Smoke Signals: Staff Edition
May 21-26
This week's events:
All Week: Technology Applications Exam window
Monday, 5/22:
- 8:15 - 5th Grade Talent Show
- 8:30 - Rope Bike Giveaway
- 9:15 - Seniors Serve Day
- 11:00 - Retention Meetings
- 6:00 - Board Meeting, Burkhalter attending
Tuesday, 5/23:
- 8:15 - 1st grade awards
- 9:15 - 2nd grade awards
- Retention meetings continue
Wednesday, 5/24:
- 8:15 - 3rd grade awards
- 9:15 - 4th grade awards
- 2:00 - Star Wars party, 25 students in the library
- 3:30 - Jennifer Hernandez wedding shower
Thursday, 5/25:
- 8:15 - Elephant Walk
- 8:30 - 5th grade awards
- 1:00 - Last Brave Rally - glow in the dark dance party
- Last day of school, full day
Friday, 5/26:
- 8:00 am - District Awards, Fine Arts Center, attendance required for all
Coming up next...Mark your calendars! *additions/changes in bold
May
5/30 - 8:00 am, staff meeting & work day
5/31 - Campus Based Staff Development
June:
6/1 - Curriculum Based Staff Development
6/2 - Work Day and Checkout
6/3 - WISD Ed Camp, 8-12:00, WNGA, (optional, flex time)
6/14-16 - TEPSA, Burkhalter & East, Austin, TX
6/15 - Last day for: East, Taylor, Bigler, Stifle
July -
6/30 - 7/14 - Burkhalter off campus
New STAAR report card
Schedule for the week of May 30...more details
Tuesday, 5/30-
- 8:00 staff meeting
- 9:00-4:00 work in rooms, checkout sheet, etc.
- Lunch on your own.
- SSI, ARD, & 504 meetings
Wednesday, 5/31
- 8:00 - 11:00 staff meeting, campus based sessions presented by representatives from each grade level
- 1:00 - 4:00 - finish sessions and work in rooms.
- SSI, ARD, & 504 meetings.
Thursday, 6/1
- District staff development sessions. Staff members may sign up for sessions for the whole day. Time not spent in sessions is work time in your rooms.
- Lunch on your own
Friday, 6/2
- Checkout and go home! Mrs. Burkhalter will begin signing checkout sheets at 9:00 am. When your checkout process has been completed and you have given the form to Mrs. Burkhalter, you may leave for the day.
- Possible SSI, ARD, & 504 meetings
Textbook Audit
Place these items on your back counter:
- DRA Kits
- Phonics Lessons, Kidergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade
- The Comprehension Toolkit (Harvey), Grade 3-5
- The Continuum of Literacy Learning (Fountas & Pinnell) One copy per grade level assigned to GLL
- Leveled Literacy Intervention, all items returned to the LLI kits and missing items reported to Mrs. Bearden.
- First Steps in Math couse book
- First Steps in Math, vol. 1
- First Steps in Math, vol. 2
- Thinking Maps Teacher binder
- Thinking Maps posters
- extra consumables
- all student textbooks
- all teacher editions
- all teacher extra materials, big books, boxes, envision materials, etc.
See Mr. East for questions!
Dress Code for May 22-26
Friday - May 26 - Please wear jeans and this year's shirt...Live, Love, Braves...to the district awards ceremony.
Retention Meetings this week...
Plan to bring the following data to the meeting:
- Evidence of failing grades
- documentation of attendance - can be run from the skyward profile.
- Data to support placement or retention.
- Eduphoria form should be completed down to the section about the meeting.
Who will attend the meetings?
- Parent(s)
- Burkhalter
- Taylor
- Teacher
For questions, contact Mrs. Burkhalter
Seniors Serve Day
To prepare, you can think of things that they could do to help out in your room and think of open ended questions that get them talking about the grit and determination to do well in high school.