Clif Notes 9/17/18
50 Years Of Equipping The State & Now Global Workforce!
DATES TO REMEMBER
This Week
Monday - Class Internet Safety Presentations
Tuesday - CTE PLCs
Wednesday - Academic PLCs; Extra Help
Thursday - Academic PLCs; PARENT NIGHT-6:30 pm
Snow Day Meeting 3:15 pm - 4: 15 pm
Friday - School Spirit & ROAR Committee Meetings
Upcoming:
9/22 - Governor's Construction Career Expo at Chase Center-Riverfront
9/28 - Faculty Tailgate; District Unity Day; Steering Committee Mtg
10/1-4 Spirit Week
Upcoming Delcastle CTE Meeting
Snow Days!!!!
Want to earn your first snow hour? NCCVT is beginning the process of earning and banking “snow” hours. All teachers/paras are invited to come to a one-hour training on the snow hour process. Please note attendance is voluntary as the meeting is taking place from 3:15-4:15 PM. This is not a mandatory training. If you are a teacher or para and you want to learn more about snow hours, please attend the training session led by Terri Villa on September 20th in the auditorium.
Parking Spot Raffle
The Spirit Committee will be selling raffle tickets for the amazing Teacher of the Year parking spot for First Semester!
Tickets are $1 each or $5 for an arm’s length.
See Tina Horgan in C107 or Janet Gantert in C004.
Tickets will be on sale from September 17th-September 28th
The winner will have the spot starting October 1st.
Good luck!
Staff Pizza Meet & Greet
Parent Night
Parent Night
Below are some other tips that are helpful for conducting a successful Parent Night:
· Greet parents as they come into your class!!!
· Have a sign in sheet available for parents:
Parent name/Student name/ Email/ Phone Number
· Make the classroom/ career area inviting and reflective of the great work being accomplished. Make sure your classroom celebrates Cougar Achievement (class work, news article, etc).
· Be enthusiastic—people have a tendency to remember body language and tone more than words.
· Have your name, school number, extension, and email on the board.
· Have course descriptions and syllabi available if parents want them.
· Always thank parents for attending and remind them of the important role they play in their child’s education.
*Please let your supervisor know in the event that you are unable to attend parent night. We ask that you leave a note on your door that contains your contact information and a place for parents to leave their information if follow up is needed.*
Things to Remember
Presenters Needed
The NCCVT third Annual Tech Conference is on October 5th at St. Georges. Want to present what you know or what you have learned about the use of tech in your classroom? Please sign up to be a presenter – you get a free t-shirt too!
Grade Book Reminder
Emergency Lesson Plans
Annual Staff & Family Tailgate
Discipline Corner -Browning & Hollis
Dress Code: As the year progresses please remember all student should be in dress code. If a student is out of dress code, please refer the student to the Student Advisors’ Office. (Student parent handbook pg. 23-24)
If you are uncomfortable or if you are in question about a student’s dress; some quick statements to tell students are:
- “I am not sure if that outfit is in dress code, can you go to Student Advisors office to get cleared?”
- “The outfit you have on is not in dress code please report to SAO for clearance.”
- Make the call! Call your parents early with a positive phone call. The first contact is always easier when it’s positive.
Read more about contacting parents here- Ed Week article link
http://blogs.edweek.org/topschooljobs/careers/2017/07/classroom_management_and_disci.html
We need your help too! Stand in your doorway at the change of classes to monitor students. The data shows that students get into trouble more often during a transition.
o Link for- Study finds supervision in hallways is effective
Focus
Teaching the Core Skills of Listening & Speaking - By Erik Palmer
Listening and Speaking in Life Beyond School
Listening and Speaking in Instruction for Students with Disabilities
Consider these sobering statistics from the National Council on Disability (2004): more than 40 percent of U.S. secondary-age students with disabilities do not attain a high school diploma at the end of high school, and dropout rates for youth with disabilities are three to four times higher than for students without disabilities. To what extent does this reflect the failure of one-size-fits-all instruction to meet the needs of these students?
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a promising avenue for ensuring that every student in our schools can access content and demonstrate understanding. UDL takes its cue from the universal design movement in architecture—the idea of which was to make physical environments accessible for everyone. The classic example is the curb cut: equally beneficial to people in wheelchairs, parents pushing strollers, cyclists, delivery people with hand trucks, individuals with mobility issues, and your run-of-the-mill pedestrian.
UDL is guided by three principles:
Principle I: Provide Multiple Means of Representation
Learners differ in the ways that they perceive and comprehend information that is presented to them. For example, those with sensory disabilities (e.g., blindness or deafness); learning disabilities (e.g., dyslexia); language or cultural differences; and so forth may all require different ways of approaching content. Others may simply grasp information quicker or more efficiently through visual or auditory means rather than printed text.
Principle II: Provide Multiple Means of Action and Expression
Learners differ in the ways that they can navigate a learning environment and express what they know. For example, individuals with significant movement impairments (e.g., cerebral palsy), those who struggle with strategic and organizational abilities (executive function disorders), those who have language barriers, and so forth approach learning tasks very differently. Some may be able to express themselves well in written text but not speech, and vice versa. …
Principle III: Provide Multiple Means of Engagement
Affect represents a crucial element to learning, and learners differ markedly in the ways in which they can be engaged or motivated to learn …. Some learners are highly engaged by spontaneity and novelty while others are disengaged, even frightened, by those aspects, preferring strict routine. Some learners might like to work alone, while others prefer to work with their peers. In reality, there is not one means of engagement that will be optimal for all learners in all contexts; providing multiple options for engagement is essential. (CAST, 2011, p. 5) [emphasis added]
How do the principles of UDL connect to the topic of this book? High-stakes testing has had the effect of focusing instructional intention on reading and writing (assessed subjects). UDL reminds us to consider how else students might access content and demonstrate understanding: by listening to the text rather than reading it, by recording a presentation rather than word processing a written report, or by reading and discussing with a partner instead of reading and reflecting alone. Our schools adequately address the strong reader and the strong writer; following the principles of UDL will help us address the strong listener and the strong speaker at the same time that we use listening and speaking to accommodate students with unique needs.
Technology Conference Opportunity
As part of BRINC, we work to support the other BRINC districts when they hold Tech Conferences around the State. As you can see, some of our own present year after year (Ry Culver is on their front page). I am inviting some of them to attend ours on 10/5. - Villa
Don't miss out on the premier educational technology conference in our area!
Register today!
Topics Include:
- Enhancing your communications with Google Forms
- BBC MicroBit - Micro What?!?!
- Technology Supports for ELs (and ALL)
- Read to Feed with Tech Integration
- iRobot, Terminator, Nao, Watson, ST Math, Aleks. What do things all have in common
- Incorporate Virtual Reality into your Educational Environments 2.
- Get Hyped with Hyperdocs!
- Second Grade Start UP
- Be a Screen-Star-- Screencastify!
- YouTube Live for You-nique Video Creation!
- Are you bored with 5 paragraph essays?
- Making Makerspace Magic
- and much more!
Registration is only $25
Students and Student-Teachers: Only $5
Includes breakfast, lunch, t-shirt, other cool swag, and of course a day of connecting and learning!