Routine and Behavior Review: For the first 2 weeks back to school we will need to review behavior expectations. It may seem like our vacation went very quickly, but it went just quickly enough for our students to forget every classroom/school routine we taught them before break! :)
When reviewing student expectations, please take some time to review expectations for the classrooms, hallways, bathrooms, etc. It would also be wise to review your I-Charts for your literacy blocks. Before break I was noticing that the hallways were getting very noisy and disruptive during the morning recess transition times. Please practice these expectations with your classes as a review. It’s always interesting to find what they seem to have forgotten over break.
Upcoming Events (The google calendar to the right should be updated as well)
*January 18th: DART meeting for 2nd Grade (7:45-10:45) and 3rd Grade (12:15-3:15) at Horicon.
*January 9-20: SRI testing window for 3-5th grades
*January 20th:After attending Jim Wright's RTI conference we are going to be making some "tweaks" to our SIT (Student Intervention Team) process. One change includes scheduling one day per month for SIT meetings and having guest teacher coverage to relieve teachers. Our first SIT day will be January 20th. I am working on scheduling the students that I know we need to follow up on from previous meetings, so please let me know ASAP if you have any other students that you have concerns with and would like to meet with the Student Intervention Team for assistance.
*January 24-February 3: SMI Testing window for 2-5th grades
*Data Days-due to a conference the same week, I am moving the Data Day meetings for 1st/3rd grades to Thursday, February 16th. So the Data Days schedule is: 5K/2nd on Feb 8th, 5th/4th on Feb 10th and 3rd/1st on Feb 16th.
"Nuts & Bolts" Notes
*Benchmark Assessments-Sometime between now and your grade level's Data Day meeting you need to assess your students that started below grade level with the benchmark assessment. Looking at the list of students, this means a range of #'s per teacher to assess from 2 up to 12 (the higher numbers are in the upper grades that Jenny and I helped assess). This should be a doable number of students to assess without guest teacher coverage during your Daily 5 block. Please let me know if you need any assistance or are concerned about completing these by then.
*Wisconsin DPI is joining the Nation in participation of Digital Learning Day on Wednesday, February 1st. You can find out all about it HERE The basic point of Digital Learning Day is to try something new involving digital learning in your classroom...not just a new flashy tech tool, but something to enhance learning. If you need any help trying something for this day--please let me know and I'd be glad to help!Tech Tips
*You've all heard me talk about twitter for quite a while now. If you want to check it out without starting an account, here's a helpful screencast to show you how you can check it out:
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