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Spring Shadows Elementary Wildcats Staff Newsletter
September 23-29, 2018
Congrats Ms. Garcia and Ms. Hill! Golden Paw Award Winners!
Our Vision
Our Mission
Core Beliefs
- Each student has unique intellectual, emotional, social, and physical qualities.
- We embrace a child’s individual values, interests, and personalities.
- Parents are confident in their child’s social and intellectual educational growth.
- Educators lead their craft by preparing learners in our fast changing world
Evidence of Content Objectives
Evidence of Hands on, Minds On Learning. Are our scholars brains sweating?
Ms. Perez's Math- Rounding
Ms. Brown's Science- From Liquid to Solid
Ms. Zetino's Math-Number Lines, Place Value
Principal's Message
Dear Wildcats,
September is almost flying by! We have a celebration that we have concluded beginning of the year testing (diagnostic) and now have our data to move forward in helping our students achieve their goals.
As a community- we have declared our goal to improve on state accountability standards by one letter grade from 70 to 80.
We continue to refine our focus area of content and language objectives. Our deliverable was to have 100% of our staff displaying and voicing daily objectives to students. We will go by on Monday morning to see if we met this goal. You will receive feedback on your objectives.
Our first area of focus is that we are analyzing our content and language objectives.
An effective objective must have the following components:
- TEK related.
- It is data driven. It addresses what students most urgently need to learn as demonstrated by assessment and analysis of your weekly data.
- It is manageable and measurable.
This coming week, look at any upcoming assessments and the questions related to the objective. What do students need to know and do to be able to answer the questions? How are activities aligned to your objective so that students fully master the objective?
Looking ahead into the work we will do for the next few weeks:
- Common Planning using Backwards Design. Remember we are learning by doing! So, all the learning is hands on and will be directly associated with your scope and sequence.
- Literacy Across Contents This Thursday, we will have Vivian Pratts, our consultant coming back to support literacy across contents (focusing on math and science). She will be part of your PLC this Thursday. We will pull out our Okapi collection and other readers to see which are best to align for your upcoming lessons in those 2 subjects.
- October Learning- Learning by doing, we will dive into best practices for using our data to drive our instruction. We will have personalized sessions for you.
Finally, just know that TOGETHER we are BETTER. Thank you for all the great work you do on behalf of children every day!
Wildcat Love and respect,
Rachel Martinez
Calendar
1st Grade Extended Planning (Group 3)
Specials Group 1
- Happy Birthday, Raul Espejo!
- 8:30-10:00 ILT Meeting
- 2:45-3:45 Team Leader Huddle
- 6:45 Healthier Generation Celebration @ Board Mtg.
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
2nd Grade Extended Planning (Group 3)
Specials Group 2
- Happy Birthday Noemi Gomez-Vejar and Rocio Vazquez!
- Cindy Off Campus 8:00-12:00
- Librarian Meeting 8:00-4:00
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
3rd Grade Extended Planning (Group 5)
Specials Group 3
- GT Planned Experiences Due
- Cycle Houston 2nd Grade 10:15-10:45 Library
- Cindy Off Campus 12:30-2:30
- 2:45-4:00 Faculty PLC: Committees/Personalized Learning
Thursday, September 27, 2018
PLC Thursday; Consultant: Vivian Pratts during your planning PLC
Group 4
- 8:00-9:00 Laura Schuhman meets teams/teachers & tours school
- AXA Financial Advisors during in the lounge during your lunch time.
- 3:00-5:00 Campus ReDesign Session with Jennifer Hickey
Friday, September 28, 2018
4th Grade Extended Planning (Group 1)
Specials Group 5
- Spiral Day
- Digital Citizenship Lesson #1 Due
Girlstart Saturday Conference
Project Proposal for NASA
Using Data for Marketing
Team designing prosthetics
Shout Outs
- Shout out to 1st grade as they are implementing Lucy Calkins through the use of anchor charts!
- Congrats to 5th grade for providing hands on learning during Science and following content objectives.
- Way to go 4th grade for collaborating on a unit math test together!
- SSE has the largest Computational Thinking Course participants- congrats Rocio, Vivian U., Jorge, and Jasmine!
- Way to go Peggy and Sarah, our Behavior Weekly Super Stars!
- Huge shout out to Ann, Maria, and Adriana for supporting our Girlstart program on Saturday! The team had a great conference and learning opportunities!
- Many thanks to Elizabeth for kicking off our after school program this past week!
Library News
Thanks for all your help and support last week! We had a lot going on in the library which could only be accomplished with all your help! Book Fair did pretty well -- more beanbags are coming!
This week is back to normal - EXCEPT I am off campus on MONDAY. Please do not send individual children to the library to exchange books. I will be on campus from 6:30- 7:30 am - I will open up the computers and then leave computer & Destiny login information if the computers go to sleep or error out. I know some of your children have read all their books and you want to bring them to exchange. Its your library - just remind them of the same library rules as when I am there. : )
Soaring People - Needed! I would love to have all the Soaring people for our Reading Incentives by the end of this week. Ms Castaneda has her class person done!! Reminder be sure you have Your Name and Your Grade Level on the person.
Heads up.. I will be exchanging Tuesday class Sept 25th to Monday Sept 24th due to an change in my Monday meeting. This will only involve teachers who come on Tuesdays.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks again for your support!
Ann : )
Spring Shadows Elementary
Email: rachel.martinez@springbranchisd.com
Website: https://cms.springbranchisd.com/sse2/
Location: 9725 Kempwood Drive, Houston, TX, United States
Phone: (713) 251-7100
Twitter: @twitter_rachelmartinez4