Jaguar Journal
Week of February 3rd
WE MADE IT TO FEBRUARY!
Important Events for the Week:
Monday, February 3rd:
Tuesday, February 4th:
5th/3rd/K with Darlene -- These PLCs will meet in the AIG room due to ACCESS testing. Teachers and I/A’s, here is the extended schedule
SLT after dismissal in Exley’s room
Young Author Celebration - MPR at 6:00 (Come join us and celebrate our NCE writers!)
Wednesday, February 5th:
World Read Aloud Day - we will have many guest readers around the building! Thank you Stephanie for organizing and making this happen!
4th Grade Quarterly Collaborations at Horton PLC building with Friday Institute
1st Grade PLC (please meet in a classroom due to ACCESS testing)
Thursday, February 6th:
- Happy 100th Day of School!
5th Grade Quarterly Collaborations at Horton PLC building
2nd/4th Grade PLC (please meet in a classroom due to ACCESS testing)
Friday, February 7th:
Mandy off campus for Coaches’ Meeting
All Week: ACCESS TESTING
Updates/Reminders:
ACCESS Testing - ESL teachers will be involved in testing all week and not pushing into classrooms. Please help keep the hallways around the PLC room and media center quiet during testing.
Self Care Challenge: Wow! It’s exciting to see so many paws colored in on our Self Care Challenge chart! Keep taking care of yourselves Jaguars and coloring in paws to show us how you are incorporating self care into your lives! Use this google form to send ideas for what you’d like for a staff prize. Lunch has been a popular option. Do you have another suggestion? Please add your ideas!
Quarterly Collaborations: They start this week! Here is the schedule for the upcoming quarterly collaboration dates. You may want to discuss with your PLC what unit you would like to work on during this time.
Semester Conferences
Coming Soon…. We look forward to having time to sit and talk with all certified staff members! We will look at data and hear about plans for the Spring Semester. Please see the schedule here and let us know if you have a scheduling conflict ASAP. An agenda for our time together is included below the schedule.
Middle of the Year PDP - Please go ahead and begin working on updating your mid year PDP.
- Click on PDP Mid Year Review and fill in the box that says Evidence of Progress towards specific standards.
- We will discuss specifics regarding progress at your semester conference or any upcoming post conference as needed.
- Please save this work but do not finalize or mark complete until we review it at an upcoming post conference or semester conference.
Igniting a Love for Reading:
Our first Jaguar book club met this week and dove into the Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller. We had snacks and discussed exciting ideas about how to get our students to love reading. One thing that Mrs. Landis has tried from the book is the Interest Survey. It has helped her match her kids to books they would enjoy! She recently had students update their surveys from the beginning of the year and paired an avid reader up with reluctant reader who had the same interests on their surveys. This past week she saw them walking to lunch together with their books!! YES! This Interest Survey has been linked onto our NCE Staff page under Reading Links too if you want to use it. Our next book club meeting on The Book Whisperer will be Monday, February 17th. Join us!
Curriculum Information:
Math Enrichment Lessons: We’ve noticed in our data digs that our higher students are not growing as much as we’d like. Challenging our AIG kids can be hard! How do you do it in your room? Here is a resource of ideas for math enrichment that may help--Challenge Math: Exciting Mathematical Enrichment Explorations for Elementary Students by Deanna Hunsberger. This is a very easy, very quick read and is filled with extension lessons to help get our higher math students thinking. The first few pages give you an understanding of how the lessons work. The most important part in this section is “The Lesson” and “Level” information. This will ensure you choose the right lessons for your students. Then it’s just pages of lessons. These 1-2 page lessons cannot be handed to the students to just do, instead, they tell you how the lesson should work, what you need to briefly teach them in a small group, and what your students should do independently. The lessons can also be catered to work in multiple grade levels and in English and Spanish.
Under the “Numbers” Section: Lesson #7 could work as a station in many grades making bigger numbers! Lesson #8 could be a project! Lesson #9 could be challenge for 4th/5th graders that then goes into a project with athlete’s statistics! Lesson #10 -- we are a base 10 world, what happens if our number system is a base 4??
Under the “Combinatorics” Section-- Lesson #1 challenges kids to see if they can find all the ways to make $.25! Do you know how many there are? Lesson #15 is Ferrars Diagrams.
What are your thoughts? Is this helpful? How else could we incorporate some challenging think work for our Jaguars during i/e or independent work? Let’s share your ideas with each other. If you like what you see in this book, add it to your PLC agenda to talk about.
K-2 Standards Tracking for Report Cards: Since our report cards are now asking us to know where each student is for each standard, we need to find ways to track our students’ mastery of a standard. How are you doing it in your room or as a team? We’d love to see ideas. Here are two ways your colleagues are trying to track their students’ understanding. It makes completing report cards more accurate and easier if you are tracking with fidelity all quarter!
PLEASE take pics and share (Twitter, text me for newsletter, etc) so we can celebrate the day!
Tech Talk:
Here is a helpful and very short article on 9 Ways to Use Flipgrid in the Classroom. Suggestions one and two from the article are great and are shared below!
Sharing book reviews: This is a great way to ignite a love for reading and books! With Flipgrid’s new augmented reality (AR) feature, classrooms and classroom libraries can use the video QR code to create an engaging way for students to share book reviews. After a student records their review, the teacher can print the QR code and tape it on the book, and the student’s classmates can use their devices to scan the code and watch the review as a way to help them decide if they’d like to read the book.
Practicing world language skills: Flipgrid makes it possible for teachers in different districts and different countries to collaborate. Wouldn’t this be fun to do with the other dual language classes in our school or SCE too? For world language teachers, this creates opportunities for students to practice their speaking skills with a larger group than just their class. Students can post videos to get practice with the vocabulary they’re learning, and instead of being limited to practicing with the people in their physical classroom, they can engage and build their skills with other students around the world studying the same language or have conversations with native speakers of the language.
Friday Institute’s Learning 4 All Virtual Conference: If you are interested in learning more about topics like Design Thinking, Project Based Learning, Social Emotional Learning, and/or Digital Citizenship & Media Literacy, this free conference could be for you. Liz Kolb, the creator of the Triple E Framework, will be the keynote speaker. To register for this free online conference, click here! In order for this to count as ceu’s you’ll need to fill out the pre-approval form on the Frontline Professional Growth site through CCS Schools first.
Sessions will be 50 minutes in length and will be recorded for your convenience
A rich virtual learning experience with breakout rooms, Q&A’s, discussions, and classroom application
Attend sessions at your leisure and based on your professional interests and goals, so no missing school or subs needed.
Digital CEUs: If you are looking to earn digital ceus or are interested in learning more about the Triple E framework in order to better participate in the Digital Learning Dayz, there are now three Canvas courses just for you! The courses should take around 5-hours to complete (Novice 1 hour, Intermediate 1 hour, Advanced 3 hours). It is strongly recommended that teachers new to the Triple E Framework go through the full sequence so they will have the background necessary. As a result, if people complete all three courses, they will be eligible for .5 CEUs. Here is how to join the classes:
Click the link below or copy and paste it into your search bar. You should start with the Novice course first.
Intermediate: https://chatham.instructure.com/enroll/MT9W4H
Advanced: . https://chatham.instructure.com/enroll/E39KAK
From that link you will log into your Canvas account, which is your Google account.
Click “Go to the course” on the home page
You will now be enrolled in the course.
When you finish the novice course, then join the intermediate course by following the same steps as above.
Repeat for Advanced!
Digital Learning Dayz:
FEBRUARY 24-27, 2020
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 8AM MONDAY, MARCH 2
You can earn .3 or .5 CEUS for your participation.
HOW DO YOU PARTICIPATE IN THE CCS DIGITAL LEARNING DAYZ?
SIGN UP on the Google Form to let us know you plan to participate.
PLAN an innovative lesson(s) to teach February 24-27 using the Triple E Framework for your instructional decision-making so the digital tools you use engage, enhance, and extend the learning goals.
DOCUMENT the goals and highlights of your lesson(s) on the Triple E Choice Board.
TWEET OUT pictures of your amazing work with students with the hashtags #CCSDLD20 and #igniteCCS.
WIN PRIZES for the most innovative lesson(s) of the week or the school with the highest percentage of participation.
CHOOSE YOUR LEVEL OF PARTICIPATION
LEVEL 1 ONE "E": use & document one strategy during DLDayz on this choice board to help NCE win for most participation!
LEVEL 2 TRIPLE E: use & document one strategy from each of the Es during DLDayz on this choice board to earn .3 CEUs.
LEVEL 3 BLACKOUT: use & document all 9 Triple E strategies during DLDayz on this choice board to earn .5 CEUs.
All levels MUST include at least one picture or video from their classroom during implementation to earn credit.
Duties for the Week:
AM Duties:
Early Bus/Cafe/Lobby: Trejo, K. Horton
Main Lobby/Hallway : Webster
Intersection/MPR Lobby: Gendron
4th/5th Hallway: Brooks
Buses: Trygar
Cars: Murray, Spencer,, Avila, Camereno, Stahoviak, B. Horton
PM Duties:
Bus Ramp: Trygar, Bland, Crankshaw
Late Bus: Trygar, Avila, Brooks, Camereno, K. Horton
Cars: Orchard-Hays, Hamilton, Knaus, Torres, Membreno, Gendron, Evans,
Rowland- TL, Maul- TL