School safety may seem an odd way to begin this section on celebrating success. As you know this subject is making headlines all over the country and the topic of conversation in many arenas. Dave Tessmer's email on Friday was right on. It is hard not to think about how very fortunate we are at Coconino to have Ed Vesely. Not only is Ed keeping a close watch on safety and security during the school day he is every bit as conscientious about our safety every hour of the day. Just last week when we had a late night intruder in the training room following a basketball game there he was, Ed swiftly and gently aprehended the intruder and saw to it that he was taken away in a police car from Coconino. This guy was not a gentle soul. The very next morning when there was a report that there was a guy in fatigues across the street from Coconino, there Ed was again. He discovered quickly that, this time the the guy in fatigues was indeed a gentle soul and could be quietly accompanied to the front office to visit with some old friends (He was a former CHS student with a disability). The list goes on, but I just wanted to take a minute to echo the sentiments expressed in the e-mail to express our sincere gratitude to Ed Vesely for caring so deeply about Coconino High school and keeping a close eye on the safety of our students and all of us.
Woo hoo and congratulations to Christine Sapio, Dave Thompson and our CHS Robotics team. This Saturday they hosted the FIRST Tech Challenge Championship. The gym was filled and alive with 32 robotics teams representing four states. It was awe inspiring truly awesome!!!
Your PLC work last week was excellent. Thank you to all of you who submitted your plans for this semester. The focused attention to how you plan to use assessments to determine if your students are learning is pretty cool. I am anxious to see this work progress. As Tadd said in his message to you all, please keep us posted on your progress.
News From Administrative Council
- This year FUSD has implemented a Personal Leave Incentive Program. This program is designed to decrease the amount of money spent on substitute positions in the school district. This is accomplished by incentivizing employees (In positions that require a substitute) not take days off during regular work days. You can click here to view details of the program.
- This is the time of year that parents are making decisions about where their children will be attending school for the upcoming school year. Our school websites have more views at this time of year and the school website is often the first place people go to seek information about school. Many of you have updated your pages and have current information displayed, thank you. There are still a few who need to tidy up your page. Please take a few minutes and be sure your name and contact info is current and that the page does not say "under construction". Also check that if dates are included on your page, they are updated and that all links are working. See Jen Parker if you need help with your teacher webpage.
- The Teacher Performance Evaluation Committee will meet again before the end of this school year to review, examine and likely recalibrate the evaluation tool. Should you have thoughts, ideas or concerns, please let James Ingram know, as he is our CHS representative on this committee.
CHS Info
- If you have not met with Cris, Steve or me to set up your Teacher Profile for observation/evaluation, please schedule a time to do so. Once your profile is set up you can schedule your observation date and time. This year you have an option of one or two full class period (55 min) observations. Teachers who have been teaching less than three years must have two formal observations.
- AIMS Correction. In last week's blog I mistakingly listed AIMS Math for 2/27. Math AIMS does not happen until April 9. (AIMS Science is April 10). So AIMS in February is only Language Arts: AIMS Writing ~February 25 and AIMS Reading ~ February 26
- Ed Vesely is working on scheduling a CHS Staff and Faculty work session about Identity Theft. The session with either be Wed, January 30 or Wednesday February 6. As soon as the date is confirmed with the Flagstaff Police Detectives, Ed will let you know.
- Throughout the next few months there are a number of trainings and or workshops that CHS Admin will be attending. (Safety, Common Core, PLCs, PARCC, Grading and Assessments, STEM, S3, PBIS, just to name a few). If more than one of us will be gone at the same time George Moate will be here in our absence.
Dates to Remember
1/22 Boys Soccer @ home
1/23 Wrestling Match @ FHS
1/24 Girls Soccer @ home
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