Lopat's Lowdown
Office of the Principal - Faculty Newsletter January 10th
Happy 2020! This was a long week and I was glad to see your energy and positivity with our students. Thank you for taking the time to go over classroom and school rules and helping with the transition back to school mode.
Your grades were due today. Please make sure they are accurate and updated. For future reference, if a student's grades are poor when they are posted, parents need to have been contacted, either by phone or by email (to which the parent responded). The report card is not how parents should find out their student is not performing well.
- Traditional teachers please email me back on which summer training works for Spalding 2 (June or July) so I can put it on the district's spreadsheet
- Thank you for being prepared and professional during our MTSS meetings this week
- Because we had MTSS, I will resume our grade level meetings in February
- Chick-Fil-A night is next Thursday, I plan for the Canyon Rim community to take it over!
Welcome Back!
-Joe
January Parent Newsletter
Next Week
Monday-
- B week
Tuesday- **Faculty Meeting @ 7:15**
- Club pictures (please see Bri's schedule she sent out)
- Running Club meet after school
Wednesday- Data Teams
- Writing to Learn PD (grades 3-6 in Leesa's classroom)
- Spirit Day- Crazy Socks
Thursday- Chick-Fil-A Night 5:30-7:30
- I am off campus at a principals meeting
Friday-
- Leadership Meeting @ 7:05am
Birthdays
1/15- Mayra Ritchie
1/16- Susan Watts
Instructional Strategy- Movement in the Classroom
Around the room, put up poster paper or butcher paper, each with a question written on it. The questions should be open-ended and relevant to the topic you are currently teaching. Have students silently walk around the room and write their answers on the poster paper. They are able to walk freely and should write on each poster paper more than once.
As the conversations grow, students are essentially creating a collaborative mind map with their peers. They can stem off each other’s statements and ask their own questions, or respond to another classmate’s ideas. As they return to the different discussion boards, they can see how each conversation has grown and evolved.
This activity is particularly empowering for more introverted students who may otherwise not feel as confident about sharing their opinions.
It's a work in progress...