To the Point
Prairie Point Staff Newsletter
Volume 3, Issue #6: Thursday, October 19, 2017
ACES
AVID - Advancement Via Individual Determination
I have shared our AVID goals for the year a few times. You may recall that in several goals we touch on opportunities for teachers to begin to learn WICOR strategies that could be incorporated into the classroom. We will spend a few minutes of each faculty meeting learning about WICOR strategies and even, at times, practicing them.
If you don't recall, WICOR is an acronym for Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization and Reading. Obviously, there isn't an order to the acronym, as each of these disciplines and strategies are equally important to our instruction.
I hope that you enjoyed learning about and trying Philosophical Chairs during the Teacher Institute a few weeks back. During our Faculty Meeting on Friday afternoon, I will provide a few follow up resources. We will also model one activity and WICOR strategy. There is nothing to watch in preparation for Friday's Faculty Meeting :)
Important Information
SIP Day - Tomorrow
Certified Staff: We will have students in attendance for 3 ½ hours (except for Brokaw) and the staff will then work a normal work day. Staff will have a duty-free lunch time and then have time to work on building and or district initiatives. We will meet for our faculty meeting from 2:30 - 3:30pm.
October 20th and March 9th will also have a one hour staff meeting at the end of the day.
December 21st and May 24th will be completely teacher initiative time.
January 26th and February 16th are two additional days added this year. Direction for PD on these days will be provided from the district level.
OESPA Staff: Please see the agenda below for SIP options.
TAs Attending Playworks Training: We are looking forward to Part 2 of our Professional Learning for Playworks occurring tomorrow at Lakewood Creek Elementary.
Please dress comfortably, as you did last time. Also, please bring the packet materials you were provided at the first training.
For future reference:
Part 3 of our training will take place at the SIP day on January 26th.
Following this, Part 4 is a full day for the coach to be at your building to provide on-site training and support. This will be scheduled late March/early April.
Jeans Days
Janet and I have had an opportunity to speak with several staff members about Monday and Friday jeans days. While it is important that we keep college wear as part of our plan, as it aligns with our AVID goals, we also recognize that not everyone has a variety of college wear at this point. Because of this feedback, we have decided to amend our Monday and Friday jeans day plans.
If you choose to participate in Greens for Jeans, you may wear jeans with your choice of tops on Mondays.
On Fridays, you have the choice of wearing Prairie Point, Brokaw, SD308 spirit wear OR college wear.
Please note that you still must look professional with your jeans on. We ask that you avoid wearing torn/ripped jeans or other jeans that would not be deemed appropriate for a professional workplace. Please also note that jeans are not to be worn on Tuesday - Thursday.
We appreciate your input and feedback and are always willing to tweak or adjust our plans based on what is best for all!
Prairie Point's Got Talent
As a reminder, our performance will be the week of Thanksgiving...date and time TBD.
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Field Trip Information
MTSS Problem Solving Request Form
Wednesday Morning Meeting Schedule
PLC Agenda Options
You should have a PLC Agenda Template in your Google Docs.
The video below shows you how to save the agenda templates to your own Google Drive.
Prairie Point Family Celebrations
Congrats to the Amy Reid
Congratulations to Amy and Ivan Reid. Amy is Laurel Holpuch's daughter and they celebrated their beautiful wedding a few weeks back in Galena IL. Congrats!