11.15.24 Staff Blog

 It seems as if the dark and rainy times have found us, but have no fear!  Lots of fun social activities and community building opportunities are coming up.  I hope we will get to be together to celebrate each other at one of these events.  Thank you for  making our school a wonderful place to be.

Quick Look: 

 

Tuesday November 19	Skate Night at Lynnwood Bowl and Skate
Tuesday November 19	Wolf Weekly Live (Live in the Cafeteria)- Veterans Day Edition DISMISSAL: 9:20- 8th Grade Followed by the rest of Journey 4th and 5th Grade-After Journey has passed your classrooms 2nd and 3rd Grade- After 4th and 5th has passed your classroom K/1- After 2nd and 3rd Grade has passed your classroom
Wednesday November 20	Early Release- Individual
Thursday November 21	Equity Team Meeting- 8:05
Thursday November 21	Administrator Walk Through:  In order to continue to grow in my practice, I have invited two building principals and one district administrator to walk through our building on November 21st with a focus on Domain 2 (Building Culture and Community) as part of my evaluation.  Please know their feedback will come to me in the form of ways in which I can be more accountable as a building leader and provide more clarity and support for staff. If you need to opt out of having extra adults in your room on the morning of November 21, please email me.  Thank you.
Thursday November 21	Community Meeting
Friday November 22	Electives: 1:30-2:00- Families arrive and set up (K-5-out for early recess at 1:45 to allow for set up, Journey-proceed with class or help with set up) 2:00-2:45- Session 1 2:45-3:30-Session 2 3:30- Students return to classrooms for dismissal
Friday November 22	Movie Night (TSA Fundraiser)
Saturday November 23	Game night at Kelly’s house! Shorewood Play
Wednesday November 27	Half Day- 11:55 Dismissal
Thursday November 28-Friday November 29	No School
Saturday November 30	Safe Schools Due The mandatory annual SafeSchools training sessions completion deadline is November 30, 2023. You can log-in here to access the training.  You can also find this link on the Human Resources-Links page of the District website. Please log-in using your firstname.lastname (Ex: mary.smith), as it appears in Employee Access.
LOOKING AHEAD	Staff Get Together- December 13th

*for more information, see below

MENTAL HEALTH GRANT: HELPFUL

Below is the link for the mental health Grant application for the Shoreline schools. Toni Noll is the Co-Chair for the Shoreline Mental Health Board, and has passed this information along to us. Please find the link to the application below.  Applications are due on November 17th, 2024.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12xc8halDhbcV_JuywN9qpY3fomU5bwo_2Vu-GyqT29c/viewform?edit_requested=true

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TECHNOLOGY TEACHING AND LEARNING UPDATES: HELPFUL

Technology Learning & Leading Cohort (TLC) - AI is Back! (All)

Exciting News: we are seeking K-12 teachers who want to explore how we can use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance instruction and capture time through planning efficiencies. Over two all-day sessions (subs provided), we will focus on student-centered and hands-on learning. There will be time to reflect, plan, and share new learning with colleagues. Specifically, we will be looking at Skill Struck, a district-subscribed AI tool (see tip below), and Google Gemini, an AI chat tool that has become part of the Google Workspace suite.

Applications are due by 4:00 PM Wednesday, November 20th.

Application

SEL EBooks (All)

Teachers, back in 2021 the librarians received a grant for SEL ebooks for you to use with your students during remote learning. Last week’s Equitable Literacy and SEL focused Wednesday learning reminded us to share how to access those resources for you to use with your students.

1. Login to ClassLink and select “Shoreline Ebooks”

2. Login and then remember to save username and password for future easier access

Username: EBookread

Password: Read

3. Select “Open Now.” Connect to the presentation station and project book to students. Remember to close the book and the Chrome tab when done so others can use the book.

List of SEL Ebooks 

Printable Directions

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K-5 TEACHERS, SECONDARY MATH AND HEALTH TEACHERS: HELPFUL

The TOSA team has stepped up to help support curriculum and digital subscriptions as follows:

Superkids and Wonders (Literacy): Rachel Trudelle Spotlight on Music: Rachel Trudelle Bridges (Math): Jen Etter Great Body Shop (Health): Jen Etter- UPDATE: Materials have been received for this year, and old materials can be recycled.

Twig (K-5 Sci.): Jen Etter Digital, Betty Fortes Kits Illustrative Math: Nathan Lee CPM (Math): Nathan Lee

These TOSAs can be contacted for help with accessing digital curriculum content. Kim Darcy can be contacted for print materials orders

NEW!! FIELD TRIP FORMS IN PARENTSQUARE: HELPFUL

It’s here! Electronic field trip forms in ParentSquare. Office Staff, here are directions for you to create the templates and share with teachers. Included in the directions show how teachers add the field trip form to a post.

STAFF  HOLIDAY GET TOGETHER: HELPFUL

We get to gather in Edmonds again for our holiday get together!  A big shout out to Ginny (one of our regular guest teachers) and Kelly for helping us secure the space again.  I will send an address closer to the date of our gathering- Dec. 13 starting at 4:00. Save the date!