5.25

   

Hi All,

I hope that you all had a good weekend. We're getting into the final countdown as wild as that seems. Let's make sure we stay hydrated, focused and relying on our team and we'll be cruising to the finish line in no time. Let's ride!

Observations from the Field

• An amazing team of teachers supporting our students in multiple performances 
• Staff being extra thoughtful around supporting students
• Staff taking time to review routines even at the end of the year 
• Staff giving clear and actionable feedback 

News and Announcements

• Goals Meetings---Please schedule with Lori 
• Hiring Committee Volunteers- We are in need of a hiring team for the Art Teacher (.4 Opening). If you are interested in this position please reach out to me asap. 
• I don't have a time set yet but can get one set as soon as we have a team up and going. 
• Here are some great summer reading resources as put out by the VPA. Take a peek, I'll be reading at least a few of them! The picture should be clickable to a link for a clearer image of the texts. 
  
  
• Here's a great article: https://www.naesp.org/resource/the-power-of-school-home-partnerships/

Marshall Memo 1138

• This week's quotes and articles come from Education Week, Stefan Bauschard, "Collective Impact" (a book), Edutopia, The Learning Dispatch, American Educational Research Journal, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, Reading Research Quarterly, Knowledge Quest, and Kappan. Here are the headlines:

  • Twelve ways principals can build collective efficacy
  • Angela Duckworth on willpower, cellphones, and AI
  • Can students learn instructional content from TikTok andYouTube?
  • Using an automated scoring program with middle-school writing
  • Hidden linguistic difficulties in math word problems
  • Key factors that affect beginning readers
  • Teen novels about surviving emotional trauma
  • Troubling data on high-school sophomores
  • If you want an HTML version of this week's Memo, please click here.

  To listen to a podcast of last week's issue (#1137), click here.

  For a podcast of this week's Memo, log in at  here. www.marshallmemo.com later this week and click Podcasts.

What's Happening at BES?

Monday 5/25	No School
Tuesday 5/26
Wednesday 5/27	Teacher PD 8:20-9:20  Staff Meeting 3:10-4:45 *Please bring shoes you can walk in Board Meeting 6:00
Thursday  5/28
Friday 5/29	Team Meetings K-2 Academic

Where is Celia?

Monday 5/25
Tuesday 5/26	Goals Meeting 2:30-3:00
Wednesday 5/27	Teacher PD 8:20-9:20  Student Meeting 10:00  WCLT Nuts and Bolts 1:00-2:00
Thursday  5/28	Student Meeting 9:00-10:00 BES SST 10:00-10:45
Friday 5/29	**Celia Out** Rowan No School