Week 24

Crafting Our Future Together!

Week 24

Great Things From The Week!

*Thank you Harrison Team for holding down the fort in my absence all last week.
*Almost all STEP team Pro-Act Trained, Thank you all.
*Thank you Alma for serving as Admin in my absence.
*Thank you for all those who contributed to the Math Night and came as parents. We had over 100 people attend. They seemed to have a great time.
*Thank you for your professionalism in Instructional Rounds. You are absolute Rock stars. A special appreciation for those who took the courageous first leap and let us watch you students shine.
*Great job Shelley cleaning out the library .
*Thanks to PTA for getting Candy Grams together.
*Thank you team leaders for piloting Boystown Social Skills, I am hearing positive feedback already.
*Thank you all for checking your Digital Citizenship lessons, I made in error in looking at the district list. I believe we are all complete :)
*Thank you for those who completed the ALICE training. If you have not done that please let Lori know so we can arrange a plan for you to complete the training.

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.

Gallup Survey Results -   bit.ly/Gallup18-19

DISTRICT ASSESSMENT and IAB - ELA Feb. 12th

                                                            MATH Feb. 20th

Late students will be kept in the library. Please let the library know when you are done and need your students (a runner or a call)

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)

*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) - I  need to check on these

This week:

2/11 - Restorative Practices EOC - Brown out all day

2/12- Clarissa off site until 9

2/12 - ELA District assessments and IAB all grades(Late students will be in library)

2/12 - HILT (Current interventions, software and staffing and construction updates)

2/12 - PTA

2/12- Chemawa and Miller counselors for 6th grade

2/13- Brown out after 3

2/14- 2nd Grade field trip

2/14- Spirit Day

2/14- Brown out until 1

2/14- SSC 2:15-3:15

2/15 - NO SCHOOL (Please secure anything valuable for the 4 day weekend)

Next week:

2/18 - NO SCHOOL

2/19 - Coffee in the Community 7-8 am

2/20- Math District assessments and IAB all grades (Late students will be in library)

2/20 - PTA Brunch and Meeting - Clarissa off site until 11

2/21- Miller Middle School Open House 6-7:30 pm

2/22- Super Tiger

2/22- Minimum Day student dismissal 11:15 

                                                                  Happy Birthday

2/16  Nora Pritchard

2/22  Melissa More