It is surely exciting to see several of our wrestlers and basketball team advance forward toward State. This is a great opportunity to highlight their hard work and the success it has brought! Go Chargers!!!
Friday Student Access Day - Action Needed
Please help us stay on top of our student's success and not let them slip behind by communicating with our parents and guardians of our struggling students. Please invite those behind to attend Friday School.
Coach Vince’s Next Visit
Please check your email for a message from Vince and your mailboxes in the staff workroom for the materials he mentioned in his email. He is looking forward to having data conversations around Math when he returns on the 22nd.
Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is tomorrow. Please be mindful of academic time when planning activities and parties. It’s a great day to work on some fun writing activities…maybe a Valentine Card to parents with a well written and descriptive sentence. We want to be sure to send home the best work…something that a mother would be proud to post online.
Regular Friday School Days
The Friday after President’s Day is a normal school day. Additionally, March 10th is our snow makeup day. Please make the needed adjustments in your planning and schedule.
Student Expectations
Thank you for the help with hallway access and phone use. Please continue to monitor our hallways and help our students to be safer, more respectful, and more responsible. Additionally, please be sure to use the hall pass when students are out of your classroom. The semester is a perfect time to review our PBIS rules and expectation posters.
PBIS Voice and Tone
We watched a short video called Every Opportunity at our December staff meeting. This video highlighted a young boy's journey through his day, two different perspectives were displayed. How is your voice and tone to students?
Please work to engage with all our children most kindly and respectfully.
Remember, our school is a safe place for our students.
Instructional Rounds - Action Needed
This week, as you work on your lesson plans and prepare for each day, please think about how you break down content into small “digestible bites.” As I complete instructional rounds, I will look for evidence of lesson segments. The workshop model is an instructional practice that consists of three lesson segments: a mini-lesson, a workshop, and a debrief. The format that I utilized included an entry task, lesson, independent work time, and exit ticket. What is your lesson routine? Please be sure to have your lesson segments outlined on your whiteboard or in your lesson planning book.
Here is the supportive element from the Marzano Teacher Evaluation Model:
Toothsavers Clinic is on campus on March 9th.
Toothsavers offers quality preventive oral health services to Eastern Washington children lacking access to oral health care. In order to reach children in need, our mobile clinics are held in schools, during school hours. Schools must meet a 50% or higher free or reduced lunch rate to qualify for our program.
General Facts
• Kids spend more time in class and less time in pain or at the dentist office.
• TOOTH PAIN IS THE #1 REASON KIDS MISS SCHOOL.
• Kids are healthier – making it easier to do well at school!
• Parents miss less time from work.
• Kids who may otherwise not have access to needed care receive it.
How does the program work?
• We work with school nurses & administrators to set dates for clinics.
• Teachers or office staff send home consent forms for parents to sign & return or they can sign up on our website.
• Our team arrives on clinic days and sets up in a school-designated area (i.e. empty class, stage area, nurse’s office, cafeteria, etc.)
• Our assistant gathers students with signed consents from each classroom when we are ready for them.
• Visits take between 5-10 minutes depending on the services the child needs. We get kids back to class ASAP!
• We follow strict CDC guidelines for infection control to keep everyone safe.
Medicaid pays 100% of the services if a child is enrolled. They also bill private dental insurance
and offer private pay for families at a very reduced fee if they choose but, No Child is Turned
Away if Unable to Pay.
Toothsavers is FUN & PAIN FREE!
Data Day
Thanks to everyone for meeting with me on the 6th. I am working diligently to update instructional support groups and progress monitoring. We are also working to implement some modified “walk to” intervention. I am double checking schedules and materials to get all of this rolling.
Benchmark Scores
Some teachers expressed interest in seeing the benchmark scores for all three testing periods. You can access them at any time by clicking on the “Training and Resources” tab in FastBridge and then on the “Benchmarks and Norms” folder. I also downloaded them and put them in a shared folder which you can access through this link: FastBridge Benchmark Info.
Another Helpful Report!
On the home page that comes up when you log in to FastBridge, there is a tab that says “Class List.” Clicking on that will show you how your students did across all of the assessments and on progress monitoring tools.
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Monday, 2.13
8:30 AM, MS Assembly
10:00 AM, Student Support Team Meeting
1:00 PM, Office Team Meeting
3:30 PM, BLT Meeting (OSSI Mid-Year Report, Spring Field Trip, Family Night Out)
4:00 PM M.S. Boys’ Basketball @ Home
Tuesday - 2.14
Coach Debbie Here
10:00 AM, MTSS Planning
11:00-2:00 PM, Brett & Diane at Panorama Superintendents Meeting
2:30 PM, Valentine’s Day Parties
3:00 PM, MTSS Staff Meeting
Wednesday - 2.15
12:30 - 3:30 PM, MS Social
PLC at Work Project Question #3: RTI/MTSS District Leadership
3:45 PM, PBIS Meeting
Thursday - 2.16
9:00 AM, 6th Grade Camp Gifford Outdoor Ed School Planning Meeting
Friday - 2.17
Student Access Day
9:00 AM WSU School of Med Meeting
UP and Coming Events:
Feb. 20, Presidents’ Day, No School
Feb. 21, WSU 8th Grade @ 7-12
Feb. 22 Coach Vince here
Feb. 24, Regular School Day
March 10, Regular School Day
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