"The words we speak to ourselves matter..." Dr. Quentin Lee

           November Drills

• Change of date----Evacuate Drill- (relocate to St. Philip church) Friday 11/17/23 

WEDNESDAY 11/29/23 at 10:00 (More details as the date gets closer)

• Lockdown 11/21/23 at  2:30 (K will be in specials, so make sure this is practiced before the 2:30 drill).

• 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

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

Mark your calendars for the 2-hour sessions with The Hill on the Science of Reading.   

The remaining dates are: 

• January 29

• March 25

• April 29

• May 13

Friendly reminder about the PRINT Compact and sharing It at conferences.  It Is up to you If you want to keep the signed copies with you or send home.  These documents are additional tools to talk about student/parent accountability and our shared responsibility In educating our students

Stay tuned, there will be an Inspo Board popping up with some Ideas learned from the Character.org Forum that will show smalllllll snippets of our learning.  In the near future, we hope to share more of our learning with you all!

ELA

Unit 2 Timeline from November 20th-January 19th

Post-Assessment for Unit 1 due by November 17th

Pre-Assessment for Unit 2 due before November 20th

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

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