D.C. Everest Senior High School Staff Update
Weekly Happenings
A huge thank you to Jenny and Lisa for all of their work organizing student council and the staff appreciation food, goodies, and trivia game! Very thankful for their leadership!
A couple of babies to announce!!!
Congratulations to Ciera and Emerson Levake for the birth of Dax Oslo Levake on April 18th. Dax was 8lbs and 20 inches long and everyone is doing well!
Also a congratulations to Tony Degrand and his wife Bridget on the birth of Hudson Robert last Thursday. He was a 21.5" baby weighing in at 9lbs and 4 oz!
Dave Wanta brought in a tremendous speaker to his young adult medicine courses this week. Dr. Eilers, an area leading cardiothoracic surgeon, led a fascinating discussion as she shared her daily experiences, challenges and rewards of the job.
Announcements/Week Ahead
AP Testing Schedule: A reminder that students leaving for an afternoon test will be excused at 10:45 to grab lunch and get to their testing site in time. Students testing in the morning will be expected to be back to school by 8/9
Staffing Updates: Val Willems will serve as our new counselor next year. She is currently the department chair at SPASH. Val lives in our district and has students who go to Riverside. Last week Friday we interviewed for our open At-Risk position and we hope to wrap that hire up during the upcoming week. We will be scheduling English candidates to interview in the coming week as well.
Both the middle school principal and Weston principal processes are also moving forward from a district perspective. More to come on that in the weeks ahead.
Peer-to-Peer Suicide Prevention Grant - DCE Junior and Senior High have been awarded a Peer-to-Peer Suicide Prevention Grant for the 2022-2023 school year. We are in the beginning stages of exploring programs that will best meet the needs of our students and are hoping to engage 1-2 staff members in this process. If you are interested, please reach out to Erin Jacobson.
PTO benefit for next year: There’s lots of exciting chatter about the flexibility our new PTO benefit will provide. As you look ahead to next year, please know that planning is still underway for:
- Process to request approval
- Building threshold
- Number of successive days allowed
- Which days might be “blocked
I’m confident we’ll have that information prior to our end-of-year meeting. I’ll plan to make sure we talk through things together before we leave, but in the meantime please don’t make firm commitments (i.e. travel plans, etc. for next year).
Habitat for Humanity Open House - The Construction Trades class taught by Chad Pernsteiner will be holding their 2021-22 Habitat for Humanity Open House from 3-3:30 pm on Tuesday, May 10th. Come on out and see what a great job our kids did building this house. The house will be moved on Friday, May 13th.
Graduation Ceremony Faculty Seating - Still are in need of a few faculty to sit at the end of the row of seniors and lead them in as row leaders. Please contact Dawn Seehafer if interested.
Senior Teachers - Parade of Graduates - If you teach Seniors please plan on being apart of the Parade of Graduates on the 25th from 9-11 and Graduation practice from 12:15 - 2. More information to come!
May
9 BLT Meeting
10 Habitat for Humanities Open House, 3-7 pm
11 Academic Scholarship Night at 7 pm
13 NO School
15 Athletic Awards Night at 6 pm
18 Seniors must pay all fines & fees by 3 pm
20 Senior iPad, cord & block must be turned in to IT off of IMC
20 Senior's Last Day
25 Parade of Graduates 9:15-11:00 am
25 Graduation Practice 12-1:30 pm
25 Graduation from 6-9 pm - All teachers required to attend
Upcoming Field Trips
Field Trips - Field trips are still permitted at this point. Please consider academic and curricular importance when scheduling. If the guidance changes, we will let you know. See Mike Raether if you have any questions. Please submit class list with ID# 2 weeks prior to trip.
Field Trip Forms from District (click on PO2340: District Sponsored Trips, scroll to the bottom and find forms needed depending on day or overnight request. The Medical Form only needs to be completed by parents/physicians if overnight trip along with the Parental Consent.
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