BES Staff Newsletter
March 5 - March 16
Chickasw P.R.I.D.E.
Personal Responsibility, Respect, Integrity, Disciplined,
Engaged
Website: https://www.blythevilleschools.com/o/bes
Location: Blytheville Elementary School, East Moultrie Drive, Blytheville, AR, United States
Phone: (870) 763 - 5924
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BlythevilleElementary/
Mission
Vision
Monday, March 5, 2018
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
- BES Family Night 5:30 - 7:00 PM
- Leadership Meeting
Thursday, March 8, 2018
- PLC Training
Friday, March 9, 2018
- PLC Training
- 3rd Quarter Ends
LOOKING AHEAD INTO NEXT WEEK:
Monday, March 12, 2018
- Grades Due in TAC
- ACT Aspire Interim Assessments
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
- ACT Aspire Interim Assessments
- Leadership Meeting
- Staff Meeting
Friday, March 16, 2018
- PBIS Celebration
Work Orders
Sign Out/Sign In
Each time you leave the building, you must SIGN OUT/IN in the office (no exceptions...includes going to admin or another school). Unless you have text/talked to Ms. Adelowo or I, you should not be leaving during your prep period. That time is to be used for collaboration with your peers and planning for your lessons. If there is something that you must leave to do, you must talk to us first. This is a safety issue. If we go in to a lockdown or have any other emergency, I have to know where everyone is at and not spend time looking for someone who isn't in the building.
Meaningful Valentines to Our Local Nursing Homes
Sometimes, the meaning of Valentine’s Day can get lost in the classroom; children often exchange the same manufactured cards year after year. Instead, we would like for our students at BES to give love and caring to those who need it most. In addition to exchanging valentines with one another, we would like for the students to participate in a kindness project by sending homemade valentines to our local nursing homes. It’s a memorable and unique way to show love to our community, and the kids will feel good about what they’ve accomplished.
Please have your class make valentines during their recess time to support our kindness project. The valentines should be completed by Tuesday, February 13, 2018. You can turn them in to Mrs. Walker or Ms. Adelowo.
5 Powerful Questions Teachers Can Ask Students
WALKTHROUGHS\INFORMALS
Look-fors during walkthrough:
- Evidence of Lesson Plan (updated and posted by the door)
- Lesson prepared/planned
- Standards-Based Learning Objectives posted
- Exemplary standards-based student work displayed
- Student Engagement
- Effective use of transition time
- Model, guided, or independent/group work
- DOK/Higher level questioning
- Check for student understanding
- Instructional materials used (prepared and ready to maximize instructional time)
- Classroom Management (positive behavior is reinforced/negative behavior addressed through redirecting)
- Classroom Culture (positive student-teacher relationships)
Student Behavior Expectation Log Update
In an effort to address student discipline concerns, the way in which student behavior expectation logs are completed has changed. Students are now on a 7 day cycle from the first day in which they are written up. If a student is written up on a Wednesday that same expectation log will follow that student until the following Wednesday. There will no longer be an automatic reset each Monday .
Please be mindful that it must start over once the student has reached 7 consecutive days. If a student is written up on Tuesday step 1, then step 2 the following Monday, and step 3 on Tuesday, they will actually start over on Wednesday.
Do not send students to the referral room or leave them out in the hall.
Literacy Strategy for Rereading: Please share with your students
Constructing and Interpreting Graphs
When explicitly teaching students how to construct and interpret bar and line graphs, students must know all the components of graphs. Students need to know what graph is best to document the data they collect.
Here is some background knowledge that may be beneficial to you:
Bar Graphs
Bar graphs give readers a quick picture of trends and comparisons between groups. Blocks representing a particular data group are shown against a scale. The height of the block indicates the value of the data group on the scale. Use a bar graph when you want to compare values between more than one group -- such as number of sales per employee -- or to analyze changes over time -- such as the number of sales over four quarters per employee. Bar graphs work best when representing large changes over time.
Line Graphs
Line graphs show changes using a line that connects data points at certain moments in time, such as tracking the average grade in math in a particular classroom over a school year. A line graph is also a good choice if you have data for more than one group to show comparisons over a certain time period. In this case, each data group would have its own line on the graph. A line graph can display high and low points, quick or slow changes, or a trend toward stabilization. In addition, line graphs can have more than two scales to compare a single value over more than one time period. Line graphs are better suited to displaying smaller changes than bar graphs.
We will be spending time in collaboration reviewing the interpretation and compilation of data. This will be beneficial for science and math classes.