Cool Cat News
Campus Brief
Cool Cats,
Angela has been sending out staff schedules and updates for STAAR. Please make sure you are familiar with the flow of these testing days and direct any questions to her. Also remember that all 3rd and 4th graders have been encouraged to arrive at 7am. Lunch will be provided for all staff on both days. You may wear jeans with a STAAR shirt or Campus shirt during testing. Thank you to everyone who has helped decorate our halls for our 3rd and 4th grade Cool Cats!
I have pulled feedback charts from the PLC room to start organizing the data. If you have further comments today, you will need to bring them to my office. Thank you for your input.
RTI Update
We will need to make adjustments for the last few weeks of RTI. The schedule for the last two Wednesday’s is as follows:
May 15- NO RTI- Celebrate and honor Linda Perrin at her retirement party. We will miss her a wee little bit.
May 22- RTI Team Meeting- Yay, I get to see our wonderful team one last time before summer…..I can already sense Hefner’s excitement JJ
MAP Testing- As you begin to finalize your MAP testing and review your reports there have been lots of celebrations! I love seeing your excitement when you discover how much your students have grown! You have worked hard this year, and your students have benefited tremendously. We hope you have felt appreciated and celebrated this week because you deserve it!
As you review reports, keep the following in mind also. MAP is adaptive to individual students' performance. The goal should be that each individual student meet or exceed their projected MAP growth. Of course, even with all of our efforts some students will not meet growth. I was reviewing this information in PLC and then had a chance to discuss it with C&I. The district expects that each teacher should have at least 60% of students meeting growth. This is a minimum, and lower percentages are concerning. 70% of students meeting growth reflects good/solid instruction is happening. 80% or higher of students meeting growth is excellent. This is something to keep in mind moving forward as you evaluate your classroom growth.
PTA Party on the Playground
STAAR Testing
Perrin Retirement Party
Field Day
Kindergarten Graduation
4th Term Awards
4th Grade Graduation
Talent Show
Staff Shout Outs!!!
Ashley Romero would like to give a big shout out to Mrs. Figueroa. For always being a great team member and being so considerate. Thanks for covering my outside duty and always lending a helping hand! Your willingness to help is much appreciated.
Angela Medrano would like to give a huge shout out to Kara Johnson. Two Pre k children wanted to enroll and Ms Johnson said she would take both of them in her morning class.She was willing to help out with the schedule of the parents and take both kids!
Shout out to Ms. Yulis from kindergarten . She came to the playground this week and crawled up through one of the tunnels (the only way to get there) to clean up a mess that someone had left on the playground. She is always so willing to help and she’s very kind to all of our kids. We appreciate her very much.
Huge shout out to Erin and Brandy and friends, Hartman PTA moms, and Chase Oaks Church for helping us with the 3rd and 4th grade hallway STAAR decorating this week!
Angela Waters has gone round and round to get every detail just right for our STAAR testers! Thank you, Angela! You're pretty amazing!
Staff Birthdays!!!!
May
10--Heather Buckley
17--Lori Warren
19--Leanna Schmidt
20--Jennifer Cheung
Upcoming Dates
5/6- 5/10 Teacher Appreciation Week
5/6 McDonald's Night PPCD 5-8pm
5/7 Sunshine Committee Mtg. 3pm
5/8 Miss Texas 3rd/4th @ 8:15; RTI Mtg. 3rd/4th 3pm
5/9 Breakfast with Moms 6:50-7:20am
5/10 Morris Brothers/ Hartman Huddle; General PTA Mtg. and Street Dance 6:30-8pm
5/13 3rd/4th Grades STAAR Math
5/14 3rd/4th Grades STAAR Reading
5/15 RTI Mtg. K-2nd 3pm
5/16 Senior Reception 3:30pm
5/17 WW Day of Celebration/ K-4 Field Day Activities
5/20 Pre-K Graduation 6-8:15pm5/21 Term 4 Awards G1-G3 9am
5/22 4th Grade Graduation 9am
5/23 Talent Show 8:30am; Early Release Day-School ends at 12:40pm; Students'Last Day of School!
5/24 Teacher Work Day
5/28 Teacher Exchange Day