“We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.” ― Tim McGraw

September 29 to October 3

Mon 9/29  Benefits Depot 4:00 – 7:00

Tues 9/30 9:30 Lahar Drill (see below)

3:30 SRC Meeting          

Wed 10/01       8:15 Viking Support Center Meeting 5/6

                     6:30 PTA General Membership Meeting

Thurs 10/02    

Fri 10/03        

October 6 to October 10

Mon 10/6 

Tues 10/7 8:15 Staff Photo MPR

                     9:15 School Photos

3:30 SRC Meeting          

Wed 10/8        8:15 Viking Support Center Meeting K/1

Thurs 10/09    

Fri 10/10

Lahar Drill

At 9:25 students will get into their morning lines with their classroom signs.

We do have parent volunteers that will assist with your classes and the specialists in the building will help as well.

Be sure to give each student a vest to wear and inside your backpacks some of you may have a vest to wear also. It is yellow and orange with reflectors. If you have it please wear it so people can see us.

Walking Groups:

Portable 3‐They will carry a Lahar sign with their Rm sign

Rm 1, Rm 2, Rm 3, Rm 5, Rm 6, Rm 7, Rm 8, Rm 10‐They will carry a Lahar sign with their Rm sign

Rm 11, Rm 18, Rm 17, Rm 13, Rm 14, Rm 15, Rm 16‐They will carry a Lahar sign with their Rm sign

                      

Picture Day

Please make sure to sign up for class pictures.  Sign-up sheet is hanging on the Sub Board.

Attn Teachers:
Just before coming down for pictures please do the following in your classroom • Double Check Camera Cards For Spelling Make any corrections in red pen • Blank Cards Are Provided For New Students and/or Staff simply fill out the student's first and last name we will take care of the rest • Hand out camera cards to each student • Make sure the students have their envelope in hand before reporting to picturesust before coming down for pictures please do the following in your classroom sure the students have their envelope in hand before reporting to pictures

 Clock Hours

Please remember, all credits & clock hours must be earned on or before October 1st and all paperwork must be turned in to the Human Resources Department by November 1st to be counted for salary advancement for the 2014-15 school year.

College credits/continuing education credits - require an official transcript

In-service forms – require the employees’ original signature, no copies will be accepted

Admin & PEA: The College Credit/Clock Hour Approval Form can be downloaded from the district website. This form must be completed and turned in with all credits and clock hours.  Credits and clock hours must meet one of the state required criteria and must be offered by an accredited institution or an approved provider.

Please turn in the information early so there is plenty of time to accurately place you on the salary schedule.

If you have questions please contact:

Region III – Cathy Repp, reppgc@puyallup.k12.wa.us      

This information is also located on the HR website. 

Custodial needs

Do you have something that you would like to report to the custodian? There is a clipboard hanging on the wall in the staff lounge by the blackboard that you can make your request known.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Vince Lombardi

September 22 to September 26

Mon 9/22 

Tues 9/23 3:30 SRC Meeting          

Wed 9/24  8:15 Viking Support Center Meeting ¾

                     1:00 to 4:00 Benefits Depot ESC

                     3:30 CSIP Meeting

                     6:30 PHS HIV/Sexual Health Preview

Thurs 9/25       8:00 SOM Names/Reasons due

Fri 9/26          

 September 29 to October 3

Mon 9/29  Benefits Depot 4:00 – 7:00

Tues 9/30 3:30 SRC Meeting          

Wed 10/01       8:15 Viking Support Center Meeting 5/6

                     6:30 PTA General Membership Meeting

Thurs 10/02    

Fri 10/03        

GLAD Information

MAKE IT & TAKE IT EVENT!

We are fully stocked and ready for you!

What: Make and take GLAD strategies back to your classroom!

Where: GLAD Professional Development & Support Center

(located at Firgrove P33)

When: September 25th from 3:15-5:15

Who: All GLAD Enthusiasts

Your PSD trainers will be on hand!

Student of the Month

It’s that time again to submit your name/reason for your student of the month.  For our new teachers, we celebrate by sending home a letter from Ms. Stewart inviting parents to bring a special lunch on a specific date to celebrate their student’s accomplishment.  Typically, it’s the first Tuesday of the month and held in the gym.  Please provide a few names and the reasons they are being recognized to Barb by Thursday, 9/25, 8:00 AM so the letter can go home that same day.  Pictures are taken of the student soon after and displayed in the foyer. Certificates placed in your box to sign. On the day of the luncheon, guests eat in the gym with their student.  Students are presented a certificate and a pencil.  Teachers are encouraged to stop in for a few minutes. Leadership helps us with gathering students and signing in our guests.

K-6 Science Curriculum Implementation

Click on the above hyperlink to get more information…for those of you reading this, you’ll have to click on it when you are at your desk…this issue will be sent via email, too.

Do you want to learn how to navigate PerformancePLUS? 

Class Specifics:

·       PerformancePLUS 101 (Class #5803)

·       Date: Tuesday, September 30th

·       Time: 4-7pm

·       Location: GLAD Lab at Firgrove Elementary (P-33)

·       Class Description: We will be covering the basics of PerformancePLUS, including how to access individual student data and how to create/share reports.  It is a great training for any teacher, but the ones that might find it extremely valuable are CSIP/Leadership Team members, Title, SPED, ELL, or anybody tech or data savvy. 3 clock hours are available.  Sign up on the Professional Development Website.  Space is limited!

Skills update, training available!

Were you interested in learning more about any of the following software applications or how use of these applications can impact Core Skills (Cornell Notes, Organization Strategies, Familiarity with Questioning Strategies, Collaboration Skills) for your school or students in your classroom?

·         Interactive Projectors (Student engagement in lessons, Organization of lessons)

·         SMART Boards and SMART Notebook software (Student engagement in lessons, Organizations of lessons)

·         Microsoft OneNote (Organization of your lessons, notes, RTI meetings, information sharing)

·         Microsoft Lync (Electronic collaboration between teachers, administrators, central office directors, others)

·         Teacher Access Center (TAC Drop-in labs designed to meet your electronic gradebook needs for Standards-Based Grading)

·         Edline (Website training to improve communication to parents and students)

·         Ongoing eSchoolPLUS trainings and support

All trainings and opportunities will be listed on our calendar within the Technology Services Edline page.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. Eric Hoffer

September 15 to September 19

Mon 9/15  3:45 AVID

Tues 9/16 8:15 Safety Meeting

                     3:30 SRC Meeting rm. 12

                     KG DIBELS Begins

Wed 9/17  8:15 Viking Support Center Meeting 1/2

Benefits Depot (ESC 10:00 to 2:00)

KG DIBELS

Thurs 9/18       PTA Read-A-Thon Fundraiser begins

                     KG DIBELS

Fri 9/19

September 22 to September 26

Mon 9/22 

Tues 9/23 3:30 SRC Meeting          

Wed 9/24  8:15 Viking Support Center Meeting ¾

                     1:00 to 4:00 Benefits Depot ESC

                     3:30 CSIP Meeting

                     6:30 PHS HIV/Sexual Health Preview

Thurs 9/25      

Fri 9/26

2nd Annual Puyallup Festival of Books

Sammy Keyes Goodbye Party with author Wendelin Van Draanen, Saturday, October 4th , 7 pm, Liberty Theater, 116 W. Main, Puyallup

The Puyallup Public Library and Puyallup School District are excited to partner on the 2nd Annual Puyallup Festival of Books. On Saturday, October 4th, we will welcome author Wendelin Van Draanen as we celebrate the conclusion of her Sammy Keyes mystery series, with the publication of Sammy Keyes and the Kiss Goodbye, the 18th and final book in the series.

Every student who comes to the party will receive a pair of shoelaces with the titles of all of the Sammy Keyes books printed on them. We will have catering with food prominently mentioned in the Sammy Keyes books, including God-like Macaroni and Cheese with Salsa. The program will include an interview with Wendelin by Walter, the Giant Storyteller.

For more information contact the Puyallup Public Library or visit the Spinning Library Services page on the Spinning website.

Reminder about IXL!

·       We continue to have IXL available to all of our K-6 students this year.

·       If you are a new teacher that needs an account please email Cynthia Russell with your school name in the email. She will set up your account for you.

·       If you have changed schools please let Cynthia know which school you have moved to and she will update your teacher account, you DO NOT need to create a new account.

·       All new students to the district will need to be added into IXL by the teacher. ONLY students new to the district. Please make sure to use the students district ID numbers as the IXL ID number to ensure we do not have duplicates.

·       If a student has moved schools within the district and you need them changed to your school please send Cynthia their student ID#, name and the new school they are at.

More EDLINE Suggestions

Taken from How to Market Your School: A Guide to Marketing, Communication, and Public Relations for School Administrators

by Johanna Lockhart pages 141-142

E-mail messages face the same obstacles as other communication pieces. They have to compete for the time, attention, and interest of the receiver. Use these suggestions to make the school's e-mail messages reader friendly.

Include graphics (sparingly). A picture may be worth a thousand words, but not if it takes too long to display or overwhelms the message. Graphics can be invaluable in an e-mail. Most e-mail systems now have the ability to read messages in an HTML format. Make sure that the graphic is relevant to the message or the school. Also check the layout between graphics and text in the message by sending a version to yourself.

Keep your message short. While e-mail is becoming a larger part of people's daily business and personal lives, they still do not expect the body of the text to contain the same amount of information that might be sent via fax or mail. It is better to create a large document in another format and attach it. As an attachment it is more likely to be read than a multi-page e-mail.

Link to the school website. Encourage users to click on a link that will take them to the school website where you have the space and ability to present them with more information. This also allows the school to track the number of users that come to the website from a link in e-mails.

Test the message before broadcasting it. To confirm that the format of any e-mail the school is planning to send to a broad audience looks acceptable, and to ensure that the e-mail will not get trapped by spam filters, test it by sending it to members of the team.

Help to get the word out to parents…

Parents or guardians of elementary students in grades four through six and of junior high students in grades seven through nine are invited to preview the school district’s approved sexual health and HIV/AIDS curriculum.

The elementary preview for grades four through six will be held between 6:30 and 8 p.m. on Wednesday, September 24, 2014 in the Puyallup High Commons.

The junior high preview for grades seven through nine will be held between 6:30 and 8 p.m. on Wednesday, October 1, 2014 in the Puyallup High Commons, 105 Seventh St. S.W. in Puyallup.

Parents wishing to exclude their child from the state-required HIV/AIDS curriculum must preview this curriculum and sign an exclusion form.

Questions or concerns may be addressed by attending this parent information meeting, contacting the child’s teacher, or contacting Rick Wells, director of athletics, health, and fitness, at (253) 841-8785.

 

 

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

September 8 to September 12

Mon 9/8          Welcome KG students!!!

                     3:30 Staff Meeting

Tues 9/9         8:00 PBIS Meeting

Wed 9/10  8:15 Viking Support Meeting Reading Room

9:30 Emergency Drill Day

10:00 HIB Day (see note below)

                     Early Dismissal 12:01 No lunch FAIR DAY

Thurs 9/11       3:45 PTA Board Meeting

Fri 9/12           10:30 PHS Orchestra assembly

September 15 to September 19

Mon 9/15  3:45 AVID

Tues 9/16 8:15 Safety Meeting

                     3:30 SRC Meeting rm. 12

Wed 9/17  8:15 Viking Support Center Meeting 1/2

Benefits Depot (ESC 10:00 to 2:00)

Thurs 9/18       PTA Read-A-Thon Fundraiser begins

Fri 9/19

HIB Assembly

This assembly is to review the Harassment, Bullying and Intimidation information with students grades K-2.  Upon completion, an announcement will be made so we can begin the remaining grades.

DIBELS

Happening all week (9/8 – 9/12) for grades 1 – 6 and then the following week (9/16 – 9/18) for KG.  You should have already received your schedule as specific dates and times were emailed to you. 

Wellness

The following fall Wellness Is Now (WIN) class offerings are available to Puyallup School District employees and families:

WIN Step and Sculpt

Location: Fruitland Elementary

Class meets: Mondays and Wednesdays 4:00pm-5:00pm (step and toning with hand weights)

Details: This class will incorporate cardio and circuit training with weights

Cost: $4 drop-in, or $3 per class punch card

Class begins: 9/15/14
Instructor: Michele Roan

Zumba Fitness

Location: Karshner Elementary gym

Class meets: Mondays and Wednesdays, 4:30pm-5:30pm

Cost: $4 per class or $30 for 10 classes. First class is free!

Class begins: 9/15/14

Instructor: Laura Castano/ Carson

WIN Yoga

Location: Maplewood Elementary Gym and Sunrise Elementary Gym (see details below)

Class Meets: Mondays, 5:15pm-6:15pm (Maplewood Gym), and Wednesdays, 4:15pm-5:15pm (Sunrise Gym)

Details: "HATHA YOGA" is a complete full body work-out, including strength, flexibility, range of motion, balance, and deep relaxation, with stress reduction techniques. No experience necessary. All ages and abilities welcome. Bring a yoga mat and water.

Class Begins: 9/8/14 (Maplewood), and 9/17/14 (Sunrise)

Cost: Drop-in Fee (cash only): Adult $7, Student $5. Discounted full session fee (12 classes): $60.

Instructor: JoEtte Rossi-Luich (253) 537-7604

Coming Soon... POUND

Location: Meeker

Class Meets: Mondays

Contact Stacy Jeffers at Rogers for more information

Share the news!!! Another way to get into the Washington State Fair for FREE:

Puyallup School District students will be able to enter the fair at the red gate on Friday nights after the football game. To meet the criteria, students must show an ASB card or student ID card or wear their school’s “spirit gear.”

See the announcement which will be read at the Friday night football games. Please announce this opportunity to all students at each of the 32 schools.

Changes to Edline

Two changes occurred to Edline class pages.

First, as a response to feedback, the default visibility of class pages will be changed from “Only visible to members of the Class” to “Only visible to members of the School”. This will allow teachers and school staff to view other class pages to better collaborate as a team. If you had opted to change your class page visibility, you will have to do so again after the change is completed.

Also, students were added to teacher class pages. This means that students and parents who have activated their accounts will be able to see teacher class pages unless visibility settings are changed.