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March 17, 2019
Welcome Back!
Make sure you are staying focused, planning quality and engaging lessons and making it a priority for students to talk more and have less teacher talk.
:) Lauren
Cafeteria Cards
March Safety Survey- ACTION REQUIRED
I have been including this in the newsletter instead of sending out one every month. MAKE SURE YOU COMPLETE IT!
This is the March survey for the 2018-2019 school year. Let’s strive for 100% participation this month. Below is the link for the March 2019 safety tips and survey. This month's safety topic is “Weather and Allergies”. Please log onto SurveyMonkey and complete survey by the end of March 2019.
---Awareness and Preparedness---
Click to view the Tips & Survey
TELPAS continues.......
LPAC information
Reminder: Grade Level Action Steps
Kindergarten
Action Step-1: Kinder will include this information in their parent conferences this month and all will adopt a model to share goals with their students monthly.
Action Steps-2: Continue to serve struggling students in small group, Jaime pulling students, and include information to parents for them to support student’s academic needs at home Action Steps-3: Kinder teachers will develop lesson plans and customize pace and activities. Include Readers Response as part of writing folders
First Grade:
Action Step-1. Improve Guided Reading – running records-Refine practice of running record
documentation by in house training on running record documentation during guided reading groups Activities-a. classroom coaching - Amy Clark and b. classroom visits to observe other teachers –debrief during PLC
Action Step-2. Implementation of Lucy Calkins writing curriculum-Customize the Lucy Calkins lesson by adjusting pacing and components-Amy Clark and Michelle Warren will help with this planning during IPC planning
Action Step-3. Building student understanding of what is being asked of them-academically as well as social emotional independence - Continuing One-Five Content check daily -Did we do what we say we would do? Students provide evidence of “I will” and “we will” daily and connecting this to the classroom social contract and debrief with grade level week
Second Grade:
Action Step 1: Literacy Stations-improve quality and structure: Set up management plan and structure for literacy stations-Amy Clark will provide coaching and teachers will visit other classrooms to see practices in place
Action Step 2: Lucy Calkins writing curriculum Customize pacing and components in lesson plans. Develop pacing during IPC planning with Amy next week
Action Step 3: Model teamwork as you continue to collaborate and support substitutes with lessons and materials. Identified and placed certified teacher in the classroom for one teacher; another substitute teacher added additional substitute-teacher helper for classroom management in the 2nd classroom
Third Grade:
Action Step 1: Third Grade- increase level of rigor in Guided Reading and use RAZ to support the students with reading levels. Shields needs access to Gogel and Carney's Class if possible so she can assign books on the student levels.
Action Step 2-continue implementation of Lucy Calkins. We need to continue to ensure proper planning and preparation. Gogel and Carney are sharing in the responsibility. Maybe Amy can help review with them in IPC as well.
Action Step 3-concerns with working on some test taking strategies to prepare for STAAR. Working on a plan for how to start working on these skills.
Fourth Grade:
Action Step 1. Reinforce and reconnect every student to the classroom Social Contract and have students write out goals to earn privileges for those that are acting out during instructional time
Action Step 2. Continue to implement balanced literacy and Lucy Calkins writing (refine 4th grade literacy stations); added Thrilling Thursday to Writing block to work on Revising and Editing
Action 3.ELAR teachers schedule Library instructional time with Ms. Marston to reinforce
independent reading for 4th grade
Fifth Grade:
Action Step 1. - Continue to follow Balanced Literacy Framework and enhance Literacy Station work also include one day of STAAR Prep Day-Thrilling Tuesday
Step 2. Customize Lucy Calkins writing to break into 15 minute blocks – pace it and describe components and realign to reading
Step 3. Reschedule I-time utilizing Ms. Hudson as the primary computer teacher so that Ms. Mance and Ms. Poor can provide small group intervention to struggling student
Coming up......
St. Patrick’s Day March 17
PM: New Teacher Meeting March 18
Birthday: Norma Gomez March 19
GISD Employee Health Screenings at Couch March 19
7:30-9:30 Room 407
Team Leader meeting March 19
PLC all grades during conference March 20
Lockdown Drill March 21
PTA Meeting - 2nd and 3rd grade performs March 21
Birthday: Jamie Bennett and Shanda Jarjoura March 22
Birthday: Elizabeth Mascorro March 25
IPT BE/ESL PreK March 25 - April 12
Mock STAAR 3rd Reading, 4th Reading March 26
Faculty Meeting March 26
Birthday: Mercedes Salgado March 27
Mock STAAR 3rd Math, 4th Math March 27
Shelter Drill March 28