Week 25

Crafting Our Future Together

Week 25

Great Things From the Week:

* Restorative Practices - Training for all to come.
*7th Grade counselors enrolling students.
*Read Across America is coming together, thank you team and PTA
*Alma Caliari - Teacher of the YEAR! Congratulations.
*SARTs- Thank you teachers and Amy for your support.
*SSC- Thank you Lori for your hard work on the school safety plan.
*SSC - Thank you Shelly for doing a Community Circle with our parents.
*A four day weekend!!! - I hope you all had an enjoyable time.

Saturday School This Saturday - Please recruit your students!!!

Survey Results- 
6 Voted to keep Zearn
5 Voted to keep Brainpop
2 Voted to keep Amplify
6 Voted to keep Lexia
4 Voted to keep Dreambox
0 Voted to keep Rocket Lit Birdbrain
0 Voted to keep Symphony
7 Voted to keep Mystery Science
3 Voted to keep Starfall
2 Voted to keep Reading Plus
2 Voted to keep Social Studies Weekly

We will be cutting Rocket Lit Birdbrain and Symphony
Reading Plus we will keep IF we can get a few license. If we have to pay for whole school we are going to cut. For next school year. 

6 Voted to keep Early Numeracy
5 Voted to keep K/2- Gateway
2 Voted to keep combo support 
0 Voted to keep Reading/Fluency Supervision

We will be cutting Combo support and reading/fluency supervision for next school year. 



FULL DATA DAYS:

Feb. 25th - 6th Grade
Feb. 26th - 5th Grade and Black
Feb. 27th - Kindergarten
March 4th - 1st Grade
March 5th - 3rd and 4th Grade and Peterson
March 6th - 2nd Grade

Lori will put your subs in. 

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.

SLT for HILT March 7th!

Gallup Survey Results -   bit.ly/Gallup18-19

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:

*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:

2/18 - 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

2/21 - Project Moving Forward 3:45-5:45 @ Taft

2/22- Super Tiger

2/22- Minimum Day student dismissal 11:15 

2/23- Saturday School

Next week:

2/25 - Report Cards Due for Review
2/25- 2nd Grade Field Trip
2/25- Lunch with a Loved One
2/25- Jump Rope For Heart
2/26- 4th Grade Field Trip
2/26- Fire Drill 8:30 am
2/26 - Brown off site after 11:30 am
2/27- Classified Meeting @ 1:45 pm
2/28 - Brown off site until 1:00 pm
2/28 - Lori and Brown off site training after 3:00 pm
2/28- Second Danielson Training- Make sure you sign up on PD HUB and note location
3/1- Read Across America
3/1- Report Cards go home

Happy Birthday

2/22- Melissa More

3/1- Beth Voss