Kettering Bulletin
November 12th - November 15th
KUDOS
Thank you to all teachers for taking time to be prepared for your parent conversations. Your detail to each student's abilities, growth and struggles not only helps our families to know how they can support, but also feeds our information on next steps to support all student learning.
Calendar
Monday, November 11th,
Veteran’s Day – NO SCHOOL
Tuesday, November 12
Minimum Day – Parent / Teacher conference
9:00 am – Fire Drill – Evacuation (Station 14 observation)
Library
10:40 CSULB science visit
1:15 IEP (Young/Cordeiro) YG
2:00 ILT meeting in Rachel’s office
Wednesday, November 13
Picture Retake
No Library
District counselor meeting – Yvette off campus
Running club
2:30 school Site Council meeting – library
6:00 CAC meeting (Special Education)
Thursday, November 14
Vocals
Running club
2:30 Staff Meeting
Friday, November 15
K-12 Principal Meeting – Rachel off campus
Used Uniform sale
Instrumental
10:00 am TURKEY TROT
5:00pm PTA Science Night
K-12 School Growth Awards
Monday, Nov 18, 2019, 04:15 PM
Millikan High School, Snowden Avenue, Long Beach, CA, USA
RSVPs are enabled for this event.
Teacher Practices
Thinking about Differentiation:
Carol Tomlinson wrote: The goal of a differentiated classroom is maximum student growth and individual success.
To ensure growth, teachers who differentiate lessons consider content, process and product.
Content - Content consists of facts, concepts, generalizations or principles, attitudes, and skills related to the subject, as well as materials that represent those elements. Content includes both what the teacher plans for students to learn and how the student gains access to the desired knowledge, understanding, and skills. Some of the ways a teacher might differentiate access to content include
- Using math manipulatives with some, but not all, learners to help students understand a new idea.
- Presenting information through both whole-to-part and part-to-whole approaches..
- Reteaching students who need another demonstration, or exempting students who already demonstrate mastery from reading a chapter or from sitting through a reteaching session.
- Using texts and varying technologies as a way of conveying key concepts to varied learners.
Process - Process is how the learner comes to make sense of, understand, and “own” the key facts, concepts, generalizations, and skills of the subject. A familiar synonym for process is activity. An effective activity or task generally involves students in using an essential skill to come to understand an essential idea, and is clearly focused on a learning goal. A teacher can differentiate an activity or process by, for example,
- providing varied options at differing levels of difficulty or based on differing student interests
- using graphic organizers to guide analysis of text
- differentiate amounts of teacher and student support for a task
- using student collaboration within exploring concepts
Products - demonstrates the knowledge, understanding, and skill achieved over the course of lesson or unit. . A good product causes students to rethink what they have learned, apply what they can do, extend their understanding and skill, and become involved in both critical and creative thinking. Among the ways to differentiate products are to:
- Allow students to help design products around essential learning goals.
- Encourage students to express what they have learned in varied ways.
- Allow for varied working arrangements (team, partner, independent)
- Provide or encourage use of varied types of resources in preparing products.
- Provide product assignments at varying degrees of difficulty to match student readiness.
- Use a wide variety of kinds of assessments.
- Work with students to develop rubrics of quality that allow for demonstration of both whole-class and individual goals.
Announcements
- Note from Kim in the cafeteria:If you are planning a pizza party or pancake breakfast or anything else that will impact my food supply or ordering, please let me know 2 to 3 weeks in advance. Thank you very much for your assistance in this matter. Kim Snow
- PE MINUTES - documentation of minutes are mandatory per the district. At this time not all teachers have turned in every PE Report of minutes, thus far every teacher should have turned in 6 Report of minutes.
- Attendance - It is vital that all teachers complete class attendance not later than 10:00 am. Missed attendance creates extra work for both the teacher and our office supervisor.
- Pink staff absence slips - please sign and turn them into Grace ASAP
- Teachers - Please share photos with me - add them to the Google folder - link above
- Mentors - Have you met with your mentees?
- *Last call for any field trips you wish booked by Grace.
Yvette's Corner
T and W at Kettering & Naples Interim Site
First up from the counselor’s office:
>Personal Growth Groups: please send me names of students you feel would benefit from a six week Personal Growth Group and WHY. I am hoping to do a boy group and a girl group. We will work on social skills, organization skills, grit, perseverance, etc. These students would need to work WITH their peers as opposed to 1x1 counseling.
>Mentor Monday. Continue to meet with your mentee every last Monday of each month throughout the year. Follow the Mentor Monday booklet and don't forget to complete the Pre-survey FIRST. Remember, you can technically meet whenever and however you can, but please meet at least 1x/month, preferably on the last Monday of each month. Please notify the mentee’s teacher if you would like to meet during YOUR lunch time. We will have a holiday Mentor/Mentee party in December to eat, wear our holiday hats, and hang out as a group. This picture will surly make the Press-Telegram.
> FEP FOLLOW-UPS: If you have FEP Reclassified kiddos in your class, then you will receive a follow-up form in your box this week. Please complete and return to me. I have to now conduct EIGHT FEP Follow-ups within FOUR years of a student being reclassified. THANK YOU VERY MUCHO!!
>GATE Screening: GATE post-screen (second round): Nov. 4-20. I will send out a schedule and list of students late October for this round. I have a couple of first round make-ups to complete on Tuesday.
>SBAC Interim Assessments may start as early as Sept. 16. See email sent Friday regarding the video to watch to activate your account since we missed the first email. Please follow directions to create your new F#ncy!8 password and save it in a secret place. You will need to sign an electronic SBAC Affidavit once you click on the green TOMS button. Once you create your new password you can begin accessing the CAASPP Interim Assessments and Reporting System, as well as the extensive resources available in the Digital Library.
>SST information on students live in LROI. LROI>Applications>Student Study Team>search student (you may need to toggle to ‘18-’19 or ‘17-’18 school year to see previous SSTs). So far we have had three SSTs and two 504 Plan Meetings. Our school psychologist has already signed three Initial Assessment Plans for kiddos we had SSTs last Spring.
>Counselor Referral Forms: forms are located on my door. Teachers, staff, parents, and students may complete a form and place in my box. Once I am back on campus I will attend to the referral forms asap. :-)
>SBAC/CAA/CAST test window: April 20 - May 29. A specific schedule will be coming soon to a theater near you. ;-D
>Sanford Harmony: How are your SH lessons coming along? Let me know if you would like me to conduct a couple of lessons...I am available after lunch or anytime starting Oct. 20 as I have to get past GATE testing.