SOAR Report
Week of April 17, 2017 "C" Week for Related Arts
Wendell Phillips Vision
WHERE AND WHEN TO BE THERE!!!!
Monday, April 17
Lesson Plans due via Google Drive (9:00 am)
Grade 4 Math PLC
Grade 6 ELA PLC
Tuesday, April 18
ISTEP Part II Begins- ELA Section 1
Grade 4 ELA PLC
Grade 5 Math PLC
Grade K, 1 ELA PLC
Grade 2 Math PLC
Wednesday, April 19
Learning Community Meeting- (7:30 am- Media Center)
ISTEP Part II - ELA Section 2
Grade K/1 Math PLC's
Grade 2 ELA PLC
Grade 3 ELA PLC
Thursday, April 20
ISTEP Part II- ELA Section 3
Grade 3 Math PLC
Grade 5 ELA PLC
SPED PLC
Friday, April 21
ISTEP Part II- ELA Section 4
JEANS DAY!!
NEWS & NOTES
Our vision should be known by all. In breaking this down, our learning environment will be:
- Positive- set the tone in our classrooms by building relationships and reinforcing positive behavior
- Engaging- instruction will be interactive and driven by student needs. This means intentional planning through posted I CAN statements aligned to daily lessons.
- Rigorous- Our instruction needs to be challenging and aligned to standards. Deconstructing standards into skills and teaching how to apply the skills is the end game. Critical thinkers are the desired outcome.
THANK YOU for your hard work this week! This was a very full week, with our SQR Visit, Learning Garden kickoff, Title I Parent Compact Night, and Picture Day. Thank you for your flexibility in having many people in our building and your willingness to be open and honest about what we do at Wendell Phillips. The only way we improve....its to take feedback, analyze it, and put action steps into place to continue our upward climb!! I will share some of the feedback at our staff meeting on Wednesday morning.
I am also going to apologize....with the visit this week, my level of communication with you has not been acceptable to me. Some things slipped through the cracks...again I apologize. I will get back on track next week!
ISTEP Part II begins this week. I am attaching the schedule to this email. Please make sure students are following SOAR procedures throughout the day.....NO EXCEPTIONS! Review the schedule and plan accordingly for the support staff not being available due to modification group testing. Testing this round will be online, but still in multiple locations and all day. Please limit students being in the hallways unsupervised to an as-needed basis.
It's that time of the year.....Teacher of the Year selection time!! Please click on this link to nominate one of our fine staff for this honor. I will announce the winner at our staff meeting on Wednesday. Please vote by tomorrow afternoon!
As a reminder about our instructional focus for April......
K-2: Guided Reading, particularly the teacher table. Emphasis will be on students spending most of their time in text, practicing fluency and answering comprehension questions. We must push our little Cardinals to grow in their reading skills to better prepare them for the upper grades!!! ELA PLC's will focus on our TRC data and how we are growing students day by day. Some resources from the Jan Richardson website are below in the DIY section below.
3-6: ISTEP Part II prep. This section accounts for close to 70% of our students total score. Emphasis on them preparing to answer multiple choice questions with multiple answers or technology enhanced items. How are we going to re-mediate and enrich our critical standards?? PLC's will focus on data and our planning for this instruction.
Long observations will continue next week. Upon completion of observation, I will be meeting with you to discuss feedback as well as next year's assignment and room number. Additionally, please make sure to be uploading artifacts to your SFS account to demonstrate your effectiveness in Domains 1 and 4. Please let me know if you have any questions.
I have attached some articles below in the DIY PD section below that are applicable to our learners. Please read and reflect...how can we continue our growth in working with the diverse mental health needs of our students?
Painting will be continuing this week. The painters will be working through the next few weeks to complete the job. Once the painting is complete, we can begin posting student work in the hallways again. Thank you for your flexibility during this time.