Principal’s Post for March 30, 2025

Third Quarter Report Cards

We hope to have third quarter report cards physically mailed by the end of this week.

School Calendar for 2025-26

The academic school calendar for the Davenport elementary schools in SCCS has been passed and is available on the front page of our website.

ISASPs Coming Soon

The Iowa Statewide Assessments of Student Progress will be administered later this month: April 15, April 16 (8th gr Alg students only), April 21, April 22, and April 24. Testing begins right away in the morning and is typically finished by 10:00 a.m. Please try your hardest to have your students present during testing times. Students who are tardy on these days will not be able to enter classrooms during the testing periods.

Eighth graders who attend Algebra at Assumption will not have Algebra on April 22nd. Students should report to JFK by 7:25.

Registration Fee for 2025-26 Due

If you have not finished the registration process by paying the registration fee, please do so as soon as possible. While JFK had the highest percentage of returning families registered for next school year among SCCS (above 95%), we also had the lowest percentage of families that have paid the registration fee (below 60%). Directions for paying the registration fee are on the front page of our website, www.olvjfk.com.

JFK Spiritwear Spring Sale

The online spiritwear store will be open until March 31st. This is the last time to get JFK spiritwear this school year. Use promotion code “JFK” at checkout and receive 10% off your order.

Teaching Positions Open Now

JFK has several teaching positions open now:

Long-term and short-term substitutes: We are often short about one substitute teacher per day. Persons with teaching licenses, substitute licenses, and/or a substitute authorization are encouraged to apply.

Reading interventionist: We have been authorized to hire a full-time teacher immediately to work as a reading interventionist for the rest of the school year. A person in this position may be offered a job in an SCCS elementary building next school year regardless of whether or not there is a position to be filled at JFK next year. An Iowa teaching license is required.

Instructional aide: JFK is seeking at least one additional instructional aide for the 2025-26 school year.

For more information, please contact me at chad.steimle@olvjfkmail.com.

Standards/Evidence-Based Assessment and Reporting

A letter regarding the next step in the diocesan and SCCS elementary schools’ transition to more standard/evidence-based assessment and reporting was emailed around the beginning of November. It is also available below:

SBAR Letter

Here, again, is the link to the UPDATED instructions for parents to check their students’ “in progress” standards grades. It also includes directions for checking missing assignments and Algebra grades for students taking the class at Assumption. The directions cover how to use both the PowerSchool portal on a computer and the PowerSchool app.

Instructions 

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