Week of October 6
Hello Camino Staff,
Last week was a very busy week. This weekend was a great cool down for me I and I feel recuperated. I hope staff found the Maravillas training helpful. There was a lot of information in the training and it will take some time to digest it all. I am so happy to settle in and see more classrooms and learning this week. I will continue to visit your morning meetings to get a feel to how classes have adjusted to that routine and structure. Teachers, it is time to focus on your goals. Please contact me to set up a time to meet and discuss them.
October 6 (M)
Joel visits morning meetings.
4:00-8:00, Joel at Equity Committee Retreat
October 7 (T)
Joel visits morning meetings.
2:45-3:45, PLT Meeting
October 8 (W)
Joel visits morning meetings.
1:40-2:40, Grade Level Collaboration Time
2:45- 3:45, IPBS Meeting
October 9 (TH)
Joel visits morning meetings.
1:45, School PBIS Assembly
2:45-3:45, Design Committee
October 10 (F)
No School, Statewide In-service Day- non-contract day for teachers and EA’s
October 13(M)
Joel available all day to do goals meetings.
October 14 (T)
2:45, Staff Meeting
October 15 (W)
1:40, Collaboration Time- Please meet in library.
2:45- 3:45, PBIS Meeting, Classified encouraged to come in exchange for an hour of comp time.
October 16 (TH)
3:00, Design Meeting
October 17 (F)
Joel available all day to do goals meetings.
- Rosa Molina visit October 20th All Day– Rosa Molina is confirmed to visit on October 20th. By October 16th, I will need every teacher to complete their weekly schedule that was given to you by Sarah Knudsen. If you can get it to me next week, I can give you advice or tips on how to improve it before the visit occurs. You will be meeting with Rosa and your grade level team for 40 minutes to consult about the fidelity of the program you are delivering. Please, be prepared for this tremendous opportunity! We will also be spending time with Rosa on December 1st to do Curriculum Mapping as a staff. This will help us prepare to do the mapping on December 1st.
- Being A Writer Materials – If you are short any Being A Writer materials, let me know by Wednesday. Downtown is providing additional materials for classrooms or SPED teachers who are short or missing any items. SPED teachers should have materials for grades 2, 3 and 4 only. Let me know if you have any questions on this.
- TalentEd Update – TalentEd has now been updated for the 2014-2015 school year. This page provides a link to the TalentEd for login and Quick Start Guide. This link can be found on our 4J web site under Human Resources Teacher Effectiveness and Growth Systems. I’ll set October 31st as the due date for the self-assessment and goals. Goals Meetings- Octboer 13th and October 17th are set aside for me to work on goals for you. Please have an idea of how you would like to set your SLGOs for these meetings or write some up. In PLT this week, we will be discussing school wide SMART Goals for your convenience and to align with many of our CAP goals.
- Office Hours: The office will now be open from 7:45- 3:45. Being that our classes start at 8:20, 7:45 feels like ample time to get students to school and class. Yasmin or Edna will be there every day at 7:45. Yasmin will supervise from the office. Craig will begin opening the doors a little later each day as well.
- New Library Resource for Teachers from Eugene Public Library Youth Services – The Eugene Public Library website has a new Teacher Resources K-6 website, which includes:
• Library’s online resources, targeted by subject
• Links to books in the collection on teaching those subjects
• Links and search tips for finding books and media in the collection to check out for the classroom
• Lists of curated websites by subject
• How to contact the library for assignment support and tour requestsIf staff have any questions, they should feel free to contact Michele Green, the Eugene Public Library Youth Librarian, by email (michele.e.green@ci.eugene.or.us) or by phone at 541-682-8480 (Sun – Thurs).
- Book Room Materials Organizing and Clean Up– We need to clear out many of the materials in the book room or at least begin to store some of them. This is to make space for Maravillas resource materials. If you have materials that you want to use, please come by and pick out what you need. Piper, Megan and I are going to remove materials that are considered out of date or unnecessary by October 31.
- PBIS Assembly 1:45 Thursday– Do not forget to work with your grade level or specialist team to make up a short 10-30 second skit for the PBIS assembly. We will be presenting ourselves to the school in a fun-hearted fashion on October 9th.
- El Día de los Muertos Planning Meetings– Are you wondering how the El Dia de Los Muertos Night is going? Last week, many staff members planned out some fun stations for the event and I heard that we will be having some serious fun! Please check in with Alicia about this event that happens on October 29th from 8-6.
- BEST begins soon: Jessica Zapata has been working hard to hire candidates for the EA positions in BEST and has been working to set up a great program for the year. With Aline and Bryan’s help, this will be an amazing support for best. Attached are the details that Jessica wanted to share with you about our program this year.
BEST-Information for Principal’s blog 10_14
- No School Friday October 10 for State In-service Day– Here are some opportunities across the state.
- “Talking and Books” presentation on October 22 and 23 for Kinders- Mr. Lavin and Ms. Ramirez will read to your children while they demonstrate simple and effective ways to enjoy books with your children and get them talking!
Book talk They will talk about popular and age-appropriate books that a child may read independently and high-interest books that parents can read aloud to their children.
Time to Read Parents and their children will have time to read together.
All Families will take home a beautiful new picture book. All are invited to wear their jammies! Children may want to bring their favorite stuffed animals. Childcare will be provided for all preschool children.
- SBAC Preparation: Marlee Litten posted several links for Smarter Balanced last week. Here is one on the tools: It is under ESC>State Assessments on the Teacher Resource page) The video of a PLC team is still not working on YouTube so I am trying to get a copy sent to us. http://www.curriculum.4j.lane.edu/esc/elementary-state-assessments/
- Lock Down Review, Karen Ramirez had some great tips from last weeks lock-down drill.
Lockdown Drill was a success! Here are a some reminders for all of us.
- United Way Drive: This year Nancy Schaal is our United Way Representative. United Way is a great program that directly benefits our students in many ways. Please consider donating a small amount this year. It makes a huge difference in their lives. United way is the largest community support network in our community. As staff members, you ca make a big difference in our students lives with the small funds you donate. Ask Nancy how you can help. She will be contacting you soon to help you make a donation.
- Race Conversations: Last week, an announcement was made by North Eugene about a teacher of color who was targeted by disgusting flyers. I shared this with many staff at the end of the training last Friday. This was shared with the North Principals, and I felt, we as a staff need to be aware of it and how it may effect our students who have big brothers and sisters there. As teachers and staff members, I hope that you can incorporate conversations about difference including race in your class meetings and morning meetings. One of the great take-aways from the student actions against this flyer and treatment of adults and students is to enrich our conversations across the schools in 4j. We must directly address microagressions when we see them happening. The video below shows how some students have reacted to the microagressions they feel daily on campus at Harvard University. Our children in our classrooms are no different.