Week of February 4th Blog Entry
Hello Staff,
We are more than halfway through the year. It seems like it’s flying by!
• Schedule of Events for the Week
PBIS Focus: Perseverance
1:30-2:30, Joel to Elementary Principal Planning Meeting
2:30-3:30, Joel and Melissa to Title 1 Principal & Coordinator Meeting
6:30-7:30 PTO Meeting- Please consider going if you’d like to see a new fundraiser well planned with staff input. I can’t make it.
Feb. 5 (T)
8:15-4:00- Joel to All Principal PD with Jon Saphier
Feb. 6 (W)
2:00-2:30- Classified Staff Meeting
4:00-6:30- Digital Learning Day (Madison Middle School)
4:30-6:30- Jon Saphier PD Series “Cognitive Strategies Matched to Content and Students” (Sheldon HS)
Feb. 7 (H)
12:00-3:30- IT3 Training in Room 13
7:30-8:00- Social Committee Meeting
• PBIS Booster Rewards: – Kristen has collected all of the charts to verify reteaching of PBIS. All those classrooms with a completed chart will be receiving fruit snacks next week. I will have them in my office for pick up on Monday.
• TAG Trainings on Video: You may recall that I asked that teachers watch the TAG Videos. Please make sure you have completed this by April 1st, the day after Spring Break. These can be found in my Teaching and Learning Page on this blog. The required videos are posted on the page. I will put a sign in sheet in the staff lounge this week for completion.
• Social Committee Meeting: Are you on the social committee? It’s time for us to plan a fun activity that we can all enjoy together. We will meet Friday afternoon at 7:30 AM in the staff lounge. If you cannot make the committee send me ideas via email or come by my office. Let’s get this party started.
• Sense-making and Multiplication – Here’s a link to the video that Raquel mentioned at Friday’s training. The goal of the lesson in the video is for students to see how 1 digit multiplication helps with 2 and 3 digits too. It’s a 13 minute video that’s worth throwing up on your classroom screen one afternoon while you’re doing some after school prep work.
• Title I Communication Blog from Suzy Price– This blog contains helpful information pertaining to resources, reminders, upcoming events/deadlines, and more! It can be accessed by simply clicking on the link here. There is a February update post.
• Teaching compassion and empathy– Here is a video about teaching children love and compassion. It is a from a video series called Children Full of Life. The sense of community and trust this teacher has built with his 4th grade class is truly inspirational.
• Resources to teach students about African American history – This blog post includes several resources to help educators address Black History Month(February). Included among the six teaching tools recommended are resources that focus on February’s theme of “At the Crossroads of Freedom and Equality: The Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington.” They suggest interactive resources and timelines that focus on African-American heritage, the Civil Rights movement and other topics. There’s also a good link to a Teaching Tolerance page on the “Dos and Don’ts of Teaching Black History Month.”
• Public Works Day, May 17th – The City of Eugene invites classes to attend Public Works Day on Thursday, May 16th. Open house hours are 8:30 − 3:00 at the Public Works Yard, 1820 Roosevelt Boulevard. See the attached flyer and the link for further information. If you visit their website there is an online registration form, or you can fill out the old fashioned paper version here.
• 3 things that keep poor kids out of the sciences – In this Scientific American post, biologist Danielle Lee describes her experience coaching poor kids in St. Louis on science fair projects — an activity that often becomes a stepping stone to a career in the sciences. But, for the kids Lee met, intelligence and a good idea aren’t enough to overcome the institutional barriers working against them. This is how discrimination happens.
Have a good week!
Joel