Firgrove clap and thank you for your grace and professionalism for:
- greeting students at the door
- monitoring the hallways during transitions
- walking your students to/from specialists and recess
- reinforcing common area expectations: 4-point line, silent hello/wave, quiet voices, walking to the right
- walking your students to the bus loading and loop area
- your patience and flexibility as we continued to make some adjustments to the master schedule to keep our instructional initiatives intact
- alerting us at the office for any tardy and/or absence pattern you're already noticing with specific students
- remembering to sign-out when you leave the campus
Thank you for completing the following: (If you haven't done so, please complete what applies to you as soon as possible)
- required annual Safety Schools on-line training for all was due Sept. 17th: http://puyallup.wa.safeschools.com/login Log-in to this link by using your employee number with E in front of it. Example: E123456
- daily schedule using the building template provided and submitting it to LouAnn
- updating your yellow staff emergency information by connecting with LouAnn
Are you ready to...
- tell/email Almai your grade level team's adopted university?
- present your "We Are" team poem and poster at the staff meeting?
- share some golden nuggets from the article on formative assessements at the staff meeting?
THIS WEEK:
9/20 Mon. - Fall DIBELS Assessement Week window by the District Reading Assessment Team
9/20 Mon. - Bobbi and Jackie will provide teachers the directions and time frame from our District Assessement Office to enter the Reading and Math scores from recently administered assessments.
9/21 Tues. - Staff Meeting, 3-4 PM, Library. Be sure to read article on formative assessment before this meeting.
9/22 Wed. - CT LIC - Prepare for the Oct. 7th School-wide Goal-setting Conferences with families (email about this was sent Sept. 10th)
9/22 Wed. - Stipend Review Team Mtg., 3 PM, Room 7 (Reminder: All welcome to join this ad hoc team as long as you don't have a stipend application being processed.)
9/22 Wed. - District Writing Cadre, 4-5:30 PM, Woodland Library
9/23 Thurs. - Grades 1 - 6 Curriculum Night/PTA BBQ, 6 - 7:30 PM
OTHER THINGS TO NOTE:
Math Training Opportunity for Grades 3, 4, 5 on Sept. 29, Wed. (I LIC), 2-5, Ballou Commons
Why? To support you in implementing the (fairly new) Math Frameworks. Additionally, you will receive the following:
- 3 clock hours
- 3 hours pay
- class set of linear strips
- powerful strategies for using math visual models
Wednesday Walking School Bus - Teresa and Carie coordinated this last year and have expressed interest to continue their leadership in this initiative. There will be a flier to send home soon to re-introduce this practice to our families. This will be briefly re-introduced to our students during the Oct. 1st Character Trait Assembly. The first Wednesday Walking School Bus will be Oct. 6th, this year's nationally identified Walk to School Day.
October 7th, Supplemental Day #4: Continuing our Student-led Conference/Navigation 101 Initiative - As communicated in an earlier email a little over a week ago, this day will be used as a school-wide conference for our families and the opportunity to roll-out our Navigation 101 initiative. September 22nd, a CT LIC, will be spent by staff preparing for the Oct. 7th School-wde Conferences. Specialists will be in the building that day with their posted schedule of when they can have families/parents drop by for questions or consult with other staff members. Specialist create their schedule when they are available for consults or questions for this day. The schedule needs to be posted outside the specialist's office/room and provide a copy to the main office.
COMING-UP:
9/27 Mon. - Safety Team, 7:40 - 8:15 AM, Rm. 26
9/28 Tues. - Char and Almai at Region 2 K-12 Nuts and Bolts, 7 - 8:30 AM, Brouillet
9/29 Wed. - Individual Planning LIC 9/29 Wed. - Fall PTA Fundraiser Kick-off Assembly, 8:30-8:50 Primary, 9:00-9:20 Intermediate, Please be sure to be seated and ready to go right at the start time for your assembly.
9/29 Wed. - Char and Almai at K-12 Principal Pro Dev, 1:30 - 3:45, Mt. View Com. Ctr.
9/29 Wed. - Char and Almai at PSD Administrative Team, 4 - 5:15 PM, Mt. View Com. Ctr.
10/1 Fri. - Character Trait Assembly (Responsibility); included is the kick-off for our Wednesday Walking School Bus, 9:00-9:30 Intermediate (grade 6 with chairs), 10:00-10:30 Primary
10/6 Wed. - PR LIC - Learning Teams Work
10/6 Wed. - Wednesday Walking School Bus begins
10/7 Thurs. - No School BUT School-wide Goal-setting Conferences/Roll -out the Navigation 101 Program to our families; Specialists post available time for questions and consult outside their office (provide copy to the office as well).
10/8 Fri. - No school, State Teacher Inservice Day
10/12 Tues. - Health Screening for certain grade levels
10/13 Wed. - CT LIC Grade Level Collaboration (Grades 4, 5, 6 will have a 50-minute training in FLASH, the newly adopted Sex Education curriculum, by Rick Wells, Director of Athletics and Health & Fitness, at Spinning library, beginning at 1:15 PM.)
10/13 Wed. -PTA Box Top Breakfast
10/14 Thurs. - PSD Diversity, 3:30, ESC Pioneer
10/19 Tues. - Individual Pictures (including staff)
10/19 Tues. - Staff Meeting, 3-4, Library
10/20 Wed. - EC/SS LIC (SS is job-alike collaboration for SpEd, Title, LAP)
10/20 Wed. - District Reading Cadre, 4-5:30, Shaw Road Library
10/21 Thurs. - PTA Skate Night, 6-9 PM, Tifanny's Skate Rink
10/25 Mon. - Safety Team, 7:40-8:15 AM, Nina's Room
10/26 Tues. - Char and Almai at Region 2 Nuts and Bolts, 7-8:30 AM, SHSB
10/27 Wed. - Individual Planning LIC
10/27 Wed. - Char and Almai at K-12 Principal Pro Dev (1-4 PM) and Administrative Meeting (4-5:15 PM) @ Mt. View Com. Ctr
