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August 29, 2025

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   Friday Focus Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great first full week of school. I know I am a little more tired than I have been in a while. Fortunately we have a 3 day weekend. I want to thank everyone for hitting our policies hard with the students. If we continue to do this, the rest of the year will be much easier. I am taking cell phones and earbuds from students when I see them with them in the hallway during class time. My guess is the students didn't believe we would do this.  I think the start of the year has gone very smoothly, this in large part due to all of you. Again, thank you for all you do for our students.  With the start of September, we do have 2 building in-service days this month. CIA will send agendas out to the staff the week we have those inservices.  Those of you that teach concurrent classes, please remember to have the students sign the waiver from WIT so we can talk with parents. I'll put together a spreadsheet and share it with...

August 22, 2025

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  Friday Focus Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week !  First off, thank you for all your work and attention during our professional development on Wednesday. This is something I appreciate about all of you on how you all want to improve your craft and your willingness to try new strategies. I would like to thank CIA for organizing our journey learning about the Science of Learning. Thank you to MTSS for the work on the EWS and getting the advisory activities organized and to the staff. I also want to thank Mr. Moss for his work on developing the ethics training and the discipline refresher. I just wanted to give a few reminders and items I may have forgotten to talk about on Tuesday. Monday we will run the first day of school schedule. Students will report to advisory at the start of the day. If you do not give them their laptop at open house, please plug them in so they are charged. Thursday is school picture day. Students in grades 9-11 will have their pictures tak...