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Hi All,

Any break always seems to fly by in the blink of an eye. I hope that whatever this break brought you, you had a moment for yourself and that you are grounded and ready for the second half of the year. I know that right now I have my fingers crossed that we will have a passed budget come morning! Here's to a great month of March. 

I will be out on Friday afternoon, Rowan was on the cancellation list for the Audiologist and the ENT and we got appointment last minute.  

News and Announcements 

• VTCAP is coming. We will be testing in the month of April. Like last year each grade will have a day to test in the morning and then in the afternoon. I have a DRAFT here for you to look at. I will be collecting feedback and sending out a more detailed schedule with locations and accommodations etc. next week. Here is the draft. 
• Training for VTCAP will be at an upcoming staff meeting. 
• On Demand Writing Prompt---Opinion will also happen in the month of March We will assess the writing using newly revamped rubrics! I think you will really like them. 
• April 2nd during staff meeting we will have grade alike time to create some common benchmarks for writing.  
• Please take a look at Jennifer Miller-Arsenault's Curriculum Newsletter.
• Lastly, Responsive Classroom will be offered in August this year. They are hoping to offer RC1, RC advanced and RC Middle Grades. I HIGHLY recommend that everyone take advantage of this offering right at U-32 even if you take it as a 'refresher.'  There has been a lot of new content in the last five years.    
• Schedule for 25-26---I am hoping to have a schedule for you all to tune and look at in the next two weeks. 
• Grade Configuration 25-26---I took a look at your feedback and the results were clear. I will share the feedback at staff meeting and we will talk about next steps. 
• Literacy Night---The PTNA is working on a community night focused on literacy on the 20th of March. We're looking for a creative name if anyone has any ideas send them my way! 

What's Happening at Berlin?

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday	Staff Meeting
Thursday	Coffee and Conversations with Steven 8:00 PTNA Meeting 6:00-7:00
Friday	Data Meetings: 3, K, 1

Where is Celia?

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday	WCLT---Team Meeting 1:00-2:00
Thursday	Meeting with Susanne 10:00 Meeting with Julia P 11:15
Friday	3rd Grade Tour  Project Serve Check in 10:00-10:30  Student Meeting 10:30-11:30  Student Meeting 11:30-12:30  Celia Out at 12:30 ***