Week 9

Crafting Our Future Together

Week 9

Great Things From The Week!

*6th Grade Eureka Training

*Thank you Sanci and John for your work with SST and our SST Training

*Getting to visit classrooms and seeing your great work (I am trying to leave little notes for you as I come through- More information at HILT)

*Ozobot and Osmo Training (Kits will be going out now that training is done. Please feel free to invite me to see your students, I would love to come in)

*100 Mile Club shirts and technology up and going, thank you Marci - This is a lot of work.

*Thank you Amy, Jonathan, Lori, Carlos and Shanell for getting Saturday School Dates. Sign up sheet is in the lounge we need both a Certified and Classified to sign up. You do get paid!!!

As we move into week 9 I wanted to thank all of your for your hard work and dedication to students. We have 3 more full weeks before we start to see a break.....ONLY 3. But that also means we have 19 more instructional opportunities to help students master the standards...ONLY 19. (November 2 is your report card Minimum Day). I know you are needing a break, but it's time for the final push. Please keep your self healthy and take time for you, the students need you at 100%. 

ELA Adoption Update:

Thank you to Shanda for her hard work and thoughtfulness of our TK-2 ELA/ELD Adoption Committee and Instruction Team.  Thursday, the adoption committee met to make a recommendation for materials.  Each site placed a vote for the materials they recommended.  The results are 60% recommending Benchmark and 40% recommending McGraw Hill Wonders. 

The next phase is to ensure that we have engaged all stakeholders in a thorough process with enough time to have a clear majority in recommending TK-2 ELA/ELD materials to the Board of Education. 

Below are next steps that need to take place during this final phase of review:

•  Materials to be displayed in the library through November 2^nd .

Delivery of materials for each grade, TK-2 for both publishers (Wonders should arrive Monday and Benchmark could take 7-9 days ) 

•  Grade levels with time to review either through a staff meeting or team meeting unless you choose to review during early release.
• Teachers have the opportunity to complete the site feedback tool and give to the site representative which they will bring to the next consensus meeting, Monday, November 5^th  

Nuts and Bolts:

- September 28th was our  All In Perfect Attendance Day. Ms. Tavaglione, Ms. Vaughan and Ms. Patterson all achieved perfect attendance for the day. Three students, one from each class will be selected to Whip Cream the Principal. The school is invited and it is scheduled for the end of the day, Friday October 12th. Students whip creaming, to be determined. (Please let me know if there is an error in this data)

-Please remember to take a walkie talkie with you during recess or PE. If you are leaving your class for an event such as book buddies, or a special trip to the library please just let the office know so we can find you in the event that we need you, or you can take a walkie. 

- Please Let Amy know when you have approved an Independent Studies so she can move forward with the contract with the student and parent. 

- Please carry your keys with you, as the Teacher's Lounge is often secured. 

- Let Amy know when you need Lexia certificates. Students have earned 75 certificates ALREADY this year. 

- Saturday school sign up sheet is in the lounge. This year Shanell and I will be creating fun and exciting curriculum for Saturday school. You will not have to provide make up work, although you many provide it for students should you choose. I want the experience to be fun and engaging to promote attendance, rather then seen as punitive. You will be asked to send home invitations, we will give you the student list for invites. Please encourage the students to attend. We need one teacher per session at this point unless our attendance increases. 

- If you expecting classroom treats, please let Debbie know ASAP so she can work with out to determine allergies and student needs. 

* Inclement weather SCHEDULE  if we need. 

* Indoor recess or PE ideas Click Here.

* Please sign up for the Eureka Training for your grade

level through the PD Hub.

* Danielson Training Dates:

1/15- Gainer, Fortin, McConnell, Hawthorne, Black, Patterson and Gonsalves.

2/28 - Voss, Clark, Pofahl, Larson, Peterson, Hernandez and McKendall.

4/9- Tavaglione, Loder, Egana, Pham,Vaughan, Shay

4/23 - Pritchard, Unzueta, Franczak

Upcoming Events:

10/8 - Kiersten Frausto walk through 9:30-11:30

10/8- Columbus Day and Indigenous People's Day

10/9 - HILT (Topic - Mission Statement, ELA Adoption, Great Shake Out, Walkthrough feedback and CAASPP)

10/10 - Clarissa and Breanna out for part of the day

10/10 - Kaiser Run 5:30-6:30

10/11 - Clarissa at Principal's Meeting until 1 (Alma admin.)

10/11 - Clarissa at Leadership Team Meeting after 2:30

10/12 - Clarissa off site 7:30-10:30 Esther Garica will be Admin. Designee

10/13 - Saturday School

TESTING WINDOW OPEN 10/15- 11/7 

10/15- ELAC Meeting 2:15-3:00

10/17 - Gonsalvez at Science Training

10/17 - Debbie at Training 9:00-10:00 AM

10/17 - Parent Conference Sibling Meeting in Library

10/17- Clarissa New Admin Meeting 3:00 - 7:00 PM

10/18 - Gallup Student Survey Open Until Nov. 8th

10/18- Statewide Quake Shake Disaster Drill 10:18 AM

10/18 - Clarissa off site PGS 3:00 - 4:30 PM

10/19 - Spirit Day

FOCUS: Danielson

Common Commitments – We are going to implement the RA in RACE. We are going to use collaboration/Productive Partnering and Sentence frames.

You were provided with RACE (ELA and Math), the 4 L’s and sentence frame posters. They are expected to be up and used in all classrooms (important for coherence). They do not have to be the exact ones we passed out but they need to be the same in content - I understand wall space can be a challenge. 

We are going to model RA verbally by using complete sentences and holding students accountable for responding in complete sentences.

As we move forward this school year I want to also remind you that we are focusing on core instruction. If we are focused on high levels of instruction with engaging and meaningful standards based lessons we are well on our way to moving students. RACE, collaboration, sentence frames and modeling complete sentences, are some  instructional strategies that can help us move students. 

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

10/18 - John Pofahl