Week of October 20
Schedule of Events of The Week
October 20 (M)
8:00-4:30, Rosa Molina Visit to consult on our schedules and district wide issues. See the schedule in the main blog post.
I will not be attending the Title Meeting nor the Principal’s Meeting in order to host our guest Rosa Molina throughout the day. I will try to attend each of the grade level meetings with you pending disciplinary needs.
First Day of BEST
October 21 (T)
8:15-12:15, Priority School Support Team Meeting (SST) (Conference Room)
12:30-1:30- Math PD Planning meeting with Reid Sheppard and Maddie Ahearn (Conference Room)
2:45 3:45 – TLT Meeting (Conference Room)
6:00-8:00, Latino Family Meeting @ NEHS
October 22 (W)
2:45-3:45, IPBS Meeting in Maestra Recker’s Room
6:00-8:00,Talking with Books Kinder Literacy Event
October 23 (H)
7:30-9:30, Joel at Priority Schools Meeting with fellow Principals in Springfield
10:00-12:00, Joel in Meeting with Audrey Lucero and Edward Olivos
3:00-5:00, Design Committee
4:30-6:30, Joel to the 4J Equity Committee
6:00-8:00 PM, Talking with Books Kinder Literacy Event
October 24 (F)
Joel in Portland with Karen, Alicia, and Sara Cramer to learn about Early Literacy.
10:15-11:00, Asemblea Andina with Ethnomusicologist and parent Ed Wolf.
October 27 (M)
2:45-3:45, Site Council Meeting for October
October 28 (T)
1:00-3:30, Superintendent Berman to observe classrooms and chat with staff at Staff Meeting.
3:45-5:30, PLT Meeting for CAP Revisions (Extra Duty Contract for PLT Members)
October 29 (W)
1:45-2:45, Wednesday Collaboration Time
October 30 (Th)
3:00-5:00, Design Committee
October 31 (F)
Halloween- Costumes to be worn in classroom parties only.
November 6 and 7- Parent Conferences.
Here are several items of note for the week:
This week will be very busy for many of us. Do not forget to take time to enjoy the interactions with your students and be in the moment with them. We are solidifying our schedule and making some great decisions with our students in mind. This is so important for the future of our program. I could not be more proud of the interactions I have seen in classrooms over the last week. You are all doing a great job with our students. Keep it up!
Rosa Molina Visit Schedule:
Here is the schedule for the grade level consultations with Rosa Molina next Monday, Oct 20. We will have two roving subs to cover classes while teachers are meeting with her.
8:15-8:55 Grade 2
9:00-9:40 Grade 1
9:45-10:25 Kinder
10:30-11:30 District meeting
11:30-12:00 Lunch
12:00-12:40 Grade 3
12:45-1:25 Grade 5
1:30-2:10 Grade 4
2:10-2:30 Break
2:30-3:30 Specialists
3:30-4:10 Grade 6 (Hector Cash from Kelly)
Here are some Resources available in the Family Resource Center on El Dia de Los Muertos:
If you are interested in checking them out, please let Alicia know and she will get them to you. Below you will find a list of useful Día de los Muertos links. Please let her know if you have any questions.
Resources:
Día de los Muertos Activity Packet
Day of the Dead SMARTBoard Activity
Books:
The Festival of Bones/El Festival de las Calaveras
El Día de los Muertos
Mi Familia Calaca/My Skeleton Family
Links:
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~kihlstrm/dayofthedead.htm
http://latino.si.edu/dayofthedead/
http://www.mexonline.com/dayofthedead.htm
http://www.celebrate-day-of-the-dead.com/
http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/byrnes-celebrations/day.html
http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/media/dia-de-los-muertos/?ar_a=1
http://www.niu.edu/newsplace/nndia.html
http://holidays.mrdonn.org/dayofthedead.html
http://www.mommymaestra.com/2010/11/brief-history-of-dia-de-los-muertos-for.html
http://www.inside-mexico.com/noes.htm
Students will not wear costumes to school. They must arrive in regular attire. If a teacher decides to hold a Halloween party, students can put on their costumes for the event and the teacher will inform families on their own. Individual teachers will determine if Halloween parties will take place in their classrooms. If teachers permit costumes during this holiday celebration, the following dress code will be enforced, as it pertains to costumes:
• NO weapons
• NO weapon-like props
• NO excessive bareness (no spaghetti straps, exposed bra straps, bare midriffs)
• NO “gang” attire
• NO dress as another ethnicity or race
• NO masks
• NO especially scary or gory costumes
We will provide an alternative activity for families who do not promote costume wearing, such as the Jehovah’s Witness community. The music and PE specialists will provide a sing along /movement session at the END of the day for 40 minutes while parties occur. Please plan all classroom parties from 2:00-2:40 so Jehovah’s Witness parents can pick up students from home after the academic instruction has happened.
Here is a link to the 4J Healthy Snack Guidelines for Parties: Remember, we (nor parents volunteering) cannot serve students candy at school.
New School will be designed on the west of the existing school:
The new school will be built to the west of the existing school. The design team provided an update to the school board this evening, sharing information about the siting decision and how that decision was reached.
Now the more detailed design work begins. The design committee will continue to be as responsive as possible to neighborhood, family and community input as the design of the new school takes shape. The new school is scheduled to break ground in 2015 and open in fall 2016.
Learn more about the site selection and public engagement process:
River Road School Site Selection Process — school board presentation slideshow, Oct. 15, 2014
River Road School Site Selection Evaluation Matrix
River Road School Design Public Engagement Process
• CenturyLink Teachers and Technology Grant – The CenturyLink Teachers and Technology Grant Program is a competitive grant open to PreK-12 teachers and is designed to help teachers implement technology in their classrooms to increase student achievement. They will consider requests of up to $5,000 submitted by full-time classroom teachers, with a deadline of January 2, 2015. Grants will be awarded in April. If you’d like any help putting together a grant, let me know and I can maybe even ghostwrite it for you or a group of teachers.
• VIDEO: White Privilege – Bill O’Reilly and Jon Stewart had an epic showdown over white privilege that’s well worth watching. I nearly saved this for a staff meeting, but it’s a bit long. Still, it’s definitely worth playing the 12 minute segment after school one day to see Stewart do an excellent job of countering O’Reilly’s various detours (the playing field is now level, reverse racism, the bootstrap theory, etc.) throughout the face-off. Since it’s from The Daily Show, it’s also quite funny and entertaining.
• Free/Reduced Meals Forms at Conferences or sent home.– Our Free and Reduced Meals percentage is currently at 67%, which is a drop from where we were at the end of last year, which was around 72%. Please highlight the program to families at conferences and have some forms on hand. Besides the importance of making sure families who could benefit from the program are accessing it, our F/R count directly impacts our classroom and Title staffing, so it’s a good idea for many reasons to encourage families to enroll in the program even if they don’t plan on using it. Monday, October 20th is the “drop off” day if families had service last year. Parents will need to reapply to get the service again if they had it set up in 2013-2014.
Dual Language Links of the Week:
A New Vietnamese Dual Language School in Portland
Reducing distraction with bilingualism
Have a fabulous week everyone!
Joel
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