Notes for the beginning of the year:
Mission Statement: All students at CRMS will learn and achieve at high levels
Hello Staff. Welcome back.
Because we cannot review and cover everything we need to at workshop, here are some
reminders and helpful documents so that we start the school year moving in the same
direction.
1) Duty Day: The duty day is from 7:50 – 3:30
2) Student Schedules: You will be given a new copy of student schedules run by 1st
hour classes. Please give your students this new schedule 1st hour. These will be
located in your mailboxes to pick up on Tuesday before school. Students need to
use this most recent copy in case of any changes. It will be on colored paper –
most likely GREEN.
3) Good to Great: Please wear your Good to Great t-shirt on Wednesday for open
house, pictures on Thursday afternoon and the first day of school.
4) 6th Grade Dismissal: 6th graders will be released at 3:00 P.M. to find their buses
for the first week of school.
5) Announcements: Please play the Falcon Flash Announcements found on CRMS
YouTube page during 1st hour. The announcements will be switching back to a
live broadcast again this year and will begin shortly after the first hour begins.
Contact Ryan Green or Mitch Hanson if you do not have the shortcut on your
desktop for the announcements.
6) Parent Volunteers: We will have parent volunteers helping in the halls the first
few days with student lockers and getting students to classes. If you get a purple
volunteer form back, please turn into Barb Sabatke.
7) CORE:
a. Please pick up the CORE materials for the first week of school in the staff
lounge. Let the office know if you need additional items.
b. CORE leaders -Cindy Quist (6) Stephanie Killian (7) Michelle Powers (8)
will send out plans to teachers on Friday morning before the week of
delivery. Please get any CORE changes or additions to those leaders by
Wednesday morning.
c. In most cases students will be paired with one of their teachers that they
have during the day for CORE.
d. Tuesday and Thursday will be homework / Academic Intervention day.
Please take attendance promptly. At 2:46 the music will play over the
intercom. Students will have two minutes to pass to their teacher’s
classroom that they need additional help with. Students must have a pass
from that teacher they are working with signed on the back of their student
planner to go to that CORE.
8) Staff Meetings: Our first meeting will be on September 23rd from 7:30-8:10.
A reminder that Site Council decided to adjust the duty day during staff meeting
Wednesdays to 7:30-3:10. Assistant Principals will cover duties during our staff
meeting times. Staff meetings will be held the first Wednesday of each month.
9) Lock Down/Fire Drill: Please make sure you review the lockdown, fire drill, and
tornado building safety plans that are found in your red emergency binders, please
contact Joyce Cassady if you do not have a binder in your room. If you have any
questions or concerns about these policies, please ask Robert Cahow or Mark Dahl.
10) Attendance: Must be taken at the beginning of every hour! Correct attendance is
very important to make sure that the automatic phone calls are sent home. It is also
helpful when we are trying to locate a student.
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If a student comes in late, the unverified needs to be changed at your earliest
opportunity. If attendance needs to be changed for a block class please send
Mary Protas an email so she can update attendance.
11) Bus Safety Week - Sept 14-18
 Materials will be given to CORE teachers by the end of the first week of
school.
 Similar format in previous years with reviewing the PowerPoint and students
taking the test.
 CORE teachers are responsible for reviewing bus safety information and
having all students complete the bus safety test and pass with at least 70%
(21/30 correct).
 Questions, please direct to Cassie Anderson.
12) Updating Grades Online: We have made the commitment to update grades
online every two weeks on payday Friday. See Tom Shaw if you have any
questions.
13) Locker Clean Out Dates: Mark Dahl will send out dates and times for
locker clean outs by grade though out the year.
14) Behavior Learning Targets (attached): Please post this in your classroom
and refer to it with your students.
15) CRMS Agreements (attached): Please review this and see Tom Shaw if you
have any questions or concerns.
16) Executive Function-“High 5” (attached): Should be posted some place in
your classroom.
17) Lunch Schedule (attached): Lunch schedule - 6th graders eat A and B
lunches; 7th and 8th graders eat C, D and E. Volunteers will help students with
their pins in the lunchroom the first few days.
18) Testing Dates (attached): Please see attached documents or CRMS Student
Calendar for 2015-2016 Testing Dates. Any question in regards to testing
please contact the Peggy Schierl or Kim Kesti.
19) Grading Policy (attached): Site Council passed a grading policy that the
entire staff is expected to follow. Please see Tom Shaw if you have any
questions about this document.
20) Online Referral (attached): Online referrals should be sent to the grade
level administrator, Mary Protas and Joyce Cassady. Referrals may also be
written by hand and those forms are located in the main office. If student is
sent down to the office or needs to be removed, please call the office and
inform them about the student and what occurred briefly. The grade level AP
will follow up with the staff member.
21) Conferences (Attached): See the attached document for times and dates.
Please contact your grade level Assistant Principal with any other questions or
concerns for the first week of school.
Have a great school year!