Hope everyone had a nice holiday break. Many thanks to all for your kind words and gifts; staff very much appreciate your recognition of their efforts.

Lots to share in this new year. First, we would like to welcome back Ms Brisbin to the 4/5 classroom after her leave of absence; please help her feel welcome as she re-integrates into our community. Second, we are trying to streamline our information so lines of communication are more clear and email clutter is reduced. An overview:

  • We will be rolling out a new website in later January; when this happens we will send out navigation tips. We plan to have the website as our primary information location. Emails will generally link to the information on the website.

  • Access to classroom crew email lists are now restricted to only those families who are members of that classroom crew

  • Please refrain, unless absolutely necessary, from “reply all” to emails; send only to teacher or selected individuals when you can

  • Information which needs to get to the whole school (this includes PTC information) needs to come to me (dmanahan@truckeecharterschool.org) first and I will consolidate it all into the Director’s Notes.

  • Director’s Notes will go out on Tuesdays, so any information needs to be to me by Monday noon

  • Tuesday was chosen since K-3 have folders which go home on that day; we will make sure any hard copy information is in those folders, so please be checking

** There will be occasions when all school information needs to be communicated at times other than Tuesdays. Please know we will try to keep this to a minimum. Classroom crews may have a few more of these, especially around planning fieldwork.

** This process may take a couple of weeks to become efficient, so please bear with us.

Other information to share:

  • Mon, Jan 9 from 5:30-8:30 pm is our next Board Meeting. The first 1-2 hrs will be a workshop on school configuration; in other words, how do we want our classrooms/mixed-grades to look, including our middle school, and how do we want to expand over the next two years. All are welcome to attend; we encourage community participation in this process

  • Wed, Jan 11 is a Minimum Day

  • Mon, Jan 16 is a holiday; NO SCHOOL

  • Thurs, Jan 26 from 6-7:30 pm we will be holding a workshop on Expeditionary Learning (EL); the workshop will provide more insights/information on EL in general and more specifically on the implementation of EL in our program

** Reminder: every Friday from 9:15-9:45 am is Community Meeting, with Coffee House staring at 8:45 am.

Lets all hope for some snow soon.

David