Weekly Update

New this year I will try and do a weekly update on the happenings of Central.  We are also looking at creating a District Facebook page and have added all events onto our district calendar. 

8-22-14
Just finished our first full week.  Students and staff are adjusting well and we hope to begin fall assessments next week.  These assessments help us better ability group each student in our guided reading.
Fall sports have all been practicing with competition starting next week.  Today I received a letter from the Iowa High School Athletic Association congratulating Central coaches and student athletes for not having a single ejection in the 2013-2014 school year.  Central prides itself on character on and off school grounds and I thank our students athletes and coaches for representing us in this manner.
This week the Central School Improvement Advisory Committee met and voted to pursue the Teacher Leadership and Compensation grant.  The committee developed two job descriptions for the positions that would be created if Central receives the grant, Instructional Coach and Technology Coach.
Please keep Mrs. Kremer and Mrs. Wenger in your thoughts and prayers.  Mrs. Kremer's father passed away and Mrs. Wenger's mother is being put on Hospice.

Stay cool this weekend and more to come next week.

8-15-14
We have started!  New staff were trained last Friday, which include 6 new teachers.  I will post a separate Blog about them soon!  On Monday teachers had a work day and Central hosted the Elementary Back to School night and iPad Roll-out.  We also held our Drive for Kids fundraiser which raised $2440 for the district!  Thank you so much for all of you who drove!  Tuesday we held our first Professional Development of the year.  I welcomed our staff back, reflected on the many accomplishments from last year and shared my goals for the district in the 2014/15 school year.  After that the Clayton County ALICE Coalition led ALICE training for the entire staff.  ALICE is an emergency training that I will share more about in a separate Blog post, as well as how that training is effecting the district.  Wednesday-Friday we welcomed our Central students back!  It was a very good first week and happy to be back into a routine.  More to come next week, off to enjoy the great weather and weekend.