Trantwood Times
"For the Love of Learning!"
I Make A Difference!
An Attitude of Gratitude Rocks!
~To the Trantwood Volleyball Team- even though we didn’t have a W this week we sure did have fun! Thank you for the weekly morale boost - Elise
~A Big Shout Out to Hope Twine her thoughtful actions made my day better. Thank you! THawley
~Kudos to everyone who incorporated a lesson on digital citizenship this week. We need to prepare our kiddos! Brooke Martinette
~Kudos to Gina Howes for providing an extra pair of eyes for our little guys in the gym. -Courtney Goffigan
~Kudos to Angela Haebler for helping out with getting the little ones to their bus. -Courtney Goffigan
~Kudos to Michelle and Meredith for all that you do. You are appreciated. -Courtney Goffigan
~Gretchen - gracias por siempre hacerme reír ! Carolyne
~Thank you Brooke Martinette for the hundredth day flip grid and for the reminder about digital citizenship day. Melinda
~Thank you Carolyne McCoy for resolving my computer issues so quickly. You saved the day! -Melinda~Thank you Lisa Lee and Mrs. Metzger for all of their help on Monday when I was out sick. It was a very busy day! KL
~Grateful to Gretchen Barreto and Katie Schatti and for all of the love and support they gave to a student in need. KL
~Christina Corradi, your dedication to your students and communication with staff made a difference in a challenging situation. KL
~To Patsy Eikenberry for helping out the SEC team without being asked in support of our tiniest Cardinals. KL
~A big thank you to ViVi Kappas and Berkley Wheeler for their professionalism during extremely challenging times. KL
~Aaron Woodard, you are so appreciated for all of the kindness, empathy, and friendship you have for our Cardinals. KL
~Michele and Meredith, what would we do without you. Feeling beyond blessed to have you on our team! KL
~Many thanks to Lisa Lee, Barb Iman, and Louise Thornton for being strong student advocates! LAM
~Huge gratitude goes out to Michele & Meredith for taking up the slack in the office. You are amazing! LAM
~Mega thanks to Tim and Megan for hosting our SCA parents night out. This community loves you! LAM
February 26 - March 1, 2018
Monday, Feb. 26
- Mad Science
- Tutoring
Tuesday, Feb. 27
- Happy Birthday Michele Flynn!
- LAM OTB am
- KL OTB pm
- Peer Tutoring, 3:00 - 3:45
- Staff PD, library, 3:15 - 4:15
Wednesday, Feb. 28
- Jennifer Carson to visit Spanish Immersion
- Recorder Club, 3:00 - 4:15
- STEM, 3 - 4:15
Thursday, March 1
- LAM OTB am
- STEM 3 - 4:15
- Green Cardinals, 3 - 4:15
- Meet and Greet, Green Run HS, 4:30 - 6
Friday, March 2
- LAM OTB
- Progress Reports go home
March 5 - 9, 2018, 2018 National School Breakfast Week
Monday, March 5
- Citizen of the Month, cafeteria, 2 pm
- Mad Science Club
- Tutoring, 3:00 - 4:15
Tuesday, March 6
- Happy Birthday Vivi Kappas!
- TLLT Quarterly Planning
- Peer Tutoring, 3:00 - 3:45
- SCA, 3:00- 3:45
- ILT, collab room, 3:15 - 4:15
- PTA Board Meeting, 6:30
Wednesday, March 7
- STEM Club, 3:00 - 4:15
- Art Club,3:00 4:15
- Chess Club, 3:00 - 4:15
Thursday, March 8
- Happy Birthday Hannah Phelps!
- STEM Club, 3 - 4:15
Friday, March 9
- Fire Safety Program, cafeteria, 8:45 - 9:30
Future Planning
- Feb. 27 - Specialist deadline for progress reports, 5 pm
- Feb. 27 - Sustainable Schools Survey deadline
- Feb. 28 - Classroom Teacher deadline for progress reports, 5 pm
- March 1 - Meet & Greet
- March 4 - Schoology Survey deadline (see email Jan. 30, 2018)
- April 2 - 6 Spring Break
- Jun. 20-21 - Digital Learning Summer Summit
- Aug. 13-14 - Digital Learning Summer Summit
Transfer Meet and Greet Event Information - Register in frontline
The TRANSFER MEET AND GREET event is scheduled for Thursday, March 1 at Green Run HS from 4:30pm- 6pm
· Teachers who have been designated as priority transfers and those who are eligible for consideration for voluntary transfers may attend.
• Classified employees who have been designated as priority transfers and those who are eligible for consideration for voluntary transfers or promotions may also attend the Meet and Greet.
• Only teachers who will be on continuing contract during 2018-2019 (currently P3, PC, or C) and who are not on Performance Improvement Plans are eligible for voluntary teacher transfers.
• A teacher who receives a voluntary transfer must spend three years in that assignment before being eligible for another voluntary transfer. (A teacher accepting a voluntary transfer for the 2018-2019 school year will be eligible for a transfer in fall 2021.)
Schoology
Thank you in advance for your time in this important next step with Schoology implementation. Please complete the Schoology Overview course and the questions, no later than March 4.
To access Schoology and this course, please do the following:
1. Access Schoology at https://vbschools.schoology.com/ . If you are on the school division network, you will be logged into Schoology. If you are not on the school division network, you will be asked for your user name and network password. If you are using a Chromebook on the network you will need to enter your user name and password.
2. Click on Courses at the top of the screen.
3. Click on Join and enter this access code: KKZQT-8MHND
You should now be in the Schoology Overview course for your school.
Let us know when done by writing the time on your WISE timesheet. We are giving one hour toward the make up hours when completing this.
Q3 Progress Reports Deadlines
Feb 27th - 5:00 pm specialist progress report lock down
Feb 28th - 5:00 pm Homeroom Teacher Lockdown
March 2nd - Progress reports emailed home
Sustainable School Survey
On behalf of VBCPS Sustainable Schools Committee, we are inviting teachers and staff to participate in a division-wide assessment regarding perceptions of your school’s sustainability initiatives. This is an important research effort to better understand VBCPS’s culture and to help guide future initiatives across the district.
Here are a few important details about this survey:
- The survey will be available from February 12th to February 27th.
- The survey will take approximately 5-10 minutes (or less) to complete.
- Please note your participation is strictly confidential and anonymous. NORESCO uses a survey instrument that provides SSL/TLS encryption which secures your responses. NORESCO will not provide VBCPS with any information that can be personally identifiable; thus, maintaining the full confidentiality and anonymity of responses.
- Your email address - if you choose to provide it - will be used for the chance to win a Fitbit Alta or Charge2. Your chances of winning will be determined by how many respondents’ e-mails are received. You may use any e-mail you wish.
If you have any technical questions or concerns, please contact dmcpeak@noresco.com
Please respond to each question by considering any behaviors and actions you have observed and experienced at your site. Please respond as honestly as you can; there are no “correct” answers.
Note: This survey is being conducted by NORESCO on behalf of VBCPS's Sustainable Schools Committee. Please email Jtcole@vbschools.com for questions or concerns.
Take the Survey: https://www.research.net/r/VBCPSTeachersStaff2017
Math Fact Fluency Website created by a 7th grader at ODS - check it out!
Good morning,
Hi! My name is Karstan Bock, and I am a 7th grader at Old Donation School, in Virginia Beach. I would like to cordially invite YOU and your students to practice math facts on a website that I created, called http://acalympics.com/ . I am not going to go into all of specifics of why I made this website, you can read all about that in the About Tab. However, I will tell you a little bit about the website, and answer the most frequently asked questions.
I wanted to help people feel more comfortable in math, so I had an idea to use a concept that every video game around uses. I thought if you could have people play on teams, and the more questions they answered correctly, the more their team advanced, it would be a fun way to practice math computation. The more answers you get correct, the more points you earn. If you miss a questions, no sweat. You just finish up your level and return to the home screen to see how you helped your team. Everyone starts on level 1.
So far that concept has worked pretty well. There are several VB elementary and middle schools, with teams on http://acalympics.com/ Also, there are students in Arizona playing for the Pumas team. Additionally, there are students in London playing on the Salamanders teams. How cool is that? You never know who you are working with or competing against.
The idea was to make it fun, so kids and adults both would forget they were doing something tedious. There is no time limit that you have to answer the question in. On my website you will find 20 different teams listed. I wasn’t sure what your mascot was, so if you have a name for a team in mind, just send me an email, I will be happy to make a new team for you. You can even switch teams, if you want. You could earn some points for the one team, then go earn some points for the Bay Lynx. (The Bay Lynx are my team.)
The Leaderboard will reset every Friday night. I did not want any one team to get so far ahead that other teams quit trying (Dragon Fire, and Sea Stars teams, I am looking at you). Every Friday at 7pm, the top 3 teams are listed in the medalist tab, and all teams will go back to 0 points. If you look at my website currently, in the medalist tab, you will see that there are 2 teams that have earned over 100,000 points for one week. I know what you are thinking! That is crazy, we could never earn that many points in 1 week. But what you might not know is, the Sea Stars are primarily a team made up of 2nd graders and the Oysters are mostly made up of 3rd graders. Neither team earns very high scores when they play, they just play a lot. Imagine what your whole school full of students could do if they all played for the same team?!
Also, I have a blog attached to http://acalympics.com/ I try to keep my blog post inspiring and positive. I wanted to reaffirm that people, even little people, can do anything they put their mind too. I write a new blog post every weekend.
Thank you for reading this email. Have a great rest of your day! I hope to see you soon on http://acalympics.com/
Sincerely,
Karstan Bock
Check out this new class posted in Frontline....
NEW INFORMATION IN SYNERGY TEACHERVUE DATE - Important for all teachers!
This new access will provide general education teachers important information regarding the unique needs of students with whom they work. To access this information, a teacher will click on a student’s picture to generate a list of options, which will include the most current finalized 504 Plan or Special Education IEP and/or BIP. To view the documents in their entirety, teachers will click on the document to view, and it will open in pdf form.
Teachers will be notified of this new access by the Section 504 and Special Education coordinators in your building. Thank you for your continued support. Should you have any questions, please contact Tania Sotomayor, director of compliance and special education services, for IEP and/or BIP information, at 263-2400 or via email at tania.sotomayor@vbschools.com or Adrian Day, director of student services, for Section 504 information, at 263-1980 or via email at Adrian.Day@vbschools.com.
Kudos to our all of our extra support at the end of each day. Our kids are loving this!
Making sense of decimals!
STEM club hard at work building their prototypes!
Girls rule at the PTA Citywide Reflections contest
LouAnne Metzger, Principal
Email: louanne.metzger@vbschools.com
Website: http://www.trantwoodes.vbschools.com/
Location: 2344 Inlynnview Road, Virginia Beach, VA, United States
Phone: 757-648-4000
Twitter: @LouAnneMetzger