The Yuletide Villager
Week of October 15, 2018
The vision of GCS is to inspire success and a lifetime of learning.
McAdenville Elementary
H.O.P.E.
Have Only Positive Expectations
Math Practices with Angie Upchurch Monday @ 2:45 October 15th
I-Ready %'s for last week
The percentages below are from taking the total number of students that completed a lesson with a weekly average of 80 or better in Reading and then in Math divided by the number of students in the classroom.
The month of October challenge is 1 lesson in Reading and 1 lesson and Math with a score of 80 or better in each.
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Coming in November:
The Lucky 7's Challenge
Complete 7 lessons in Reading and 7 lessons in Math for the entire month with a combined time of 77 minutes (an hour and 17) in the i-Ready program per week!
Teachers, please make students aware of the next challenge and that we know they can do this!
The Way It Works!
Teacher/Staff does a good deed
Another teacher, staff, admin, district leader, parent, etc. recommend an individual to Ms. Rice for the lottery
Ms. Rice has final say on the recommendation
Ms. Rice gives approved recommendations a Lottery Ticket!
Lottery Ticket holder writes name on the back of the Lottery Ticket and puts in the bucket for the month.
If name is pulled, nominee wins the prize!
Prizes vary and range in value.
Other Information:
Two drawings per month (except December)
Bucket is emptied at the start of each month for monthly prizes.
All tickets go into the BIG bucket for the EOY drawing!
Unlimited number of nominations per individual - Prize for staff member with most nominations over course of the year!
Ticket Holders for October
June Conroy - ChristmasTown design
Renee Davidson - Extra Hours
Charles Poole - (2) Extra Cleaning / Helping Hand
Beth Cosby - Lending a helping hand to peers
Kelsey Payseur - (2) Excellent Standards Mastery Scores /Good PLC Discussion
Bobbi Neely - (2) Rocked a PD off-campus/ Gold Star plus help several BT's feel less stressed
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Stuart Beveridge - Helping Hand
Santiago Smith - Helping Hand
Kelly Shore - Kindness to a co-worker
From the Desk of E. Otis
Thanks,
K. D'Avria
School Events Agenda
Evaluations are underway...
Walkthroughs on Interactive Read Aloud
National School Lunch Week
- See the schedule above
Math Practices with Angie Upchurch @ 2:45
- October 15th
*4th Grade ELA 1-Interpreting Character
Standards Mastery: RL.4.1
*5th Grade ELA 2- Interpretation Book Clubs
Standards Mastery: RL.5.1
- October 15th
*Grade 4 - Math 1-Arrays, Factors, and Multiplicative Comparison, 3-Multiple Towers and Cluster Problems, (Multiplication and Division)
Standards Mastery: NC.4.OA.1, NC.4.OA.4
- October 19th
End of 1st Nine Weeks
- October 26, 2018
- November 1, 2018
K-2 Formative Assessment #1 and Grades 3-5 Check-ins Window
October 29 - November 2, 2018
November 5, 2018
GASTON COUNTY SCHOOLS INSTRUCTIONAL EXPECTATIONS
ELA
MATH
Instructional Focus
Instructional Focus/Concentration:
Elementary Report Card K-2 Standards Sheet (Tabbed Grade Levels at Bottom)
October Focus
Math and ELA Instructional Practices
ELA Instructional Practices 1-3 & Interactive Read Aloud
Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them - Math Instructional Practice # 1
Reason abstractly and quantitatively - Math Instructional Practice # 2
Building The Foundation Professional Development. The sessions will be offered throughout the school year.
Instructional Focus/Concentration:
Engagement and Worksheets
How often are you using worksheets for instruction and homework each day? How can we reduce the number of worksheets used during the school day?
Teacher - Student relationships
How can we change the tone of how we address students? It’s not what you say sometimes it’s how you say it. Model what they expect. The modeling sessions may have to be repeated a number of times, but model the expectations (Behavior and Instruction) with grace and respect for the student.
Agenda and I Can Statements - Daily Expectations
Each classroom should have an agenda listing what will be taught each day.
Each classroom should have I Can statements posted each day and tied to a standard.
- Standards Mastery
- Conferring
- Building Assessments from Standards-Based Instruction
- Small Group Instruction
- Student Proficiency
Elite Education Society of Wildcats
MES Social Worker - Whitney Hill
Please use this referral form for student Social Work Request.
MES School Counselor - Eric Otis
Please use this referral form for student School Counselor Request
2018-2019 School Improvement Team Members
Congratulations to our newest team members and thank you to all others for continuing to serve as members of this great group.
Committee Positions ` Name ` Email Address ` Date Elected
Principal Lucretia Rice lrrice@gaston.k12.nc.us 7/1/2017
School Improvement Team Chairperson Bobbi Neely blneely@gaston.k12.nc.us 9/12/2018
Teacher Representative (Process Manager)Beth Crosby edcrosby@gaston.k12.nc.us 6/1/2014
Teacher Representative Kelly Shore kdshore@gaston.k12.nc.us 8/1/2017
Teacher Representative Kirsten Marett kcmarett@gaston.k12.nc.us 8/1/2017
Teacher Representative Bonita Truesdale bgtruesdale@gaston.k12.nc.us9/12/2018
Instructional Support Representative Charlotte Griffth chgriffith@gaston.k12.nc.us 9/12/2018
District Representative TBD TBD@gaston.k12.nc.us --/--/--
Parent Representative Erika Sutphin mollysmama2008@gmail.com 6/1/2014
School Improvement Team Chairperson
Bobbi Neely