Charger News
Every child. Every day. Whatever it takes!
January 24, 2020
The Moreau Heights family is committed to providing a positive and safe learning environment to support responsible and productive citizens.
Our Vision
Moreau Heights is a school where students are eager to learn and where staff are excited to teach. Students are successful at Moreau Heights in growing and meeting personal and academic goals. Teachers are innovative and a collaborative team. We are a family of learners and a community of great achievers!
Character Trait for January - Hardworking/Motivated
Morning Meeting Lessons
PBIS has prepared the slideshow for next week during morning meeting. Please remember to continue with the structure below. Monday you will choose your own activity, Tuesday and Thursday will be Second Steps and Wednesday and Friday will be PBIS.
- Greeting
- Share
- Activity (this will be PBIS lessons on Wednesday and Friday)
- Message
Morning Meeting Lessons:
Shannon will send an email with the link.
Calendar of Events
Monday, Jan. 27
*Sue out all day
Tuesday, Jan. 28
*Data Teams for grades 5, 3, 1
*Sue out all day
*Tier 2 mtg 3:00
Wednesday, Jan. 29
*Dawn out for literacy training
*JO IEP (Gorman, Haugen, Gaines, Ewing) 1:50
Thursday, Jan. 30
*Data Teams for grades 4, 2, K
Friday, Jan. 31
*Charger Cart
*PBS Assembly
- 8:15 for grades 3-5
- 9:30 for grades k-2
*Sock hop PBS celebration during specials time
*DW4 IEP mtg (Gragg, Gorman/Cowan, Albers, Day) 9:05
*Moeller out for meeting 11:30-3:00
*Shannon out for counselor mtg 1:30-3:00
National School Counseling Week - Feb. 3-7
Monday, Feb. 3
Tuesday, Feb. 4
*100th Day of School
*JEPD grades 1, 3, 5
*Literacy Cadre mtgs for K and 2 (Sue and Kelly out)
*PBIS mtg 3-4
Wednesday, Feb. 5
*Sue at district admin mtg until 11:00
*KW IEP (Connelly, Day, Lock, Hammann, Humphyresy, Lueckenhoff, Cremin) 10:00
*New Crew 3:00 in library
Thursday, Feb. 6
*JEPD - k, 2, 4
*School Culture mtg 3:00
*"Get the Scoop" on behavior/social skills 5:30-7:00
Friday, Feb. 7
*Intruder Drill
*DP RED (Streicher, Haugen/Day, Gragg, Gorman, Hammann) 10:00
*Bridal Shower for Boeckman at El Espolon 3:30-5:00
Our Data Updates
Behavior Goals and Data
January of 18/19 - 45
August -January 18/19 - 404
January of 19/20 - 8
August -January 19/20 - 194
Students will earn 350 positive office referrals by May 21, 2020.
Students have earned 51 positive office referrals
Feedback and Area of Focus from Marty
Attendance Goals and Data
84.6% of 1/16
Academic Goals and Data
- 171 of our students made at least half of their typical growth on their January assessment.
- During our initial testing 22% of our students were on grade level. During this testing 42% of our students are on grade level.
- Approximately 55% of our student made at least half of their typical growth goal.
- Approximately 38% of our students made at least half of their STRETCH Goal
50% of our students on level based on April iReady assessment data, increasing from 44% of our students on level in math in April 2019 .
- Math data will be shared when all testing is complete.
5th grade students will perform at or above the state average on science MAP test in spring 2020.
Curriculum Feedback Wanted
- Do we need to rearrange the sequence of lessons?
- Do you need additional resources?
- Do we need to review specific resources used?
- Do we need clarification about expectations with a resource?
Shout Outs for Staff
Thank you to Hallie, Alecia, Whitney, Jessica, Michelle, and Joe for their work for presentation of the learning from the Help for Billy chapters! Well done with the focus and keeping things relevant!
Thank you to EVERYONE for the fire drill on Wednesday! You all ROCKED it!
Thank you to everyone for being so flexible as we have tried to shift things due to cancellations and delays! We know it isn't awesome and appreciate your willingness to make things work!
Thank you for embracing our Compliment focus this week! Love to see all the positive things going on with classroom compliments, Charger Bucks and positive notes! Glad everyone is feeling the love!
Dawn's Dish
Reading Conference
- It's okay for centers or work you create not to be cute. Being cute is great, but spend more time creating the content instead of focusing on cuteness factor. (I am guilty big time of falling into that trap.)
- The majority of students' reading time in their reading instruction life will be spent WITHOUT the teacher...what are they doing during this valuable time? This was such a great session and I have so many thoughts about this based on the instructor's teaching. I'm happy to share with anyone interested.
- We don't necessarily have to have different centers for students during independent reading time. Let them focus on reading and writing about their reading.
- Assign students partners to share their books with each day. Just 5 minutes at the end to say, this is what I read and this is what I think about it.
- Consider how kids are book shopping. What is your system? Do students recommend books to each other?
There is so much more I'd love to share. If you're interested, let me know and I will share my notes. I know it is so hard to figure out what students do while you're teaching guided reading that is valuable and will continue to grow good readers. I heard soooo many good ideas that take very little time on your part and can be done repeatedly without reproducing items over and over.
Library Check Out
In an effort to help further, please send library books to the library before your check out time so Jill can scan them in. This will allow Jill to work with you in assisting students to find books more quickly and maximize the time you have so you are missing very little additional instructional time.
I know schedules are so tight and every little bit of time we can find helps, so we hope this gives you a little extra when needed.
Data Cycles Reminders
- Everyone is set to give their CFA next week except 3rd grade. (Still working on this one...) This may need to be adjusted due to the late starts/possible snow day Friday.
- If you are scoring your CFA before we meet the week of 1/27, please enter them in the data spreadsheet.
- Please do NOT add or delete students or rows to the spreadsheet. This interferes with the formulas. If you need someone added or deleted, please email me, Sue, or Kelly.
- If you were supposed to share your CFA with us last Friday, please do so this week.
- Remember to give your first checkpoint within 3-5 days of giving your pretest (CFA).
Follow our school, district, Dawn, and Sue on Twitter.
@Dr_D_Day (Me)
@suehaugenteach (Sue)
@JCMH_tweets (Moreau Heights)
@JCSchools_ (District)
You can also follow our school hashtag at #MHmissionpossible
You can follow our district hashtag at #JCStrongerTogether
January Attendance Bracket
Kelly's Coaching Korner
7 Key Components of Cooperative Learning All must be in place for Cooperative Learning to be fully effective
1. Teams
• 4 students per team
• Change team members every 6 weeks
• 4 levels of students (High, High-Medium, Low-Medium, Low) in each team
2. Classbuilding – 1 time per week
• Students stand up
• Students move around
• Content as needed
• Everyone is included
3. Teambuilding – 2 times per week
• Fun
• No content
• Easy enough so that even the lowest performing student can be successful
4. Management
• Quiet signal (3-5 seconds for class to get quiet)
• A & B partners (A & B are shoulder partners, As are face partners, Bs are face partners)
• Mixed ability teams
• Model the structures to the class
• Say the name of the structure with the key steps (posters are helpful)
• Music - 60 bpm -solo work (reading, journal, solving problems) / 120 bpm - non-academic activities
• Sponge activities for students who finish early
• Make the activity timer visual
• Who goes first in pairs – spinner, taller, longer hair, shiny shoes, birthday closest to today, etc.
• Materials – one person from each group distribute and collect materials
5. Social Skills
• What do you want them to do?
• What do you want them to say?
• Listening, praising, turn-taking, tolerance, etc.
6. Principles – PIES
• Positive Interdependence
o Is win-win promoted? (Does a gain for one student benefit another?)
o Students feel that they are on the same side?
o Does the task require working together?
o Success requires the contribution of everyone.
o Students feel that they need each other.
• Individual Accountability
o Each student must perform in front of someone else.
o Students cannot hide.
• Equal Participation
o Participation should be approximately equal, based on Time or Turns
o All students have the opportunity to participate.
o Students feel they have equal status.
• Simultaneous Interaction
o What percent of students are overtly (visually and/or audibly) engaged at one time.
o Students feel engaged
7. Organized Structures
Committee Updates
Leadership Team Notes - November (didn't meet in Dec. due to snow day)
PBIS Team Notes - January
Faculty Council Notes - January
Title I Notes - December