Austin Staff Newsletter
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Welcome Back!
Happy New Year! I am so excited for what will take place at Austin in 2018! I am so proud of the work each of you are doing and will be doing. We know the work is hard, but I am here to support you and walk right along side you. Let me know what I can do to help you and I will do my best to make it happen.
Have a great start to the new semester and New Year!
Kelsey
Upcoming Events-
Jan. 11th- Geography Bee- 9:30am in cafeteria, 4th and 5th will attend
Jan. 12th- Super Hero Day-AFV @ 2:3-pm
Jan. 15th-Exchange Day for Teachers, no students
Jan. 15th-Collaboration Week
Jan. 16th- Meeting after school in library @ 3:30pm
Jan. 18th- CIT meeting in library @ 3:45pm
Jan. 22nd- Team Leaders after school
Jan. 23rd- Cici's Spirit Night
Jan. 24th- 4th grade Bass Hall Field Trip
Jan. 25th- RTI All Day
Jan. 26th- BAS data due by 3pm
Railroad Performance K,1,2 @1:45pm/3,4,5 @2:30pm
When Looking at Data...
These are the questions I use when looking at data. So, as you give assessments this month and start to look at the data, I would encourage you to think about these three questions.
- What pops out to me?
- What do you see that you expected?
- What surprises you?
Quarter 3- Focus Items
Below is what we will be focusing on in Quarter 3 of our Campus Plan. Make sure to come talk to me if you have questions. These are areas our data show we do REALLY WELL. So we are going to maximize on what we do well and continue to grow ourselves and in turn our students.
- Coaching feedback over specific academic areas, Google Form will be coming out on Friday (more specific walkthrough feedback)
- Lesson Plans- area I will be looking at and inspecting will be SEED questions for FSGPT. See below for a resource to help you in this area. Great part, it's already in curriculum document:)
- Power Zone- using your 4,3,2,1 system, running records, notes, etc, to collect formative data over student progress.
- Guided Reading/Readers workshop
"What you expect, is what you inspect." These are the areas we will be focusing on the 3rd quarter.