Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Staff Newsletter: December 5, 2022

Week of December 5, 2022

Dates

 

12/5-12/22 Parent-Teacher Conferences

12/6 Huddle in Cafe B (bring laptops)

12/6 Supt. Academic Quarterly Site Visit (9:450-11:45)

12/7 Grades 2 and 3 Retreat at Library

12/8 K0/K1 Retreat at Library

12/7 Professional Development: Your time

12/8 ILT (virtual)

12/8 Chery at PD at Bolling Building

12/9Report Card Grades and Progress Reports are Due

12/12-16 Administer MAPS Assessments

12/12-12/16 Report Cards and Progress Reports are Distributed

12/12 School Preview Day

12/14 Picture Day Makeup/Retake

12/23-1/3 Winter Vacation

1/4 Students return back to school

1/16 Martin Luther King Jr. Day- No School

1/20 Winter Showcase Location TBA

Updates

Report Cards:

Report grading window closes this Friday. I will email the report cards out to families early next

week. 


Expectations for grading students: For a student in Gr. 1-5, passing a course means he/she

met at least 40% of the standards in that course. And a student has to receive a mark

of either “3” or “4” to meet a standard. 


EVERY section of the report cards should have at least 1 comment. In particular for reading:

students reading level. Here are the report card comment codes.


Fall Term IEP Progress Report Due

Fall Term Progress Report will be sent home the week of 12/13 for Grades 1-6 only

(Not K0-K2). If progress reports can please be completed by December by the 9th so that I

can finalize them and send them home to families, that would be greatly appreciated. All

providers must complete the report in order to finalize the progress report. How to fill out

progress reports is here https://www.screencast.com/t/Ri740WzO Progress Report on Edplan:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vckc9Sh9vmcl_T0E4_DfmwelgBxhQK6QffRTN8FNtpg/edit


PD:

The content for PD this week was going to be ST Math. However, we met with our ST Math

coach and determined now might not be the best time for the topic that was going to be

covered (Puzzle Talks). That PD has been pushed to February 1st. 


For this Wednesday, the time and 2-hour credits will be given to you. We have report cards,

progress reports, and conferences. There’s plenty to do. 


Conferences:

At this time there will be no signup sheets for conference coverages due to the number of

staff absences and lack of consistent sub coverage. Teachers, please coordinate with paras

and paras will be compensated for covered time. If it is urgent and you strongly believe you

need a sub and have a day in mind in which you will conduct conferences for the whole day,

please see me.

Data

MAPS Assessments:

I have shared that the window assessment opens up on the 19th, however, ODA has

confirmed we can begin assessing students and recommended we begin after the 10th at the

earliest. I highly suggest to get as many done as possible BEFORE the break. Our goal will be to get at least a 95% participation rate overall this time around.

This data will be used to make adjustments to the 90-Day Plan/QSP.


ACCESS Testing Window(January 5th - February 10th) is coming soon!: 

Language Acquisition Team Facilitators have received a copy of the ACCESS Timeline as well

as the ACCESS 2023 FAQ.

-Wednesday, 12/7 - LAT-F Meeting: LAT-Fs will review inputting accommodations on

testing platform.

-School Leader ACCESS Office Hours (Optional): In response to feedback, opportunity for

School Leaders to hear same messaging shared with LAT-Fs and ask questions via Zoom:

Thursday, December 8

 (10:00-11:00a) Zoom

Friday, December 16 

(8:30-9:30a) Zoom

Tuesday, December 20 

(9:00-10:00a) Zoom


Math


At this point in the school year, we should be at 25% average completion average rate.

At this time we are at 20% as a school. How can we catch up by the end of January?

ST Math Goals For the Week

Goal for the Year

K0/K1

30 mins

20 puzzles

 

80% Progress completion 

K2-Grade 1

60 minutes

40 puzzles

Grade 2-Grade 3

90 minutes

60 puzzles

 

Special Education (IEP meeeting)/Support/CBHM


Coverage

There could potentially be two covering COSE that may support us through December.

Currently, coordinating with our AD. If there are any pressing matters, please communicate

that to me as soon as possible.

Operations


Child Care Weather Watch

How we determine indoor recess


Several classes have been staying indoors the last couple of days. The hope is that students

are outside whenever possible during recess but the more structure and supervision.

Especially during this time of year when the sun sets early, it is important to get the kids

outside and access to air. 

Shoutouts


Ms. Purple: For always greeting families with a smile. -Amara

Mr. Abelson: For teaching me cool things and being nice! -Amara

Ms. Maude and Mr. LoBue: Thank you so much for supporting the bus students on Friday, staying here until 5 o’clock

when the buses showed up. I sincerely appreciated the help. Thanks Biden, William and Kate!

-Chery

Ms. Govi and Ms. Jen: Deena’s event was amazing and well organized! Thanks for putting

the event together in support of a family in great need! -Chery

Later/Reminders

After-School Club  OpporunityFor about 3 years in a row now, Ms. Frank and Mr. LoBue have run a very successful

after-school program in the fall and spring. I know many of you have interests and talents you

would like to share with our students. We have allocated $10,000 this year for stipends for

staff members to run an after-school club. Staff members will be paid the BTU rate.

If interested, please share your idea here.

Links/Forms

Incident Report

IEP Acknowledgement

ShoutOuts

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