Muraski TEAM Memo
For the Week of January 21st
This is OUR TEAM!
Things to do this week...
1. Consider being on the Team to play the Wizards. Let Tina know asap.
2.. (Continuation from our Staff Meeting Group Work) Add details to our building-wide rubric for others to reference to this week.
3. Review The Best Version of You Video ; Grab the Mindset!
4. Complete this IIP Survey - click here
UDL Helpful Hints
Upcoming Dates:
Dates to Remember...
1/21 No School
1/22 BIP Meeting at Muraski
1/23 LPDC
1/23 TBT Meetings - Grades 3,1, and Encore
1/24 TBT Meetings -Grades 4,5,2
1/25 BAC at 8:15am
1/25 TBT Meeting - Grade K
1/28 Terra Nova - Grade 3
1/28 TBT Coach meeting 8:15am
1/30 TBT Meetings - Grades 3,1, and Encore
1/31 TBT Meetings -Grades 4,5,2
1/31 HARLEM WIZARDS 20 MINUTE ASSEMBLY AT 2:00PM - Followed by the Reward Day
2/1 TBT Meeting - Grade K
2/18-2/22/19 - OELPA Testing with Leah
2/26/19 - State of the Schools: 6:30pm - 7:30pm at the SCS Administrative Offices
2/27/19 - Assembly "Corey the Dribbler" at 2pm
Lori Wilfong Day
Here is the schedule for February 8th.
We will provide a sub for you, so that your Team can meet with Lori.
(Hopefully we will have a Coaches Corner put together by then for our meeting place!)
Stay tuned!
8:30-9:30 - Grade 4 - Ronetta
9:30 - 10:30 - Grade 2 - Claire
10:30 - 11:30 - Grade 5 - Ronetta
11:30 - 12:30 Grade 3 - Suzi
12:30 - 1:30 -Lunch for Tonia
1:30 - 2:30 - Grade 1 - Suzi
2:30 - 3:30 - Grade K - Claire- Val
Keep copies of the post on-demand prompts they will be assigning (as well as the rubric). We will use these with Lori when she comes to the buildings and do some score calibration and discussion.
For grades 3-5, the time limit set should be for actual writing. The reading of the articles can take place outside of that time.
PTA Events
February 26, 2019 - Bingo
March 21, 2019 - Big Game Night
May 28, 2019 - Carnival
Reminder: Things to think about at our TBT meetings...
- What’s our urgent need? What do we want to learn more about?
- What are we going to do about it?
- How will we know if it worked?
NSGR Reminders: From Erin
NSGRA Winter Reminders (Elementary Principals)
Winter: Assess during the months of February/March; each teacher will report students’ levels to the building principal via the comprehensive class summary sheet (paper copy). Keep student’s individual sheets for TBT use.
Use “2nd Interval of Year” (which is the third column) on Instructional Levels grid, but KG uses level “B” for Meeting Expectations.
Grade K: Assess all students
Grades 1-3: Assess all students currently on RIMPs, students who were below GRL in fall (approaching or does not meet expectations), and/or additional students per teacher discretion
Grades 4-5: Assess students who were below GRL in fall (approaching or does not meet expectations), and/or additional students per teacher discretionGrades K-1 Use Fiction for each Assessment (students may choose their story if you desire)
Grades 2-5 Use Non-Fiction for each Assessment
All grade levels should allow students to reference the card on the Retell and Comprehension components. Jot down in the “notes” section any prompts you give the student.
Make sure you can still get the REMIND Messages....Please take a look and download the mobile App - if you are a Verizon Customer
We’re sorry to write with disappointing news. Recently, we learned that Verizon will be charging Remind a new fee that makes it impossible for us to continue supporting free text messaging for anyone who has Verizon Wireless as their phone carrier. Please read on for all the important details—we promise to keep this as short as we can.
What’s happening?
To offer our text messaging service free of charge, Remind has always paid for each text that our users receive or send. Now, Verizon is charging Remind an additional fee intended for companies that send spam over its network. Your Remind messages aren’t spam, but our efforts to resolve the issue with Verizon haven’t been successful.
As a result, the Verizon fee will increase our costs of providing text messaging by 11X—pushing our annual costs into the millions of dollars. This isn’t financially feasible for us to support, and it’s forcing us to end Remind text messaging for everyone who has a wireless plan with Verizon.
How will this affect you?
Beginning January 28, 2019, the people in your classes who normally get your Remind messages as texts will no longer receive these messages if they have Verizon Wireless as their phone carrier.
What can you do?
To make sure people in your classes continue receiving your messages, ask them to download the mobile app or enable email notifications—both of which are free of charge. Our team’s also working hard on a solution that allows your classes to continue to use Remind by text, and we’ll share more details with you before January 28.
In the meantime, we’ll keep fighting to make sure educators, students, and parents have access to effective communication. To do this, we need your help: If using Remind has made a positive impact in your classroom, at your school, or anywhere in between, please ask Verizon to reverse the fee here: www.remind.com/verizon-fee
We’re very grateful for your support, and we’ll be in touch soon with an update.
Sincerely,
The Remind team
Thinking Ahead to AIMSWEB DATA Meetings - 2 hours
9:00-11:00 Grade 5 & Ronetta
11:00-1:00 Grade 4 & Ronetta
1:30-3:30 Grade 3 & Suzi
February 13th
8:30-10:30 Grade 2 & Suzi & Val
10:30-12:30 Grade K & Claire & Val
12:30-2:30 - Grade 1 & Claire
Continued Reminders:
SPECIAL MENTION...
Thank you to our PBIS team for your great work in organizing our Dojo documentation system.
Thank you to Nancy for organizing the Yearbook with our TEAM picture.
Thank you to all for filling out the NSGRA information for me.
Thank you to Emma for the great behavior documentation.
Thank you to Denise for attending NCI this week.
Thank you to Samantha and Emma for providing the staff breakfast, even though they knew they wouldn't be here!
Thank you to Mark for helping out in the new offices.
Thank you to Jen Z. for preparing to install computers in our new offices soon.
Thank you to Samantha for attending the K Registration on Thursday evening.
Thank you to Kelly for always giving me the "heads up"!
Thank you to Suzi for covering a token board reward at the end of the Kindergarten day!