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March Drill-Lockdown 3/27

• 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

Collect Letters

K-3 Remind Families to return signed Summer Academy letters

• New WIN groups begin next week.  Reminder to all certified staff: you need to have Plan B plans ready for next week in case you are unavialble or absent

Winter Parent-Teacher conferences in elementary schools will begin on Wednesday, March 13, 2024, and continue through Thursday, March 28, 2024. The evening conference for all schools will be held on Thursday, March 21, from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Teachers must stay on March 14 until the official end time. On March 21, teachers can leave 15 minutes after the students because all staff must return for conferences from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. 

Parents will have the flexibility to schedule either virtual or in-person conferences. 

• Sign up for Translation if needed ASAP:  Conference Translation 

• At conferences please remind parents of the importance of school attendance.  

• Here is the script the office uses when calling families (feel free to use with parents at conferences):  

"Research shows that once a child’s attendance in school falls below 90%, it is correlated with learning loss and is considered to be “chronically absent.” Even “excused absences” fall into the calculation of this percentage.

Only certain students get this line too (Your child receives SRBI/SPED services when they are not present in school, they are unable to receive these academic services to support their learning).

Please let us know if you need assistance to support your child’s attendance."

The RAA schedule is still evolving:

• As of right now (3:10pm Thursday) EVERY CLASS has two readers

• We still have readers who are going to get back to me

• Some classes will have 3 readers - everyone loves Tracey ;) 

• I am being mindful of class schedules, schedules I am given from readers and walkthrough schedules for this day

• Enjoy the day - It Is always a hit! 

ELA

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 4: 3/4- 5/24 Cycle 4 

Cycle 5: 5/27- End of the Year

WIN Plan B

Please make sure you have your plan B ready for when you are not available for WIN

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: 4/5

DIBELS Testing window 4/24-5/3

Updated CORE: 4/12

Next Data Meeting: 5/6

SHOUT OUT to the Kindergarten and 5th Grade Teams for their hard work establishing differentiated math interventions across the grade level! Students were engaged and focused in this new practice and routine. We look forward to seeing the impact and growth of our students in Math.