WJES Paw Prints
Enjoy every minute of your weekend,
Troy, John, and Karen
September Car Rider Schedule
Revised Teacher Guidance Documents for ELA now posted
Eureka
Eureka as it is written seems very much whole group. That is even more why we want teachers to consider this as a RESOURCE. We know that we have improved instruction and student learning when we use small group instruction with occasional large group (CGI, for example). Consider the teacher station for small group instruction as the "Concept Development" part of the lesson and other parts as station work. Consider some days as CGI lessons using the application problem and using guiding questions from Concept Development to attain the learning goals. Be flexible in instructional practices and let's not lose the good things we have learned about differentiation and standards based learning. The excellence in Eureka is the attention to precision of mathematical learning, a focus on the big ideas of mathematics, and the coherence of the sequence and systematic tools for learning math that are provided.
Dreambox and Reading A - Z login credentials
Andrea Waldrip said you should have received your Dreambox and Reading A - Z login credentials from the publishers. If you do not have this information, please let her know.
Technology
Thank you for patience with technology since we started school!! Within the next two weeks, we will have 10 tablets and 54 YOGA laptops available for check out. These will be housed in the Media Center. Andrea is working on an online sign up system where you can sign up for these devices, and she will send that out to you once it is completed. We plan to place 24 desktop computers in the science labs and collaborative spaces soon. Also, we have 23 Senteo Response Systems and 20 airliners available. When you need technology assistance, feel free to contact Tara and Andrea when having problems with the following:
Tara (please put in tickets for these): hardware, Wi-fi, BYOT, login issues, issues with Novell password, email passwords, printing issues, IP phone issues
Andrea: software (Reading A - Z, Dreambox, etc.), school website, school Facebook page
Performance Series
Contact Us
Email: krodenroth@jackson.k12.ga.us
Website: www.jackson.k12.ga.us/wjes
Location: 391 East Jefferson Street, Hoschton, GA, United States
Phone: 706-654-2044
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/westjacksonelementary2
Twitter: @westjacksonelem