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

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 

• The Panorama Survey opens on March 11 and closes on March 28

• All students in Grades 3-5 need to complete the survey which will take about 20 minutes- 

• Grade 3-5 Classroom teachers please set aside a 30-minute slot next week for your students to complete

• All teachers and staff also need to take the survey between March 11-28th

•  Certified Staff will take the survey during our staff meeting on Monday, March 18th 

• Please see this link with directions for the survey for staff and students: Panorama Survey Directions

• Please share this link with your families, it has directions on how families can complete the survey: Panorama Survey Parent Directions

• 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."

March PRINT/Character Education Themes:

Neighborly (Cooperation In Character Strong)

What do we each bring to the table? Identify student strengths and areas for growth (self, classroom community)  How does sharing strengths of a class community strengthen the Idea of being neighborly.

Community Meetings:

3/28 Jump for Heart Kick Off

Cub Connections: We have connected the next two Cub Connections to support with planning them, and they are connected to our OSOB - The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

3/14

Teachers: Read our One Book to your Cub Connection (If you want/are on the same pages) and then have Cub Connection partners work together to create a windsock.  Windsock Directions 

Cardstock and tissue paper will be delivered to you.  

You will need markers, crayons, and a stapler

3/21

Teachers: Read to your Cub Connection (if it aligns) and then have students write a wish for the future on wind flags. Kits and directions will be provided to you!

Please remember to update your Character Education reports and please clear out and update any information from last year!  We use this data for behavioral tracking purposes, school wide goals and school wide Character and SEL PD.  Please see me If you have any questions!

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 Miss Chiappetta for being creative with her students during PRINT Day teaching tens and ones through the use of a workmat. Students were excited to "teach their parents," and parents were excited to see how to support their children at home.