AD Connect
11-27-17
Flocabulary
CPS
Board Policy GRA (Local) requires principals to notify the Superintendent when a student is arrested or taken into custody by law enforcement or other legally authorized person. The District’s CPS and Police Investigation Checklist includes the step of notifying the Superintendent. The procedures for principals to notify the Superintendent is as follows: The principal will notify his/her area director. The area director will notify the Associate Superintendent of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment. The Associate Superintendent of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment will notify the Superintendent, copying the principal and area director on the notification.
Please review the attached memo.
Balanced Literacy
Elementary principals and assistant principals will receive an update on how to support the implementation of guided reading & running records. Campus administrators should sign up for one of the December 6, 2017 session options listed below. Each session has a capacity of 50 participants.
Balanced Literacy Administration_AM
Balanced Literacy Administration_PM
There will be a WAIP coming out after the Thanksgiving break, but we wanted you to have this information now so you can plan accordingly.
Writing Contest
Principal Communication
The Challenge Is On
In the last two months, I’ve posed two challenges to you:
#1 Conduct classroom observations with a colleague at another campus; debrief together noting the reinforcements and refinements.
#2 Conduct a classroom observation with another administrator, plan a coaching session, and role play the coaching meeting.
Now, it’s time for challenge #3!
We know that teachers see more in their own classroom instruction by watching themselves. The Area Directors have committed to following the same practice. We plan to record one of our coaching sessions for reflective purposes. We challenge you to do the same! As you conduct one of your upcoming coaching sessions, record yourself (use a Swivl or your phone). Complete the attached reflection sheet, and send both the sheet and the recording to me. I will not share with anyone!
You have until December 8 to do this. Everyone who participates will receive a prize, but I’ll also put the names in a raffle for a BIG reward!
Common Assessments Made Easy
A Day Without Worksheets
A day without worksheets.... mark your calendars.
On this day, we challenge every teacher to plan all lessons and learning activities without the use of a single worksheet (includes workbooks and copying down anything word for word from the board.)
We challenge you to be creative and start planning now for a whole day without worksheets in any class for any reason.
We will check lesson plans and be in classrooms the full day, and will be passing out tickets in each class that is not using any worksheets and for each lesson plan that documents no worksheets. All tickets go into a prize drawing for teachers at the end of the day. The more tickets you earn throughout the day, the better your chances to win the prize.
The Chain Challenge
THE CHAIN CHALLENGE:
Starting December 1st, we will be doing a special behavior incentive campus-wide to help motivate our kids to make positive choices, build our classroom teams, and curtail what can sometimes be a crazy discipline season.
Office staff are working on cutting red and green paper strips for you to pass out to kids who are following rules and showing good behavior. Give the student one strip, have them write their first and last name on it, and then use a stapler to create a red and green paper chain around your classroom. The better our students’ behavior is, the more chains you hand out to them, and the longer your classroom chain grows day by day.
We will continue building our chains December 1-15, and on December 15 we will go to each classroom (including specials) with scissors and make one random cut in the chain. The student whose name was cut will win a board game to take home!
On December 1st, we will explain this on the announcements to the whole campus and we will start it that day.
Please be sure you are passing out lots of strips to recognize positive behaviors throughout the day. If we forget to do it frequently, it loses its luster. We will be handing out strips in the cafeteria for good behavior as well to add to your classroom chain.
About hanging the chains: please hang them around the perimeter of your room on the walls and away from the ceiling due to fire code.
Board games for prizes will be purchased and placed on display for the kids to see throughout the month.
Teachers may choose to also make extra cuts in the class chain AFTER the board game has been awarded in your class for prizes that you want to specify. If you want to give more prizes, you can make extra cuts for smaller prizes after the larger prize has been awarded. (The board game).
Departmentalized grades and specials, we recommend that you decide as a team how to hang your chains- in homerooms or in whatever class they earn it. Only one prize will be awarded in each classroom.
When you give a strip, highlight the positive behavior it is being awarded for. Remind students that more strips means more chances to win!
Let’s have some fun highlighting positive behaviors in December with the Chain Challenge!
Holiday Share Time
What are your ideas? (email to all :)
This is a Blues Riff in B, Watch me for the changes and Try to keep up...
Tuesday: Centerville; Focus Schools meeting; performance planning
Wednesday: CIA; AD meetings
Thursday: Club Hill; Hickman
Friday: Couch and Heather Glen District Walks