Week of May 6th
Hi Everyone,
This week is Teacher Appreciation Week and I’d like to take the opportunity to thank ALL staff for your hard work and dedication to Awbrey Park Elementary School. It’s truly your work, attitudes, and efforts with all of our students and families that make our school the great place it is. Thank you all very much!
Harlem Wizards vs. Principal Joel
The Harlem Wizards game is quickly approaching! It’s THIS COMING TUESDAY! Don’t hesitate in buying your tickets! You can buy your tickets in the North Eugene front office & finance office! Advanced tickets are $10, tickets at the door are $12. I’ve attached fliers with info about the game. VIP tickets are $20 in advance, and $25 at the door. VIP tickets include: Premium seating near the Harlem Wizard bench, meet & greet for 10 minutes with 2 players prior to the game, photo opportunities & free autographed team picture! Only 20VIP tickets sold! Makes a great gift! You can also buy tickets online at http://www.harlemwizards.com/schedules/.
We have lots of great staff & students from North Region involved…including your very own Principal, Joel Lavin!
Lets show our support and come watch them get dunked on…I mean, watch their sweet basketball skills!
TAG Summer Enrichment:
The UO Youth Enrichment and TAG Program is excited to share information about our fast-approaching Super Summer Program. Please shre this information with your parents, especially if they have a child identified as TAG.
Please find attached the Super Summer Brochure, student application and poster. Contact Rita Svanks at supers@uoregon.edu or 541-346-1404 if you would like printed copies mailed to you.
We are very appreciative of all the positive work you do for talented and gifted students and their families. Thank you!
Below are the flyers:
SuperSum13-app-fillable v2 superSum13-brochure-v3-BW SuperSum13-poster-4C-v3
Restructuring of CLCB Classroom postponed for 1 year and Special Education Staffing Changes:
Attached is an email sent by Cheryl Linder explaining that we will not disband our CLCB program next fall. Also, we received new information about our staff yesterday:
Jason Robbins will remain at Awbrey Park in our CLCB- 1.0 FTE
Andrew Gaughan will move to Edison at 1.0 FTE, 05. in LC and 0.5 in CLCB
Karrie Davis will be placed in our building at 0.5 FTE to do LC.
Jeremy Boyce will be working 6 hours in our building.
Jill Capenter will be working 4 hours in our building.
Debbie McGowan will be working 6 hours in our building.
I am extremely saddened that both Andrew and Brenda will be leaving us next Fall. Their work is so important in our building and they will be greatly missed.
Field Day Update, Tuesday, June 3rd in the AM/ Reading Train Assembly June 4th PM
– Lisa Chinn will run the Field Day for this year. She said the times work best for K-2 from 8:45-9:30 and grades 3-5 from 9:45-11:30. Lisa will email you regarding volunteers to run the stations.
Also, I switched our Reading Train Music Assembly to Tuesday, June 4th from 12:50-1:40. We will be running the assembly with some mini performances to keep the assembly shorter than 45 minutes.
Awbrey Park School Study Pilot
Suzy Price, the Title 1 and Achievement Gap Focus Administrator will be piloting a school study in our building this Thursday, May 9th.
Purpose of the Study
- Collect data in search of trends and/or patterns that may be connected to student achievement
- Explore factors that may influence student performance
- Look for patterns of instruction, district wide, in relationship to Jon Saphier’s BIG ROCKS of high expertise teaching
- Guide professional development plans
- Seek ways to best invest our resources and focus on those areas that will have the greatest impact.
- Deepen our professional development offerings to enhance instructional strategies, strengthen the “three critical messages” and increase student achievement.
This visit will be our very first of the study. As practitioners, we are learners in the process. We hope to gain insights into the best way to conduct the visits, utilize the tool, gather the data, report the data, etc. all in an effort to move the district forward in increasing student achievement. Part of our process will include reflecting and modifying the process.The format of data collection will likely include a summative report of the visit, a summary of the principal interview and the data collected from the district. We anticipate data being shared with Instruction Cabinet and perhaps the Equity Committee (still not sure….). I would imagine we could share the data with the principal, who could then determine if/when to share with the staff.
Visitation Team: Suzy Price,Raquel Gwynn, Marlee Litten, Kathy Luiten, Juan Cuadros
Date of Visit: May 9
The School Study Schedule
8:00-8:30 Prep
8:30-8:50 2nd grade (Reynolds)
8:55-9:15 3rd grade (Weston)
9:20-9:40 4th grade (Wagg)
9:40-10:00 4th grade (Geitter)
10:05-10:25 2nd grade (Solberg)
10:30-10:50 3rd grade (Britt)
10:55-11:20 1st grade (Krec)
11:20-12:00 LUNCH
12:00-12:20 1st grade (Justice)
12:25-12:45 5th grade (Stock)
12:50-1:15 Kinder (Grace)
1:20-1:50 5th grade (Tait)
1:50-3:15 Debrief