“ Adversity is universal. Regardless of what we face, we can overcome it.” -Austin Hatch

           October Drills:

"Hold Drill" on 10/19/23 at 9:30 (During 3-5 WIN groups)

"Secure Drill" on 10/26/23 at 1:55

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

• 2023 District Safety Slides  Slides 23 and 36 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

• • • Next week we will be working on entering student data in Continuum. During those meetings in addition to helping Sheila and I will share the names of students we are tracking for SRBI for your grade level for our next round of improvement. These are students who are 20% or below on NWEA or in the red on DIBELS for words read accurately on ORF. For math, these will be students who are 20% or below on NWEA. If you have additional students that you feel would benefit from SRBI, please fill out Form A and we will set up a separate meeting time with you to discuss your student. 

As always, thank you for everything you do! Best, Colleen and Sheila

• Norwalk EdCamp Professional Development 10/10 (The event will be held at Norwalk High School)

• Attached is the sign-up genius for NorwalkEd Camp.   

• All certified staff will need to sign-up for two sessions. 

• Elementary Sign-up Genius

• Elementary Sessions  

• All certified staff SLOs need to be completed by 10/20

• Please refer to the document: SLO cheat sheet

• We will be setting up meetings with certified staff for the week of October 16th

• The DESSA window will be open from 10/9-10/30

• Staff will have time on the PD day on 10/10 for you to complete the survey for your students

Repost - Character.org App - I cannot see who has completed the staff self assesment survery - so if you have not yet done so please do!!  If I asked you to complete a testimonial, please let me know if you are NOT able to do it.  I would like to submit the app by 11/1.

ELA Continuum Meetings will take place next week:  Continuum Meeting Schedule

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.

Math Vocabulary Cards At a recent training, I was reminded of an excellent resource from Granite School District, which provides us with Math vocabulary cards that includes the vocabulary word, visual and definition. These cards are also available in multiple languages to support our MLL students. This would be great to incorporate into your math units and add to a math word wall to support the language around math. 

**Click Dual Immersion cards to change the language.

ELA

WIN Cycle Dates 

Cycle 1: 9/6-10/17, Cycle 2: 10/18- 11/10, Cycle 3: 12/11-2/9, Cycle 4: 2/12- 5/10, Cycle 5: 5/13- End of the Year

DIBELS

Shout Out to Kindergarten for completing 70 students on DIBELS.  

-The DIBELS Window closes on October 3rd.

-Amplify has a new platform this year. Please see the images above on the steps to login. Let me know if you need help logging on. 

-Please make sure you click on the SYNC button as you are testing.

-Grades K-3 use the Amplify ClassLink to test their students.

-Grades 4-5 use paper and pencil for our DIBELS assessment. Please use this link to access the benchmark materials. https://dibels.uoregon.edu/materials/dibels  Please reach out if you need any materials or assistance.