Sacred Heart School
Week of December 3
Happy Advent
I hope that everyone has a great week and finds a moment of to enjoy the hope, peace, love, and joy of this Advent season!
Our Inspiration
The Week Ahead....
Wednesday, December 5th - Half Day
Thursday, December 6th - Middle School Field Trip to the Hirsshorn
Friday, December 7th - Fire Drill around 9am.
Half Day - Wed. Dec. 6th
Agenda
12:45-1:30 - SAT Team1:40 - 2:30 - Learning Groups
2:45 - 3:45 - PD on supporting all learners
I will send out an email with locations!
Learning Groups
We have 3 learning groups going. We are focused on.....
- learning how to facilitate student to student conversations in the classroom
- using Conscious Discipline theories in practice
- learning about Documentation and how to effectively tell the story of learning in your classroom
These learning groups matter because we are working towards building a dream school and improving our own abilities to support learners. If we are successful in these learning groups, you will be able to walk around the school and see teachers using protocols to facilitate student to student interactions / modeling how to have academic conversations. You will also teachers who are in a calm brain state talking about how what social / emotional skills a student may be lacking and identifying a plan for how to teach that child the missing skill using a variety of strategies. You will see documentation of learning, from all grade levels, in a variety of forms including hallway displays, classroom displays, and digital displays!
Our hope is that you can develop an area that is of interest to you - and find colleagues on a similar inquiry path. We hope it can be a time and a place to connect with current research and reflect on how that research might look in action. We also hope it can foster a spirit of collaboration and experimentation. Like something you learn / read about / talk about in learning group, try it out and let the folks in your group know how it went!
Your participation in these learning groups will help us to keep building up our own little dream school!
PD on Supporting All Learners
Based on your feedback from the SAT Survey, we have craft a short PD Session. We hope to help clarify SAT Team / CAPs / RTIs / and all that other lingo as well as to highlight what resources / supports are available to you. We will also highlight a few classrooms who are using the SAT Team resources to support all learners in the classroom.
Building a Dream School
Felicidades Isabel!
Christmas Reminders
Christmas Show Rehearsals begin Monday, December 10th and will be held each morning that week from 8-10am.
Los Posadas is December 19th (during mass). Cinnamon will coordinate with the classrooms who will be participating!
Faculty Christmas Party is Thursday, December 20th in our theater!