SOAR Report
Week of April 10, 2017 "B" Week for Related Arts
Wendell Phillips Vision
WHERE AND WHEN TO BE THERE!!!!
Monday, April 10
Lesson Plans due via Google Drive (9:00 am)
Grade 4 Math PLC
Grade 6 ELA PLC
Tuesday, April 11
IDOE SQR Visit- ALL DAY
Leadership Team Mtg- (8:00am- Media Center)
Grade 4 ELA PLC
Grade 5 Math PLC
Grade K, 1 ELA PLC
Grade 2 Math PLC
Wednesday, April 12
IDOE SQR Visit- ALL DAY
Deputy Superintendent/AIO/TZ Director Visit 10:45-12:15
Grade K/1 Math PLC's
Grade 2 ELA PLC
Grade 3 ELA PLC
Leadership Team Mtg- (4:00 pm- Media Center)
Thursday, April 13
Grade 3 Math PLC
Grade 5 ELA PLC
SPED PLC
Friday, April 14
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 a GREAT first week back!!! In walking through classrooms, we have picked up where we left off before break...and in some cases...improved upon our practices! I am very excited for what the fourth quarter of instruction will bring!!
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 t0 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.
Our SQR Visit will be on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Click here for the email. I am attaching the updated schedule for the visit, which adds the Related Arts team for classroom visits. Please know when your room will be visited and when and where your interview will be. As stated in the email, this is an opportunity for us to receive feedback in our practices so we may continue to grow at Wendell Phillips. Let's showcase the great things happening daily for our students!!!
You may have noticed a little construction in the front yard....we are going to be the recipients of a new Learning Garden!!! Please see the attached letter explaining the Learning Garden, as well as the schedule for us to kick off the Learning Garden on Tuesday, April 11th. Please see Ms. Barnes if you have any questions about the Learning Garden or kickoff schedule.
Also...we are in the process of getting a face lift in the building. 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.
Long observations will begin 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.