ScholarMade Monarch's News
November 28, 2023
K-4 Lower Academy Staff Newsletter
Important Dates & Deadlines
1. Conscious Discipline Training is due this Friday! Please upload your certificate to your PD folder or email it to me and I will upload it.
2. Please be mindful of sending scholars to the restroom. There should be no more than 2 scholars sent at once and 1 should be the monitor. The 1st floor bathrooms are quite a mess and sometimes have 10-15 scholars in there at a time.
3. Christmas Party Day! They will be during the afternoon of the 15th. Please send me a list of items you will be sending home parents. We are not allowed to have anything homemade. We also need to be SURE about any food allergies scholars might have. I would send home a signup sheet where you already have a set list of items you want to be brought & parents can sign up for an item.
4. K-2 DIBELS opens 12/4 and will have to be complete before break. NWEA winter testing will be after we return from break. You should be using your new Curriculum, Pacing, & Resource Manual for your pacing notations.
5. Lesson plans and newsletter are due each Friday. Grades are due bi-weekly for Mrs. Jefferson to review via Google Classroom.
6. Please update student folders with work samples. We will be reviewing their PLP's very soon. K-2 Please make sure you have a signed IRI in their folders.
7. Moving forward after we have a formative assessment; we will meet the following Monday. This only applies to ¾. We will review the data. To be prepared for the meeting teachers will need to complete the pre-work.
Download your classroom results for ELA and Math
% of mastery
Plan for reteach.
Enrichment opportunity
70% or better will be considered mastery.
TLFs-2 standards (new) plus 1 for mastery (review)
ATLAS: Tips & Tricks!
Be sure you have your student state IDs printed for the interim. They will need them to login.
Testing sessions do not have to be created!
PLEASE DO NOT PAUSE A TEST SESSION. Call for help if something comes up.
Small group students will be pulled for the interim.
Student Portfolios & PLPs
Every scholar in your classroom should have a student portfolio at this time. Included in this portfolio you should have:
-Personalized Learning Plan
-IRI (if it is a K-2 scholar and applies)
-Student Work Samples
-Behavior Documentation
-BOY Assessments
-Formative Assessment Data (think module assessments/spelling assessments for example)