What's Happening
Week of November 26, 2018
SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK
Monday, November 26
9:00-2:30 SDI work in the Conference Room
10:00 Conditions for Learning Survey-Olson
2:50 PLCs and PD
Tuesday, November 27
8:00 Preschool Team Meeting
9:15 Level 1 Hearing
9:30 CT Meeting
10:00 Meet with Lunch staff
10:30 Level 1 Hearing
10:45 Level 1 Hearing
11:00 Level 1 Hearing
11:30 Conditions for Learning Survey-Feenstra
12:30 Conditions for Learning Survey-Boettger
1:00 Teacher meeting
3:00 Level 1 Hearing
3:15 Level 1 Hearing
3:40 10 minute Stand Up Meeting--BLT
Wednesday, November 28
**I am teaching Balanced Leadership all day
8:00 CARE Team
Thursday, November 29
**I am at the AEA for SDI training all day
Friday, November 30
**I am at the AEA for SDI training all day
10:30 Conditions for Learning Survey--Rose
12:30 Conditions for Learning Survey--Schemmel
2:45 Conditions for Learning Survey--Staab
Did you say Room Service??
Safe School Mandatory Trainings
Don't forget to be working on your safe school's trainings. Here is the link: https://siouxcityschools-ia.safeschools.com/
PBIS
Behavior/Engagement-Dr. Terry Scott
Here are some brief insights from the session I went to on Friday. These are good things for us to reflect on.
1. There is no cookbook for behavior. There are high probability strategies that we know will yield better results.
2. Set them up and give them credit for it. Instead of determining that you have to watch "x" kid like a hawk to "nip something in the bud"; what can we do to set up the environment to make them successful? Then, when they are successful give the student credit for it.
3. Can we as an adult create a probability to say "good for you" rather than "bad for you"?
4. Students who are engaged are less likely to demonstrate problem behavior. We have 3 choices: as teachers we can be super entertaining ALL the time; we can teach only content that is interesting to students; OR we can GO GET THEM.
* What can we do to hook the students into the content?
* How are we providing our students multiple opportunities to respond?
*verbal response, thumbs up/thumbs down, fist to five, put your hand
on your head if you agree, using white boards, etc
5. Using correction provides a better probability that students will stop a misbehavior rather than just saying "Knock it off"
* Try utilizing a question. "What is the definition of responsible? Is what you
are doing responsible?"
* Teach the skill versus telling them about it
Think about a snowball sitting on top of a hill that goes both forward and backwards. We want the snowball to roll DOWN the front hill. They will gain momentum and the skills/independence will grow just like a snowball will if it is rolling. However, if the snowball rolls backwards down the hill, data suggests that it will take 14 to 1 positive experiences to get that snowball back up to the top. Kids likely won't be able to do that on their own or sustain the amount of work it will take to get it there.
More to come.................
UPCOMING EVENTS
December 4th 5:30 PTO meeting
December 6th 3:45 Kindness Club
December 7th Riverside Christmas Gathering
December 11th 5:00-7:00 PTO Sponsored Holiday Crafts and Story Time (more info to come)
December 13th 9:00-9:45 WHS Madrigal Singers (more info to come)
December 14th Dr. Buryanek and Dr. Burnight meet with the BLT
Riverside Roadrunners
Email: holcom@live.siouxcityschools.com
Location: 2303 Riverside Boulevard, Sioux City, IA, USA
Phone: 712-279-6811
Facebook: facebook.com/RiversideElementarySchool
Twitter: @riversidek5