Staff Bulletin for the Week of December 8

Wednesday Meeting

This Wednesday we will have our staff chat from 1:40-2:00pm.  This month's snacks will be provided by the CATE department and the library media center.  We will also be honoring two of our staff members.  Following the staff chat, we'll meet in the cafeteria at 2:00pm for a guest speaker from the American Diabetes Association who will be providing us some education about diabetes in teens.  Please be prompt for this presentation.

BE Events:  Support Our Students

 

 Reminders and Due Dates

The focus of our Admin/Guidance meeting  is attendance.  If you have attendance concerns regarding any of your students, please email their counselor prior to Wednesday.

The progress period will end on December 8th.  All grades must be up to date and complete by December 11th.  Progress reports will be printed on that date.  Please remember that eligibility for ALL after school extracurricular activities is impacted by progress and end of term grades, so please be sure that what you have entered is accurate.

If you would like to have any articles in the winter newsletter, please be sure to email your submissions by December 19th.

Since weather can be unpredictable, it would be wise to have a few copies of the delayed opening and early dismissal schedules handy.  Here is the link:  http://www.bristol.k12.ct.us/uploaded/Bristol_eastern/Student_Handbook.pdf  Schedules begin on page 14.

Student of the month nominations are due on December 19th.  Please go here to enter your submission. 

Our midyear conferences are going to begin after December 17th.  To be prepared for your midyear conference, you'll want to review your SLO, PPO, and gather and organize data that you have that indicates your progress toward achieving both of those objectives.  Teachers in cycle 2 and 3 will not have an SLO.  This month there will be some work to do related to the goals within Bloomboard as well as a midyear review of instructional data teams that the district has decided must occur on December 17.

The Office of Teaching and Learning has committed to making common assessments available for teachers to review and copy by December 17th.