Madison Middle School

By barsotti_p 　https://blogs.4j.lane.edu/madisonstaff/2021/01/22/january-22-2021/

Hi Madison Staff,

My favorite thing about last week’s check in was the two staff shout-outs. I will shared them down below. If you have a shout-out, please use the weekly check in to help us recognize and celebrate one another.

Here’s what’s happening this week:

This Week’s Schedule:

Quick Links: Please make sure you’re signed into your 4J Google Account to access many of these links.

• SPED/Gen Ed Collaboration Log – Please complete the Collaboration Log each week.  Last week only 6 teachers filled out the log and the week before only 9 and we have almost 20 teachers.  Please make this a priority   
• Focus Lesson for Week 5: 
  • Monday: Weekly Self-Check and MLK Flipgrid activity
  • Tuesday: National News Literacy Week Activity – Bias in Social Media Quiz
  • Wednesday: Mid-Week Academic Check-In
  • Thursday: Student Engagement Video – Please do this one!!
• MLK Flipgrid – Teachers, I put this lesson back into our Focus lessons this week because only one student did a video.  Please take time to do one for yourself and then share with your students one day next week.  It would be great for all of our students to be talking about MLK.
  • https://flipgrid.com/6a3745c4

Madison INFORMATION                

• Staffing Update: Jeremy’s EA position just got posted and closes next Wednesday.  Hopefully we will have a replacement soon.
• Admin Office Hours: Beginning this week, Peter and Gina are hosting daily office hours on t for any students or family members that would like to attend. 
• Friday PD:
  • Licensed/Classified: This Friday morning, from 8:30-12:00, we will break down the video of a British Researcher call the The Classroom Experiment. I think it is a cool video with some concrete strategies to help with distance learning and beyond. 
  • Classified: Classified staff also have additional PD opportunities in the afternoon through the EA Extravaganza!

• LIPI Students: Madison LIPI (Limited In Person Instruction) is set to start on February 1st, unless a district-level change alters that plan.  We have group of 6th and 7th graders coming on A – days and a group of 8th graders coming on B-Days.  
  • Student Lists
        
• Weekly Check In: The weekly check in will continue to include a section to celebrate one another. I’ll be sharing these out in our blog and maybe staff meetings. Let us know who we should celebrate and why!  I’d like to know how you’re doing and be able to offer support for those who need it.
  Here are the shout-outs from last week: 
  • I would like to celebrate all of our support staff! They work behind the scenes for our staff, but they’re always on the front lines when it comes to our families! They work tirelessly, and yet address staff concerns with positivity and professionalism. We are SO LUCKY to have all of them, and I miss seeing them in person to say so!
  • Karen Backman – for her openness and continuing the conversation with me when I reached out to my book group because I had to miss the first meeting where everyone shared one hope and fear.

DISTRICT INFORMATION                 

• Repeat: Vaccination Interest and Child Care Needs: This week’s update from the superintendent to 4J staff included a link to a vaccine interest form. The form also gathers information about staff’s childcare needs if/when we return to hybrid. Please complete it as soon as possible because it helps inform how they will plan for vaccine distribution and meeting staff’s child care needs.
       
• January SSD Newsletter: If you’re interested, linked here is the January SSD Newsletter. Please note the section on LIPI is more geared toward secondary. Elementary, according to Brooke, is pausing LIPI to focus on hybrid planning. If hybrid doesn’t seem imminent, then LIPI conversations will likely take precedence. 
• Annually the Oregon UOTeach teacher licensure program collaborates with national scholars of educational equity in teaching and learning to provide ongoing professional development on culturally responsive and culturally sustaining pedagogies. UO faculty, UOTeach pre-service teacher candidates, and k-12 teachers are invited to attend the workshops to explore and expand their knowledge of anti-oppressive curriculum and instruction. For registration information and to register for a session please go to https://teachin.uoregon.edu/registration/
   

What’s Coming Next Week: Start of six weeks in a row of having a flex Wednesday

I hope you get some rest this weekend. 

Peter and Gina