Eagle Daily Express
Team K-2 Ed.8
Our Vision here at North Dayton School of Discovery
Our vision at North Dayton School of Discovery is to work as a team to prepare college and career ready students to be dedicated life-long learners, empowered with the academic and social skills to achieve.
"WE DONT JUST TEACH, WE CHANGE LIVES"
Let's act with a sense of urgency
Please make sure that you all are MEMMING during your restroom breaks and anytime that you may experience downtime. If we stay ready, we do not have to get ready. During class, please make sure that if you all have completed your OOS plans, we are still making every moment matter and spiraling back to our NWEA data points and doing a reteach of that respective skill whatever that may be.
KINDER&FIRST
Please make sure you are teaching at the end of the day especially during the time of 2:00p-2:25p. Be caught being great.
Attendance
Please make sure team that you all are contacting your parents when a scholar is not present in your class. Remember to document via email what steps you have taken to make that contact. Email, text, phone call, parent connect are all acceptable means of communication to contact your parents. In order for us to make sure we are on attendance I need to see your emails daily showing how you have tried to contact them. Remember to share out what they are missing during the morning that they are missing from school.
NHA WORK
Team, please make sure that you are using NHA documents for your morning work. It is my expectation that we are following our school wide guidelines. If we cannot meet this expectation, then it may be time to have another conversation. 😠😀 I spoke with both Math and ELA C&I representatives on Friday, and they will be providing me with some resources that we can use for morning work. Another option that I suggest is to look ahead at your Assessments and use that to back plan your morning. If you know where you are going academically you have a better chance of getting your scholars, there successfully. Please make sure that you all are not using TPT (Teachers Pay Teachers) to get morning work. Classkick has a public library with a lot of materials we can use in the class for both math and ela. Feel free to use this tool.
More information will be coming about this.
Dreambox
Please make sure that your scholars are progressing in the lessons completed. This shows continuous improvement when there is lesson completion versus time used.
Lexia
Teachers in those small groups our new weekly threshold is 60 minutes a week. This is an average of 12 minutes a day. Let's get our classes into those small group rotations and monitor how many lessons are being completed weekly.
Sylvan Learning
Team K,1, and 2nd I have posted to your parents our Sylvan flyer so that we can start getting our scholars enrolled. We have parents already signing students up. Please continue to post and share the Sylvan flyer with your families so that we can get this ball on the roll.
PLEASE KEEP SHARING TEAM!!!!
Double Planning🤞
Please make sure that your lesson plans (OOS) show your double planning. I should be able to see proof of double planning in your binders. Make sure that you know your lesson please because if you are caught not knowing your lesson this will be a on the SPOT coaching. Backwards plan team so that you know what the end goal is for your scholars. Remember if you review the assessment first you can be more intentional in your teaching guiding your scholars toward their academic goals.
If you all do not have a complete set of chromebooks a possible idea to use would be to set up a group of chromebooks and make it a rotation in small group that way your scholars are getting their Dreambox/Lexia time in.
Feedback
We will go back to TEACHING SCIENCE AND SS during those respective periods.
We have given out your feedback on your achievement boards. Mrs. McClure placed a copy of the K2 rubric in your mailboxes. Please place that document in a secure place so you know where it is when its time to work on your next board. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR EDITS TO YOUR BOARDS ARE COMPLETE BEFORE YOU LEAVE TOMORROW. Those that received feedback to redo items on your board are expected to be done BEFORE YOU LEAVE WORK.
GLINT:
Thank You to those teachers that completed the glint survey in a timely manner. Unfortunately we did not reach our 100% goal for our hallway (13/15). My hope is that the system tomorrow reflects the last 2 members that took the GLINT at the last minute. Thank you for your feedback in the GLINT as I hope we can continue to grow ND in a positive fashion.
Lets tap in with Week 7
As we focus on Cognitive Engagement please make sure that:
*Students are given the opportunity to speak, write, and think
*Evidence of double planning is intentional, purposeful and at appropriate levels throughout the lesson.
Teachers are providing access to tools:
(classkick, jamboard, rods, rules, markers, and whtieboards)
Please be sure to do checks for understanding before moving on to the next section.
Questioning is more than DOK1 (Recall)
We will focus on those above look Fors that I bolded. I have no time for excuses. At this point in the game either we win the day, or we don't. When I come in, I only want to see us win the day!!!
Please make sure that you all are making the lesson yours. This week we really want to make sure that we are focused on OOSing 100% all day every day and remember that cognitive engagement.
Thinking, speaking, and writing!!
🌏“Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching kids what counts is best.”
Week 7 Data Points 🙂
Specials Team:
Team,
please make sure that your achievement boards edits are completed before you leave work tomorrow. This is a compliance item so please complete it. Make sure that your work is up to date work and the final written pieces are neat and grammatically correct. If your boards are not up to the standard they will be taken down with the expectation of redoing them again.
Please make sure that your lesson plans are updated weekly. I need to be able to check them off my weekly list.
🎯"I don't run away from coaching/teaching, I run to it"
We start with the crown. We do not lower it we leave it at the top 👑
DATA BINDERS
Green Data Binders have been passed out to each classroom.
Data Binders will be checked this Wednesday Morning as soon I get to work. Thank you to those teachers that have their binders together: Miss Long, Mrs. McClure, Ms. Wurtz, Ms. Caldwell. Please make sure you meet the expectation. Conference with your scholars teach them what they are looking at and how to chart their progress. I should be able to ask a student what is in their binder and they be able to tell me.
Data binder contents are below ⤵⤵⤵⤵⤵ If you have questions please let me know.
Please check for your week 7 Assessments (EOD Monday is K2 deadline)
Team remember we must hit our 95% students assessed threshold. If a student is absent, please get them assessed as soon as possible. Also, we want to monitor how many students we have falling in the RED. Our goal is to be proficient and move our scholars to the green. Win the Day !!
Trackers
K-2 Off-track 23-24
K2 off track list has been shared with our hallway. Please go in and add your data for fall testing (Aimsweb, NWEA ELA, and Numeracy).
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O0MLXBygDhkH2aSyAlRvO1x27OwYsn10OUERnbsDo0M/edit?usp=drive_link
K-8 Weekly Tracker
Please make sure that you go in and upate the K-8 tracker.
Grades
Go through your gradebook and make sure it is up to date with the latest academic grades. Please see the closing notes below with important dates.
Parent Teacher Conferences
Teacher's,
You will all be required to stay the first night of PTC meaning into the conference time concludes for the day. ALL MEETINGS NEED TO BE FACE TO FACE MEETINGS. NO VIRTUAL MEETINGS!!!
BE VERY INTENTIONAL ABOUT HAVING RETENTION CONVERSATIONS AT PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES. PARENTS MUST SIGN THE PTC FORM ACKNOWLEDGING THE RETENTION STATUS.
Please let your parents know up front:
*****Any student performing below grade level in ELA on NWEA and/or Interims is on the potential retention list.
*****If your child has missed 10 or more days and is considered truant, they are on the potential retention list. (Chronic absenteeism is defined as 10% or more days missed.)
These two items are also included on the Fall Parent teacher conference form.
Start setting up your conferences now.
Closing Notes
Fifth Grade Team will be in the gym this week for Late duty.
Please make sure that you all have your gradebooks up to date with the required grades.
Please send school connect to your parents about importance of testing this week. We need them here on time.
Moral Focus: Respect
- 10.10 Staff meeting Reunification 3:10
- 10.10 Literacy Night/Trunk or Treat 5:30 (Remember dinner will be provided and we must have all literacy stations in the classroom for parents to come to. Thank you to those teachers that have committed to stay so far. I need Kinder and 1st grade let me know who will be staying. ( Don't forget 3 day Jeans Passes are included)
- 10.11 PLC (Please read your article and have form done on Tuesday and share with me)
- 10.13 End of Quarter
- 10.13. Moral Focus Assembly( Make up from Friday 10.6)
- 10.16 Grades need to be in gradebook
- Data updates: Please make sure your common assessments both ELA/MATH are updated by the EOD on that following Monday.
- Data trackers need to be updated by EOD on Friday's.
- LUNCH on me Friday you all have to choose as a team what you want to eat.🛑⬅⬅⬅