Week 12

                                              

  Great Things From the Week!

Coding in Kindergarten

Parent information night for Science Camp (Thank you Gainer, Hernandez and Harris)

Fall Festival!!! Thank you teachers for your support!
Thanks to the PTA for putting this on!!!

Awesome Door!!! Thank you teachers for decorating  your doors and passing out candy!!!

Rotations in Kinder and TK!!!

Preschool rocking the learning!!!

Growth Mindset!! Building the confidence of our students!

Math!!! Students building their understanding!! Great job!

VIP~!! Thank you teachers for rewarding good behavior!!!

FOSS Science!!! Great job to those of you who have dove in and are creating such amazing learning opportunities for students.

Lunch with the Principal!!

Candy Donations for Fall Festival

Reading assembly!!! Our goal is to get 100 % of students participating, please have blank permission slips for Parent Teacher Conferences in case you need to catch a few parents who haven't returned the forms. (Thank you Sallazzo we appreciate you bringing this to Harrison)

VIP!!!!

Fundraiser winner!!!! 3rd grade!!! Thank you PTA for the pizza party!

January 25th - The Arlington Cluster (Arlington High School, and all of the feeder Middle and Elementary Schools) is holding the first ever Equity Symposium. We are calling it ACES- Arlington Cluster Equity Symposium. We are bringing in Victor Rios as our Keynote Speaker and are working to provide Break Out Sessions. Please SAVE THE DATE. This will likely be held from 9 am-3 pm. This is a Saturday, which is the only time we can give all staff her opportunity to get together to learn and grow. This is a voluntary opportunity, but you WON'T WANT TO MISS IT!

I will let you know as soon as tickets are released, it will be first come first served!!! Make sure you sign up as soon as you see the email. 

As we dig deeper into data and meeting the needs of students everyday, I want to remind you that you have the freedom to make professional decisions about your classroom. How and what you teach should be intentional and specific to the needs of your students. Whole group/small group/1:1 - you need to make these instructional decisions and adjust as needed based on data. You need to be free to try new things, make mistakes and adjust for the needs of kids. As long as you can justify why you are doing what you are doing,  we are good with it. 

Make sure as you feel the pressure that you reflect. We can not take or adjust the amount of time we have, but we can adjust what we do with that time....if you are doing things because you always have and there is no data to support the work, free yourself and stop. Focus on the essentials and let go of all of the rest. You are free to focus. 

Instructional Rounds Communication:

Thank you team for your hard work and focus on evidence based writing. We will be having our follow up meeting here at Harrison on 12/3. Please work with Lori to get your subs for this day. We will be looking at shifts in practice and outcomes in student work. Our goal is to take:

The standards
The framework
Sources (Media)

Intentionally teach the Pre-writing process to demonstrate evidence gathering.  Allow students to construct a writing piece and we will evaluate their use of evidence in writing.

Additional consideration:
Close Reading
RACE

Listening/Speaking
Multiple Media
Modality of instruction of evidence based activities
Intentionally supporting students with intentional language based sentence frames/stems
Intentional decisions about collaboration/independent/whole class, etc. 

More opportunities for quick/free writes

                                         

Video Example of MTSS 

                                            


Upcoming Event:

THIS WEEK:

11/4- Make up picture
11/4- Make up Vision/Hearing
11/4- Grade 2 Data Dive Day
11/5- Brown to attend Wonders with Kinder team
11/5- SST full day
11/6- 6th Grade Science Camp 11/6-11/8 (Roe to attend)
11/6- Attendance Cut off day 
11/6- Brown offsite for DLAC until 12:00
11/6- Lori offsite after 12:00 for training
11/6- Classified Meeting 1:15-2:15
11/6- RUSD Title 1 Meeting (Sanci)
11/7-11/8 - Parent Teacher Conferences
Contract states " Working hours on elementary Parent Conference Days shall extend daily from the first through the last conference as scheduled by the employee, but in no case earlier than 12 noon." Page 43 Certificated Contract.

11/7-11/8 - Brown offsite for Leadership Program at RCOE

11/3- Time change (Fall Back)

NEXT WEEK:

11/11- NO SCHOOL
11/12- Grade 1 at Wonders (Brown to attend part of day)
11/12- PTA Meeting 2:20-3:20
11/13- CST Meetings
11/13- Grade 5 Data Day
11/13- Staff Meeting 2:05-3:20
11/13-PTA Bingo Night 5:00-7:00 pm
11/14- Brown offsite meeting until 11:00
11/14- Brown and Roe offsite after 2:30
11/15- CST Meetings
11/15- Fire Drill 8:15 am
11/15- Positive Behavior Team Meeting 2:15-3:00
11/16- Saturday School - Please help recruit kids


CST Schedule - Please bring Progress Monitoring Data (paper or electronic), Lexia reports, Reading Plus reports, District assessments or writing samples you want to discuss. Any additional data that would support our conversation about students and their progress. 

CST Wednesday  November 13, 2019
Teacher/Grade	Room	Times
Hawthorne / 3rd	14	7:45 - 8:15am
Gonsalves / 3rd	11	8:15 - 8:45am
Loder / K	7	8:50 - 9:20am
Voss / 2nd	10	9:30 - 10:00am
Fortin / 5th	23	10:10 - 10:40am
Larson / 4th	28	10:50 - 11:20am
Gainer / 6th	22	11:30 - 12:00pm
CST Friday  November 15, 2019
Teacher/Grade	Room	Times
Pham / 2nd	12	7:45 - 8:15am
Unzueta / 1st/2nd	9	8:20 - 8:50am
Pofahl / 5th	27	8:55 - 9:25am
Farrar / K	2	9:30 - 10:00am
Clark / 1st	B1	10:10 - 10:40am
McConnell / 4th	21	10:50 - 11:20am
Herold / K	4	11:30 - 12:05pm
LUNCH		12:05 - 12:50pm
Shay / 3rd	26	12:55 - 1:25pm
Hernandez / 6th	25	1:30 - 2:05pm
Egana / 1st	7	2:20 - 2:50pm

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 inform our instruction. (it can serve as information before we teach it, as well as after-how do we fill in gaps) 1 full day!

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.