The Hive: November 6, 2020

Honey-Do List- November

11/10/20 Thoughts on 1 student of the week per class vs. 3

11/10/20 Thoughts on Lexia recognition for K0/K1

11/17/20 Completed reading of chapters 1 & 2 of "Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy"

11/6 /20 Digital Picture and BitMoji to Jodi

11/9/20 Lee Academy BitMoji School Goes Live. Will be communicated to the families via Buzz

From Last Week's Hive: If you have a BitMoji Classroom I would love to link it to our office (Click on the ball in my office or Ms. Jen's name in the Gallery)

11/11/20 No School- Veteran's Day

I will be prerecording a video celebration of our students that will be in your inbox by 8:00am on Mondays.
I would like to see the percentage of students receiving certificates increase.

We currently only have 23% of our students completing the target number of puzzles in STMath at their grade level. This is from the past week
Over the past 4 weeks, only 50% of our students met their usage requirements in Lexia

I will mail students their certificates and they will be recognized in our Bitmoji School
We will recognize our students in a variety of ways

Student of the Week

Please provide me with the name of the student of the week in your classroom and the reason why you selected them by Saturday at 6:00
At the leadership team, we discussed having a student of the week in all 3 areas (Safe, Responsible, Respectful)

I would like to hear your thoughts on this. We could recognize more students this way but given our relatively small class sizes, it may feel a bit like everyone gets a trophy and dilute the meaningfulness.
Please let me know via email, by 11/10, that yes you think this is a good way to proceed or no keep it at 1 student per clas

Lexia Certificates

Students who have completed a level will receive a certificate
The scope and sequence only calls for K0/K1 to complete one level
At the leadership team, we discussed having K0/K1 students who completed their prescribed amount of time a certificate
Please let me know via email by 11/10 if you think that this is a good way to proceed
This week we have 2 K0/K1 students receiving certificates
There are 13 students (7%) schoolwide receiving certificates for completing a level this week.

ST Math Certificates

Students who have completed the prescribed number of puzzles will receive a certificate

Birthdays of the Week (2 for this week)

This week we will celebrate birthdays for the first two weeks of November.
We will celebrate September and October birthdays at their 1/2 Birthdays in March and April

This was an exercise in futility, frustration, and guilt for me.
Though I miss people just popping by my office we are leveraging texts and emails to get our questions answered
I will no longer be signing on every morning at 8:30 for drop-in hours
I will hold 8:30 office hours to discuss certain timely topics. Attendance at these will be voluntary.
If you would like a standing meeting with me please let me know and we will schedule.

The Governor had an interesting press conference today at 1:30
I have linked it here
Here is the Globe article summarizing the press conference
Please listen carefully to the press conference and the scientific evidence that he and the doctor are citing
Today Joseph Allen from Harvard's Chan School of Public Health conducted a DESE sponsored webinar for superintendents and facilities directors
Here is the Chan School of Health's June Report on the Reopening of Schools
I am sure that many of you have read it but in case you would like a refresher
Based on what the Governor is saying and our experiences with how we welcomed back HIPP students I believe that if the district reopens we should fight to implement our full hybrid model. I would be interested in hearing your thoughts
As an aside, listen to the Republican Governor's thoughts on Donald Trump at the end of the conference