New Employee Orientation
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
1:21 PM
Start an ongoing support system for employee success
Make Explicit:
Mission
Vision
Core Focus
New & Novice Supper & Learns @ Guam
Monthly
Mostly emotional & spiritual support (more than the pedagogy/info that was the
1st 3 years
Central Office (Monday morning)
- Mission, Vision, Core Values
- Portrait of a teacher
- New & Novice structure
- [Markham, include breakfast]
- 8:30-9 breakfast/social
- 9-11 Doug
- Principals & assistant principals as a part of this
- Personal plans
CO (other times)
Human Resources: lunch during regular inservice
TB testing: work out with Summer
Principals (Monday 11 a.m./afternoon, Tuesday)
- Classroom management, discipline, school procedures
- Tour of campus on golf cart–sign up for a slot
- Building tour (own building)
- LRC & student academic needs
- Nurse & medical protocols
- Plan your own lunches
- Computers/tech training [FACTS, Google Classroom, See Saw, Atlas]
- Mentors
- Calendars/long-range planning with mentor
- Student life/discipline
- [ID card/parking]
New & Novice Suppers [some CEU’s]
- Professional growth, certification, PECS
- School history
- Select professional topics
- Quarterly at Doug’s: Saturday brunch?
All-new-employee
- Swag [Sarah W]
- Sarah will give them a tee, hoodie, arctic mug
From another place …
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Central Office portion
Monday
8:30-9 Breakfast/fellowship
Markham
9-11 Doug
Culture, vision
Culture & Community Brunch
Sarah W: set-up & gifts (2026: notebook, pen, mug, tee, hoodie)
Human Resources (2026: Wed, Aug 5, 12:10-12:55 @ Markham during lunch)
TB testing (2026: Summer tracked people down)
Ministry Safe in 2026: year for everyone, so aiming for November PD
By level: all the rest; level communicates it all directly to the teachers
- Handbook
- ID cards
- DiSC: levels send the blurb that Sarah F gives them; Sarah F sends to employees
- Vehicle: levels
- Laptops: get them logged in before they leave campus
- Major food/allergy/dietary needs: give to Sarah Walters
Other
- Blood-borne pathogens: leave with BJU
- Ultipro: add to mentor checklist