Coach Vince is out of his sickbed and rescheduled for this Tuesday, Oct. 25.
WSU School of Medicine Parent Night
LID Day: Productive staff meetings, parent-teacher conference scheduling and PLC worktime.
MTSS progress monitoring data
High school homecoming spirit and wins
Welcome Families by Focusing on Strengths by Justin Minkel
A focus on deficits hurts both struggling students and their families. We need to build families up—especially in these times. Families of struggling students feel defensive and hurt when communications with their child's school focus mainly on that child's deficits. Affirming students with families is important in the current climate of hostility.
Minkel describes three key ways teachers can shift the focus to students' strengths and take that more positive message to parents.
Moving the Dial to Strengths
1. Let parents know you see their child's strengths.
2. Listen to families.
3. Reflect on families' cultures in the classroom.
A Crucial Time for Welcoming
Please take a good at this short article! Welcome Families by Focusing on Strengths
"We, as a community, will develop confident, well rounded, and sought after graduates who are prepared for the future"
Bully Prevention Month - ACTION NEEDED
Please take some time to discuss bully prevention. Create a powerful visual statement about uniting for kindness, acceptance, and inclusion. Have each student writes a message on an orange strip of construction paper. The strips are then connected to illustrate the power of uniting for a common cause.
It is not too late to use last week's bully prevention activity. If you didn't do it please take time to discuss how students can report bullying at school and home. Below is a link to a poster that can help guide the conversation.
https://www.pacer.org/bullying/classroom/elementary/activities/how-to-tell-an-adult.asp
Classroom Discipline - ACTION NEEDED
PBIS expectations, reinforced and tickets
TAB: Take a Break Chair
TAB Out: Buddy Classroom
3 Redirections prior to a lunch detentions
Referrals: paper or online
Halloween Festivities
Costume parade and parties last hour of the day on Monday, 10.31.2022.
TPEP Observations and Goal Setting
As we start working through formal observations and continue analyzing data to set our student growth goals, I will send out individual emails to schedule observations and mini-conferences. Please be sure you can access eVAL app on EDS. Connect with Mike if you need help logging onto EDS. This Wednesday at 7:30 AM, I will be hosting a short meeting to review goal setting and EDS Access; please feel free to stop by.
Increment Weather
We need to have inside recess when we have steady rain or a temperature below 20 degrees.
For the morning recess, before school, we will be rotating the use of the gym between primary, intermediate, and middle school. Middle school will have the gym next. The rest of the students need to be sent to their classrooms/halls for inside recess. All staff needs to help supervise.
Our prep recesses are small enough that we can use the covered play area on rainy days, but recess will need to be back in the classroom on cold days.
For lunch recess, the elementary can use the gym. The middle school can use the covered play area on rainy days; however, the hallways will need to be used for cold days.
I appreciate everyone's understanding and flexibility as we work to maintain safe and healthy recess' when we have incremental weather.
Student Access Day
Please let me know if you are interested in coordinating an enrichment activity or field trip for the second quarter access days. We only have five access days this next quarter.
MTSS Updates
Diane shared our work so far at the admin meeting on Wednesday and conveyed the need for teachers to have time to work with data and plan for instruction.
We are not limited to the interventions listed in FastBridge. We are working to update their bank with our local options.
Middle School teachers have offered on-track students as supports for elementary teachers during their intervention period (1:45-2:35) on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Helpers would be available for twenty minute slots for activities like sight word practice, facts practice, recess buddies beginning Nov. 1. Please let Diane know if you would like a helper!
Let Diane know how she can help! She would love to set a time with individual teachers to plan for strategies, groups, and progress monitoring. Please send questions and watch for updated information.
Monday, 10.24
10:00 AM, Student Success Team
1:00 PM, K8 Office Meeting
Red Ribbon Spirit Week: Red Out (Wear Red)
Tuesday - 10.25
Lions Club Hearing Screening
7:30 AM, MS PLC Meeting
10:00 MTSS Check In
Red Ribbon Spirit Week Peace Out Drugs
Wednesday - 10.26
7:30 AM, Goal Setting, and EDS Access to eVAL Meeting
9:00 AM, Admin Team Meeting
Red Ribbon Spirit Week: Pajama Day
Thursday - 10.27
7:30 AM, K-5 PLC Meeting
MS Home Football @ 4:00
Red Ribbon Spirit Week: School Spirit
Friday - 10.28
Student Access Day
PLCs at Work
UP and Coming Events:
Oct. 31, Halloween
Nov. 1, End of 1st Quarter
Nov. 8 & 9, Parent Teacher Conferences,
Nov. 17th, Family Night Out - Turkey Bingo 5:00-7:00 PM - This date may change!
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