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From BrittneyAs many of you know, I'm SUPER competitive and right now I feel like it is half time and we are SUPER close to winning the game. There are a lot of things both in and out of our control, but I challenge you to focus on the things that are in your control this week. What can you do to make a difference and help our team win our 70% passing rate goal? And what can you do to help increase our Checkpoint participation this week? Also, if you are like me, then January wasn't your best month. Nor is it ever your best month???? Ugh - I hate January and am so happy to say goodbye to it this week. I feel like I've been in a rut and blame it on January. So, I am going to challenge myself and also challenge you again to find something non work related that makes you happy and go do it. Shut the computer when work time is done and go enjoy time doing what you love to do. Have a great week and let's get our best Checkpoint participation yet! Calendar
TasksThanks to all who used the checklist last week, helps us keep on track with tasks and also know who might need a little extra support!
K12 FYI'sSchool Email Enhancement
This week the IT team was able to resolve the issue of images not pasting directly into the body of a new email message when composed from the OLS. Now, teachers can paste by using Control + V in the body of the new email message to insert an image. As a recommendation, it is always best to attach screenshots, as it produces the highest resolution image. K12Training.com School Email module has been updated to reflect the new enhancement. Be on the lookout over the next few months for more requested Email enhancements! Online Middle and High School – Did you k12now? School Services Team: Teach360 Point of Contact: Allison Dracha Action: For your information Teachers: Friendly reminders as you approach 2nd Semester – There is a handy guide titled “How to Set Up Your Course in the Online High School Teacher Guide” that can be accessed in k12 Training. The guide is found in the “How to Set Up Your Course in the Online Middle and High School” teacher training course. Be sure to review it in the next coming days/weeks. Teachers: Release Final Grade-Change to the Default Setting School Services Team: Teach360 Point of Contact: Allison Dracha Action: For your information Teachers: on January 27, 2017 teachers will no longer need to release the “final calculated grade” for their students to be able to see their overall grade in the course. Note the Eye icon. If the final grade has been released for that student, an open eye will appear next to the grade. If no eye icon appears, it means the final grade has not been released for that student. Please note: This change is not retroactive so if your course was created before January 27th, then you will need to manually release the Final Grades for your students. Classroom Overview Report – Coming 1/27 School Services Team: Product Management Point of Contact: Rob Letcher ([email protected]) Action: Review and provide training resources to your staff On January 27th, 2017, K12 will release the Class Overview report for all courses in the Middle and High School online platform—not just Summit courses. The class overview report provides a snapshot of student's individual instructional information useful for determining appropriate instructional strategies, classroom trends, and data driven responses. Prior to the release, PdM will present during the HOS call, and Teacher Effectiveness will release the K12Training.com module.
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From Vickie...Tasks
From BrittneyI'm going to try and lay-out some priorities for you each week in your homeroom and courses. We haven't hit homerooms very hard because of the busy first semester, but I have a goal that we will be able to devote a little more time to our HR students this second semester. As a reminder, here is a link to your homeroom duties. Homeroom Priorities:
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Announcements from VickieHello Team, Hope that you enjoyed your three day break! The following is this week’s updates and focus: Upcoming Dates To Know Jan 30-Feb 2nd: Interim Feb 5th-10th: Rush Week Feb 17th: Outing Feb 20th: President's Day/No School Feb 23rd: February PD (K12 Promising Practices) March 2nd & 3rd: Face to Face PD Updates
Info from BrittneyThe schedule has gone out and attached was a question and answer document. Make sure you checked both of those out. (Click on the yellow to be linked to those documents if needed). Check out this video to help clarify. I am going to be having an assembly on Friday. If anyone has anything they want to present or any ideas, please send them my way. I'll take all the help I can get! New students were placed in homerooms last week. I sent an email to the teachers who received new HR students. If you didn't get an email (make sure you double check) then you will not have much to do. But if you did get an email, then you need to make sure you get your welcome calls completed. Please let me know if you need help with any difficult ones. I know I say it all the time, but thank you again for all your hard work. I've been looking at my facebook time hop the last couple of days and each day there is a "complaint" reminder on facebook about how hard I was working during that time. (Young me liked to complain on facebook - now old me just puts pictures of my kids on there). I know you are all doing the same and want you to know your extra hours and time away from family are recognized. I hope it slows down soon and we are able to get back to our balanced lives. But in the meantime, I hope you feel the appreciation! Calendar
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Welcome to Finals Week!Announcements from VickieHigh School Updates: Thank you to Natalie Roberts for sharing SAGE focus information in staff call on Friday Thank you to Mason Anderson for taking the lead with the Science Fair. Small Groups canceled this week Focus on the 70% and above passing rates Dates to Remember: Thursday February 23rd: Promising Practice PD, Cancel all classes and plan to attend the whole day as this will replace our Feb. PD. FYI: Title Audit happening this week Tuesday, January 10, 2017 January 20th: Science Fair Outings. Announcements from BrittneyWe are working on finalizing the teaching schedule and will get that to you as soon as we have it finalized. Thank you for your patience while waiting for it to come out. I know this is a big week, so if you need help with anything, please reach out to me! I'm more than willing to help out! In staff call we talked about the checklist for semester transition. Here is the link in case you didn't get it: docs.google.com/document/d/1hV3D2rgaEQW1bmBEyasJ0sKb90OKlblVVLaT1jOHn8Q/edit I'm going to work on some homeroom resources that you can send to any new students you may get. Also be prepared to make some welcome calls to the new students. Calendar
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