Malabar Weekly Updates
March 28-April 1, 2022
Mindful Monday, March 28
Cesar Chavez Day-No School
Grati-Tuesday, March 29
Student Dismissal at 1:30 p.m.
9:00-10:00 a.m. 3rd Grade Breakthrough Meeting
10:00 a.m. Parent Workshop
1:30-2:00 p.m. Mr. Garibay's Baby Shower
1:40-2:40 p.m. Tuesday PD Zoom Link: https://lausd.zoom.us/j/83150497227
Wellness Wednesday, March 30
12:00-2:30 p.m. SSPT
Thoughtful Thursday, March 31
Visual Arts Teacher-K. Ng
Visitors from Boyle Heights Community of Schools-Literacy Academies
1:15-2:30 p.m. Movie Incentive-Auditorium-Selected Classrooms
Springboard Intervention 4:00-4:30 on Zoom
Springboard Parent Workshop: 4:30-5:30 on zoom
Fun Friday, April 1
8:00-3:00 p.m. COVID Mobile Testing Unit-Auditorium
College Spirit Day-Wear a college T-shirt!
Promotion Pictures for 6th Grade
Progress Monitoring Day (Strategic or Benchmark)-How are students responding to our instruction?
9:00-10:00 a.m. BH Operations Meeting-M. Gutierrez
2:00-2:25 p.m. Student Council
Upcoming Dates to Remember
March 7-May 13 Physical Fitness Testing Window-5th Grade
March 1-April 22 Summer School Teacher Application Window
Saturday, April 2 Cesar Chavez Beautification Day 9:00-12:00 p.m.
April 11-15 Spring Break
Saturday, April 23-Teacher PD/Planning 9:00-12:00 p.m.
Updates from our Intervention Coordinator-Vanessa Chavez
Springboard Intervention
We are on week 3 of Springboard Intervention, and its an exciting week. On Thursday, March 31st, we will have our 1st Parent Workshop at 4:30pm (On zoom). If your students (K-3rd) participates in this intervention, please remind your parents about their 1st Parent Workshop. If they have any questions, have them call the school and Irma will assist.
Reminders from our Intervention Coordinator-Lisa Martinez
Hello Teachers,
On Thursday, March 31st we will have visitors from our Boyle Heights Community of Schools-Local District East. We will be walking through classrooms during your Literacy Academies. They want to observe differentiated small group instruction. We have been asked to accompany them during their walks, which means we will not be able to pull-out students on that day. But the expectation is to still see that small group instruction happening. Please also have your Groups posted with the area of Focus they are working on. Thank you for all your hard work in Literacy Academy instruction. Please see me with any questions. We are here to support our students!
A Message from the Title III Instructional Coach-Ricardo Melendez
Reminders from our TSP Advisor-Juan Carrillo
Hello Malabar Teachers, happy women's history month to everyone.
3-6th Grade IABs: This week we continue our second round of IAB administration. You should have completed your ELA IAB last Friday so your results will be ready when we conduct our data analysis during Tuesday's PD. This week we continue with our math IAB performance task administration.
I know some of your students might take a long time completing the assessment so if you need support I can take them for a while after lunch. Just check in with me first as my schedule can be hectic or sometimes I substitute.
ELPAC testing: Please continue to work on your moodle course and complete your ELPAC summative training. Once you are done, please turn in your certificate so I can prepare your testing materials. We will be providing some coverage for you to support you with testing in April. Our ELPAC testing window goes until May 18th but remember that K-2 writing booklets are due earlier (two weeks). Please reach out with any concerns you might have or if you are having any testing issues.
EL and RFEP monitoring: Finally, I placed English Learner Rosters in your box along with a memo with some guidance in annotating your EL rosters. I sent you all the details in an email as well. This will be the last time we will annotate EL or RFEP letters this year.
There is a lot going on and I want to do my best to support you so please don't hesitate to ask questions or ask for help. Thank you Malabar!
COVID Updates
- As a reminder, masks are optional in the classroom and on the playground but they are strongly recommended. A few of our parents, do not want their child wearing a mask. Please be respectful of everyone's decision on mask wearing. Please ask the child if they would like a mask but it is not mandatory.
- Some of our students that tested positive in January are completing their 90-day exclusion from weekly testing. Please make sure you review your class roster. If the student becomes eligible to test and does not test on Friday, they will be disallowed on Monday.
- I will be conducting random Daily Pass checks for all employees. There were 4 employees that did not generate a Daily Pass on Thursday. Even if you do not get your Daily Pass scanned, generating the Daily Pass will count. Please make sure you generate a Daily Pass every time you come onto a District site. The front desk and Main Office can scan your Daily Pass. We are also scanning from 7:30-8:00 a.m. near K1 every morning.
- In preparation for the return of staff and students from Spring break, everyone will be given a rapid antigen test the week of April 4. Everyone will need to take the antigen test 48 hours before returning on Monday, April 18. If the test is negative, you will report to school. If you are positive, you will upload the test onto the Daily Pass Dashboard and stay home.
The safety of all staff and students continues to be a high priority for everyone. Please follow all protocols and together we will help each other stay safe.
Edulastic CFA #1 and CFA #2
- Provide daily practice where students can use targeted math vocabulary
- Look to see where in the modules, teachers will be able to reteach some of the focus standards
- Incorporate more opportunities for students to count sequentially, choral count, and counting collections
- Provide more opportunities for small group instruction within the math block
- Unpack word problems
- Use more manipulatives to help build conceptual understanding
- Practice referring to anchor charts in the classroom to help build connections for students.
- Do a pre-assessment to organize small group instruction.
- Expose students to a daily IAB math question at the beginning of math instruction
- Review math framework looking at examples and misconceptions
- Expose students to charts and tables and how to use the information to help solve problems.
- Review vocabulary to help build conceptual understanding
- Having a conversation on stamina-no giving up on tests
We learn from assessments. The important thing when looking at data are the instructional implications. Please take from your colleagues ideas and implement one thing that may or may not make a difference. We can't give up as a staff. We can do this Malabar!
Progress Monitoring on Fridays
Focus on Classroom Observations-Standard 3: Delivery of Instruction
As we visit classrooms, we will be focusing on the following two elements:
3b2. Discussion Techniques and Student Participation Techniques are used to ensure that all students share their thinking around challenging questions
Effective Practice: Teacher uses intentional, differentiated strategies to engage all students in discussion, attempting gradual release from teacher-directed to student initiated conversation. Students participate in intellectually challenging discussions.
3c1. Standards-Based Projects, Activities and Assignments Standards-aligned learning activities cognitively engage students in the lesson
Effective Practice: Instructional projects, activities and assignments are aligned to the instructional standards, require higher levels of thinking, are culturally relevant, and may include real-world application. Most students are cognitively engaged, constructing their own understanding and exploring content. The learning activities are differentiated, as necessary, to meet the learning needs of student subgroups.
This week the focus will be on Literacy Academies. Our instructional expectations for literacy academies are the following:
- Teacher will be working with a small group of students targeting a specific skill.
- Students should be grouped by target skill.
- Progress monitoring should be evident.
- Independent work should support target skill for the student.
- Students should be using online platforms to monitor student comprehension and increase fluency such as ReadWorks, Raz kids, Amplify Reading, ReadTheory.
Please reach out to Lisa or Vanessa for any assistance.
Feedback from Observations:
- Kindergarten has been organizing Literacy Academies as a grade level. Ms. Venzor has the Above Benchmark and Benchmark students; Ms. Jauregui has some Benchmark and Strategic Students and Ms. Romero has Strategic and all the Intensive students. They have organized Literacy Academies since September with the assistance of our Intervention teachers and teacher assistants. This organization helps teachers to focus on the targeting skills. Let's support our students with this organization-especially in first and second grade.
- With the intervention teachers focusing on intensive students, the classroom teacher still needs to provide the other groups in her class "what they need". Reviewing comprehension strategies in small group instruction is essential for our students not just a focus on fluency.
- Progress Monitoring-what information do you gather during the week to help you adjust instruction for students? Data can be collected from online platforms, teacher made assessments or teacher observations.
- We are trying to develop a time when the intervention teachers can have a quick data chat with each teacher to review progress monitoring data and lesson plans for small group instruction.
Cesar Chavez Campus Clean-up and Beautification
I know that you already give so much to Malabar but on this day, we will come together as a community to make Malabar a better place for all of us to work and learn. We have designated the following projects:
Eco Learning Center-Facilitator: Alma Marquez
Playground Clean-up-Facilitator-Camerina Limon
Front of School/Auditorium-Andy Herrera
STEAM Letters Mural-Margarita Gutierrez
Bushes by Building 3-Ines Castro
Please join one of these teams and let's beautify our school. If there are any other projects you have in mind, please share.
Safety Reminders-Boulder Parking Lot Gate
Malabar Street ES
Email: margarita.gutierrez@lausd.net
Website: https://malabar.schoolloop.com
Location: 3200 Malabar Street, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Phone: (323) 261-1103