Raven Review
February 1-6, 2016
Thank You All for a Great Week!
Good Afternoon Ravens,
I hope that each of you enjoyed your weekend! Last week was incredibly busy but we really worked to keep the students on task and got them settled back into the groove of the semester. Continue to create engaging lessons and focus on activities that allow students to use the content vocabulary and engage in rich discussion!
Thank you to everyone who chaperoned the school dance! I want to send a BIG thank you to Mrs. Cross who organized the event and ensured that the everything went well! It was so good to see all of the students and staff having such a great time.
Have a great week!
April
Reminders and Other Important Information
- February 2 SIT Meeting beginning at 4:15 p.m.-5:15 p.m. in room 208.
- If you have not completed your Make Up Option 4 Form. Please complete the form and place in my mailbox by Tuesday. Time must be approved first.
- Tracking Student data -update as you do your interim reports. Contact parents for students with a "D" or "F". If you need help please let me know.
- If you are interested in the professional development opportunities sent earlier in the week please let me know as soon as you can.
- Mrs. Ray shared this important message: Check your balance of years in ORBIT for your retirement account. There has been a mistake for many of us here at RECHS. Instead of having a full 1.0 years credit, there are years that have been credited as .8 or .9. This is a mistake on Raleigh's part. You should call or email the NC ORBIT folks who will contact our payroll/retirement folks to correct this for you. This applies to 10 month employees, but the rest of you should probably check too.
Progress Reports
Due to the snow days our progress reports will go out on Wednesday February 10, 2016.
PLC Meetings This Week
Keep up the great discussions this week, continue to share best practices in teaching and learning. What is currently working well in your class and what have you implemented as a part of your action research.
20 Additional Touch Screen Chromebooks
New Chromebooks have arrived! We have ordered a cart and will make the computers available as soon as possible! We will make sure that Computers are available this week to support teachers with Advising and NCVPS. This will allow more computers in the classroom for instruction. The computers are from RCSS Media.
Reading Room
The Case For Retakes and How to Manage Them
This article focuses on student learning and retaking assessments.
http://www.teachergoals.org/home/school-should-be-a-nintendo-gamethe-case-for-retakes
Free Tech for Teachers
Video support to help students and teachers with Google.