The late Friday Focus - February 14, 2014

You'd think with a 4 day week I'd be caught up and ahead of the game, but I'm not and this is late!  I've been spending today digging deeper into our MAP and finding many areas of celebration.  All of this information will be in the email that goes out to staff for Monday's MAP analysis.  While there are data points that aren't where we want them yet, there are several points of growth.   This doesn't just happen. This happens when teachers dedicate their time and effort to aligning instruction to the common core standards and differentiating to meet our students' needs.  It is your hard work and commitment to helping all of our students be successful that gives us reason to celebrate our small wins at this mid-point of the year. Thank you for all of your hard work!

Events Next Week:

Monday - Full Day PD 

Friday - Staff Social (special ed/speech/Madsen)

Please add Tuesday, February 25 to your calendar for a staff meeting.

"Nuts & Bolts" Notes:

Additional MAP resources I've found for you...

-A video of a teacher reviewing the class mid-year progress and setting goals for Spring: MAP Goal Setting.

-A video of a teacher having a mid-year data conference with a student: Student Data Conference

-I found a few websites that are filled with website links to interactive online activities to practice reading/math skills by RIT level:

MAP Testing Reading Practice by RIT Score

MAP Reading Activities

MAP Math Activities
I'm adding a page on my memo blog site that will also have the above links in case you want to easily find them later. You can find this as one of the tabs at the top of the page.

*IEP invites are starting to be emailed to you now.
*The computer lab is BACK IN BUSINESS!!! I have a couple individuals to take the MAP test yet, but you can resume your regular lab schedule. Thank you for your extended patience with our snow days prolonging the test schedule!

No Blogs, Pins or Tweets today as there are several great resources above to check out!