Monday Memo - Week of October 17-21

Celebrations from our Data Days:

• 5K Math Benchmark (# Identification) found that 60% of students are already Proficient or Advanced--of where they should be at the end of the year!
• 1st Grade Reading-67% of students are Proficient/Advanced on the Benchmark assessment!
• 2nd Grade Reading-69% of students are Proficient/Advanced on the Benchmark assessment!
• 3rd Grade SRI: 43% Proficient or Advanced (this is based on where they should be at the end of the year)
• 3rd Grade Reading - 81% of students are Proficient/Advanced on the Benchmark assessment!
• 3rd Grade SMI: 35% of students are Proficient/Advanced on the SMI
• 4th Grade SRI: 50% of students are Proficient/Advanced
• 4th Grade: 67% Proficient/Advanced on Benchmark
• 4th Grade: 51% Proficient/Advanced on SMI
• 5th Grade: 81% Proficient/Advanced on SRI (at the start of school last year, this same group of students started the year with 57% P/A on the SRI 
• 6th Grade: 62% Proficient/Advanced on SRI 

*Please note that the Proficiency levels for SRI/SMI assessments are for where 

students should be at the END of this year--that makes this news even more exciting!!!

It was great to see such incredible results and we are only in the beginning of the year.  This just shows our hard work from last year paying off already!!

Events this Week:
Monday: P/T Conferences 4-7:30
Tuesday: 7:35 WKCE Mtg for 3-5th grade (and any other teachers involved in testing) in the D.O. Conference Room
3:05 Art Show Fundraiser meeting--anyone is welcome to join and share ideas you may have.
-Last HOME game for our 5th graders on the Trojan Jr. Football team
Wednesday: Elementary Professional Learning Meeting--the google doc for the agenda is HERE  Feel free to add to it if you would like. We will be talking about 
Friday-Staff Social Lunch
Saturday-PTO Craft Fair/Bake Sale --great opportunity for holiday shopping!!! 
Future events to make sure are on your calendar:
*Wednesday, October 26 Fall Festival
*Thursday, November 3 Elementary Assembly for "Giving Back with Ronald McDonald" presentation.  He's previously come to get kids excited about reading, but this year the focus is on service and giving back to others which fits perfectly with our character focus in November (and is a great break in the afternoon for 3-5th graders that are WKCE testing in the morning).

"Nuts & Bolts" Notes
*Our next Tech Tuesday is schedules for Tuesday, October 25th which is also the flu shot clinic.  Would you prefer that I reschedule Tech Tuesday to November 1st?  Please vote on the blog (most of you get this in your email, so make sure to go to http://johnsonmemo.blogspot.com to vote if you were planning on attending Tech Tuesday).
*The Leadership Team met for the first time last Friday.  LT members are: C. Abegglen, P. Bartlett, J. Huelsman, S. O'Toole, P. Prinsen, and J. Ratajzcak

We only had time to talk about how the P.D. conversations/beliefs process went on October 7. Overall, it was great feedback on learning what is happening across grade levels/disciplines and to get rid of the "what did the lower grade level do last year?" that always seems to come up.