Week of February 20
Buenos noches Estrellas Brillantes,
Here is a list of important announcements and upcoming events.
• School Choice Visitation Week #2 – A reminder that this week is the second School Choice Visitation Week. We have a number of families signed up for tours (mostly at the younger grades), so don’t be surprised if you see me walking visitors around the building and into classrooms this week.
AIM4S3 Visit Tuesday and Wednesday:
Here is the schedule:
AIM4S3 Subs Assigned to Classrooms Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017
| Start Time | End Time | Mara Thygeson | Komae
Harris |
Michelle
Barnes |
Grade |
| 8:150 am | 10:15 am | Randall (Room 6) | Jones (room 5) | Flores (room 13) | 2nd |
| 10:20am | 11:15am | Piper
(Room 8) |
Murphy (Room 15) | Garcia (room 16) | 4th |
| 11:15 | 11:45 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | |
| 11:45pm | 12:45pm | Piper
(Room 8) |
Murphy (Room 15) | Garcia (room 16) | 4th |
| 12:50pm | 2:50pm | Skoubo (Room 12) | Barnes (Room 13) | OFFICE | 1st |
AIM4S3 Subs Assigned to Classrooms Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017
| Start Time | End Time | Mara Thygeson | Komae Harris |
Celia Long |
Grade |
| 8:150 am | 10:15 am | Bucklew (Room 3) | Brougher(room 4) | Hellman
(Room 2) |
Kinder |
| 10:20am | 11:15am | Ramirez
(Room 18) |
OFFICE | Screen (Room 19) | 5th |
| 11:15 | 11:45 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 11:45pm | 12:45pm | Ramirez
(Room 18) |
OFFICE | Screen (Room 19) | 5th |
| 12:50pm | 2:50pm | Piper
(Room 8) |
Reckers (Room 7) | OFFCE | 3rd |
The focus of these meetings is to help you work out the kinks with Lisa. You can use the 2 hours to discuss implementation, to plan, to review concepts of the framework, or possibly observation if you choose to. Please come to the meeting ready to share experiences with your grade level team, bring your AIM4S3 notebook, planning book for math, and (optional) photos or past compendia to look and learn from. Jaime Massie, Reid Shepard, and Maddie Ahern will be coming by to check things out as well. They will not be there the whole time but will be at some of the meetings based on their availability.
• Read Across America, Thursday, March 2nd – Dr. Seuss’ birthday and Read Across America is March 2nd. (Our Literacy Night is March 1st!). Linked here are some resources for how to celebrate this day from Seussville, Reading Rockets, the National Education Association (NEA), Edutopia, and Scholastic’s Top 10 Read Across America Ideas for Upper Elementary.
• Classified Last Work Day – If you’ve taken a look at the Revised 2016/2017 Classified Calendar you’ll have noticed 196-day and 192-day classified staff, which is most everyone minus MariCarmen Yasmin, you have an odd last day of work this year, Monday, June 26th. However, I wanted to point out the calendar does note that “With prior arrangement with your administrator, employees can develop a plan to make up the final work day of June 26 at an earlier time. (Example: You may work extended hours or a day you were not originally scheduled to work to make up the time.),” so keep track of comp hours if you’d like your last day to be Friday, June 23rd. Also, classified staff will be helping to move. They will be compensated for some time moving out of the building in June.
•Packing update: This week we had smaller boxes delivered. There are another 500 boxes for your use. These boxes are best for packing books. The key to packing books is to not OVERPACK THEM. Packing books is heavy no matter what so fill the boxes 65% or so. When in doubt, use another box. Your back will appreciate it. And start packing!
Teaching and learning emerging bilinguals:
Homework for ELLs: Here is a great article on assigning homework to English learners. Homework can be a controversial topic in education circles. Some — including parents and educators — strongly believe homework is an important part of a student’s education, and should be assigned to students on a nightly basis.
SPANISH Spelling Bee- HAVE YOU REGISTERED YOUR STUDENTS YET? It is less than than 2 months away! Note the save the date below. There are documents with rules and regulations, and a copy of the 2016 word list that can be used for school based spelling bees and for students to study for the statewide spelling bee. Once I have the the 2017 word list, I will forward it to those who have registered for the spelling bee. We need a coach who can help support the students. This is a great school day event that can benefit several students.
Save the Date Seventh Annual Invitational SPANISH Spelling Bee
Date: April 7, 2017
For: Your school’s 4th – 8th grade top SPANISH spellers
Time: 10:00 am – 12:30 pm
Place: Forest Grove High School Auditorium
1401 Nichols Lane,
Forest Grove, Or 97116
Trophies, prizes and a chance to show off your Spelling Skills!
Calendar of Events for our school and beyond:
February 20 (M)
President’s Day- No School
CFEE Training
February 21 (Tu)
CFEE Training for some teachers.
8:15-10:30, Joel at Elementary Principal Meeting
8:00-4:00, AIM4S3 Final Visit from Lisa Meyer: Areas of focus, formative assessment, adapting an Investigations unit built with the AIM4S3 framework for LearnZillion materials.
12:00-1:00, School Choice Tour
3:00-5:00, 2 hour staff meeting- Lisa will share ideas and review materials for AIM4S3.
February 22 (W)
CFEE Training for some teachers.
AIM4S3 Final Visit from Lisa Meyer
9:00-11:00- Joel at construction meeting.
11:00, Staffing Allocation Meeting for Elementary Principals
1:45-2:45, PLC Time- There will be a free Webinar about the teacher side of Dreambox. I asked them to help us out with this. I will set up my laptop for teachers in the library at 2:00. Focus:Dreambox implementation and Webinar.
6:00-7:00, School Choice Presentation Meeting at our School.
February 23 (Th)
CFEE Training for some teachers.
Several attendance support meetings all morning.
Joel in informal observations in the afternoon.
2:45-3:45, Mod Squad
3:00-5:00- 5th Grade Planning Meeting for End of the Year Activities
February 24 (F)
8:30-9:00, Pedestrian Planning for the new building.
Several Formal and Informal observations through out the day.
CFEE Training for some teachers.
February 27 (M)
7:30-12:00, Referral Round Robin with Justin Potts
2:00, Joel leaves at 2:00 to Ed Center
2:00-5:30, Joel at All Admin Meeting
February 28 (Tu)
8:30-2:30, IIPM Data Team All Day in Room 17
1:45-2:45, PLC Time, Please arrive on time to meet with your team. Focus: Assessment- Math/ Science support
March 1 (W)
9:00-11:00- Joel at construction meeting.
6:00-7:30, Dr. Seuss Night
1:45-2:45, PLC Time, Please arrive on time to meet with your team. Focus: Assessment- Math/
March 2 (Th)
Joel and Jennifer in several attendance support meetings.
March 3 (F)
8:30-10:00, Attendance Support Leader Meeting at El Camino del Río (Conference Room)
March 6 (M)
Priority Schools Tour with Mike Garling – Visit sometime in the morning from Mike and a small team to our school to observe promising practices.
3:00, TAG Support Meeting
March 7 (Tu)
10:30, Fire Drill
3:00-5:00, 2 hour Staff Meeting with Edward Olivos and Audrey Lucero on Biliteracy
March 8 (W)–
9:00-11:00- Joel at construction meeting.
Science LEL B Visit – We need 6 teacher to be observed teaching science. (We need 5 more volunteers.)
1:45-2:45, PLC Time, Please arrive on time to meet with your team. Focus: Assessment- Math/ Planning
March 9 (Th)
3:00-3:45, Mod Squad Meeting
March 10 (F)
Joel and Jennifer in attendance Support Meetings
March 13 (M)
Regular Day
March 14 (Tu)
5:00-6:00, Site Council Meeting- Focus 2017-2018 Calendar, End of the year events for 17′
6:00-7:00, Parent Group Meeting- focus: Fiesta
March 15 (W)
9:00-11:00- Joel at construction meeting.
1:45-2:45, PLC Time, Please arrive on time to meet with your team. Focus: Assessment- Math
Staffing spreadsheets are due to Human Resources by midnight.
March 16 (Th)
3:00-4:00, Equity Team
March 17 (F)
Regular Day
March 27-31– Spring Break
April 3 (M), No School, PD Day.
That is all for the week.
Saludos cordiales,
Joel Lavin