10.27

Hi All, 

I hope that you had a wonderful weekend that that this post finds you well. I am safely in New Orleans and had a fantastic first day of the conference. I'm looking forward to new learning and the positive ways that this will impact our school community and the larger district as a whole. 

I was reminded today of the importance of gratitude in our daily lives today. If you could take a few minutes (7 to be exact) and watch this video. My challenge for the week would be to share a written, verbal or digital moment of gratitude for someone in our learning community and someone in your life outside of school. It's such a powerful and simple practice.  This video illustrates the positive impacts of this practice: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38sz6CZat9M 

Shoutouts 

• Thank you to those of you who sent "Shoutouts" for this week. It's so lovely to have others to post
• Danny, Mary Beth, Sarah, Melissa and Amber for having all their data and sharing it with the team during our Friday data team meeting. We had engaging discussions and every team was extremely efficient and productive all while having fun together making decisions to best support students
• Lisa Wilson for enforcing school rules for all at breakfast each morning. She is such a help in supporting our school expectations.
• Kim Knapp for taking care of pickups
• Ashlyn thank you for running data meetings 
• Megan Mitchell for dismissing Ms. Maring's classroom
• Nancy Robinson for checking in to help Ms. Mitchell
• Lori and Doreen thank you for the wonderful Birthday Munchies idea! 
• Thanks to ALL for supporting two drills last week, my apologies for having to stack them in one week. I figured that was better than doing one on Halloween. 

News and Announcements 

• District Writing Prompt
• Delivered November 4th or 5th---scored the 6th of November at staff meeting
• We will talk more about this at staff meeting on the 23rd. The rubrics are scoring mainly on the conventions of writing so do not fret you do not have to have taught the writing genre prior to the prompt.  
• There will be No Staff meeting this week  due to it being the 5th Wednesday. 
• Family Conferences---The day for conferences is the 11th of November. If you so choose not to host them on that day you can schedule your conferences the week before and the week of the 11th. Please be clear with your families about their available days and how they are to sign up. 
• 3-6 Recess is working to earn soccer privileges back. They are operating on a progression of "soccer ish" and if they are successful then they can have full games back by the beginning of November. The progression is below:
• Recess Soccer Progression
• Utilize "World Cup" a variation of team soccer with one goalie. Please see Tyler with more specifics.
• Data Meetings---see data to bring here

What's Happening at Berlin?

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday	Team Meetings--- 5/6, 4, 2 **Bring Unit 1 and 2 (if you have it) fundations assessments please.

Where is Celia?

Monday	Celia Out
Tuesday	Celia Out
Wednesday	Celia Out
Thursday	8:15-9:15 Special Ed Meeting  10:00-4:00 Budget Meeting  **Celia Out of Building
Friday	Team Meetings (5/6,4,2)

10.17

Hi All, 

I'm so late, I'm actually ahead of next week's post! Seriously though, my apologies. I've been trying to be more proactive with you all this year in terms of information etc and sharing the blog is a way to do that. This short week has been a bit of a doozy. 

I will be out tomorrow all day. Jess and Tyler are on deck and I am available if the sky is falling! You will have team meetings, Ashlyn sent you a plan and I have some documents that are in draft form for you all to look over as well. 

Shoutouts 

• Amber D---you're doing a great job implementing the plan. I'm loving the "positive break" calls.
• Amber B thank you for covering for P.E. 
• Betsy V for stepping in for 1:1 coverage 
• Tyler for rocking the new behavior work 
• Melissa thanks for such a wonderful conversation about your ECO space
• Christine and Addie---thank you for covering for teachers 
• Deborah G---thank you for helping me in PK last week---so fun!
• Colby---thank you for providing additional support to your classroom.

Don't forget to send you "shoutouts" along! I'll pop them in the blog weekly. 

News and Announcements 

• District Writing Prompt
• Delivered November 4th or 5th---scored the 6th of November at staff meeting
• We will talk more about this at staff meeting on the 23rd. The rubrics are scoring mainly on the conventions of writing so do not fret you do not have to have taught the writing genre prior to the prompt.  
• There will be No Staff meeting the 13th of November because of family conferences. 
• Family Conferences---The day for conferences is the 11th of November. If you so choose not to host them on that day you can schedule your conferences the week before and the week of the 11th. Please be clear with your families about their available days and how they are to sign up. We can talk a little more at staff meeting next week about this. 
• 3-6 Recess is working to earn soccer privileges back. They are operating on a progression of "soccer ish" and if they are successful then they can have full games back by the beginning of November. The progression is below:
• Recess Soccer Progression
• Passing will be allowed this week---one person to one person
• Then we will work on shooting on goal (without a goalie) in an organized way with the addition of passing. (this is something that they've done before) 
• Utilize "World Cup" a variation of team soccer with one goalie. 
• Staff Meeting October 23--
• Quick Nuts and Bolts 
• Zones Training 
• Fire Drill for October 21 at 11:30
• Options Based Drill---October 25
• Teacher Script
• Letter to Families
• Attached to this blog email are all of the resources that Joelle has shared with us this year

What's Happening at Berlin?

Monday	Fire Drill at 11:30
Tuesday
Wednesday	Staff Meeting
Thursday
Friday	Team Meetings--- K, 3, 1  **Bring Unit 1 and 2 (if you have it) fundations assessments please.

Where is Celia?

Monday	8:15 Student Meeting  10:00 Goals Meeting  10:30 Meet with Susanne  2:00 Student Tour  2:30 Goals Meeting
Tuesday	8:15 Student Meeting  4:30 Student Meeting
Wednesday	12:15-1:15 Student Meeting 3:15-4:45 Staff Meeting
Thursday	8:15-9:15 Special Ed Meeting  10:00-4:00 Budget Meeting  **Celia Out of Building
Friday	8:00 Chuck  Options Based Drill  Team Meetings

10.6

 

Hi All, 

I hope that you all had a good weekend. There is some serious leaf peeping activity happening around our state! I hope that you all found some beauty and just the right amount of human interaction. I also hope that the flu/covid shots didn't take anyone down. 

The change of season and darkness is always tricky but I am so grateful for this weather! It does look like it will be cooler this week. Make sure that kids have sweatshirts and appropriate outside gear when they head out!

Shoutouts    

• Annalissa--thanks for orchestrating coverage
• Erin Mullaney-- thanks for organizing the Flu/Covid clinic 
• Michelle M and Brittany--thank you for supporting your class a little extra last week
• Megan M--Thanks for all the computer help 
• Kim Knapp--thank you for helping a 2nd grade student and stepping in to welcome the bussers
• Shout out to Becky P. for coming down to 2nd grade to share, model, and kick off Our Explorer of the Day Project
• Danny Velez for sharing valuable resources and showing he cares so much for his challenging learners

News and Announcements  

• Scheduling Reminder: Now that we are almost finished testing and you're getting used to your schedules. Please remember that your WIN times there should be no new/first instruction. WIN time can be used as menu time, small group rotations, independent practice or other teacher interventions. 
• Staff Meeting: We will be learning about Zones of Regulation at staff meeting this week.
• New Danielson Framework: click here
• Celia's Schedule: I am giving you my best guess. I may have to be out one full day for budget but that is still TBD. I will update you if necessary. 
• Recess Reminders: 
• The three staff on the recess schedule should determine who is going to stand in which Zone: Front (near the back of the building), middle, and back.
• The Baseball field and the pavilion areas are now out of bounds.  The soccer fields are in bounds, however students are not to go past, or way over to the right near the woods/opening to the nature trail.
• We are also going to try lining up K-2 a little later so they are not early and just standing their waiting.
• Here's an interesting webinar/conversation put on by Embrace Race. As we enter the next month of the campaign and the election I will keep sending along resources and curricular support. 

Join the conversation: The Meaning of Kamala Harris - for Our Kids and Ourselves Thursday, October 10th, 8:30 - 9:30 pm ET

What does the upcoming presidential election and its historic identity choice mean for kids and their adults? Yes, there are huge questions of democracy and policy differences at play. But what we’d like to talk about is this: how and to what extent do Kamala Harris’ racial and gender identities, and the representation of those identities, matter? How do they matter for you? How do they matter for the kids in your life? It’s our first Talking Race & Kids online conversation in a while and we’re pumped! Register to join us live and/or to receive the recording afterwards. Live Spanish interpretation will be available during the event.

Register to join!

We want your stories to be part of the conversation. What feelings, conversations and actions has the fact of this historic candidacy evoked in you and with the kids in your life? Share your stories when you register or emailing us: hugs@embracerace.org. We’re thrilled to be joined by returning guests Drs. Allison Briscoe-Smith & Ralina L. Joseph and, of course, by you! What's Happening at Berlin? Monday Tuesday Katherine McCauley-Flippin Baby visit  Wednesday Staff Meeting 3:15-4:45 Thursday    Friday No WIN–Team Meetings During Specials. Meetings will be held in the Literacy Intervention Room Where is Celia? Monday 10:00 Meeting with Susanne  2:30 Student Meeting  3:45 Student Meeting  Tuesday 10:00 Student Meeting  11:30 Student Meeting  2:00 District Safety Meeting  Wednesday 12:15-1:15 Superintendent Meeting Staff Meeting Thursday  8:15-9:00 SPED Team Meeting   Friday 7:30-8:30 LAU Plan Work Meeting  8:30 Chuck Meeting  1:30--- Meeting with Nurse Erin