Sunday Shakedown
Weekly Memo for Washington Elementary
Principal Post
Thank yous, appreciations, and celebrations:
- Thank you to Junior and Brandon for covering Vicki's shift while she was on vacation.
- Thanks to those who contributed for Sue and Anna, they seemed delighted with the surprise
- Thanks to Michelle B for working on labels and cases for our new Chromebooks in fourth grade.
- Congrats to Kayla Stevenson for stepping in to Stephanie's interim. She will have a short break and be at Adams in second grade for the remainder of the semester.
- Thanks for filling out the club survey,we hope to start soon, so please be on the lookout for an email from Alicia with dates. Cherie will create the registration survey for 3-5
- Thanks to the Johnston family for the donuts on Friday!
A great read about Common Language in schools
Week of September 10-14
Cancelled faculty meeting
Individual student reports to go home with TNReady results
UT professor to visit GWES 8:30-10:00
Tuesday:
Innovative solutions to classroom behavior session on relatedness at 3:45 at ASC
Wednesday:
New teacher breakfast in conference room 7:30-8:00 (by invitation)
Team Trace Dino Day t shirt (in honor or Trace our K friend receiving his Wednesday treatments)
Wolf at principal's meeting 2:30-4:30
Thursday:
Math collaborative with Shasta and Heather (Sue if she is back) all day
Friday:
Parent teacher conference day
Coming soon:
Number talks, grades 3-8 Fractions, Decimals, and percentages 3:45 ASC -qualifies towards six hours
Leadership team meeting on Sept 20 7:45
Mentor Sentences training Sept 20 3:45 @Jefferson
Innovative solutions to classroom behavior-student leadership and goal setting
@Johnson 3:45
Literacy collaboratives all day on Sept 20
Club day one on Sept 21 8:30-9:00 (announcement will be made)
Birthdays with the principals on Sept 21
September 24-Intruder/Active Shooter Table Top Exercise 3:45-4:45. ALL employees should try to attend. Flex schedule for the week if possible or comp time may be acquired.
FYI and Reminders:
- In lieu of the faculty meeting on Monday, September 10, please take time to read the following article. This is a timely discussion regarding consequences and how we approach restoring behavior vs. punishment and all the beliefs behind it.
- For the upcoming parent conference day on Sept. 14 , teachers may work 1/2 of
- Data : This week, you will be receiving any individual data reports provided by Nextera. In addition, any TVAAS information I have will be provided. We will invite Michael Hubbard to come and discuss this with us in the near future, but I want you to have it now. (I got a little behind on your reports-it will come this week)
- Evaluations info: Guiding questions for TEAM evaluation planning. in response to our joint faculty meeting, the principals met and were able to determine some guiding questions that will assist with the planning conferences. We are working on further developing the guiding questions to include your input from the meeting. They will be broad but possibly subject based. InDes will continue to work on these questions to finalize and individuals will have discretion on planning templates. Your format for planning is up to you-however, you will need to be able to speak to where this lesson fits into the unit of study and how the learning path is leading you to an outcome. Teacher observations will not begin until guiding questions and/or templates are shared.