Principal’s Notes April 10:

In leadership this past week we discussed the following topics:

Summer Academies: Decisions on summer academies are in process and will soon be made public. We re-examined the direction for the academies resulting in consideration of curriculum enhancement and professional training opportunities. Information about academies will be forth coming from the SAU shortly.

Incident Command: The District leadership will be participating in an emergency management training session on June 24th. This will be an opportunity to familiarize all administrators will the incident command model and to revisit our building emergency plan.

Teacher Contracts: Contracts will be heading our way on Friday, April 11 and are to be returned by Friday, April 25th. We will be hand delivering contracts to you on Friday.

Science NECAP: Science NECAP testing will happen on May 14th. We will be testing during a regular school day and will not have the benefit of a half-day as with the fall testing. This has presented some challenges in terms of the administration of the test and our commitment to remain consistent with our belief about testing in a learning environment with familiar teachers is best. Different than the pilot last year, this years’ test must be administered at the same time for all students. Not wanting to disrupt the entire building and to keep kids in school to test, we have scheduled the NECAP to be administered in the big gym on the 14th of May. Teacher schedules and test administration information will be forth coming.

Staff Meeting: April 17th, is our next scheduled staff meeting and as such we are trying to determine how best to use this time. I realize that it seems like a while since we met as a staff due largely to the required competency work. I also realize that it is important for us to routinely get together for numerous reasons (sometimes just because it’s nice to see everyone). I have asked the directors to review the competency work made by department to gain a sense of progress made and time needed. We will reconvene on Tuesday morning to determine how to utilize our staff meeting time on Thursday.

Interviews: Directors will be developing interview schedules for vacancies. As has been our practice, your participation on interview teams is highly valued. A schedule of positions and dates will be forth coming.

Faculty Play: This years’ play promises to be entertaining. The play is being presented next week on April 16th and 17th and your support of these promising actors would be greatly appreciated!

Below you will find a calendar of the upcoming events here at SHS!
www.salemschooldistrictnh.com/schools/shs/shs_staffcalendar.htm