Food for Thought
Principal's Weekly Communication -Week of April 9
PBIS
Our PBIS Team has completed the following tasks set forth from the beginning of the year checklist shared with staff:
- Develop a purpose statement
- Establish a monthly PBIS Leadership team and meet schedule for the school year
- Define Staff vs Administrator managed behaviors (Define them)
- Develop behavior Matrix
We are currently working on:
- Developing PBIS Flowchart
- Developing plans and procedures for encouraging and discouraging behaviors.
April Early Release Day will be for buildings to work on PBIS matters.
Work from District PBIS Team: We revisited the current Office/Major form and Classroom/Minor form to align the behaviors to match the behaviors in the SWIS system that is currently being used collect behavior data. New forms will be rolled out this August. Our next district meeting is April 21.
School Improvement Planning Through Rising Star
Our staff meeting was productive to hold collaborative reflection discussions around differentiation
- Reflective questions
- -What worked well?
- What would you do differently?
- What is one idea you can take from your base team to apply to differentiating in your classroom?
Collaborating with our colleagues will help us all have a big picture of what is going on across the building and give each other ideas to implement in the classroom.
Rising Star Indicators our building is working on:
Educator Quality: ID13 Instructional teams meet for blocks of time sufficient to develop and refine units of instruction and review student learning data.
Teaching and Learning: IIB04 Teachers differentiate instruction based on assessment results to provide support for some students and enhance learning opportunities for others.
Learning Environment: CL8 The school culture supports teachers in practicing effective and responsive instruction to meet individual student needs.
Our next Rising Star Meeting will be April 12th. We will reflect on our April Staff meeting activity and make a plan as to where do we go from here.
Question Stems
As we approach the end the year, you will be checking in on students progress towards end of the year benchmarks. Remember, if you are unsure of where a student or group of students are at, you can informally assess students anytime during one on one conferencing, guided reading, or during whole group using exit slips, Kahoot, etc. I found a great resource which provides question stems for each grade level's literature and informational standards that you may find helpful with checking in on particular standards. This folder, Question Stems for CCSS, will be housed under Literacy Resources in the Husmann Central Folder.
Update on Class Sections
Room Assignment Update
District 47 University is Coming
Please click on the link below to learn more about this exciting new opportunity!
New Student Agenda Sample Available
Tech Advisory Meeting Notes
Some important notes that pertain to us (for the fall):
* K-2 classrooms will receive 4 more iPad airs (3-5 received theirs this year).
* K-5 classrooms will receive 4 chromebooks.
* Almost all buildings will receive new copy machines.
* Teacher laptops will continue to be updated/traded in.
* There will not be a TransLit Conference this year; instead, there will be ERO classes throughout the summer (you can earn credit hours)
New Blackboard Mass Notification System
District 47 will soon be moving to a new mass notifications system with Blackboard, host to our current website and one of the nation’s largest technology companies specializing in education. This new system will replace Honeywell for emergency messaging and will also be useful for routine communications and important updates from the district and our schools. District 47 has decided to make this shift to a new notification system to streamline communications - improving the ease, speed and accuracy of outgoing messages. Both staff and parents will be able to receive important updates about the district and their school via phone, text and email, and soon, even push notification, by downloading our new mobile app! The new system is set to launch sometime in early April.
4/11
- PLC
- HPTO Mtg
- GOTR
- Daily 5 Class
4/12
- 5th grade band
- Chess Tournament
- Rising Star start time at 9:00
4/13
- Monica @ Core AM Kids Assessment training
- PPS Release PM Belke's Office
4/14
- PPS Mtg
- Recycle
- GOTR
- Girl Scouts
4/15
- 5th Grade band
- Girl Scouts
- Taxes Due