OFFICIAL SNAIL MAIL SUMMER LETTER

Dear Advising Families,

To those of you new to Trillium Middle School, welcome to our Advising class! Welcome back to the folks from last year. I am privileged to work in such a caring and progressive school with such amazing students.

My name is Kurt Maier. I will be starting my third year at Trillium and my thirteenth year of teaching professionally. I feel I finally have a solid understanding of all aspects of the school. I am language arts instructor for the Upper School and this year I will also teach West African drumming to the Lower School as well as the Upper School.

As your student’s advisor I will be helping with learning plans, class selection, publishing work, managing their new e-Portfolio, building community and having fun in advising class, and much more. It is also a large and important part of my job to help navigate the new, more social waters of middle school.

I will be contacting you for a home visit at the end of August and the first week of September. School begins on the 8th of September. You will receive a detailed home visit packet in the mail that needs forms filled out and material signed by the time I arrive. This is a very important meeting. It is our first chance to let you know about changes in the Middle School schedule and program, come up with a plan for the year, conference about passions, hopes and dreams, challenges and worries, and get most of the paper work and activity fees paid for the year.

We are having a Middle School potluck on Wednesday, August 27th at Overlook Park from 5:30 – 7:00. If this time/date changes we will let you know. It will be another good chance to mingle and talk to new and veteran Trillium families and get a feel for what is in store

We have two new MS advisors this year (Nina and Amy), and they are truly amazing people. We have the strongest, most well rounded staff in the Upper School than ever before with people finding the perfect niches. We have included a summer homework assignment for your student! Check it out…it should be fun.

The best way to contact me is through email. Mine is kurt@trilliumcharterschool.org. (NOT Kirk@tr…..) You can contact ANY staff member of the school by entering their first name and then the school’s name as seen above. We all have blogs too! This is a place for assignment updates, due dates, announcements, syllabi for all classes, and more. To access my Advising Blog go to: http://kurtadvising.blogspot.com/ Aside from newsletters, my class liaison, (Any volunteers for this spot? I haven’t ever had a full time liaison and I REALLY need one badly!) the occasional phone call, these two methods are the best for gathering information.

Thanks for choosing Trillium. Thanks for being in my class. Welcome! Let’s have a great summer and come back relaxed and refreshed and ready to get our learn on!


Sincerely,

Kurt