Week 10

                                              

  Great Things From the Week!

Thank you everyone for your patience and understanding as Roe and I have been offsite. We are back! :)

PTA Money Drive - Thank you for supporting this work.

SST Team, thank you for all you do and helping all students succeed.

Parent Teacher Conference sibling meeting.

Thank you SLT team for bringing back the writing protocols and commitments to action.

Thank you all for your professionalism and attention to the Great Shake Out! Great job everyone.

Thank you Amy and Lori for helping to get calendars handled.

Thank you Shelley for keeping the Tiger Store in business

Thank you teachers for all of your POINTS!!!

(I am not promoting the ad, I just love the lesson)



Thank you teams for your work around writing. It is important that we are understanding the instructional shifts and using writing to INFORM our instruction. We will continue to work with writing during Instructional Rounds.

Common Commitments 


Norm grading together as a team
10/25/19 writing scores into Illuminate
Talk about writing shifts
Grade level standards and rubric
Anchor papers
Informative writing to drive instruction
How do we use this to adjust instruction
Baseline - this is our first one
Conversations about process writing - less of them
More quick writes - free to write to many opportunities
2nd grade team - how to write to different genres
Adhere to academic language
Model Paraphrasing

Teaching Evidence Based Responses (just some examples)

• R.A.C.E.
• Oral response using evidence when responding
• CLOSE reading - find details to support their answer
• Note taking examples - AVID type
• Listening skills:
• Listen to the passage - 1 time

Second listen - take notes

Group talk about notes to add or delete info

3rd listen - Change or add to notes (optional)

Construction Update: Currently- we are hoping to move the classrooms to the portables on Nov 7th and 8th. We are working with the team and the movers to have as little impact on students as possible. I really appreciate the flexibility and grace during this process. We will get the teachers what ever they need to help facilitate this process. 

Instructional Rounds Communication:

Currently it appears that we will only have 2 round, instead of 3. Which means you will be out four days instead of six.

This is the first set of Instructional Rounds-

Final dates through December:

10/31 - Instructional Design - Both 

11/12 - Instructional Rounds - Harrison (ONLY)

11/22 - Instructional Rounds - Hawthorne (ONLY)

12/16 - Principal Cohort Meeting (am or pm) - Both, Principals Only 

*I know 10/31 is not ideal, but truly it was the only day that worked...we tried hard to find an alternative but it really was the only day. Sorry for any challenges that presents to you and your classroom. 

PE:-

If you need to change your PE times due to rotations/interventions, etc. Just go to the Hub and change on Google Doc. The purpose of the document is simply to keep track of your schedule when we are tying to find you or your students. 

Footballs and flags
Bases, bats, rackets, tennis balls, (Kick ball or baseball)
Rackets and birdies
Volleyballs
Scoops and balls
Soccer balls

                                         

This picture made me think about Direct Instruction- How can we apply the coach idea to direct instruction in the classroom?

Video Example of MTSS 

Upcoming Event:

THIS WEEK:

10/21- Sanci out for training all day
10/22- Lunch with a Loved One
10/23- HILT- Bring your HW (Your top 5 strengths and how they impact your professional and personal life)
10/23- Brown offsite after 2:30pm
10/24- Brown and Roe offsite from 11-2pm (State of the District)
10/25- Eureka Training for Harris and Kinder (except Farrar)

NEXT WEEK:

RED RIBBON WEEK
10/28- Sanci out for Pro-Act
10/28-Brown out until 11:00 am
10/28- 6th grade writing training 
10/29-Sanci at Pro-Act
10/29-Show Choir Program
K-2: 8:45
3-4: 10:15
5-6: 9:30
10/29-Roe Offsite after 2:00
10/30-Sanci Pro-Act
10/30- Staff Meeting (PGS- last module)
10/30-Fall Festival 5-7 pm
10/31-Innovate Ed Instructional Design (more information to come)
10/31- STEP Staff Meeting 2-3 pm
11/1- Minimum Day 11:15 dismissal (Teacher grading/planning afternoon)

11/3- Time change (Fall Back)




Please work with Lori to schedule your data dive days following your assessments. I will get you some basic protocols for this process. Please make sure we are using this data to infom our instruction. (it can serve as information before we teach it, as well as after-how do we fill in gaps)3-6 ELA IAB enter by Nov. 6
TK-2 Eureka enter by Nov. 6
Grade 3 Math IAB enter by Oct. 25
Grade 5 IAB enter by Nov. 1
GALLUP Survey Grades 5th and 6th - Complete by November 15th. 

Happy Birthday!!

10/31- Rhonda Egana