The Grass Valley WAG
Week at a Glance: 10/14-10/18
Grass Valley at its Finest!
Shoo the Flu!
Smalls groups!
Extra Recess for the Grass Valley Way!
The Instructional Core: Content
As you begin this week, continue thinking about your PLC topic and how you will implement your strategy to assure students access to RL.2 and RL.3 in your classroom!
Our topics are:
- Vertically Aligned Content Language with Anchor Charts to Support
- Close Reading/Graphic Organizers
- Character Studies
Each of these will call for continued exposure to complex texts, and will support in building students' understanding of the following anchor standards in ALL grades:
- CCRA.R.2 Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
CCRA.R.3 Analyze how and why individuals, events, or ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
We will continue to look for use of complex texts, specifically in Literacy, but also in other subject areas. We will return to PLCs this week and will begin discussing how these strategies are going. Consider: In what ways are you implementing your PLC work in your daily instruction? How is it supporting your students in accessing complex texts?
Week at a Glance (WAG)
Monday
- No School!
Tuesday
- 3-5 Post-IAB: Literacy DUE!!! Scores due to CAASPP website!
- COST (8:45-10:15a, Casey's office)
Wednesday
Minimum Day for PD & PLC/Collab- Gen Ed: Movement PD with Luna (@ Port E)
- SPED: Sped PD (@ Cole)
Thursday
- Staff Meeting (3-4p)
Friday
- College Gear Day!
*Community Circle, daily, at 8:30a on the Yard
Upcoming Dates
- TBD Shoo the Flu!
- October 14 No School
- October 17 Staff Meeting
- October 18 Coffee with the Principal
- October 21 ILT
- October 23 SSC Meeting
- October 24 Committee Meetings
- October 25 Minimum Day for Grade Level Planning
- October 28 Make up Picture Day
- October 28 ILT
- October 31 Halloween (Parade, details TBD)
Nuts & Bolts
- Lunch Please be sure your class is taking lunches to lunch at the beginning of lunch and students are not going back to class to get lunches individually. We are getting a large number of students wandering the halls "getting their lunches from class".
- COST Referral Forms Please use the link at the end of the WAG to submit student referrals for students who have additional needs. We want to assure that no students are missed.
- Safety Vests Be sure you are wearing your safety vest while on the yard for duty. This supports families and students in knowing who is supervising students and supports the Grass Valley Way around safety. We also have whistles and lanyards available for anyone who still needs one.
- Emergency Sub Plans These were due by Sept 30. If you are NOT turning them in to the office (to Casey), please be sure to email Casey/Tahira with their location in your classroom.
Notification When Absent
- Any personal days require notification, in writing, in advance of the requested time off.
- If you determine you need to take a sick day, I ask, as a professional courtesy, that you text (804-922-7728) and/or email ASAP...even if it is 5 in the morning! Our goal is to limit the need to split classes this year, but in order to do so, we need advanced notice about absences in order to do our best to find coverage.
STIP Calendar This Google Calendar will reflect Alexa's Schedule. If you'd like to schedule time with her, please reach out to Casey.
Instruction & Assessments
Assessments:
- Grades 3-5: Post-IAB Literacy is due TODAY! Scores MUST be entered into the CAASPP system TODAY!
Instruction
Our current focus is on complex texts. We have been vertically aligning strategies to support with assuring our students are able to access these texts during PLC and will continue that work this week. We know that exposure to grade level content through complex texts is critical for ALL students and a requirement of our teaching practice. I look forward to seeing our work in action!
SEL Corner
- Be Safe
- Be Respectful
- Be Responsible
We are a PBIS school. All staff are expected to use the Grass Valley Way with students. Be sure that you are communicating in a preventative manner, and not a reactionary one, including using an appropriate tone of voice with all students.
Behavior Flow Chart for Referrals Staff members who send a student to the office should do so based on the normed behaviro flow chart. All students sent to the office should be sent with a URF.
Universal Referral Forms For any student sent to the office, we should receive a URF. This is how we will communicate with families about the incident and track data on students' needs.
Pre-Referral Intervention Guide This guide shares information and examples about each of the pre-intervention techniques listed on the URF.
Appreciations!
The Special Education staff for all of your hard and loving work! - Micaela
Ms. Jones and Mr. Keith for their support while the power was out!
Mr. Holiday for joining us until January!
Ms. Hodge and Coach for their willingness to do anything!
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