Bethesda Caper
Friday, April 29, 2016
Calendar
Monday, May 2
- Staff Appreciation Week!
- Last Day for Lunch Charges
- DLK Staff Dev.-Leslie Aiken
- SPG-4th grade Specials
- 2:30 PM-BUILT
- 2:45 PM-Sparkles Club
- Staff Appreciation Week!
- SST
- SPG-4th grade Specials
- 3:15-4:10 PM-Staff Mtg: G.O.T. Pep Rally Perk
- Staff Appreciation Week!
- Principal Mtg.
- Relay Hat Day for $1
- SPG-4th grade Specials
- SPG-1st grade
- SPG-2nd grade
- CLT: G.O.T
- 2:45 PM-Student Council
- 5:30-7:00 PM-ESOL Family Night-Cafeteria
- Staff Appreciation Week!
- Kindergarten Registration Day
- Sack Breakfast & Lunch
- SPG-4th grade Specials
- SPG-1st grade
- CLT: G.O.T
- 3:00 PM-Reader's Rally
- 4:30 PM-Girls Scouts-Cafeteria
- 5:00-8:00 PM-CFA PTA Night
- Spirit Day
- Staff Appreciation Week!
- Grits and GAB
- Career Day (3rd-5th grade)
- 7:30-7:45 AM-Special Ed. Mtg-Cafe
- SPG-4th grade Specials
- SPG-1st grade
- Last Day for Student Library Check Out
- Staff Appreciation Lunch
- Chase the Buses!
- Witzle Pro Tournament
LOOKING AHEAD
Monday, May 9
- Custodian Appreciation Week!
- SPG-4th grade Specials
- 5th Grade Articulation Fieldtrip-Sweetwater MS
- 12:30 PM-ATEAM
- DFA-1st grade
- DFA-2nd grade
- EOY (Begin) Writing Assessments
- Grades 1, 2-Post N, I, O
- Grades 3-5-Post N. O
- Text Book Checking After School
- 5:30 PM-PTA Appreciation Dinner-Media Center
- DFA-1st grade
- SST
- CLT Planning: Pink & Blue cards
- SPG-4th grade Specials
- EOY SPG/DFA-LA (1-5)
- K-Post Informational
- 3:15-4:10 PM-G.O.T (Pep Rally Perk)
- Text Book Checking After School
- 4:30 PM-SSLT
- School Nurse Day
- AP Mtg.
- SPG-4th grade Specials
- DFA-1st grade
- SPG-2nd grade
- CLT: SAI Survey
- EOY SPG/DFA-MA (1-5)
- Text Book Checking After School
- CLT Planning-Literacy Cottage
- EOY/SPG/DFA-SC (1-5)
- K-Post Narrative
- 3:00-4:30 PM-Reader's Rally
- Spirit Day
- Grits and GAB
- Relay Hat Day for $1
- EOY/SPG/DFA-SS (1-5)
- 7:30-7:45 AM-Special Ed. Mtg-Cafe
- All Student Library Books Due
- All Teacher Library Books & Material
- GKIDS Data Pull (State)
- Relay for Life Event: Gwinnett Fairgrounds
- Chase the Buses!
Calendar Update
Due to preparing for our final data conversations for RBES, we moved the Pep Rally GOT from May 17 to May 3 and kept the May 10 GOT the same.
We will be engaging in data conversations on May 17. Thank you for your flexibility!
Save the Date:
- Tue 5/31 & Wed. 6/1-BUILT 8:00 AM-4:00 PM
- Thu 6/2 & Fri 6/3-Teacher Planning 8:00 AM-4:00 PM
Message from Pam
to our amazing inventory team and staff for finding all of our items. We have a 100% in inventory! Points to our WSA! Yeah!!!
Promotion Guidelines
The flow charts below have basic information that follow the Promotion Guidelines
PBIS SY 16-17
Thank you to the following teachers for agreeing to be members of the PBIS leadership team for next year.
We are looking forward to your leadership.
TECH TIPS
The EOY Tech Checklist has be placed in mailboxes along with a list of all the resources that have been checked out. (You will also find it on the link below). Please be sure to look at the return dates on the master EOY check list (GOLD sheets) that have also been placed in your mailbox. Thank you!
Calendar Feedback:
Field Day will be in the Spring
We will have two separate events as described below:
We will have one event as described below:
Amazing Reading Resource for now and your students through August 31. Summer Reading!
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School Name: Get Georgia Reading
Username: read
Password: read
Includes Lexile and F&P levels on all books. Enjoy!
Tentative Grade Level Planning for SY 2017: Anything can change this plan This is based on “Student Projections”
- Kindergarten: 8 Teachers- 4 DLI classes 25 students/3 Non-DLI classes 22 students & 1 class 17 students with minimal support
- 1st Grade: 4 DLI classes 28 students (This number may decrease-Dinorah support)/4 Non-DLI 19 students
- 2nd Grade: 4 DLI classes 23 students/6 classes 21 students or less (Focus cluster higher numbers)
- 3rd Grade: 9 teachers 23 students or less (Focus cluster higher numbers)
- 4th Grade: 9 teachers 23 students or less (Focus cluster higher numbers)
- 5th Grade: 8 teachers 25 students or less (Focus cluster higher numbers)
Moving to Bethesda:
- Amy Belcher: From Chesney 4th Grade
- Yasmine Martinez: From Rockbridge Kindergarten
Staff Changes (Changes in BOLD)
- Carmen Carrera moves to Kindergarten DLI
- Taylor Nunez: 5th Grade
- Lauren Gurley: 5th Grade
- Derrica Sherrer: 4th Grade
- Ruby Figueroa: Reading Recovery
- Shannon Melton: Staying in 5th
- Sherley Harris: 2nd Grade DLI English
- Kelley Bolin: 2nd
- Shani Walker: Science Specials
- Janice Heizler: Technology Specials
Rosa Serrano: DLI Instructional Coach
Based on feedback from the DLI team asking for an instructional coach and based on the feedback from our two DLI experts (Dr. Met & Marie B.) and our foreign language department we are appointing Rosa for this position. One of the experts stated, “Rosa should be the Bilingual Education Teacher of the Year!” Everyone help us in congratulating Rosa to the coaching team!
SAVE THE DATE: Teaching and Learning Pre-Conference and Conference
Please mark your calendars for the second annual GCPS Teaching and Learning Conference! This year, the conference will take place at the ISC on Thursday, June 16 and Friday, June 17 from 8 AM - 4 PM at the J. Alvin Wilbanks Instructional Support Center. Several departments will offer pre-conference sessions on Wednesday, June 15 at various locations throughout the district. More details will come in February.
What: Teaching and Learning Pre-Conference
When: June 15, 2016
Where: Various locations throughout the district. More to come in February.
What: Teaching and Learning Conference
When: June 16-17, 2016 8:00am - 4:00pm
Where: J. Alvin Wilbanks Support Center
We are listening!
Please continue to share your perception of our school. Is it really anonymous? YES IT IS! Since it is anonymous, we really can’t follow up when we don’t know specific situations (who, what, when, where, etc.). If you post something and want results, please be as specific as you can, otherwise the situation will continue. Remember, you can come and talk to any of us in confidence. We are here for you and genuinely want the best work environment.
Just like relationships, positive school climate takes work…hard work…we all want the same thing, so let’s work together to get there. Share your thoughts here Click Here to Open or face to face (always best way to communicate).
Staff Birthdays!
I accidentally left out birthdays last week!
Friday, April 22, 2016
- Megan Despot
- Shanaz Lakhani
- Barbara Dixon
Birthdays coming up!:
Saturday, April 30, 2016
- LaToya Boyd
- Penny Rule
- Alicia Hembree