Odell Friday Notes
September 28-October 2
Progress Report Update!
Thursday, October 1st
An email was sent earlier this week updating you about progress reports and corresponding links.
K-3: MClass Home reports will be in your boxes Monday AM to send home with progress reports.
3rd: BOG results will go home in progress reports.
An email was sent earlier this week updating you about progress reports and corresponding links.
K-3: MClass Home reports will be in your boxes Monday AM to send home with progress reports.
3rd: BOG results will go home in progress reports.
Attendance Reminder
Just a reminder...
All attendance must be completed EACH day by 8:15 and NO later than 8:30!
All attendance must be completed EACH day by 8:15 and NO later than 8:30!
Dragon Pride Night
Friday October 2nd
5:30--Book Fair will open
6:30-9--Bingo & Basket Raffle in the CAFE
Come join the PTO & our families for a night of Bingo, Baskets, and Book Fair! We have such great support from our PTO and would love to reciprocate that support by spending some quality time with our families!
Admin will place all names of teacher/staff members that attend Dragon Pride Night into a hat. 3 winners will reap the benefit of a DUTY-FREE LUNCH from one of your Admin Team!!!
5:30--Book Fair will open
6:30-9--Bingo & Basket Raffle in the CAFE
Come join the PTO & our families for a night of Bingo, Baskets, and Book Fair! We have such great support from our PTO and would love to reciprocate that support by spending some quality time with our families!
Admin will place all names of teacher/staff members that attend Dragon Pride Night into a hat. 3 winners will reap the benefit of a DUTY-FREE LUNCH from one of your Admin Team!!!
Math Practices Mini Booster
Mrs. Laxton has/will be sharing a 10 min. math practices mini booster in PLC this week. As we move towards increasing student opportunity to engage in high level problem solving use your peers, mini booster sessions, and your own personal curiosity to drive that instruction!
We have seen a huge spark of interest into the problem solving with Model Drawing.
Model Drawing:
Training @ Odell is in the Works
Additional Resources are on the way
We have seen a huge spark of interest into the problem solving with Model Drawing.
Model Drawing:
Training @ Odell is in the Works
Additional Resources are on the way
More/Less Self Reflection: What are your students engaged with for MOST of the day?
More of...
- Experiential, hands-on learning
- Active learning, with all the attendant noise and movement of students doing and talking
- Student-student interaction
- Flexible seating and working areas in the classroom
- Diverse roles for teachers, including coaching, demonstrating, and modeling
- Emphasis on higher-order thinking, on learning a field’s key concepts and principles
- Deep study of a smaller number of topics, so that students internalize the field’s way of inquiry
- Development of students’ curiosity and intrinsic motivation to drive learning
- Reading of real texts: whole books, primary sources, informational texts
- Responsibility transferred to students for their work: goal setting, record keeping, monitoring, sharing, exhibiting, and evaluating
- Choice for students (e.g., choosing their own books, writing topics, team partners, and research projects)
- Enacting and modeling the principles of democracy in school
- Attention to affective needs and varying cognitive styles of individual students
- Cooperative, collaborative activity; developing the classroom as an interdependent community
- Heterogeneous classrooms where individual needs are met through individualized activities, not segregation of bodies
- Delivery of special help to students in regular classrooms
- Varied and cooperative roles for teachers, parent, and administrators
- Use of formative assessments to guide student learning
- Reliance on descriptive evaluations of student growth, including observational/anecdotal records, conference notes, and performance assessment rubrics
LESS of...
- Whole class, teacher-directed instruction
- Student passivity: sitting, listening, receiving, and absorbing information
- Solitude and working alone
- Presentational, one-way transmission of information from teacher to student
- Rigidity in classroom seating arrangement
- Prizing of silence in the classroom
- Classroom time devoted to fill-in-the blank worksheets, dittos, workbooks, and other “seatwork”
- Student time spent reading textbooks and basal readers
- Focus on “covering” large amounts of material in every subject area
- Rote memorization of facts and details
- Reliance on shaping behavior through punishments and rewards
- Tracking or leveling of students into “ability groups”
- Use of pull-out speclal programs
- Emphasis on competition and grades in school
- Time given to standardized test preparation
- Use of and reliance on standardized tests
Gradebook Timeline & Mail Merge
Grade Levels that want to mail merge the digital grade book with report cards ..... LET ME KNOW by Monday, September 28th.
Dr. Nattrass has shared that she will help us accomplish this...MAKES YOUR GRADEBOOK AND REPORT CARD LIFE EASIER.
If you are not sure, what we are referring to...check your email for a forwarded email from Dr. Nattrass.
Dr. Nattrass has shared that she will help us accomplish this...MAKES YOUR GRADEBOOK AND REPORT CARD LIFE EASIER.
If you are not sure, what we are referring to...check your email for a forwarded email from Dr. Nattrass.
Jeans Fairy
We wanted to share that the Jeans Fairy will be striking Odell this Wednesday, Sept 30th! Drag out those jeans and enjoy an extra day of jeans this week!
We appreciate YOU!
We appreciate YOU!
Field Trips Due
Reminder:
All grade level field trip forms are due this Friday, October 2nd.
Check the calendar, fill out the form, no Friday trips...see Mrs. Raso for any help with this process.
All grade level field trip forms are due this Friday, October 2nd.
Check the calendar, fill out the form, no Friday trips...see Mrs. Raso for any help with this process.