Tiger Beat
Acton Weekly Update: 5/19/2017
Brook Wessel-Burke
Daily Transportation
PLC FEEDBACK FORM LINK
SOS FORM
Fourth Quarter PD and PLC schedule
All dates are subject to change if necessary.
Nuts and Bolts
Preparing your room and the hallways for the summer:
Mike Kremer will be sending you an email with specific requirements. Here are a few items. 1. Take down hallway bulletin boards so walls can be cleaned. 2. Cover technology so they don't aquire dust. 3. Put up as many items off the floor (stack and store).
Awards Week RA schedule.
May 22 and 23
Monday and Tuesday
9:30-10:15 Awards
10:15-10:45 5th grade RA
10:45-11:15 4th grade RA
11:15-11:45 3rd Grade RA
11:45-12:45 RA Lunch and Prep
12:45-1:15 2nd grade RA
1:15-1:45 1st grade RA
1:45-2:15 K RA
2:30-3:15 Awards
May 24
Wednesday
9:30-10:15 Awards
10:15-10:45 5th grade RA
10:45-11:15 4th grade RA
11:15-11:45 3rd Grade RA
11:45-12:45 RA Lunch and Prep
12:45-1:15 2nd grade RA
1:15-1:45 1st grade RA
1:45-2:15 K RA
2:15-3:00 Awards
Curriculum and Instruction
From your Sped Department:
According to the DOE, special education resource teachers and I.A.s are not allowed to give initial instruction on academic standards because we are not "accountable" for students. This means that we are not putting student grades on their report cards. We should be giving instruction according to student goals in their IEPs and meet inclusion services by supporting students with the standards and curriculum that has already been taught. When thinking about how to use special education staff during inclusion time, it would be helpful to have a list of inclusion students that struggle with specific grade level standards (fluency, comprehension, math skills, math computation, or even more specific cause and effect, etc.) This will help special education staff meet the needs of students with special needs. Special education staff can help support general education students as well, but the focus should be on the students that have an IEP. Also know that special education staff must be flexible with their time as case conferences and individual student needs arise. We will do our best to communicate when we will not be in during our scheduled times and would appreciate communication about changes during the daily schedule. Please keep this in mind for next school year, especially since there is a large population of special education students at Acton.
PIVOT Goals: If you have your PIVOT growth goal data, you may go ahead and submit it into PIVOT. If you are waiting on DIBELS EOY data or another piece of data, that is fine but please put it in as soon as it is available.
Follow the link below to Smekins Video PD's.
username: Melissa.morris@ftcsc.k12.in.us
password as0hle5n
The 0 is a zero in the password
Reaching ALL Learners
The Importance of Relationships --SOME FACTS TO PONDER
- 51% students comes to our public schools from poverty, thus emotional crisis and barriers to learning.
- Our brain is built for connection, survival, emotions first.... and then learning can occur.
- If a human is not feeling positive emotion, learning cannot happen.
- If you lack a deep memory of feeling safe and loved, the receptors in the brain that respond to human kindness fail to develop.
- IF WE FEEL SAFE AND LOVED, OUR BRAIN SPECIALIZES IN COLLABORATION, PLAY, AND COOPERATION.
- We know that children that experience: poverty, addiction, high level stress, incarceration, social rejection, bullying, all have a higher risk of suicide, depression, heart disease, high risk behavior as they grow older. Google Nadine Burke-Harris and the ACE study for more information!
- IF a student lacks a deep memory of feeling safe and loved, the receptors in the brain that respond to human kindness fail to develop.
- Connection + purpose = fulfillment (readiness to learn)
- Movement and breath are the two ways to truly allow a person to calm down.
Technology
WHAT IS AN EDCAMP??
An EdCamp is a professional development conference designed around the specific needs of its attendees.
Please fill out the following survey so we can begin to discuss what sessions would be most helpful to our teachers. https://goo.gl/forms/V233LqEFanSDDiVv1
Click on the video below to learn more about EdCamp.
What's Coming Up
Weekly Updates 2016-2017
22 Kindergarten (AM) and First Grade (PM) Awards Celebrations
23 Second (AM) and Third Grade (PM) Awards Celebrations
24 Fourth (AM) and Fifth Grade (PM) Awards Celebrations
25 Grading period ends
25 Last Student Day
26 All Grades posted & Verified
June
2 Report cards mailed
*All events are tentatively scheduled and could change throughout the school year. Please follow the newsletters, Facebook posts and Teacher updates for possible changes.