Week of February 25th
Hey Bulldog Staff,
Here are our events of the week. I hope everyone enjoyed the sunshine on Sunday. What a lucky break in the weather!
• Schedule of Events for the Week –
Feb. 25 (M)
PBIS Focus: Respect
School Choice Visitation Week
9:20-9:45, Office Meeting in Joel’s Office
10:00-11:00, Joel to District Meeting (Ed Center)
1:00-1:30,Walk-through
5:00-9:00, Joel at Ed Policy Course
Feb. 26 (T)
9:00-10:00, Joel Leading School Choice Tour
2:45-3:45, Young Rembrants (Library)
3:00-4:00, Site Council (Room 13)
4:00-6:00, Joel at 4j Equity Committee
Feb. 27 (W)
1:45-2:45, Science Program in Gym
3:45-4:45 Joel to All Administrator Meeting (Ed Center)
Feb. 28 (H)
12:00-1:00, Joel Leading School Choice Tour
2:15-2:30, Bulldog Recess
3:00-4:00, Joel in Teacher Pre-Observation Conference (Joel’s Office)
March 1st (F)
Awbrey Park PD Day – NO STUDENTS
8:30-12:30, Math PD with Jamie, Beth, Raquel, and Chris (Room 13)
10:00-11:00, Classified Technology PD (Room 32)
12:30-2:30, Collaborative Practice/ OAKS Coordination Schedule- Joel, Kristen, Melissa – (Joel’s Office)
Here are some items of note for the week:
• March 1 PD Day, 8:00-12:00 – Math PD – This Friday we will have a MORNING PD session focused on Math. There will be some time focused on giving students feedback, fluency, and planning articulation of our Math Measurement Day Project K-5.
• Staffing Survey Due, Friday, March 1st – And if you haven’t done this one already either, please complete your staffing survey by the end of the week. There will be future discussions, but this will give us a place to start. 2013-2014 Staffing Survey at Awbrey Park
• CFEE Taking It Up Graduates: Congrats to Pam Reynolds and Sabrina Gordon for completing the Taking It Up Training. Thank you for stepping up to help us address issues of racism and inequity in our building.
• Highlighting our students in the office project: The Flower project is building up steam! Have you turned in your pictures yet? I will be printing photos this week at Costco with your help.
• Data Meeting Switch due to OAKS Training: Due to OAKS testing we need to get our training in as soon as possible as 5th grade science will start on March 11. Our data meeting will be an OAKS training.
The March 6 data meeting is now going to be 3rd-5th and k-2 will be March 13.
March 6- 3-5th data meeting at 3:00 in room 13
March 13- K-2 data meeting at 3:00 in room 13
• Radios- The New “Bulldog” Channel: In order to improve communication about student safety, I have changed our radio communications system. We now have one main channel to communicate on called the “Bulldog Channel.” This will improve communication for CLC staff to office and increase response time to safety issues and emergencies. One thing to note; Be mindful about how you communicate about students. I encourage you to use first names of students and communicate the most important safety information necessary. Since we will all be sharing the same airwaves, we should be more conservative about radio use on the Bulldog Channel. If you use the radios in the afternoon for 1-2 recess, consider this as well.
• John Boita now in Room 27: With the transition of the CLC-B complete to Room 32, I have asked John Boita to use Room 27 and it’s accompanying office. John will be moving to this room this week.
• Sharing our Read to Feed Project:Read2Feed I have inserted the Read To Feed Presentation for you to use with your classrooms. It is posted here as a PDF. A few days ago Melissa sent it as a Keynote.
• Lane ESD Science Fair – The Lane ESD is hosting a Lane County Science Fair for grades 3 – 8. Projects will be on public display at the ESD May 6 – 7, 2013. All students will receive recognition and there will be an Awards Ceremony May 7 at 4:30. Information on registration is attached.
• Robert Marzano on Four Levels of Classroom Questioning – Here’s an interesting article summary that lines up fairly well with our work with Jon Saphier.
• Smithsonian goes online with activities for students – The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies has started a program to encourage research, discovery and creative collaboration with project-based learning. Called Smithsonian Quests, the online resource awards digital badges to students upon completion of their activities. The projects are aimed at students of various grade levels, and can be done as part of classroom lessons or independently. It’s a quality site.
Have a great week, everyone!
Joel