Staff,

Late last week you should have received an email from Alycia Flynn-Benzer regarding volunteering for Kids' Karnival on Friday, April 17 or Saturday, April 18. If you did not, here is the link to sign up to volunteer:  http://vols.pt/gY5Lbp   Again it is my hope that North Hudson staff can either support the PTO through working the Kids' Karnival or Pepper Fest. 

If you wanted to volunteer an activity to be included in the raffle remember to contact Amy Kell at AmyDavid@kelldental.com. If it is something done after school hours, make sure to have the location at North Hudson Elementary. It could also be something that happens during the school day like lunch with you. 

Just a few other reminders for this week. Your Day 6 common planning time on Thursday is set aside for you to continue your literacy action planning or complete your math protocol.  Our All School Meeting will be on Friday starting at 9:00am with our Power Up Challenge Kick Off and our Pennies for Patients Wrap Up. Students have also earned their pj day and popcorn party, and this will also occur on Friday. Below are some of the specifics regarding the Power Up Challenge. 

Educator Effectiveness Documentation Logs

Staff,

At our staff meeting on Tuesday, you'll have time to work on your documentation logs. Within the Educator Effectiveness tab on my blog, I have added another document, the table showing what components you're responsible for each year of your evaluation cycle.

During our work session on Tuesday morning, SMART Team members will be available to refresh your memory on how to upload documents into my learning plan. One document I am requiring for Standard 6 is a professional development log. This is something you can be adding to every year of your evaluation cycle to show you're effective or distinguished in the area of professionalism. This log is available in your my files tab in mylearningplan, and it looks like this.

You can download this document and be adding to it each year from now until your summative evaluation. Kelli is also working on figuring out how to make this a google doc that you link into your documentation log, so any time you update it, the form automatically updates in my learning plan too.

Remember all teachers need to upload three documents total this year (except year three probationary teachers:  one document). Please refer to the form on the EE tab of this blog for which standards you can specifically pick from depending on the year you are on within the evaluation cycle. Teachers on cycle for evaluation need to have their documentation logs submitted to me before May 1st.

Action Planning on Monday and Tuesday

Staff:

Here's hoping you all had a chance to rejuvenate either locally or at some exotic destination. I was able to mark some things off my honey do list:  painting Heather's home office and Griffin's room while also ordering his bedroom furniture at the Treasure Island Casino furniture market. 

We hit the ground running this week on Monday (Day 6) and Tuesday (staff meeting) with your most pressing literacy planning/preparation. Again here some of the suggested planning ideas. 

• Writing planning (K-2) to support new binders

• Supporting K-5 above level readers – guided reading complexity of the F+P continuum (within, beyond and about the text)

• Writing about reading: digging into this tab in the F+P continuum

• Informational and/or opinion writing

• Whole group/small group planning using the F+P or MAP continuum

• Planning around increasing the frequency/quality of turn and talks during mini-lessons (see Amanda for support)

• Utilizing running records and comprehension interview to access students’ instructional levels (Amanda and Kara can support)

• Planning for guided reading

• Next steps with SLO actions

Friday is an early release designated for you to work on progress reports. Please remember to update your independent and instructional reading levels also on this day. The March assessment window is important for your instruction because we are removing the mid May update. Instead your last reporting will be done at the end of the year. This will be used for Title One determination, SLO and SMARTgoals and to share with next year's teachers. With all the May assessments, we felt this would give you more flexibility on when you complete your year-end F+P assessments. Here's the progress report schedule for next week. 

Finally remember to wear husky gear or blue and white on Friday for our morning All School Meeting. We will be taking an all school photo which will be included in our school yearbook. Again I hope you had a wonderful break, and I look forward to seeing you tomorrow!