Monday Memo
Week of 1/27/20: Central's Newsletter for Teachers & Staff
Hello Central Elementary Panthers!
Thank you for being so flexible this past week as we have been working on our tutorial project, data and summatives. This week I will be out and about to see the teaching and learning at CES.
This week we will be celebrating Literacy Week and I hope you and your teams will participate fully. I would love for you to email or text me pictures of your students reading and supporting the theme of the day for Literacy Week. We are celebrating the 100th day of school on Tuesday the 28th. It's also Dress like a cowboy due to Literacy week. To avoid confusion we are just melding those together. Kids can dress like a cowboy, dress like a 100 year old or just dress like a 100 year old cowboy! Hah! Again, I encourage you to participate (the kids are going to crack up) and take a picture with you and your students!
Be sure and check the calendar below for this week's happenings. There's a lot happening for sure! Let's have a great week Panthers!
Together we are committed. Together we are Central. We are #ONECENTRAL
CK
THIS WEEK'S HAPPENINGS
January 27-
- Announcements
- Literacy Week! "Sock it to Me Reading!" Wear your wild socks and read!
- Pennies for Patients! Our goal is $1500 so please encourage & challenge your students.
- WIDA Testing begins
- CES Admin Meeting 8:15
- Talent Show Practice 3-4pm
January 28-
- Announcements
- Literacy Week! "Dress like a Cowboy, Dress like you are 100, or Dress like a 100 year old cowboy and Read! We will choose a winner from K-2, 3-5, and Staff/Teachers.
- 3rd grade APTT
- Pennies for Patients! Our goal is $1500 so please encourage & challenge your students.
- WIDA
- Talent Show Practice 3-4pm
January 29-
- Announcements
- Literacy Week! "Our Reading is so Bright, We have to wear shades!"
- Pennies for Patients!
- WIDA
- PLC Data Chats/Domains/Standards to Reteach
January 30-
- Announcements
- Literacy Week! "Tackle Reading, Wear your favorite Team Jersey!"
- Pennies for Patients!
- WIDA
- SOW Luncheon Dec/Jan. Send an invitation with the time of your lunch.
- Dental Sealants
- Instruction Partners/District 8-12 pm ELA Walkthroughs
- Principal's Meeting
January 31-
- Announcements
- Literacy Week! "Dress like your favorite book character or class character for parade!"
- Student of the Week Picture @ 8
- AR Leaders Picture @8:15
- Student of the Month Breakfast
- Pennies for Patients
- WIDA
- Cool Book Character Parade at 2 pm. Bring your chairs out. We will send out a parade route.
HEADS UP FOR THE 28th! Dress like you're a 100 years old on the 100th day of school. Staff and students will participate and we will have winners in both categories! :)
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Action Items and Reminders
- Summatives are all completed.
- Yay our gate automatically locks now in front. Turn to the right.
- Please encourage students to read for AR. Reading is a great homework task to boost reading skills. Set high expectations. Their average should be 85% or higher and they should not have a problem making their goal. If you would like to take students on an incentive DQ trip for reaching 9 week AR goals this nine weeks I will approve it. Let's get our kids reading! Lead by example and let them see you reading too.
- Ms. Heather Johnson will be coming in to assist K and in other rooms she's been invited to teach and model in. She is an excellent resource and loves our students and teachers. She will also visit in our new classrooms.
- PLCs this week are Data focused on our standards and domains. Where can we get the most bang for our buck in remediation right now? We will plan out a strategy and plan of attack and then reassess to see if we are impacting the scores. Come with your ideas.
- Congrats to Blayke Striebel in representing CES for Teacher of the Year, to Lisa Thomas in representing CES for School-Related Employee of the Year, and to Nicole Feldman in representing CES for New Teacher of the Year! We are so proud of all of you and we want you to know you are STAR Panthers!
Please sign in daily.
If you have a time sheet it is very important to come up and sign in each day.
Don't forget to upload your plans in our shared drive. Outstanding job to everyone on getting your plans submitted and on time!
- Thank you for signing in and greeting your students at the door!
- Attendance notes must be checked daily and turned in daily. Attendance must be completed by 9 AM sharp.
- Wear your I.D. Badges at all times! Please send anyone who doesn't have a badge or sticker to the office and notify the office.
- Lesson Plans should be in by Sunday night to the Team Drive.
- #GOPANTHERS
Happy Birthday to these special Panthers!
January Birthdays!
January 2, Marcela Pineda & Kenia Rodriguez
January 3, Elmo Urbina
January 19, Amie Eldred
January 22, Vianka Padgett
January 27, Erin Carroll
Let me know if I missed someone!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIN CARROLL!
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Self Paced- WIDA e-Learning https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ScARqrkVBi8p8mE59xG1etr_8Rl9E9F12hOXzCQcRxY
Mrs. Andrea Canaday (Andee) is our Professional Learning Coordinator at the District Office. Her emails often contain professional development opportunities for you that are approved by the district.
The county's Inservice Form is at the link below.
APPRECIATIONS
Our Commitment and Pledge to Central Instruction
Together we commit to working hard to make sure instruction and assignments are both rigorous and engaging. We will continue setting the bar (grade-level standards) high and placing that intellectual lift on our students. This is the key to mastering complex material.
Time and time again, research has shown that when students are given access to four critical classroom level resources, they can and will make BIG academic gains.
- Grade-appropriate assignments (Rigor of the Standards)
- Strong instruction that lets students do most of the thinking in the lesson (facilitate with probing questions- most of the talking should be the students)
- A sense of deep engagement in what they're learning
- Teachers who hold high expectations for ALL students and truly believe they can meet grade-level standards (Set the bar high)
Every student will receive daily access to challenging, engaging, and grade-appropriate work. With each day that passes we will refine our skills to the best of the best in our profession! We will focus daily on what our students are learning and doing, we will strengthen our belief about what students can accomplish.
Together we are committed. Together we are Central. We are #ONECENTRAL