Cat Tracks
Spring Shadows Elementary Wildcats Staff Newsletter
March 25 - March 29, 2019
Fifth Grade Track Team
Our Vision
Our Mission
Core Beliefs
- Each student has unique intellectual, emotional, social, and physical qualities.
- We embrace a child’s individual values, interests, and personalities.
- Parents are confident in their child’s social and intellectual educational growth.
- Educators lead their craft by preparing learners in our fast changing world
Living our Core Beliefs!
We run as ONE!
CNS!
Jeopardy Review
High Rigor
Principal's Message
May my message find you well and in good spirits. As we wind down March and look toward April, it's that time of year for you to start reflecting on the year we have had. We will be scheduling T-TESS Summatives by mid April, however in anticipation of that, we will continue to visit classrooms for evidence of student learning. The expectation is that you lead your own summative conference. To well-prepare you for this the district has the following opportunities to train you:
Session – Preparing for the End of Year Conference. This time is for teachers to plan and prepare for their end of the year conference with resources, supports, and think partners.
Teachers may click on one of the two dates below links to register on Eduphoria.
Tuesday, 3/26/19 4:00 p.m.-6:00
(Admin Building Room 275)
or
Thursday, 3/28/19 4:00 p.m.-6:00
(Admin Building Room 275)
In my last message, I discussed the following:
1). Expectations- (TTESS 2.1: Achieving Expectations) seeing teachers embrace student independence vs. dependence as the teacher empowers students rather than controls students. Here's what it looks like at distinguished:
- Provides opportunities for students to establish high academic and social emotional expectations for themselves.
- Persists with the lesson until there is evidence that all students demonstrate mastery of the objective.
- Provides opportunities for students to self monitor and self-correct mistakes.
- Systematically enables students to set goals for themselves and monitor their progress over time.
2.) Environment (TTESS 3.1)- Displays of data walls, student work, student writing, and anchor charts are imperative to support student learning. Now, think: What learning needs is the environment set up to facilitate? As we move towards greater student agency- what needs to be considered to facilitate the learner in communicating, discussing, sharing, or debating? This is what it looks like at distinguished:
- Establishes and uses effective routines, transitions and procedures that primarily rely on student leadership and responsibility.
- Students take primary leadership and responsibility for managing student groups, supplies, and/or equipment.
- The classroom is safe and thoughtfully designed to engage, challenge and inspire students to participate in high level learning beyond the learning objectives.
3) Opportunities- (T-TESS 1.4) Now that we have our foundation, it's important to recognize the difference between work and learning opportunity. A learning opportunity invites all students to the learning, have a low threshold for entry and a high ceiling so that learners can take themselves as fast as they wish. (Proficiency scales) Such opportunities provide students with the chance to apply their skills and knowledge in novel contexts even as they acquire new understandings. Powerful learning opportunities don't feel merely like doing work for the teacher but have their own worth that students readily perceive. This is what it looks like at distinguished:
- Opportunities for students to generate questions that lead to further inquiry and promote complex, higher order thinking, problem solving and real-world application
- Instructional groups based on the needs of all students, and allows for students to take ownership of group and individual accountability.
- The ability for all students to set goals, reflect on, evaluate and hold each other accountable within instructional groups.
- Activities, resources, technology and instructional materials that are all aligned to instructional purposes, are varied and appropriate to ability levels of students and actively engage them in ownership of their learning.
We will be doing instructional rounds focused on these 3 T-TESS areas. The goal is for you to be as near distinguished for these 3 T-TESS areas.
With love, respect, and admiration,
Rachel Martinez
Calendar
Monday, March 25, 2019:
5th Grade Extended Planning
Group 1
- 8:00-10:00 ILT
- Cindy Off Campus 8:00-12:00
- 2:45-4:00 Team Leader
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Kindergarten Extended Planning
Group 2
- Cindy Off Campus 7:30-12:00
- 3rd & 4th Grade Math Release STAAR
- 2nd Grade Field Trip Arboretum
- 3:00-4:00 Afterschool
- 3:30 TTESS Summative Training @ Ad Bldg
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
1st Grade Extended Planning
Group 3
- Rachel off campus @ Community Principal Mtg
- 3rd & 4th Grade Reading Release STAAR
- 5th Grade Science Release STAAR
- 2:45-4:00 Vertical Meetings
Thursday, March 28, 2019
PLC Thursday
Group 4
- 5th Grade Awards 12:00-12:30
- 5th Grade Parent Meeting 12:30-1:00 p.m.
- 3:00-4:00 After school
- 3:30-5:00 TTESS Training @ Ad Bldg.
Friday, March 29, 2019
2nd Grade Extended Planning
Group 5
- Spiral Day
- PTA Popcorn Day
- Fifth Grade Field Trip (Museum of Science)
- Eye Glass Party During Lunch
- Awards Ceremony
8:00-8:30 3rd
8:30-9:00 2nd
9:00-9:30 4th
9:30-10:00 K
10:00-10:30 1st - 8:00-10:00 ReDesign Rounds
Library News
March Madness of Reading Minutes are due by Tuesday! Wednesday we will be announcing which classes stayed in the GOLD! Remember to send home week 2 March Madness slips they will be coming from the office so check our mailbox.
My schedule has been adjusted due to testing this week check this link to see the adjustments. Students could come until 7:45 to get books if they need them for reading during testing on Tuesday and Wednesday. March 25 Schedule
1,000,000 Minute Goal Update
SSE Readers now have 745, 525 minutes - the minutes will go up with our March Madness minutes on Tuesday!
Current Ranking
Top Grade Levels.......... ....Top Classes
2nd Grade 188,828............ 1st Ms Zetino with 60, 412
1st Grade 155,854............. 2nd Ms Barron with 59,226
5th Grade 130,075 .............3rd Ms Parada with 53,475
4th Grade 107,022 .............4th Ms Urrutia with 50,613
3rd Grade 84,522................5th Ms Alvarez with 48,561
Kinder 79,221 .................... 6th Ms Moreno with 46,110
Rank and Minutes by Classrooms
5th Grade Readers - Parada (53,475,), Keyim (39,295) Denson (29,884) Calkins (7,421)
4th Grade Readers -Shankar 30,541), Perez (24,973), Mendoza (17,624), Vargas (14,432), Hill (12,116), Dortch (7,336)
3rd Grade Readers - Salazar (34,104) , Klauer (26,938, Lee 14,454) Carrabba (8,935)
2nd Grade Readers Zetino (60,412), Urrutia (50,613), Alvarez (48,561), Hudman (10,816), Gutierrez (10,758), Ochoa (7,668)
1st Grade Readers- Barron (59,226), Gomez (36,791) , Castaneda (31,445), Espejo (11,936), Garcia 11,868),, Brown (4,588).
Kinder Readers - Moreno (46,110), Almaguer (19,547), Cabrera (8,982), Guykens (3,357) Campos (1,225)
Thanks again for your support!
Ann : )
Shout Outs
Tech Class
Presenter's Academy
Presenter's Academy
Track Team
Track Team!
Small Group Instruction
SPED
Math Tutor
It's sideways....
Remember to Sign Up for Sunshine and PTA!
Join Sunshine & PTA for $30 (certified staff) & $25 (non-certified staff). You can pay cash or check to Mrs. Berryman or Mrs. Gentry. Checks can be made out to Spring Shadows Elementary.
We are trying to get 100% participation in Sunshine & PTA!
When you join, you get an SSE Unstoppable T-Shirt, 5 Jeans Passes, 4 Late Arrival Passes, and 4 Leave Early Passes.
Please review the PDF attachment to see our SSE Sunshine Bylaws that the team revised and agreed upon at our last meeting. This will give you more information about Sunshine and what your dues are used for.
Sunshine SEMESTER JEANS PASS for $30
The one caveat is that your jeans are to be worn with a nice shirt and shoes (not a t-shirt).
See Mrs. Berryman or Mrs. Gentry to pay for your pass!
Spring Shadows Elementary
Email: rachel.martinez@springbranchisd.com
Website: https://cms.springbranchisd.com/sse2/
Location: 9725 Kempwood Drive, Houston, TX, United States
Phone: (713) 251-7100
Twitter: @twitter_rachelmartinez4