Sunday Salute!
3/8/15
Calendar
This Week
Monday, 3/9- Staff Meeting (see agenda below)
Weds, 3/11- PD: Report Cards
Thursday, 3/12- Instructional Rounds (@ Glenview Sequoia visiting), focus on BAL
Looking Ahead
Friday, 5/1- Science Fair
What's Due by Friday the 13th?
2. Data Wall updated with new SRI/F&P data and sorted to reflect new data
3. All parent surveys to the office by 9am.
Teaching & Learning
Report Card Communication with Parents
Two Visits this Week
1. Tuesday- Balanced Literacy Visit Observation & Feedback
Laresha Martin, our Network Superintendent will be here this week on Tuesday morning. She will be observing Reader's Workshop and then will meet with me the teachers we observe so we have an opportunity for feedback and discussion together. I will let you know if you are the "lucky" teachers.
2. Thursday- Instructional Rounds
Robin Lovell from the math department and our "sister" school Sequoia will be visiting us on Thursday morning for instructional rounds.
The focus of rounds this week is:
What evidence do we see of students effectively demonstrating the language, thinking and strategies of a literate individual?
Whole Class
Shared/Close Reading, Interactive Read Aloud, or Mini lesson
Students are actively engaging (speaking, listening, written or oral responding) with a mentor text
Independent Reading
Students are:
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Independently reading just-right text (a text that they can read and understand independently)
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Responding to just right text through post its or response journal tracking their reading lives in reading logs
Prompts They Will Ask Your Students:
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Tell me about what you are reading? What are you working on as a reader? (listen for ability to summarize and critique)
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Can you read a little bit to me from your book? (listen for accuracy and fluency)
Report Cards Timeline
Week of 3/2 & Week of 3/9- Weds. PD: Work on your Report Cards!
Friday, March 13: Report Cards Due to Chelsea (ask Yolanda or Lisa to print for you!)
Friday, 3/20- Report Cards Go Home
Reminder: Instructional time will be preserved for instruction only. Teachers are not to work on report cards during instructional time, nor should teachers show movies or cover each other’s classes in order to complete report cards.
Shortened Days, 3/31-4/3s
Monday, 31st- Shortened Day: Writing PD
Tuesday, 31st- No School
Weds. 1st- PD
K-2 Math, 3-5 SBAC
Thurs. 2nd- Parent Conferences
Friday, 3rd - Parent Conferences
Free Bart Tickets for Field Trips
Go to this link to get free bart tickets for field trips in the Bay Area.
Operations & Logistics
March 9- Monday Staff Meeting
Point of Sale- New Cafeteria system will allow be coming to Glenview to move from lists and check lists to a computer based lunch accountability system. Jennifer LaBarre from Food services will be training us on how this will be rolled out.
Donor's Choose- The Donor's Choose Field Trip process turned out to be far more complicated than anyone anticipated. Orsolya, our PTA lead, on this project has worked many hours and there have still been many bumps in this road. She will be here on 3/9 to help you make sure your field trip is on track and support grade levels in jumping through the Donor's Choose Hoops. Please bring any invoices, questions, or bills you may have that day!
Sign up for the March Madness stations on 3/28
Weekly Schedules- See the template for weekly schedules that will be collected
Social Emotional Learning & Wellness
Mindfulness & Movement- Reminder!
March 18 Litt
March 25 Smith
April 1 Anderson
April 15 Ratto
April 25 Deane
April 29 Toller
May 6 Kaye
May 13 Granda
May 20 Sullivan
May 27 Morgan
June 3 Toller
Safety First
Emergency Binders
Make sure that you have your emergency binder labeled and located in a place your substitute can get it (Thanks Ms. Jacobsen, Ms. Ronnie knew exactly where yours was!).