Pleasant Valley Staff Newsletter
Week of September 24, 2018
Our mission is to empower and inspire a community of lifelong learners and leaders.
District Goals:
1. We will practice fiscal responsibility.
2. We will improve student achievement.
3. We will increase our transparency throughout our communities.
Building Goals:
The DLT met on Thursday, September 20th. The Senior Leadership Team led us in some activities that looked closely at our School Report Card Data. At the elementary level, we discussed the commonalities of our buildings' goals. We developed three common instructional goals and 3 climate goals. The action steps that will be developed/finalized for these goals will be unique to each building. The goals are:
District Elementary Goal (ELA): By the end of the 2018/2019 school year, 85% or more of our second, third and fourth-grade students will be considered on track and low risk of not passing ELA AIR as measured by MAP benchmark reading scores.
Spring 2018
RDG-K
136/177 77%
RDG-1
127/154 82%
RDG-2
72/145 50%
Grade 3 ELA 70.8%
Grade 4 ELA 62.7%
District Elementary Goal (Math): By the end of the 2018/2019 school year, 85% or more of our second, third and fourth-grade students will be considered on track and low risk of not passing Math AIR as measured by MAP benchmark math scores.
Spring 2018
MATH-K
135/178 76%
MATH-1
114/154 74%
MATH-2
84/143 59%
Grade 3 Math 75.3%
Grade 4 Math 73.3%
District Elementary Goal (Instruction): By the end of the 2018/2019 school year, 100% of third-grade students will meet requirements of Third Grade Reading Guarantee as measured by MAP and/or AIR assessments.
2017-18: 88% of learners met the TGRG requirements, 161/181 learners
District Elementary Goal (PBIS): By the spring of 2019, we will increase the implementation of PBIS plans with fidelity as evidenced by the 80% threshold on the Tiered Fidelity Inventory: Tier 1.
September 2018: TFI: Tier 1- 70%
District Elementary Goal (Climate/PBIS/Resilient Learner): During the 2018-2019 school year, we will decrease the percentage of chronic absenteeism by 2% as compared to the chronic absenteeism of the 2017-2018 school year.
2017-18:13.5%
District Elementary Goal (Climate/PBIS/Resilient Learner): During the 2018-19 school year, we will decrease our out of school suspensions for non-serious/minor offenses by 25% when compared to the previous year.
2017-18: 39 OSS
Our BLT will work on the action steps. I believe that many of our current actions steps for the instructional goals still directly support the instructional goals. The SST worked with our Climate BLT and have already helped us identify action steps to increase our TFI- Tier 1 to earn a higher percentage. More to come...
Father's Walk 2018
Taste of the Town & Chevy Trax Tickets
Many of us are going to this great event. Please join us! Taste of the Town is Wednesday, September 26th. Chevy Trax raffle tickets $10 each.
2nd prize drawing- laptop
3rd prize drawing- Fitbit
See JoAnn for tickets!
Safety Patrol
We swore in our 49 2018-19 Safety Patrol Squad with Officer Hallman! Thank you, Allison Symons and Sarah Vittardi for your leadership!
Focus: Elevating the Essentials (SA)
As an essential part of how and what we teach is connecting students' performance tasks to the necessary DOK to master the standards. The chapter link that I included this week from Chapter 5 of Marzano's, The New Art of Teaching, Conducting Knowledge Application Lessons. It describes student engagement in higher levels of DOK and how the teacher provides resources and guidance while students analyze content to make meaning of it by drawing conclusions with evidence to support those conclusions. It is in the Google Drive- 2017-18 Staff Folder- PD folder- Marzano Resources folder.
Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12a__FE7izzcVPqmbMQbXp8IYC2dTR7Ko
Instructional Time
PTA Grade Level Reports and District Goal #3: We will increase our transparency throughout our communities.
Odds & Ends
OTES: I sent an email on Wednesday email with the link for OTES formal observation sign up. Please sign up ASAP.
Field Trips: Plan and turn in your paperwork ASAP. The SPECIFIC standard(s) must be cited as noted on the form. A detailed reference sheet for all teachers is in the K-5 Curriculum & Assessment binder to ensure we are focusing on those standards in the classroom pre/post as well as on the field trip. Link: https://www.livebinders.com/play/play/2063625?tabid=64ebd841-a7c5-9963-b68a-291555637e6c Access Code: PCSD44636
A DO NOT PHOTOGRAPH list of students will be kept and updated in the 2018-19 Staff Folder. Please check it when in doubt, when photos are likely to be taken and periodically throughout the year.
Link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cG_4KCVrLtA7ePxebp3901b_pBLLmmDN
PV 2018-19 Staff Folder
Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cG_4KCVrLtA7ePxebp3901b_pBLLmmDN
TBT Updated Form with ESSENTIAL elements Link: Make a copy!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AAfc2Ml5hHbMdIy7oYjKGIhYx3aFPENZ_y7b7x86HhA/edit
K-5 Curriculum & Assessment Resource Binder
Access Code: PCSD44636
Our Week...
9.24 TGRG Informational Night 6-6:30 pm Cafeteria
9.25 Snacks- Provided by Grade 2
9.26-9.27 Triathlon
9.26 PTA Meeting 9:30 am- Faculty Lounge
9.27 FAST @ 4:40-8 pm Cafeteria
9.28 PTA Popcorn Sale
Looking Ahead...
10.1-10.3 CogAt Grade 2
10.1 & 10.2 Carnegie Science Assemblies- See Schedule in our PV Staff Google Folder
10.2 National Custodian Appreciation Day!
10.3 BLT Academic @ 8:00am Canzurlo's Room
10.4 Parent-Teacher Conferences @ 5-7:30 pm
10.5 PTA Fundraiser Hat Day
10.5 Student Leadership Celebration @ 2:15- Cafeteria
10.8 BFT @ 8:45 am- Boka's Office
10.8 Phone Bank & Pizza @ 5:30-7:30 pm Red Rees
10.9 Staff Meeting @ 8:45 am- Lower Gym & 3:30 pm Faculty Lounge
10.9 Fire Drill #3 @ 10:15 am
10.9 PVs Cookie Fundraiser Kick-off Assembly Times TBD- Lower Gym
10.9 & 10.10 Vision Screening- Media Center or Room 211 TBA soon
10.11 FAST @ 4:30-8 Cafeteria
10.12 NEOEA Day No School
10.14 PCSD 5K Run & Walk
10.16-10.26 Scholastic Book Fair
10.17 PTA REflections Workshop 7-8:00 pm
10.18 FAST @ 4:30-8 pm Cafeteria
10.19 End of the first marking period/quarter
10.19 Teacher In-service Day
10.22-10.26 Student Council Boo Sucker Sale
10.23 & 24 Grade 3 Fall AIR ELA Part 1 & 1
10.25 Picture Retake
10.25 & 10.26 PTA Popcorn Sale
10.25 FAST @ 4:30-8 pm Cafeteria
10.26 FAll Ball & Scholastic Book Fair 6-8 pm
10.29 -11.9 PEA Food Drive
10.29 PV Phone & Pizza @ 5:30-7:30 pm Bank Red Rees
10.29 Lockdown Drill #1 @ 10:15 am
10.31 Fall Festival Parade and Classroom Parties 1:45-3:15 pm