Week 3

Great Things From the Week!

Writing Training, I am very excited for the shift!

Thank you Shelley for getting the Store up and running!

Egana, inviting admin in to see a math lesson with math manipulatives

Thank you everyone for your flexibility with construction.

Thank you PTA for putting together 180 snack packs for kids (Provided by Love 4 Humanity)

Thank you for all of you that have started Reading Plus and worked with Caryn who provided clarity and support. 

Thank you to the STEP team who work tirelessly to keep kids safe. 

Tiger Points/Tiger Store Communication:

Tiger Store will be up and ready to bye items at your first library visit. Shelley WILL need support getting students prizes.

Rosters for every class are available using my login- feel free to use.

cmbrown@rusd.k12.ca.us

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From the desk of Lori -

* Please sign into the sub system and make sure it works, if not please email Lori so she can fix the issue.

* Mandated Reporter Training needs to be complete by 9/20/19 - make sure you go through your email, it came from Brit Insurance, it needs to be competed individually. (It does require you to pay attention and interact with the presentation, so plan your time accordingly). The following show that it has not been completed.

*Use bit.ly/HarrisonHub for all calendars and schedules (Please always check the Hub before you ask) 

*Make sure you are putting in for subs if you are out. 

From the desk of Amber-

*CPR and First Aid In-Service Training opportunities in your box. 

Instructional Rounds- Leadership Team please make sure you fill out the google sheet by end of day Tuesday. Click Here

PE Schedule: Click Here 

Please make sure you are following your PE schedule, and teaching PE standards. Click Here

REMINDER: Our common commitments from 18/19 are still very important as we begin to layer on the support for students. 

SLT - Common Commitments: 

As we move closer to a student centered classroom, remember it is important for students to problem solve and Productive Struggle is good. The person in the classroom learning is the person doing the work..... 

As a first step, try to move closer to a 50% teacher talk/ 50% student talk model. (We need to increase intentional student talk/collaboration time)

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.

At the SLT we are keeping these common commitments, increasing student opportunities to focus on Speaking and Listening, and we learned about several new resources: 

https://www.commonlit.org/

https://listenwise.com

Math Manipulatives: Click Here

We will be walking around looking for math manipulative. Please invite us as you have a cool lesson!

MTSS- As you are finishing your BOY assessments, please start thinking about how you are going to group students based on need and data. If you have a large range of need work with your team and Sanci to help reach every student, every day.

Sanci is able to push in and support students as you are making groups- it may be beneficial to do rotations (centers) in your classroom. All students need to have access to the core so how are you going to ensure you are not taking struggling learners out of their core instruction. 

All students should have access to the teacher through out the rotations even if it is just to check in. Make sure all rotations/centers have an accountability piece (how do you know what they completed? Is there a response sheet, online report, etc)

Rotation/center ideas for independent activities while you work in a small group(sample, not exhaustive list):

Dreambox

Lexia

Reading Plus

Zearn

AR

Read Works (at level)

Brain Pop 

Writing 

Independent Reading (at level)

Math centers

Audio Book station

MyOn Reading

Student collaboration opportunities

Math Fluency skills (with/without timers)

Reading Fluency skills (with/without timers)

Sight word practice

Math games

Phonics games

Art projects

Research projects 

K-2 will have a full day pull out to work with ELA and Math Staff developers for our first CST. 

All teams will need DIBELS data AND booklets.

Any student in red (intensive) please complete the  Phonics Survey Diagnostic Assessment (attachment was sent in email) This is an area that Sanci can support your in as well.

From Colleen: 

I’m looking forward to working with you on 9/20.  Clarissa has asked me what data we would like to look at with regard to math.  I ask that you please bring your latest mid- or end-of-module assessments from Eureka (depending on where you are on 9/20).  Also, for 1^st and 2^nd, I’d like you to bring a recent Exit Ticket.  I know that is a lot of student work to bring, but we learn most in math by diving in to student work to really understand where the students are so that we may best support them and move them forward.  If you have any questions before 9/20, please don’t hesitate to reach out.  I’ll see you all on the 20^th. ☺

Please see schedule below:

We will be using the following schedule:

7:25-9:15- Kindergarten

9:15-11:05- First Grade

11:05-11:50 – Lunch for subs, first, second grade teachers and team members

11:50-2:05-Second Grade

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Construction Update:

As always construction is an ever moving target, please make sure all communication goes to Jessica and I if it concerns construction. Please do not talk to construction workers. Do NOT go on construction site, even if it is accessible, call the office if there is an open gate. The only time we are ever allowed on the construction site is with a hard hat and an escort - unless it is due to a student we need to get off the site. 

Upcoming Event:

DIBELS ENTRY BY SEPT. 13

9/2 - NO SCHOOL 

9/3 - Roe offsite Meeting until 12:00 pm

9/3- RUSD Board Meeting Vivianna (6th Grade) presenting the Pledge for Harrison

9/4- Brown and Roe meeting with Innovate Ed at site from 12:30-2:00 about Instructional Rounds

9/4- Staff Meeting at 2:05

9/5- Brown offsite Meeting until 11:00

9/5-Egana Choir Audition 1-6 grade 2:20-3:20

9/5- Brown Principal's Meeting 3:00-5:00

9/6- Teachers notified of Primary Evaluation by 9/6

LORI OUT ALL WEEK

9/9- Lunch with a loved one

9/9- 6th Grade Science Training

9/10- SART Meetings as needed 2:15-3:00

9/10- PTA Meeting 2:20-3:20

9/10- Roe offsite for meeting after 3:00

9/11- Fall Picture Day

9/11- Teresa Translator Training

9/11- Classified Meeting 1:15-2:15

9/11- Roe, Brown, Gainer, Shay, Larson, Pham, Egana all leave for Equity Conference, check in between 5:00 pm and 9:00 pm

9/12- Equity Conference (Sanci Admin Designee)

9/13- Equity Conference (Sanci Admin Designee)

9/14- Saturday School from 8-12:15 (Please advertise)

Happy Birthday!!

9/3- Maggie Farrar

9/6- Anne Peterson

9/15- Stephanie Gomez

Congratulations to Simone Patterson!!!