Week of December 3rd
Hi everyone,
I had a busy labor intensive weekend at my house. I did not get my blog done until this afternoon. Sorry about that. We are having some drainage trouble around our foundation, so I spent the weekend fixing my below ground gutter drains. I hope you have had a good start to your week. Here is the big news for the week.
Schedule of Events for the Week
Dec. 3 (M)
9:00-10:00 Formal Teacher Observation
3:00-3:45 4th and 5th Grade Teachers meet with Kim Ketterer in Staff Lounge
6:30-7:30 PTO Meeting
Dec. 4 (T)
8:00-4:00, Joel to All Principal PD with Jon Saphier
2:45-4:00 Misty Forsman in Sara Justice’s Room for iPad Training on Integration into classroom.
4:00-5:30, Elementary Literacy Leaders (Ed Center) (Lindsay Gietter)
Dec. 5 (W)
12:00-2:15, Joel to tour Spring Creek with principals and community members.
2:15-3:40- Staff Meeting
4:00-6:00, PD Session #2 “Building A Classroom Climate of Community” with Jon Saphier (Sheldon High School cafeteria)
Dec. 6 (H)7:30 AM- 8:30- IEP Meeting in Conference Room
9:00-10:00 AM Formal Teacher Observation
8:00-4:00- Teacher Leader training with Jon Saphier, Christina Powell out all day.
Dec. 7 (F)
8:00-4:00, Joel to required OIS (Oregon Intervention Systems) certification training (Ed Center)
We have a special joint staff meeting on Wednesday so that Brianna Stiller can teach us together about some PBIS concepts. Here is the agenda:
Recess Discussion 2:15-2:20
(Classified)
Connections activity. 2:20-2:35
(Classified)
Brianna Stiller Training on PBIS Skills 2:40-3:00
(Classified and Certified) Classified excused @ 3
Joel and Christina share.- Summarizing techniques and Robert Marzano table. – 3:00-3:15
(Certified)
Connections/ Reflection activity- with Joel 3:15-3:30
(Certified)
BRING Presentation- Brett Jacobs – 3:30-3:40
(Certified)
Director Sara Cramer to Visit Dec. 13th, 8:00-12:00 – Sara Cramer is meeting with all of the elementary principals to review our school improvement plan, master schedule, student achievement data and specifically students who are struggling. She and I will then shadow one of those students for approximately 60-90 minutes in order to see things from the student perspective.
Taking It Up: Next Steps
Congratulations to Andrew, Arwen, and Beth for completing the Takling It Up Conversations on Race Training. We now have at least 6 members of our staff that have been trained in this area. There are many others who are interested as well ( Let me know if you want to be trained in February). We will have some time during the January 7th PD day to discuss next steps as a staff on equity issues in our building.
Personal Device Project Pilot is a go!
Peter Tromba and Kim Ketterer presented James and myself with some exciting news about a new project to bring personal devices to each 4th and 5th grader at Awbrey Park. All 4th and 5th grade teachers will be using tablets in our building by the end of the year. This project is developing very rapidly and we should see devices from this project in our building sometime in January. In addition, the CLCB and Awbrey LC will also be receiving devices and training through this project. This is being funded by a $1.2 million portion of the 2011 bond. Spring Creek, and Madison are also involved in our region.
District Using Fleet Funds to pay for new positions in 12-13
The district made a decision to use building fleet funds to pay for 17 new positions in the 12-13 school year. We had a 28.3% cut from our fleet fund. Read the rationale below posted by Simone Sangster our CFO. Fleet Fund Talking Points I am happy to talk to you about the details of this if you would like more information about the finances at Awbrey Park.
Science Vocabulary – The Edgewood Principal, Larry Williams, asked the rest of our group if anyone had done work in the area of science vocabulary. The science TOSA, Angie Ruzicka, responded by sharing the following link to the complete glossary of terms for the science kits and also shared the test specifications for the Science OAKS assessment. I don’t expect this to be a major focus of ours anytime soon, but I did want to pass these resources along to teachers.
Have a great week brave educators!
Joel