Hi All,
I wanted to say thank you for your flexibility and understanding last week as we navigated through the worst of Rowan's recovery and some very long budget meetings. I was in the building for not a lot of time last week so my observations from the field are limited:
- I heard about RAVE All School Meeting behavior reviews. So, hat's off to all of you who helped, prepped and prepared to make the meeting successful for all.
- Thank you to Jessica and Tyler for stepping up in my absence to help facilitate.
- I witnessed strong team communication around sticky student stuff
- I participated in strong team communication with outside agencies
- I was thankful to you all for helping write the impact statement for the board
Surprise! Next week is Winter Spirit Week.
Monday is Sports Day
Tuesday is School Colors Day
Wednesday is Hat Day
Thursday is Fancy Day
Friday is PJ/Comfy Day
- Reminder: Wednesday is a half-day early release. We will dismiss students at 12:30.
- K-2 Lunch from 11:20-11:50
- 3-6 Lunch from 11:50-12:20
- K-2 Recess from 11:50-12:20
- 3-6 Recess from 11:20-11:50
- Teachers our time will start at 1:30 and will have some self-directed learning time as well as time for grade alike group work. These were the talking points from staff meeting last week:
Teachers will meet together at Berlin Elementary School from 1:30-4:45 p.m. Paraeducators will focus on de-escalation strategies with Cat Fair and Sarah Ainsworth from 1:30-3:30 p.m. in the EMES music room.
The agenda for the work at Berlin is modeled after the UDL sessions and includes an inclusive welcome, time to look at student writing, self-differentiated learning, and an intentional closing.
Classroom teachers, literacy interventionists, special educators, OT’s, SLP’s, and principals will spend time together in grade alike groups looking at student writing. Classroom teachers will be asked to bring copies of student work (names redacted) to share with grade alike colleagues. We will be looking at the fall all district writing prompt. Exact details about the number of copies will be forthcoming.
Other subject alike groups will meet from 1:30-4:45 p.m. to focus on other curriculum, instruction, and assessment work.
There will be a variety of choices for self-differentiated learning. Details will be forthcoming. We will be asking folks to indicate their first, second, and third choices so that we can assign them in advance. All menu choices focus on some aspect of writing and/or connecting writing to other PD modules from the fall. Some of the choices will be facilitated and others will be self-facilitated so that all learning needs/preferences are addressed.
Principals will assign folks to grade alike groups.
Again, all details and a menu survey will be forthcoming very soon.
- We will NOT have PLC on Wednesday morning because of the work we are doing in the afternoon.
- Paras we will meet Tuesday afternoon from 3:30-4:30. This is not mandatory but if you'd like to stay I will pay you. Agenda
- Here is the link to this week's Marshall Memo. The memo is a roundup on interesting article put together by Kim Marshall weekly.
- Friday will be our Gifts for Giving Day. After I am finished with the blog I will continue to work on flushing out assignments etc. Here is the DRAFT.
- Board Meeting---Wednesday night at 6:15 at U-32. I would expect this one to be longer.
Where is Celia?
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