Malabar Weekly Updates
March 21-March 25, 2022
Mindful Monday, March 21
Malabar Spirit Day-Wear you Malabar T-shirt!
Theatre Arts Teacher-Auditorium
Monday Morning Assembly-Zoom Link: https://lausd.zoom.us/j/81211760535
10:00-11:00 a. m. Parent Workshop-SSPT/IEP Process
1:15-2:30 p.m. Lead Team Meeting
2:45-4:15 p.m. Springboard After-School Intervention
3:00-4:00 p.m. Math Parent Workshop-Auditorium
Grati-Tuesday, March 22
Student Dismissal at 1:30 p.m.
Administer IAB-Math Grades 3-6 Math Performance Task
9:00-10:00 a.m. 3rd Grade Breakthrough Meeting
10:00 a.m. Parent Workshop
1:40-2:40 p.m. Tuesday PD Zoom Link: https://lausd.zoom.us/j/83150497227
2:40-3:40 p.m. Faculty Meeting Zoom Link: https://lausd.zoom.us/j/83150497227
Wellness Wednesday, March 23
Administer IAB-Math Grades 3-6 Math Performance Task
8:00-11:00 a.m. AES Math-Grade 4
11:45-2:45 p.m. AES Math- Grade 5
12:00-2:30 p.m. SSPT
Thoughtful Thursday, March 24
Visual Arts Teacher-K. Ng
Administer IAB-Math Grades 3-6 Math Performance Task
8:00-11:00 a.m. AES Math-Grade 2
11:45-2:45 p.m. AES Math- Grade 3
1:15-2:30 p.m. Movie Incentive-Auditorium-Selected Classrooms
2:45-4:15 p.m. Springboard After-School Intervention
5:00-6:00 p.m. STEAM Family Engagement Night
Fun Friday, March 25
8:00-3:00 p.m. COVID Mobile Testing Unit-Auditorium
College Spirit Day-Wear a college T-shirt!
8:00-11:00 a.m. AES Math-Grade K
11:45-2:45 p.m. AES Math- Grade 1
9:00-10:00 a.m. BH Operations Meeting-M. Gutierrez
2:00-2:25 p.m. Student Council
Upcoming Dates to Remember
March 7-May 13 Physical Fitness Testing Window-5th Grade
March 1-April 22 Summer School Teacher Application Window
March 28-Unassigned Day-Cesar Chavez
March 29-Baby Shower for Mr. Garibay (1:30-2:00 p.m.)
April 1- 6th grade Promotion Pictures
Saturday, April 2 Cesar Chavez Beautification Day 9:00-12:00 p.m.
April 11-15 Spring Break
Saturday, April 23-Teacher PD/Planning 9:00-12:00 p.m.
Updates from our Intervention Coordinator-Vanessa Chavez
Hello Teachers,
Some Malabar students in grades K-3rd have been invited to participate in Springboard Afterschool Intervention. Springboard Afterschool trains teachers to differentiate instruction and engage families in order to accelerate struggling readers’ progress during the academic year. It is a 10 week intervention that combines teacher coaching, small-group instruction, family workshops, and incentives. Thank you to everyone for your help with making making week 1 successful!
STEAM Instructional Coach-Angela Muro
Hello colleagues,
I hope that you’re able to take advantage of this Saturday and come in to prepare your upcoming investigations. I wanted to remind you that in the Amplify Science app, on the “Unit Overview” page, there is a list of tabs on the left. Click on “Unit Planning.” Then click on “Materials and Preparation.” You will need to click on “Read more>” to expand the page. This page is super helpful because it tells you what materials should be in the kit, what materials you should have available for students, and what materials you should provide as the teacher. Remember that the quantities listed are for a class of 36 students. Keep scrolling to “Preparation at a Glance.” Here is where you will find the estimated times it will take to prepare for an investigation. Some prep times are short, 10 minutes. In Grade 2, we came across a prep time of 45 to 90 minutes for the first investigation of the unit. This is NOT including time spent reading the T.E.s or previewing student activities, books, videos, or apps. So, please look over that “Preparation at a Glance” list to find the estimated prep times and plan accordingly.
I am also sharing links to 2 different short videos that cover the Engineering Design Process. This first link is from Crash Course Kids and probably more appropriate for upper grades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxJWin195kU
These links may be easier for our primary students to understand. There are two videos for this series from Jessi and Squeaks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM04n0-QtNo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrAl6JQ3sb4
As always, if you have questions or need support with anything STEAM, shoot me an email or come by Room 5.
A nod to Mrs. Coke and the Cafeteria Staff…
Reminders from our TSP Advisor-Juan Carrillo
Hello Malabar Teachers, happy women's history month to everyone.
3-6th Grade IABs: This week we continue our second round of IAB administration. You should have completed your ELA IAB last Friday so your results will be ready when we conduct our data analysis during Tuesday's PD. This week we continue with our math IAB performance task administration.
I know some of your students might take a long time completing the assessment so if you need support I can take them for a while after lunch. Just check in with me first as my schedule can be hectic or sometimes I substitute.
ELPAC testing: Please continue to work on your moodle course and complete your ELPAC summative training. Once you are done, please turn in your certificate so I can prepare your testing materials. We will be providing some coverage for you to support you with testing in April. Our ELPAC testing window goes until May 18th but remember that K-2 writing booklets are due earlier (two weeks). Please reach out with any concerns you might have or if you are having any testing issues.
EL and RFEP monitoring: Finally, I placed English Learner Rosters in your box along with a memo with some guidance in annotating your EL rosters. I sent you all the details in an email as well. This will be the last time we will annotate EL or RFEP letters this year.
There is a lot going on and I want to do my best to support you so please don't hesitate to ask questions or ask for help. Thank you Malabar!
BookNook Updates
Selected Malabar Staff,
The district has extended the REGISTRATION deadline to March 22,2022 by 8:00 p.m.
If you have parents/guardians who are unable to sign up students you can do it for them.
Use their Chromebook and follow the steps. Let's get all of our students signed up for this intervention. Our students need the support to build literacy skills for success.
Thank you,
Alma Marquez
Edulastic CFA#2 Data Analysis Forms are Due to Ms. Gutierrez by Tuesday, March 22
Focus on Classroom Observations-Standard 3: Delivery of Instruction
As we visit classrooms, we will be focusing on the following two elements:
3b2. Discussion Techniques and Student Participation Techniques are used to ensure that all students share their thinking around challenging questions
Effective Practice: Teacher uses intentional, differentiated strategies to engage all students in discussion, attempting gradual release from teacher-directed to student initiated conversation. Students participate in intellectually challenging discussions.
3c1. Standards-Based Projects, Activities and Assignments Standards-aligned learning activities cognitively engage students in the lesson
Effective Practice: Instructional projects, activities and assignments are aligned to the instructional standards, require higher levels of thinking, are culturally relevant, and may include real-world application. Most students are cognitively engaged, constructing their own understanding and exploring content. The learning activities are differentiated, as necessary, to meet the learning needs of student subgroups.
This week the focus will be on Literacy Academies. Our instructional expectations for literacy academies are the following:
- Teacher will be working with a small group of students targeting a specific skill.
- Students should be grouped by target skill.
- Progress monitoring should be evident.
- Independent work should support target skill for the student.
- Students should be using online platforms to monitor student comprehension and increase fluency such as ReadWorks, Raz kids, Amplify Reading, ReadTheory.
Please reach out to Lisa or Vanessa for any assistance.
Feedback from Observations:
- Our Literacy Academy time is a non-negotiable time during the instructional day. Intervention teachers and teacher assistants are funded to work with students during this time. I should not see assessments being given to students during this time such as IAB's. I know that we have a lot to do but we all agree that literacy levels for our students are at 50%. We all have to work together to target instruction and build literacy for all students.
- Some teachers have not completed their DIBELS MOY analysis on the google slides provided by Ms. Chavez. If you have your completed analysis on another format, please provide me a copy. I would like to see how you are organizing learning for students during Literacy Academy.
- Teachers should be assigning online platforms to build student literacy but that does not take the importance of working with a small group of students. One thing that I have learned with our Orton-Gillingham training is that English is very complex. How are we supporting students through those complexities so they build not just on fluency but comprehension?
- Let's designate Friday as our progress monitoring day. Take the time to progress monitor your students and look at that data to help plan your lessons for the following week. Monday through Thursday, I should see small group instruction.
Cesar Chavez Campus Clean-up and Beautification
I know that you already give so much to Malabar but on this day, we will come together as a community to make Malabar a better place for all of us to work and learn. We have designated the following projects:
Eco Learning Center-Facilitator: Alma Marquez
Playground Clean-up-Facilitator-Camerina Limon
Front of School/Auditorium-Andy Herrera
STEAM Letters Mural-Margarita Gutierrez
Bushes by Building 3-Ines Castro
Please join one of these teams and let's beautify our school. If there are any other projects you have in mind, please share.
Safety Reminders-Boulder Parking Lot Gate
Malabar Street ES
Email: margarita.gutierrez@lausd.net
Website: https://malabar.schoolloop.com
Location: 3200 Malabar Street, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Phone: (323) 261-1103