• The senior team placed 1st overall
• Out of 87 individuals:
  • Bailey Grant -- 2nd place individual
  • Elizabeth Funk -- 5th place individual
  • Khloe Cuttlers -- 6th place individual
  • Addison Grant -- 15th place individual
  • Erika Donahue -- 19th place individual
  • Carlee Wolfe -- 22nd place individual
• The junior team walked away with a 4th place finish!
• Out of 141 Individuals
  • Morgan Kliment -- 4th place individual
  • Lydia Donahue -- 21st place individual
  • Julia Wolfe -- 22nd place individual
  • Jolee Kliment -- 27th place individual

Submitted by Elementary Principals Steve Rose and Deb Kruse
     Classroom Visits:  The leadership team has made a concerted effort to provide teachers more feedback through walkthroughs, informal and formal observations.  Feedback has been focused on previous professional learning: 100% active participation and Classroom Culture.  As we provide professional learning around the new instructional model, we will provide teachers feedback on their use of the strategies in their classrooms.  We have conducted 41 walkthrough/informal/formal observations so far.  This does not include the informal daily visits to classrooms.  Our daily visits to classrooms allow us the opportunity to support teachers, interact with students, foster a culture of continuous learning and development and identify areas of improvement. 
     Fall Data
     Peer Coaching:  We will soon provide structures for teachers to reflect and learn from each other.  Professional learning without structures for teachers to work with their peers is not effective.  Breanne Poston and Monica Blank will introduce peer coaching to the staff on November 1.
     Professional Learning:  October 11, we had professional learning on the RC Instructional Model.  The professional learning team presented the first phase of learning:  Become Interested.  In order for information to start the journey through the stages of memory, we must first pay attention to it.  Our brain receives 11 million bits of information per second but can only process 120 bits per second.  So how do we make sure students pay attention to what we want them to pay attention to in the classroom?  One way is to use Cognitive Interest Cues, which is our first instructional strategy in our RC Instructional Model.  Staff also had the opportunity to analyze student and teacher Panorama Data.  The Panorama Data is information about what stakeholders think and feel about the school environment.  This data is important because in order to learn, students must first feel safe and cared for.  Teachers had the opportunity to create innovation configuration maps.  Innovation configuration maps identify the major components of our instructional model and describe how each element looks along a continuum from low-level implementation to high-fidelity implementation.    
     Elementary Student Leadership Conference:  Mrs. White took eight students from the 4th and 5th Grade at Valparaiso and Ceresco to the NAESP Region 1 Elementary Leadership Conference at Doane University on October 9.  The students spent the day doing team building and learning how to be leaders in their classrooms and their schools.  Pictures from the event
     Fire Safety Day:  Elementary students from both sites went on an exciting field trip to the Valparaiso Rural Fire Department on Thursday, October 10, for a hands-on learning experience about fire safety.  The event, hosted by fire personnel from Valparaiso, Ceresco, and Raymond, allowed students to use a fire hose, try on gear, and learn safety procedures in case of a fire. A coin drive was done at both elementary schools with a bit of a competition through some "penny wars"  The combined schools were able to raise over $2200 to donate to the fire department.  Pictures from the Event

Submitted by Amanda Coufal, Director of Special Education
Sensory Safari:
            The life skills students were able to attend the Sensory Safari again this year at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo on October 2.  The weather was great and the students were fantastic.  This is always an anticipated event for our students to get together with their peers, and have the opportunity to touch, feel, hear, and smell at interpretive stations located throughout the zoo.  After the Sensory Safari, students had a picnic at the zoo and time to play on the equipment.  This year, we had 10 students attend from Kindergarten through the 18-21 year program.  We also had 10 adults assisting during this time.  A big thank you to Patty and her lunch staff for preparing sack lunches for our students and staff.  Also, a big thank you to Mr. Hanson for allowing the students to participate in this event.  And to our adults who took great care of our students and made sure that everyone was safe and able to participate in all the activities: Nicole Kliment, Paige Mestl, Stacey Doan, Jessica Knopp, Ashley Matulka, Melani Nelson, Courtney Barry, Clair Turman, Jody Albrecht, and Leann Wiese.  Scroll down for pictures to make your heart happy!
Treat Trolley:
            The Middle and High School Life Skills Students are in full force with the Treat Trolley again this year. Staff can sign up for salty or sweet snacks, lemonade, tea or water with propel packets on a Google form.  Then the students have to take their orders, create a receipt of items ordered, where the items are to be delivered and the final cost.  Students are working on their organizational skills, taking inventory, communication and money skills.  They also package the items in brown paper bags and staple the receipt for the recipient.  Thursdays are an anticipated time for staff to receive their treats and communicate with our students!
Project Search
            One of our students is completing her transition programming by attending Project Search at the Lincoln Marriott Cornhusker Hotel. During her IEP and employment meeting this week, they commended Raymond Central on the work that we have done to prepare her for this opportunity.  They quickly recognized that she had prior job experience, could follow a schedule and adapt to changes, stay focused on tasks, and how to dress appropriately for a job site.  The opportunity that she had at Raymond Central is allowing her to continue to develop her job-related skills and employability.
                    

• The Transportation and Facilities Committee will meet on October 29.
• We are locating some of the areas where the new driveway will be for water and electrical.
• I am working on getting things rolling for the new heat pumps at Valparaiso for phase 2.
• We are doing a boiler cleaning on all 5 at the high school. We had one refractory burn down in boiler 5.
• New cameras were installed and 3 new door accesses are complete.
• Working hard to keep the school operating and clean.  Chris comes back on November 1.
• This summer we installed new switches at the high school, so all campuses have new switches. Next year we will need to do a WIFI upgrade. We will be putting out an e-rate bid at the end of this year.
• We also just completed camera install at the football field, PK modular, and north side of the high school, and Access control has been added to some entrances at the high school.

• Rule 10 Assurances has been submitted prior to the deadline
• NDE Consolidated Data Collection Reports were submitted before the deadline
• State Conference - November 20-22
• Superintendent Evaluation - October 17-27