Monday, November 7, 2022

K8 Weekly Memo

WINS FOR THE WEEK

 

  • Debbie Stewart joins MWSD team for Tech Tuesdays! 

  • Halloween celebrations and fun

  • Charger Assemblies

  • Solution Room Team meeting on Friday…thank you, April and Maureen

  • HS Volleyball on to State

 

 

Thoughtful Reflection

We have a paper shortage!! It's been a mad dash to locate paper for the copy machines in our building. We have used all the copy paper ordered for 1st semester. A second order has been placed to get more supplies in our building. Please be mindful of your coping.  

 

Are there worksheet alternatives? Notebooks, journal prompts, and basic hand copies can help reduce our copy count. Here are a few links discussing ways to turn worksheets into thinking activities.

 

THE CHARGER PROMISE

"We, as a community, will develop confident, well rounded, and sought after graduates who are prepared for the future"

 

 

POINTS OF INTEREST

 

ABC's of Parent/Teacher Conferences - ACTION NEEDED

Thank you for everyone taking the time to connect with families and schedule parent/teacher conferences.  Please invite me to conferences that may be challenging.      

 

As you meet with students and parents, please discuss the following four topics:  

A - Attendance (You can access this data on Skyward)

B - Behavior (Review general behaviors in the classroom.) 

C - Course Work

and

D - Data (Share and review the FastBridge Famly report and SBAC State Testing) 

 

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Solution Room Visits

On Friday, the Solution Room team had a meeting to review our data and work to improve the room structure.  Students can only access the solution for Take A Breaks (10-Min), Lunch Detention, or for discipline-based off on a referral.


There has been an uptick of students being sent to the solution room.  Many of whom can't articulate why they were sent to the solution room.  


Take A Break (10 Min) Please use the TAB Out - Yellow Card to send students to the solution room for a ten-minute break.


Lunch detentions: Assigned by teachers when three classroom warnings have been given and when parent contact has been made. Paper lunch slips or referral forms can be used to issue lunch detentions. Only ten students can serve detention for each lunch.


Referral:  Complete on the blue sheet or online. Mr. Joachim will process all referrals. Each referral will be processed according to the situation.


As the classroom teacher, you have day-to-day contact with our students and are in the best position to influence students as they learn from their mistakes directly.  Please continue to invest time in your students by reviewing expectations and building a culture of belonging.   

 

TPEP Observation 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. 

 

 

MTSS Updates

  • Please remember that we need to be tracking progress on additional instruction/intervention to see if it is working. Please let Diane know who is getting extra classroom support so she can provide assistance in setting up progress monitoring groups on FastBridge. The MTSS team can help gather the data!

  • If you change interventions, please let Diane know so she can document it in our MTSS data.. We want to maintain the best fidelity in our MTSS system 

 

CALENDAR 

K-8 Calendar

 

Monday, 11.07

10:00 AM, Student Success Team

1:00 PM, K8 Office Meeting

3:30-7:30 Parent/Teacher Conferences

 

Tuesday - 11.08

Election Day: Please get out and vote!

7:30 AM, NEWB Breakfast with Debbie

7:30 AM, MS PLC Meeting

8:00 AM, WSU School Medicine 8th Grade Zoonotic Lab 

10:00 AM, MTSS Check In

3:30-7:30 Parent/Teacher Conferences

Wednesday - 11.09

9:00 AM, Admin Team Meeting

 

Thursday - 11.10

7:30 K-5 PLC meetings

8:00-3:30 Coach Vince Here

Veterans Day assembly


Friday - 11.11

Veterans Day Holiday, no school


 

UP and Coming Events:

  • Nov. 16th, Family Night Out - Turkey Bingo 5:00-7:00 PM 

  • Nov. 17th School Board Meeting

  • Nov. 18th LID Day; Coach Vince here

  • Nov. 23rd Normal Day before Thanksgiving

 


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