Please update your Google Classroom codes as needed- I updated a few that you sent me but please double check. I will leave link here for the year. CODE
Great Things From the Week
Thank you to Manisha and Amy for holding down the front office, and helping with the transition.
Thank you all who are letting me know about Covid positive and exposure cases so we can stay safe and keep to protocols.
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Thank you to the Special Education team for welcoming students back from break. It was so good to see them.
SSC and Coffee with the Principal, turnouts are getting better, thanks for those of you who share fliers with families.
Thank you for scanning in and keeping or records up to date.
Cafeteria staff still serving our students 3 days a week (Tuesday, Thursday and Fridays 11:15-12:45)
Thank you supervisors for always getting the job done and being flexible in your work load.
REMINDERS:
The week of January 16th we have another round of distributions. Please bring what you have for our students next week. REMEMBER if you are sending items to different sites we need ASAP so we have time to send. Please put their name, grade, and school name on their items so we can send to appropriate location.
Distribution will be Tuesday and Wednesday Jan 19th and 20th. 8 am-2 pm in front of main office.
CST Follow Up
Please make sure you provide an Action Plan to meet you goals.
In Person please use the following form to share with us your goals and action plans for your target students : FORM
You all have editing rights with this form, please complete/add/delete or change as needed. I tried to fill out as much as I could from our meetings.
We will revisit the goals at our next CST in about 8 weeks
Student Engagement: As we move into second trimester, please start thinking about how you are engaging students.
Elements of Success:
Rich Learning Experiences- Students demonstrate agency and critical thinking in completion of tasks and activities that require high levels of intellectual engagement.
Collaboration and Teamwork- Student collaboration is a key component of learning and engagement, and students take initiative to collaborate in new or unplanned ways that further their learning and make it more engaging and meaningful.
Use of Instructional Materials and Resources- Instructional materials and resources are used effectively to support intellectual engagement and deep learning of the content.
Opportunities for Thinking and Reflection- Individual lessons, activities, and tasks, as well as instructional pathways, have multiple and effective opportunities to think, reflect, and consolidate understanding
We will continue to focus on the Danielson Framework for remote Learning - please read over pages 22-23.
Let's start by identifying what students need to be able to accomplish in their learning:
*Find information efficiently and be able to evaluate whether the information is useful, credible, accurate, and corroborated by other sources.
* Use information accurately and ethically.
*Create information such that its creating deepens one's understanding.
*Share information responsibly with audiences for a variety of purposes.
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.
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.
We will review at our January 27th Staff Meeting at 1 pm
Chapter 3 and 4-
Bring an item to the meeting that has some symbolic connection to your childhood. It could be a picture, sports memorabilia, a keep sake, etc.
Prompts:
1. Share your item and your story, share your background and how it brought you to education and to the work you do for kids.
2. How does your experience lend to an equity lens.
3. When you are looking at your data, specifically data around subgroups, how has your experiences helped you view that data with a flashlight rather then a club?
NUTS and BOLTS
Don't forget to check the bit.ly/HarrisonHub for all your Harrison needs
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
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!
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