Smoke Signals: Staff Edition
May 29-June 2
Hang on staff...the beach is within REACH!
Dress Code for May 30-June 2
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday - summertime casual is ok...shorts, yoga pants, etc. Please wear a Shack shirt & jeans if you have meetings with parents (ARD, 504, SSI, etc.)
Thursday - if you have sessions off campus, please dress professionally.
This week's events:
Monday, 5/29 Holiday
Tuesday, 5/30-
- 8:00 staff meeting
- 9:00-4:00 work in rooms, checkout sheet, etc.
- Lunch on your own.
- SSI, ARD, & 504 meetings
Wednesday, 5/31
- 8:00 - 11:00 staff meeting, campus based sessions presented by representatives from each grade level
- Lunch Provided - BBQ Baked potatoes & salad
- 1:00 - 4:00 - finish sessions and work in rooms.
- SSI, ARD, & 504 meetings.
Thursday, 6/1
- District staff development sessions. Staff members may sign up for sessions for the whole day. Time not spent in sessions is work time in your rooms.
- Lunch on your own
- Possible SSI, ARD, and 504 meetings
Friday, 6/2
- 8:00 - Brief staff meeting & light breakfast.
- Checkout and go home! Mrs. Burkhalter will begin signing checkout sheets at 9:00 am. When your checkout process has been completed and you have given the form to Mrs. Burkhalter, you may leave for the day.
Coming up next...
June:
6/3 - WISD Ed Camp, 8-12:00, WNGA, (optional, flex time)
6/14-16 - TEPSA, Burkhalter & East, Austin, TX
6/15 - Last day for: East, Taylor, Bigler, Stifle
July -
6/30 - 7/14 - Burkhalter off campus
7/27 - East, Taylor, Bigler, & Stifle return! :-)
August -
8/7 - New Teachers report
8/10 - All staff reports for professional development
8/21 - First Day of School
New STAAR report card
Here is a great resource on the TEA website about the new confidential score reports that students will receive this summer. The link includes some great information with links to STAAR report cards for each grade level, talking points and parent resources.
This will be sent out to parents when STAAR scores arrive.
Textbook Audit
Mr. East will be scanning all textbooks for end of year inventory. Please place all textbooks, teacher editions & ancillaries, and left over consumables on your counter. All district issued materials and resources are included in this audit.
Place these items on your back counter:
- DRA Kits
- Phonics Lessons, Kidergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade
- The Comprehension Toolkit (Harvey), Grade 3-5
- The Continuum of Literacy Learning (Fountas & Pinnell) One copy per grade level assigned to GLL
- Leveled Literacy Intervention, all items returned to the LLI kits and missing items reported to Mrs. Bearden.
- First Steps in Math couse book
- First Steps in Math, vol. 1
- First Steps in Math, vol. 2
- Thinking Maps Teacher binder
- Thinking Maps posters
- extra consumables
- all student textbooks
- all teacher editions
- all teacher extra materials, big books, boxes, envision materials, etc.
See Mr. East for questions!