Tiger Beat
Acton Weekly Update: 9/1/2017
Brook Wessel-Burke
T.E.A.M. Together Everyone Achieves More
WE ARE ALL RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR DATA. These are OUR KIDS- not third grade's students or my neighbors students. NO- They are OURS. We are all responsible for working together to prepare OUR kids for success. K,1,2 have to communicate with 3,4,5 about deficit skills and weaknesses so we know how to fill in those gaps or prevent them from every happening.
Nuts and Bolts
Brook'sLookfors: What am I looking for or noticing when I come in your room?
Student Created Writing Rubric with Common Language and ICONS
Anchor charts created with students
Vocab enrichment-Growing Vocab anchor charts
EVERYTHING on your walls should have meaning to your students.
Objectives posted -Instructional Practices HERE.
Your students should know the objective if I ask them.
Are you following a Gradual Release of Responsibility format? (I do, We do, You do)
Are you assessing learning? (Pre/post formative assessment- check for understanding, exit slips)
Are students actively engaged or passive learners?
Curriculum and Instruction
Reviewing our PLC Purpose:
The Three Big Ideas of PLC- watch 1 minute video
The PLC Cycle- Our Four Essential Questions
Exit slips -MItzi started using her door to have students show their learning from the book she has been reading with them.
Reaching All Learners
POLL RESULTS REGARDING PUBLIC OPINION ON PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Here are the headlines from this year’s survey:
- Americans overwhelmingly want schools to do more than educate students academically. That means blending work readiness, personal skills, and academic courses.
- Substantially more Americans oppose than support school vouchers. Whether parents would use a voucher depends on how much tuition it would cover.
- Most parents value racial/ethnic and economic diversity in schools — but they don’t believe it’s worth a longer commute to school.
- Schools should provide wraparound services for students — such as health services, mental health support, after-school programs, and dental services — and seek additional public money to pay for them.
- Parents say standardized tests don’t measure what’s important to them, and they put such tests at the bottom of a list of indicators of school quality.
- Public schools get their highest grades from those who know them best: public school parents.
- Most public school parents expect their child to attend college full time but that may not mean a four-year college.
Technology
First Quarter Technology Goals:
Kindergarten-using the iPad more with station and smallgroups
First Grade: find a hyper doc to utilize with our instruction during the first quarter, as well as create a hyper doc by the return of fall break.
Second Grade: Set up google classroom, introduce and use hyper docs, create hyper doc"
3rd grade will be focusing on incorporating hyperdocs into our math and reading lessons
4th grade will be focusing on incorporating Flipgrid and other forms of digital responses this quarter."
5th Grade will use Google Classroom once a week for the first quarter
SS
Related Arts decided to make creating a hyperdoc lesson our tech goal for the first quarter.
What's Coming Up
September:
1 Instructional Coaches meeting
4 Labor Day
5 PTO Meeting
6 ENL PLC @ SC
6 School Psych Mtg
6&7 Texas Roadhouse fundraiser for Houser Elementary School
8 Instructional Coaches Meeting
11 Evacuation Drill
11 Friendship Week/ Fundraiser Kickoff Convocation
11-15 Friendship/Anti Bullying Week
11-29 Acuity Predictive A ELA and Math Grade 3-5
12 ENL workday
13 Classified Wellness and Benefits Meeting
14 Grade 3-8 ELA High Ability
14 Bus Evacuation Drills
15 All Pro Dads
15 Instructional Coaches meeting
18 1st Grade Kasey the Dog
19 Grade level meeting KDG
20 Grade level meeting 1st
21 Grade Level meeting 2nd
21 School Board/Ctech presentation at Acton
22 Oct, Nov Field Trips Due
22 PTO Fundraiser-a-thon
26 Grade level meeting 3rd
27 Grade level meeting 4th
28 Grade level meeting 5th
29 End of first grading period