Week 26

Hey Team!

I hope you all had a great weekend!  Wasn't the weather beautiful?  I hope you were able to get out and enjoy it!

End of the Year Observations

The EOY Observations start this week. I will be in your classrooms this week and next week to complete the observations. Please take some time to review the classroom framework before I visit.

Parent-Teacher Conferences

Classroom teachers are beginning to schedule their conferences.  Please touch base with your classroom teachers to determine if there are conferences that they would like you to sit in on with them.

M-Step Pep Rally

There will be a M-Step Pep Rally on Friday April 3rd.   Ms. Abston and Ms. Dwyer will each be planning and holding a Pep Rally to get their students revved up for the MSTEP tests.  

During the M-Step Reward Pep Rally they will have music, an M-Step rap, cheerleaders performance, giveaways, noisemakers. The Blue Ribbon Honor Society will make motivational banners that will also be used throughout the school. During the assembly, there will  be announcements regarding the reward for the students that meet their goals for M-Step and NWEA. It should be a really fun!

Vertical Wing Meeting on Wednesday

This is just a reminder. Please come prepared. Below is a list of the questions that I gave you last week. Use this time wisely to help each other improve.  Please plan to join the Novice group (SpEd), or the MS group that you see (Specials). 

• How do you increase fluency in your students?
• How do you keep your students engaged and excited about writing?
• How do you get reluctant readers to read more?
• In honors classes, how do you compact math or ELA to keep your students ahead of the game?
• How do you run workshop for math? ELA?
• How do you increase student motivation?
• How do you teach test-taking strategies?

Specials:

• Trimester 3 begins on 3/9.   Make sure you send home your syllabus with the 7th and 8th graders today.
• Tech Refresh Day 3/11.  Tech will be in the classrooms.

Special Education...

• Team Meeting 3/11.  Please be prompt.  We will start at 8:40 am.
• Child Study - 3/12.  This will be the last Child Study where we will have new students going through the process.  

Intervention...

•   Progress Monitoring continues for AIMSWeb
•   Caseloads - make sure that you continue to stay updated 

News to Know...

Monday: Blackout day
Wednesday: Vertical Wing Meeting
Thursday: Beat the Streets Field Trip (Gr. 5-8), Last day for tutoring
Friday: Blackout Day, Early release @ 1:30pm, Book fair starts, 313 Day (wear your Detroit gear)