Dear Staff,
We hope you had a fun weekend in this glorious spring weather! For those of you who enjoyed the Casino, we hope you also went home with some extra money in your pocket! :) Thanks again to Kelly Snyder for organizing this event and to Randy Boyce who arranged for the food to be free!
Thanks to those staff members who completed the short google doc survey on transition. We appreciate your input.
We started out last week with a visit from educators from Hong Kong, facilitated by Battelle for Kids. It is always wonderful to have visitors from some of the top school systems in the world who want to view our best practices at Jerome, and as usual, they were very impressed by all of you!
It is interesting to talk to them about utilizing the same research that we are, including PLC work with teachers working in collaborative teams on collaborative assessments as well as the Marzano research on the impact of teacher effectiveness. We are globally in this work together.
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| Hong Kong visitors enjoyed their visit to Jerome and learning from you. |
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| Maddie Knostman proudly stands by her IB Art Project mural in our journalism room. Beautiful! |
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| Our DBA students and teacher Brad Richardson impressed local business leaders with presenting information regarding their work in DBA, a unique educational program. |
Our Model UN students are at OSU this weekend with Karen Kendall-Sperry, assisting new Mom Katie Longwell.
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| Model UN students compete this weekend at OSU. |
Monday-- Brief Staffing meeting at 7:30 AM in the CPA. This will be no longer than 5 minutes. Please be on time or you will miss it. :)
Also adjusted bell schedule for 30-minute election assembly. All students attend but seniors as they do not vote. Please do not bring your seniors to the assembly. Seniors with early release will be released as we release for the assembly via the PA. Kay provided you the bell schedule again on Friday.
Our State Champion cheerleading team will be recognized by the School Board Monday at 7 PM.
Tuesday-- Election of officers in homeroom. No adjusted schedule. COE practice second period. Much thanks to Ashley Finneran and Heather Kearnes for all of their hard work on COE.
Also Celebration of Excellence at 7 PM Tuesday. Much thanks to all of you who took the time to recognize our deserving students! What a special night for them and their families!
Wednesday-- Working Wednesday. This is the last Working Wednesday until May due to PARCC testing starting next week and continuing into the next week.
For those of you involved in student test preparation, please use Working Wednesday time this week to finalize your PLC work focusing on student learning, whether it be PARCC, IB or AP.
Thursday-- Please remember that this is the district's Family Night. Homework should not be given. Thanks for your support.
Friday-- This is our last PAC meeting of the year and the students will be traveling to Iacano's for a luncheon 5th period.
Looking ahead--
April 21 and 22: PARCC testing. Adjusted bell schedules. English I
April 21: also AP Administration for all AP testers. Lisa Bauer will be sending specifics.
April 21: Latino Awards 6 PM at Scioto.
April 22: Dusty and I at Grizzell PTO.
April 23: Take your Child to Work Day. Your school-age children are welcome to come. One of our favorite days!
April 24: International Day during all 3 lunches!
April 28: Parent Breakfast with Dusty.
April 28, 29. PARCC testing. Adjusted bell schedules. Alg I and Geometry.
April 28: Black Students Recognition Program at Coffman.
April 30: Senior Talks periods 2,3 and 4 by alphabet. Seniors will not be in class. A-G period 2, H-N period 3, O-Z period 4.
May 4: End-of-course testing in US Gov PM.
May 5: PARCC testing. Adjusted bell schedules. Physical Science. End of Course assessment in US History PM.
May 5: Baccalaureate.
May 4-- start of AP and IB Testing.
May 12: Senior Awards Night. 7 PM
Seniors last day at School-- May 20. Last official day-- May 21. Do not expect seniors to be in class May 20 or May 21. Senior exams start May 22.
May 30: Graduation at 4 PM. We would like for 100% of our staff to attend graduation in tribute to our students and their families. We understand it is a sacrifice of your family time but please come. It would also mean a lot to me personally to see each of you there.
Have an awesome week! "We can never grow weary of doing good as we will reap a harvest if we do not give up."
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