The Sailor Compass
March 12, 2018
COLLEGE WEEK 2018
Weekly Staff Meeting - Tuesday @ 7:45
- Please sign up to cover lunch recess March 19th-22nd - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1y7IjX0GNSNFWWlD1wNbuqzqmhRaedcFjj_LAiCeUV9w/edit?usp=sharing
- Open Google Folder "EDI Staff Goals 2017-2018" (This has been shared with you.)
- Share your goal with a pair/share partner during our meeting
- Videotaping of a lesson - Sign up for a time @ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15cOJnZaEZaweK7PLmN4Orw8MrjqY8QRHdTa9qBVNxBM/edit?usp=sharing
- Review intruder procedures - Lock Out & Lock Down (Make sure you and your students know the difference and what to do.
- Make sure you are implementing systematic supervision during recess. Move around the playground so you are listening to and interacting with students. Make sure all areas of the playground are supervised by an adult.
TO DO LIST & REMINDERS
- Principal Monthly Read Aloud for March - Prior to March 21, please schedule a 30 minute time for me to visit your classroom. Our March book will include a lesson on Down Syndrome. Eliana & Kate Dyer will be helping deliver a few of the lessons.
- Field Trips - If you haven’t scheduled your field trip yet, please see me in the next couple weeks so we can confirm dates and transportation!
- Suggested Class Lists for 2018-2019 - I will provide a document for you to generate suggested class lists for next year. Please consider academic performance, IEP's, behaviors, personalities, etc.
Data Team Meeting
- Data Team for K-2 (Wednesday, March 21 @ 3:45 in the Board Room)
PBIS focus: HALLWAY EXPECTATIONS
- Review the matrix for HALLWAY EXPECTATIONS with your students
- Review Video - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxYg2VLgwRrMTGNncTY5djA5SGM
- Discuss WHY following the expectations are important.
- How does it help them? their classmates? staff members?
- Talk through some situations they might encounter in the HALLWAY
EDI FOCUS:
White Boards for Student Engagement
- Generate a question
- Allow time for students to process & answer question
- Cover & Hover
- Chin It
- Scan student responses to check if all students are correct or if more teaching is necessary
Boys Town Skill of the Week: (Reinforce w/ Sailor PRIDE coins)
Following Instructions:
Look at the person
Say "Okay"
Do what you have been asked right away
Check back
Formal Line:
Face forward
Keep hands at your side
Remain quiet & still
Maintain appropriate space
Getting the Teacher’s Attention
Look at the teacher
Raise your hand and stay calm
Wait until the teacher says your name
Ask your question
UPCOMING EVENTS:
- March 12th - Tom Osborn Assembly @ 2:30-3:00
- March 13th - MTSS Work Day (Mrs. Sandberg will be gone)
- March 13th - Family Reading & Math Night @ 5:30-7:00
- March 14th - Early Out (Follow Schedule #2)
- March 15th - DARE Graduation @ 6:00 in South Gym
- March 16th - Math Curriculum Committee Meeting @ 7:30 (Board Room)
- March 19th - Board Meeting @ 7:00 a.m.
- March 20th - No School for PreK-12
- March 21st - Send 3rd Quarter Report Cards & Special Education/Speech Progress Reports home with kids
- March 21st - PreK-12 Staff Meeting @ 7:45 a.m.
- March 22nd - ESU #16 HAL Day for 3rd-6th graders (Mrs. Keyser is taking students)
- March 23rd - PBIS Leadership Team Meeting @ 7:15
- March 23rd - 3rd Quarter Awards for 4-6 @ 2:00
- March 23rd - 3rd Quarter Awards for K-3 @ 3:00
TECH BYTES:
Flipgrid.com - I will share some ideas as to how you can use in your classroom!
Wheeldecide.com Randomizer link has been added to our Google Community page
If you post something from your classroom on TWITTER, use the hashtag #SailorPride17.
SAFETY UPDATES:
- WIPE DOWN WEDNESDAY....Make sure to have your students help wipe down desks/chairs/etc. on Wednesdays! Let's see if we can keep the germs down!
Who wants to be a winner?
NAME IT, CLAIM IT, EXPLAIN IT.....Continue to Brag It Up and share the great things that are going on in your classroom. Take a photo of something you are very proud of in your classroom. This could be an instructional strategy that is effective with your students, classroom management strategy/tool, something new you are trying this year, etc. Post the photo along with a brief description on our Google Community page. At a staff meeting, I will share the photo and as the teacher, you will need to NAME IT, CLAIM IT & EXPLAIN IT!