The Unit #1 Administrator Preview
Monday, May 8, 2023
Important Dates:
● We do have an Administrator Meeting this week - Meeting Calendar Link (Updated).
● Coffee Break Wednesday
● MJHS Graduation: Thursday, May 11, 2023
● MCHS Graduation: Friday, May 12, 2023
This Week:
Leadership - Finishing Strong Management - Compliance Activities
Student Days: 22 Acc. Days: 175
16 ½ School Days To Go
Congratulations! You have now made it through the first week of May, Prom, College Signing Day, and many of your Spring Programs. We now have 16 ½ days of school left in the SY23 school year
As we begin to wrap up the school year, please make sure that you are attending to the management or compliance tasks that we have to complete every year. I have left the checklists linked under the management section. I realize that many of these are more driven out of compliance than improvement, but we still have to get them done. From my perspective, principals not finishing their staff evaluations on time is the same as teachers not posting their grades when you ask them to. Please don’t be one of those teachers.
The staff evaluation checklist has been updated by Kristin to reflect what she has received thus far. Please go ahead and bring up copies of any evaluations that you have completed when we meet this week. You don’t need to wait until you have all of them finished. Kristin can start filing them and checking them off the list as you bring them up.
Thus far, only three of you have reviewed the online registration documents. We plan to go live with these on Monday, May 15, 2023. If you haven’t reviewed them by the middle of this week (Wednesday, May 10th), don’t bother because we won’t have time to make any changes. I think we have a good handle on these materials, but I still would like you to review them. This will help you gain a better understanding of what we are asking our parents to complete, which will help you answer questions that you receive.
I shared the chronic absenteeism data with the Regional Superintendent last week during my meeting. I wanted her to know what you have accomplished here and that we appreciate how much Jeff Bink does for us with truancy I really feel like he has helped us impact these students this year. If you get a chance, let Bink know that you appreciate his help. I also shared this data
with the Board. You have made a huge impact in this area this year Thank you again for all your work on this.
I am still working on two additions for the SY24 school year. The first is buses for MES within the city limits. The second is an additional full day Pre-K classroom at Franklin. I think we can secure the funding for the latter through one of two grant opportunities. Thus, I have already posted positions online. I will be meeting with Candace later this month to discuss the transition of the former Pre-K classroom. We will then have to meet with our Pre-K team to review the screening information to identify students that meet the criteria. After we have staff, we will announce the additional space and set up the final screening for August for those that missed it or didn’t bother with it this semester.
Management
As I already mentioned, we have several tasks to complete before the end of the school year I have linked them all together below to make it easier to access. Please let me know if you have any questions or issues with any of these tasks. Some of these are things that I asked for your input on and not necessarily compliance tasks. Please take a moment to look through this list in its entirety so you don’t miss anything. I placed the items that I need sooner at the top of the list. Those tasks that do not have to be completed as soon are below these.
Tasks/Links:
● Coffee Break Topics
● Online registration document review
● State Testing Plus/Delta
● May IASA Meeting Notes
● Internal Job Postings
● External Job Postings
● Persuasion (for those that haven’t read it)
● 2023 Staff Evaluation Document Checklist
● Student Discipline Data Report Checklist
● Overall Principal Checklist
Other Documents:
● Important Dates Document
● Administrative website
● Learning walk data
● Lead learner
“I realized that the secret to success is finishing! And not just finishing, but finishing strong!”
~ Eric ThomasEnrollment Dashboard