Saturday, November 11, 2017

The Middle Update 11/10/17

The Veteran's Day Ceremony today was a great cap to another successful week here at school.  The week started with solid progress in all departments with our work on Monday all the way through successful grade reporting and overall a smooth transition into 2nd quarter.  Thanks for all of your work with our students to make this transition week run smoothly.

Article of the Week
Rather than an article this week, I thought I'd share a short video that highlights how one middle school in Nevada (much bigger than us) is working to ensure each student is connected to school.  Like us, they realize the importance of student connectedness to both school culture and achievement.  Their efforts are much like our adopt-a-student initiative.  By watching, you can get a couple more ideas of great ways to connect, not only with your student, but with all of them.

Literacy Committee Report
The Literacy Committee met after school on Tuesday to continue planning efforts to get our students to read more.  Some highlights include planning an upcoming round of book talks featuring high school students and planning for a Literacy Bulletin Board.  Thanks to Mrs. Rogness, Ms. Laufenberg, and Mrs. Maurer for their commitment!  The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, 11/29 at 2:50 in Mrs. Rogness' room.  All are welcome to attend and contribute.

Puma Pride Committee Meeting on Monday
The Puma Pride Committee will meet on Monday at 2:50 in the 1-8 Conference Room.  We will be analyzing the Puma Pride data from the 1st quarter and planning for how we will utilize the information from this data to target areas of student need.  All are welcome to attend and contribute.

 Drill This Week
At this time we are planning a fire drill that would lead to an evacuation for our November safety drill.  If there were to be an actual fire, we would need to locate all of our students into the high school.  Our plan for this is for the Elementary students to report to the Kerr Gym and the Middle School students to the Auxiliary Gym.  I will send an email with details about time and place early in the week.

 Facilities Advisory Committee Update
Thanks for the thoughtful discussion on Monday about the state of our facilities.  This is a reminder that the next committee meeting is this coming Wednesday (11/15) starting at 6:30 in the 1-8 building.  I will be leading a tour of our building from the Middle School perspective while Mr. Hausser will be sharing the Elementary perspective.  Everyone is welcome to attend.

PSD on Social Media
 
Sub Calling this Week
A note from Mr. Laib.
Lois Abel (608-770-0285) will call subs on the following December dates:

12/5       evening
12/6       morning and evening
12/7       morning

 Duty Next Week
Morning - Hazard
Bus - Pittner

Images of the Week

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The Middle Update 11/10/17

The Veteran's Day Ceremony today was a great cap to another successful week here at school.  The week started with solid progress in all departments with our work on Monday all the way through successful grade reporting and overall a smooth transition into 2nd quarter.  Thanks for all of your work with our students to make this transition week run smoothly.

Article of the Week
Rather than an article this week, I thought I'd share a short video that highlights how one middle school in Nevada (much bigger than us) is working to ensure each student is connected to school.  Like us, they realize the importance of student connectedness to both school culture and achievement.  Their efforts are much like our adopt-a-student initiative.  By watching, you can get a couple more ideas of great ways to connect, not only with your student, but with all of them.

Literacy Committee Report
The Literacy Committee met after school on Tuesday to continue planning efforts to get our students to read more.  Some highlights include planning an upcoming round of book talks featuring high school students and planning for a Literacy Bulletin Board.  Thanks to Mrs. Rogness, Ms. Laufenberg, and Mrs. Maurer for their commitment!  The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, 11/29 at 2:50 in Mrs. Rogness' room.  All are welcome to attend and contribute.

Puma Pride Committee Meeting on Monday
The Puma Pride Committee will meet on Monday at 2:50 in the 1-8 Conference Room.  We will be analyzing the Puma Pride data from the 1st quarter and planning for how we will utilize the information from this data to target areas of student need.  All are welcome to attend and contribute.

 Drill This Week
At this time we are planning a fire drill that would lead to an evacuation for our November safety drill.  If there were to be an actual fire, we would need to locate all of our students into the high school.  Our plan for this is for the Elementary students to report to the Kerr Gym and the Middle School students to the Auxiliary Gym.  I will send an email with details about time and place early in the week.

 Facilities Advisory Committee Update
Thanks for the thoughtful discussion on Monday about the state of our facilities.  This is a reminder that the next committee meeting is this coming Wednesday (11/15) starting at 6:30 in the 1-8 building.  I will be leading a tour of our building from the Middle School perspective while Mr. Hausser will be sharing the Elementary perspective.  Everyone is welcome to attend.

PSD on Social Media
 
Sub Calling this Week
A note from Mr. Laib.
Lois Abel (608-770-0285) will call subs on the following December dates:

12/5       evening
12/6       morning and evening
12/7       morning

 Duty Next Week
Morning - Hazard
Bus - Pittner

Images of the Week