Hawk Talk
Volume 2, Issue 17 January 11-15
Important this Week!
Monday
- K-2 MOY TPRI Window Begins
- If I requested Tier I data from you, please turn it in this morning
- Kirby out all week
- Holmes, Holderby, Lemons out
- Pellegrino out for up to 12 weeks
- ILT meets after school
- Board Meeting 6:30 pm Board Appreciation Night
- Jeanie out all day-Leadership
- PLC meetings with Jeanie and Jana during conference periods
- Friedman out
- Hajek Leadership at 3:20-Big Conference Room
- AFL Cohort 5 Begins (Brentz, Atkinson, Ply, McElroy out)
- Floyd, Kirby, and Gross are out
- 5th grade Team Time
- Jeanie at Data Meeting #2 8:30-10
Tier I Interventions
Tier I interventions are:
•Intervention = specific, targeted remedial techniques (McCook, 2006, p.51)
•Interventions are strategic, purposeful adult actions that prevent learning difficulties and accelerate, and/or enrich student learning.
(Cappello, et al. 2008)When referring a struggling student for Tier II services, Tier I services do not stop. Keep recording your interventions on your Tier I Documentation form. You should NEVER submit your original Tier I form for referral. Submit a only a copy. Whenever I request a copy of your Tier I interventions, I only need that form.
While we are blessed to have amazing interventionists, the ultimate responsibility for student progress lies with you.
We worked together to create a vision statement that is a true representation of what we believe is the destiny for Hajek.
Hajek Elementary: a community school focused on providing individualized instruction to foster growth mindsets for all students.
How do you see yourself in making our vision a reality?
This Wednesday's PLCs
"How will we know when they have learned it?"
- What data are we using?
- What common assessments do we use?
- How do we use our common assessment data?
- What formative assessments are we using?
- Are we using common formative assessments?
"How will we respond when they don't learn?"
- If we are doing what we have always done...you know the rest.
- Has your instruction changed? Should it?
- Intervention
Here's where we've been:
- Differentiation for the gifted
- PBIS
- PLC once per week
- District Core Values
- District Collective Commitments
- Campus Collective Commitments for instruction
- Flex grouping
- Common Assessments
- Study of Writing Rubric 4th Grade
- Writing Plans across grade levels
- Examined vertical alignment of curriculum K-8 and K-12
- Shoring up our Learning Targets
- Shoring up our Lesson Plans
- Guided Reading Training and Resources
- Examination of your PLC practices
- Writer's Workshop Model
- Student Motivation
Be prepared to share the following:
- Common Assessments
- Data from the common assessments
- Student Progress
- District Assessments
- Ways your instruction has changed
- Where you stand on District Collective Commitments
- Grade Level Writing Plan
- Is your instruction modeling best practice? Are the students working collaboratively? Are they bored?
Hugs!
- Mendy Busby, Alaina Pollard, and Kari Davis for making our Spelling Bee amazing!
- Mendy and Alaina for putting together a great reception
- Joyce and Courtney for the awesome data you put together
- 4th grade for the information you provided
- Katie for filling in for Anne
- Jessica for putting together the beautiful art work for School Board Appreciation
- Heather Sanders for sharing Plickers with us!
- All of you who covered, divided, and made it happen when staff had to be out!
- Those of you who left me the data I asked for by the deadline!