and 25.
We will be giving ISASP during the week of April 25. The writing test will be on April 27 and the block days will be on April 28 and 29. The 28th will be the odd periods and 29th will be evens. The reading, math, and science test will be given in the the English, math and sophomore science class. The writing test was changed to only one writing prompt, so the time recommendation changed from 120 minutes to 75 minutes. The Writing Assessment schedule has been updated, you can find it on my website. There are a few other changes you need to be aware of with the ISASP. The reading test is now an adaptive test. It will be in 3 stages, students may not skip questions, but may change answers before completing the stage. The math test had no changes. Changes to the science test include that it is adaptive; it in 2 stages and students may not skip questions, but may change a response before completing the stage.
In April we also need to administer the Conditions of Learning survey. This survey figures into our score in the Iowa Performance Profile. An interesting tidbit for you is that any 1 negative response by a student for an area, marks the entire area as negative. This link will take you to our performance profile and the conditions of learning part of it. You will see we are well below the state average in this category. https://www.iaschoolperformance.gov/ECP/StateDistrictSchool/SchoolDetails?DetailType=ConditionsForLearning&k=12569&y=2021 This is one area that we need to address and see why students are answering the way they are. This is a better breakdown of student responses: Conditions of Learning.
Have a great weekend!
Assistant Principal's Happenings
It has been a busy couple of days to end the week. Just a reminder, please be out in the halls, and if you can stop in the bathrooms on the occasion that would be great. We have a group of freshman girls that we are concerned about making poor choices so please make sure you are not letting them sign out unless they really are just planning to use the restroom. This group has mostly been going to have some hangout time and has been in the halls far too often during class.
Some positive news; our Covid numbers are down significantly compared to this past month with only a few students out this week with quarantine or positive cases. Remember to take care of yourselves as we are still not fully over this recent wave.
The post-season for Winter Sports is starting. Please encourage students to keep grades and behavior up so they do not risk losing their ability to participate. Also, remember to keep things updated on Schoology so students are prepared if they have to miss school due to any of these activities.
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