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January 12
2nd Quarter Awards Ceremonies
Procedures for Awards Ceremonies
1. Prior to attending, go over specific expectations for the VIBE during assemblies.
2. Go over procedures on how to accept an award, shake a hand, and make eye contact.
3. When your class is waiting in the audience, closely monitor, circulate, and use nonverbal communicate during the presentation.
4. Please have a list of the child’s awards on the outside of the folder to make it easy and quick to read and distribute.
5. Be as specific as possible with your awards for gains. For example: ___ made a 35 point gain in Reading in iReady, which is over a year and a half worth of growth.
6. Grade Chairs: be prepared to share the academic excellence that has transpired, and what parents can look forward to in the coming months.
This is your time to share out any positive gains and global accolades you have for your team.
Award Schedule for January 19th:
9:00 3rd Grade
10:00 2nd Grade
1:15 4th Grade
2:15 5th Grade
Wednesday, 1/24 Early Release
Our #VBEVIP is Ms. Norwood! Enjoy your parking spot, and keep making those nominations on Twitter!
LeAnn Nickelson's Formative Assessment PD
Shout out to Ms. Berwick, Ms. Browning, Ms. Vega, Dr. Mathews, Ms. Lamscha, Ms. T. Robinson, Ms. Benson, Ms. Kincus, Mr. Henley, Ms. White, Ms. Ragley, Ms. V. Gonzalez, Mr. Robinson, Ms. Hoffa, Ms. Blidgen, Ms. Cisneros, Ms. E. Gonzalez, Ms. Blue, Ms. Barth, Ms. Nesbitt, Ms. Riddick, Ms. Keeley, Mr. Hill, Ms. D. Patterson, Ms. Craner, and Ms. Van Brimmer for dedicating your time to your professional growth! We have the BEST tribe EVER!
Feedback that Fuels Learning from ASCD
Why don't students use feedback? Sue Brookhart writes that if students don't know how to use feedback or don't understand the learning goal they're applying it to, they're likely to see feedback as evaluative rather than informative. Like a final grade, feedback under these circumstances marks an end to learning, not an opportunity to extend. Raters can be motivators, however, when feedback is timely, specific, actionable, and compassionate. Here's how to put forward-focused feedback to work in your classroom.
Students need not be held accountable for a year's worth of growth in one writing assignment. Find time for feedback, and turn it into a nonthreatening, accessible tool for writing development, by giving less (but more focused) feedback earlier in the writing process.
Use the Five Rs to Avoid the Forbidden Fruitlessness of Feedback
If your idea of hell is a stack of ungraded essays, take heed. A high school English teacher shares his formula for getting students to do the work of reviewing, reflecting, researching, and revising during the feedback process so that he can focus on reinforcing their new learning.
A Time-Out Strategy for Feedback That Motivates Learning
While students work in groups or independently, teachers can circulate and gather observational data on sticking points and stellar work. With some common challenges and student exemplars gathered, teachers call a 5-minute "time out" to provide a mini-lesson to address areas of struggle and highlight student strengths.
Updates from Ms. Keeley
District Science Fair
District Science Fair will be held on Saturday, January, 27 at Gifford Middle School. Students should arrive there at 10:15 a.m. Judging time for our school will be 10:30 - 11:00 a.m. Only students and science fair coordinators will be allowed in the cafeteria. Parents and teachers must wait outside the cafeteria. Awards will be held on Sunday, January 28 at Sebastian River High School Performing Arts Center from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
I will be putting permission slips for students that qualified for district level in your mailbox. Please make sure these are stapled in the agenda and returned. Please place in my mailbox once they are returned. If a student is unable to attend, please pick a substitute for them and let me know so we can send home a permission slip.
Next week I will start pulling the presenters to practice their presentation and tweak anything needed for the science board. I will let you know of those times in a separate email.
Science Based Units
Wow! With walkthroughs and Tweets it is so evident how far we have come with the science based units. YOU are embedding so many hands on, vocabulary gestures, STEM, investigations, and demonstrations across grade levels - and that is just in the past week!! Please let me know if you need any ideas for hands on or if you are doing something that I can come watch or work with the students.
Updates from Ms. Ragley
Roster Verification Tool
The Roster Verification Tool for Fall 2017 in now open.
Section 1012.34(1)(a), Florida Statutes, requires districts to “provide instructional personnel the opportunity to review their class rosters for accuracy and to correct any mistakes.” To assist districts in complying with this provision of statute, the Florida Department of Education has created an online Roster Verification Tool (RVT) to allow districts, schools, and teachers to review class rosters. Through the tool, changes to rosters can be made and approved as needed. This tool assists in calculating teachers’ student performance score.
The attached guides below provide you with the steps necessary for completing the process of verifying your class rosters as of October 13th. This process is designed to verify the students enrolled in a class assigned to a teacher, by period, for that one specific day, October 13th. Any changes that have occurred to a teacher’s roster since that time should not be made through this tool. Teachers may not remove students from their rosters because of attendance issues or if a student is on Hospital Homebound status.
Teachers need to complete the RVT by January 26th. The tool can be accessed at http://app3.fldoe.org/RosterVerification.
Your username and password are your email address. For example:
Username: first.last@indianriverschools.org
Password: first.last@indianriverschools.org
When you are prompted to enter your previous password, enter your email address again.
Be sure to select Survey 2 when logging in.