Mustang Messenger
January 20th-24th
Important Dates
Monday, January 20th: MLK Day-No School
Wednesday, January 22nd: Data Teams (During Grade Level Planning)
Thursday, January 23rd: ARC Visit K, 1, 3
Friday, January 24th: Sunshine Luncheon & BINGO Night from 6-8 p.m.
Instructional Coach's Corner: Coaching Tip
Instructional Framework Focus: Planning
Create success criteria with your kiddos on classroom routines and reader engagement.
Collaborate with your teams to create success criteria for assessments.
School-Wide Goals
1. Social Emotional Learning
2. Personalized Learning
3. Writing
4. Integrating Content into Literacy
*Instructional Framework: Planning
*Building Collective Efficacy through collaboration
Parent Itslearning Session
Digital Learning Days
Make sure you know after reading the link information:
- Your online office hours
- The name of the plan that will go in your planner
- Who do YOU contact for help?
- What are the expectations for YOU?
Mustang Moment with...
Martha Greschner!
We would love to start getting to know our staff a little more in a section of Mustang Messenger called Mustang Moment. Enjoy getting to know a little bit about Martha Greschner!
1. What was your favorite childhood memory as an elementary aged kid? "My dad driving me to school everyday. While on the way to school we would practice my Spelling, so that is why today I am good at Spelling. I would have to sit on a pillow to see over the dashboard and I still own that pillow today."
2. Tell us something unique/different about yourself or your family, we might not already know. "I love to travel! I was also a Katrina victim. I ended up having 9 feet of water in my house and there was 12 feet of water on our street."
3. What is your favorite thing about working at Midway? "Getting to know so many cultures and diversity that is at Midway!"
If you would like to be part of or nominate someone for Mustang Moment, please reach out to Mr.Walkup.
Classroom Ideas....
Technology Information
Winter Themed BREAKOUTS-Let me know if you need any help or want my company. Mrs. Lundstrum
Virtual Reality is easy to implement into centers or whole group activity. Google expeditions has hundreds of VR lessons already created. Take a look at this Google Expedition list and let Lundstrum know if you want to try this in your classroom. I would be glad to come in and have a VR center with your students.
Prodigy is not on the approved list of sites on Classlink. It can not be accessed on school network.
Safety Bird Enrique
Great job w/ lock down and fire drills this past week! Some friendly reminders regarding our lock down drill. Have a great weekend!
Lockdown Protocol
Medical lockdown: Medical emergency (restrict student movement)
Code Yellow: Potential danger/high alert status
Still teaching
Doors are locked and do not cover windows at this time
Red card slipped under your door if there is an emergency or imminent danger in your classroom
E-mail Midway Office Staff immediately of the status of your classroom:
*In subject line of e-mail to Midway Office Staff include:
-Green if all students/teachers are accounted for in your class (if you have a para include their name as being clear on your e-mail)
-Red if you have missing students/staff, type the missing names in the body of the e-mail (if your class is in Specials, type Red and indicate Specials they are in)
-Yellow if you have additional students/staff, then type the names of the additional students/staff in the body of the e-mail
Code Red: Real danger/lockdown/crisis situation
You will hear an alarm over announcements
Teaching/student movement has stopped
Doors are locked and windows are covered
Students are moved away from door/windows and you are barricading doors w/ furniture
**You do not open doors for anyone (as administration/law enforcement have keys to your rooms)**
Moments of Mustang Might
Each week we want to highlight staff members who demonstrate the 7 Habits qualities.
When people make an impact on you, please share the moment so we can celebrate each other. Email Jennifer Lundstrum, Sarah LeBlanc, or Admin by Thursday at lunch time each week to highlight our teammates.
Shout Outs!
- Shout out to K, 1 and 3 teachers who have posted their conference schedules for kiddos to see! I'm proud of you for taking that one small risk!
- K-5 teachers, keep up the great work conferring with your kids! They are owning their goals and strategies!
- Kuddos to Tiffany Paterline & Cindy Arnold for a smooth start to ACCESS testing this week.
- Thank you to the Personalized Learning Team for a great day of learning on Monday's Design Day.
- Shout out to Mr. Dillon, Mr. Cunningham, & Mr. Orr for supporting our Robotics students at the competition on Monday evening at North Forsyth High School.
- Kuddos to Kristina Burt and Kelley Moree for participating in the Literacy: Hand in Hand site visit and to Sarah LeBlanc for facilitating a wonderful learning session.
- Thank you to Martha for always setting up sub coverage with a smile!
- Shout out to Eva for getting breakfast items for the ELM Awards.
- Kuddos to Susie, Al, Marina, & Derek for setting up the Cafe for the ELM Awards.
- Thank you to Jennifer Collins & Kim Driscoll for arranging our Midway Leaders for the ELM Awards.
- - We are ONE Midway! - -
Good to Know...
- Mid-year F & P reading levels are due Jan. 31st. If you would like coverage on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday for the next two weeks, please sign up on the Google Doc. We need to know coverage dates/times as soon as possible.
- Midway Meetings Calendar
- Please make sure you are updating your itslearning page consistently. This helps students get acclimated to using the platform before an inclement weather day, fosters communication with parents, and is a county expectation.