Great Things From the Week:
Thank you for turning in your classroom schedules. I really appreciate your hard work.
Thank you team for your deep engagement in Instructional Design - Rock Stars
Thank you to the Family Night Committee, unbelievable turn out!!!
Thank you Holly, Karen and Shanda for helping out with a district walk.
Thank you Lori and Carlos for meeting with PTA to help plan for the dance.
Thank you Lori for ordering the Common Core Quick Guides for all teachers, it should be here soon.
Thank you Shanda, Jamie, Denise, Amy and Carlos for helping out at Saturday School - 71 students attended, that is a record!!! That is 71 excused absences!!! Awesome Job team.
Thank you Shelly and family for passing along the Ginger Bread Houses for Saturday School
(Me all weekend)
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 for turning in your classroom schedules. I really appreciate your hard work.
Thank you team for your deep engagement in Instructional Design - Rock Stars
Thank you to the Family Night Committee, unbelievable turn out!!!
Thank you Holly, Karen and Shanda for helping out with a district walk.
Thank you Lori and Carlos for meeting with PTA to help plan for the dance.
Thank you Lori for ordering the Common Core Quick Guides for all teachers, it should be here soon.
Thank you Shanda, Jamie, Denise, Amy and Carlos for helping out at Saturday School - 71 students attended, that is a record!!! That is 71 excused absences!!! Awesome Job team.
Thank you Shelly and family for passing along the Ginger Bread Houses for Saturday School
(Me all weekend)
Math-
Please make sure you are using manipulative as often as possible and there is evidence that they are accessible to students.
CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP5 Use appropriate tools strategically.
Mathematically proficient students consider the available tools when solving a mathematical problem. These tools might include pencil and paper, concrete models, a ruler, a protractor, a calculator, a spreadsheet, a computer algebra system, a statistical package, or dynamic geometry software. Proficient students are sufficiently familiar with tools appropriate for their grade or course to make sound decisions about when each of these tools might be helpful, recognizing both the insight to be gained and their limitations. For example, mathematically proficient high school students analyze graphs of functions and solutions generated using a graphing calculator. They detect possible errors by strategically using estimation and other mathematical knowledge. When making mathematical models, they know that technology can enable them to visualize the results of varying assumptions, explore consequences, and compare predictions with data. Mathematically proficient students at various grade levels are able to identify relevant external mathematical resources, such as digital content located on a website, and use them to pose or solve problems. They are able to use technological tools to explore and deepen their understanding of concepts.
Please allow students to complete the Problem Sets independently- this is the opportunity for you to select specific problems that students need to complete to show their understanding. If you do the problem with them, you are not requiring them to show what they know and how they know it. Students do NOT have to complete the entire Problem Set.
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
IF YOU CAN NOT FIGURE OUT HOW TO SIGN UP, COME ANYWAYS I WILL GET YOUR WHERE YOU NEED TO BE!!!
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.
Video Example of MTSS
Upcoming Event:
Enter DIBELS by January 24th
TK-2 Eureka enter by February 7th
TK-2 Eureka enter by February 7th
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 (Please come even if you can't figure out how to sign up)
NEXT WEEK:
1/27- CST
1/28-CST
1/28- Miles Of Smiles
1/28-4th Grade at Eureka
1/29- Miles Of Smiles
1/29-Brown out after 2:15
1/29- HILT cancelled
1/30-2nd Grade GATE Testing
1/30-Roe out after 2:30
1/30-District Spelling Bee Sierra Middle School
1/31- Janet onsite to support K-2 (I will send you email of what to bring)
Kinder 8:00-10:00
1st Grade 10:00-12:00 and Unzueta (lunch 12-1:00)
2nd Grade 1:00-3:00 and Jess
Please let me know if you need to switch times
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 (Please come even if you can't figure out how to sign up)
NEXT WEEK:
1/27- CST
1/28-CST
1/28- Miles Of Smiles
1/28-4th Grade at Eureka
1/29- Miles Of Smiles
1/29-Brown out after 2:15
1/29- HILT cancelled
1/30-2nd Grade GATE Testing
1/30-Roe out after 2:30
1/30-District Spelling Bee Sierra Middle School
1/31- Janet onsite to support K-2 (I will send you email of what to bring)
Kinder 8:00-10:00
1st Grade 10:00-12:00 and Unzueta (lunch 12-1:00)
2nd Grade 1:00-3:00 and Jess
Please let me know if you need to switch times
Happy Birthday!!!
Lalo Ortega 2/1
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