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NEWS AND INFO FOR WILDCAT STAFF 12.10
AFFIRMATION OF THE WEEK
I maximize all instructional time, even before a break, to help students achieve their potential.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=578WzSfXO6E
This will be the last newsletter of 2018. Your next newsletter will be published when we return from the holiday break. The Price Administrative and Leadership Team want to wish each and every one of you happy holidays! We hope you have an enjoyable, restful, and rejuvenating break. Get plenty of rest, because when we return it will be a "sleigh ride" to testing. We will have to be extremely data-driven and standards-focused to move each child forward. Rest well over the next two weeks, because when we return, it's on!
PBL TIMELINE - YOU ARE HERE
Should Already Be Complete:
- Qtr 2 Project
PBL To Do This Week:
- PBL SHOWCASE
- Give students the opportunity to reflect on the project (the process, the products, the presentation)
Instructional Resource of the Week
On Target: Strategies to Build Student Vocabularies focuses on four practices. They are strategies that are supported by research and best practice in classrooms.
- Develop word awareness and love of words through word play. Several of the strategies and activities in this booklet focus on this aspect of vocabulary development. Too often, in an attempt to cover as much content as possible, we forget to give our students the opportunity to play with words. We forget that while they play with words, students create meaning.
- Develop explicit, rich instruction to build vocabulary. Blachowicz and Fisher suggest the STAR model because it provides explicit vocabulary instruction. This model is featured on page 5 of this booklet.
- Build strategies for independence. Helping students learn to understand vocabulary by using context clues, word parts, and, yes, even dictionaries can lead to word ownership. However, teachers need to explicitly teach students how to use these tools to develop the skills needed to make use of context clues, word parts, and dictionaries.
- Engage students actively with a wide range of books. Exposing students to many forms of literature in a variety of ways—including reading aloud to and with them—helps students develop broad vocabularies.
Click HERE to visit On Target: Strategies to Build Student Vocabularies
TO DO LIST
- Make sure that assignments are graded and entered in Mastery Connect. Final grades will be put into Infinite Campus next week.
- Get ready for the PBL Showcase!
- MAKE SURE ALL STUDENTS HAVE COMPLETED BENCHMARK TESTING!
THIS WEEK
IMPORTANT LINKS AND NUMBERS
Lesson Plans
- Facilities Request: https://purposebuiltschoolsatlanta.formstack.com/forms/maintenance_janitorial_request
- Supply Request: https://tinyurl.com/ybtnbpwg
- Absence Request: https://tinyurl.com/yas5tbze
- Field Trip Request: https://tinyurl.com/ydx6kr4d
- Media Center Requests: https://goo.gl/forms/DT5rVm8OdUtIzzWh1
- Tech Requests: https://www.atlantapublicschools.us/Page/28827
- Digital Instructional Resources: www.portaportal.com Guest Access: dkemp
- Milestones Blueprints: http://www.gadoe.org/Curriculum-Instruction-and-Assessment/Assessment/Pages/Georgia-Milestones-Test-Blueprints.aspx