WCHE Teacher Talk
10/17/2018
Upcoming Dates
until 10/31/18.......Principals' Month & National Bullying Prevention Month
Thank you teachers for the beautiful card and generous gift to celebrate Boss' Day this past week! You really know how to make a principal feel appreciated! Kinderellas surprised Melanie and myself with your sweet gifts and we are both touched by your thoughtfulness. I hope you all know just how much we appreciate YOU and we are honored to serve WCHE.
until 12/20/18.......Book BINGO! Click here for more info
10/18/18................SEL PLC Meeting
10/19/18................Assembly- 4th and 5th Grade PAWS Awards
10/19/18................2-4 PM: Staff Flu Shots & New Teacher Survey Due (see below)
10/25/18................Apex Fun Run!
10/25/18................Tier 3 RTI Meeting
10/25/18................Community Library Bookmobile @ the West Cypress Pool 3 - 4 pm
10/26/18................Assembly: Kindergarten and 1st Grade PAWS Awards
10/26/18................Special APEX School Assembly in the Gym @ 1:30 pm
10/29/18................Deadline for Box Top$ 4 Education Contest!
10/29/18................Student Council Meeting 3 - 4:00 pm
10/29 - 11/2/18......H.E.R.O. Week!
10/31/18................Dress Up as an EVERYDAY HERO!
11/01/18................Team Leader Meeting at 3:10- Conference Room
11/02/18................School Assembly: 2nd and 3rd Grade PAWS Awards
11/02/18................1st Grade Field Trip to Sweet berry Farm
11/02/18................2nd Grade Field Trip to Austin Nature/Science Center
11/04/18................Daylight Saving Time Ends! Clocks "Fall Back" 1 Hour
11/06/18................CAT Meeting
11/06/18................Tier 2 RTI Team Meeting K - 2nd
11/08/18................Staff Meeting in the Art Room: 3:10
11/08/18................4th Grade Field Trip to the Stunt Ranch
11/08/18................Community Library Bookmobile @ the West Cypress Pool 3 - 4 pm
11/09/18................School Assembly: 4th and 5th Grade PAWS Awards
11/09/18................3rd Grade Music Performance in the Tiger's Den 9:45 am
(KG, 2nd, & 5th Attend)
11/10/18................Cavalettes & Red Rubies Babysitting Service 5:30 - 10:00
11/12/18................Student Council Meeting 3 - 4:00 pm
11/13/18................Math PLC Meeting
11/15/18................SEL PLC Meeting
11/18/18................Tier 2 RTI Team Meeting 3rd - 5th
11/14/18................Fall Photo Retakes
11/15/18................WCHE Thanksgiving Feast Day
11/15/18................WCHE Chick-fil-A Spirit Night 4 - 10 pm!
11/16/18................School Assembly: Kindergarten and 1st Grade
11/19 - 11/23/18....Happy Thanksgiving! No School this Week!
11/26/18................Student Council Meeting 3 - 4:00 pm
11/27/18................ELA PLC Meeting
11/29/18................Tier 3 RTI Meeting
11/29/18................Community Library Bookmobile @ the West Cypress Pool 3 - 4 pm
11/30/18................School Assembly: 2nd and 3rd Grade PAWS Awards
12/04/18................Tier 2 RTI Team Meeting K - 2nd
12/05/18................Angel's Spirit NIght 6 - 9:00 pm
12/06/18................Spelling Bee WCHE Cafeteria 1:30 - 2:45 pm
12/06/18................Staff Meeting in the Art Room 3:10 pm
12/07/18................School Assembly: 4th and 5th Grade PAWS Awards
12/10/18................Student Council Meeting 3 - 4:00 pm
12/11/18................Tier 2 RTI Team Meeting 3rd - 5th
12/11/18................Math PLC Meeting
12/13/18................3rd Grade Field Trip to the Nutcracker
12/13/18................Community Library Bookmobile @ the West Cypress Pool 3 - 4 pm
12/14/18................School Assembly: Kindergarten and First Grade PAWS Awards
12/18/18................ELA PLC Meeting
12/19/18................School Assembly & Holiday Singalong
12/19/18................Class Holiday Parties
12/20/18................Early Release @ 11:55- No Extended Care Today
12/20/18................Tier 3 RTI Meeting
12/20/18................SEL PLC Meeting
12/21/18................Staff Development Day at LTE & EDC (All Elementary Campuses)
12/21 - 1/7/19.......Students' Winter Break - Happy Holidays!
January 2019........Date of Staff Meeting TBD
01/08/19...............Students Return to School
01/08/19...............Math PLC Meeting
01/08/19...............Tier 2 RTI Team Meeting K - 2nd
01/10/19...............Team Leader Meeting
01/15/19...............Tier 2 RTI Team Meeting 3rd - 5th
01/15/19...............ELA PLC Meeting
01/17/19...............SEL PLC Meeting
01/24/19...............Tier 3 RTI Meeting
02/05/19...............Tier 2 RTI Team Meeting K - 2nd
02/07/19...............2nd Grade Music Performance (KG, 4th, & 5th attend)
02/07/19...............Team Leader Meeting
02/12/19...............Tier 2 RTI Team Meeting 3rd - 5th
02/12/19...............Math PLC Meeting
02/14/19...............Staff Meeting in the Art Room 3:10 pm
02/19/19...............ELA PLC Meeting
02/21/19...............SEL PLC Meeting
02/26/19...............CAT Meeting
02/28/19...............Tier 3 RTI Meeting
03/01/19...............4th Grade Music Performance (1st, 2nd, & 3rd attend)
03/05/19...............Tier 2 RTI Team Meeting K - 2nd
03/05/19...............Team Leader Meeting
03/07/19...............SEL PLC Meeeting
03/12/19...............Tier 2 RTI Team Meeting 3rd - 5th
03/12/19...............Math PLC Meeting
03/14/19...............Staff Meeting in the Art Room 3:10 pm
03/26/19...............ELA PLC Meeting
03/28/19...............Tier 3 RTI Meeting
04/03/19...............Tier 2 RTI Team Meeting K - 2nd
04/04/19...............Team Leader Meeting
04/11/19...............Staff Meeting in the Art Room 3:10 pm
04/16/19...............ELA PLC Meeting
04/17/19...............Tier 2 RTI Team Meeting 3rd - 5th
04/18/19...............SEL PLC Meeting
04/23/19...............Math PLC Meeting
04/25/19...............1st Grade Music Performance (student audience TBD)
04/25/19...............Tier 3 RTI Meeting
04/26/19...............KG Music Performance (student audience TBD)
04/30/19...............CAT Meeting
05/02/19...............Team Leader Meeting
05/07/19...............Tier 2 RTI Team Meeting K - 2nd
05/09/19...............Staff Meeting in the Art Room 3:10 pm
05/22/19...............Tier 2 RTI Team Meeting 3rd - 5th
Meet the Coaching Team
Lindsay Durr
Areas of strength and experience are early literacy, reading, writing and social studies.
512-533-6094
Meet Your Coaching Team!
Chasity Beatty
New Learning & Resources
Wolfram Alpha was particularly mindblowing...guess where learners can get just about any answer to your homework?? #DesignThinking
The Wayback Machine archives information where you can go back to any point and experience "live" from that day on the internet how events transpired. #Twenty4Seven
Interim Assessments
3RD-5TH STAAR INTERIM ASSESSMENTS
We will plan with Team Leaders 11/2 for how we wish to use these assessments at WCHE. Make sure you discuss as a team so that your Team Leader can share your thoughts.
Information from Kathy Burbank:
First step, watch video: Watch this one minute and 23-second video!
For the full launch of the interim assessments in the 2018-2019 school year, two different assessment administration opportunities will be available for each grade/subject. TEA is calling these two administrations Opportunity 1 and Opportunity 2. Each assessment opportunity will have different test items.
TEA recommended windows for each assessment opportunity (November for Opportunity 1 and February for Opportunity 2), but these are just recommendations. Ultimately, districts have the freedom to choose when to schedule these administrations.
Opportunity 1- Grades 3–8 mathematics and reading: Now through March 29, 2019
Opportunity 2-Grades 3–8 mathematics and reading: November 26, 2018–March 29, 2019
Teams decide the specific times in the window to administer the Interim Assessment. All students were loaded on October 3rd. Any new student will have to be manually loaded. Email me if a student needs to be added.
You should have received two emails from ETS with your username and password (for those of you who don't already have accounts) to see results, print test tickets, etc. https://tx-login.ets.org/oaam_server/login.do
Instructions, Presentations, Guides, FAQ's, etc are all posted in the LTISD Learning Together Schoology group under Resources > Interim Assessments
How are these two items connected?
Take the Challenge!
And how does this help solve a problem?
#WCHEBelieves
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Website: https://www.ltisdschools.org/WCHE
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