Finding the Joy of Reading - Action Needed
A quick survey of staff highlights that we averaged 2.9 days of DEAR reading last week. Please make it a priority to find 15 minutes to Drop Everything and Read each day. We have all witnessed the change in students' reading habits. Our school-wide effort will make reading a priority and help develop the habit of reading. Please be sure to join in with your students in your reading this week.
Please email me your daily DEAR reading times. Members of our student support team and I look forward to joining classrooms during DEAR time.
Valentine's Classroom Parties - Action Needed
Valentine's Day is a great day to remind our students how to be kind and caring to all. Please make sure all classroom activities are carefully planned out to include everyone. Additionally, all party snacks need to be prepackaged and store-purchased nut-free items. Some of our students will have religious restrictions, so please think about including healthy fruit snacks at your parties.
All classroom parties need to be scheduled for the last 30 minutes of the day. Please help keep learning a priority on this fun day.
Classroom Library Purchases - Action Needed
Please be sure to submit your $300 classroom library requisition today!
Virtual Book Fair - Action Needed
Please consider hosting a Virtual Book Fair with Scholastic's Book Club during this Joy of Reading Month. This is a great way to promote home libraries and DEAR reading.
Classroom Newsletters - Action Needed
In your weekly newsletters, please remind families that we do not have school on President's Day, but will have school on Friday.
Campus Work
Some excavation work is taking place on the high school side of the campus. Repairs are being made to the underground boiler line. This should not affect us...just giving an FYI.
PLC Time
During the PLC time this week, the K-5 team will start in Darci's room and the 6-8 team will start in Jo's room. Teams will review Formative Assessments and discuss a goal of teams sharing classroom data at the February 27th PLC.
MTSS Updates:
I hope you had a chance to take a peek at the FastBridge info that I attached to last week's memo. In spite of the fact that we have too many kids in the high risk and some risk categories, the growth reports show that we DO have kids making aggressive growth and closing the gap. This was especially true in places we were able to provide targeted interventions. That is a huge improvement over what we saw last year.
Winter groups are up and running! I hope I have organized things effectively enough to provide coverage when MTSS team members are out.
In a couple of weeks I will be checking in to share progress monitoring data to see if we need to make any adjustments to groups and/or interventions.
Please let me know when your Valentine parties are scheduled and how any other "funtivities" might impact our groups.
On a personal note, I want to give a heartfelt shout out to Amanda Nielson! Last year I was working on my National Board renewal and needed to borrow a group of littles for a teaching sequence. Amanda kindly let me work with a small group of kiddos on math vocabulary for a weeklong lesson sequence. THANK YOU, AMANDA, for helping me accomplish my renewal!
Monday - 02.12
Stand-up Meeting, 9 AM
Student Support Team Meeting, 10 AM
Office Meeting, 1 PM
BLT Meeting 4 PM
Tuesday - 02.13
PLC Time, 7:15
Wednesday - 02.14
Valentine's Day
Thursday - 02.15
MTSS Meeting, 10:15 AM
MWSD Board Meeting, 6 PM
Friday - 02.16
Student Access Day
UP and Coming Events:
Presidents' Day, Feb 19
Normal Friday, Feb 23
Regular Scheduled School Day, March 22nd
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