Tiogue Faculty & Staff Bulletin
At-A-Glance September 29, 2018 #5
START WITH HELLO - Sandy Hook Promise Week in our Coventry schools
You all kept the core intent of the program at heart when working with students in your classrooms. There was so much positivity in all grade levels.
Data Meetings OCTOBER 1
Important Information and Key Dates
*FACULTY/STAFF*
October 2018
October 1 - DATA MTGS ALL DAY; Quick Union Mtg. at the end of the school day - Cafeteria; FLU CLINIC at ASFMS (4-6:30pm)
October 3 - RtI meetings: 7:30am & 8am
October 4 - PBIS MTG 7:45am in room #2; Team Day - Please check your Google calendars for specific invites/times
October 5 - Attendance Celebration 2:30pm Pizza Party (you will be given a list of attendance winners for Sept. and an opt out form will be sent home early in the week 10/1 or 10/2)
October 8 - NO SCHOOL, Columbus Day
October 9 - SIT Mtg. 7:45am Library
October 11 - RI Secretary of State, Nellie Gorbea, visits Tiogue today; Team Day - Please check your Google calendars for specific invites/times
October 17 - Faculty Mtg. 3:20pm
October 18 - Team Day - Please check your Google calendars for specific invites/times
October 25 - Team Day - Please check your Google calendars for specific invites/times
October 30 - LifeTouch Picture Day
October 31 - Perfect Attendance for the month closes -students will be given their raffle
ticket for October
Our Mission and Motto:
At Tiogue School, we believe that students can achieve their personal best and become responsible and productive citizens by embracing all learning opportunities each day.
"Everybody is somebody at Tiogue"
*PTA INFORMATION*
We would like faculty/staff representation at each PTA meeting. Talk with your team and colleagues about scheduling a time to come to a meeting this year.
Upcoming PTA Meeting Schedule:
10/15/18 at 3:30pm
11/19/18 at 6:30pm
12/17/18 at 3:30pm
1/28/19 at 6:30pm
2/25/19 at 3:30pm
3/18/19 at 6:30pm
4/22/19 at 3:30pm
5/20/19 at 6:30pm
June TBD at 3:30pm
SCHOOL STORE Every Other WEDNESDAY beginning on 9/26/18.
Field Trip Information- very important approval must be given before sending any information home to families
Try to be as detailed as possible with regard to cost, participants, and possible special education support/coverages needed.
Technology Questions
You can learn about resetting passwords and other items on this site.
Articles and other news
Behavioral Specialist and Math Intervention Schedule:
Kim Sturdahl will be at Tiogue on Thursday and Friday of this week.
Kim and I have been analyzing the behavior data and referrals over the past week.
Many issues are arising in the bathrooms and during unstructured or itinerant times.
I am thinking of beginning a consistent school-wide bathroom sign out form. Students would need to place their name and time out of class.
Try to only send one student out of your room at a time when using the bathroom unless you are taking your whole class during a scheduled time.
Also, when leaving Kim a note on her desk, please let her know who it is from
and/or
when speaking with Kim in the hallway about an issue please remember that she is probably going to work on an issue in another part of the building. Follow up with a note to her in case she is working on multiple issues.
MATHEMATICS: Mary V. will be at Tiogue for the week. Please let Mary and I know about Number Talks and our other intervention programs. I got to see Number Talks in action in a few rooms over this past week. What a great way to help to bolster number sense!
-Article of the week-
September 29, 2018: Rude, Mean, or Bullying: A Child Therapist Defines
September 22, 2018: 250 Google Tools (tutorials) for teachers
September 15th: Take the Multiple Intelligences Quiz that Don sent out this week!
Let's discuss at our Faculty Meeting on Wed.
September 8th:
The most effective teachers turn to their colleagues for advice... posted by Research Digest
September 1st: Six Ways of Building Rapport with Students - from EduTopia
Previous articles can still be found in the other bulletins.
SEL/Restorative Practice's Corner
SEL/Conscious Discipline and other important info.
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Week 5:See Behavior Specialist area above. Kim has been working hard to update our documents and forms. A Tiogue Behavior Form Google Shared Folder has been set up with the latest information. Kim has the referral folder system in place on her office door.
Some faculty and staff asked about extending our Start With Hello work-
Like I had expressed at our first meeting of the school year, PBIS, Conscious Discipline, Restorative Practices, SEL, Start With Hello, all link up nicely together - their philosophies have a common thread can be found tying all programs together.
So, the short answer is, YES! Keep the work moving forward, and share your ideas.
We can post them to this section of the newsletter.
Here is a nice video on YouTube that Alicia from Blackrock shared with her faculty/staff:
Nurse's Corner of important information
INFORMATION:
Friday 10/12/18 Dr. Gordon our school dentist will be here for dental screenings for students who have not turned in a dental card at 9am.
Please see the Coventry Schools home page for our flu clinic information.
RIDE and OSHA require all teachers to complete a Universal precaution (required), and Epi Pen (not required, but encouraged) training yearly. I will be reviewing both of these at our orientation.
For Universal Precautions:
Here is the training on RIDE where you can read through and print a certificate of completion. This is REQUIRED bloodborne pathogens training. Please sign the certificate of completion and turn it into me. I am required to keep a record of completion.
https://learn.aero.und.edu/pages.asp?PageID=163873
For Epi Pen:
Here is the link to the Epi Pen video, please cut and paste in your browser. It reviews sign and symptoms of anaphylaxis (life threatening allergy), and shows you how to administer an Epi Pen.
https://www.epipen.com/en/about-epipen/how-to-use-epipen
Thank you,
Gina D'Aguanno RN
Our Collective Commitment At Tiogue!
Tiogue Elementary School
Email: giustidomenic@coventryschools.net
Website: http://tiogueschool.squarespace.com/
Location: 170 East Shore Drive, Coventry, RI, United States
Phone: (401) 822-9460
Twitter: @domgiusti