Back to School 2010

Do Your Job

Please welcome...Barbara Edings

Chetopa At-RiskMike Ferraro

Chetopa ScienceChristopher Gilreath

Chetopa KindergartenSean Price

Chetopa Social Studies

Please welcome...Charity Qualls

Chetopa HS MathCheri Avery

St. Paul K-12 MusicSara Meiwes

St. Paul JH math

Our VisionOur Vision• To provide a welcoming, attractive, To provide a welcoming, attractive,

safe environmentsafe environment• To provide opportunities to staff and To provide opportunities to staff and

studentsstudents• To be good stewards with our district To be good stewards with our district

funds and resourcesfunds and resources• To plan carefully yet aggressively for To plan carefully yet aggressively for

the futurethe future

But most importantly…But most importantly…

Doing what’s Doing what’s best for our best for our

childrenchildren

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

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Our ChallengesOur Challenges

FinancesFinances

AYPAYP

Graduation rateGraduation rate

FinancesFinances

EnrollmentEnrollment

ARRA fundingARRA funding

New governorNew governor

AYPAYP

Some classes made SOESome classes made SOE

Chetopa HS mathChetopa HS math

District failed to make AYP District failed to make AYP

SpEd sub-groupSpEd sub-group

Graduation rateGraduation rate

TeachersTeachers

Bell – to – Bell InstructionBell – to – Bell Instruction

Engaged learningEngaged learning

Incorporation of technologyIncorporation of technology

On your feet and in their faceOn your feet and in their face

Support StaffSupport Staff

Cooperative assistanceCooperative assistance

Engaging studentsEngaging students

Supporting board policySupporting board policy

Getting there from here…Getting there from here…

Listen, plan, and actListen, plan, and act

Continually evaluate programs and Continually evaluate programs and situationssituations

Strive constantly for improvement Strive constantly for improvement and avoid complacencyand avoid complacency

Don’t waste a single minuteDon’t waste a single minute

Do your jobDo your job

What can we do?

Be positive Cooperate with one another Help each other Support your colleagues, students, parents,

and staff Support your school’s programs and activities Approach school improvement with a “can

do” attitude

and, more importantly,

We are all in this together and that’s the only way we will

accomplish our goal.

But, Most importantly,

do your job... and, do it

right.

““Whether Whether you think you you think you

can or can or think you can’t, think you can’t, you’re right.”you’re right.”

Henry FordHenry Ford

Improving the academic climate…

Respect your co-workers Cooperate with your fellow teachers and staff Make the necessary accommodations for

students Use correct grammar Be a positive role model Use every minute of every class period Don’t waste a single opportunity to teach

Resources KSDE Formative Assessments District-provided software BAIP Great Expectations Curriculum Coordinator Director of Library Coordinators of Title Services After-School Study Time

““When you When you think you think you

have have exhausted all exhausted all possibilities, possibilities,

remember remember this…you this…you haven’t.”haven’t.”

Board PolicyBoard Policy

Cell phone use for staffCell phone use for staff Tobacco-free campusTobacco-free campus HandbooksHandbooks

Good luck and do a good Good luck and do a good job...job...

Concentrate on doing what’s rightConcentrate on doing what’s rightUse your available resourcesUse your available resourcesCooperate with each otherCooperate with each otherAccept the responsibility Accept the responsibility Don’t waste a single minuteDon’t waste a single minute

““Do your job, Do your job, my pretty!! my pretty!!