SLO Submissions and PLCs

Staff,

By the at the end of the day on Tuesday your Professional Goal Setting Plan is due to be submitted. The next Educator Effectiveness item due pertains to Year 2 teachers, and it is the Survey Growth Plan due November 30th.

On Wednesday, November 1st common planning time will be devoted to essential learning work. Here's the current google document teams are using to catalog PLC planning for the year so far:  NH 17-18 PLC Products.

Below is the update from grade level teams regarding their PLC work in October.

• K: Letters/sounds and level A sight words and getting ready to move to Level B sight words. 
• 1st: Making connections and responding to texts. 
• 2nd: Text to self connections
• 3rd: Choosing just right books, sticking with chosen books, reading stamina and moving into connections.
• 4th: Getting students into books that engage them and moving onto text features.
• 5th: Text features and determining levels of understanding.

Finally remember we have our 3rd-5th grade dress rehearsal on Thursday afternoon and the November All School Meeting on Friday at 2:50pm. 

Conferences

Staff,

I read through some different online resources to support you while preparing for parent/teacher conferences. This one from Eutopia aligns the most with what I'd want you as teachers to be able to accomplish when meeting with parents over the next couple of weeks:  Parent/Teacher Conference Blog.

At our staff meeting on Tuesday, Kelli will provide more information on our Husky Headline News streaming platform, and we will have a our second math staff meeting with Lisa Skoyen. Part of the math time in the agenda will be set aside to assist you with the talking points around standards based grading in math for conferences.

Curriculum Roll Through, Book Sale and PBIS Staff Meeting

Staff,

Tomorrow you'll have your first curriculum roll through with Amy Wise and Lisa Skoyan. They will be coming to grade level classrooms during common planning time. The Hurricane Harvey book sale begins Monday in the Art Room and runs through Tuesday.

I am setting time aside at Tuesday's staff meeting to complete the PBIS Self Assessment Survey. This survey assists us in knowing where we are with our Tier I implementation of PBIS. Below is information provided by Chris Strop to prepare you for taking the survey. We will review taking the survey in the media center at 8:05am, and then I will release you to take it on your laptop in your classroom. Prior to the meeting a link will be shared with you so you can access the survey.

The SAS provides an opportunity for all staff to provide feedback to the building leadership team, can indicate priorities for improvement, and provides perceptual data from the staff around PBIS implementation for sustainability.

46 Questions/4 Categories

1.  Schoolwide

2.  Non-classroom

3.  Classroom

4.  Individual

Two questions for each statement

·Status: In place, partial, not in place

·Improvement priority: High, medium, low

·If something is "In place", it would be "low priority" for improvement.  If something is partially or not in place, it could be high, medium or low priority (you may or may not care if it is in place)

PBIS team – is available to clarify any questions you may have regarding the questions.