Westwood Updates
November 9-13th, 2015
This Week's Happenings
Monday- 11/9/15
Tuesday- 11/10/15
2:20 Leadership in Studio 21
Wednesday-11/11/15
No School - Veterans' Day
Thursday-11/12/15
Friday-11/13/15
8:00 Friday Flag
- Mustache Day
Upcoming Dates to Know
**Trimester 1 Writing Window is OPEN (see ELA MyConnect for Details)
- 11/16/15 Non Student Day- Parent/Teacher Conferences
- 11/17 - 11/19/15 Min.days & conferences in pm
- 11/20 Min. day & pro grow in pm (note the change from goldenrod)
Grade Level Milestones
MAPS Brochure with sample test problems
Report Card Help Needed?
Culturally Responsive Resources
https://poway.instructure.com/courses/13724/pages/culturally-responsive-guidelines
Schedules Needed
2. Connect as soon as possible with Kaleb or Shaylene to have them join any conferences.
National Week of Code
Mark your calendar for December 7th - 11th.
More to come soon, but here are some resources to take an early look at:
https://hourofcode.com/us (read about this National Movement)
Rigorous Reading TLC with Kristin Thomas
It starts October 28th
It's at our site
It meets once a month
It will be on Wednesdays opposite staff meetings (with the exception of a couple which conflicted with holidays)
It's # 15-043
Questions? email kthomas@powayusd.com
Concerned About A Student?
First, use the following form to collect data, document, notes, and track the outcomes of interventions.
Secondly, meet with Shaylene to calendar the parent meeting.
Westwood Way Lesson
Second Steps with Lindsay & Juhi: Showing Respect
Chrome Books
Common Core Resources
Innovate - Design - Create ........ Resources
More about DEEP Design & Mary Cantwell's Resources
D39 Visits....
Understand. Create. Deliver. Connect.
Design Camp, San Diego 2016 is a FREE, participant driven deep dive into all things related to design thinking: school culture, leadership, curriculum integration, engineering, humanities, collaborative problem solving, project based learning and more! We will host this event and educators (novice to expert, educators to engineers) will be here at Westwood!. It’s a great way to learn, right here in our back yard! Alt eval: Check! Flex time: Check! This event was created by Design39Campus, Vista Innovation Design Academy, and Westwood. Click here for more details!http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0d49afa82ba5fa7-design
SMARTER BALANCED INTERIM ASSESSMENT PILOT: TEACHERS NEEDED (From LSS)
We are seeking two teachers from your site to try out the Interim Assessments from Smarter Balanced. The Smarter Balanced Consortium has produced a series of tests that teachers can use during the school year. These tests are called Interim Block Assessments and typically take one hour to administer. The tests are grade level specific (but you can give a student any grade level test). In many of the tests the answers are machine scored with typically one or two questions that require the teacher to score with a rubric and on a computer. There are also performance tasks which require more hand scoring (again on the computer). The results a teacher receives is limited, but teachers can see questions ahead of time and can even show students these questions on a computer screen, before or after the test, or as a teaching tool. The tests may not be reproduced.
We need teacher input on the efficacy of these assessments and assist us in generating guidelines for the use of these assessments. To that end, we are seeking two teachers from each site who would be interested in:
· Administering one of the interim block tests (e.g. “Expressions and Equations” or “Read Informational Texts”) and one performance task this December to one class
· Attend a two hour orientation meeting on December 1st, 4:00 p.m. in the District Office Training Lab.
· Participate in a release day on January 7th to score the tests, discuss the uses of this assessment and participate in a general discussion on assessment guidance in the district
We are seeking two participants from your school who teach in grades 2 – 5th. Special education teacher are welcome to participate as one of your two participants.
Teachers who have agreed to participate should complete the following four question Survey Monkey and sign the security affidavit. We need this completed by November 13th please. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ICA_IAB