BTES Staff Updates
September 24, 2020
Week in Review will be Friday, September 25.
Click here to add students for the Week in Review - I will close it down and 2:00 pm today. This is for both remote and hybrid. Please add pictures to the homeroom folders that I created for everyone.
Friday, September 25
- Sports Jersey Day
- Lockdown Drills at 8:00
- Monday's Tips and Tricks with Conforti & Prima (Completely Voluntary)
- National Pediatric Awareness Week - Wear yellow or gold.
Tuesday, September 29
- Faculty Meeting at 1:05 PM
- Virtual Top Dog at 6:00 PM
Wednesday, September 30
Thursday, October 1
- National Pediatric Awareness Week - Wear yellow or gold.
Friday, October 2
- School Picture Days October 19 & 22.
- SGO's - start to work on what your plan is.
- Observations will begin in October.
- GCN completed by the end of October.
Second Step
Second Step will begin during the Week of Respect (Oct 5-9). This is a requirement for all NJ schools and by using this program we are in compliance with the state mandate.
5th Grade
- Regular Ed teachers have received logins and will teach when grouped with SE classes.
- Can be during Science and Social Studies
- Log in to Secondstep.org and create an account
- Grade 5 will utilize the activation code SSP5UGLWQSUD
- There are a few trainings that need to be taken
- Once complete teachers can access all the materials online
- Save Certificates (office does not need) and record the hours for Professional Development training (2 HRS)
- Mr. Conforti and Mrs. Kakos will assist with 5th grade program.
6th Grade
- Thanks to everyone for creating their accounts.
- We will begin to explore them next week. Our focus will be on unit one.
- A screencast will be sent out this weekend to get you started.
- I will assist with 6th grade implementation.
Professional Development Plans 20-21
The topics below will be our choices for our PDP's. Please review topics and be ready to select one during our faculty meeting. For anyone that is working on the CAR model this year, please select number two for your PDP. Dr. Zito has simplified this process to its bare bones. It literally took me less than one minute to create my PDP.
- A big shout out to Mrs. MacMoyle and Mrs. Ofsanko for trying something new.
- Make some noise for our PTA for sponsoring our Fathead adventure.
- A big THANKS to Mrs. Quigley for her extra help this summer.
- Thanks to the BSI teachers for taking care of the Dibels for BTES.
- High fives to all of you for working through Linkit and NWEA. I know Linkit was a hundred times better than the previous benchmark tests.
- Make sure you give Mr. Conforti a round of applause for doing such a great job getting all the assessments set up.
We strongly encourage you to join the BTES PTA using this link. If you have any questions for the PTA this year please contact Mrs. Walsh (PTA President) through our school email - pta_btes@btboe.org. Thank you.
Sharing is Caring!
"Ladies and gentlemen: the story you are about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent."
Hello Mr. Prima,
I figured you could use happy news. I wanted to let you know how pleased I am with Mrs Crabtree. Spanky has been motivated, engaged, and working independently under her guidance. I am very happy with the amount of time she is spending and the attention the students are receiving. She is doing a fabulous job!
Take care,
Nicely done!!!