"Gratitude and attitude are not challenges; they are choices." — Robert Braathe 

           November Drills

• Evacuate Drill- (relocate to St. Philip church) Friday 11/17/23 (exact time and details will be emailed next week)

• Lockdown 11/21/23

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

• 2023 District Safety Slides  Slides 30 and 51 have videos of these drills for you to share with your students

• 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

• During parent-teacher conferences, please communicate with families the importance of attendance

• You can share what was sent to families in the weekly family newsletter

" Student attendance has a direct and substantial correlation with academic achievement and overall growth in school. Regardless of whether the absence is excused or unexcused, it still counts as an absence.  After 10 total absences, students are considered chronically absent." 

• Please print out the Running Man Reports.  At this time, we are not able to distribute these reports via Parent Square.  

• On the Amplify platform , select mClass.  On the next screen, select English Classroom Reporting and then Home Connect.  

• Send the student reports home in an envelope, via backpack, by November 2. (You can get envelopes from the office) 

• You may use the Copy Center to print them in color.  

Parent Teacher Conferences 

ES Parent-Teacher Conferences are scheduled from November 8 through November 30.  They are not scheduled for Mondays during this period so Faculty Meetings can take place. 

11/9 is a 90-minute early dismissal for students.  Staff stays until the normal dismissal time 

11/16 is a 90-minute early dismissal for students.  Staff may leave 15 minutes after students dismiss.  Staff return 6-8 pm

Parent-Teacher Conferences 

Parent-Teacher Sign-up - English 

Parent-Teacher Sign-up -Spanish

• Interpreters for Elementary Parent Conferences

• Please see the link below for the Memo regarding updates to scheduling interpreters for Elementary Parent Conferences for the 2023-24 school year:

• Memorandum: Interpreters for Parent Conferences

• K-5 Literacy Progress Reports can be accessed through this link: K-5ProgressReportsTrimester1-23/24

• Math Progress Reports can be accessed through this link: IMProgressReports 23-24 

• Science Progress Reports can be accessed through this link: ScienceProgressReports23-2

**Shout out to Claire Mick who basicaly did all of the teacher planning time this week to re-set the Character Ed reports.  THANK YOU CLAIRE!  It takes a village <3 

Student, Teacher and Parent PRINT Compacts have been placed into your mailboxes.

Please talk about them during an SEL lesson as another way to model/teach responsibility.  Have your students sign them and you as well.  

Please have parents sign at Conference Meeting.  It is your choice whether you send them home or hold on to them.  Teacher preference!  If you want them to refer back to during a conversation with a parent, then hold on to them!

Please dont forget to complete your Character Education Progress Reports - after all that work of clearning and re-setting them ;) 

I have been pushing into classrooms doing SEL lessons - please let me know if you would like to plan a series and facilitate together!

Helpful Links:

2023-24 OTUS Handbook ELA and Math assessments are required to be completed on OTUS for grades 2-5. The district has provided us with a OTUS Handbook to guide us in assigning assessments, accomodations available and grading process. We will be presenting some of these features at an upcoming Staff Meeting.

ELA

WIN Cycle Dates 

Cycle 1: 9/6-10/17

Cycle 2: 10/18- 12/10 Cycle 2 

Cycle 3: 12/11-2/9

Cycle 4: 2/12- 5/10

Cycle 5: 5/13- End of the Year

WIN Letters

All students for cycle 2 will receive WIN letters.  This can be communicated via email (ParentSquare) or printed.  Here is the letter for all students to receive. 

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

Important Dates:

Next Data Meeting: December 4th

Suggested Timeline for Bi-Weekly Measures

Progress Monitoring Point 1- 11/3

Progress Monitoring Point 2- 11/17

Progress Monitoring Point 3- 12/1

CORE Phonics Survey- one time before December 4th