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Every child. Every day. Whatever it takes!
February 14, 2020
The Moreau Heights family is committed to providing a positive and safe learning environment to support responsible and productive citizens.
Our Vision
Moreau Heights is a school where students are eager to learn and where staff are excited to teach. Students are successful at Moreau Heights in growing and meeting personal and academic goals. Teachers are innovative and a collaborative team. We are a family of learners and a community of great achievers!
Character Trait for February- Honesty
Morning Meeting Lessons
PBIS has prepared the slideshow for next week during morning meeting. Please remember to continue with the structure below. Monday you will choose your own activity, Tuesday and Thursday will be Second Steps and Wednesday and Friday will be PBIS.
- Greeting
- Share
- Activity (this will be PBIS lessons on Wednesday and Friday)
- Message
Morning Meeting Lessons:
Shannon will send an email with the link.
Calendar of Events
Monday, Feb. 17
*No School - President's Day
Tuesday, Feb. 18
*Lit mtgs grades 1, 3, 5
*KH IEP and reeval 9:10
*Talent Show Rehearsal 3-4:30
*Leadership Team mtg 3:00 in library
*Dawn out in am
Wednesday, Feb. 19
*Marty here all day observing
*2nd grade doing Otis Lennon testing
*PLC training (Albers, Gaines, Reece, Haugen)
*Marty with specials and sped 7:15-8:10 in library
*LH IEP (Day, Cowan, Johnson) Day's Office @ 8:30
*AT IEP (Day, Farmer, Humphreys, Rackers, Steuber ) Gann's Office 9:15
*Faculty Mtg 3:05-4:05 (Marty to present)
Thursday, Feb. 20
*2nd grade doing Otis Lennon testing
*Lit team mtgs grades K, 2, 4
*Tier 2/3 mtg 3:00 in library
*Talent Show 6:00 pm
Friday, Feb. 21
*Parent Volunteer Here (Ritchie Conley)
*AD IEP mtg (Williams, Haugen/Day, Gragg) 9:05
* Fire Drill 10:00 am
* SWECC transition mtg (Haugen, Gorman, Humphreys, Connelly) 1:00
*CN IEP (Day, Gorman, Gragg, Williams) 3:00
Monday, Feb. 24
*Dawn and Sue at Principal mtg 12-2
*Deliver Student of Character yard signs 5:00
Tuesday, Feb. 25
* Data teams for grades 1, 3, 5
* Lit Cadre kindergarten in am/2nd grade in pm
* Popcorn Sales Begin
Wednesday, Feb. 26
* Dawn at Lit Training
* Parent Volunteer Here (Dan Chojnacki)
* AF IEP (Sexton, Lock, Kerr, Humphreys, Haugen) 8:10
* DM IEP (Farmer, Haugen, Rackers, Cremin, Ewing) 10:50
* KS IEP (Cowan, Boeckman, Haugen) 2:00
* MO RED (Streicher, Kliethermes, Gorman, Lock Ewing) 3:00
* District Wellness Team in library to help with CHRA completion (part of health screening) 3:00
Thursday, Feb. 27
* Data teams for grades k, 2, 4
* 5th grade music recruitment session at Miller Center 9-10:30
* Baby Shower for Steinman @ Schell's 4-6
Friday, Feb. 28
* Basketball Players Here
* Charger Cart
* PBS Assemblies - 8:15 for grades 3-5, 9:30 for grades k-2
* Kelly out after 11:30
* Shannon out after 1:30
Have a concern to share?
- talk to the person directly about your concern
- talk to Sue or Dawn about your concern
- talk to a Leadership Team member to have them bring your concern to Leadership Team for discussion
- complete the Suggestion/Concern form below to be reviewed and discussed at Leadership Team meeting
Our Data Updates
Behavior Goals and Data
Current reduction - 54%
February of 18/19 - 58
August -February 18/19 - 462
February of 19/20 - 14
August -January 19/20 - 213
Students will earn 350 positive office referrals by May 21, 2020.
Students have earned 121 positive office referrals
Feedback and Area of Focus from Marty
Attendance Goals and Data
87.4% of 2/13
Academic Goals and Data
- 171 of our students made at least half of their typical growth on their January assessment.
- During our initial testing 22% of our students were on grade level. During this testing 42% of our students are on grade level.
- Approximately 55% of our student made at least half of their typical growth goal.
- Approximately 38% of our students made at least half of their STRETCH Goal
Reading testing - Sept. 2019
Reading testing - Jan. 2020
Reading testing for all grades Jan. 2020
50% of our students on level based on April iReady assessment data, increasing from 44% of our students on level in math in April 2019 .
Math testing - Sept. 2019
Math testing - Jan. 2020
Math testing for all grades Jan. 2020
Curriculum Feedback Wanted
- Do we need to rearrange the sequence of lessons?
- Do you need additional resources?
- Do we need to review specific resources used?
- Do we need clarification about expectations with a resource?
Help For Billy Book Study
Chapter 9- Teachers - 4th grade
Chapter 10 - Homework - 5th grade
Look forward to discussing new learning with you!
Shout Outs for Staff
Thank you Michelle Humphreys for sharing your passion for and knowledge of AAC with our Life Skills teams!
Thank you to Dawn, Heather, Doug and Shannon to keeping things on track while I was as the reading conference!
Thank you to Nurse Judy for taking such good care of our sick kiddos, and staff :-(
Thank you to those who volunteered to help with Talent Show tryouts. Looked like some great talents for our Chargers to show next week!
Dawn's Dish
Top 5 Strategies for Motivating Students
- Promote growth mindset over fixed mindset. Teaching students that they 'just don't know it yet.' Check out Carol Dweck's book for more.
- Develop meaningful and respectful relationships with students. If we are going to truly inspire and motivate all of our students, we should know each of them on a personal level.
- Grow a community of learners in your classroom. Students need a classroom environment where they feel safe, and are willing to take risks and struggle.
- Establish high expectations and establish clear goals. Setting high expectations and supporting students as they struggle allows learners to rise to meet those expectations.
- Be inspirational. Inspirational teachers represent success to their students.
For more information, check out the whole article here.
Five Intentions to Foster Immersive Reading
- Prioritize Time - Setting aside intentional time for immersive reading each day during literacy signals its importance to children.
- Feel the Story - Teaching students that while you are reading, you want them to pay attention to words and sentences that spark feelings for them. Take time to discuss these.
- Consider Environment - Creating an environment that engages the senses to slow down is important.
- Invite Conversation and Interaction - Create opportunities for students to talk about books with their peers and adults.
- Honor Choice - Let students have choice in the books they read, even if it's not on their level, it's okay.
Resource Schedule
If you have not received your schedule for your student, please let Joe, Jessica, me, or Sue know right away.
Passes
Next week you will have a lesson to do during morning meeting that covers going to the location they are being sent to and coming straight back without any stops.
In addition, please make sure you are using the following procedures when sending students out.
- Restroom - Stand at the door and monitor students going down and coming back to make sure they are not going anywhere else. Talk to your students about using the restroom that is closest to your classroom.
- Library - Can they check out a book for the classroom library instead? Jill is not always in there or it may not be a time she is free to check out a book to them.
- Nurse - Please only send situations where a student is truly ill. Nurse Judy is seeing a lot of students multiple times a day for things that are not really anything she can help. For example: band-aide, loose teeth, tiredness, etc. There is very little that we can do for most things. If you think they have a fever, they are bleeding, they are vomiting, they have hit their head; definitely send them. If you have a student that is asking you go go multiple times a day, please contact their parents about concerns.
- Office - We are seeing an increase in students sent to the office asking for copies of things. While we understand being short a copy or two here and there, we are having things sent up and asking for whole class sets. The office is extremely busy and they really do not have time to make copies of things. Please make sure this is being taken care of during your plan time. Please do not send students up that say they need to come talk to the office. Ask them what they need, to determine if they really need to go up. We have several that are coming up and asking to call home. Why do they need to call home?
If I Have Extra Students...
If we have a student for ISS:
- They sit in the office during specials
- They have lunch in the office
- They sit in the office during recess
- They dismiss with YOUR class, following your classes normal dismissal routine
If we have a student(s) because a class was split:
- They go to specials with YOUR class
- They eat lunch with YOUR class
- They go to recess with YOUR class
- They can help in your classroom IF they finish the work from their classroom
- They dismiss with YOUR class, following your classes normal dismissal routine
If you have any additional questions, please let me or Sue know.
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@Dr_D_Day (Me)
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February Attendance Bracket
Kelly's Coaching Korner
Committee Updates
PBIS Team Notes - February
Faculty Council Notes - January
Title I Notes - December
District PD Notes - February
School Culture - February