Week 20

Good Morning Team,

I hope that you had a pleasant weekend.  

Testing will continue this week.  Grades 4-8 will be taking the MSTEP Writing Field Test and AIMSWeb Bench marking concludes this week.

REMEMBER..."It's a Beautiful Day to Teach Kids to Love Learning!"

REMINDERS...

• Remember Classroom Teachers can order your mid year supplies at this time. Use it or loose it. You have $150.00 to spend.

Specials:

• NWEA testing continues this week and will be occurring in the lab, so Tech will need to take place in classrooms.  This will continue through Friday January 31. 

Special Education...

• Be prepared to go over the Quality IEP  File Review with Julie during our Team Meeting on 1/27/20.
• Child Study 1/30.
• All MSTEP, NWEA and AIMSWeb testing needs to be completed by Friday, January 31.

Intervention...

• MOY (Middle of the Year) Benchmarking...Concludes.  All students in grades K-3 need to have this benchmarking completed.  Students in the Novice Classrooms, grades 4-8, will also need to have this administered.  The window for this benchmarking runs from 1/13/-1/31.    Once you have completed this testing, it will be necessary to see if student goals need to be reset.  
• Progress Monitoring...this needs to continue once MOY testing is completed.  All Novice Classrooms should be PM'd every week.  

Important Dates...

              

   
              1/27 - MSTEP Writing Field Testing begins Gr. 3-8
              1/30 - Child Study
              1/31 - Testing Ends; Progress Reports; Free Dress Behavior

Week 19

Hello Team....Well, winter showed itself this weekend!  Hopefully you had an enjoyable long weekend and were able to do things that bring you joy.   As we honor the memory and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. please remember...

Testing continues this week with Kindergarten taking the NWEA  Reading test and AIMSWeb Bench marking occurring.

REMEMBER..."It's a Beautiful Day to Teach Kids to Love Learning!"

REMINDERS...

• Remember Classroom Teachers can order your mid year supplies at this time. Use it or loose it. You have $150.00 to spend.

Specials:

• Continue to re-establish and review your classroom expectations, routines and procedures.
• NWEA testing continues this week and will be occurring in the lab, so Tech will need to take place in classrooms.  This will continue through Friday January 31. 

Special Education...

• Be prepared to go over the Quality IEP  File Review and Chapter 1 of Co-Teaching during our Team Meeting on 1/22/20.

Intervention...

• MOY (Middle of the Year) Benchmarking...Continues.  All students in grades K-3 need to have this benchmarking completed.  Students in the Novice Classrooms, grades 4-8, will also need to have this administered.  The window for this benchmarking runs from 1/13/-1/31.    Once you have completed this testing, it will be necessary to see if student goals need to be reset.  
• Progress Monitoring...this needs to continue once MOY testing is completed.  All Novice Classrooms should be PM'd every week.  

Important Dates...

              

              1/20 - MLK Jr. Day - No School
              1/22 - BR and NJHS Induction Ceremonies....BR - 5:00 pm;  NJHS - 6:00 pm
              1/24 - Dress Down $2.00
              1/27 - MSTEP Writing Field Testing begins Gr. 3-8
              1/30 - Child Study
              1/31 - Testing Ends; Progress Reports; Free Dress Behavior

Week 18

Hello Team....This week marks the middle of the month of January...unbelievable!

This is going to be a busy week with more of our Middle of the Year testing occurring as NWEA Reading testing begins for grades K-3. AIMSWeb MOY Benchmarking continues through January 31st for all K-3 students, and 4-8 Novice classrooms.  

REMEMBER..."It's a Beautiful Day to Teach Kids to Love Learning!"

REMINDERS...

• Remember Classroom Teachers can order your mid year supplies at this time. Use it or loose it. You have $150.00 to spend.
• Ms. Hopewell and I will be out on Wednesday for the next session of our ongoing IEP Coach training.
• Our Wing Meeting will be on Thursday, January 16.  It will begin promptly at 7:30 am. I will share some of the glows and grows from the Principal's visit.
• On Friday Progress Reports go home

Specials:

• Continue to re-establish and review your classroom expectations, routines and procedures.
• NWEA testing begins this week and will be occurring in the lab, so Tech will need to take place in classrooms beginning Tuesday, January 14.  This will continue through Friday January 31. 

Special Education...

• Be prepared to go over the Quality IEP  File Review and Chapter 1 of Co-Teaching during our Team Meeting on 1/15/20.
• Resource Room Teachers...each of you received a folder with information about your grade level Interim 2 tests.  Let's plan to discuss your ideas for backward planning for this test during your 03's this week.
• Classroom teachers will be making decisions about possible retention notificaiton for some of their students based upon academic progress thus far.  Please reach out to your teachers to determine if this is going to impact any of your students.

Intervention...

• MOY (Middle of the Year) Benchmarking...Continues.  All students in grades K-3 need to have this benchmarking completed.  Students in the Novice Classrooms, grades 4-8, will also need to have this administered.  The window for this benchmarking runs from 1/13/-1/31.    Once you have completed this testing, it will be necessary to see if student goals need to be reset.  
• Progress Monitoring...this needs to continue once MOY testing is completed.  All Novice Classrooms should be PM'd every week.  

Important Dates...

              1/13 - AIMSWeb Benchmarking and NWEA Reading K-3 

              1/17 - Progress Reports - Home

              1/20 - MLK Jr. Day - No School
              1/22 - BR and NJHS Induction Ceremonies....BR - 5:00 pm;  NJHS - 6:00 pm
              1/24 - Dress Down $2.00
              1/27 - MSTEP Writing Field Testing begins Gr. 3-8
              1/30 - Child Study
              1/31 - Testing Ends; Progress Reports; Free Dress Behavior

Week 17

Hello Team....Welcome Back and Happy New Year!!!

I hope that you all had a wonderful holiday and break!  I know that I did...spending time with family and friends, reading, indulging in some Netflix binge watching 😉, napping and GETTING BACK TO THE GYM....all in all, a great time!

I want to take this opportunity to give a BIG Welcome to our new K-2 Resource Room teacher, Allison Knikelbine.  We are so excited to have Allison join our family.

Currently, I am working on my goals for the year and updating my vision board. I thought that I would share some tips that I would love for our team to adopt. 

9 Tips for a Positive New Year

Borrowed from Jon Gordon

1. Stay Positive. You can listen to the cynics and doubters and believe that success is impossible or you can trust that with faith and an optimistic attitude all things are possible.

2. Be a Positive Team Member. Being positive doesn’t just make you better, it makes everyone around you better.

3. Don't chase success. Decide to make a difference and success will find you. 

4. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control.

5. Live your purpose. Remember why you do what you do. We don't get burned out because of what we do. We get burned out because we forget why we do it.

6. Trust that everything happens for a reason and expect good things to come out of challenging experiences.

7. Implement the No Complaining Rule. If you are complaining, you're not leading.

8. Smile and laugh more. They are natural anti-depressants.

9. Enjoy the ride. You only have one ride through life so make the most of it and enjoy it.

Specials:

•  As we return from break, now is a good time to re-establish and review your classroom expectations, routines and procedures.
• January is going to be a big month with mid-year testing and progress monitoring.  As such, I am attaching the Testing Calendar to this BLOG.  NWEA testing and MSTEP Writing Field Testing will be occurring in the lab, so there will be days when Tech will need to take place in . 

Special Education...

• Be prepared to go over the Quality IEP  File Review and Chapter 1 of Co-Teaching during our Team Meeting on 1/8/20.
• Resource Room Teachers...each of you received a folder with information about your grade level Interim 2 tests.  Let's plan to discuss your ideas for backward planning for this test during your 03's this week.
• Classroom teachers will be making decisions about possible retention notificaiton for some of their students based upon academic progress thus far.  Please reach out to your teachers to determine if this is going to impact any of your students.

Intervention...

• MOY (Middle of the Year) Benchmarking...this begins January 13th.  All students in grades K-3 need to have this benchmarking completed.  Students in the Novice Classrooms, grades 4-8, will also need to have this administered.  The window for this benchmarking runs from 1/13/-1/31.   

Reminders...

              1/6 - School Resumes; Black Out Day

              1/6 - ORF Fluencey Testing Begins

              1/8 - Staff Meeting - 7:30 am Liggins and Willer's Room

              1/10 - Dress Down $2.00

              1/13 - AIMSWeb Benchmarking and NWEA Reading K-3 Begin

              1/17 - Progress Reports - Home

              1/20 - MLK Jr. Day - No School

              

              

     Change it up!

As we are moving into the new year, let's refresh the memories of our scholars! Anchor charts are a great way to remind students of expectations, routines, and procedures, formulas, strategies, etc. I have plenty of chart people so let me know if you need some.

Anchor Charts

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