Pleasant Valley Staff Newsletter
Week of October 1, 2018
Our mission is to empower and inspire a community of lifelong learners and leaders.
District Goals:
1. We will practice fiscal responsibility.
2. We will improve student achievement.
3. We will increase our transparency throughout our communities.
Building Goals:
The DLT met on Thursday, September 20th. The Senior Leadership Team led us in some activities that looked closely at our School Report Card Data. At the elementary level, we discussed the commonalities of our buildings' goals. We developed three common instructional goals and 3 climate goals. The action steps that will be developed/finalized for these goals will be unique to each building. The goals are:
District Elementary Goal (ELA): By the end of the 2018/2019 school year, 85% or more of our second, third and fourth-grade students will be considered on track and low risk of not passing ELA AIR as measured by MAP benchmark reading scores.
Fall 2018
Grade 2 20%
Grade 3 31%
Grade 4 38%
District Elementary Goal (Math): By the end of the 2018/2019 school year, 85% or more of our second, third and fourth-grade students will be considered on track and low risk of not passing Math AIR as measured by MAP benchmark math scores.
District Elementary Goal (Instruction): By the end of the 2018/2019 school year, 100% of third-grade students will meet the requirements of Third Grade Reading Guarantee as measured by MAP and/or AIR assessments.
Fall 2018: 77/153 = 47%
District Elementary Goal (PBIS): By the spring of 2019, we will increase the implementation of PBIS plans with fidelity as evidenced by the 80% threshold on the Tiered Fidelity Inventory: Tier 1.
Spring TFI Tier 1- Increase 10%
District Elementary Goal (Climate/PBIS/Resilient Learner): During the 2018-2019 school year, we will decrease the percentage of chronic absenteeism by 2% as compared to the chronic absenteeism of the 2017-2018 school year.
Goal 11.5% or <
District Elementary Goal (Climate/PBIS/Resilient Learner): During the 2018-19 school year, we will decrease our out of school suspensions for non-serious/minor offenses by 25% when compared to the previous year.
Goal: 29 OSS or <
PV's 6th Triathlon
October's Class Leaders Who "Carry Sunny Weather"
We need your help with our Outside Classroom aka Land Lab
Professional Reading and Strategies
The chapter link that I included this week from Chapter 6 of Marzano's, The New Art of Teaching, Using Strategies That Appear in All Types of Lessons. It is in the Google Drive- 2018-19 Staff Folder- PD folder- Marzano Resources folder.
Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12a__FE7izzcVPqmbMQbXp8IYC2dTR7Ko
Please view the Hyperdocs folder in the Staff Folder to view ideas on using this as a tool for your learners and using them within them within the Google Classroom platform. A useful tech tool for learning, differentiating, and for students to create to demonstrate learning/understanding.
Phone Banks and Lit Drop
Link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70a0d49afad2ea0f58-volunteer
There is an opportunity to drop literature on Saturday, October 6th. So far we have 2 not including Emily and I. Thank you, Williams and Harvan, for signing up! We need 5 more! See me if you are interested.
October’s TLiM Monthly Focus Habit #1 Be Proactive- The Habit of Choice
Remember as you are teaching the habits throughout the year that each of the 7 Habits is based on:
-A Principle of effectiveness.
-An effective paradigm (see) that is aligned with the principle.
-Behavior/Practices (do) that produces an effective Result (get).
Habit #1 Resources
Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B-2I1VrA_LvhNXoyQkZvUWJvWlE
Find time in your daily schedule to foster a learning community in your classroom. This 10-15 per day builds children's understanding, social-emotional skills development, and relationships to foster resiliency in our learners! It is our job to initiate discussions, model the habit, and connect their academic and behavioral choices to the positive and negative consequences or outcomes by providing them feedback! Also, a great way to introduce the habit is discussing a story or book after a read aloud. Find characters who make proactive or reactive choices within the text.
Concept: Proactive Behavior vs. Reactive Behavior
Proactive people pause to allow themselves the freedom to choose their response based on principles and desired results. Their freedom to choose expands as they wisely use the space between stimulus and response. Reactive people allow outside influences (moods, feelings, and circumstances) to control their response.
Concept: Proactive Language vs. Reactive Language
Concept: Circle of Influence vs. Circle of Concern
Your Circle of Influence includes those things you can affect directly. Your Circle of Concern includes all those things you care about. When people focus on things they can influence, they expand their knowledge and experience, and they build trustworthiness. As a result, their Circle of Influence grows. When people focus on things they cannot control, they have less time and energy to spend on things they can influence. Consequently, their Circle of Influence shrinks.
Odds & Ends
Carnegie Science Assemblies- All students should attend the assembly, even if it is during their PIE time. This is student-centered academic hands-on experience gift from our PTA and every child should attend.
Staff Meetings- We cannot hold two staff meetings with the admin coverage we currently have. If you have a bus duty supplemental, please ask a classified staff to cover the duty for you on the day's of staff meetings.
PV 2018-19 Staff Folder
Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cG_4KCVrLtA7ePxebp3901b_pBLLmmDN
K-5 Curriculum & Assessment Resource Binder
Access Code: PCSD44636
Our Week...
10.1-10.3 CogAt Grade 2
10.1 & 10.2 Carnegie Science Assemblies- See Schedule in our PV Staff Google Folder
10.2 National Custodian Appreciation Day!
10.3 BLT Academic @ 8:00am Canzurlo's Room
10.4 Parent-Teacher Conferences @ 5-7:30 pm
10.5 PTA Fundraiser Hat Day
10.5 Student Leadership Celebration @ 2:15- Cafeteria
Looking Ahead...
10.8 BFT @ 8:45 am- Boka's Office
10.8 Fire Drill #3 @ 10:15 am
10.8 Phone Bank & Pizza @ 5:30-7:30 pm Red Rees
10.9 Staff Meeting @ 8:45 am- Lower Gym
10.9 PVs Cookie Fundraiser Kick-off Assembly Times TBD- Lower Gym
10.9 & 10.10 Vision Screening- Media Center or Room 211 TBA soon
10.11 FAST @ 4:30-8 Cafeteria
10.12 NEOEA Day No School
10.14 PCSD 5K Run & Walk
10.16-10.18 Pumpkin Run
10.16-10.26 Scholastic Book Fair
10.17 PTA REflections Workshop 7-8:00 pm
10.18 FAST @ 4:30-8 pm Cafeteria
10.19 End of the first marking period/quarter
10.19 Teacher In-service Day
10.22-10.26 Student Council Boo Sucker Sale
10.23 & 24 Grade 3 Fall AIR ELA Part 1 & 1
10.25 Picture Retake
10.25 & 10.26 PTA Popcorn Sale
10.25 FAST @ 4:30-8 pm Cafeteria
10.26 FAll Ball & Scholastic Book Fair 6-8 pm
10.29 -11.9 PEA Food Drive
10.29 PV Phone & Pizza @ 5:30-7:30 pm Bank Red Rees
10.29 Lockdown Drill #1 @ 10:15 am
10.31 Fall Festival Parade and Classroom Parties 1:45-3:15 pm