Week of November 2
Calendar of Events
November 2 (M)
Tech Plan due to Kim Ketterer
10:00-11:00, Joel at El Camino del Rio Info-graphics Meeting (Pivot Architecture)
2:30-5:00, Joel Elementary Principals’ Meeting (Ed Center)
November 3 (T)
Larry Soberman as admin. La Cosecha
Joel, Karen, Erin Reckers leave to present at La Cosecha on our school.
2:45-3:45, Staff Meeting (Cancelled)
6:00-7:00, Grupo de Padres
November 4 (W)
Larry Soberman as admin. La Cosecha
LEL at Awbrey Park- Megan attends without Joel.
4th Grade- Nearby Nature Field Trip
1:45-2:45, Wednesday PLC Collaboration Time on Math
1:45-2:45, PBIS Meeting in the Learning Center including supervising and classified staff. (Yasmin attends part- SWIS referral recorder)
November 5 (U)
Larry Soberman as admin. La Cosecha
2:45-3:45, Mod Squad Meeting
November 6 (F)
Larry Soberman as admin. La Cosecha
Regular Day
November 9 (M)
No meetings. Regular day.
November 10 (T)
Sara Green Visiting North Region Schools
4:00-8:00 PM, No meetings. Conferences from 4-8 PM (Conferences will be in your classroom.)
Let me know if you need an extra person present, myself, or Jennifer.
November 11 (W)
Veteran’s Day- No School. Do not go to work. Rest.
November 12 (U)
No School. Conferences 8AM -8 PM (Conferences will be in your classroom.)
4:00-5:00, Joel to North Region Principals’ Meeting
5:30-6:30, Meet the Superintendent – Community Event – English (Kelly MS)
6:30-7:30, Meet the Superintendent – Community Event – Spanish (Kelly MS)
November 13 (F)
Compensation Day. No School. No Work.
Classified Staff, if you have built up comp time hours, please turn in forms to take this day off.
November 16 (M)
2:30-5:00, Joel at Principal’s Meeting (Ed Center Parr)
November 17 (Tu)
All Day- Picture Retake Day
2:45-3:45, Staff Meeting (Library)
4:00-5:00, CAP Review with the PLT Team (Conference Room)
November 18 (W)
1:45-3:45, PLC Collaborative Time to plan math and create formative assessments.
2:40-3:40, Garden Design Meeting (Conference Room )
6:00-8:00, Spaghetti and Safety- A Parent Traffic Safety and Information Night- A community event focused on safety.
November 19 (Th)
2:45-3:45, Mod Squad
November 20 (F)
1:45-2:30, Kelly Band Assembly
November 23 (M)
9:00-9:45, Dali String Quartet Assembly (Cafeteria)
November 24 (Tu)
9:00-11:30,Illana Umanski from the UO visits to discuss Spanish proficiency in ELL identified students.
3:00-4:00, PLT Meeting
November 25 (W)
2:45-3:45, PLC Planning Time (Library)
November 26 (Th)
Thanksgiving- No School
November 27 (F)
Thanksgiving- No School
Way ahead:
Viaje Musicale: December 3 and 4, 6-8 PM
Robotics Competition in Philomath, Sunday, December 6
What is happening?
• IEP Meeting Compensation – Many non-ESS licensed staff attend IEP meetings during planning times or outside the workday. The EEA contract allows for licensed staff to be compensated for up to four hours of additional pay. I wanted to remind teachers to track your IEP meeting times on the Non-ESS Licensed IEP Time Log, which will be accepted later this year between April 25 and June 10th. The attachment can also be found on the HR Forms section of the 4J website.
• Downtown Admin Update – 4J has a new Director of Human Resources, Cydney Vandercar. As you may be aware, Cydney became the interim Director of Human Resources in April of this year and has done a fine job leading HR during this time. If you don’t know Cydney, she began her career in 4J as a math teacher in 1993. After teaching for six years, she became one of South Eugene’s assistant principals. In 2004, she moved to Spencer Butte as the principal for four years and then as the principal at Cal Young for four years, after which she joined the HR team as the Workforce Planning and Staffing Administrator.
• 3 ways to take learning outside with mobile devices – Here’s a short blog post for those of you with iPads or anyone who might want to borrow a set from another classroom. Mobile devices are an effective way to stretch the learning experience outside the classroom, STEM educator Julie Willcott writes. She shares three ways teachers can use devices for out-of-the-classroom exploration. And yes, you do have permission to take iPads outside of the building.
• La Cosecha Presentations by Our staff: Kathy Larson, Karen Ramirez Gutierrez, Erin Reckers and myself will be sharing much about all of your hard work over the last year and a half. We are extremely proud of your accomplishments with our students and will be using them as a springboard for further conversations with the attendees of this large national conference. I am told that DLENM puts on excellent conference on Dual Language. We are very excited to bring back information to share with the staff in our next time together. Here are links to the two presentations were are leading:
Promoting Language Growth: Learning to Assess Using the FLOSEM Protocol
• Obama: Limit standardized testing in school testing – Since the amount of required testing is always a hot topic, I thought staff may find this EdWeek article of interest. Obama is seeking to limit standardized testing to 2% of instructional time. The announcement comes as a report from the Council of the Great City Schools finds that the average eighth-grade student spends 2.3% of class time on testing and that some mandatory exams might be redundant. Here’s a related article that also appeared in The Atlantic.
• Bilingualism: When Education and Assimilation Clash- Nearly one in four U.S. public-school children speak a language other than English at home. What’s the best way to accommodate ELL students in the classroom? Well, I think many of us believe we have an answer at El Camino del Río, Two way Immersion done well. Still, what does this mean for students who do not have an opportunity to learn their heritage language? This article explores this topic in depth.
• Site Council Writes EEF grants – On Tuesday, Site Council hashed out three EEF Grant proposals for our school. They are:
1. Latin American Fine Arts Artist in Residence, Libros, Libros, Libros!,$2000.00
2. Acquiring more Spanish books for our bilingual library,$1500.00
3. Beginning a Ballet Folkorico Dance Program at El Camino del Río. The dance troupe would be offered to students k-5 to provide more cultural opportunities for younger students. $1500.00
They were also ranked by the Site Council in the above order. I wrote the final text of the grants this weekend and submitted them before the deadline.
Indian Boy Speaking Multiple Languages- Example of Translanguaging
He taught himself to be multi-linguistic in order to sell his peacock feather fans to tourists who come to India from all over the world. He is an amazing example of how Translanguaging is housed within the mind and can be readily accessed.
That is all for this week. Take care.
I know Larry Soberman will do a good job taking care of things while I am gone.
Best,
Joel
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