Kettering Bulletin
November 4th - November 8th
KUDOS
Thank you
Kudos to Cindy Cordeiro, Barb Dahl and Adrienne Gonzalez to helping me (KIM) develop lessons plans and keeping room 5 running smoothly. I so appreciate all your help!
Thank you again to everyone for making October a very special and memorable month for me - I appreciate all of you. Rachel
Calendar
Monday, November 4th
· Motivational Monday
Music
· Running Club
· Soccer after school
· 1:15 IEP Em.Yu (Hernandez)
Tuesday, November 5th
· Library
· Piano after school
· 2:15 - IEP Re-Evel Cu.Le (Young) Peters
Wednesday, November 6th
· Library
· 8:30 IEP Sa Me (Cagnolatti) Peters
· PE Report of minutes due
· Running club
· 2:00 IEP An. O’C (Del Rosario) Peters
Thursday, November 7th
· Vocal music
· 8:00 ELAC Meeting – library
· Unique Learning Systems district training
· 10:15 Artist Workshop in library – grades 4/5
· Running club
· Art Innovators after school
Friday, November 8th
· 7:45 – 10:00 Rachel off campus
· 8:00 PTA meeting
· Field trip – 4th/5th grade walking to Carpenter Center
· Skate Dogs after school
Saturday, November 9th
· Reflections Reception and Celebration 2:00 pm@ Kettering
Monday, November 11th,
· Veteran’s Day – NO SCHOOL
Teacher Practices
Teachers,
As you meet with our parents, how are you communicating your practices on differentiation?
Carol Tomlinson wrote in her book, The Differentiated Classroom, "Teachers in differentiated classrooms use time flexibly, call upon a range of instructional strategies, and become partners with their students so that both what is learned and the learning environment are shaped to support the learner and learning... They are diagnosticians, prescribing the best possible instruction based on both their content knowledge and their emerging understanding of students' progress in mastering critical content."
How are you communicating each student's abilities and your practices that will meet their individual needs?
Announcements
- Please provide Grace with a copy of your Parent /Teacher schedule
- District math and ELA Synergy On-line Unit Assessments (see link below)
- Teachers - Please share photos with me - add them to the Google folder - link above
- Mentors - Have you met with your mentees?
- *Last call for any field trips you wish booked by Grace.
Yvette's Corner
T and W at Kettering & Naples Interim Site
First up from the counselor’s office:
Parent/Teacher Conferences in November: Please feel free to invite me to any parent/teacher conference if you would like me present and foresee a SST in the future. Remember I am only at Kettering T and W. You received a Parent Conference folder with the items required to discuss, sign, and place back into folder. The only LBUSD Promotion Standards is Math Facts...for now! 😊Please show off all your interventions to your parents and ease their mind about progress and development for children this early in the year. If they have concerns, then let parents know that YOU will refer their student to the SST to discuss next steps. DO NOT encourage parents to write a letter to have their child assessed. Extra parent/teacher conference papers will be in the apple room in the file box. Please return folder to Yvette to hold until your March conferences. Thank you!
>Personal Growth Groups: please send me names of students you feel would benefit from a six week Personal Growth Group and WHY. I am hoping to do a boy group and a girl group. We will work on social skills, organization skills, grit, perseverance, etc. These students would need to work WITH their peers as opposed to 1x1 counseling.
>Mentor Monday. START meeting with your mentee MONDAY, OCT. 28, then every last Monday of each month throughout the year. Follow the Mentor Monday booklet and don't forget to complete the Pre-survey FIRST. Remember, you can technically meet whenever and however you can, but please meet at least 1x/month, preferably on the last Monday of each month. Please notify the mentee’s teacher if you would like to meet during YOUR lunch time. We will have a holiday Mentor/Mentee party in December to eat, wear our holiday hats, and hang out as a group. This picture will surly make the Press-Telegram.
> FEP FOLLOW-UPS: If you have FEP Reclassified kiddos in your class, then you willreceive a follow-up form in your box this week. Please complete and return to me. I have to now conduct EIGHT FEP Follow-ups within FOUR years of a student being reclassified. THANK YOU VERY MUCHO!!
>GATE Screening: GATE post-screen (second round): Nov. 4-20. I will send out a schedule and list of students late October for this round. I have a couple of first round make-ups to complete on Tuesday.
>SBAC Interim Assessments may start as early as Sept. 16. See email sent Friday regarding the video to watch to activate your account since we missed the first email. Please follow directions to create your new F#ncy!8 password and save it in a secret place. You will need to sign an electronic SBAC Affidavit once you click on the green TOMS button. Once you create your new password you can begin accessing the CAASPP Interim Assessments and Reporting System, as well as the extensive resources available in the Digital Library.
>SST information on students live in LROI. LROI>Applications>Student Study Team>search student (you may need to toggle to ‘18-’19 or ‘17-’18 school year to see previous SSTs). So far we have had three SSTs and two 504 Plan Meetings. Our school psychologist has already signed three Initial Assessment Plans for kiddos we had SSTs last Spring.
>Counselor Referral Forms: forms are located on my door. Teachers, staff, parents, and students may complete a form and place in my box. Once I am back on campus I will attend to the referral forms asap. :-)
>SBAC/CAA/CAST test window: April 20 - May 29. A specific schedule will be coming soon to a theater near you. ;-D
>Sanford Harmony: How are your SH lessons coming along? Let me know if you would like me to conduct a couple of lessons...I am available after lunch or anytime starting Oct. 20 as I have to get past GATE testing.