RNNE Team and Family Launcher
Goal-oriented and intentional.Intervention.Authentic Team.
"The Irrational Few"
" Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us" - Ephesians 3:20
Academic Focus Areas
- Identify all of the opportunities students have to independently complete work in your block.
- Create/use a quick spreadsheet to record student mastery levels in a quick manner. Circulate to all students and have spreadsheet on your purple clipboard.
- Quickly scan your spreadsheet and choose one area to address whole group based on the greatest frequency of student misconception.
School-wide Goal: 100% of teachers are a 3+ on the Targeted Teaching Time rubric row on the Intellectual Prep Rubric by 10/16.
Culture Focus Areas
- For every negative/consequence you give, highlight at least 3 positive examples of students being excellent models! You have a ton of examples in your classrooms, so shout students out! This is also a shout out for you for doing an excellent job in impacting great student examples!
- Create a chart that simply says "3:1" to post in the back of your classroom/somewhere easily seen by you in the room to serve as a reminder for you. Positive Narration comes with muscle memory; the more you use it, the easier it comes to you when in front of students.
- Check out this blog resource about the impact of positive narration in the classroom.
School-wide Goal: 100% of teachers are at least a 3:1 ratio by 10/23.
Another great way to acknowledge the positive in your learning space is to make a big deal out of publicly bragging on your students to show them off for the great things they are doing in class to others! Check this resource out on the interplay between positive narration and bragging.
Tight In-Class Transitions
- Our students have several academic gaps to overcome this year and we only 7 months to do it, so we have to ensure that every moment is class is efficient and focused. Sweating the most intricate details of our day - most notably transitions - in shaving down on wasted time will help us to allocate our time towards academic growth for students. Well-planned and efficient in-class transitions also helps to prevent misbehavior that arise as a result of poorly executed and chaotic transitions to/from the carpet and desk-to-door.
- Use "stand, turn, transition" to transition students tightly to their next destination in the classroom.
- Check out the video below of a strong example of a tight in-class transition.
School-wide Goal: 100% teachers are at a score of 3+ on the Transition Between Activities row of the Student Culture Rubric by 10/23.
Student Tracking
- We're solid as a school with student to teacher tracking, but need to strengthen our focus on student to student tracking when a classmate is speaking.
- Use a quick statement "Everyone tracking __________ in 3-2-1" "__________ (student's name), make sure that you're getting the respect that you deserve before you speak" "all eyes tracking________ (student's name), students repeat "all eyes tracking ________ (student's name)"
School-Wide Goal: 100% of teachers are a score of 3+ on the Tracking row of the Student Culture Rubric by 10/23.
Upcoming Events
October 5-9th:
- 5th-7th: October PD @ RUA beginning at 8am each day. Your Instructional/Content Coach will send you a content specific schedule of sessions you'll be participating in this week.
- 8th-9th: TAKE SOME TIME FOR YOURSELF! For real. Maximize the planning time that you'll have this week during PD, to get ahead on planning for your content areas so that you can truly disconnect, unplug and recharge on Thursday and Friday. Our work, while incredibly rewarding, is tough and emotionally exhausting as well as physically draining. You need to take the time to truly dedicate to loving yourself and giving yourself some space to enjoy life outside of work.
October 13th:
- Rocketship United Academy's Ribbon Cutting Ceremony| 1:30pm
- There will be an all-region event that evening (you should have received an invite for it by now from Jennifer Barnett from the Network Team).
- DC Tour Group Visiting RNNE| Arrival - 11am; this tour group will consist of donors who are interested in donating to Rocketship and support for our DC campus opening next year. The tour groups will visit classrooms and observe teachers and students in action.
- "Calling All Fathers" Event hosted by Cory Beal - more information will be coming out soon
October 21st:
- Kindergarten/1st Grade Field Trip
October 30th:
- Parent Coffee: 8:30am
- Fall Fiesta (formerly known as the Fall Festival/Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration): 6:00pm
October PD Week
- Dress: Business Casual
- Arrive no later than 8:30am to RUA's campus Monday-Wednesday. 320 Plus Park Blvd, Nashville, TN 37217
- Bring your charged laptop each day.
Focus Areas:
Your coach will reach out to you with your specific PD sessions for the week. The overarching theme for sessions is centered around amplifying the planning and execution of your content block.
You will engage in several sessions that will lead to stronger planning and execution to target the key skills that our students need to be equipped in order to truly grow and learn this year.
You will have several opportunities to engage in direct application of your sessions through planning times. There will be deliverables for each session/planning block in place to help focus your time during planning times as well as allow you to fully unplug on Thursday and Friday without having to continue to work on planning after PD ends on Wednesday afternoon for the following week.
Updates from April and the Operations Team
1. THANK YOU ALL- We don't have dirty dishes anymore :)
**A new look will be coming soon where you can enjoy your lunch break! With TV and dining space.
2. Copies in the copy room, please be sure to pick up your copies the day you do them. Teachers can also put a sticky note on the 1st copy with their name and room number on it and it can be delivered to their classes, concierge style. We've wasted too much paper on unclaimed copies.
3. Recess- If a teacher decides to take away the entire class recess time, the teacher must come and be with their class the entire time. They can send students that should still receive recess but no longer having a whole class sit out of recess w/o teacher support around the discipline action.
4. Moving forward, Support Staff will complete all lamination tasks for teachers. If you need a project laminated, please let the Support Staff member assigned to your grade level know.