RMS Staff Wildcat Weekly
Staff Newsletter 1.27.20
Shout Out
Weekly Shout Out goes to the teachers in Pride 8B for collaborating around student achievement and wellness! Thank you for being advocates for your kids!
Thank you Whitney and the PE department for teaching the students Zumba! What a great way to get students involved and have a blast!
PE Dance Party- ZUMBA!
Literacy Highlights!
7th grade math is providing scaffolds such as word walls, sentence frames, opportunities for partner talk and checking for understanding before writing. The students are discussing to understand the concept before the formula.
8th grade History is using PBS units to make history relevant to their lives in the modern world. Check out pbslearningmedia.org for great units that can support AXES paragraph creation. The unit on the PBS learning website was an innovative way to brainstorm, find evidence, and prepare students to be successful writing their own AXES paragraphs.
Collaboration Schedule
Today is Pride PLC!
January 31: All Day Staff PD at RMS
Student of the Month Nomination Form: Please nominate 2 students for Courage today! Awards will be given Thursday, January 30th.
Employee of the Month Nomination Form: Please remember to nominate a peer for Employee of the Month! Trophy will be presented on January 31.
PTA Updates
Friday Jan 31 Menchie’s Fundraiser! Please support while you get a treat! Flyer here:
Spirit wear is available! Forms at the front desk. New items: Red pullover sweatshirts, V-Neck ladies shirts, Wildcat car decal! Show your spirit!!
College Highlight in Lunch Area
Our SDSU Counseling Interns want to highlight colleges on our bulletin board in the lunch area. We would love to include our fellow colleagues in a special alumni section when highlighting a few colleges each month. Please take a minute to fill out this quick form regarding the schools you have attended. We're hoping to have this up the first week of February, so please submit your responses by Wednesday, January 29th.
WEEKLY NEWS
Artful Learning Collaboration: We're excited to host the AL Consultants this week, and we're looking forward to the collaboration and guidance. 8th grade collaboration is on Tuesday, 7th grade on Wednesday, and 6th grade on Thursday. We have our ILT Working Lunch during period 5 on Tuesday, and we're hoping to offer an optional (paid) ABSS workshop on Wednesday after school. More info to come! Thank you to Kathryn, Kurdy, and Erin for all the coordination to make this happen! We appreciate all your work!
January 31 Staff Development: Our staff development day on Friday, January 31st, will be held here at Roosevelt. All staff (certificated and classified) will meet in the MPR at 8:00 am for Active Shooter Training. The agenda for the day is linked below. Following the active shooter training, certain classified groups will be moving to other trainings. Details and logistics will be sent to these groups this week.
District Professional Development Day Guidelines
RMS Campus Tours: Our tours start this week and will run almost every Tuesday from now until April 7th. Tours will be led by ASB students starting at 3:45 pm and should last approximately 45 minutes. Students will be walking prospective families around campus and highlighting our wonderful programs. If you are available and can have your room open, that is great! Here is the FLYER that was sent to all elementary schools.
VCC Mobile Dental Services will be at RMS again this year, 3 days from 2/25/2020 to 2/28/2020. Please encourage your students to inform their parents providing the link or consent form. Here are the English link and Spanish link to complete the dental screening consent form online, or we have consent forms in the front desk or Gabby can bring some to your classroom if you prefer as well. VCC will be giving 3 $5 dollar Starbucks gift cards to raffle between the students that do the dental screening. We are trying to get more participation from students this year. Thank you!
Sewing Club: Our RMS Sewing Club starts back up on Tuesday, January 28th. We can help all teachers with any projects that you may need for your class: make curtains, pillows, repair any piece of dress or personal item. Just let us know and we will let you know if we are able to help you with your request.
ELPAC Update: February is an important month for students in the English Language Development (ELD) classes. Students will take the English Language Proficiency Assessment for California (ELPAC) to measure growth in their use of English.To learn more about your child’s ELPAC test scores, visit the Starting Smarter parent website for the ELPAC at https://elpac.startingsmarter.org/.
iReady Diagnostic #2: All students at RMS need to take Diagnostic #2 so we can measure our progress toward SPSA goals. Have your students complete by February 28th. Discuss with your Pride how you will get testing completed. Please let admin know specifics for your Prid
Spring Pictures are coming! Pictures will be taken on March 19th during both lunches in the MPR. Order Forms will be sent home in February.
Artful Learning Highlight: 6th Grade Science
Assessing Literacy Skills with One-on-One Conferencing
"Brief, frequent chats with students help teachers assess their reading and writing skills while building strong relationships."
"CONFERENCING AS A LITERACY ASSESSMENT: Conferencing has many benefits, but for me the most important is the one-on-one time with students. Although I use it as an assessment tool, conferencing is also a critical method of relationship building with students, which is a necessary precursor to learning. I learn about students’ interests and feelings through their reading choices and their responses to texts. Without conferencing, I wouldn’t have these personal moments with students, which create an atmosphere of respect and trust that doesn’t arise through traditional assessments like presentations and tests."
Check out this article to see how to get started with this beneficial strategy!
Square 1 Art Fundraiser
Winter Showcase
5:00-7:00