MORE NEWS After the Staff Newsletter August 12, 2016

There may be workers doing some painting this weekend. Metal doors and frames around windows may be wet with paint – Be aware of this! “Live with it for this school year” - This will be the motto this year. There will still be a lot of work that will still be done after school starts (installation of the office window, painting some trim, ordering furniture for the entrance, ordering whiteboards and shelving for some flex areas etc… Please try to “live” with the district standard furniture before requesting additional furniture. Classroom name plates – classroom numbers and classroom signage will be coming at a later date. In the meantime please make a sign with your name to post on your door. Again, Later we will have signage installed. You might want to work with your team to make signs that match… (Lots of cute stuff on pinterest) https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=teacher%20name%20door%20sign&rs=typed&0=teacher%7Ctyped&1=name%7Ctyped&2=door%7Ctyped&3=sign%7Ctyped Classroom shelving/casework – coming in the next few weeks New task chairs… We have new staff “task” chairs for teachers. Please take any personal desk chairs home. What if I want to use a different chair? The new black task chairs goes with your room and will need to stay in your room. Offices – if you are housed in an office space… the wrong bullet desks were order. The ‘bullet” or work space is way too big – they are 5 foot instead of 3 feet. The correct ones were order and will be here in next few weeks. We installed what we could for now so you have a space to work. The tower part is correct so we can On-line Curriculum resources – from Ellen Willets Sherri Fowler now supports the yearly uploads required for new staff and all students to access the on-line curriculum

resources such as (but not only) – Reading Street, Holt (Elem Math – ThinkCentral and MS Science), iStation, Discovery

Ed, and many others.

With the Learning Forward, Future Ready roll out of IPads for MS and HS field test devices, her time this summer has

been devoted to ensuring that process is ready for start of the school year. She hopes curriculum uploads completed

everything by Aug 19th.

What does this mean: Returning staff will have access to online resources. New staff will not. It also means that the 16-

17 student names that are uploaded (like ThinkCentral) to give teachers the ability to set up classes will not

work. Access to just the on-line resources by returning staff should be OK. Please be patient if it doesn’t work, as they

are will continue to work on this.

Punch List – Please know that our architect has done a preliminary walk-through and developed a punch list. This is a list of things that the contractor need to come and fix, finish, replace or clean. We will be doing another punch list walk-through upon construction completion. Things on a punch list might include a light switch that “sticks”, nics in the walls, places where the paint in uneven or chipped, snagged carpet, missing baseboard etc… You do not need to report directly to me if you notice a construction flaw – instead I will have a google doc that you can enter things that you notice in your room (or anywhere in the building). I will print this list for my final walk-through with our architect. Staff meetings and SSP Meeting – These meeting will remain on Tuesdays. Instructional Materials – from Ellen Willets The IRC (instructional resource center) team is working diligently to get all

Instructional Materials (new classrooms, consumables, textbooks, etc.) out to buildings. As soon as materials are boxed

and labeled they are set out for delivery. When they arrive, consumable workbooks can go directly to classrooms. Your

Media Specialists can let you know if the remaining materials need to be checked in through Destiny. At this time of the

year there are many boxes to deliver, so the delivery process is slow. Please share with your staff that materials are

coming (construction schools will be the last delivered