Our Attendance Safety Plan was submitted to the district, and the school board.
Tiger Store orders being filled this week!!
Movie with Principal was super fun!!!
Textbook distribution teachers and staff getting everything ready for distribution!!!
Thank you all for your hard work.
Textbook distribution schedule:
Wednesday 11-4
Thursday 2-4
We will pass out new math books and Science packets. We also will pass out anything still here from before. Tiger Store will go and any packets you made for the students.
Distance Learning environment requires some rethinking about what works will for you and your students. Committing or recommitting to a thoughtful and well-constructed plan to paper is a step towards a proactive approach to distance learning and can prevent problems from emerging.
Classroom Management plans outline the procedures, routines, and expectations for all the students in the class.
ACTION PLAN FOR THIS WEEK:
*Establish / Revisit Expectations for Synchronous Distance Learning-
Set and review student expectations around use of cameras, microphones, hand raising, chat box and responding to your prompts.
Think about how you might set daily lesson objectives and make sure you taught what you intended to teach.
*Develop and Teach/Review any Organizational and Procedural Routines.
Provide Weekly and monthly schedules so families and students can organize resources.
Provide a daily schedule at the beginning of the class meeting.
Teach students the signals you will use, ie getting their attention, transitions from lunch to activities, etc.
Create procedures for how students will retrieve materials, provide a list prior to the class meeting, provide a timed period of time for them to get what they need or have them conduct an activity that prepares them such as an inventory survey.
Crate procedures for how students will submit assignments. Teach them systems and give them class time to submit, or they may forget.
AVID
Advancement Via Individual Determination
Our AVID commitment is to hold all students to high expectations, Students need to be explicitly taught how to use organizational tools. They need to be monitored and held accountable. Take the time to teach your expectations and check in to make sure they are adhering to those expectations.
If students need more supplies please let us know, we can arrange for them to pick up from the office.
WICOR
W- Writing to Learn (we spent a lot of time on writing last year, with a heavy focus on teaching students how to read a text, pull out important information, take notes and use evidence to answer Essential Questions) Students can not write with out experience (in person, virtual or otherwise). They can not write about something they have not had a number of experiences with. We can not skip this step, they need visuals, multi-media, sensory, compare and contrast and other opportunities before they can write to a topic or subject.
C- Collaboration - We explicitly taught students how to collaborate, we used the 4 L's (or a variation). we provided sentence frames, assigned roles for each collaboration partner and followed up with feedback and checking for understanding.
O- Organization - It is so important to keep students organized, with hand held items, digital items, etc. We will all use the AVID binder and require students to be AVID ready (set a 30 second timer and they should be able to find what you are asking them to find- if not they are not AVID ready and they need support to become AVID ready. Peer support, teacher support, parent support, etc. )
R- Reading to Learn - Once students acquire the skills to decode, they shift to reading for a purpose, to learn. It is important that we are not just assigning reading to read, but rather to make connections, and expand a students learning process. Close Reading Skills are a great skill w need to teach all students. Use your protocols to walk them through how to identify important information and answer the Essential Questions.
EQUITY
Our equity goal for the year - Provide access to a quality education for all
Teachers please remember our students have many factors that hinder or support their learning. It is important that we are being flexible and supportive. There is no requirement for Independent work and I am fully against assigning homework in this digital space. I know students need to practice, but please be mindful of the workload our parents are already experiencing and the workload on students. If an independent assignment is essential and needs to be assigned please be gentle with setting due dates and times. Flexibility is the key. We will discuss more in staff meeting.
Reflect on your beliefs as an equity leader. How do you demonstrate your beliefs to your staff, students, and/or school community?
In an effort to “get comfortable” with the idea that something could be improved each day for our most vulnerable clients, students, or staff, how will you begin the improvement process?
Chapter 2:
* Create a chart for yourself as seen below. Break down your students. Are there trends?
Is our data creating the educational glass ceiling that is creating a barrier for some students and not others?
Using the chart how would these subjects support or hinder our students. How do we as elementary teacher impact this?
Discipline
AP Courses
FAFSA
A-G Completion
Intervention Courses
Special Education
DIBELS
Have you ever wondered what can change for students’ lives when we use data to uncover deeply rooted systemic inequities in the school system?
Reflect back to the charts you’ve completed, what barriers can be removed to create a path equity within our school system?
NUTS and BOLTS
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Want to get supplies to your students onsite or virtual?
see schedule below:
**During these pick up weeks, we will always have school supplies available, students just need to come by during assigned distribution days as communicated OR you can tell us what supplies you need and we will set up a pick up for your class.
District Mail Pick Up and Delivery
to Home Schools
Distribution to Families at Home Schools
Exact dates are to be determined
Week of September 14th
Week of September 21st
Week of October 12th
Week of October 19th
Week of November 9th
Week of November 16th
Week of December 7th
Week of December 14th
Week of January 11th
Week of January 18th
Week of February 8th
Week of February 15th
Week of March 8th
Week of March 15th
Week of April 12th
Week of April 19th
Program change window for your reference: We are not advertising as we are mostly full
School Level
Parent Program Change Selection Window
End of Grading Period
Possible Start Date of New Program Choice
Elementary
End of 1st Trimester
10/9/2020 - 10/16/2020
11/6/2020
11/9/2020
Elementary
End of 2nd Trimester
1/29/2020 - 2/5/2020
2/26/2021
3/1/2021
Middle/High
End of 1st Semester
11/18/2020 - 11/25/2020
12/18/2020
1/4/2021
We must find a way to make students want the change...To achieve this objective, educators need to build relationships, create investment in the class climate, and give the students a voice.
By addressing the behavior immediately, allowing students to speak, and seeking to understand the situation, we keep from doling out quick punishments that might mishandle the situation. We also build an environment in which students understand what they did and why it was wrong, and help to build their own sets of consequences.
- Hacking School Discipline
The Instructional Services team is happy to announce two supplemental resources for your students!
Lexia Core5 Reading: a computer adaptive literacy program that provides explicit, systematic, personalized learning in literacy.
Dreambox: an online math program that dynamically adapts to the student, providing personalized instruction aligned with state standards.
These resources can support you with planning for asynchronous instruction and are meant to:
Address learning loss
Fill in gaps in student understanding
Provide enrichment opportunities
Provide opportunities to deepen understanding of content standards
Lexia Core 5 and Dreambox should be used to support and supplement, but not replace, your core curriculum.
These resources are anticipated to be available to you and your students on October 14, 2020. The links below will provide instructions for you to get started. Question and Answer support sessions and further professional development to support you in using the data reports to meet the needs of students will be coming soon. Please reach out to our team for support!
Teachers will administer the Eureka Math End-of-Module 1 Assessment synchronously or asynchronously usingSeesaw or one-on-one interviews usingthe revised version of the assessment
Teachers can choose to administer the assessments synchronously or asynchronously using Seesaw or Kami. Assessments should be rubric scored, and data should be entered into Illuminate. Click here to learn how to enter the data.
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