Guzick GOLD News
Week of 9/3/18
Dr. Davis' Quote of the Week
Guzick's 2018-2019 Key Action Items
Excellence in Instruction Spotlight
Writing Across the Content Areas!
We continue our spotlight of excellence in instruction! This week's Excellence in Instruction Spotlight is on the teachers who are continuously implementing strategies learned in the "Writing Across Content Areas" professional development led by our Writing Interventionist Leader, Mrs. S. Smith! Check out the pictures of these exceptional teachers implementing writing strategies in various content areas.
Mrs. N. Cabrera
Mrs. Butler
Mr. Velazquez
Ms. Medina
Ms. E. Harris
Grade Level DDI PLC Meetings - 9/4/18 during planning
We will begin our grade level PLC data driven instruction meetings on Tuesday, September 4, 2018. The meetings will take place in Room D106, 5 minutes after the start of your designated planning time. Our first meeting will focus on a process to review and analyze B.O.Y. Data to help inform future instructional practices. The agenda for the meeting was sent out on Thursday. Please reference that email for attachments. See you all then!
Intervention After School Tutoring - Begins 9/17/18
Teachers,
We will be sharing tools to help you determine your intervention groups and determine if students will benefit from after school intervention tutoring during PLC's this week. As a result, we have postponed after school intervention tutoring to begin the week of September 17, 2018. Please mark your calendars if you would like to take advantage of this opportunity for your Guzick Giants!
Supplemental Pay codes will be provided to you by Mrs. Willis in the next week. Once received, it is imperative that you submit your request in Oracle before tutoring.
Walkthrough Wednesday
As we continue on our quest to maintain our status as a High Performing Campus, a characteristic that was brought up several times during our professional development was the opportunity to observe and learn from our peers.
Walkthrough Wednesday is our first step to building a culture of learning from each other! Please cease the opportunity during your planning time to visit a peer's classroom, complete a Walkthrough Wednesday form, and leave it with your Walkthrough Wednesday observed teacher.
As an added fun touch, please take a selfie with your observed teacher and text the picture to me with the hashtag #GuzickWTW #ExcellenceInTeaching.
I am beyond excited to hear about how this experience enhanced your own instructional practices to benefit ALL Guzick Giants!
Staff Handbook Acknowledgement Form - Due in Products Due Folder by 9/7/18
Activity Fund Training/Test - Due in Products Due Folder by 9/7/18
Outside Play (Recess) - Heat Index
Please be reminded of the temperature before engaging students in outside recess play.
- Heat Index of 105 degrees or higher: No outside activity and encourage hydration.
- Heat Index of 104 degrees - 100 degrees - Only essential outdoor activities; water must be provided before and after activity.
- Heat Index less than 100 degrees: Usual outdoor activities are permissible for "healthy" children. Encourage hydration, and provide water before and after activity.
To determine current heat index, go to the following link:
I Have HEART Incentive Charts - Treasure Chest
PBIS Daily Lessons
We have come to the end of our school wide PBIS "Teaching Expectations" Lessons! The change we have seen in our student social culture in the first two weeks of school is nothing short of amazing! I am so proud of the way we have started the year with ensuring that we are speaking the same language and are practicing consistency with our behavioral expectations for ALL of our Guzick Giants. Tuesday's lesson is a review of bus expectations (we have about 10% of our student population on the bus). I encourage you to take the rest of the week reviewing lessons that you have observed your students needing a little extra reminder of what the expectations are.
Thank you!!!!
Day 11 Lesson: Bus
Day 12 Lesson: Review/Flex Days
Reminder: Building Closing Time
Teacher/Staff,
Just a reminder that the building closes each day at 7:30pm. Please plan accordingly.
Reminder: Afternoon Dismissal
We should have documented now every student's afternoon dismissal type (daycare/bus/car/walker). Parents/Guardians can only change dismissal by confirming the change with the student's teacher or the front office verbally or in written form. Students ARE NOT allowed to change their own dismissal type. For example, if a student says, "my mama said I am a bus rider today." If the mama DID NOT confirm this with you in writing or by calling, then the original dismissal is to be used. Please do your due diligence to call a parent to confirm the change if a student says otherwise.
It is imperative that EVERY teacher is on afternoon duty until 3:15pm. On duty means being at your post until the last student is either picked up, walks home, or is escorted to the Parent Center/Cafeteria as a late pick-up.
Upcoming Events/Reminders
- Labor Day - Teacher/Student Holiday - Monday, September 3, 2018.
- PLC Data Meeting - Tuesday, September 4, 2018 during planning.
- Walkthrough Wednesday - Wednesday, September 5, 2018.
- 1SW Progress Report Grades to be Updated - Friday, September 7, 2018.
On the Horizon
Education Go Get It Week - Monday, September 10, 2018 - Friday, September 14, 2018 - More info to come from Mrs. B. Wilson.
- SPOTS begin -Monday, September 10, 2018 - The teacher groups (A, B, C) will be sent out this week.
- Staff Meeting - Monday, September 10, 2018 @3:30pm.
- TEI Scorecard Conferences - Tuesday, September 11, 2018 (tentative, more info to come).
- PLC Data Meetings - Tuesday, September 11, 2018 during planning.
- 1SW Progress Reports to be sent Home - Wednesday, September 12, 2018.
- Walkthrough Wednesday - Wednesday, September 12, 2018.
- SLO/PD Plans Due for Review and Approval to your Appraiser - Friday, September 14, 2018.
- 5th Grade Road to Graduation Assembly during specials - Friday, September 14, 2018.
Frank Guzick Elementary School
Email: aandrus@dallasisd.org
Website: www.dallasisd.org/guzick
Location: 5000 Berridge Lane, Dallas, TX, United States
Phone: 972-502-3900
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Twitter: @GuzickES