Friday Facts September 8th

September

● 12 PK-2 INSPIRE Teacher Training 7:45-10:45

● 13 ReadingAcademy Training 8:00-3:30

@Upper Buda Cafeteria

● 14 3-5 INSPIRE Teacher Training 7:45-10:45

● 19 BILINGUAL/DLAfter-school meeting, 3:35-4:35

● 19 MULTILINGUALPARENT NIGHT, 6-7

● 21 Hays History Day Parent & Community Meeting, 5:30-6:30 @BMS

● Schoology PLC District

Codes

● 23-24 DistrictAssessment Calendar

● 23-24 Elementary Grading

Guidelines

● 23-24 Secondary Grading

Guidelines

● 23-24 District Calendar

● 23-24 C&I Meeting Dates

For the most up to date information view the Public Folders and Department Calendars

Click HERE for the HowTo Document for adding public folders with the department calendars to your personal Outlook Calendar.

Dr.

Chief and DeputyAcademic Officer Updates

Action Items

● TPESS BOY meetings will begin next week,please complete your portion of the agenda items for our meeting.

Informational Items

● TPESS training on the AP Rubric will be provided at our September 21 ILT meeting.

Instructional Focus Rounds

● Please be sure to schedule your Instructional Focus Rounds with your triads for September.

● It is expected that the DAO attend the IFRs for their area,so please extend a calendar invite to your DAO for IFRs on your campus.

● Use the IFR Protocol to identify and track your problem of practice.

Sept. 21 ILT Meeting and PreWork

We are excited to kick off our ILT Meeting this year!

Review the items below to prepare for the Sept. 21 Meeting:

● The ONE Thing - Read Chapter 1: The ONE Thing

○ We will discuss quotes and big ideas from the chapter @ILT

● Bring a copies/samples to share with your colleagues:

○ Leadership Team Meeting Agendas

○ Walk-through calendar

Marivel Sedillo, Mary Noble, Jesus Gomez, David Pierce & Michael Watson

Chief and DeputyAcademic Officer Updates

Informational Items

We hope that you have had a great start to the school year. We are in full swing with our campus PLCs and planning sessions. As you are monitoring and giving feedback in PLCs and planning sessions,we wanted to remind you of the PLC resources and training materials on the PLC Section of the Hays CISD Content Resource Site:

● Hays CISD PLC Handbook

● Monthly PLC Guide - By Content and Grade Level

● PLC Products,Tasks,and Timelines

● Sample Collaborative Team Meeting Agenda Template

Marivel Sedillo, Mary Noble, Jesus Gomez, David Pierce & Michael Watson

Chief and DeputyAcademic Officer Updates

Informational Items

The lesson planning guidelines are a great tool to use as teachers are creating their T-TESS goals for the upcoming year. These can also serve as tool to use in the instructional planning sessions to help teachers reflect on how they are planning for student mastery and engaging students in the learning process. These resources are highlighted in the Lesson Planning Section of the Hays CISD Content Resource Site

○ Hays CISD Lesson Planning Guidelines

○ Lesson Plan Examples

Marivel Sedillo, Mary Noble, Jesus Gomez, David Pierce & Michael Watson

Curriculum and Instruction

Action Items

It’s that time of year again!

Here are the BOYOpen Court Open Court Checklists:

Kindergarten Observation Checklist BOY

First Grade Observation Checklist BOY

Second Grade Observation Checklist BOY

● Each admin team and IC have access to Open Court through Class Link.

● We recommend that you look at the actual lesson in Open Court to follow along throughout the observation.

● This is also a great time to look correlate your mClass data with your Open Court instruction.

● At Lead and Learn we shared that the goal is to have these completed by the end of October.

The LiteracyTeam would love to join you on some of your instructional walks. Please reach out to invite us.

Here is the K-2 Spanish Foundational Skills Observation Checklist

Informational Items

● Exchange DayApprovals

○ As a reminder, all Exchange Day forms will go the campus principals for approval.

○ If you receive a request for approval in Formspace for a teacher who is no longer on your campus and has moved to another campus, you will need to deny the request. Share the directions below with the teacher or staff member so that they can correct their campus assignment.

Please instruct the teacher to do the following:

1. Update your profile deselecting campuses where you no longer work and check the one that you are currently at.

2. Delete – not recall – any form that was already submitted as it will be tied to the previous campuses.

3. Submit a brand new, clean form so that it follows the correct workflow and it routed to the correct principal for approval.

Derek McDaniel

Curriculum and Instruction

Action Items

Announcement from the Multilingual Department:

Thank you for ensuring that all of your grade level & core content PLCs have logged into ELLevation this year! Information on how to log in through ClassLink is found in the presentation linked below. We are conducting usage audits to ensure that teachers

1.) Know who their EB students are and their proficiency levels in each language domain, and 2.) Know and implement appropriate instructional and assessment accommodations.

Action Items for Secondary Campuses:

1. Please review these slides in PLC. Invite Laura O’Dea to attend if you need support.

2. Complete the following Sheltered InstructionTeachingTeams for those teams that are supporting our EB students this year. Remember, ELAR teachers who serve EB students must be ESLcertified!

Action Items for Elementary Campuses:

1. Please review these slides in PLC. Reach out to Patricia Melgar-Cook or Ben Estrada if you need support.

Informational Items

Our 2ndAnnual Hays History Day event will be January 20, 2023 at Hays High School.This event ties into theTexas History Day event and the National History Day event and is a fantastic opportunity for students to display their knowledge and interest in humanities from grades 4-12. It is also a great option for GTShowcase projects.

History Day Flyers have been sent to all campuses for Open House on Sept 12. We will hold a CampusAdvisor meeting on zoom on Sept 14th and a Community Information Meeting on September 21st at BMS from 5:30-6:30. Sign up for the zoom meeting here!

Derek McDaniel

C&I:TEA/Hays CISD ReadingAcademies

Informational Items

Our first ReadingAcademy session is this Wednesday, September 13th.

We sent an email to the participants and included any principals who have people attending.

23-24 ReadingAcademies:

● 10 days of in-person training with 4 coaching visits

● $300 stipend upon successful completion

● Denise Schweitzer, MandyTaylor, andTeri Stapp will be the Cohort Leaders based on your campus

23-24 ReadingAcademy Training Dates:

● 9/13, 9/27, 10/18, 11/15,

● Time: 8:00-3:30

● Location: Old Buda Elementary Cafeteria

● Teachers should sign up in Eduphoria

Secretaries can use this code to enter when creating the absences:

● 199-11-6112-RA-911-11-2-0

23-24 ReadingAcademy Commitment Letter

● Scan to Denise Schweitzer when completed

Do you still want access to the ReadingAcademy Content?

● Request forAlumni Course Link

Link to Look Up ReadingAcademy Certification

Denise Schweitzer, MandyTaylor,Teri Stapp

Academic Support

Universal Screening Letters

Upon completion of each screener, please send home letters provided by each program detailing/explaining the results

7th Gr. Dyslexia Screener Spreadsheet DUE

October 6th

BOY CIRCLE Progress Monitoring

A district team will be on campuses Sept. 11 - Oct 6 to administer CIRCLE to PreK

Sept 18 -22

B.U.B.S. Universal Behavior Screener for elementary students only Rubric

● During meetings with parents, please share this one pager with them (overview document from TEA)

● Please turn in/link your campus MTSS Plan

● Emergent Tree coaching sessions are Monday or Tuesday of next week. Please turn in/link your campus handbook

● It’s time to analyze your BOY data and make instructional decisions

AdvancedAcademics

Action Items

● Students in OnRamps classesThe deadline for payment (or arrangement to pay) for students in OnRamps classes is September 15, 2023. Information on how to pay is in this document which has been shared with OnRamps teachers and Academic Deans.

Informational Items

● Huge shout-out and thank you to middle school and high school SSD coordinators for entering accommodations information for October PSAT 8 and PSAT

Career andTechnical Education (CTE)

Action Items

All CTE Teachers need to be evaluated on T-TESS for TIAcalibration.

Informational Items

Important Dates:

September 15th - CTE classes must complete their pre-tests in Precision Exams by this date for TIAcalibration.

November 14th - Career on Wheels (COW) Day - 11/14/23* (8th grade career fair for all 6 middle schools)

April 11, 2024 - Career Ready Educated Workforce (CREW) Day (Senior hiring day)

Suzi Mitchell

Digital Learning

Action Items

Outlook CalendarTip: Change your settings to NOTdefault to TEAMS meetings

Short Video Instructions

Informational Items

When: Saturday, October 28 from 9-12

Where: Buda Elementary, 1060 Old SanAntonio Road

What:This is a PD “unconference” opportunity for staff to attend put on for teachers by teacher. Watch this short video for more explanation!

This is Exchange day credit eligible!

Fill out this form to share what you want to learn!

NEW SOFTWARE:

When you are considering purchasing new software, please consider the following:

1. What purpose will this software/program serve in your classrooms?

2. What alignment does the program have to theTEKS?

3. What data will you be able to get from the program to help drive instruction in your classroom?

Federal Programs and Grants

Action Items

● Title 1 Campuses - Please do not forgot to upload your FallTitle 1 materials into Crate. FALLTitle 1 meeting must be held 2X before OCTOBER 20th (this is an ESSA requirement)!! If you have a sub or uncertified teacher in a position at aT1 Campus for more than 4 weeks, you must send out to all parents a notification letter - Eng and Span.

● Title 1 Budgets are NOW FUND 2114 (2113 is GONE!!)

● SCE & Title 1 Requisitions - Acopy of the Eduphoria use of funds form must be uploaded with the purchase requisition. Any PCARD purchases on SCE require a purchase request form with Norris’signature PRIOR to the purchase being made.

● CIP/DIP - We are wrapping up final drafts of the CIPs and DIP. The DIPwill go to the Board first in October, and then the CIPs will follow in November. Please be sure that your SCE and Federal Funds are tied to strategies in your CIP.

● CLT - Send a copy of your CLTroster to Norris/DAO. Just a reminder that you should be uploading all CLTdocumentation (Sign in sheet/agenda/minutes ) to P4L

● Extra Duty Tutoring - Principals need to submit a use of funds form in Eduphoria prior to beginning afterschool tutoring. Remember that staff will need to complete and submit the Extra Duty EmploymentAgreement with their first Extra Duty Time sheet for the year. Atutoring log must also be submitted with any extra duty tutoring time sheets. (These forms are available under the Staff Resources section of the district website.)

Informational Items

● Pre-K Funds for Title 1 Campuses -There will be a change for howTI pre-k funds are distributed toTI Pre-K classrooms.These funds must be supplemental to the local funds dedicated toTitle 1 Pre-K classrooms and cannot supplant (or replace) local funds. See this slideshow for more info. We will follow up at the next ILT.

● Scholastic has a VERYLOW cost book program (FACE) to get books into the hands of children and their families. These books are priced super low so that campuses can give these books to children to practice literacy skills at home. You could even do a Free Book Fair!! If you are interested, see this flyer, the list of books in this program, or contact Norris.

FineArts

Action Items

Security Update for the PAC: All employees are required to wear their badges at the PAC. We are on the lookout for non-employees from the park are entering the PAC during the day.The side of the building is only for loading / unloading. Please park in the parking lot.

Informational Items

● The “TEA/UIL Side by Side” states that eligibility is required when an admission fee is charged or at a competitive event. Here is a flow chart for secondary programs to help you determine if eligibility is required and here is a flow chart for elementary programs. Please ask a fine arts administrator when in doubt or to double check.

● All campus, PAC and public performances / exhibits should be included on the FineArts calendar.Teachers are following these instructions to enter their dates, times and locations here.These events are posted on the FineArts website and social media.

● View the PAC calendar here. Please remember that Fine Arts events take priority at the PAC. If you would like more information, please email the PAC Coordinator,Adam Jones at adam.jones@hayscisd.net.

Gifted andTalented Services

Action Items

● Professional Development: Please make sure G/Tcluster teachers are aware of the State’s G/Tprofessional learning requirements. Fall online courses are now open and will close on November 30. Alist of available courses and the State’s guidelines are available at THIS LINK. If there are any questions, contact me at tish.cawley@hayscisd.net or x45035. This year, I am offering sessions via Zoom (link to session) where I will answer questions related to content, which courses need to be taken, and how to access courses. Sessions are come and go and will run from 4:00 to 5:00 pm on the following dates.

○ August 23

○ September 6

○ September 20

● Gifted and TalentedAdvisory Council (GTAC): We need parents to serve on our Gifted andTalentedAdvisory Council. Each elementary campus can have one parent rep and secondary campuses can have two. Campuses are not required to have a rep. The rep from last year can serve again or you can select someone else. If possible, choose a rep who is not a Hays CISD employee. I plan to send an email to parents of identified G/Tstudents in the next week or so and will ask them to reach out to the principal to express interest. Please add the name of the rep for your campus to the document found at THIS LINK by October 1. I would also like to add administrators to GTAC. Please let me know if you are interested. Meetings will be held on November 14 andApril 2 at 5:00pm.

Informational Items

● G/T Liaison Meeting Schedule: Acopy of the G/TLiaison meeting schedule can be viewed at THIS LINK.

● G/T Referral Information: The G/Treferral period will be open from October 1 - 31. Parents can attend an informational meeting to learn more about G/Tassessment procedures on September 13 at 7:00 pm at the PerformingArts Center. In addition, the counselor on your campus will share information regarding the referral period with your staff.

Human Resources

Action Items

● September 22, 2023- T-TESS Goal Setting and Professional development due to appraiser for existing and new teachers

Informational Items

● T-TESS Appraisal Calendar: Reminder September 5 - 29, no observations allowed

● Medical ID & RX info: Call Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) to obtain your Medical ID# at 866-355-5999. After obtaining the information, you may access the medical ID card digitally by visiting this site and creating a profile,

https://www.bcbstx.com/medicare/tools-resources/blue-access-for-members

● Supplemental Benefits: You may visit the Hays CISD employee benefit center to view more information on a specific benefit (click the hyperlink) to create profiles on their sites as well.

https://ffbenefits.ffga.com/hayscisd/2023-24-plan-year/

● TIA Steering Committee 23-24: If you are interested in participating in the TIA Steering Committee, please share your interest with your principal! We require 1 teacher from every campus to serve on the committee.

● Regarding COVID- Reports of COVID have triggered questions about what happens when an employee has COVID. As the district’s 5-day COVID leave expired this summer, employees now use their normal leave, as they would for any illness, when they must be home. Doctor’s notes are required when an employee must be out more than three days due to illness or the illness of a family member.

● Employee Referral Incentive -We are hiring! If you refer any employee and they are hired, you will receive a $100 stipend! If you refer a Bilingual Teacher and they are hired you receive a $250 stipend! The candidate must list you as a referral on the application. (some stipulations apply)

● Fall Recruiting Season - We will be at the Buda Career Fair on September 26th from 3 pm - 6 pm. please let your friends and family know that we are hiring! You can register here . We will also be present at the ACC Hays Campus Job Fair, September 27th, 11:00 pm - 1:00 pm

RESOURCES

World Suicide Prevention Day

ActivityTip Sheet: Suicide Prevention and Mental HealthActivities forYoung People

Mental Health Informational Items

NIMH » Facebook Live:Youth Suicide Prevention

We look forward to seeing you at the 2023 Emergency Preparedness Fair! New this year:TOPDAWG Chili Cook-offArea first responders competing for a cause. Proceeds benefit the Hays County Fire Chief's Association.

Back to School and Mental

Health: Supporting Our Children for a Successful Year Ahead

Hays County 6thAnnual

Saturday-Sept. 9th Emergency Preparedness Fair

"Celebrating Community Heroes"

When disaster strikes, be your own hero.

“Creating Hope ThroughAction”

Maritza Gonzalez & LindaRae Johnson

Management Information Systems (MIS)

Action Items

● 09/20/23- Campus deadline in TCPfor pay period 09/03/23 - 09/16/2023

● 10/04/23- Campus deadline in TCPfor pay period 09/17/23 - 09/30/2023

●

Information Items

TCPOrder of Usage Update:

As per the Employee Handbook: “Unless an employee requests a different order, available leave shall be used in the following order, as applicable.:

Now, if the employee does not request, then the order of usage in the above screenshot still applies for managers to determine which accrual type to utilize for the employee’s absence.

The MIS department will no longer “Deny” or “Cancel” a Leave Request for order of usage when it comes to the accrual types inside the red box. We will however continue to “Deny” or “Cancel” Leave Request if available CompTime is not utilized first or if the accrual types do not adhere to the forecasting limits.

JeannieAlvarado

Management Information Systems (MIS)

❖ Full Manager’s Guide

❖ Full User’s Guide

❖ ***NEW*** Canceling Leave Requests

❖ Approving andAddingTime Off Request Instructions

❖ CompTimeAccrual Balance Report Instructions

❖ Absence Report Instructions

If you would like for the MIS Department to come to your campus/department and provide training, please reach out to us so that we can get that scheduled.

Information Items

Staff Responsibility Workshops

When: Tuesday, November 7th and Wednesday, November 8th

More details to follow

NO MORE MIS- PEIMS RESPONSIBILITY PACKETS BEING SENT TO THE CAMPUS

If you have any questions or need assistance, please email MIS.Dept@hayscisd.net or call:

JeannieAlvarado ext. 40685

Sandra Gilpin ext. 46092

William Covarrubias ext. 45113

JeannieAlvarado

Multilingual Education and Migrant Programs

Action Items

ALLLPAC Chairs/LPAC Clerks:

This is a friendly reminder that all initial BOY LPACs for students that are new to country, state and district are due by next Tuesday Sept. 12. Take a look at your buckets in ELLevation and on your dashboard for students that need your attention. Students that enrolled from the first day of school, which was Aug. 15, have only 4 weeks to be identified and coded. This is a state mandate. The district and schools will lose funding and will be out of compliance if we do not meet the deadline. Thanks to all the schools that have been working really hard to get this completed. We are almost done with round one.

Elementary LPAC Chairs:

Please use this link to assist the campus admin. with documenting who on your campus will be trained on Pre-LAS & LAS Link assessments and other training certificates. Share this with Patricia Melgar-Cook and Ben Estrada by Friday, September 15th.

Elementary Bilingual CampusAdministrators: Fill out your October & January campus bilingual vertical team meeting dates on the following link.

HCISD Bilingual District & Campus Vertical Team Meetings, 2023-24

Informational Items

Reminders:

Our first Bilingual/DLmeeting is scheduled onTuesday, 9/19 from 3:35-4:35 at Camino Real Elementary.

Eduphoria Log-In

HCISD Bilingual/DLStipend PD Offerings: 23-24

Our first Multilingual Parent Night is scheduled forTuesday, 9/19 from 6-7pm in the Camino Real Elementary Cafeteria. Please share the flyer with your staff and post it to your social media outlets.Thank you!

From the desk of Ben Estrada, TELPAS/LPAC Coordinator: September Communication

From the desk of Logan Stroud, Hays CISD World Languages District Lead Teacher: World Languages September Newsletter

Language Learner Rock Star Information:

The Multilingual Department is looking for Language Learner Rock Star Teachers in Hays CISD! On a monthly basis, we want to recognize staff who are making a positive impact on our Language Learners, academically and social-emotionally.

Criteria for nominations: implementation of Bilingual/ESL/LOTE practices, including but not limited to, the 7 Steps to a Language Rich Classroom, Sheltered Instruction, Talk Read, Talk Write and/or meeting students' language domain needs.

Thank you for all that you do!

Know someone who is a Language Learner Rock Star? Nominate them today for the Language Learner Rock Star Award.

Language Learner Rock Star Award Nomination

Pre-K Program

Action Items

● Schedule

● District Team will administer 4 measures for TIA

● Pre-K Teachers will administer 2 observable measures

● Make sure that all Pre-K Teachers sign the TIAOATH

Pre-K Funds For Title I Campuses

(for Pre-K Title 1 Principals only)

There will be a change for how T1 Pre-K funds are distributed to T1 Pre-K classrooms. These funds must be supplemental to the local funds dedicated to Title 1 Pre-K classrooms and cannot supplant (or replace) local funds. See this slideshow for more info. We will follow up at the next ILT.

● Due in Eduphoria October 13th (How to)

● Video Guidance

Informational Items

● BOYCIRCLE Window - Sept. 11 - Oct. 6

● TEAMS Report Card - Oct. 5 - 10

● Letter Name/Sounds - Sept. 11 - Oct. 6 Due in Eduphoria Oct. 13

● District Pre-K PLC ~ Oct. 6th ~ 10-12 @ BES Library

SPED lead teacher

meeting dates

(Elem 3:30, Sec 4:30)

September 14

October 12

November 9

January 11

February 8

March 21

April 11

May 9

Meetings will be held virtually.

Action Items

Responsibilities Checklist:

Just a reminder, this document outlines the Special Education responsibilities of Special Education case managers, IMPACT Special Education Case managers, Special EducationTeam Lead,ARD Facilitators, Paraprofessionals, General Education teachers, and CampusAdministrators.

Informational Items

Is anARD committee on your campus considering a change of placement (to or from a more restrictive environment) for a student?

Please carefully review the Process for Change of Placement document and hyperlinked resources STEP ONE of the behavior or academic checklist for existing special education students is an opportunity for the staff to thoughtfully collaborate to ensure the student’s IEP correctly reflects PLAAFPS (present level of academic achievement and functional performance statements), IEP goals to address each area of disability, as well as supplementary aids and services, and accommodations, and take time implement newly discovered strategies that may avoid the need for a change of placement.

There were multiple opportunities for teachers to attend training on this process this summer between Hays CON and beginning of the year PD offerings, and so many attended! It was wonderful. Your kind feedback and questions are welcomed via email to Brenda Bondurant and Patricia Esteves. Please use CoP Question in the subject line.

IMPORTANT NOTICE RE: DYSLEXIASERVICES

Students receiving dyslexia services from a special education teacher, must be assigned to a SpEd teacher trained in the Reading by Design program.

StateAssessments andAccountability

Action Items

HAVEYOU SEEN?:TEAhas released the PDF copies of all Spring Extended Constructed Response items. Feel free to make a copy of your campus file (by CDN number) to distribute to your teachers.This information should allow for deep PLC discussions and goal setting with students!

NEW:The additional Eduphoria rights spreadsheet we asked principals to complete at Lead & Learn, WE’RE NOTGOINGTO DOTHAT.Abrand new feature in “New”Aware allows any teacher to Share Their Classes w/ Other Teachers.This is much faster and much more secure. Please share with your PLCs, Co-Teachers, etc. for how they can gain additional access to the student data they need! Principals, make sure to approve those StudentAccess Lists!

Informational Items

Have you check out OnDataSuite? If you haven’t, you will see a new Lead4ward/ODS Domain IIAreport in ODS under theAccountability tab. Super easy and useful!!

Kevin Malandruccolo

Student Information Systems (SIS)

Action Items

● 9/8/23 - Campus Principals complete Sign Off Form for 1st six-week TEA Membership Reconciliation.

Information Items

Fall PEIMS Submission Dates

● 9/29 - Close of School Start Window

● 10/27 - Fall PEIMS Snapshot Date

● 12/7 - Fall PEIMS Initial Submission Due Date

● 1/18 - Fall PEIMS Resubmission Due Date

● OnData will be updated weekly for admin to review Fall Snapshot Data

Monitoring Your Campus Coding for Fall PEIMS

● Timeline for Coding Fall PEIMS Data Elements (dates may change if data is not available on time for coding)

● Campus PEIMS Coding Status Googlesheet

SIS updates the status for each campus as deadlines pass or coding is completed. You can check this google sheet to confirm your PEIMS clerk is on track with your campus coding.

Student Information Systems (SIS)

Information Items

OnData Suite

https://105906.ondatasuite.com/index.php/gate/login

● Login process changed!

○ You will be prompted for your Microsoft email account = your computer login@hayscisdnet (ex:smithp@hayscisd.net)

○ Enter your computer password.

○ System will keep you logged in

● Email teams.email@hayscisd.net if you need assistance with access.

Monday Enrollment Reports

● Hays CISD - Monday Enrollment Reports Google Folder

● Each Monday, SIS adds the following reports:

○ Enrollments by campus and grade level

○ District and campus attendance percentages for the prior week of school and for the entire school year.

Grading Resources

● Elementary Grading Timeline

● Secondary Grading Timeline

● TEAMS Reports for Monitoring Grades

Attendance Resources

● TEAMS Attendance Reports for Administrators

Discipline Resources

● Discipline Coding Reference Chart

● Discipline Coding Guide

● TEAMS Discipline Guide

Teacher Resources

● TEAMS Guide for Teachers

Dana Braun

Student Services

CampusPBIS,SEL,andBehaviorManagement

PBIS,which stands for Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, is a framework that districts use to promote and celebrate good behavior in the classroom.

SEL, or social-emotional learning, is the process of helping students develop the skills and mindsets they need to succeed in school and life—for example, skills like emotion regulation and social awareness.

While PBIS and SELare great on their own, they’reevenbetterwhenimplemented together. Research shows a strong positive correlation between behavior and SEL—meaning that kids with higher SELskills tend to behave better in school.

● Teachersareexpectedtotakeattendancedailyattheappropriateattendancetimes.

● Teachersarealsoaccountabletoensuretheyarereachingouttofamiliesofstudentswhoareabsent.

● Teachersmustdocumenttheircommunicationstothefamiliestheyhavecommunicatedwith. Emailsarenot themosteffectivewaytoreachourfamilies. Ifwearefocusedonrelationships,thenencourageourteachers topickupthephone.

CriticalLeadershipMoves

● We have our very first 2023-2024ALLAssistant Principals Meeting coming up 9/19 and 9/20

○ Sign up in Eduphoria and please ensure that you attend one of the allotted leveled meetings.

○ ALL Assistant Principal attendance is expected

○ Location: CMS Library Classroom

○ Elementary Day: September 19, 2023/Secondary Day #1: September 19/Secondary Day #2: September 20

○ AM Session: 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. / PM Session: 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

○ Promptness is important. We will start on time…we need you to, also.

● WE NEED your help with getting your students to school. It takes all of us working together! Did you know that September is Attendance Awareness Month? Follow this link for important information that will help you share critical facts with your learning community.

● SecondarySchools:LeaversdueSeptember29,2023.

● RemembertoleverageourAISteam!

● Weneedtogetallofourstudentsinschool!

Dr. Brian Dawson

Student Health Services

Illness Prevention Reminders

After a few weeks back, illnesses have begun making their rounds as expected.As we approach the impending flu season, now is a good time to provide the following reminders to students and staff on keeping illnesses at bay:

● Handwashing, handwashing, handwashing is the most important illness prevention measure!!

● Staying home when sick

● Getting plenty of rest

● Eating balanced nutrition

● Drinking plenty of fluids

● Getting exercise

● See a doctor if you aren’t getting better

● Follow your doctor’s recommendations

Staff Flu Clinics

The staff flu clinic schedule is linked here. The location will be determined by your campus nurse and will be updated when available. If you are interested in the flu clinic at your campus, please sign up here: : https://forms.gle/DZqw5hoYMkUhRGQw7

Please follow the directions at the top of the sign up form. If you have any questions regarding insurance, please call Plum Creek Pharmacy at (512) 262-7881. Plum Creek Pharmacy will also be offering Covid Boosters during the clinics. Children of employees (age 7 and up) may participate with the parent/guardian present.

Student Health Services Monthly Newsletter

Covid

Unfortunately, Covid is still among us; we have seen an increase in infections since school started as we expected. DSHS and the CDC still recommends 5 days of isolation for individuals that test positive for Covid to prevent spread of infection. If a student’s positive test is disclosed to our campus nurses, we will provide a letter with the recommendations from DSHS and provide a possible return date.