Murphy Team Update
For the Week of June 1-5
Mission:
- Lapeer Community Schools is a dynamic community organization embracing our students with a quality learning environment, developing independent and confident learners for the future.
- Murphy Elementary School is united in learning for all children and focused on excellence, as we step into the future.
Vision:
To maximize the achievement of all Murphy students as they prepare for the future.
- At Murphy we're not just building things - we're building better people - in partnership with our families.
- We know that we are all strong individually but we are even stronger when we work together.
Murphy Minute (the Weekly Parent Update):
This goes out to families via School Messenger every Sunday at noon. For easy reference, the newest edition is linked here.
Week at a Glance: Please note the PLC times
Monday, June 1:
- ELA and Math
- 5th Grade Honor Patrol from 1:00-4:00 (download route below)
- ELA and Math
- 5th Grade Honor Patrol from 1:00-4:00 (download route below)
Wednesday, June 3:
- Science or SS
- 5th Grade Honor Patrol from 1:00-4:00 (download route below)
Thursday, June 4:
- Weekly Packet 11 in bins for parents by 3:00
- Elective grades K-2 and *Weekly Read at Home Plan homework
- K-2nd from 10:00-10:30
- **3rd from 10:30-11:00
- 4th-5th from 11:00-11:30
- District Grade Level PLCs at 1:00
Friday, June 5:
- Elective grades 3-5 and *Weekly Read at Home Plan homework
- All Staff Optional "Happy Hour" Meeting at 3:15 (invite will go out at that time)
building access sign ups
Word Work at a Distance
Remediation vs. Acceleration:
When planning instruction for the upcoming year, the temptation may be to focus on remediation, to go back to wherever students left off before quarantine and teach from that point forward, rather than starting the new school year where you might normally start. This seems logical, but something I read the other day caused me to rethink that—an article about the lessons learned after New Orleans schools closed post-Hurricane Katrina.
According to this report, schools that focused mostly on skill recovery rather than teaching grade-level content found that students were less engaged and scored poorly on tests, whereas schools got better results when they took a “spiraling” approach, where the regular content is taught on its normal schedule, and gaps in student skill and knowledge are filled in and scaffolded as needed. I don’t know much about the particulars of this approach, but the organization TNTP has put together a Learning Acceleration Guide that can help you learn more. I think it’s worth a look.