The Week of 10.7.24

"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all"

-Aristotle 

Below is the Link to access the IEP Calendar. Please make sure you are adding all your IEP's to the calendar.

IEP Calendar

10.7.24       Happy Monday!

10.8.24        Early Release Day

                    8:30 District PBIS Meeting

                    8:30 Behavior Team Huddle

                    2:15 Early Dismissal Meeting in the Library

                    No Staff Meeting - Vector Training 

                    3:30 CPI Refresher for all who are registered

10.9.24        Jean Day - Donations for student gift cards

                    8:45 Behavior Team Meeting

10.10.24      Happy Thursday

                    9:00 Social Work Meeting

10.11.24      Jean Day - Show your LP support - Go Rails!

                    8:30 Behavior Team Huddle

Week of 9.30.24

 

"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow"

-Melody Beattie

9.30.24        Wear your Lions Gear!
                    Happy Monday!

10.1.24        NO STAFF MEETING
                    8:30 Behavior Huddle
                    9-11 Stacey and Jenn out of the building - Amy acting administrator

10.2.24        COUNT DAY
                    8:45 Behavior Team Meeting                
                    Jean Day - Donations welcome for student gift cards

10.3.24       Happy Thursday

10.4.24       8:30 Behavior Huddle
                   Jean Day - Show your LP Pride!

***Please be sure that you are adding all IEPs to the Beacon IEP calendar. This allows us to ensure all team members are notified and also to monitor that  IEPs are scheduled and held in a timely manner.

                    

This Week at Beacon 9.23.24

 Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

-Maya Angelou

9.23.24        Happy Monday
                    Dentist R Us

9.24.24        Early Release- NO STAFF MEETING
                    8:30 Behavior Huddle

9.25.24        Club Day
                    Math PD for Elementary
                    Jean Day - Donations welcome for our gift cards for our students

9.26.24        9:00 Social Workers MDR Training

9.27.24        8:30 Behavior Huddle
                    Jean Day - Show your LP support!    

Week of 9.16.24

"Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.”

 — Dalai Lama

The Beacon accommodation logs have been updated for the 24-25 school year. Thank you to Andy Sueta!

They can be accessed through the Teacher portal on the LP website or at the link below. These will also be linked to the blog for future reference. You can access your caseload by clicking on any of your caseload students and using the tabs across the bottom of the page. Please review your logs and ensure all of your caseload students have been included. Please send Amy Kapala any student names that were left off.

It is the expectation that case managers fill out the current accommodations for all of your students by Friday September 20th. We will begin using these on Monday September 23rd. Please do not create any separate accommodation logs as these will be archived and kept by the district.

Carrie Wolshon will ensure that accommodation logs are added as students are added throughout the school year.

Please remember that all staff are expected to record accommodations for students any time the accommodation is provided in any setting, this includes specials and ancillary services.

We will be reviewing the use of these at our staff meeting on September 17th.

Beacon Accommodation Logs

9.16.24       Happy Monday!

9.17.24        9-12 Rails Meeting - Stacey and I will be out of the building - Amy Park will
                    be the acting administrator.

                Staff Meeting

9.18.24        Welcome Kevyn Lewis - New Behavior Coach!

                    Jean Day - Please give your donation to Martha to support our gift card 

                    incentives
                    Clubs

9.19.24        9am Social Workers Meeting

9.20.24        Jean Day - Wear your LP Gear!

This week at Beacon 9.9.24

"It's only after you've stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform"

-Roy T. Bennett 

9.9.24        Happy Monday!
                  Celebration during Enrichment

9.10.24      Staff Meeting (Library)

9.11.24      Jean Day - Donations for gift cards for students always welcome
                  Club Day - during Enrichment

9.12.24      9:30am Social Work Meeting
                  Make it a great day - on purpose!

9.13.24      Jean Day - Show your RailSplitter Support
                    

This week at Beacon 9.3.24

 "We have great days on purpose"

-Saddi Washington MSU Assistant Basketball Coach

9.4.24        First Day Back! Welcome Back Students! Half Day for Students!
                  Full Day 849 and Non LPEA staff - Behavior Training @12:45 in the Library

9.5.24        Half Day for Students 
                  Full Day for 849 and Non LPEA staff

9.6.24        Full Day for Students
                  Jean Day - Wear your LP Gear!

Welcome Back!

 Good Afternoon-

I hope this finds you happy, healthy, safe and ready for a great year at Beacon!  We look forward to seeing you on September 3rd 2024 at Lincoln Park High School at 8:00 am in the auditorium.  The agenda is attached 9.3.24 Agenda - We will be heading back to Beacon in the afternoon.  Carrabbas is graciously providing lunch for our staff at the building on this day. Lunch will be served at 11:15. We will be providing water. If you would like something different please feel free to bring your own drink.

Human Resources has worked extremely hard to ensure we are fully staffed.  We are close to that goal - fingers crossed. We have had 14 new staff join our team this year.  I am very excited about these additions and know they will be a great asset to our team. They are as follows:

Amanda Swan - Behavior Specialist    

Alex Duda - PE Teacher

Emily Hiser - Middle School ELA Teacher    

Beth  Wusthoff - High School Science

Kim Criger - Literacy Coach    

Sarah Rea - School Psychologist

Darrion Thompson - Behavior Coach I    

Erica Taylor - Behavior Paraprofessional

Harrison Hancock - 1:1 Paraprofessional    

Jacklynn Hancock - HS ELA Paraprofessional

James Ascott - MS Math Paraprofessional    

Yulissa Cuevas - MS ELA Paraprofessional

Allison Reese- HS SS Paraprofessional    

Shannon Russell - HS Science Paraprofessional

Our team has worked hard this summer to expand upon last year's completed committee work and have made some exciting changes to our program. I will be outlining some of the changes and our team will be going more in depth during our time together on September 3rd.  Please don’t let this overwhelm you - we will get through this together.

1. We have updated our Point Sheets. These were created by the Points Committee last year.  It was piloted towards the end of the year in various areas.  This will mirror the PBIS expectations and hopefully make it easier to understand for both staff and students.You can review the point sheet  prior our meeting here - 2024 Point Sheet

2. Our leveling system will look different this year.  To begin the year, each student will start on step 2, with the expeption of the students that left for the summer on a higher step.  Those students will keep their current step. Steps may change weekly - this will be explained in depth on Tuesday.

3. We have renamed the Centers. They will now be known as Reset Rooms.  

4. Our phone policy is the same as the districts. Some of you followed the policy last year in your classrooms.  Moving forward the entire building will follow the policy. Martha has made posters for your classrooms that she has laminated and placed in your mailboxes. Please be sure to hang these in your classrooms. Reset Rooms will be a Red Zone (no phone use). The cafeteria and the hallway will be Green Zones. Your personal classroom is your discretion.

5. We are bringing back Beacon Bucks! The PBIS team will give an overview of how and when we will use Beacon Bucks for our students. These will NOT take the place of our students' points.

6. The behavior team has worked hard this year to develop new ways of working with our students.  At this time, we have 15 members that are part of the behavior team, this does NOT include our social work team.  More information will be provided on September 3 of how this will look at Beacon.

7. Our bell schedule has changed to support our students.  The bell schedule for the 24-25 school year can be viewed  Here. As you may have noticed, Group has been shortened and time has been added to the end of the day to homeroom/dismissal time. Also, we have added an Enrichment time before lunch for High School students and after lunch for Elementary/ Middle school students.  More information will be forthcoming during our time together.

8. I will continue to share information through Bloggin with Beacon this school year.  Please make sure to bookmark it and refer to it often.

Many of our changes were due to the hard work that was done through our 23-24 committees. I am thankful for all of your dedication to our program and look forward to continuing this work in the upcoming school year.  Looking forward to seeing you on September 3rd! Let’s make it a great year - on purpose! Go Rails!

Sincerely,

Jenn