Great Things From the Week:
Thank you all for an awesome first week back as we cruised right past the mid way point of the year, you are Rock Stars and we are more than half way there!!!
Thank you to the teachers that turned in their daily schedules by Friday, if you have not done that please do so ASAP.
Thank you Roe and Sanci for handling Harrison in my absence.
Thank you all for your patience as I wasn't feeling well.
Thank you to the entire STEP team for being willing to try new things and accepting feedback. You are truly appreciated.
Thank you for the SLT team for your professionalism and work at SLT. We really do have the best team.
Thank you for those of you diligently passing our Tiger Points!! Keep giving out the points, the app has been updated and is much better.
DID YOU KNOW?
According to statistics, only 80% of students performing in the BLUE band of DIBLES are predicted to be Proficient on the CAASPP?
It is important that we make sure we are monitoring ALL students and providing each student with rigorous and engaging learning opportunities at THEIR LEVEL.
We need a robust Core with lots of opportunities for access for students through scaffolds, front loading, small group and multi-modalities of learning as well as interventions/extension for struggling learners, at level learners and learners who need to be accelerated.
EQ and Staff Meeting Clarification and Expectations:
Essential Questions help drive and focus our lessons. Using standards and objectives students understand the Big Idea and make connections within text and real life. EQ's are not more to our plate, they already drive our focus, rather we are just identifying them and making as many connections as we can.
Please chose one instructional area (minimum) to practice Essential Questions. They can be found in the ELA, Science, History and FOSS kits. Feel free to expand them and make them more robust if you are ready. We are asking that you post the EQ on your board or somewhere in your environment that students will use.
In an upcoming meeting we will be working on Note-taking skills, identifying and responding to an EQ is critical in note-taking. EQs do not function in isolation, they are just a part of the bigger process.
Thank you all for an awesome first week back as we cruised right past the mid way point of the year, you are Rock Stars and we are more than half way there!!!
Thank you to the teachers that turned in their daily schedules by Friday, if you have not done that please do so ASAP.
Thank you Roe and Sanci for handling Harrison in my absence.
Thank you all for your patience as I wasn't feeling well.
Thank you to the entire STEP team for being willing to try new things and accepting feedback. You are truly appreciated.
Thank you for the SLT team for your professionalism and work at SLT. We really do have the best team.
Thank you for those of you diligently passing our Tiger Points!! Keep giving out the points, the app has been updated and is much better.
DID YOU KNOW?
According to statistics, only 80% of students performing in the BLUE band of DIBLES are predicted to be Proficient on the CAASPP?
It is important that we make sure we are monitoring ALL students and providing each student with rigorous and engaging learning opportunities at THEIR LEVEL.
We need a robust Core with lots of opportunities for access for students through scaffolds, front loading, small group and multi-modalities of learning as well as interventions/extension for struggling learners, at level learners and learners who need to be accelerated.
EQ and Staff Meeting Clarification and Expectations:
Essential Questions help drive and focus our lessons. Using standards and objectives students understand the Big Idea and make connections within text and real life. EQ's are not more to our plate, they already drive our focus, rather we are just identifying them and making as many connections as we can.
Please chose one instructional area (minimum) to practice Essential Questions. They can be found in the ELA, Science, History and FOSS kits. Feel free to expand them and make them more robust if you are ready. We are asking that you post the EQ on your board or somewhere in your environment that students will use.
In an upcoming meeting we will be working on Note-taking skills, identifying and responding to an EQ is critical in note-taking. EQs do not function in isolation, they are just a part of the bigger process.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR!!!
*January 22nd Staff Meeting will be held at Arlington High School Theater. We will be viewing The Push Out, a movie by Victor Rios. The movie is a little less than an hour and will be from 2:30-3:30. *Classified Staff meeting will be changed from 1/15 to this event, so if classified can and want to attend they will be compensated for the hour.
PREVIEW CLICK HERE
Schedule:
*January 22nd Staff Meeting will be held at Arlington High School Theater. We will be viewing The Push Out, a movie by Victor Rios. The movie is a little less than an hour and will be from 2:30-3:30. *Classified Staff meeting will be changed from 1/15 to this event, so if classified can and want to attend they will be compensated for the hour.
PREVIEW CLICK HERE
ACES Update-
It's up on SCHED!!!
Sign up at bit.ly/ArlingtonClusterES
Limited to the first 300 people!!
Schedule:
8:30-8:45 Welcome and Light breakfast
8:45-10:05 - Victor Rios
10:10-10:55 - Break out session 1
11:00-11:45- Break out session 2
11:50-12:30- Closing Speaker
Instructional Rounds/SLT/Staff Meetings
At the last Instructional Rounds meeting, the team made some commitments and we developed a long term plan to meet the needs of school.
Commitments:
Continue the writing process as determined by the district.
Finish the writing, or work to develop and enrich a portion of the writing
Provide Student models/exemplars
Provide students with Rubrics and have them self/peer edit
Give them opportunities to improve their work
Provide higher level DOK prompts
Ask students to write about topics that have a social/civic impact
As a staff we will be working on Close Reading Strategies, Note Taking Skills and developing our ability to create higher order thinking questions during upcoming staff meetings. We will be working with Sarah Zuetel (AVID staff developer for RUSD). Although we are not an AVID site, we can steal all the AVID strategies.
Construction Update:
Kindergarten Playground will be closed for a few weeks. There is a plan for am, please use the upper playground as needed.
Video Example of MTSS
Upcoming Event:
DIBELS enter by 1/24 ( All students not just K-3)
TK-2 Math enter by 2/7
They need to be graded and entered by 23rd
Progress Reports due 1/13 to Roe or Brown
1/13- Roe out all day
1/13- 6th grade Eureka Math Training
1/13- Brown offsite after 2:30pm
1/14- Project Moving Forward Classroom visits, Brown to attend with K-2
1/14- Roe at Co-Admin Meeting until 12:30
1/14- Fire Drill 1:30
1/14-SART Meetings
1/14- PTA Meeting
1/15- 6th Grade Panorama Picture
1/15- DELAC - Brown offsite until 11:30
1/15- Classified Meeting Moved to 1/22 at Arlington High School 2:30-3:30
1/15- Team Meeting to discuss SLT and additional planning team time
1/16- SART Meetings throughout the day
1/16- Roe and Brown offsite after 3 for meeting
1/16- Family Art Night 4-5:30 (Make sure you turn in the RSVP slips it is a limited event)
1/17- Full Day Instructional Design at Harrison
1/17- Lunch with a Loved One
1/17- Brown offsite meeting 4-6
Progress Reports Go Home 1/17
1/18- Saturday School (Please advertise!!)
NEXT WEEK:
1/20- Martin Luther King Day - No School
1/21- 5th Grade Math Training
1/21- Spelling Bee
1/22- Classified and Certificated Staff Meeting Arlington High School Theater 2:30-3:30
1/23- Brown Principal's Meeting until 12:30
1/23- Earthquake Drill (Drop, Cover, Evacuate)
1/23- SSC and ELAC 2:15-3:00
1/24- 100th Day of School
1/24- Half Day SST
1/24- PTA Family Dance 5-7 pm
1/25- ACES at Arlington 8:30-12:30
Happy Birthday!!!
Stacey Nash 1/13
Lizbeth Gamez 1/13
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