Monday, May 27, 2019

SLOs and PPGs.

Staff,

Your End of Interval SLO and PPG Reviews are due for submission this Friday. Remember to hit submit and not save and notify. Here is the link to the document to help you with both forms within mylearning plan:  End of Interval SLO Review & PPG Review. These two are explained under the last two headings within the form.

Feel free to submit them before Friday, if your data and your reflections are completed. Teachers on cycle for evaluation, summative meetings will begin on Monday, June 3rd. You may start scheduling a time to meet with me through Sue. I will submit your summative to you the night before our scheduled meeting. Teachers not on cycle, I will review your end of interval SLO and PPGs electronically, unless you inform me that you want to review these two goals in person.

We have a fun week ahead of us! K-3 Track and Field Day and Fun Run is Wednesday, 4th Grade Track and Field Day Thursday and 5th Grade Track and Field is Friday. Here's to a great few weeks of school that we have left!

Sunday, May 19, 2019

PBIS SAS Survey

Staff,

This week's staff meeting will be located in the learning lab and facilitated by Chris Strop. Please bring your laptop because time is set aside so you can complete the PBIS Self Assessment Survey (SAS).

The survey is taken to assess the effectiveness of our PBIS system and to set priorities for school improvement. Survey results from last year were used to develop an action plan for this year. Love and Logic Classroom Strategies, the Calming Corner process and sensory tools and the Buddy Classroom were implemented to allow teachers to teach and students to learn. These options will be surveyed in the school-wide and classroom systems as listed below:

  • School-Wide Systems:  Options exist to allow classroom instruction to continue when problem behavior occurs.
  • Classroom Systems:  Classroom-based options exist to allow classroom instruction to continue when problem behavior occurs. 

There are forty-six questions in the following categories:

1.  School-wide
2.  Non-classroom
3.  Classroom
4.  Individual
You will be asked two questions per each statement (status and improvement priority).
·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)

Chris will also review this prior to starting the survey on Tuesday, and you will receive an email with the survey link before the meeting. Surveys will need to be completed on Tuesday, May 21st.

Sunday, May 12, 2019

Staff Meeting and Staff Placement

Staff,

This week we have Marcie Andrews, NH PTO President, coming to briefly speak to our staff on Tuesday. Some of the topics she'll cover are:  what the PTO does, update on fundraising, teacher requests and also any feedback you'd like to share with the PTO.

Most of the staff meeting will be set aside for me to review the staff survey results from School Perceptions. As I present the information, think about the what ifs that pop into your mind . . . things that we could act on to make improvements:  What if we did this . . . What if we did that?

Finally K-4 grade teachers on May 15th we will use this Day 5 in the learning lab to work on our class placements. 5th grade teachers can also use this time to fill out the transition forms for the middle school. 

Sunday, May 5, 2019

Staff Appreciation Week

Staff,

On the eve of Staff Appreciation Week, I wanted to thank you for all you do for our students, their families and our colleagues. I appreciate all of you. There are three activities planned to honor you this week. On Tuesday the staff appreciation luncheon, on Wednesday the Walk on the Wild Side at River Crest starting at 4:30 (SIGN UP HERE) and on Friday massages (sign up is in the office).

This week we are working on class placements with the SPED department meeting Monday morning, and on Tuesday K-4th grade teachers will finalize their surveys during common planning time.  The May 15th Day 5 will be utilized for our class placement meetings grades K-4.