Diario Camino del Río

Week of October 3

Hello Shining Star Staff,

This week is going to be an exciting week.  We have much to look forward to: an assembly to kick off the Caminata,  the Walk and Bike to School Day, and the Caminata itself.  It should be a fun filled week.  Also, Myka is working on an estimate to get t-shirts with our new emblem.  We think we can keep the cost down to 5 or 6 dollars per student.  We will also be doing a special order for staff.  Enjoy the week and the crisp feeling of fall in the air.  It’s going to be a great week.

• Attendance Awareness Kick Off: This week we are kicking off an attendance awareness week. The attendance letter will be sent out to all families on Monday. In addition, we are sending out our first attendance letter 1 to all families who may have been absent a lot or tardy often.  We are also doing several kick off related activities including sending students home with a sticker.  Talk to Jennifer about more details. Our attendance team includes: Yasmin, Myka, Joel, Jennifer, Nancy, and Jennifer. We will be discussing chronic attendance issues in MOD Squad and data team.

• Staff Meeting Agenda for October 4, 2:45-3:45

Recorder: Bucklew         Facilitator: Joel

1.Science Curriculum Update

2. Conferences Sign Up Explanation

3. Leadership Plan Share and Vote

4. PBIS  Share Out

5. BEST Information

• Staff Lounge Duty: This week, is team ROJO: David B (team leader),Erin S, Rita, Michelle, Ingrid, Joel.

• Safety  Focus for the Week:  Room Clear Procedures in your classroom.  Please practice at least once this week. Wednesday is the suggested day but you can choose at your leisure. Also, we will be doing the Geat American Shake Up on October 20.  That is our next Evacuation Drill.

If it becomes necessary to clear your classroom due to the extreme disruption of another student, follow the procedures below:

Instruct your students to exit the classroom, in an orderly fashion (quietly and single file) to the appropriate classroom. Students should exit (a) through the exterior door; (b) the hallway door.

Students should enter the classroom, QUIETLY, by moving to the perimeter of the room and waiting for further instructions.

The teacher in the receiving classroom should contact the office (either personally or via a responsible student), immediately.

Room Clear Assignments:

Each grade level teaching partner will support the other during room clears

Gym goes to library

Library goes to gym

Room (title) goes to room 16

Room (sped) goes to room (12 Skoubo)

• Licensed Shared Building SMART Goals, Due Oct. 15 – For licensed staff, you need to complete your Goals Development Form in TalentEd by October 15th. I also need to meet with each of you for the “Standards Overview Conference” this month. Please let me know a time that works for you to meet. I can meet before, after, or during school. If you offer to meet during a prep time, I promise to keep the meeting short. I should be able to meet most anytime that you don’t see me in a meeting on the calendar at the bottom of my announcements.

This is an example of some SMART Goals created this year, link. They do not have goals related to Spanish, ELL, SPED or other goals we might have.  Use this as a guide in case you need help formulating your goals. I suggest meeting in blends, grade levels to write these goals. It fits nicely in the PLC work for the week. The two student growth goals are for math and reading using easyCBM and the professional goal is around science. We could also write a PPG on Teaching for Biliteracy since every teacher is studying that area. Of course specialists might have a different professional focus. These goals are not achievement goals like we have tried to do in the past. They are growth goals. Note that they are written in bands of growth.

• Sub Folders Updates – For both classified and licensed staff, please create a sub folder.  Myka has some materials available for you to use. Work on them this week and be sure to give your completed sub folders to Myka. If it helps in completing your folder, linked here is a list of suggested sub folder information/items HR said staff should consider when making lesson plans. Myka has extra folders if you need one.

• State In-Service Day, Friday, Oct 14th – Friday, October 14th is State In-Service day. This is a regular work day for administrators and 192 & 196-day classified staff. This is a non-contract day for licensed staff. For classified staff, this would be a good day to take any accumulated comp time. Let me know if you have any questions about this day. And a reminder for all staff, if you are ever wondering about work year dates, most all of your questions can be answered on the 4J Employee Work Year Calendars webpage. See Myka if you need to mark your comp time in the next week.

• 211 App – Here is a great app designed to help families in our community. You probably already know about the 211 website, which is great for directing families towards different community resources, ranging from housing, to food, to counseling, to just about every possible social service. The app does the same thing, but I could see it being very handy if you’re ever talking to a parent and you quickly want to reference potential resources to share.

• Teaching Culture Resources: Here are three resources about the world’s different cultures.

Photos of millennials’ bedrooms around the world are a peek into global youth culture is from Quartz.

Calendar

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Thanks and have a great week!

Best,

Joel