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Some notes for the week...
* Collaborative planning sessions are going well. Thank you for your work and engagement during these sessions. I know this is new and we will work through the challenges together. Please know the A-Team is here to SUPPORT you! We are all in this together.
A couple things to remember and think about:
- You will not be able to deconstruct every standard during these collaborative planning sessions. Pick those that are the most challenging for students to master based on data.
- It is possible that you will not get through the entire Plan-Do-Check-Act-Act cycle every time. For example if you are preparing to give an assessment, the collab. planning session might be a good time to talk about the Act-Act part of the cycle and plan for what you do with the data.
- Please remember to take 3-5 minutes to celebrate the small wins. It is so important to celebrate the work you all do every day!
- This is a process. There will be pieces that work and some that do not. I promise it will get better. If your team has questions or concerns let's work through those together. We have several protocols that will support the conversations happening during the planning sessions. I am pleased with the dialogue around the standards.
* Duty Free Lunch for teachers on Tuesday will start on 9/6/16. It is my hope that we have parent volunteers to support this and admin. will also be present. We want to try on-line conference sign-ups for early release. The system will save us time once we learn how to do it. Jeremy will be joining your teams for lunch to talk about this with you. That is a lot of lunches for him!!!
* Student absences - Meg will support Leigh in correcting attendance information in Synergy once the 5 days have passed. Teachers have 5 days after a student absence to enter information into Synergy. IF you get a note after the 5 days have passed, please pass the note to Meg.
You all do amazing work every day! We are loving the instructional rounds and walk-throughs so we can see what is happening. Please continue to engage students in their learning - mini-lessons and guided reading and math group are the expectation.
We are enjoying our pre-evaluation conferences!!! Please remember to sign off in the PD & E tool once you have had your conference.
Have a great (4-day) week!
Erin
Lesson Plans
September 5th
September 6th
September 7th
September 8th
Collaborative Planning (Dr. McCain visiting with 2nd and 1st grades)