Maude Saunders Newsletter
Week of November 12, 2019
At Maude Saunders, we are...
One School
One Team
with One Mission:
EXCELLENCE A+
Goals:
- Have a positive mindset each day toward students, parents, & staff.
- Build team efficacy through collaboration.
- Create a school culture reflecting excellence in ourselves and our students.
- Build cognitive capacity in our students through high expectations.
Mission & Vision:
To be a place where all students succeed and achieve to their maximum potential with a curriculum that is a dynamic response to each student's needs.
Vision:
Maude Saunders Elementary School will create and sustain a school climate that encourages student success.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Thought for the Week - Building Relationships
Differentiated Accountability: We are proudly educating 542 future leaders.
Preventing and Solving Discipline Problems - We will be exploring behavioral strategies each week, including how to deal with challenging students.
- Positive teacher-student relations
- Clearly defined parameters of acceptable student behaviors
- Monitoring skills
- Consequences
- Good, strong content instruction
INSTRUCTIONAL FOCUS - Deliberate Practice
What to bring to the meeting? Lesson Plan Book
How will the meeting look?
- I will have Baseline Edge open on my computer.
- You will log into Baseline Edge on another computer.
- We will review your Deliberate Practice Goals and Progress Points and make any revisions at that time.
- You will sign your DP and I will sign your DP
- Once the DP is complete, we will look at your lesson plans together.
Professional Development Updates
Who: All 5th Grade Math Teachers – Geometry
What: Grade 5 and Secondary Math PD
When: December 5 from 8am-3pm
Where: CHAT Center (555 Walton Road, DeFuniak Springs, FL 32433)
Top 10 Achievement Boosters For Students ©2016 Eric Jensen
4. BRIDGES
WHAT THIS MEANS: Just to survive, teachers must make an enormous number of assumptions. For example, you assume that if a student does XYZ, they will get suspended. But you have a lifetime of learning the “rules of the game.” Your students are generally terrible at making the “mental bridges” that link X behavior with Y outcomes. For example, when they put out extra effort, they don’t know that it sets the trend for a lifelong habit of persistence. Attribution, linking what they do to what they get or will get in the future turns out to have a sky-high effect size of 1.42 (Dweck, 1999). This is just a minor bit of extra work, but it pays off big time!
HOW TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN: Once you have high goals in place (very high) or you have elicited student dreams, you now have something to link classroom academics and behaviors with as an attribution. This link can be made visually (graphic organizers, arrows or with a flow chart) or make verbally. When you see a student working extra hard, you simply say, “Eric (or Erica), I love how you’re putting extra effort into your assignment. That shows grit and that will help you get that job you were thinking of as a software developer (or whatever it was).” If you don’t make these EVERY DAY, kids will never know what they did, that helps move their life forward. This is a constant effort; without it, students simply do not connect the dots. Is that what you want?
From the desk of our own Krisy Spence
Title 1 funds at MSE are typically used to provide resource teachers, interventionists, ESP’s, trainings, substitutes for trainings, curriculum, resources, manipulatives, planners, communication folders, classroom supplies and much more. Decisions about how to spend Title 1 funds are made with input from parents and the School Advisory Council. If you have a suggestion for use of Title 1 funds, let me know!
Math Tips from Mrs. Lathinghouse
Planning Debrief:
The debrief part of a Eureka Math lesson is often eliminated by teachers due to time constraints. However, this is an important part of the lesson as it allows for critical thinking and reflection from students. You can select specific questions from the lesson, create your own questions to ask, OR incorporate debrief questions into your Concept Development as you teach.
Important Information
- December Faculty Meeting: Please change the December Faculty Meeting to Tuesday, December 4th at 3:00. The SIP Goal Committee Meeting has been changed to December 10th.
- Review Proposed Standards: In a Just Read, Florida! presentation yesterday, they boiled the most significant proposed changes in the new standards to the items listed below. Please review the standards and submit feedback through this link: https://www.floridastandardsreview.org/
- Skyward: Anyone that has submitted TDE into Skyward must upload an attachment (agenda, email requesting you attend, etc.). If you did not do this, please go back and upload your attachment. NOTE: You do NOT have to submit TDE into Skyward for trainings we have on our campus. This was just clarified at my Principals' Meeting. So for our Data Chats, you do NOT have to upload an attachment.
- Comp Time: Please do NOT enter comp time for Faculty Meetings. Loveta will enter Faculty Meeting Comp Time into Skyward for all that attend. If you leave early, make sure you write the time you leave by your name. Also, please remember that comp time must be pre-approved. For parent meetings, please upload an attachment to indicate the time-frame in which the conference was held.
- Lesson Plans: Please make sure your lesson plans are on your desk and accessible each day. I may need to refer to them when doing a walk-through.
- FOCUS: Please keep your grades updated and make sure your grades are standards-based and you have the correct number of grades per the SPP.
- Parent Communication: How are the positive phone calls home progressing?
- Safety: Please keep all classroom doors locked.
- Attendance: Attendance should be completed by 8:30 a.m.
- Transportation Notes: Please make sure these are sent to the front office no later than 8:30 a.m. Also, make sure transportation notes are picked up from your box before dismissal.
- Principals Meeting: I will be out on Thursday, 11/14/19. If you need me, text me or email me.
Calendar Additions:
NOTE: Please let Mrs. Bonnie know if you have events that need to be added to the master calendar. Ms. Bonnie will begin this week entering what we have on the master calendar so far.