“A vacation helps to relieve stress and boredom, gives us a change of scenery, provides us with adventure, and helps to bring us closer to the people in our lives.” – E. S. Woods

One more week, we hope you will enjoy your well-deserved vacation or staycation!!

Tuesday FEB. 13TH FIRE/EVACUATE AT 9:40

• Practice these drills with your students and have them become familiar with the language

• 2023 District Safety Slides 

• All specialist teachers, MLL, SPED, Improvement teachers, SEL, WIN groups... practice drills with your groups of students so that in the event of a real emergency or drill during your time-students will know what to do

• Classroom teachers and Specialist teachers it is extremely important to include any student in your classroom's safety plan, behavior plan or specfic student information with your sub plans

• Have a plan in advance.  Have all documents (student saftey plan, behavior plans...) in a folder.  Then on a day when you call out sick, have that folder with your sub plans

• We have had several behavior incidents the last few weeks which could have been avoided if these documents were provided for the sub./coverage

• Mll, SPED, Improvement Teachers, and Coaches please sign up for your 10-minute Middle of the Year Meeting if you have not done so

• "Teacher Mid-year Self-assessment" form on Frontline (there are 4 questions) should be completed before the meeting on 2/8/24 so that SLO progress can be discussed at the MOY meetings  (This form is found under "Teacher Mid-Year Check-in" on Frontline)

• See Mrs. Espinoza ASAP to schedule your 2nd formal observation 

• We need these completed before March 12th

• See Mrs. Espinoza to schedule your Middle of the Year 15 minute meeting with Lindsay or Cherie

DIBELS - Please print out middle of year Home Connect Reports, found on mClass under English Classroom Reporting  and send the student report home in an envelope, via backpack, on February 16. You can use the Copy Center to print them in color 

If I reached out to you about being In a focus group for our National School of Character Review, please review the materials and let me know If you have any questions. I will be reaching out next week with more Info of what may be discussed.  If I have not heard from you, I am assuming that you are in for the focus group ;) <3 I have also secured our Community Partner, Parent and Student groups. 

Random Acts of Kindness (RAK) Day - we will celebrate all week! See Ideas below!

Ideas for RAK Week 

Community Meetings 

• 2/15- Grade 1 Mrs. Cerra Black History/Black Excellence Celebration and tie in with PRINT

• There will be a Community Meeting the week of 2/26 - Stay tuned for the day!

Always here to help, please reach out If I can be of any type of support!

ELA

Hill for Literacy Observations

Ms. Rivera’s Schedule 2/12

9:05- 9:35 1st- Neave

9:35 10:05 4th- Hall

10:05-10:35 4th- Grinnell

10:35-11:10 Break (WIN)

11:10- 11:40 3rd- Lauro

11:40-12:20 Lunch

12:20- 12:50 K-Kivits 

12:50-1:20 5th-Best

1:20-1:50Break

1:50-2:20 2nd- Clausen

Shelley’s Schedule 2/15

9:05- 9:35- 1st- Cerra

9:35 10:05- 4th- Bonaddio

10:35-11:10- Break (WIN)

11:10- 11:40- 3rd- Bloom

11:40-12:10 3rd- Morin

12:20- 12:50 -K-Marcuccilli

12:50-1:20- K- Geitz

1:50-2:20- 2nd- Barroso

Shelley’s Schedule 2/16

11:30-11:55- 5th- Whalen

12:35- 1:05- 5th- Brown

1:05- 1:35- 5th- Chiappardi

1:50-2:20- 2nd- Mick

I'm looking for examples of Quality Student Work from our Summative Writing Task. If you have any please upload them here. Quality Student Work  

WIN Cycle Dates 

Cycle 1: 9/6-10/17

Cycle 2: 10/18- 12/10 

Cycle 3: 12/18-3/1  Cycle 3 

Cycle 4: 3/4- 5/24

Cycle 5: 5/27- End of the Year

WIN Plan B

Please remember that students should have a Plan B from their assigned WIN teacher to complete if WIN groups are going to be canceled. 

Progress Monitoring

You will find a copy of the data meeting decision report with the students who need progress monitoring in your mailbox based on our Continuum meeting. We need 3 data points completed for the measures that need to be progress monitored bi-weekly. Remember, the CORE phonics survey only needs to be done once before our next meeting. Below, you will find the next data meeting and a suggested timeline of when to progress monitor. Progress monitoring scores go into this spreadsheet. Progress Monitoring 2023-2024

Please use this link for materials for progress monitoring for grades 4-5 https://dibels.uoregon.edu/materials/dibels

PM Dates:

PM 1: 3/1

PM 2: 3/15

PM 3: 4/26

DIBELS Testing window 4/2-4/11

Updated CORE: 5/3

Next Data Meeting: 5/6

Accountable Talk-Math Talk Bookmark

5 Practices Monitoring Template