Mustang Musings
January 12, 2020
Compassion for Every Child
ARC Focus of the Week
- We will use equitable conferences to meet the needs of all of our students.
- Our equitable conference schedules will be posted in the classroom.
- Our emergency students must be conferenced with 3 times in a 10 day period.
- At-risk must be conferenced with 2 times in a 10 day period.
- Proficient students must be conferenced with once in a 10 day period.
- Log home and school steps daily
- We will continue to focus on entering quality evidence into School Pace.
IWCS Reading Goals
I keep including this information in all of the newsletters because we do not want to lose focus on the goal of closing the gaps for our striving students. Our goal is that for ALL learners to receive the differentiated support needed to ensure 1 year of reading growth.
AND we are striving for GREATER with this added part of our goal...
Proficient learners will make at least 1.0 (1 year) of reading growth.
At-risk learners will make at least 1.25 (1 year and 2 and half months) of reading growth.
Emergency learners will make at least 1.50 (1 year and 5 months) of reading growth.
On Target for IRLA Reading Level
K- .50
1st- 1.50
2nd- 2.50
3rd- 3.50
4th-4.50
Sell those books!
On Target for Reading Practice
Are you in the game?????
STEPS calendar
Teach the Teacher
Avoiding Plagiarism
Top six ways to avoid plagiarism
- Start with specific questions written on separate cue cards or separate pages on a word document. As each question is answered, add the answer and the reference source to the appropriate card/page.
- Take point form notes, then just use the points to write the report. When you are helping younger children, write each point on a separate cue card then rearrange the order of the cue cards to join related points. Older children often prefer to use a word document and drag the points until they have four or five paragraphs that link the information.
- To get to these points, read a paragraph, and ask your child to tell you what it meant without looking at the text. Take notes on what he/she remembers.
- Do not use any more than five words in a row from any source without quotation marks. If using a quotation, make sure to link it to the reference right away.
- Use different forms of communication- turn charts into graphs, a list of dates into a visual timeline, and captions under photographs to communicate those interesting facts.
- Use turnitin.com to check for plagiarism. You can also use a search engine such as google to search for quotes from your child’s work that sound a little too good to be true.
What can I do for you?
- Modeling
- Side-by-side coaching
- Coaching and modeling of using the IRLA
- Round up resources
- Assist with differentiating lessons or materials
- Cover your class so that you can observe a colleague's class
- Cooperatively plan a lesson or series of lessons that meet best practices
- Serve as another pair of hands for a lesson
- Offer strategies for classroom management
- Help you connect with other teachers in the district
- Lend an open ear for a topic of your choice
- Reflect on student learning in your classroom through conversation and observation
- Work collaboratively to bounce ideas off one another to address a concern
- Evaluate new students to guide instruction
Hardy Elementary School
Email: lhenk@iwcs.k12.va.us
Website: http://hes.iwcs.k12.va.us/
Location: 9311 Hardy Circle, Smithfield, VA, United States
Phone: 757-357-3204
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Hardy-Elementary-School-205065852892284/
Twitter: @Mrs_Henk