The Hive: January 22, 2021

Honey-Do List- January

January 11-MAP Assessment Window Opens

January 22- Read the Hive. Tell your friends to read the Hive.

January 22 (Noon)- Complete shout out trackers

January 27- Book 1:1 Data Meeting

January 28- Provide Jodi a copy of your most recent schedule

January 29- MAP Assessment window closes

Please use this link to schedule a 1:1 meeting with me to discuss student progress and data in your classroom.
Please book your appointment by Wednesday, January 27th.
I want to get a better picture of what is working, what is not, and what interventions we have tried
We will be using the student data that is in Panorama and Lexia to frame our conversations.
These meetings will take approximately 45 minutes.

The district has asked that school leaders be prepared to provide information for a teaching time audit.
This is in response to the new teaching time regulations that were put in place by the State.
In order to do this effectively, please provide me with a copy of your most recent teaching schedule by Thursday, January 28th.
In addition to meeting the State regulations, the district would like to see that every student, every day has an opportunity to interact live with a teacher.
As always I trust and believe that you will continue to do what is in the best interests of your students and families.

Where we are at Lee Academy:

Our air purifiers are here Bill is placing them in classrooms and common spaces
Here is the Lee Academy cleaning log so you know what to expect in regards to cleaning when you return to the building
Here are our staffing plans for 2/1 and 3/1.
Please review it and let me know of any changes by Tuesday, January 26th
The leadership team and I are working on contingency plans for when people are out. We welcome ANY ideas that you may have.
4 Day-HIPP learners will not come 4 days until 3/1

Information from the District:

If a student is scheduled to be hybrid and has not come to in-person learning for two weeks we must contact them to be sure that their absence is not related to a COVID quarantine.
If we determine that the absence is not COVOD related we can inform the family that we are returning them to a remote model and offer the seat to the next student.

I wanted to give everyone a summary of the final budget update that I will be providing to our Governing Board on Wednesday:

We are adding 1.5 positions a .5 social worker and 1.0 Family Liason
We are receiving $41,000 in partnership funding. This is something that we have never received before. We will use this to fund our partnerships with Treehouse Yoga, Eliot School, Swabby Tae Kwan Do, and Urbanity Dance
We are moving from actual to average salary. In a typical year, this would mean that we would have some additional funding to spend on things we need. Unfortunately, this is not a typical year.
The change-in salary structure is allowing us to not have to make $20,000 in budget cuts.
There is a long story behind why and how this works and if you are curious please join our governing board meeting Wednesday at 6:00 immediately following PD (Sorry Lindsay, Rose, Brian, Meredith)
This is good news just not as good as I had thought/hoped

There are two tabs on the tracker one for students of the week and one for the content area of the week
We are asking classroom teachers to shout out two students each week by filling in the appropriate place on the tracker with the student's name and a sentence about how they earned the shout out. Please complete this by 12:00 noon on Fridays
We are shouting out the writer of the week for the week 1/18/21.