Guzick GOLD News
Week of 10/8/18
Dr. Davis' Quote of the Week
Guzick's 2018-2019 Key Action Items
Excellence in Instruction Spotlight
Guzick Texas Math and Science Competitors! Thank you Mr. Davidson!
Instructional Expectations for Excellence - Aggressive Monitoring
The above pictures are evidence that excellence in teaching is taking place across the campus!
Each week, I will provide reminders regarding basic instructional expectations that we have on our campus. This week, I am reminding all Guzick Giant educators to ensure that you are collecting formative assessment data of student learning through aggressive monitoring.
The expectation is that you are gathering student learning data throughout the lesson and monitoring student progress towards mastery of the posted lesson objective. Aggressive monitoring helps you to do the following:
-Make sure students are on task
-Pay attention to the quality of student responses
-Offer clarification and extend understanding
-Gauge your coverage and improve your efficiency to monitor as many students as possible
There are several aggressive monitoring resources, in particular checklists and such that assist you in gathering student data and monitoring student progress. The tool that you use doesn't matter. What matters is that you know throughout the lesson which students have mastered the lesson content and what adjustments you will make to help those who have not mastered the content.
Guzick Tiered Trackers Due - Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Grade Level DDI PLC Meetings - 10/10/18 (Wednesday)
Due to Principal for the Day on Tuesday, October 9, 2018, we will have our Data Chat PLC meetings on Wednesday, October 10, 2018. The meetings will take place in Room D106, 5 minutes after the start of your designated planning time. The agenda for the meeting is attached to this email.
Please be prepared for the meeting by doing the following:
- Review the agenda.
- Bring student work samples separated in a High, Medium, and Low stack from a DOL with the lowest percentage passing from the prior week.
- Bring your CIA binder and lesson planning documents (instructional planning calendar) which may include your laptops.
REMINDER: Individual Restroom Breaks
REMINDER: Timeliness
Upcoming Events/Reminders
Penny War School wide Charity Continues - Monday, October 8, 2018! Let's encourage our students to contribute to a very worthy cause - The Family Place.
- Book Fair - Monday, October 8, 2018 - Thursday, October 11, 2018.
- Staff Meeting - Monday, October 8, 2018 @3:30pm.
- Principal for the Day - The Guzick Family and Coach Mayo will be in attendance - Tuesday, October 9, 2018.
- Guzick Intervention Tutoring - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - Wednesday, October 10, 2018. NO TUTORING - Thursday, October 11, 2018 due to Parent Conferences.
- Data Chat PLC Meetings - Wednesday, October 10, 2018.
- Walkthrough Wednesday - Wednesday, October 10, 2019.
- Report Cards and State Fair Tickets Issued to Students - Wednesday, October 10, 2018.
- SBDM - Thursday, October 11, 2018 @3:30pm.
- Parent Conferences - Thursday, October 11, 2018 @4pm - 7pm.
- Elementary Fair Day - No School for Students and Staff - Friday, October 12, 2018.
On the Horizon
- No PLC Meetings - Tuesday, October 16, 2018.
- PBIS/SST Meeting - Tuesday, October 16, 2018 @3:30pm.
- Extended Planning Day (3rd Grade) - Tuesday, October 16, 2018.
- Guzick Intervention Tutoring - Tuesday, October 16, 2018 - Thursday, October 18, 2018.
- Walkthrough Wednesday - Wednesday, October 17, 2018.
- Guzick Dollar Denim Day - Wednesday, October 17, 2018.
- Extended Planning Day (4th Grade) - Wednesday, October 17, 2018.
- Donuts with Dads - Thursday, October 18, 2018 @7:00am.
- Extended Planning Day (5th Grade) - Thursday, October 18, 2018.
- Differentiated PD (AM)/Work Day (PM) - Friday, October 19, 2018.
Frank Guzick Elementary School
Email: aandrus@dallasisd.org
Website: www.dallasisd.org/guzick
Location: 5000 Berridge Lane, Dallas, TX, United States
Phone: 972-502-3900
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Twitter: @GuzickES