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Elementary Principal’s Report

9/17/07Pender Public Schools

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New Practices

• Office in Elementary 2 days per week

• Walk through at least by-weekly

• Supervise before school

• Supervise recess

• Supervise lunch

• Will start evaluations in October

• Monthly Character Assemblies

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Opportunities

3rd – 6th Grades Farm Safety DayPender, Walthill, Wakefield

• Rusty Bartlett puts on a Quality Program

• Local Farmers and Merchants Participate

• FFA students and Alumni Participate

Teachers and Students view this event as a highlight every year!

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Opportunities

5th Grade – Missouri River Outdoor Expo

Ponca State Park»Beginning Archery»Outdoor Survival»Radio Telemetry»Fish of the Missouri River»Camp Life

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AimsWeb Benchmarking

• Tuesday Morning, September 18th • Every Student K-8• Math, Spelling & Reading• More people probing• More people grading• Even more organized than before• Should take less time• Teachers should have reports sooner

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Superintendent’s Report

9/17/07Pender Public Schools

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2007-08 Advisory Council

• I was elected to ESU #1’s A.C.

• Will participate with a superintendent from each county in ESU #1 area

• Provide Guidance & Advice to Bob Uhing– Budget Planning– Staff Development Direction– Superintendent Meeting Subjects– Hear in depth reports from ESU

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2008-09 Poverty Plan

• Attendance & Transportation• Student Mobility• Parental Involvement• Class Size Reduction• Interruption Free Teaching Time• Access to Early Childhood• Access to Social Workers• Summer School, After School Programs• Professional Development & Mentoring• An Evaluation Plan

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2008-09 Poverty Plan

Parental Involvement 3,548Preschool 25,632Clerical Salary (attendance) 1,857Utilities 19,455Professional Development 3,381Pupil Transportation 26,978Class Size Reduction 29,592Total x .85 $93,878.62

This year $34,854

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Sheriff’s Request

• Narcotics Detection K-9 ($5000)

• Seeking donations ($1000 Walmart)

• School K-9 demonstrations

• School Sniffs lockers, rooms & cars

• Increased use in and around Pender

• Will explore casual for a cause fund.

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McRel Research Request

• NASB has suggested you attend a McRel session at NASB November Conference

• NCSA/NDE wants every principal in Nebraska to take Balanced Leadership

• ESU # 1’s October training has been transferred to South Sioux City (4th & 5th)

• SSC trainer has requested I assist her with the presentation

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Surplus Sale Results

Kitchen Items $394.50

General Items $178.00

Total $572.50

Items Remaining: 24 Monitors, 10 CPU’s, 23 Printers, 2 Scanners, 3 Chairs,

2 Typewriters, 7 boxes of miscellaneous computer stuff, 6 boxes of dictionaries and encyclopedias, 3 boxes of miscellaneous kitchen stuff, 1 fountain.

Riemers (West Point) & Ficke (Lincoln) were disinterested in remaining items.

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CIA Director’s Report

9/17/07Pender Public Schools

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Creating The

Profile

SettingThe

Goals

PlanningTo

Improve

ImplementingThePlan

Update on Continuous School Improvement

Dr. Pat Roschewski

SIP Chair

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Parent Surveys

• At Board Suggestion…

• We included the parent survey in the handbook and forms distribution

• We have received well over 150 responses

• Lisa Johnson is entering all the data

• New report should come in October

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Teacher Surveys

• At my summer conference…

• “Best Practices” self evaluation

• Teachers completed it during pre-service

• Lisa has entered the data

• I should have a report for you in October

• This helps in planning Staff Development

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Standards Subsets

• Last Spring… subset revisions

• During Pre-service… standards notebooks

• Lisa has been working and is nearly completed updating the notebooks and the data entry spreadsheets

• Lisa and Jason went to a Data Analysis retreat on Thursday at ESU # 1

• Lisa is a tremendous asset to our team

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Curriculum Committees

• Faculty Meeting 9-6-07

• Explained the expectations of CC’s

• Explained the Flexible Funding Plan

• Committees have begun to meet

• Doug Christiansen has expressed interest

• He desires to attend an early out

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Pender’s Math Peer Review

November 1, 2007

07-08 assessment reporting to NDE will include:

ReadingWritingMathScience