Thomas Jefferson Tribune
THE WEEK OF MAY 22-27
"EXCEPTIONAL COMMUNITIES, REVOLUTIONARY SCHOOLS!"
INCREASE STUDENT ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT through the use of DATA DRIVEN INSTRUCTION, AUTHENTIC LITERACY, AND PBL in all Feeder schools
Key Action 1
IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF INSTRUCTION through a Focus on EFFECTIVE FEEDBACK i.e., spot observations, PLC's, and coaching sessions in all Feeder schools
Key Action 2
Provide SAFE, POSITIVE & SUPPORTIVE campus climates and environment in ALL Feeder schools
Key Action 3
Thomas Jefferson Feeder Instructional Program Goals
Attendance Goal: 98% ADA <5% Chronic Absences per campus
ISTATION GOAL: 100% in Tiers 1 or 2
TTM Goal: There should be at least 70 passed lessons for each class at this point.
Achieve 3000 Goal: +1 Lexile for each grade level.
RM Goal: 2 Hours per week with at least 80% Level A Accuracy.
Thomas Jefferson Priority Goals
MISSION:
The TJ Feeder schools embrace diverse learning opportunities which honor the unique strengths and capabilities of all Scholars.
VISION:
The TJ feeder schools aspire to educate and prepare all Scholars to positively impact our community and the world.
CORE VALUES:
Innovation, Integrity, Collaboration, and Excellence
Thomas Jefferson's Feeder Priority Plan
Climate and Culture
GOAL #1: Ensure a positive and supportive student climate and culture through the implementation of social and emotional learning strategies and community partnerships at each campus to minimize student out-of-school time due to discipline infractions and increases teacher perception of the consistent and effective enforcement of student discipline.
GOAL #2: Implement research-based instructional strategies that support English Language Learners in all grades and content areas (including elementary Dual Language Programs and secondary ESL/Sheltered courses) in order to improve ELL student achievement as measured by STAAR assessments as well as to improve English language proficiency, as measured by TELPAS.
Student Achievement
GOAL #3: Establish structured Professional Learning Communities at all campuses, focused on student learning and outcomes in order to increase teacher collaboration, improve the quality of instruction, and increase student achievement.
A MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR..........
Principals,
I want to thank each and every one of you for thinking of me during National Education Bosses Week. Your kindness did not go unnoticed. I hope each of you were equally appreciated for all your hard work you put in as a leader this year. You are truly deserving!
As you prepare for the closing of a successful school year, take time to reflect on all the accomplishments observed for the feeder and your campuses. Ensure that you begin to put in place your systems for effectively closing out the year:
Summatives/Spot observations
Transition camp logistics
Graduation logistics
CIP completion (utilizing the updated form)
Report card markings
End of year checkout lists
SSI student recruitment
End of year awards for students
Back to School Information for parents
Staff and parents volunteer recognition events
Principals plans to regain credit student list
Conduct last fire drill in June
Those were just a few to name.
Know that you are appreciated for all the hard work and determination to provide quality leadership on all your campuses. Let's ensure that we finish strong!
Here is to another fantastic week of teaching and learning!
Ms. Torres
Thomas Jefferson Executive Director
THIS WEEK AT A GLANCE
Monday, May 22, 2017
FCNS Summer Meals Program Application form DUE TODAY for Transition Camps!
Burnet End of Year Systems Review #1-8:30
Tom Field End of Year Systems Review #1-12:30
Stephen Foster Principal Profile Meeting w/Foster staff @3:30PM
Teacher rebuttal window opens in Oracle for summative performance evaluations
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
- Meeting with Chief of School Leadership @ 10:00AM
- Principal Interviews 12:00-5:00 PM
- Mandatory Enrollment Training for Medrano Campus personnel-(Registrar, Office Manager and Campus Administrator)-8:30-11:30 Rm. #801 for Longfellow Campus- personnel 12:30-3:30-Rm. 810
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
- Principal Interviews 9:00-12:00 AM
- Unscheduled Campus visits
- ED/AF Planning 2:00PM
- Cohort I & II Administrators Meeting 3:00PM
Thursday, May 25 2017
- Principal Deadline to send Summer Option #1 or #2 to ED by Noon
- Prep U Meeting with Elsa 9:00AM
- Thomas Jefferson Graduation Rehearsal @10:30AM
- SEL Advisory Committee Mtg. @ 4:00 PM-Buckner Rm. #810
- Collegiate Job Fair 6:00PM-Admamson High School
Friday, May 26, 2017
- ED/Deputy Chief Meeting 8:30-11:00
- ED Roundtable with Leslie Williams 11:30AM-1:00PM-Rm. 302E
- ED/AF Planning Time 1:00-3:00PM
- Office Time 3:00-5:00PM
- Google Form DUE TODAY for Transition Camp t-shirts for ALL campuses
Link to Google Form: https://goo.gl/forms/iV4uV0xdj87RzksI2
Saturday, May 27, 2017
- Thomas Jefferson High School Graduation 8:30-Alfred J. Loos
Thomas Jefferson Feeder Climate Survey Participation Results
Principal Summer Hours & Vacation Timelines
AASI Summer 2017 Professional Learning Opportunties
Website: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0qpB0IgSRDvenpYWExJV1MxcVE/view
PRINCIPLES OF LEARNING
For the month of May, our feeder will focus on RECOGNITION OF ACCOMPLISHMENT as our FIFTH principle.
RECOGNITION OF ACCOMPLISHMENT
If we expect students to put forth and sustain high levels of effort, then we must motivate them by recognizing their accomplishments regularly. Clear recognition of authentic accomplishment is a hallmark of an effort-based school. This recognition can take the form of celebrations of work that meets standards or intermediate progress benchmarks In route to the standards. Progress points are articulated so that, regardless of entering performance level, every student can meet real accomplishment criteria often enough to be recognized frequently. Recognition of accomplishment can be tied to opportunities to participate in events that matter to students and their families.
PATRIOT KUDOS
Medrano MS
Parents at Sudie Williams particpated big at Field Day!
Joe May & Longfellow MS representing TJ Feeder!
After participating in chess tournaments throughout the year, more than 500 students from 120 Dallas ISD schools competed in the Districtwide Championship Chess Tournament at Conrad High School in May.
Check out the blurb posted on the Dallas HUB!!
End of Year AF and CIC Celebration
THOMAS JEFFERSON COLLEGIATE CORNER
The Academic Facilitators for the Thomas Jefferson Feeder Pattern supported collegiate students in small groups this week. Students reviewed TSI Reading and learned additional strategies that will help them be successful on the test.
TSI Updates
Flocabulary Professional Development Opportunity
Grades: Kindergarten - 12th
Audience: Teachers (CIC, & Campus Administrator welcome to attend)
PD Credit: 3.5 hours awarded
Please bring: Laptop or tablet as well as your campus staff roster including--teacher full name and Dallas ISD email address
Description: Flocabulary is an on-line TEKS resource to help students master academic content while building core literacy skills and academic vocabulary through engagement, mastery, and student creativity.
Wednesday, Jul 19, 2017, 08:00 AM
Schoolnet Activity Code #1000007741
YMCA Free Leagues for DISD Students
Social Emotional Learning Training Opportunity
UPCOMING DATES & REMINDERS
June
13- Texas Education Agency 2017 Principal Surveys to Evaluate Preparation Programs in Texas DUE! Click here to take survey
19th-CMS End of Year Review window opens for 226 day employee
TEI NEWS
June
1-Last day to conduct spot observations and last day to hold summative conferences
5-Last day for teacher to input rebuttal in Oracle for summative performance evaluation
Click here for 2016-2017 Distinguished Teacher Review Rubric
Click here for 2016-2017 Teacher Performance Rubric
Click here for 2016-2017 Achievement Templates
Click here for 2016-2017 Fall PD Catalog
DISTRICT-WIDE TESTING CALENDAR
MAY
26--1--ACP (Grades 6-12)June
June 2--15--ACP Make Up Window (Grades 6-12)
Teachers Weave Social-Emotional Learning Into Academics
In this article from Education Week, Evie Blad shares SEL teachers practices, strategies and methods that are integrated with the academic content to support the development of healthy relationships between teachers and students; students and students while ultimately positively impacting student achievement.
Social-Emotional Learning
Social-emotional learning involves nurturing students’ interpersonal and behavioral skills through a variety of educational strategies. Around the country, more schools are experimenting with social-emotional learning, buoyed by research that correlates it with positive outcomes, like academic gains and reduced disciplinary incidents. Employers have also pointed to so-called “soft skills” as desirable traits for future employees.
Young’s inquiry work, which focused on classroom writing workshops, led her to bring more peer interactions into the writing process as a way of separating the act of conceptualizing an essay from the work of writing it out. She got the idea after she interviewed students about the purpose of the workshops and got answers revealing some students’ misunderstanding of why writing matters. “We do writing workshops to help improve our handwriting,” one boy told her.
“The purpose of writing was not clear to him,” Young said. “That really changed my thinking in a dramatic way.”
'Adult SEL'
“Our theory of action is that in order for adults, teachers, and principals to be able to provide certain types of learning experiences for students, they have to be able to have those experiences themselves,” she said. “When you look at the opportunities for adults in schools to really engage in that type of experience, what we hear from teachers is that they are really few and far between.”
THOMAS JEFFERSON SCHOOL LEADERSHIP
- Thomas Jefferson High School: Principal, Sandi Massey
- Francisco Medrano Middle School : Principal, Theresa Sigurdson
- Henry W. Longfellow: Principal, Lorena Hernandez
- Edward Cary Middle School: Principal, Ben Dickerson
- David G. Burnet Elementary: Principal, Sonia Loskot
- Leonides Cigarroa Elementary : Principal, Quinton Courts
- Tom W. Field Elementary: Principal, Shondula Whitfield
- Stephen C. Foster Elementary: Principal, Zacharay Hall
- Joe May Elementary: Principal, Israel Rivera
- K.B. Polk Elementary: Principal, Misty Rathermund
- Julian T. Saldivar: Principal, Chaundra Macklin
- Walnut Hill Elementary: Principal, Robert 'Chase'McLaurin
- Sudie Williams Elementary: Principal, Michael Jackson
Thomas Jefferson High School
Franscisco Medrano Middle School
Henry W. Longfellow Middle School
David G. Burnet Elementary
Leonides Cigarroa Elementary
Tom W. Field Elementary
Stephen C. Foster Elementary
Joe May Elementary
K. B. Polk Elementary
Julian T. Saldivar Elementary
Walnut Hill Elementary
Sudie L. Williams Elementary
Khristina Goady
Marlenise Phillips-Roberts
Erica Rosas
Trustee Edwin Flores District 1
Trustee Marshall District 2
Trustee Miguel Solis District 8
DISD GOALS:
1. All students will exhibit Satisfactory or above performance on State assessments. Students below Satisfactory performance will demonstrate more than one year of academic growth;
2. Dallas ISD schools will be the primary choice for families in the district;
3. The achievement gap by race, ethnicity and social economic status will be no greater than 10 percentage points on all academic measures;
4. 95% of students will graduate. Of the graduates, 90% have qualifying scores for community college, college, military, or industry certification;
5. 95% of entering kindergarten students are school-ready on a multidimensional assessment;
6. All students will participate in at least one extracurricular or co-curricular activity each year.