October 15 - 20

Monday, 10/15 - Department Chairs Mtg Today

• Department Chair Mtg., 2:30 pm in P-309
• Bowling Preseason Mtg., 3:00 pm in G-101
  
• RHS Daffodil Princess Coronation, 7:00 pm in the Library
• VB v. Curtis HS., 6:00 pm in the Gym
• JV Football @ Curtis HS., 4:00 pm at Curtis HS
• Booster Club Mtg., 7:00 pm in the Library
  

Tuesday, 10/16 - Progress Reports, LINK Schedule with LINK at the end of the day

• Progress Reports in all class
  
• RHS Management Tm Mtg., 12:30 pm in the Guidance Center Conf. Rm.
• Key Club Mtg., 2:15 pm in the Library
• Step Team Practice, 2:30 pm in the Commons
• JV Soccer v. Beamer HS., 3:3o pm at Heritage Recc Center
• Var Soccer v. Beamer HS., 7:30 pm at Sparks
• Boys Water Polo v. ERHS, 6:00 pm at the RHS Pool
  

Wednesday, 10/17 - LIC Early Release - Department Directed

• Boys and Girls Golf Medalist Tournament, All Day at Gold Mountain
• Boys SPSL Tennis Tournament, All Day at Sprinker Courts
  
• Study Hall and Test Make Up, 1:15 pm in the Library
• VB @ ERHS., 6:00 pm at ERHS

Thursday, 10/18 - LINK Schedule

• SRC Mtg, 7:00 am in the Main Office Conf. Rm.
  
• Step Team Practice, 2:30 pm in the Commons
• Debate Team Practice, 2:30 pm in the Library
• Site Team Mtg., 3:30 pm in the Library
  
• Girls Soccer @ GKHS. 3:30 pm at Bethel
• Cross Country Sub Districts, 1:30 pm at Fort Steilacoom
  
• FB @ GKHS, 7:00 pm at GKHS
• Boys and Girls Golf Medalist Tournament, All Day at Gold Mountain
• Boys SPSL Tennis Tournament, All Day at Sprinker Courts
  

Friday, 10/19

• Girls Swimming - Non Qualifiers, 11:45 am at Curtis HS
• JV Girls Soccer @ GKHS, 3:30 pm at Bethel
• Ram Olympian Dance, 6:00 pm in the Commons
• Boys Tennis SPSL Tournament, All day as Sprinker
  

Saturday, 10/20

• PSAT, 7:30 am at RHS PAC
• Dance Practice, 2:00 pm in the Commons
  
• Boys Tennis Tournament, All day at Sprinker
• SPSL Cross Country Meet, All day at Spanaway Park
• SPSL Swimming and Diving Meeting, All day at RHS

Other News and Notes

Progress Reports - Progress reports for all studnets are scheduled to be completed and handed out on Tuesday, 10/16. This is a change from our parent newsletter and summer mailing. We felt we needed to adjust this date due to the number of changes that have been made over the first 4 and a half weeks of school. The process is the same as it has been in the past.

1. Progress Reports will be in teachers boxes (you should already have them)
2. First period teachers please distribute the blank progress reports to students
3. Students will fill out all appropriate areas on the progress report
4. Each period of the day, teacher are asked to complete their portion of the progress report
5. We have moved LINK to the end of the day so that LINK advisors can collect Progress Reports for all students. Send one copy home with the student to be signed and send one copy to the guidance center for processing.
6. Signed progress reports are to be returned to LINK advisors on Thursday

Some day we will be doing this electronically but until then it is our responsibility to inform parents about the progress (good or bad) of their children. Thanks for your help on this one. Electronic Student Learning Plans - We had a good sessions introducing the new electronic student learning plan last week. We need a few teachers interested in helping us better design our Learning Plan Program. There is much work to be done. If you are interested in getting involved in the technology side of student learning plans please let me know. Also, PLEASE, remember that when you open a student learning plan you become the primary author of that plan. All others will need to be added by YOU. As you are taking some time to review the whole electronic student learning plan process please remember to only open one of the two listed:

1. A student learning plan that has already been started. They can be review by anyone.
2. Student learning plans of your LINK students.

We asked at our trainings to open one of your LINK student's plans. If you opened others we may need to go back in and clear things so the real LINK advisor can author the plans. Please take some time to play around in the program and gain a better understanding of the work ahead.

Summer WASL Data Due - We are expecting our Summer WASL scores to come in this week or next. Juniors and Seniors who retook the state assessment in any subject area this summer should be receiving their scores back. For some that is great news. For others maybe not so great news is on the way. Please be sensitive to this whole issue and help students through it. We will get report updates out to you must as soon as we get them. Also, we will more than likely be rescheduling students out of some of our WASL preparatory classes if they met standard this past summer. I know it is late but it is the right thing to do. We will get information out just as soon as possible and then be discussing what to do next if we move students into classes this late. - It most certainly will be a discussion at the department chair meeting today.

Teacher Access Center - Here is the link Ericka talked about last week. This should give you access to documentation in TAC. Hopefully it helps a bit.

http://documentation.puyallup.k12.wa.us/index.php?group=1&PHPSESSID=aee4bf51098916184fc0a513156a558d

Here are the questions and subsequent answers we asked last week of Sandy and Ericka:

1. Is there an easier way to get from one class grading to another or between the same class grading/attendance?(Instead of going out of the grade book and back in)

There are no other shortcuts.
The vendor would need to fix the navigation for us, and we will address that with them.

2. Teachers are having issues with losing grades that have been entered into their grade book when putting them in over an extended time. Is there a time out function that is causing this?

Up to the week of 9/24 the timeout was set to 20 minutes. It’s been increased to 60 minutes. If you don’t save, run a report, open Help, etc. you may experience a timeout. The best solution is to click Save when you return to TAC if it’s been open awhile.

3. Why can't we see the letter grades of the percentages assigned to our students? (It only shows when we print not when we view them on the screen)

It’s part of the design of the system. We will be asking for more flexibility.

4. Why is the assignment title hidden unless printed from the gradebook? (or hovered over by the mouse)

The concern has come from other buildings, and we will ask the vendor to fix this in a later release. It’s part of how it was designed – perhaps to conserve space on the page.

5. Is there any way to get codes like abs, or mi for assignments instead of just a blank or a 0?

AB (Absent) an MI (Missing) are both available in the District default scale. If RHS makes modifications to the scale at the building level, or for an alternate scale, these would need to be included.

6. Is there a way to increase the point size (looks like 6 pt font) when viewing printed class grade reports?

We can’t manipulate the reports, but we’re exploring options with the vendor and hope for better reporting down the road.