January 2 - 6

   D.C. Everest Senior High School Staff Update

Weekly Happenings 

DC Everest DECA members at the Junior High and Senior High School worked toward completing the chapter campaigns as outlined by National DECA. DCE DECA is one of 15 in chapters in the state being recognized nationally!

Congratulations to DECA's 2022-2023 Chapter Campaign Winners | DECA Direct Online

December Youth Apprentice - Juliana Thao (Senior), 2nd Year Youth Apprentice, Marshfield Medical Center, Health & Hospitality Pathways

Key Club partnered with Kiwanis club, the Salvation Army, and a local insurance company towards their work with the angel giving tree. Key Club was able to shop for 15 kids in need through the partnership.

Thank you to all who helped one way or another to make the December student food delivery to our students so successful!  Todd and Erin again deserve a huge pat on the back for their efforts in organizing, transporting, and packing of the food!

Thank you Dallas and Karry for a great holiday faculty meeting.  The food, games, and prizes were so awesome.  What a great way for all to come together and have a lot of fun.

Congratulations Claire Juneau for being the VFW Voice of Democracy contest winner!

Kris Kringle teaching Spectrometry in place of Bryan Foster

Announcements/Week Ahead

Rose Bowl Watching - The Rose Bowl Parade will be on TV beginning at 10 AM.  Our band is scheduled to be the #22 group right behind the Rose Bowl Parade President. They are the 6th band in the parade.

Here is a viewing guide about how to stream the parade during the day:  

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U7t_0ZT5DB4jJXFmlFRuYcDHCcAH4H1WnH1ScwHIG0c/edit

If you have a personal streaming password and would be willing - please bring it with you and get your classroom TV set up using your personal login.  If you would like to team up with a neighboring class and move your students there that would work fine as well.  We will announce over the loud speaker when the band is coming up and I would encourage you to tune in for a few minutes to watch the parade at that time.  Thank you for helping to celebrate our band!

New Senior High SRO - We are pleased to announce our new SRO at the Senior High. Officer Josh English joined the Everest Metro Police Department a year and a half ago after a 20 year career serving our country in the military. Officer Josh is eager to join our DC Everest team and is passionate about both serving our community and doing what is best for students and staff. When not patrolling, he is dad to four and enjoys volunteering in the community as a coach, ref, and fan of DCE (his wife is a graduate). His start day as SRO is Jan. 2 with onboarding for two weeks at the SH with Officer Abby and Sully.  Officer Abby and Sully will return to the MS beginning Jan. 16th.  HUGE thank you to Officer Abby for serving at the Senior High School for the last month and a half.  We are sad to see her go back to the Middle School!

 

Mandatory Senior Meeting -  There will be a mandatory senior meeting on Thursday, January 5th during ELT for a presentation and to receive a packet of information regarding ordering graduation caps, gowns, tassels, etc.  It is very important all seniors, even early graduates, join in this meeting.  Please make calls to your early graduates if you think it is needed.  All senior ELT teachers are asked to escort your kids to the Theater and sit with them for supervision purposes.  Here is the seating chart link.

Payroll - The first check for the New Year is on Friday (1/13/23), this check will compensate for hours worked from 12/18/22-12/31/22. These timesheets will need to be submitted by Friday (1/3/23).

Semester 1 Grading -

• Grading window will open the morning of Monday, January 9th.
• Semester 1 ends on Friday, January 13th.
• Monday, January 16th, is a day scheduled for grading. Once you have your grades entered and you want to verify that they are all in, please send me an email and I can check for you.
• Teachers will NOT have to enter a grade for Success Skill: Responsibility.
• S1 grades will be due by 12:00pm on Tuesday, January 17th. Grading window closes at 12pm. There is additional work for S1 grades so please have your grades in on time.
• If there needs to be any changes to a S1 grade after 12:00pm on Tuesday, January 17th, please email me the information with the new grade, include course name and section number.
• S1 grades will be posted to report card and transcripts on Friday, January 20th and will be available on the parent portal. S1 Report Cards will NOT be printed.

Save the date - DCE is once again partnering with Wausau School District to host a Child, Student, & Family Disability Resource Fair - previously named Transition Talks. This year’s event will be held at Wausau West High School on February 25, 2023 (a Saturday) from 10:00-2:00. Please share the attached Save the Date flyer with all staff.

Reminder to staff that after hour events need to be put in Book king. Book king is for reserving areas in the school, making custodial aware of people entering the building, adjustments for cleaning, and now snow/ice maintenance.

Semester 1 Final Exam Schedules & 2nd Friday Count - The finals schedules for January 12th and 13th are linked below.  Due to the state mandatory 2nd Friday Count on Friday, January 13th there will be an extra 5 minutes added to period 2 for this purpose.  More information regarding the count is below with more from Carla Kietlinski soon.  The time schedules are linked here to post in your classrooms: January 2023 S1 Final Exams/2nd Friday Count.

2nd Friday Count January 13th during period 2 - The 2nd Friday attendance count will take place on Friday, January 13th during period 2. Attendance forms will be put in teacher mailboxes prior to this date. Complete the attendance forms the beginning of period 2 and return them to the attendance office immediately after taking attendance. You will need to verify on the attendance form with your signature the students who are enrolled and attending school. Please verify the total amount of students in your period 2 by writing the number and circling it toward the bottom of the page.

Finals week - A reminder that all students are expected to attend their scheduled classes on Thursday and Friday where some sort of assessment activity will be happening. Students are not able to be excused from attending this period.  

Rotary International Students -Will be in the auditorium on January 6th from 8th-10th hour.  World language students will be meeting with them at that time.

Donated Paper - The district received a large donation of colored paper in sizes:  11x17, 8.5x14 and 8.5x11 in different weights.  Anyone needing colored paper should see Dawn Seehafer.  She has a binder of the different colors and sizes available.

Mark your calendars - Todd Bohm has worked to secure a national speaker, Steve Jones, who speaks on organizational, team, and individual leadership. He will be in DC Everest on January 10.  You are invited to attend if you are interested from 3:45 - 5:15. 

     One of the most sought after and energetic speakers across the united States is coming to DC Everest Senior High School to share his thoughts on leadership and developing a winning culture.  The former Kimberly High School leadership teacher and head football coach who compiled a 129-9 record before stepping away from teaching/coaching to pursue his passion of Leadership.  Steve Jones message applies to all walks fo life including parents, student/athletes, and business leaders. Steve will share stories and experiences that will help you move your "teams" culture to the next level.

Advisory this week!:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IcziFtfLOO74wOt9KQWvLQPH3UteLLfW5-zJEUQ3XyY/edit

Staff/Faculty Folder: Linked

Important Dates

January:

2            School Resumes

3            ACP Team Mtg, CR 369, 2:50-4pm

5            Mandatory Senior Meeting, SH Theater, ELT

11          BLT, CR 369, 2:50-4pm

12-13     Final Exams, Altered Schedules

13          Second Friday Count

13          Quarter 2/Semester 1 Ends

14          Senior Ball, Pavilion

16          No School, PD for Grading

17          Quarter 3 begins

17          Jostens returns for graduating caps, gowns, tassel, etc. ordering

18          Faculty Meeting, 2:50-4pm

22-23 Clubs/Activities Meeting Calendar: Linked Here

Upcoming Field Trips

Complete the following at least 2-weeks prior of your field trip:

• Consider academic and curricular importance when scheduling
• Receive Principal's approval
• Make arrangements for payment/cost of trip
• Complete request form, attach student list (alpha with student's name, no nicknames, & ID number)
• If taking busses, student lists by bus with staff member name (health supplies for specific students will be packaged per bus).
• Verify each student field trip permission form is on file in IC
• Complete Online Bus Request
• Schedule appointment with Health Aide to review details about the trip
• Notice of trip and itinerary sent home
• Notify special education department/case manager of students attending the trip
• See Mike Raether if you have any questions. 

District Forms:
Field Trip Request Fillable Form
Overnight or Out of State Trip Parent Consent and Release of Information fillable form
Overnight or Out of State Trip Parent Consent for MEDICAL Treatment and Release of Information

The Medical Form only needs to be completed by parents/physicians if overnight trip along with the Parental Consent.

*NO additional field trips on -

JH Adventure Day (10/19/22 & 4/26/23)

Junior ACT Testing (3/7/23 & 4/11/23)

Sophomore Forward Testing (3/29/23)

Sophomore Pre-Act/Aspire Testing (4/19/23)

 

Teacher	Dates	Destination	Form & Class list
Scot Abel	Various dates from 11/28-3/3/23	Twin Oaks School Forest	Form & Class Lists
Joe Finnegan	12/21/22-1/2/23	Rose Bowl, CA	Class List but no form
Roskopf/Paulson	1/3/23	L&S	Form & Class List
Katie Shulfer	1/6/23	Wausau Curling Club	Form & Class List
FT J.Peterson/Schremp	1/6/23	MidState Technical College, WI Rapids	Form & Class List
Roskopf/Paulson	1/6/23	Granite Peak	Form & Class List
Todd Bohm	1/10/23	Leadership Classes in Auditorium, Steve Jones	Form not needed
Roskopf/Paulson	1/11/23	UWSP @ Wausau	Form & Class List
Roskopf/Paulson	1/19/23	CTech Manufacturing	Form & Class List
Christian Ammon	1/20/23	Central WI Convention & Expo Center (Evercon)	Form & Class List
Roskopf/Paulson	1/25/23	Gigi's Playhouse	Form & Class List
Roskopf/Paulson	1/31/23	Aspirus	Form & Class List
Jennifer Golbach	1/31/23	Central WI Leadership Program, TBD	Form & Class List
Roskopf/Paulson	2/1/23	Women's Community	Form & Class List
Gipp/Schremp	2/4/23	Owen-Withee High School	Form & Class List
Roskopf/Paulson	2/7/23	Greenheck	Form & Class List
Roskopf/Paulson	2/15/23	NTC	Form & Class List
Jennifer Golbach	2/17/23	Central WI Leadership Program, Various Businesses	Form & Class List
Roskopf/Paulson	2/23/23	CWA	Form & Class List
Matthiae, Rose	3/2/23	Sophomore Career Fair @ Wausau Wet	Form & Class List
Roskopf/Paulson	3/2/23	Crystal Finishing	Form & Class List
Roskopf/Paulson	3/9/23	FVTC - Appleton	Form & Class List
Jennifer Golbach	3/10/23	Central WI Leadership Program, TBD	Form & Class List
Jennifer Golbach	4/25/23	Central WI Leadership Program, John Muir MS	Form & Class List
DeBoer/Thorpe	5/11/23	DCE Fishing Team Lake Wausau Clean-up	Form, no class List
Foster/Strick	5/25/23	UWSP	Form, no class list