SHS Weekend Update for Staff

Monday, August 18

5:00 -6:30 pm - Open House & LeeStudio photo booth

Tuesday, August 19

7:30 am - Doors open for the 2025-26 School Year, HS Students & Staff to gym

7:58 am - 2025-26 School Year STARTS, Assembly in Gym

Wednesday, August 20
7:00 pm - FFA Monthly Activity

Thursday, August 21

Friday, August 22
Jess Out of the Office, personal day
2:45 pm - FFA Meeting @Ag Room
6:00 pm - HS Football Jamboree @Brunswick (Bus leaves @TBA / Admin: TBA)

• 5:00 - 6:30 pm
• Report time is 4:45 prior to the event. We're using that time to help our staff members who have Slater Students have some unrushed time to go around with your student(s). If you need additional time, please leave a note on your door with a way for parents and students to let you know they stopped by.
• Print your Rosters. Let students/parents initial next to their name. Save time.
• We already have contact information in TeacherEase. You don't have to capture phone numbers, emails, etc.
• Personalize and Print an info sheet to put outside your door. Use school information as your contact information. Email it to me if you want it in color and laminated. Here are some free formats:

Canva - Sign up for free teacher account

Poster My Wall - Sign up for free teacher account

Google search

At Open House, many of your HS Students and Parents will ask you for a course Syllabus.

If you don't have then, that's ok.

This does not have to resemble a collegiate level document, but you will need a document for the first days of your class. That document should include:

• Course Name
• Your school contact information and Plan Time
• Universal Classroom Rules
  - No phones, no smartwatch use, no air pods
  - No hoods or hats in the Building
  - No food in the classroom after breakfast
• Any additional rules for your class/room
• Your goals for the class
  - Can be SUPER simple: Personal Finance students will learn basic personal accounting practices to prepare them for success after Graduation.
• Your expectations for the class
  - Example: Students will be on time, Students will be respectful to others, etc.
• Supplies needed for the class
• Late work policy
  - If you don't have a specific one in mind, sit tight - you can send it out later.
• Anything else you feel is pertinent.
• Many teachers require the students and their adult(s) to sign and return part of the syllabus.

This doesn't have to be available at Open House, but it should be available for students by the second day of school. Make sure you give me a copy as well.

AGENDA LINK

• 7:25 - ALL HS STAFF TO GYM, wear ‘It’s a Great Day to be a Wildcat’ shirts, black or khaki shorts or pants
  
  7:25 - 7:54 am -

  • Who will be DJ/play music: Aric Falls?

  • Greetings, Schedule Distribution (at tables), inform students to sit in last year’s bleacher ‘spots’:

  • 9th Grade: Sample/Brayman/Bowling

  • 10th Grade: Reed/Roberts/S. Meyer

  • 11th Grade: K. Wilson/Shaw

  • 12th Grade: Bayne/Key

  • Breezeway Greetings: Jess

  • Hallway Herding: Lauren

  
  

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  8:00 am -

  • Welcome - Jess

  
  

  8:05 am

  • Move to new bleacher seats - Jess

  
  

  8:10 am

  • Staff Introductions

  • Name, What you teach, something you’re excited about for this year

  
  

  8:20 am

  • Handbook Highlights - Jess

  
  

  9:05 am

  • Chromebook, Charger, & Headphone Distribution/Discussion of Class Officer Elections

  • 2029: Sample’s Room

  • Supervision: Bowling, Brayman, Sample

  • 2028: Roberts’s Room

  • Supervision: Roberts, Reed

  • 2027: Shaw/Concession Stand

  • Supervision: Z. Crews, Shaw

  • 2026: Bayne’s Room

  • Supervision: Bayne, Key
    
    

  9:48 am

  • Students go to 3rd hour

  
  

  3rd - 7th hours:
  - Cover your Syllabus, course expectations

  • Last 20 minutes of Class: Read Scripts provided below

  
  

  Scripts to be read during the LAST 20 MINUTES OF CLASSES ON 8/19/25:
  3rd hour: Accessing your Chromebook & Email

  4th hour: Accessing TeacherEase (Rita)

  5th hour: Attendance

  6th hour: Personal Communication/Electronic Devices

  7th hour: Universal HS Rules

Review your Syllabus

• Goals of the Class
• Expectations
• Late Work Policy
• Attendance/Make Up work guidelines
• Are drinks allowed in your room?

Schedule Changes

• Handbook says first three days, but we will allow through the end of the day Friday due to iReady, First Day disruption
• Follow what's in TeacherEase
• Lauren will update as changes are made. Kids should follow their TeacherEase schedule as it appears
• Call email/Mindy if you see errors in TeacherEase
• Don't send a student to Lauren for a schedule change. She will call for them if she needs them. They can drop off requests between classes.

Google Calendars

*Email from Jessica 8/11/25

Here are some links to the District's calendars - you should be able to click on the link and add the calendar(s) to your Google (@slaterschools) viewable calendars:

Slater Public Schools: LINK

Activities/Organizations: LINK

Athletics: LINK

As we head into another school year, it’s important to remember that teachers and professionals working with children are mandated by law to report suspected child abuse and/or neglect to the Missouri Department of Social Services Children’s Division.

Any suspected child abuse or neglect must be reported directly to the Children’s Division. If you suspect child abuse or neglect, you are encouraged to err on the side of caution and make a report. If you’re not sure if you should make a report– do! Children’s Division team members review each report and are trained to determine the most appropriate way to respond.

Making a Report

If the child you are concerned about is in immediate danger of sexual abuse, severe physical abuse or neglect, is suicidal, or is living in an active meth lab, please call 911 and then report the incident to the Online System for Child Abuse & Neglect Reporting (OSCR) or by calling the Child Abuse & Neglect Hotline at 1-800-392-3738.

To access OSCR please visit https://apps.dss.mo.gov/OnlineCanReporting/default.aspx - this will take you directly to the online reporting system. Bookmark this webpage for easy access when needing to make a report.

It’s important to note that online reports are constantly reviewed. Making a report online:

• Keeps the Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline open for additional calls
• Helps you avoid wait time on the hotline
• Offers a convenient, flexible option to report
• Allows you to report no matter where you are
• Fulfills your legal requirement to make a report
• Allows you to save up to 5 reports for 72 hours

NOTE: When making a report online, please be sure to provide as much information as possible.

Creating Your Account

To learn how to report online or how to create your account, visit DSS' Mandated Reporters webpage. Creating an account today means you will always be ready to make report when needed.

If you have already created an account, but your credentials have changed, please go into your account profile and make any necessary changes. Our team members are unable to update your profile information.

If you require assistance with your online account, contact our Help Desk at the numbers below.

• For password assistance - 800-392-8727, Option 1
• For application assistance - 800-392-8725, Option 3

Thank you for your commitment to keeping children safe.

Our Mission: Empower Missourians to live safe, healthy, and productive lives

Those that are eligible for Career Ladder will be able to earn student contact hours by supervising detentions. Detentions will be held on Tuesdays from 3:10-4:10 pm and Thursdays from 3:10-6:10 pm both as needed.

If you are interested in earning hours, please reach out to your building principal. Sign-up has begun for first semester.

Supervising teachers will maintain a sign in sheet containing:

• Date

• Student Name

• Time in

• Time out

• The Supervising teacher will keep a copy of the sign in sheet for their Career Ladder records and share a copy of the sign in sheet with Building Principals.

• At the time of the detention, students are informed to bring a book to read and/or an assignment to work on.

• Students are not to have access to their phones in detention.

Please make sure that when you use your P Card to make purchases for school that you turn in you itemized receipt(s) in timely manner. Each staff member has their own folder in Dianna Davis's office to put your receipts in.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to Dianna (ddavis@slaterschools.net).

Email from Mindy, 8/18/25:

Good morning-

We have 2 students on the do not publish list this year:

Hunter Southerland- New incoming Freshman

Aiden Weiher- Junior

• Emergency Plans

• Familiarize yourself with plan(s)

• T Drive: Handbooks / 2020-21 / Updated Emergency Crisis Plan

• Needs to be updated

• Intruder training Friday morning

• Weather/Fire Events

• Know your evacuation gathering place

• Tornado Zones

• Fire Zones

• Red Card/Green Card

• Make sure you have an evacuation route/map, Red card/Green Card in your room.

• Post by your door

• After Friday, Add in a copy of your rosters

• IF YOU DON’T HAVE THESE, Let me know.

Other Codes:

Teachers Hold = Don’t let students leave the classroom, even in the bell rings.
- This means there isn’t a threat, but we have a reason for keeping kids where they are:
> Medical event

> Clean up needed
> Drug dog

Don’t let kids out of the classroom during a hold. If it’s an emergency, call Jess/Mindy

Inventories

• We’ll do check-ins in September.

• Inventory books before you check them out to students - even if books aren’t leaving classroom.

• No furniture on Inventory sheet.

• Keep track of textbooks - if one disappears and you can’t tie it to a student to be invoiced, you may be responsible for its replacement.
  
  

• We will distribute Chromebooks to students w/signed agreements on the first day.

• CTS will bring to classrooms for Distribution. Names will already be on machines & chargers.

• Stay tuned for classrooms/grade assignments.
  
  

Chromebook Protocol:

• Students with a signed agreement & HS Tech Contract will be able to take their Chromebooks home.

• If Chromebook Agreement is violated, privilege to take home and/or retain the machine after graduation (if in good standing), may be revoked.

• Name must be on Chromebook at all times (on a card, use packing tape to adhere to cover)

• Student may not use a machine that has not been issued to him/her

• Technology abuse referrals (using the machine when student should be doing another task, accessing or attempting to access restricted sites, abuse of @slaterschools.net email) may result in revoked privileges or machine.

• We’ll set up charging stations/carts around the HS building.

• Kids should leave chargers at home

• Charging their machine is their responsibility. However, if they need to charge their machine throughout the day, they can do so at our stations.

• No loaner chromebooks if a student forgets their machine.

• Make it positive, make it early

• Try to touch base with parents telling them something positive about their child

• This makes them more receptive if you have to call with something negative.

• Make contact first

• See ‘Discipline’

• If something goes on in your class, get to the parent first, before the student skews the story to protect his/her tail. You’ll get thrown under the bus every time if it will save the kid’s skin.

• Tell me what’s happened. It’s hard to defend what I don’t know about.

• If you need me to cover your class so you can call home, let me know.

• Document all communication in TeacherEase

• If you call someone and don’t speak to them, give Mindy a heads up in case they call back.

• Step into the hallway

• Greet kids

• Greet each other

• We are ALWAYS modeling for the students

• Yes - you can (and should) use this time to go to the restroom/office.

Checking mail

• Check your HS mailbox (in the HS Office) every day.

Check your school email every day M-F twice a day (Minimum)

• Make every effort to answer parent emails within 24 hours.

• Take longer if you need to.

Field Trips

• You must use the District permission form on the T drive.

• You must also keep signed permission slips for one calendar year.

• Students are to be supervised at all times (Do not leave students at school, on bus, or at destination alone).

• Check calendar for availability/conflicts

• Email Nicole (nhill@slaterschools.net) AND Frank (fdavis@slaterschools.net) about securing transportation.

Spring is not a good time for Field Trips - we have Ag Trips, Baseball, Golf, HS Track, and JH Track on a near daily basis.

• Eat your lunch, but also mill around - utilize the time to build rapport.

• Lunch duty is not sitting at the teacher table with your back to the students. Position yourself so you can see.

• If you’re assigned to outside duty, but the weather doesn’t permit it (person on duty determines), you’re relocated to the Cafeteria.

• Details of who does what are below.
  
  

• See Supervision/Assignment

• If you trade duties with someone, let Nicole and Mindy know.

• Duties are also posted on the appropriate calendar with event details (Softball = Athletics, Music/Band Concerts = Activities, etc)

• Get the money box from Central Office by 3:05.

• Collect gate money until the Administrator on duty tells you to stop and count the box.

• Complete the transaction sheet and sign off with the Administrator.
  
  

• Sit WITH students (among them - not just on the first bleacher)

• If someone is misbehaving, correct them.

• If they do not self-correct, submit a referral (see ‘Discipline’)

• Leave Routes

• Planned

• Enter a request in SUI -

• If professional leave, be specific: Conference Art Meeting at New Franklin, 9-2
• If personal leave, details are not needed.

• Email Mindy after you’ve submitted your request so she can be working on a sub.

• Coaches - Enter time in SUI if you have to leave early, talk to Mindy so we can arrange coverage for your class

• Unplanned absence

• Call or text Mindy (660-631-0883) before 9 pm or after 6 am

• Text Jessica (660-631-5298)

• Enter it in SUI as soon as you get back

• Have sub plans ready - send to Mindy and Jess

• All Absences

• Over Communicate

• If there’s a sub in your hallway, check in with them.
  
  

• Signing Out

• If you leave the building on your plan time, sign out with Mindy in the HS Office.

• We need an accurate headcount of who’s in the building at any given time.

SUB BINDER - Mindy has compiled, everyone will keep in a prominent location in their classrooms.

• Contents
• Office Provided:

1. Rosters
2. Handbook
3. Phone Extension List
4. Tech info - sub computer login
5. Master Schedule
6. Emergency Plans

• You add in:
1. Your Classroom Rules
2. Where to find your Red/Green Cards and Evacuation Routes
3. Substitute Teacher Feedback (keep 8 copies in at a time)
4. Lesson plans
5. 'Just in Case' (unplanned absence) assignments
   
   

• Record in first five minutes of class

• If a student comes in after you’ve taken attendance, make sure Mindy knows they’re here

• Call Mindy to let her know if a kiddo is in your class that’s been pre-marked absent.

• DO NOT let a student in a side door after the 7:54 bell rings. If you do, walk them to the HS Office to check in.

• Make Up Work

• Per handbook, student gets one day to complete for each day out

• STUDENT’S responsibility to ask for work

• Develop your policy, Post your policy, Stick with your policy.

• See also: GRADES

• Grades

• Keep grades current - At least one grade/assignment a week

• Participation points encouraged as part of the grade

• Consideration: Why come to school if they can get full points when absent? We should be providing something the student can’t get anywhere else.
  
  

Eligibility Checks run every two weeks - this is for grades and attendance. Once a student is on the ‘Not in Good Standing’ list, they will remain there until the next check runs (every two weeks). These dates are on the calendar. Mindy or I will come around with a print out of failing grades. If you initial it, you stand by it.

Grades are due at 8 am on semester due dates.

• These are in the Google calendar and will be shared with you via the weekly newsletters.

• Your classroom is your domain

• If something lands in my office (you send a student - or phone -to me), enter a discipline referral in TeacherEase as soon as possible.

• If you enter a referral in TeacherEase, contact home.

• Log contact in TeacherEase

• AFTER contact is made & logged, I will process referral.

• Discipline is NOT the goal. Preventing misbehaviors is the goal. Once you’ve submitted a referral, you’ve given it to me. Let it go. Don’t hold a grudge. You don’t have to like every student, but you have to ACT like you do. How do you want someone to treat your child/sibling? Treat your students like that.

• Do not tolerate anything that you wouldn’t allow with me in the room
• If you have questions, ask me.
  
  

• We can’t/don’t discipline the disorder

• Fourth Tuesday of each month at 4:30 pm

• Dates are below and will be in the Quick Reference Guide Angela Lemmon sends out.

• Contribution of information about your program/department to the Google doc the day before the meeting is expected.

• I will create the HS Board Reports for each Month. They will be shared with you and include the submission deadline.

• Link to the upcoming Board meeting will be included in the weekly newsletter

• It’s easier for the Board to support you/your program if they know what’s going on with it.

• I send Board Reports to the media & share with students and parents.

• If something is going on, let me know. I’d rather be informed by you with a heads up rather than finding out about something from an angry parent.

• I can’t back you up or defend you if I don’t know what’s going on.

• I will ask an upset parent to meet with you before I have a private meeting with them.
• If you don’t want to meet with them alone (or if I don’t think that’s a good idea), I will attend the meeting.

Formative Assessment vs. Summative Assessment

• Assessment FOR learning / Assessment OF learning

• Occurs during learning / Occurs after learning

• Low-stakes / High Stakes

• Can adjust Instruction / Cannot adjust Instruction

Formative Assessments will be administered at the beginning of each semester for ONE of your classes. These will serve as your Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) to be turned in each year.

Formative Assessments/SLOs will use data from EOC courses (English 1, English 2, Biology, Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Government), required courses (Health, Personal Finance, 9th grade PE), and select other courses (Ag, Art, Band, Music, Library - see Jess/Tonja).

IXL will assist in diagnostics and response to student needs

• This is our last year with IXL

iReady results can be used for one of your two Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)

• We'll talk more in the Building Level meeting (& afterwards) about Formative Assessments

Professional Development Committee

Members

Tonja Boggs Chairperson

Breanna Presley Elementary Representative

Kim Reeter Junior High Representative

Leah Bowling High School Representative

Stephen Meyer Specials Representative

Administration

Dr. Terry Lorenz Superintendent

Becky Drummond Elementary Principal

Jessica Clements High School Principal

PDC GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

The Professional Development Committee was organized as a support service for all teachers in the Slater School District.

LONG-TERM GOALS:

• To enhance the performance of teachers by providing educational opportunities.

• To encourage teachers to continue their education.

SHORT-TERM GOALS:

• To encourage all teachers to attend quality workshops, conferences and in-district professional development activities.

• To assist all teachers new to the district with a mentoring program.

OBJECTIVES:

• To assist first and second year teachers in all areas of teaching.

• To enable all teachers to attend workshops and conferences by providing monetary assistance.

• To maintain a well-informed staff.

Career Ladder participants may use Detention Supervision for Career Ladder hours.

2025-2026 Detention Expectations

• Detentions are held in the Health Classroom on Tuesdays and Thursdays

• Students with detention will be entered on a shared Google doc (Tonja Boggs will send)

• Sometimes students are added on the day of detention

• Supervising teachers will maintain a sign in sheet containing:

• Date

• Student Name

• Time in

• Time out

• The Supervising teacher will keep a copy of the sign in sheet for their Career Ladder records and share a copy of the sign in sheet with Building Principals.

• At the time of the detention, students are informed to bring a book to read and/or an assignment to work on.

• Students are not to have access to their phones in detention.

What staff member deserves a shout out?

Take a minute to let me know all about it by filling out THIS FORM.

Students, Parents, and Staff can give a shout out to any Slater Schools employee! We'll make sure they receive a copy of it and will look for ways to share them with you throughout the year as well.

Let's get to bragging about all the good people around here!

Happy birthday to those celebrating a birthday in August!

Expectations for HS Lunch Duty (above) include:

Salad Bar Supplies: Extra salad bar supplies will be kept in an upright cooler in Whitney's 'area' to make it easier for that day's person to keep an eye on supplies and keep it stocked. These are the people who are posted at the salad bar until the line is through. Tasks include making sure kids are getting appropriate portions, not making messes (make them clean up after themselves), and that the stations are stocked. Whitney is entering codes and numbers. She won't be restocking any longer. Once the kids are through the line, staff members can/should move about the room to supervise and finish their meal.

'Outside Area': During the winter months and in inclement weather, this person will keep an eye on condiments until the kids are through the line. That station will move to the North wall as well. Spare ketchup will be stored in the cooler with salad bar items and ala carte drinks. Gravy/sauce may have to be retrieved from the kitchen. Once the kids are through the line, staff members can/should move about the room to supervise and finish their meal.

Hallway Supervision: These people will continue to supervise the hallway until the line has moved past the servers. At that point, staff members can/should move about the room to supervise and finish their meal.

Please be sure to include lunch duty details in your sub plans.

Thank you for everything you do all day every day - including the logistics of making a 28 minute lunch period work. I appreciate you!

Email: jclements@slaterschools.net
Website: slaterschools.net
Location: 515 Elm Street, Slater, MO, United States
Phone: 660-529-2278 (108)
Twitter: @SlaterPrincipal

Email: mwiseman@slaterschools.net
Phone: 660-529-2278 (107)

TRANSPORTATION

There is a google form (button below) to request the use of a bus, fields are mandatory for us to schedule buses and drivers correctly. Our drivers wear many hats, and as the year gets busier we need to make sure we are scheduling correctly to avoid overlap or last minute scheduling.

FOOD SERVICES

Please make sure when your class is attending a field trip to fill out the google doc (below) for breakfast and lunch counts so the kitchen knows how many meals to prepare for. Please give the kitchen at least a week's notice.

HEALTH OFFICE

Please check with your students or with Crystal to see who takes medicine at school. Make arrangements with Crystal to ensure that we have a plan for medications.