"Educators are the only people who lose sleep over other people's kids." –Nicholas A. Ferroni

           December Drill

Thank you to all staff for making our evacuation/relocate drill successful!  

• Evacuate/Fire Drill: December 19th (Time TBA)

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

• 2023 District Safety Slides  Slide 30 has 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

• General Education Teachers and Nurses will all have access to view the IEP at a Glance for every child with an IEP through PowerSchool. 

• By clicking on the CT SEDS Icon (shape of the State,) the document will appear.  Jean Starkman is providing access to everyone by hand so if a member of your team indicates that their access is denied, let them know it will be available soon. 

• Staff, please be mindful of your dismissal duties:

1. Do not send students to their dismissal location without an adult

2. Be on time to your dismissal location

3. Actively monitor the students in your dismissal location (adult conversations should not interfere with actively monitoring student behavior during dismissal time)

****Make sure to  clearly add your dismissal duties to your sub plans*****

Review on PRINT Days:

Cub Ambassadors will be on hand and assigned to classrooms on PRINT Days.  They can assist In taking lunch count, working with students who don't have a parent/adult with them and even ensuring that those students make It from one room to the next.  They will also be on hand to help our K/1 students unpack quickly so that everyone can get to the activity. 

If you have any ideas or needs for our Cub Ambassadors, please let myself or Mr. Riddell know.  Peer mentor relationships, reading buddies, help in the morning with jobs, are all things we can coordinate; we want our Cub Ambassadors to have a different purpose this year and would love for them to become more embedded In the school day!

Community Meetings In December:

• 12/7 Five Fingaz will lead the Community Meeting 

• 12/21 Mrs. Hall's class - Holidays/Winter Celebrations around the world 

ELA

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 2 

Cycle 3: 12/11-2/9

Cycle 4: 2/12- 5/10

Cycle 5: 5/13- 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

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

** Next week, on 12/ 11, we will have someone from Hill for Literacy coming to our school. Schedule to come!