Jaguar Journal
Week of 1/6/20
Important Events for the Week:
Monday, January 6th:
Welcome Back!!! Happy 2020!
1st/2nd/4th/5th Grade Level Assemblies to Review Hallway/Lunchroom Expectations - See Schedule
Tuesday, January 7th:
5th/1st PLC
Teacher Meeting after dismissal in AIG room (Snacks provided by 3rd grade)
Kg/3rd Grade Level Assemblies to Review Hallway/Lunchroom Expectations - See Schedule
Wednesday, January 8th:
4th/1st PLC
Thursday, January 9th:
3rd/2nd PLC
Baby Shower in Lien’s classroom for Margee Rife de los Santos
Friday, January 10th:
Mandy off campus at coaches’ meeting
Upcoming Dates;
Tuesday, January 14th -- 3-5 Math Check Ins
Wednesday, January 15th -- 4-5 Reading Check Ins (PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE!)
Friday, January 17th -- END OF SECOND QUARTER
Updates/Reminders:
MAKE NOTE! CALENDAR CHANGES! OUR JANUARY MEETING DATES HAVE CHANGED!
JANUARY 7th - STAFF MEETING
JANUARY 14th - SLT
JANUARY 28th - DUAL LANGUAGE
Praise Walks: Praise Walks are coming to NCE in 2020! There are so many great things happening in classrooms daily! During an upcoming PLC, grade levels will go around the building and complete walkthroughs. We are looking to raise the praise and will work hard to not be disruptive! If your grade level has not yet chosen a date to have your praise walk, please add it to your PLC agendas to discuss. Scheduled Praise Walks thus far are as follows:
Wednesday, January 8 -- 4th Grade Praise Walks from 10:15-11:00
Wednesday, January 15 -- 1st Grade Praise Walks from 2:10-2:55
New Addition to Jaguar Family: Welcome to Marco Camareno! Mr. Camareno will be joining us as an instructional assistant/bus driver January 6th. Please give him a Jaguar welcome!
Instructional Info:
New DPI Website and Links: DPI has updated their website. There is a LOT of clicking involved to get you to places! Here are some easy ways to access standards and unpacking documents.
New dpi website: https://www.dpi.nc.gov
NC Standard Course of Study -- This link will get you to any subject’s standards and unpacking documents
Math Standards and Unpacking Documents -- The staff page has been updated with this new link to the math standards
English Language Arts Standards and Unpacking Documents -- The staff page has been updated with this new link to the ELA standards
The K-12 Social Studies Division has worked to revise our Social Studies standards. They are asking for each grade level teacher to give feedback. Please share with your teachers. The survey is grade level specific. The link below will give you access to each grade level document and survey to give feedback. Mandy has also linked these into PLC agendas if you want to give united feedback. Let your voices be heard! https://sites.google.com/dpi.nc.gov/social-studies/standards/public-review-draft-1
NC Check Ins: The second round of NC Check Ins is coming next week. 3-5 will take math on Tuesday, January 14th and 4-5 will take reading on Wednesday, January 15th. Please be sure to maintain a testing environment on these days. This means:
Classrooms should be quiet during testing
Movement in hallways should be kept to a minimum
No outdoor recess until testing is completed. Feel free to use the ball field/soccer field for an organized game if you choose. We will let everyone know when testing is complete.
MOY Benchmarking: Benchmarking should not impact I/E. Small groups should continue throughout January during the benchmarking windows.
IStation benchmarking window is the whole month of January (1/6/20 - 1/31/20)
Please add to your PLC agendas a time to talk about a plan for IStation benchmarking and if support is needed.
Spanish and English must be completed for MOY for DL classes
The window is the whole month of January, HOWEVER, we are trying to schedule Darlene to join our i/e PLC conversations for the last week in January so please try to complete IStation when you first come back.
The student’s FIRST attempt during the benchmark month will be the data used for the state reporting purposes
If something goes wrong when a student is testing and you feel the student needs to repeat the test -- Do NOT just assign an on demand assessment for a student to do the ISIP MOY benchmark again without talking to Mandy first. We will be tracking these “invalidations”.
STAR math needs to be completed by February 1st by grades 1 -5. Please try to complete early in the month so we can have the data for our i/e conversations the last week in January.
iReady MOY diagnostic window is January 14 - January 31
MOY must be done by Kindergarten classes only.
It is optional for grades 1-5 but your students’ personalized pathways will not change and adjust if you do not do the MOY diagnostic
If you use iReady regularly in your classrooms, it is highly recommended that you have the students complete the MOY diagnostic so their personalized pathways are updated and accurate. If you do not use it, there is no need to complete the MOY diagnostic.
DESSA mini -- The window to complete the DESSA mini is February 15 - March 15.
Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) for IStation Benchmarking:
The icon for the ORF WILL NOW POP UP IN CLEVER! It will be a separate icon in your students’ clever page next to the IStation ISIP icon!
The ORF is NOT included in the overall reading score OR what is evaluated by EVAAS
Grades 1-3 please add this to your PLC agendas to discuss how we will handle the ORF during MOY Benchmarking
If you are interested in learning about how to access and use ORF before we do a training in January please see the resource links below:
Duties for the Week:
AM Duty:
Early Bus/Cafe/Lobby: Trejo, K. Horton
Main Lobby/Hallway : Webster
Intersection/MPR Lobby: Gendron
4th/5th Hallway: Spencer
Buses: Trygar
Cars: Murray, Brooks, Avila, Stahoviak, B. Horton
PM Duty:
Bus Ramp: Trygar, Bland, Crankshaw
Late Bus: Trygar, Avila, Brooks, Parrish, K. Horton
Cars: Orchard-Hays, Rife de los Santos, Hamilton, Knaus, Torres, Membreno Gendron, Evans, Rowland- TL, Maul- TL