Week of December 10

Bus/Parking lot duty: Hook and Beck

Monday 12/10: Collaboration Day:  Agenda

Tuesday 12/11:  

Wednesday 12/12:  

Thursday 12/13:

Friday 12/14: 

Bus/Parking lot duty: Doering and Baker

Monday 12/17:  Non Work Day

Tuesday 12/18:  

Wednesday 12/19:  

Thursday 12/20:

Friday 12/21:  Celebration Assembly

Thank you!

As we begin this new trimester, I want to emphasize how much I appreciate the tremendous thought and effort you give to teaching our students. Everyone at Venture is a teacher.  Everyone here plays their part in helping our students on their journey to becoming successful adults. I know this work is rewarding and also that we dig deeply into our own personal reserves in order to meet the challenge.  As we've become better at building relationships with our students, they become more trusting of us and share both their triumphs and their pain.  As we go into the weekend, think about how you are finding balance in your own life.  Are you consciously setting aside worries over which you have no influence?  Or, are you letting them circulate in your brain?  Are you taking time for recreation?  Are you taking time to focus on the things that matter to you outside of work?  The greatest gift you can give your families and Venture students is to keep yourself happy and healthy.  Take care of yourself - you are worth it!

Shout out to Angie...thank you for the comforting beverages you brought in for staff. This was so thoughtful and so timely and you are so appreciated by all of us!

Grades and Absences

I am so appreciative of each of you for the support you've given to our attendance policy.  It will likely take a year or more to have enough data to measure its effectiveness.  You probably already know this, but students should not receive a passing grade if they have not made up absences for you core or required class.  

Val has put a tremendous amount of time, energy and thought into a system to track attendance make ups.  This is far too much work for an individual to manage.  For the coming trimester, I am asking teachers to track this for their own students.  On Monday, we can talk about ways that some people are currently doing this to get some ideas.

Collaboration Monday

7:00 Secondary Cross District collaboration

9:00 Staff Meeting in Library

10:30  ELA/S.S. Meeting in rm. 103

1:00 Math Meeting in rm. 129

2:30 MDT meeting