Happy MonTuesday! I hope that everyone had a wonderful weekend enjoying the last few days of summer. I thoroughly enjoyed the start of our school year and greatly appreciate everyone's commitment to our students. Thank you for taking the extra time to help establish our routines and procedures. Please keep to our schedule…it works. Today is the first day of school for our P-K and kindergarten students… let's give them a warm welcome. Today's PLC is our first staff meeting. We will review our schedule and routines.
Let's make it a great week!
Lesson Plans - ACTION NEEDED
How are your lesson plans coming along? Please be sure to have them available on your desk for me to review on my walkthroughs this week. Additionally, all sub folders need to be completed by Thursday.
K-5 Prep - ACTION NEEDED
I need your help in establishing a routine around your prep period/specialist time. Please deliver and pickup your students at their special time. All teachers need to walk their students to art, PE, or recess to start their preparation period. Once your class arrives, your 45-minute prep begins. THEN, be sure to pick up your class t the correct time. Please do not just release them from your class. As we make sure all areas are properly supervised and that transitions are efficient, then the para team will start helping with the transitions. We can not take shortcuts here, our classes must be properly supervised at all times.
Character Strong/Purposeful People - ACTION NEEDED
This week all classes should start their implementation of CS/PP lessons. I know that all of us agree that students need to build social and emotional skills, develop character, and strengthen educator-student relationships. I feel this is equally important to the academic success we are working on. Please be sure to start your lessons this week. Log in with the following information
Username: marywalkerdistrict
Password: character2021
Here is a Character Dare that is just good business!
Fall Picture Day
Leo's will be here on Monday, September 18th for individual pictures and sports pictures later in the afternoon.
Activity Bus
Our Activity Buses will kick off today with two routes, one serving the North and the other the South. This initiative is designed to create more opportunities for our students to get involved in athletics, extracurricular activities, after-school academic support, clubs, and behavioral interventions. Please click here to view the schedules for the Activity Bus.
MTSS Corner
After a fair amount of stress and frustration, FastBridge rosters are ready for testing week! I emailed staff last week with testing info and benchmark scores. I will deliver test tickets to 2nd-5th grade teachers first thing Tuesday morning. (Mid School, you will have them first thing WEDNESDAY morning.) Please remember that we do not do SAEBRs until October!
For those of you who have kids who are tested individually (1st, 2nd, 3rd), Crystal, Mandy, Bea, and Dani will touch base on testing. Kinder, you are off the hook til winter benchmarking.
HUGE thank you's go out to Mandy, Bea, and Crystal for working on data cards and test tickets, AND to Jen and Makala for jumping in as I was panicking on Thursday afternoon.
I worked with Brett and Mandy on the building schedule to make sure we have staff available for push-in support and tier 3 support. It is a work in progress and we will continue to fine tune it.
I will be working with various staff members to provide support and training on available resources.
Monday, 09.04
Labor Day, no school!
Tuesday - 09.05
PLC @ Work, First Morning Meeting, 7:15 AM
K8 Department Standup Meeting, 9:00 AM
FastBridge Testing Week begins
Student Support Team- K8 Conference Room, 10 AM
K8 Office Team Meeting, 2 PM
Athletic Director Meeting, 2:30 PM
Wednesday - 09.06
MW Leadership Meeting, 9:00 -10:30 AM
Thursday - 09.07
Friday - 09.08
Regular school day
WASA Cohort 2 Implementation Workshop (Brett, Jo, Darci in Library)
FastBridge Testing Week ends
UP and Coming Events:
FastBridge Data Meetings, Sept. 14
MWSD Open House, Sept. 14
BLT Meeting, Sept 11
LID, Sept 15
Picture Day, Sept 18
WSU 7th Grade Launch, Sept 27
K8 Staff Dashboard: springdalek8.blogspot.com/
#GoChargers
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