Week 21

Crafting Our Future Together! 

Week 21

Great Things From the Week:

*Supervisors keeping our students indoors during the rain.
*FOSS Science in 3rd Grade
*Our first group of teachers are Danielson Round 1 Trained
*911 Assemblies
*Amazon Field Trip for Computer Science
*PTA is planning for Family dance and Read Across America
*ELAC and SSC parents visited the California Dashboard and reviewed Construction updates
*Choir Performance - Thank you Rhonda and all the staff for showing your support
*Girls Who Code started - Thank you Shelley and Shannell

SLT - Common Commitments:

As a staff we will commit to Intentional Collaborative Conversations.

“Intentional” means- grouping students together for an intentional purpose: giving certain partners or groups specific types of questions, and/or giving roles/jobs to particular students for a purpose in mind. (Such as a Reader, Writer, Illustrator, Reporter, etc… without giving a lower reader the Reader position, or shy person the reporter position.)

Within the Collaborative Conversations include using the 4Ls as norms, using sentence frames, complete sentences, and RACE as appropriate.

NUTS and BOLTS

January 25th is the 100th day of school. To celebrate we are all dressing up like we are 100. Fliers will be going home next week. As a school we can parade around the circle. I am not inviting parents to the parade, it gets to crazy. More information to come. (Thrift shops have some great gear at great prices if you would like to get in the spirit with me)




TENTATIVE CAASPP TESTING WINDOW : (Draft Schedule at this time)
Grades 3-6 ELA April 29th - May 3rd
Grades 3- 6 Math May 6th - 10th
Grade 5 Science  May 13th -17th
Make- Ups for all May 13th - May 24th (If necessary)

It is likely that we will not have library and READ 180 for the month of May due to construction and testing. Please do not schedule any field trips or invite/plan school wide activities from April 29th - May 17th if it will impact those testing. If you know a student is going on Independent Studies during their testing window please let me know ASAP.

Staffing and Construction Update:

*Retirement notifications need to be in by Feb 12th (I believe)
*Grade Level Preference Sheets will be going into your boxes around Feb 12th as well.
*Contract states you need to know your tentative grade level by May 15th, but I am hoping to have that information to you well before that. (I have to consider retirements, hires/transfers, leadership team, GATE, etc.......and moves). 
*Constructions currently is slated to start this summer. There are so many moving parts and they meet to discuss and adjust every two weeks that it is hard to move beyond a draft plan. I will let you know to the best of my ability where you are moving, if you are moving, and what construction will be done on each of your work spaces by April. I am trying to give you as much time to prepare for the moves, and construction. But it is always a moving target. I appreciate your patience.

*We are committed to teaching all four parts of Eureka Everyday: Fluency, Application Problem, Concept Development, Debrief.

*Goal is a balance of 50% teacher talk and 50% student talk.

*Manipulatives should be out and used.

-Instructional Time is valuable, please make sure we maximize every minute we have with our students. Make sure your activities all day long are addressing the Standards.

* 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: Take your Danielson Book (Please trade with someone if you can not make your training date)

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

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

4/23 - Pritchard, Unzueta, Franczak, Caliari, Patterson (Simone)

Boys Town Training for those who signed up will be here at Harrison 1/24 and 1/29 

Restorative Practices for those who signed up will be 1/22 and 2/11 from 8:00-3:30 at EOC 

This Week:

Progress Reports go home 1/18/2019

1/21 - MLK Day - NO SCHOOL

1/22 - Restorative Practices at EOC (Clarissa out partial day)

1/22- HILT - Topic DIBELS

1/24- Boys Town Training Room 24 (Clarissa at training).

1/25- 100 Day of School - Dress up and Parade at 1:30

1/25 - PTA Family Dance

1/26 - Saturday School (Please advertise)

1/18- Spirit Day

Next Week:

1/28- Lunch With a Love One

1/28 - Clarissa off campus 10-2

1/29 - Boys Town Training

1/29 - Miles of Smiles 

1/30 - Classified Meeting

1/31 - Clarissa off campus until 1

2/1 - Fresh Coffee for the staff

2/1 - Full Day SST

2/1 - Tiger Store at lunch 

2/1- Gate Testing

Happy Birthday!

1/23 - Alma Caliari

2/1 - Lalo Ortega