Madison Elementary Staff Update
Week of January 1st
A Note From Nicole...
Madison Owl Staff,
Happy New Year and Welcome 2024! I hope you all had a wonderful vacation and spent your time with those you love the most. Our students will be so excited to come back tomorrow, whether it's to share stories of their holidays or to get back to the routine and stability that we provide to far too many.
The Positivity Project Committee would like to invite all students and staff to wear sunglasses on Friday as we Finish Strong, learning about optimism, our P2 strength of the week. This is a great time of year to talk to your students about resolutions and setting goals for themselves for 2024. I know every fitness, healthy eating, self-help, and take up a new hobby resolution that I've made in the first week of a new year has brought me joy and excitement, for about two weeks...until I quit! 😉
I've missed you all and look forward to seeing you and hearing your holiday stories tomorrow. We needed a little more time to settle in before a faculty meeting, so I've cancelled Wednesday's meeting. I hope you don't mind! Enjoy the week, getting back into the swing of things.
Please let me know if you need anything!
Have an Amazing Week,
Nicole
Dates for Your Calendar
- January is Board Appreciation Month
- Composite Proofs for BJK Photos, directions and link emailed by Debbie
- 1/4 Attendance Committee Meeting, 9:00
- 1/5 Popcorn Friday, please remind kids to bring in a quarter so the Who Club breaks even
- 1/8 CSE Meetings, 8:30-12:00, Library
- 1/9 Nicole Out, 9:00-11:30 for Admin Council
- 1/10 Building Leadership, 8:00, Art Room
- 1/12 Half Day, Staff Development
- 1/15 Martin Luther King Jr. Day, No School
- 1/15 Report Cards Open
- 1/26 End of 2nd Marking Period
- 1/29 Grades Due by Midnight
- 1/30 Report Cards Printed
- 1/31 Reading Data Meetings
- 2/2 Report Cards Sent Home
- 2/6 Math Data Meetings
Mid-Year Benchmark Dates
We will bring back the STAFF SHOUT-OUT in our weekly newsletter. If you have a colleague or a few that you would like to give some kudos to and celebrate them, please fill out this form and include a picture. I can't wait to celebrate the awesomeness at Madison!
Carrye Lanning~ The Rock of 202
Everything for everyone in 202! ♥️. She is the hardest worker, sympathetic soul, and fantastic educator and support to my teachings. I am blessed to have her in my life everyday! ~ Angel Ashley
All the Elves
I would like to take a moment to recognize the people that helped to make the last week of school possible: aides that helped in the cafeteria, our personal laundering service, the staff that chaperoned the dance party so everyone could have an hour at the luncheon, Debbie for delivering lots of party supplies and keeping a smile on her face, guest readers, and many more. It is amazing how flexible people can be in taking on different roles to benefit the good of all students and staff. You are all amazing!!
OTHER NEWS & NOTES
POSITIVITY PROJECT
RESOURCES & TOOLS
Project Zero's Thinking Routine Toolbox
Welcome to Project Zero’s Thinking Routines Toolbox. This toolbox highlights thinking routines developed across a number of research projects at PZ. A thinking routine is a set of questions or a brief sequence of steps used to scaffold and support student thinking. PZ researchers designed thinking routines to deepen students’ thinking and to help make that thinking “visible.” Thinking routines help to reveal students’ thinking to the teacher and also help students themselves to notice and name particular “thinking moves,” making those moves more available and useful to them in other contexts. If you're new to thinking routines and PZ's research, please click here to explore more about thinking routines. For Tips for Using Thinking Routines Effectively, click here. For an overview of the Thinking Categories, click here. For an alphabetical list of thinking routines, click here.
APL Effective Teaching Reminder
Nicole Charleson shared this great reminder of those effective teaching strategies that we learned at the beginning of our career. It was too good to not share as a reminder of these great strategies.
3GNY: Educating Students About the Holocaust
Madison Staff Google Classroom
Please stop in at our Google Classroom for links to any important information.