Staff Weekly Bulletin
~Week 34~May 9-13~
May Assessments
SBAC Make ups: May 2-13
4/29: Math PT opens
K-5: May 16th- June 3rd
- SRI
- SMI
- EDL
- DRA
SIRA - May 23-June 3rd
SRI/SMI - testing begins May 2nd during Library time.
EDL/DRA testing window opens May 16, but we will have sub release effective May 2nd through June 2nd.
- sign ups for sub release time is located on the staff lounge door, please sign up at your earliest convenience. If you start now, you may have sign up for 2 slots. The sooner we secure the subs the better.
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~Safe & Welcoming Environment~
3-5 Grade Student Voice Survey
We need your support to engage your students in a 10-15 minute survey. This survey will give us information on how to engage our students in school-wide activities, incentives, and leadership.
The Student Voice: School Climate & Culture is here for your reference. Students will have access to this link from the Manzanita SEED homepage.
Please ensure that all students have completed the survey by Friday, May 13th.
NEP Summer Retreat
We are looking for 6 interested teachers that would like to join the Operations team at a Summer Leadership Retreat from June 26-27 in Napa. Our hopes are that we can use this time to begin planning around our school priorities for the 16-17 SY. We will have the National Equity Project working & supporting us during these two days.
In better efforts to strengthen our work and collaboration for the upcoming year, we are looking for 6 teachers that are interested in joining us.
Here is some of the work that we will focus on:
- Family & Community Engagement with a social conscious lens
- Work time to co-construct school-wide multi-tiered discipline model
- Reflect and strengthen relational trust among staff & community members
- Co-construct systems that support engaging in healthy problem solving as a community.
- Plan August 15-19 Differentiated PD week
SIGN UP POSTED IN THE COPIER ROOM.
PBIS: Tier 1 Assessment
Monday & Tuesday School Visit
I'm in the midst of completing brief Tier 1 assessments across all classrooms at my PBIS sites. The process will likely take 1 to 2 days, and will give your school's PBIS team some great information on which tier 1 practices are "living" in your classrooms. I'm excited to get started! Please click on this link to view the assessment for your reference. Thanks!
Christina Gillen, PBIS Coach
May Character Development
Month-long Focus: Reflect on the Year
Learning Target:
I can reflect on how respectful, collaborative, honest, compassionate, responsible, and perseverant I have been this year.
I can appreciate my crew members for helping me this year.End-of-Year Reflections forms can be found through this link.
Community Assembly/Crew
Crew: GROUP B
Tapia & Vidal
Goodie & Parchia
Brown & Queznel
Ferrus-Garcia A & Davis
Hudson A & Garcia-Pena A
Community Assembly: GROUP A
Udovic & Perrone
Saleski & Cato
Pastrana & Nunez
Newton
Gudiol A & Zucker A
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~TEACHING & LEARNING~
MAY CAL200
April CAL200 PE Minutes report are due May 15th
A hard copy of the PE Minutes report can be found in the staff sign-in tablet in the front office. You can also submit your report via the below link.
Please click on the link below to take you to the PE Minutes Teacher Report.
~OPERATIONS~
Expo Info
Please submit your expedition grade level theme and the names of two grade level representatives to Nancy by Monday, May 23rd.
Library Books
Teachers, please also begin submitting any library books that you have checked out. This will also be part of out the EOY CICO process.
Last day to check out books will be communicated by Mr. Todd in the next following weeks.
Report Card Window
Some important dates to keep in mind:
- 5/1/16--Illuminate DL report card window opens
- 5/9/16--Aeries report card window opens
- 6/15/16--Aeries report card window closes: last chance for changes
- 6/19/16--DL report card window in Illuminate closes: last chance for change
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Monday, May 9TH
SBAC Make ups
10 AM - 12 PM
Beatrice @ Mentor Site Visit
PBIS Tier 1 Classroom Observations by PBIS Coach
3-4 pm
Staff Meeting
Location: P7
Topic: Culturally Responsive Parent/Student Engagement
Wednesday, 11th
SBAC Make ups
Wednesday PD
1:45-2:00 PM - EOY CICO Procedures
2:00-3:30 PM - Class List 2016-2017 (click on the link to take you to the working document)
A Guide for Creating Equitable Classroom Groupings
Location: P7
3:30-4:30 PM
Personnel Committee Meeting conducting interviews
3:45-4:45 PM
Tech Committee Meeting
Agenda: Discuss & Plan on EOY CICO tech inventory & storage
What's coming up?
5/16 - PBIS Meeting
5/18 - DL Vertical Alignment PD & Expo Prep
5/20 - Make up preps due to Holiday
5/25 - Expo