ICEF Academic Newsletter
September 20, 2015
Welcome to Week 6!
Academic Team Calendar
Upcoming Dates
September 23 - ICEF Board Academic Committee Meeting, 4:00PM
September 28 - Data Day, ICEF Vista
October 3 - ICEF Arts Fest, 11:00AM-2:00PM, View Park HS
Instructional Focus
As we move into Week 6, 2.2A (Behavior Expectations) and 2.4A (Routines and Procedures) should be in place. Expectations for classroom environment should also be in place.
- Are rooms free of clutter?
- Are teachers following the board configurations?
- Is student work posted?
Some improvement is happening in 3.1A Communication of the Learning Objective. Let's continue to ensure that students are clear on the learning objective!
News, Helpful Hints, and Reminders
From the Academic Team -
- Please make sure that you have sent your CAASPP reports home. Remember that September's PIM should focus on the CAASPP, as well as standards-based grading. (Refer to earlier emails from Ryan and John for reference).
- Continue to administer those CELDT's! Additionally, if you have new EL Students, please make sure you receive and input their CELDT scores from previous years.
- Please remember to keep Sarah posted on any openings or terminations!
From the Arts:
- Is your school represented in Arts Fest? Don't be the school that just does the bare minimum! In the spirit of excellence, let's all represent!
From the Operations Team -
- Please make sure you are reading and responding to emails sent by Blanca and/or Enrique!
From Our Development and Communications Team:
Build Literacy-Based, Anti-Bias Learning Plans! Teaching Tolerance’s Perspectives for a Diverse America is a literacy-based curriculum that marries anti-bias social justice content with the rigor of the Common Core State Standards.
Have you read the ICEF Pulse? If not, click on the following link: http://us3.campaign-archive1.com/?u=9d39ba68e6197ce0397f6e4e3&id=8d69c4327b
Celebrations and Worth Noticing! (Hurray for Instructional Leadership!)
- On September 24, Inglewood MS Charter Academy will be hosting a ribbon cutting ceremony for their new library through their partnership with the Rise Up foundation!
- Jamie McAndrews, our ICEF Arts Specialist, was accepted into ACTIVATE, an Arts Advocacy group, sponsored by Arts for LA! There were 450 applicants and only 100 spots available and Jamie was given one of those spots. Hurray!
- ICEF Rugby is in the news again! Check it out! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3237963/Field-concrete-dreams-rugby-playing-LA-youths.html http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2015/09/17/32542999/
- Thank you ICEF Directors, for last week's productive Director's meeting and Budget Meetings!
- Kudos to three schools who were in the green for the first month's attendance report! IIMS = 98.55%; IVMS = 98.03%; VPPMS = 97.78%
"Excelence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well." - John W. Gardner
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