El Dorado Monday Memo
Week 2 August 26th, 2019
#ToroFamily
What a great first full week last week was! Thank you to every single one of you for all that you have done and are doing to make this such a positive start of school for our students. I know as we start to get out of the "honeymoon" phase of the year there will be challenges, but I know we will meet them together all the while assuming the positive. We had a great and successful Williams Visit. Every one of our guests were SUPER complimentary of all that you all are doing with our students. In addition to them, I have spoken with several parents who expressed how excited their kids have been coming home and how happy they are to be here.
We are in our #First21Days of school and this week's slides have been updated (there might be some small tweaking). Please be sure to check the Duty Schedule for your assigned day and place. Now that we are done taking schedule change requests, we will be devoting our efforts to working on those classes that are over. We will also be doing our best to balance class sizes. Thank you again for your patience with this process and being shorthanded. Check below for updates and have a great week!
Please log into our Google Classroom for 2019-20
https://classroom.google.com/u/0/h Class Code [k40n7v3]
B2SN
iReady Benchmark Testing
Learning Together...
AVID Weekly...
This Week in AVID August 26, 2019
Many of us have learned the hard way that delivering too much content in the early weeks of school can really interfere with community building and making individual connections with students. This is partly because our kids need to know that we are listening and believing in them. In addition, many of our students are participating in diagnostic tests in August and balancing this out with activities that make them feel successful is crucial.
Four Corners is a collaborative activity that can be used with content down the road but now is a good time to incorporate social-emotional themes as vehicles to learn about our students.
Jeanne M. Johnson
Instructional Coach - AVID, Social Studies & Secondary Literacy
Events, Goals, Links, Etc...
Wed 8/28: Back to School Night
Mon 9/2: Labor Day [NO SCHOOL]
Fri 9/6: Welcome Back to School Party [all grades]
Wed 9/11: Make Up Picture Day
Links
El Dorado Middle School
Chris Clausen
@chrisclausen
@edmsinfo
Email: clausenc@mdusd.org
Website: edms.mdusd.org
Location: 1750 West Street, Concord, CA, United States
Phone: 925.682.5700
Twitter: @edmstoros