"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." 

-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

JANUARY DRILL: SECURE ON 1/25/24 time TBA

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

• 2023 District Safety Slides  Slides 34-36 have videos and information about this drill

• 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

• Please make sure your students are actively engaged with the testing by walking around your room and proctoring students

• Alert Lindsay and Cherie if a change is being made to your testing times/day

• Alert Lindsay and Cherie of any students who are not finished with testing as it gets near the closing window of the testing window

• LAS LINKS TESTING: Begins January 3rd

• NWEA Testing: 1/9-1/24

• DIBELS Testing: 1/8-1/24  (Note Change)

• MOY Testing Calendar: MOY Testing Schedule

• Support Staff will be pushing into classrooms to support grades 2-5 please schedule Support for Testing

State School of Character - We are awaiting our status anyday now!

National School of Character - Hoping that we will be pushed forward for that review (results In May)

National School of Character Prep - Site Visits are VIRTUAL this year:

We are going to think positive that we will be put forward for National School of Character Review.  

• Please send me the names of two students that would be interested, comfortable  and look forward to talking to a group of evaluators about Tracey, PRINT, Character Ed and academics at Tracey.  Once you send me the names I will take care of parent permission. 

• Please send me the name of 1 parent per class that would be able to do the same. Only asking for one because 4 PTA parents will already be spoken to, per the application.

• ATTENTION ALL STAFF: Please let me know If you would be interested in being a part of the virtual site visit to speak to PRINT, character ed and the 11 principles (academics, student voice, parent Involvement, teacher PD, etc).  Don't worry - we will prep ahead of time!  

January PRINT Theme:

Problem Solving/Perseverance

Character Strong Lesson:

Perseverance

Character Education Theme:

Class and student goal setting

Community Meetings:

• 1/11 STORM Visits from the Islanders - he will be back to show us PRINT In action again!  perhaps PRINTY will visit, too!

• 1/25 OPEN 

• CUB CONNECTION 1/29

ELA

Ms. Rivera, from Hill for Literacy, will be joining us all day on 1/24. Schedule to come!

Teachers will need a lesson that includes word work OR a vocabulary lesson (each grade level should have a copy of the same lesson).  

Unit 2 Timeline from November 20th-January 19th

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

Progress Monitoring Data Points Schedule

Point 1- 12/15

Point 2- 1/5

Point 3- 2/2

Next Meeting 2/5

Here are some resources that were mentioned at our PD Monday during the Faculty Meeting on 5 Practices. We will be continuing this work on January 22nd with a planning session using the 5 Practices. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out!

Accountable Talk-Math Talk Bookmark

5 Practices Monitoring Template