“At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.”  -Maya Angelou 

• Our first lockdown and evacuation drill went well

• The safety team will meet in October to plan our next two drills: Hold and Secure. We will communicate the dates and times

• 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... 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

• Practice drills when with your WIN groups, so they also are prepared

• • • Starting Monday 10/2, bus 436 will be split into two rooms

    • Grades K-2 will remain in room 106 with Colleen. Grades 3-5 will go to room 103 with Rachel B

    • Starting Monday 10/2, all bus rooms will have an attendance sheet for teachers who monitor the bus room to use to take daily attendance at dismissal

• 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 that Ms. Esposito sent last week: SLO cheat sheet

• We will be setting up meetings with certified staff in the middle of October

• Please make sure to notify the grade level, nurse, and all service providers in advance when planning field trips

October PRINT Focus: Taking Responsibility 

October Character Strong Lesson: Taking Responsibility 

Character Education Themes: Goal Setting, Managing Emotions/ Continue to Establish Relationships and Building Classroom Community 

Still a slot for 10/12 Community Meeting If you would like to share any SEL/PRINT Learning or celebrations/education of Hispanic Heritage Month - we would love to see It!!

Please reach out If you would like to co-facilitate any restorative practices In any setting In the building and or co-facilitate Character Strong lessons to support the SEL growth of your class.

The Character.org evaluation team Is well underway in completing our Character Education State and National School of Character re application.  I have sent some of you emails to complete surverys or staff testimonials, If you could complete those, by 10/15 I would appreciate It.  This work takes a village!! And It takes all of us to conitnue to make Tracey shine, which Is all for the betterment of our Cubs!! 

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.