Tiger Beat
Acton Weekly Update 4/26/19
Coach's Corner
What a busy week we have had! Thank you to everyone for all of the time and effort put into getting our kiddos prepared and ready for this testing season. I love hearing teachers talk about how the rigor and wording of the CFA assessments helped prepare their students for what they would undertake.
Thank you to everyone who shared their input on how we can tweak our CFAs for next year. It is a work in progress that we will continue to perfect.
I am in the process of making a resource library for our IAs and Related Arts teachers so that they will have an arsenal of tools to use when they push into your rooms. I will be training them in 95%, OG, and many other resources I have made for them, that way when they come into your room their work will be intentional and effective by delivering lessons to students based on the exact skills they are struggling with. I am hoping to have the "Grand Opening" at the beginning of the next school year.
The following are great resources for Daily 5. As we do away with worksheets and packets, these videos and PowerPoints will give you plenty of ideas!
Building Updates
Great first week of ILEARN Testing! Thank you to third and fourth for your flexibility and hard work!
We've completed our Million Minute Reading Log Challenge with our Students vs. Staff challenge. Staff get another JEANS WEEK this week and feel free to take your students out for an extra recess this week. Our Luau will be on May 15th. THERE WILL BE A DUNK TANK!!!!
Don't forget to fill out our volunteer appreciation form so we can buy the correct amount of gifts for our volunteers.
May 20th is the due date for your PIVOT goals.
SchoolStore Fundraiser: Our teachers were gifted $3,380 in gift cards through our SchoolStore fundraiser this year. The school earned $250 to use for Student Activities!
Counselor's Corner
20 Tips to Help De-escalate Interactions With Anxious or Defiant Students
Pro-ACT Training
Training #2 Recap
BIG Ideas:
Kids need people that love them unconditionally. Love is a powerful force and assaultive students also need love. I think one of the many things I love about Acton is how much the kids are loved by all of you.
What do we need to consider for a Primary Plan?
Knowledge for Primary Plans: relevant information of conditions with increased risk, medical history, abuse, neglect, homelessness, medication issues, cardiac conditions, pregnancy, obesity, etc.
Do we keep Primary Plans private?
We should keep confidentiality, but adults that interact with these kids need to know information that can help them respond. Knowing that they have emotional or physical trauma is enough to know: “handle with care.”
You may be that 1 person that shapes the child’s life.
How do I notice when students are starting to lose their self regulation?
Symptoms: Change in appearance, change in demeanor, change in activity level
Looking for things that move them away from their baseline. What was the change?
Primary Plan Basics
Pro-active Primary Plan:
Step 1 is always about using Assertive Communication. (We will learn more about this next Wednesday.)
Starts with an Empathic I Statement and 2 clear choices
Plan will include:
Knowledge of the client
Recognition of symptoms
Interventions to be used or avoided
Determine the baseline behavior
Notice changes in Baseline
How does Active Supervision help prevent problems?
Determine the immediate level of supervision based upon the safety needs of the client.
Routine Supervision coincides with baseline behavior.
Close Supervision usually occurs when there is a change in baseline.
Constant Supervision usually occurs when there is a high probability of immediate risk.
Next week we will hear more about Assertive Communication.
Brain Smart Start Video Training
Please let me know if you would be willing for me to film your Brain Smart Start to be used and seen by other buildings. Thank You
Ohana Calendar
ILEARN
DIBELS EOY Benchmark
Kindergarten Registration
Monday 4/29/19-
- ILEARN 3rd and 4th
AM Collaboration- Team Planning
ILEARN 3rd and 4th-Make Ups
- AM Collaboration: ProAct Training with Hillary Reid and Sarah Reaves
- ILEARN 4th and 5th
Thursday 5/2/19
- ILEARN 5th
- 4th Grade Southern Indiana Trip
- 1st Grade Field Trip
- Julie Baker's Retirement Party 4:00
Friday 5/3/19
- ILEARN -5th
Coming Soon:
April
29 DIBELS Window Opens
30 AM COllaboration: Team Focus or Guided Reading Planning
May
1 AM Collaboration: Pro Act Training
2 4th Grade Southern Indiana Field Trip; 1st Grade Field Trip / Julie’s Retirement Party 4-5:30
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5
6 Emergency Drills (PBIS PM?)
7 AM Collaboration: Team Focus/ Guided Reading Planning, PTO Meeting
8 AM Collaboration: Pro Act Training Sarah’s Baby Shower after school
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10 1st grade DIBELS Coverage Day
11 FAST FLASH! @ FC
12
13 2nd grade DIBELS Coverage Day
14 AM Collaboration: Team Focus/ EOY Collaboration; Kindergarten DIBELS Coverage Day; Kindergarten Open House 6-7 PM
15 AM Collaboration: Team Focus/ EOY Collaboration;Million Minute Luau’s during RA times, Primary- WACS assessments, Turn in Class Placement lists, Textbook money and Media Center Items
16 5th grade Field Trip
17 Assembly: Indy Air Bears; 5th grade after school Jam
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20 Field Day
21 Field Day Make Up Day/ EOY Celebration Practice during RA
22 Awards Day 1,2,3
23 Awards Day k,4,5, Report Cards completed in IC by Noon LAST DAY OF SCHOOL
24 Teacher Record Day-Transcripts in Cum Files and Summer letters completed, addressed and placed in mailing bundles.
FTCSC Hedgehog Focus
The Hedgehog Concept is based on an ancient Greek parable that states, "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." ... Hedgehogs, however, simplify the world and focus on a single, overarching vision, which they then achieve.