As we begin the school year, here is some important information regarding the first week.
First Day Reminders
Each of you has a copy of the schedules for your 1st period class in your mail box. Please pick those schedules up first thing in the morning on Tuesday and bring them to the gym. We will all begin the day with a brief gathering in the gym. Students will come off the playground, drop their backpacks in their lockers, and bring their materials for 1st hour to the gym. I ask that all staff please line up facing the students stretching from end line to end line, in the middle of the gym. I would like to introduce each staff member to the student body. Once introductions are over, we will dismiss the students class by class. Teachers will stand in front of the grade that they teach and call down their 1st period roster, and take them to class. Please greet students at the door for each class on the first day (and everyday afterwards) and have an activity ready to go for them as soon as they sit down. It is so important to establish that each minute of class time is important and will not go wasted.
I/E Plans
For the first two weeks of school students should report to their homeroom assigned teacher for I/E (it is listed on their schedule). Mrs. Morton will share a list of community building activities to do each day, followed by review of the handbook (I will have the areas to point out in the handbook shared with you before the end of day Monday). Please project the handbook as you go through it. If you finish those activities before the end of the week, take time to get to know your homeroom students at a deeper level. We will begin assigning Intervention/Enrichment groups at the end of week 2.
STAR Testing
As of right now, we will plan on administering the STAR Assessment on Tuesday 9/9 (Math) and Wednesday 9/10 (Reading). We will give the math tests during math class on Tuesday and during English class on Wednesday.
PUMA Pride Training Camp
We will run the Training Camp as announced on Wednesday from 9:05 to 10:30. There were some initial mistakes in the schedule. Mr. Hausser and I will shore up the schedule and share it with you before school on Tuesday.
Tornado/Fire Drill Posters
These should be in your mailbox. Please take the time to get those posted near the classroom door.
Chrome Carts
We have one chrome cart per grade level, and the team's cart is stored each grade's respective English/Language Arts classroom. Each team is responsible for organizing the sharing of their grade level cart. There will be 3 additional carts that will be stored in the IMC for 1-8 use. There will be a calendar created for sign-out of these 3 carts.
Grading for Learning Reminders
Communication will be crucial to a smooth transition to our "Grading for Learning" system. Please keep Mr. Hazard's words in your head as we share with students how we will be assessing their work. It is about giving students clear guidelines of our expectations and feedback that will allow them to better meet those expectations. The use of rubrics to assess students is not new or an experiment, but a better way to provide communication about student progress.
Growth Mindset Reminder
Please keep Carol Dweck's work in the forefront of your minds...Praising effort instead of intelligence is critical and will encourage our students to want to take on new challenges.
Next Up...
I would like to schedule a bi-weekly meeting with each of you in the coming weeks. The focus of these meetings will be student progress, activity alignment to learning goals, evidence in Campus, and student assessment. Please think about a time in your schedule that could work. I'll be around to check in and set up those meeting times. Also in the coming weeks...conversations about Behavior Referrals and PUMA Pride.
I apologize for the length of the blog post, but it is important that we are all on the same page and speaking a common language. I can't tell you how excited I am to beginning this journey with you! It's a great day to be a PUMA!
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A New School Year! Odds and Ends
As we begin the school year, here is some important information regarding the first week.
First Day Reminders
Each of you has a copy of the schedules for your 1st period class in your mail box. Please pick those schedules up first thing in the morning on Tuesday and bring them to the gym. We will all begin the day with a brief gathering in the gym. Students will come off the playground, drop their backpacks in their lockers, and bring their materials for 1st hour to the gym. I ask that all staff please line up facing the students stretching from end line to end line, in the middle of the gym. I would like to introduce each staff member to the student body. Once introductions are over, we will dismiss the students class by class. Teachers will stand in front of the grade that they teach and call down their 1st period roster, and take them to class. Please greet students at the door for each class on the first day (and everyday afterwards) and have an activity ready to go for them as soon as they sit down. It is so important to establish that each minute of class time is important and will not go wasted.
I/E Plans
For the first two weeks of school students should report to their homeroom assigned teacher for I/E (it is listed on their schedule). Mrs. Morton will share a list of community building activities to do each day, followed by review of the handbook (I will have the areas to point out in the handbook shared with you before the end of day Monday). Please project the handbook as you go through it. If you finish those activities before the end of the week, take time to get to know your homeroom students at a deeper level. We will begin assigning Intervention/Enrichment groups at the end of week 2.
STAR Testing
As of right now, we will plan on administering the STAR Assessment on Tuesday 9/9 (Math) and Wednesday 9/10 (Reading). We will give the math tests during math class on Tuesday and during English class on Wednesday.
PUMA Pride Training Camp
We will run the Training Camp as announced on Wednesday from 9:05 to 10:30. There were some initial mistakes in the schedule. Mr. Hausser and I will shore up the schedule and share it with you before school on Tuesday.
Tornado/Fire Drill Posters
These should be in your mailbox. Please take the time to get those posted near the classroom door.
Chrome Carts
We have one chrome cart per grade level, and the team's cart is stored each grade's respective English/Language Arts classroom. Each team is responsible for organizing the sharing of their grade level cart. There will be 3 additional carts that will be stored in the IMC for 1-8 use. There will be a calendar created for sign-out of these 3 carts.
Grading for Learning Reminders
Communication will be crucial to a smooth transition to our "Grading for Learning" system. Please keep Mr. Hazard's words in your head as we share with students how we will be assessing their work. It is about giving students clear guidelines of our expectations and feedback that will allow them to better meet those expectations. The use of rubrics to assess students is not new or an experiment, but a better way to provide communication about student progress.
Growth Mindset Reminder
Please keep Carol Dweck's work in the forefront of your minds...Praising effort instead of intelligence is critical and will encourage our students to want to take on new challenges.
Next Up...
I would like to schedule a bi-weekly meeting with each of you in the coming weeks. The focus of these meetings will be student progress, activity alignment to learning goals, evidence in Campus, and student assessment. Please think about a time in your schedule that could work. I'll be around to check in and set up those meeting times. Also in the coming weeks...conversations about Behavior Referrals and PUMA Pride.
I apologize for the length of the blog post, but it is important that we are all on the same page and speaking a common language. I can't tell you how excited I am to beginning this journey with you! It's a great day to be a PUMA!
First Day Reminders
Each of you has a copy of the schedules for your 1st period class in your mail box. Please pick those schedules up first thing in the morning on Tuesday and bring them to the gym. We will all begin the day with a brief gathering in the gym. Students will come off the playground, drop their backpacks in their lockers, and bring their materials for 1st hour to the gym. I ask that all staff please line up facing the students stretching from end line to end line, in the middle of the gym. I would like to introduce each staff member to the student body. Once introductions are over, we will dismiss the students class by class. Teachers will stand in front of the grade that they teach and call down their 1st period roster, and take them to class. Please greet students at the door for each class on the first day (and everyday afterwards) and have an activity ready to go for them as soon as they sit down. It is so important to establish that each minute of class time is important and will not go wasted.
I/E Plans
For the first two weeks of school students should report to their homeroom assigned teacher for I/E (it is listed on their schedule). Mrs. Morton will share a list of community building activities to do each day, followed by review of the handbook (I will have the areas to point out in the handbook shared with you before the end of day Monday). Please project the handbook as you go through it. If you finish those activities before the end of the week, take time to get to know your homeroom students at a deeper level. We will begin assigning Intervention/Enrichment groups at the end of week 2.
STAR Testing
As of right now, we will plan on administering the STAR Assessment on Tuesday 9/9 (Math) and Wednesday 9/10 (Reading). We will give the math tests during math class on Tuesday and during English class on Wednesday.
PUMA Pride Training Camp
We will run the Training Camp as announced on Wednesday from 9:05 to 10:30. There were some initial mistakes in the schedule. Mr. Hausser and I will shore up the schedule and share it with you before school on Tuesday.
Tornado/Fire Drill Posters
These should be in your mailbox. Please take the time to get those posted near the classroom door.
Chrome Carts
We have one chrome cart per grade level, and the team's cart is stored each grade's respective English/Language Arts classroom. Each team is responsible for organizing the sharing of their grade level cart. There will be 3 additional carts that will be stored in the IMC for 1-8 use. There will be a calendar created for sign-out of these 3 carts.
Grading for Learning Reminders
Communication will be crucial to a smooth transition to our "Grading for Learning" system. Please keep Mr. Hazard's words in your head as we share with students how we will be assessing their work. It is about giving students clear guidelines of our expectations and feedback that will allow them to better meet those expectations. The use of rubrics to assess students is not new or an experiment, but a better way to provide communication about student progress.
Growth Mindset Reminder
Please keep Carol Dweck's work in the forefront of your minds...Praising effort instead of intelligence is critical and will encourage our students to want to take on new challenges.
Next Up...
I would like to schedule a bi-weekly meeting with each of you in the coming weeks. The focus of these meetings will be student progress, activity alignment to learning goals, evidence in Campus, and student assessment. Please think about a time in your schedule that could work. I'll be around to check in and set up those meeting times. Also in the coming weeks...conversations about Behavior Referrals and PUMA Pride.
I apologize for the length of the blog post, but it is important that we are all on the same page and speaking a common language. I can't tell you how excited I am to beginning this journey with you! It's a great day to be a PUMA!
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