Monday Memo
March 9-13
12 Weeks to a Full Heart: 2X10 Challenge
2X10 Challenge
As we are working on building relationships with our 2X10 student, find a place where you can jot down quick notes about your student and what you are learning about them through these conversations. Even highlight changes that you may be seeing or new things that you may be noticing. These notes don't have to be long, just take 1-2 minutes to jot down your noticings for the week. :)
Touch a heart, teach the mind. A New Year’s Challenge for all educators.
(We already have a jump start to the weekly challenges as we have already picked a student. Remember to check in with your 2X10 student 2 minutes a day for the next 13weeks.)
Weekly Challenges
10-Reflect on THAT CHILD’s accomplishments. Remember the goals you set on week three…get that card out…how are we looking? Share these goals at Parent-Teacher Conferences!
11-Share THAT CHILD with your team…how have they changed- talk with your teammates about how this child has changed in your classroom. If you are not seeing improvements, let’s talk and see what we can do differently.
12-Send THAT CHILD a card. There are some in the lounge if you need one, or better yet….make one yourself! Put it in school mail with the home address and our school address as the return address. I bet this will brighten their evening. Remember to give a little positive encouragement about something SPECIFIC that they have improved on this semester! Have they achieved any of their goals?
13- CELEBRATE THAT CHILD! Take a selfie with that child. Add the picture of the name you wrote down on week one. Have you made a difference? Add the changes you experienced below! Send me the selfie!
Congratulations, you made it! It is SPRING TIME!
Touch a heart; teach a mind!
Shout Outs
Thank Yous and Staff Appreciations
- Thank you to Kristi Fellows and all of our paras and specials teachers for helping tape me up to the wall! It was a big hit!
- Thank you again to our car line and bus duty staff. You are appreciated for helping get our kiddos safely out of the building and home! Early release Fridays always add an extra special dose of fun, so I appreciate everyone's flexibility and support on these ALL HANDS ON DECK kind of days!
- Special shout out to all of our staff spending extra time going to get their masters. This is a lot of extra work and time away from your families!
- Positive Ripples: As part of PBIS, we will be using these rocks to recognize staff members that are Championing for our students or modeling how to SOAR. Take a look at the rocks in the basket-take a rock, leave a rock for someone exhibiting the trait on the rock and write them a short note on a sticky note. If you receive a rock, write your initials on the rock and then pass the rock on or find a different rock to pass on.
March is Reading Month
- Mondays-Facebook Read Alouds @ 7:00 p.m.
- Friday the 13th: Wear your favorite sport's team shirt or colors to kick-off the March Madness book bracket
- Friday the 20th: One School One book-Wear black and white for the kick-off
- Friday the 27th: Wear sunglasses and bring a beach towel for independent reading
Check out this website that will narrate books in different languages for students: https://www.uniteforliteracy.com/
Monday, Mar 2, 2020, 08:45 AM
AES
Star Progress Monitoring for Grades 1st thru 5th
Star Progress Monitoring Window-Feb. 10-28
Monday, Mar 9, 2020, 08:30 AM
AES
Spring Parent-Teacher Conferences-Monday the 9th and Wednesday the 11th
If you would like me to attend a conference or hover outside your door, please enter the conference time, student’s name, and your name into the document linked here. I will do my best to attend as many as possible.
Please make a master list of your conferences and submit to the office asap.
If you do not know how to find out who has signed up for conferences, please come see me, and I can show you how to pull up these names.
Dinner will be provided by PTC!
Parent Teacher Conference Attendance Data-Enter in your attendance percentage here.
Monday, Mar 9, 2020, 04:00 PM
AES
5th Grade Trip to BMS
Tuesday, Mar 10, 2020, 09:00 AM
Baldwin Street Middle School
Tornado Drill
Tornado Drill Locations-Updated 2019
Art, Music, Gym, Wert, and LaLonde
Art-kiln room
Music and gym-girls' bathroom
Wert and LaLonde-boys' bathroom
LeParde, Daenzer, PreK, and 1st
DeCarlo and Pingel will go into the girls’ bathroom next to DeCarlo's rm.
Terpstra and Snider will go into the boys’ bathroom across the hall.
Classes on the left side of the hallway will walk all the way down to the T and presume the turtle position.
Classes on the right side of the hallway will walk all the way down to the T and presume the turtle position.
2nd, 3rd, resource, speech, STEAM and library
2nd grade-bathrooms in the 2nd/3rd hall
3rd grade and STEAM-outside of classrooms in hallway
Resource-blue room
Speech-green room
Library-back hallway in computer lab
4th, 5th, and Resource rooms
Resource room-paper room
Bouwens and Carr-move down by fourth grade classrooms
Karel, Lynema, Louis, and Hawks-outside of classrooms in hallway
EI and Cafeteria
Cafeteria hallway down by the T (both sides of hallway and away from glass in the cafeteria)
Wednesday, Mar 11, 2020, 01:30 PM
AES
PBIS Team Mtg
Wednesday, Mar 11, 2020, 07:45 AM
AES Conference Room
Signed IRIPs Turned Into the Office
Hi Everyone,
If you have a student with an IRIP, please follow the following procedures for giving parents the IRIP (plan) and letter. NOTE: Some IRIPs were missing information in a couple of boxes. Please print brand new IRIPs.
Pre-Conference
1) Print off the IRIP plan for the conference.
2) Print off the IRIP parent letter.
Conference
1) Give parents the IRIP parent letter.
2) Discuss the IRIP.
3) Have parents, classroom teacher, and special ed teacher sign the IRIP.
4) Parents take home the IRIP parent letter.
5) Teacher keeps the signed IRIP. Let them know that a copy will be made and filed in the student's file.
Post Conference
1) Give the signed copy of the IRIP to Kristin in the office.
2) Melanie will sign the IRIPs.
3) A copy of the signed IRIPs will be placed in the students' files.
4) The original IRIP will be sent home to parents.
Thank you everyone!
Thursday, Mar 12, 2020, 03:45 PM
AES Office
School Board Mtg
Thursday, Mar 12, 2020, 07:00 PM
Admin Building
Fire Drill
Wednesday, Mar 18, 2020, 11:00 AM
AES
Fifth Grade Career Fair
Thursday, Mar 26, 2020, 01:45 PM
AES Cafeteria
Fifth Grade M-STEP Window
Monday, Apr 20, 2020, 08:30 AM
AES
Third and Fourth Grade M-STEP Window
Monday, May 4, 2020, 08:30 AM
AES
March is Reading Month
March is Reading Month Calendar
Highlights for March:
- Monday Night Facebook Read Alouds: SIgn up to do a Facebook Read aloud! Our families love them! You can even read it with a friend...any staff member is invited to do this!
- Early Release Friday: We will kick off the day with our Alward Champion Run for February Champions. Please enter your students into the doc. We will not meet in teams or have an official assembly due to duct taping me to the wall. We will call classes down to come duct tape me in the gym. We will try to come up with a live feed for your classes to watch the action or make a video to watch after the duct taping is done!
- Friday Theme Days are listed.
- March Madness Book Bracket: Kristi Fellows will be doing a March Madness book bracket with the kiddos. They will be voting on their favorite books in PE!
- One School, One Book will kick-off on Friday, March 20th! More details coming soon about the reveal and reading schedule!
PBIS Updates
Thank you so much for the thoughtful discussion at the Feb 21 PBIS Professional Development. We hope you were able to add some strategies to your tool belt while hearing from your colleagues.
Based on the discussions that came out of that day, Heather and I have added some resources to the PBIS Notebook such as the Slides presentations, summarized strategies lists, and links to resources.
If you have any questions about this, or would like anymore information regarding the strategies that were discussed, please don't hesitate to reach out to Heather or I.
Tokens-Be intentional and pass out 5 tokens everyday! Remember, we want to recognize at least 6 positive behaviors for every behavior corrected.
-Token Party-Fill token charts twice.
Tips for a successful 2020 from Melissa, Ross and Heather.
Connect with Ross: Ross has been scheduling times to come in to work with classrooms on restorative and mindfulness practices. If you would like to do some of these practices with your classroom, please reach out to him!
Gift of Time Requests
~Please enter your request at least two weeks in advance.
~I will send you a calendar invite if that date and time works or email to let you know to pick a different date.
~I have my calendar linked to the bottom of the Monday Memo for you to check to see if I have a meeting already scheduled.
~Enjoy this time!
Links to AES Calendars
School Wide Initiatives
1. PBIS:
Electronic Behavior Referral Form-Use this doc to fill in behavior referrals.
Paper Behavior Referral Form-Use this doc when you are out on recess duty. You can give this form to the classroom teachers. Classroom teachers then turn this doc into Betsy to enter into our system.
- AES Behavior Data Slide Presentation
- Behavior Tracking Form: If you need a document to track minor behaviors or behaviors that are increasing in frequency for your own data, make a copy of this spreadsheet.
Tokens: We will be increasing the number of tokens to 84 (fill up your chart two times) to earn a token party!
- Have your class celebration! Please see the linked handout for celebration ideas and restrictions.
- Resources and support materials for PBIS
Restorative Circles
AES Champions SOAR: Recognize a student or staff member that goes the extra mile to "SOAR." You can fill out this google form or fill out a postcard in the office. Leave the filled out postcard in the mailbox in front of Kristin's desk.
AES Champions: We will choose AES Champions by drawing out one name from your PBIS tokens at the end of each month (random).
2. #aesreads: As we embark on this new school year, please help me spread the love of reading by sending me or posting pictures of reading to our Facebook page. Include the hashtag #aesreads. These pictures can include:
- students reading
- teachers reading
- staff members reading
- students or a class sharing a favorite book (book review)
These pictures can also be in or out of school. Spread the word with your families as well!
3. Reading Goals: As you walk around the school, you may have noticed the bulletin board with reading goals for this year. Our "main event" goal this year is to reach 100 million words read! As we reach 25 million words read, the whole school will earn an "event" incentive for their reading efforts that ties into our "Greatest School on Earth" theme. Let's start the year off strong and shaow the community our "reading strength."
4. Sunshine Fund Committee Update: Sunshine Fund Committee now has links in the staff notebook for Fund Guidelines and a Request Form. Please check out these two links!
5. Sharing Our Story:
- Please make sure to update your classroom blogs at least twice a month!
- If you would like to utilize ClassDojo as your main line of communication with your parents, please make sure to include a link on the main page of your blog.
- Email me when your blog is about to expire. I will upgrade it with school funds so that you do not have to do this!
6. Jean Fund Fridays
- $1/Friday
- $20/Semester
- $40/year
7. Teacher Evaluation:
- 3W Walk-thru Observation-teachers on cycle [minimum one-two per observation cycle]
- Face-to-face Mtg after 3W Walk-thru Observation-within 24-48 hrs of 3W Walk-thru
- Pivot Observation with Noticings and Wonderings-teachers on cycle [minimum one per observation cycle]
Popular Links
- Pledge Schedule-Patti's class will be kicking off the year by saying the pledge. When you class is done saying the pledge, pass the torch onto the next class listed. Thank you!
- Medical Alerts: Please pay close attention to the medical alerts for your class and grade level! We have a lot of different food allergies and severe medical needs in some classes this year.
- Peanut and Nut Free Classrooms Update: This year, all classrooms will be peanut and nut free.
- Grades/teachers with peanut/tree nut allergies include: PKB, KD, 1D, 1T, 30, 4L, 4H, 5B, 5C
- PK, KDG, and Grade 1 will have a food-free birthday treat policy.
- First grade needs to pay attention to products made in a peanut/tree nut factories. These items are not allowed for snacks. Be safe by having students wash their hands after snack with soap and water.
- Cafeteria-peanut/nut items are allowed for all grades except Ms. Terpstra's class. Students that consume peanut butter or nut products will wash their hands with soap and water or baby wipes after they eat lunch in the cafeteria. We will continue to have peanut/nut free tables.
- School Staff Absence Request Form
- Going Home Changes (End of Day Changes)
Sunshine Fund Committee Update: Sunshine Fund Committee now has links in the staff notebook for Fund Guidelines and a Request Form. Please check out these two links!
Kalpa Updates:
- Tracking IEP Mtgs, CST, Risk Assessments Slide Presentation (45 minutes or longer)
- AES Google Form for tracking IEP, CST, 504, Risk Assessments
Child Study Recommendation: If you have a child that you would like to bring to the Child Study Team, please follow the steps listed below.
- Fill out the Child Study Process Step 1 Form. Print a copy of this form and check off the strategies that you are implementing and date when you started the accommodation/intervention. Implement strategies for at least three-four weeks with fidelity
- Fill out the Child Study Process Step 2 Form. Print a copy of this form and check off the strategies that you are implementing and date when you started the accommodation/intervention. Implement strategies for at least three-four weeks with fidelity
- Submit Child Study Process Step 3 Form to schedule a CST meeting. Get parent permission to bring child to our CSTeam.
2. Drill Procedures: Review the drill procedures with your students!
3. 5D+ Updates from Anne Armstrong