Principal Update
Week of February 6th
Good Morning,
I hope you had a wonderful Super Bowl weekend! I know everyone is busy and time is a precious commodity. Please remember to take time for you. Whether it's walking, reading a good book or taking a short weekend get away; it is important that you have some down time.
Professional Development
Read 2 Succeed
The articles that we read last week: Helping Elementary Students Read for Information, Informational Text Strategies, Strategies for building Comprehension of Informational Text, and The Case for Informational Text are great resources that can help support instruction as we strive to improve our student achievement in Science and Social Studies. I have posted the articles in Canvas. A special Thank You to everyone who is participating in the online course. Remember, Children First!
PD Calendar
The professional development schedule for 2nd semester was e-mailed on January 9, 2017. Please put these dates on your calendar.
Reminders
Progress Reports will be sent home on Tuesday, February 14th and have been placed in your mailboxes.
Math Day
Math Day for parents/guardians will be on Thursday, February 16th. Flyers have been placed in your mailboxes and can be sent home in your Tuesday folders. Please e-mail Kimenya by tomorrow if you would like to volunteer for parents to visit your classroom. We need one class on each grade level. Our parents really appreciated being invited to observe instruction.
Data Meetings
Please bring the monitoring tool that you are utilizing for students on Tier 2 and Tier 3 to your data meeting on Wednesday.
PDT
Shemia Thompson will meet with grade levels on Wednesday, February 8th.
The workshop on Guided Reading for Advanced Readers will be held on Monday, February 6th from 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. at Mount Holly. If you are interested in learning more strategies to support students reading on levels T-Z, please sign up for the workshop in MyLearningPlan.
Expectations
Please upload your team norms into Canvas by Friday, February 10th. If one person is usually the person that post information for your grade level, please allow another team member to post this assignment. The only way to achieve proficiency in using Canvas is to practice. Thank you to those who have already submitted norms.
Teacher Recruitment Fair
There is a sign up sheet in the work room for volunteers for the District Teacher Recruitment Fair. The fair will be held on Saturday, March 25th from 8:30 a.m. - noon at Saluda Trail Middle School. We need staff to sign up to help with prescreening.
FYI
If your child is zoned for another school and you want your child to attend Lesslie during the 2016-2017 school year, you will need to complete the 2017-18 Student Transfer Request for Full Time Employee.
Shout Outs
The Helping Hands Award goes to Mary Catherine Miller. Thank you so much for having double time with a class when we couldn't get a sub. You are the best!
The EVAAS Effectiveness Award goes to Deborah Redmond! Deborah's composite Effectiveness Level for SC READY/ASPIRE/SCPASS (mathematics) was 5 and for ELA the Effectiveness Level was 4. Level 5 is Most Effective: Significant evidence that the teacher's students made more progress than the Growth Standard (the teacher's index is 2 or greater). Level 4 is Above Average Effectiveness: Moderate evidence that the teacher's stuents made more progress than the Growth Standard (the teacher's index is between 1 and 2).