The Hive
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Week of April 3, 2023
Dates 4/3 Huddle: Revisiting bathroom policy and incident reports 4/3-4/6 ELA MCAS (Grade 3) (Tuesday and Thursday) 4/5 Professional Development: Choose your own adventure: Please email Mr. Chery evidence of the two hours fulfilled 4/7 No School 4/13 ILT (changed from the 6th) 4/14 2nd-3rdAuthor Djofa Tavares Vist 9:45-10:45 4/17-4/21 April Vacation 5/2 Bio-Bus (more info to come) | ||||||||||||||
Updates MCAS Students in grade 3 will begin testing tomorrow! YAY! We ask that teachers inform their students of being respectful in the hallways, especially, on the second floor. Students are to file quietly through the hallways. Rooms and spaces that will be used: 201, 202, 203, 208 A&B, Chery’s office and LoBue’s and Purple’s office. Please be aware that Ms. Maude will be proctoring and Ms. Jen and Ms. Jasmin will be on standby and serve as hallway monitors. However, continue to use the SWARM chain/messages for emergencies. April Incentive: Students will be able to earn extra recess this month for our monthly incentive. I was hoping to take advantage of that opportunity and have a FRIENDLY but competitive game of kickball. I was thinking of either staff vs. third grade; teachers vs. paras or second grade vs. third grade? with Ms. Hart serving as the umpire. Please let me know what you think. Bathroom policy There have been a couple of incidents that have occurred on both the first-floor and second-floor bathrooms and would like to recalibrate the expectations discussed at the beginning of the year. First-floor bathroom: Students are to be monitored at all times. An adult should be escorting students to the bathroom. If there is only one adult in the classroom, please use the SWARM text message group/chain for your classroom. If someone from SWARM is not available for whatever reason, then send the student to the office with a note indicating students need to use the bathroom. The student will be directed to use the nurse’s office bathroom or Ms. Zoraida will be sent outside the bathroom. We want to minimize the number of incidents and/or opportunities when there are a number of students being sent unsupervised. Last week, at one point there were at least three students in the bathroom. Parents are questioning and have been questioning the lack of supervision and why incidents are occurring. As a former classroom teacher, I inform parents that the reality is when cannot catch and or prevent everything. However, let’s try to control what we can in hopes of ensuring the safety of everyone. Second-floor bathroom: Students will now be expected to sign in and out of the classroom when going to the bathroom. Students have been drawing on the walls, flooding the toilets, and locking the stalls. I ordered digital clocks for each classroom on the second floor and we will start this policy/process once the clocks get in. Home visits Team, I still hope to continue to use this strategy as a means of building strong school-home partnerships. Out of $20,000 we have just about $7,600 left. This means that we have about over 300 of staff/opportunities in which we engaged families so far this year outside of the school in their community/homes. I encourage everyone to continue with the home visits if they find them beneficial. Junk/Spam Please check your junk/spam folder for any messages from me, colleagues, or either the district. I believe there could have been some sort of changes that have occurred in the algorithm recently. Some messages have been going to the spam folder, in particular, messages from the district. Reminder, please be sure to check your mailbox in the office, especially Tuesday afternoons when the The Special Education clerk is here. Food and Rugs Mr. Bill asks that students refrain from eating food and snacks on the classroom rugs. Many of the new rugs are stained and | ||||||||||||||
Data Attendance: Mondays and Fridays are a major concern. I will be meeting with Govi to discuss these trends and develop a plan and/or incentives. | ||||||||||||||
Literacy Lexia: There has been a spike in interest in classrooms/students wanting to use Lexia. Which is AWESOME! However, our school was only allocated 130 licenses. I am trying to communicate with the district in obtaining more licenses from schools/classrooms in the district that are not using them for us to be able to purchase more. More information to come soon: hopefully. | ||||||||||||||
Math Please check on any alerts your class may have. Some alerts may be because students have left the journey with an alert and are currently working on individual or class assignments. If you have any questions please reach out to me (Brian).
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Special Education (IEP meeting)/Support/CBHM LAPS HONEY POT Monthly School-Wide Incentive April 28, 2023 Extra Recess May 26, 2023 Sunglasses Day June 19, 2023 Popsicles Day DESE has released a new IEP form that has not been updated since 2001. In BPS most schools have their own process and forms. There have not been any directives yet from BPS. However, I do know the goal of BPS is to tighten its systems and structures as a district. I will not be surprised if we have to adopt the form. Here is the form. I will update the school community as I get more information. | ||||||||||||||
Operations Fire Drill Please remember to close your doors when all students have exited the classroom. When exiting the building, students should not stop moving. Many classrooms/students had to stop and go for close to 20 seconds to exit. In an emergency, every second counts. Use both sides of the staircase and both doors. Furthermore, facilities have inquired about the metal bars for the classroom doors. They are looking to see if they are being stored anywhere in the building or have to reconstruct them which will take more time. | ||||||||||||||
Lots of shout-outs this week!! Nurse Marthe: She PASSED her MTELS!!! -Chery Mr. Abelson: Providing students with great learning experiences and lasting memories in science with very engaging activities. The mushroom was delicious! -Chery Ms. Purple: Thank you for putting together the MCAS baskets! -Chery Ms. Aviles: My mentor and I were able to observe her give students actionable feedback to decode words. Awesome! Ms. Gebo: Great rapport with her students that allows them to be themselves. Mr. Hampton: Thank you always but especially for holding it down while I’ve been out lately -Rose Ms. Lizbeth: Thank you for always being supportive and keeping our 204 circuses on track! Your partnership is greatly appreciated!! -Miss Gebo Mr. Abelson: Thank you for your collaboration and commitment to keeping high standards for our kiddos! -Miss Gebo Mr. Lobue: Thank you for staying after with Ms. Gebo and me to help prep all those materials for math and literacy night! -Miss Cassie Ms. Purple: Thank you for gathering all those resources for small groups and putting them in one place for us to easily access/find! -Miss Cassie Paula Morgado: Thank you for supporting 202! I can always count on you. :) - Ms. Martin Ms. Mendez Thank you for everything you do for me and the kiddos. :) -Tanera Martin | ||||||||||||||
Photos If you have photos you would like to share with staff, please text them to me. | ||||||||||||||
Later/Reminders From Bonnie Paton, covering COSE: Hi, There is a good chance there will be some meetings held over the April break if reports are uploaded on edplan. I am hoping some can be LAPS meetings and with that the below are meetings. If you can have the staff have their ARs and goals uploaded before the break that would be great. THANKS Ayden Owens Anderson Ramos Hailey Robles Tayvian Horton Alijah Silva Jayson Tran Eli Genao Kemya Gray Javier Cruz Chance Berry Ahlanii Murray Daniel Bautista Eli Pena Berenicea Bryant Strategic Small Group Instruction PD Description: This module is geared toward educators already trained in Fundations who want to refine their practice around data-driven, strategic small-group instruction. Participants will build both knowledge and skills in culturally & linguistically sustaining foundational literacy practices, such as the use of multiple-criterion decodable text. This version of the module has been condensed from the longer 8-session course. Where: Sessions held virtually When: Six Wednesdays, 4:30-6:30pm (April 12, April 26, May 10, May 24, June 7, June 14) Check out the syllabus here: Equitable Foundational Literacy: Strategic Small Group Instruction Register on Vector For the PD opportunity above, we can payout stipends for teachers at the BTU rate to participate as it would be over the contractual hours. You have to register by the end of this week so we can ensure we process the payments on time for when PDs are completed. One person has taken the offer thus far! YAY! | ||||||||||||||
Links/Forms How we will determine indoor recess. | ||||||||||||||
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