Wildcat News
August 20 - August 24
Weekly Updates/ Reminders:
- ACTION: Please ensure that you are posting your daily attendance outside of your classroom door on your attendance frame. This should be a student job within your classroom.
- Attendance phone calls for absent students made and logged in the comments section of your attendance roster.
- Standards and objectives should be posted. When posting your daily learning objectives, please also make sure that the standards you are writing the objectives from are also posted. This is a non-negotiable and will be expected.
- Subfolders were due to Ms. Lugrand on Friday, if you have not turned yours in please do so by end of day today.
- Make sure you are keeping up with the testing window. As we continue to get updates we have had to change a few things. Remember that all 1st - 6th grades should be giving the Achievement Series assessment this week, these must be completed by end of day, Thursday, August 23. Every student must take this assessment. Remember to set up the testing environment and encourage your students to due their best!
- Wildcat Paws will start this week.
- Keep up the the great work in teaching and reviewing the routines, procedures and Wildcat Matrix with your students.
- As always, student engagement and rigor should be kept at the forefront of all lessons, we must do whatever it takes to get our students engaged and excited learning.
Wheatley is ALL IN!
Meeting their new teachers
What a great turnout... let's keep this excitement and momentum going!
Families were ready to come back
Back to School Night Fun!
Dr. Bedell's words of Inspiration
Convocation 2018 #ALL IN
Powerful!
Wheatley is ALL IN!
Teamwork
Wheatley Professional Develpment
What direction are you?
Working together to learn more about one another!
Professional Development
- Wednesday, August 22, 2018-- Teacher Collaboration: 7:40 - 8:50
- Weekly PLC/PST meetings will begin this week
Instructional Levers:
WEEKLY LOOK-FORS:
- I can statements that align to the MO Learning Standard and are in student friendly language.
- Student task aligned to Missouri Learning Standard
3 Cultural Levers to Remind Yourself of Daily:
Be Givers of HOPE through what our students see, hear and say!
- If our/your walls could talk, what would they say?
- What are our students hearing everyday? Are we creating HOPE everyday?
- Speak HOPE into your students everyday! Ensure they say something positive about themselves everyday!
"We must tear down the walls of prisons."
Upcoming Dates/ Events:
- Thursday, August 23-- 5:00 - 7:00pm-- Back to School Night
- Deb Diller training (K- Tuesday, August 21; 1st- Wednesday, August 22; 2nd- Thursday, August 23)
- Saturday, September 8-- KCPS Staff Intramural Kickball Tournament, please sign up with Ms. Egli if you are interested!
- Tuesday, August 21, 8:00am- Attendance Committee Meeting
Shout Outs
Thank you to everyone for an amazing first week!! This was by far the best First Week I have ever had in KCPS and it is all because of each of you-- your hard work, dedication and willingness to go above and beyond to do whatever it takes to serve the needs of our students!!
Growth Mindset Quote of the Week:
"They don't have a behavior problem, they have a HOPE problem. Give our kids the hope to dream and no one can stop them!" - Dr. Marla Sheppard