In The Know!
January 10, 2020
Updates
- Safety: Please check the doors after recess to make sure they lock. Rocks often get lodged there and the school becomes open to unannounced visitors.
- The fire marshall will be in soon. Make sure all Christmas type lights are now put away and any space heaters must have an automatic shut-off in case it tips over.
- STEP meetings will be in the SLT member's classroom this week due to WIDA testing.
- Please put radios back in the cafeteria when finished.
- The 3rd rotation of science kits for grades 1-4 and 6 are scheduled to be delivered to your buildings by maintenance on Monday. For return, they will need to be packed by 3/5.
- Special Areas: To continue building relationships between special area teachers and students, classes will attend the same special for an entire week. The week we return is yellow, so if you have PE on yellow days, you will have PE all week. The weeks are laid out below:
1/13 Green
1/20 Blue
1/27 Red
- Book Fair: Our book fair is the week of January 20th. Students will visit during special areas if they do not have media that week.
DTEF Spring Grant Information
The Decatur Township Educational Foundation is excited to announce that we will be funding a spring semester round of grants. The application deadline is Wednesday, January 15, 2020.
Attached is the application document, and new this grant period, a link to submit your application online can be found below. Grant winners will be notified in mid-February.
The maximum request is capped at $750 since there is a shorter amount of time to execute the grant for this school year than during our traditional grant application period in the fall.
We look forward to seeing your creative and innovative project ideas! Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Aundrea
Online application
Support Staff of the Year Guidelines and Nominations
Please find attached the "Educational Support Staff of the Year" Guidelines.
As a reminder, you can nominate your colleagues, staff members that report to you and other employees that you feel are deserving.
Teacher of the Year Information
PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
IDOE ELA Newsletter
This edition explains the reading block quite well. Please check it out.
Uniformity will bring about:
2. 10% increase in overall TAP scores
3. 10% fewer referrals
4. 10% fewer suspensions (CIS School Goal)
MONDAY
1st and 4th grade STEP Meetings
PD 3:00-4:00
SEL Table Talk
Gradual Release via Trauma Informed Module-Wendy
ELA Committee Meeting at DTSE from 4-6
TUESDAY
Specials, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, and 6th grade STEP meetings
MTSS Team 4
Referral Data
Suspensions
Edgenuity Usage
assessments
1/6-1/10 IRA 1st grade during reading block
1/6-1/31 Reading Benchmarks 1st-6th completed during WIN intervention time
1/6-1/10 Writing Assessment 2nd-6th grades completed during ELA time
1/13-1/17 Writing Assessment 1st grade completed during ELA time
1/20-1/22 CogAT 5th grade during math blocks (three part assessment)
1/13-1/24 WIDA testing by Starnes and Slayton via pull-out schedule
1/14-1/15 2nd grade STAR 8:15
1/16-1/17 1st grade STAR 9:15
1/20-1/22 CogAT 2nd grade 11:15-12:15 (three part assessment)
1/27-1/31 2nd grade during reading block
Weekly Events
Happy Birthday: Ashleigh Ritter on the 18th
Monday: WIDA testing begins, Writing Assessment window for 1st grade begins, CogAT 5th grade during math block begins, 1st and 4th STEP, PD at 3, ELA Committee Meeting at DTSE from 4-6
Tuesday: PLTW training for select staff, 2nd grade STAR Assessment, Specials, 6th, 5th, 3rd, and 2nd grade STEP Meetings during Prep, MTSS at 3 for team 4, Extended Day at 2:45
Wednesday: PLTW training for select staff, Lovell Meeting from 8:30-10:30, 2nd grade STAR Assessment, CogAT 5th grade ends, ILT at 3:00
Thursday: AP Meeting 8:45-11:30, Fire Drill at 9:00, 1st grade STAR Assessment, Extended Day at 2:45, SLT at 3:00
Friday: 1st grade STAR assessment, 1st grade writing assessment ends, Grant out 9:45-1:30, Officer Lunch with 4th grade, Girls Inc
Google Calendar
Please click here to add the school calendar to your calendar. For those who like to plan ahead, this calendar has everything planned for the year.