2nd Cup of Coffee
Wednesday, September 4th at 7:30 am.
The WHY of 2nd Cup of Coffee
2nd Cup of Coffee is designated to provide families a space to meet/speak with our administrative team so that their voice and input on school matters important to them are shared, addressed, and acted upon when warranted. It also provides an opportunity for us to strengthen external communication.
We are grateful to have had returning and new families join us this morning.
Today's Agenda
Our agenda today included the following:
- sharing school opening celebrations
- discussion on conditions we can create to ensure parents/families are satisfied with the learning environment at our school
- discussion on helping parents/families support their children
- school matters requiring our attention
Feedback received
- parents/families were very interested in the teaching of spelling
- how do we meet the diverse needs of diverse learners
Teaching of Spelling/Word Study/Phonics
For school purposes consider the following:
- 40 minutes per week should be dedicated to the teaching of spelling/word study/phonics. To ensure your workshop is balanced this should be done in chunks over the course of the week.
- Moving forward please be sure that your schedules that are posted reflect the time dedicated to spelling beginning Monday, September 9th.
- Given we have collected Dominie sentence writing and spelling data...how are you and your respective teams planning for the teaching of spelling/word study/phonics?
- How are you and your respective team planning to communicate with families via class newsletters and curriculum night on how you are teaching spelling/word study/phonics
- How might S. Somerall be helpful in thinking about the teaching of spelling/word study/phonics
Actions taken based on feedback
Given what we heard today these actions will be taken:
- communicating/sharing minutes from 2nd Cup meetings with staff
- communicating/sharing minutes in our school newsletter
- communicating/sharing minutes with our school improvement council
- we will share word study information with all families in future newsletter additions and will discuss the topic with families at our October 2nd Second Cup event.