Staff Meeting: Conference Scheduling and PBIS World

Staff:

Duing the first part of Tuesday's staff meeting, we will review Parent/Teacher Conference scheduling through Skyward. In the afternoon on Thursday, Sue will open up the conference scheduling to parents. Before then, you'll want to block off some breaks within your schedule, and reach out to parents you'd like to pre-schedule. This was done mostly for parents with students who also had an IEP case manager.

During the second half of the meeting, we'll be digging into the PBIS World website which is one of the tabs on this blog. Please come to this meeting with a student in mind who you'd like to provide more behavioral support to. You'll be working with another colleague at this staff meeting using this website with that student in mind. If you like, feel free to play around with the PBIS World website prior to the meeting.

Day 6: ELA Lesson Planning

Staff,

First-fifth grade teachers had very productive ELA PD days with time to work collaboratively on first trimester lesson planning. As a reminder, this Friday's Day 6 will be set aside for you to continue to develop your specific lesson plans digging into how you may gradual release these learning targets to your students. Please let me know what would make this time the most beneficial for your team. Below I have linked each grade level's lesson planning document created at your PD. Feel free to also use your grade level planning time on Wednesdays for this work, if your team so chooses. As we begin our week, remember there will be a 9:10am fire drill on Monday.

1st Grade ELA Sept-Oct Lesson Plans

2nd Grade ELA Sept-Nov Lesson Plans

3rd Grade ELA Sept-Nov Lesson Plans

4th Grade ELA Sept-Oct Lesson Plans

5th Grade ELA Sept-Oct Lesson Plans

Big Universe and District ELA/IUI Staff Development

Teachers,

One last reminder on the district staff development which begins this week. 

• 5th Grade - Sept. 14
• 4th Grade - Sept. 15
• 3rd Grade - Sept. 16
• 2nd Grade - Sept. 17
• 1st Grade - Sept. 18 
• Kindergarten - Oct. 1

You can also view the district staff development for the year using the PD Calendar for Scheduling Subs tab on this blog. 

This week's staff meeting focus has changed. Kelli Hedlund is going to give you a tutorial on using the Big Universe digital book library (new this year)so please bring a laptop or Chromebook to the meeting. Students can access this digital library from a device during independent reading time in Readers Workshop, teachers could utilize these resources for guided reading (if you have enough devices for students)and students can access these books away from school for at home reading. If you would like to learn more about Big Universe prior to the staff meeting, below is a youtube video overview. 

Teaching Center

Staff,

Thank you so much for getting our school year off to a great start for our students! Knowing you have plenty on your plate going into the second week of school, I wanted to share a fun video of appreciation from "Teaching Center" to start your week off right. Have a great week!