HR
These two rockstars, each a cornucopia of talent, serve as Nowell's Title IX co-coordinators.
Melissa Slaiger, Guidance Counselor
Drew Allsopp, Chief of Finance & Operations
A snow day counts as this type of day on your time sheet: regular, sick/safe, holiday, or personal.
What is regular?
This is the amount of time an employee has to report suspected abuse or neglect to RI DCYF.
What is 24 hours? Mandatory reporters could be found guilty of a misdemeanor with a fine and/or prison time for failing to report.
There are this many pay periods in a school year.
How many is 26?
These three (3) training days, prompted by the RI Commissioner of Education, were recently added to the Nowell calendar.
What are Right to Read training days? The dates are: October 31, December 21, and March 20. More information to follow on what will be happening during these days.
Under this circumstance, a sole student and sole teacher are permitted to travel in a car together.
What is no? Under no circumstance should a single student and a single teacher travel in a car together. Should a Nowell student have an emergency, a second staff member shall always be present in the car.
These two methods will get the parking arm to lift in our garage at 165 Washington Street.
What are:
1) Swiping with your white parking pass
2) Pressing "other options", calling a phone number from your cell phone, and following on-screen instructions
This federal holiday will be observed on Monday, June 19, 2023. What does it commemorate, and in which US state did it originate?
Juneteenth, which commemorates the emancipation of slaves. (It is not the day that slaves were freed - that was more 2.5 years earlier, with the EP).
Juneteenth originated in Galveston, TX. General Order #3 was a legal decree that announced enforcement of the EP for slaves in TX.
This ugly acronym requires schools to seek parental permission (or student permission, in the case of adult students) prior to sharing educational records.
Also, what's the acronym stand for?
What is FERPA?
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
This is the length of time you must remain employed at Nowell after receiving tuition reimbursement to avoid having to pay it back.
How long is one full calendar year?
This is the phone number to contact Nowell's Employee Assistance Program, which provides free resources for employees (and their dependents and household members) when they could use a helping hand.
What is (888) 293-6948?
What is (800) 227-8620? This number may be out of date. If so, Drew will send a revised version of the handbook.
These are two of the eight Student/Employee boundaries described in the Nowell Employee Handbook, and what they mean.
What are: Curricular, emotional, language, relationship, physical, power, financial, communication?
These are the two parts of the Employees' Retirement System of RI, and how much pre-tax income you and Nowell contribute to each.
What is TIAA-CREF - employee 7%, Nowell 3%
What is ERSRI - employee 3.75%, Nowell 15.04%. Pension calculated by years of service, visit ERSRI for a calculator and further information.
This is what you do if you know you're going to be out sick tomorrow.
This is what you do if you have to leave during the day.
What is email ops team and Dan and Rose before 7AM? Ops team will assign coverage on the shared "staff coverage" doc and send emails to covering teachers.
What is email ops team and Dan and Rose? Dan or Rose will communicate with those asked to cover.
Nowell Academy students appeared in this "newspaper of record" on two dates in the past five years. Name the paper, and the two dates.
NYT:
June 18, 2018
Sept 30, 2021