Birdneck Briefing
Week of January 15
Upcoming Dates and Events Week of January 15-19
January 15 - School Closed - Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday
January 16 - Sports Day (Wear gear from your favorite sports team)
January 18 - (Rescheduled/ now on March 8) PTA Ice Cream Social/Academic night
January 20 - 1st Grade Saplings Fieldtrip
January 21-27 - Great Kindness Challenge 2018
January 25 - Voices of Tomorrow Assembly 9:00am
January 25 - Staff Meeting
January 25 - VBCPS Service Awards Banquet
January 26 - End of Quarter 2
January 29 - Staff Day
January 30 - Beginning of Quarter 3
This is your Captain Speaking!
Hello Birdneck Family,
We've thawed out and are back on track. It's time to check back in with your students about the academic and social emotional goals they set. Goal setting needs to be monitored and reflected on regularly so students keep track of their progress. My challenge to you this week is to continue monitoring student goal setting and share the progress of student goal setting in your classroom in collabs. Please bring artifacts or other information about how your students are monitoring their own learning.
Captain Out,
RV Yoshida
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Confucius
Dyslexia Training
As a result of the new VDOE license renewal requirement for all teaching staff to complete the Dyslexia Awareness Training Module (http://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching/licensure/dyslexia-module/story.html) housed on the Virginia Department of Education website, VBCPS is requesting that all PreK-12 teachers who teach language arts must complete the forty-minute module during this school year, whether they are up for license renewal or not. Teachers who teach language arts are being asked to complete this to module by the end of the first semester, to ensure that they are knowledgeable when attending meetings in which dyslexia is discussed. As this is a new license renewal requirement for all staff, the completion of this task is being monitored by the Department of Human Resources, Office of Licensure.
2017-2018 ANNUAL MANDATORY EMPLOYEE TRAINING (AMET) Due Feb. 16, 2018
Based on your job title, your assigned courses will be listed on your personal SafeSchools Training home page under “Mandatory Training.”
A target completion date of Feb. 16, 2018, has been established. Thank you for your assistance in this endeavor.
Completion Date: February 16, 2018
Go to our website at http://www.vbschools.com
Click on Staff
Click on Mandatory Training (AMET)
Shout Outs!
If you would like to give a SHOUT OUT to a colleague, it is as simple as sending an email to RV to be added to our Shout Outs each week!
I want to give a shout out to Heather McVeen! There are so many changes happening with our school technology. I was having some difficulty due to recent changes with the copiers. She stopped what she was doing and immediately came to help me trouble shoot. Thanks for saving a frustrated teacher on our first day back!
I would like to give a shout out to the whole third grade team for being so helpful and welcoming to me when I started here at Birdneck. - Kathy
Thanks to all of you for loving our students and making a difference in their lives.
Leave Bank for those previously enrolled
To ensure there are enough bank hours for the sick leave bank to remain in operation, all members must be assessed the houlrly equivalent of two days of sick leave for this school year. Your sick leave will be deducted the hourly equivalent of two (2) days which will reflect in your Feb. 28, 2018 paycheck.
You have the option not to participate further in the bank to avoid being assessed. If you do not want to participate in the Sick Leave Bank, a form was put in your mailbox to return to HR by Feb. 15, 2018.
The Energy Bus
SOL test item review committee
Please let RV know if you are interested.
The Virginia Department of Education Office of Assessment Development is seeking
nominations for the 2018 Standards of Learning (SOL) Item and Test Review Committees. The committee meetings will be held in Richmond, Virginia. Approximately 15 members are needed for each of the 22 committees, and the school division may nominate one or more representatives for each committee. Supporting documentation for the criteria and expectations of the 2018 SOL Item and Test Review Committees was sent to you via email, as well as a schedule of the committee meetings. Please support the Virginia Department of Education by considering to apply for these committees.
Tech Tip from your ITS
PROJECTS BEFORE BREAK OR Great Coding Activities with BEYOND THE HOUR OF CODE
Reminders
-Greet your students at the door each day!
-implement Morning Meeting and student goal setting in your classrooms.
-Teach students the behaviors you expect to see them use
-Social committee dues to Vanessa Dominguez
-Join our PTA.
-Have Fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Join our PTA
IMPORTANT REMINDERS
Join the PTA! Our goal is to have 100% Staff participation!!!!!!!!!
Support Birdneck Elementary students by joining the PTA. Don't miss out on the benefits from joining the PTA. Receive over $300 in savings... all for just $5 for a membership. Check out the PTA website at http://birdneckpta.weebly.com/
BIRDNECK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BIRDNECK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BIRDNECK MISSION
The mission of Birdneck Elementary is to dedicate ourselves to the success of all children, preparing them to meet today's expectations and tomorrow's challenges.
BIRDNECK VISION
Children are our future. We are dedicated to their success.
BIRDNECK BELIEFS
We believe in a collaborative community in which teachers, administrators, students, and parents work together for student success.
We believe in creating a safe, nurturing, and positive environment in which all students can strive for excellence and achieve their individual potential.
We believe we will prepare our students for success by providing 21st century learning and developing within our students critical thinking, effective communications and problem solving skills.
Website: http://www.birdneckes.vbschools.com/
Location: 957 South Birdneck Road, Virginia Beach, VA, United States
Phone: 757-648-2120