Jan 3rd

 Celebrations

I hope everyone had an amazing Holiday break. Being with family and friends has a way of centering us to the important things in life. I look forward to seeing all of you on Jan. 3rd Below are some things to think about as we prepare for our return.


Instructional

PLT Team Meetings:

We are moving from Question 1 to Question 2 of the PLC Questions.

What do we want our kids to learn? (Essential Standards, Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum)


How do we know they learned it? ( Data, Common Formative Assessments, Formatives, Summative)
What do we do when they don’t? (Interventions-Tier 2 and Tier 3)
What do we do when they do? (Extensions and Enrichments)

Objectives should be posted somewhere permanently in the room and those objectives should be referred to often to maximize student learning.


Staff Meeting Slides - Oct. HERE
Nov. PBIS SLIDES


Team meeting with Rachel Bodoin

Learning Walks

We completed Middle School learning walks right before we ended for break. We had some great conversations around the great things our peers are doing and how we could incorporate a version of those great things into your classrooms. Please take a moment to fill out this 3 question feedback form on how we can make this process better for future

• LEARNING WALK FEEDBACK FORM 

Elementary Learning Walk will be in January

Study Skills Class (Middle School)

Teachers as you begin to think about next semester classes and what that looks like. I want to give you information about a potential change. Our intervention team has been working really hard to come up with a recommendation of what intervention will look like in our building. They are in the final stages and hope to have things ready to present to the Guiding Coalition by the 1st week in January. If approved this will go into effect January 23, 2023. So plan for your Study Skills class throughout this time. 

Operational

1st Posting 

We have the following positions that will be open here at Pershing for next school year. If you are interested Please let me know.

• 6th Grade Math 

• 8th Grade Math 

1st Posting is where SPS makes jobs available to current district employees before they are made public for others. The window is Jan. 4th-Jan 14th

Galileo Results 

We should have Galileo results school wide soon. We will go through this data as we did after the BOY. Hopefully we see a lot of improvement between the BOY and MOY. Let's CELEBRATE  the growth and encourage our students to continue to make academic progress. 

Grades Due

Grades are due by 12pm Tuesday Jan 3rd. This is a hard deadline as we try to get grade cards printed and attend to any corrections we may have. 

IEP Meetings

We as educators are required by law to attend IEP meetings. If an invite is sent to you please respond to that invite. This is a great opportunity to share progress as well as areas of concern with the IEP team.

Explore - Dana Hubbard

HERE you can find the listings for this year’s Explore sites and where each school’s student population will go for Explore. Note that this year, the July session will be consolidated to a small amount of schools due to lower expected enrollment. You can find more Explore information at https://www.sps.org/explore.

 Events 

        Jan 3- End of Quarter (Teacher Workday)

        Jan 4- Students Return

        Jan 5th- Data and Dessert for Middle School Guiding Coalition (4:30-6pm)

        Jan 9th- Data and Dessert for Elementary Guiding Coalition (4:30-6pm)

        Jan 16th- Dr. Martin Luther King Day (No School)

        Jan 17- Staff Meeting (7:50-8:50)

        Jan 26- SPS University @ Hillcrest

        

Staff Birthdays  

        12/25 Jennifer Teal and Matt Campbell

        12/29 Jeremy Cook

         1/1 Debbie Ross and Tom Cunningham

    1/3 Stephanie Routh

    1/5 April Barron

    1/8 Kenny Ash

    1/10 Julie McClure

    1/11 Elijah Green

    1/15 Shane Peak

    1/23 Latonya Douglas

    1/25 Ashley McCord

    1/28 Tori Levesque

    2/1 Dale Anne Draper

    2/5 Robert Kaiser

    2/10 Vicki Steineke

    2/19 Madison Morgan

    2/21 Robert Muench

        

December 19

Celebrations

Pershing 7th Grade girls finished the season 2nd in the city tournament and the Pershing 8th girls finished the season 3rd. Congratulations to those girls and Coaches

The Elementary Winter Concert went really well. Ms. Miles and the students put on an amazing performance.






Ms. Wagenknecht and the Orchestra students performed amazing last week during their winter concert at Glendale.

Pershing Wrestling Finished up its season on Saturday. Coaches and Students did a great job this season.





Instructional

PLT Team Meetings:

We are moving from Question 1 to Question 2 of the PLC Questions.

What do we want our kids to learn? (Essential Standards, Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum)


How do we know they learned it? ( Data, Common Formative Assessments, Formatives, Summative)
What do we do when they don’t? (Interventions-Tier 2 and Tier 3)
What do we do when they do? (Extensions and Enrichments)

This week's instructional focus will be on learning objectives and how are we chunking our students learning to maximizes mastery of standards. We are also looking for positive reinforcement of learning.

Objectives should be posted somewhere permanently in the room and those objectives should be referred to often to maximize student learning.


Staff Meeting Slides - Oct. HERE
Nov. PBIS SLIDES


Team meeting with Rachel Bodoin
No Meeting this week. 

2nd Quarter ends Jan. 3rd


We teach bell to bell everyday. We can not get into the habit of taking days off instructionally. We want to keep the academic focuses and rigor going strong throughout our building. The #1 factor to keeping discipline down in your classroom is high levels of teaching and learning everyday.


Learning Walks

 On Dec 13th, Dec 14, and Dec 20 we will have Learning Walks to observe our colleagues as they teach. The goal is to learn, uplift, and validate our colleagues for the amazing things they are doing in their classroom everyday. This will be done with a member of Admin team during PLT time. The form being used can be found HERE. We will come to you and take you on the visit.

Middle School Schedule

Dec. 20

1st Hour: Moystn and Routh

2nd Hour: Eyerman and Kaiser

3rd Hour: Troutman

4th Hour: Holiman and Moorehead


Elementary Learning Walk will be in January

Study Skills Class (Middle School)

Teachers as you begin to think about next semester classes and what that looks like. I want to give you information about a potential change. Our intervention team has been working really hard to come up with a recommendation of what intervention will look like in our building. They are in the final stages and hope to have things ready to present to the Guiding Coalition by the 1st week in January. If approved this will go into effect January 23, 2023. So plan for your Study Skills class throughout this time. 

Operational

Please Click this Link for All STUCCO December Events HERE 

 

Events 

        Nov 21-25- Thanksgiving Break

        Nov 30 and Dec 1 - MOY Galileo

        Dec 1- Alice and Mental Health training (4:30-6:30pm)

        Dec 9- Picture Re-takes

        Dec 15- Elementary Winter Concert 6pm

        Dec 16- Dr. Lathan Pershing Visit (Rescheduled)

        Dec 16- Archery Certification in Elementary Gym (8:30-11:30 am)

        Dec 19 - Pershing Choir Concert (Glendale)

        Dec 20- Staff Meeting (7:50-8:50)

                       Band Concert 6th Grade 6pm

                                              7th & 8th: 7:15 pm

        Dec 23-Jan 4 Winter Break Begins

        Jan 3- End of Quarter (Teacher Workday)

        Jan 4- Students Return

Staff Birthdays  

        12/1 Susan Griffith

        12/1 Jenell Pickering

        12/4 Hannah Wagenknecht

        12/5 Tim Knopf

        12/9 Beth Hailey and Krysten Muench

        12/18 Kathy Null

        12/25 Jennifer Teal and Matt Campbell

        12/29 Jeremy Cook

Dec. 11th

Celebrations  

These students went the 1st of school with NO discipline, All A or A&B Honor Roll, and Perfect Attendance. So they got a celebration of Chick-fil-A and Andy's!!!! We have more to come.




Instructional
PLT Team Meetings:

We are moving from Question 1 to Question 2 of the PLC Questions.

What do we want our kids to learn? (Essential Standards, Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum)


How do we know they learned it? ( Data, Common Formative Assessments, Formatives, Summative)
What do we do when they don’t? (Interventions-Tier 2 and Tier 3)
What do we do when they do? (Extensions and Enrichments)

This week's instructional focus will be on learning objectives and how are we chunking our students learning to maximizes mastery of standards. We are also looking for positive reinforcement of learning.

Objectives should be posted somewhere permanently in the room and those objectives should be referred to often to maximize student learning.


Staff Meeting Slides - Oct. HERE
Nov. PBIS SLIDES


Team meeting with Rachel Bodoin

Jordan from PBIS will be here to meet with teams about building data and classroom strategies to maximize a positive classroom environment.


We teach bell to bell everyday. We can not get into the habit of taking days off instructionally. We want to keep the academic focuses and rigor going strong throughout our building. The #1 factor to keeping discipline down in your classroom is high levels of teaching and learning everyday.


Learning Walks

 On Dec 13th, Dec 14, and Dec 20 we will have Learning Walks to observe our colleagues as they teach. The goal is to learn, uplift, and validate our colleagues for the amazing things they are doing in their classroom everyday. This will be done with a member of Admin team during PLT time. The form being used can be found HERE. We will come to you and take you on the visit.

Middle School Schedule

Dec. 13:

1st Hour- 7th Grade

2nd Hour- 6th Grade

3rd Hour- 8th Grade

4th Hour- Cook, Boyster, Breeding, Pohlman

Dec. 14:

5 Star - PE, Davis, Grant, Wagenknecht

Dec. 20

1st Hour: Moystn and Routh

2nd Hour: Eyerman and Kaiser

3rd Hour: Troutman

4th Hour: Holiman and Moorehead


Elementary Learning Walk will be in January


MOY Galileo
We will continue make-up testing this week so be looking for communication from Mrs. Lannholm about the specifics.


Operational

Supervision:
Remember it is the building expectation that we are at our supervision stations on time and supervising kids. If you for any reason need to miss your duty or absent, it is your responsibility to find a replacement for you. We understand that things come up, so please let a member of admin know. This can be done by trading with a colleague or writing it into sub plans.

Please Click this Link for All STUCCO December Events HERE 

PTSA cookie exchange: PTSA will host a cookie exchange on Dec. 19 in the library, to show appreciation for all of Pershing Teachers and Staff. If you would like to participate in the exchange sign-up HERE.

Events 

        Nov 21-25- Thanksgiving Break

        Nov 30 and Dec 1 - MOY Galileo

        Dec 1- Alice and Mental Health training (4:30-6:30pm)

        Dec 9- Picture Re-takes

        Dec 15- Elementary Winter Concert 6pm

        Dec 16- Dr. Lathan Pershing Visit (Rescheduled)

        Dec 16- Archery Certification in Elementary Gym (8:30-11:30 am)

        Dec 19 - Pershing Choir Concert (Glendale)

        Dec 20- Staff Meeting (7:50-8:50)

                       Band Concert 6th Grade 6pm

                                              7th & 8th: 7:15 pm

        Dec 23-Jan 4 Winter Break Begins

        Jan 3- End of Quarter (Teacher Workday)

        Jan 4- Students Return

Staff Birthdays  

        12/1 Susan Griffith

        12/1 Jenell Pickering

        12/4 Hannah Wagenknecht

        12/5 Tim Knopf

        12/9 Beth Hailey and Krysten Muench

        12/18 Kathy Null

        12/25 Jennifer Teal and Matt Campbell

        12/29 Jeremy Cook

Dec. 4th

 Instructional 

PLT Team Meetings:

We are moving from Question 1 to Question 2 of the PLC Questions. 

1. What do we want our kids to learn? (Essential Standards, Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum)  

2. How do we know they learned it? ( Data, Common Formative Assessments, Formatives, Summative) 

3. What do we do when they don’t?  (Interventions-Tier 2 and Tier 3) 

4. What do we do when they do? (Extensions and Enrichments) 

This week's instructional focus will be on learning objectives and how are we chunking our students learning to maximizes mastery of standards. We are also looking for positive reinforcement of learning. 

Objectives should be posted somewhere permanently in the room and those objectives should be referred to often to maximize student learning.  

Staff Meeting Slides - Oct.  HERE 

                                       Nov. PBIS SLIDES 

Team meeting with Rachel Bodoin

This week teams will have Hannah Swearengin, our ELD Specialist, come during PLT time to present information.

Guiding Coalition Meeting will be Dec 8th @ 8 am in the Library. 

Learning Walks 

On Dec 13th, Dec 14, and Dec 20 we will have Learning Walks to observe our colleagues as they teach. The goal is to learn, uplift, and validate our colleagues for the amazing things they are doing in their classroom everyday.

Middle School  Schedule 

Dec. 13: 

1st Hour- 7th Grade 

2nd Hour- 6th Grade 

3rd Hour- 8th Grade 

4th Hour- Cook, Boyster, Breeding, Pohlman 

Dec. 14: 

5 Star - PE, Davis, Grant, Wagenknecht

Dec. 20

1st Hour: Moystn and Routh 

2nd Hour: Eyerman and Kaiser 

3rd Hour: Troutman 

4th Hour: Holiman and Moorehead 

Elementary Learning Walk will be in January 

MOY Galileo 

The MOY Galileo assessment went really well last week. We will start make-up testing this week so be looking for communication from Mrs. Lannholm about the specifics.

Building D/F Building Expectation 

• Progress Reports went home on Thursday Dec. 1st. If a student is failing your class with a D or F, you should make contact home with the parents via phone call first. Email should be a secondary method. This is a great opportunity to make a personal connection and get them set up with Home Access Center so they can monitor grades regularly.  

HERE is a link about the importance of making parent phone calls as well as a template of how to do that.

ELD Grading 

If you have an English Learner (EL) student who is at risk of receiving a D/F by mid-quarter (November 18th), reach out to our ELD Specialist, Hannah Swearengin, so she can collaborate with you about grading guidance.  As a reminder, per federal law, it is required that teachers of EL students provide accommodations and modifications to enable students to succeed in the classroom. Documentation of accommodations/modifications is recommended. The ELD department has created a form that will guide these conversations and provide a way for you to document the evidence of accommodations and modifications. 

 

We want to make sure we provide support for you and your students prior to semester grading.

Operational 

Supervision: 

Remember it is the building expectation that we are at our supervision stations on time and supervising kids. If you for any reason need to miss your duty or absent,  it is your responsibility to find a replacement for you. We understand that things come up, so please let a member of admin know. This can be done by trading with a colleague or writing it into sub plans.

Remind 101- Please take a moment to look at the graphic below and sign up for Pershing Remind. This is the platform we are going to use to get out quick information to staff. All you have to do is send the message below to the number below. 

Please Click this Link for All STUCCO December Events HERE 

PTSA cookie exchange: PTSA will host a cookie exchange on Dec. 19 in the library, to show appreciation for all of Pershing Teachers and Staff. If you would like to participate in the exchange sign-up HERE.

Events 

        Nov 21-25- Thanksgiving Break

        Nov 30 and Dec 1 - MOY Galileo

        Dec 1- Alice and Mental Health training (4:30-6:30pm)

        Dec 9- Picture Re-takes

        Dec 15- Elementary Winter Concert

        Dec 16- Dr. Lathan Pershing Visit

        Dec 19 - Pershing Choir Concert (Glendale)

        Dec 20- Staff Meeting (7:50-8:50)

                       Band Concert 6th Grade 6pm

                                              7th & 8th: 7:15 pm

        Dec 23-Jan 4 Winter Break Begins

        Jan 3- End of Quarter (Teacher Workday)

        Jan 4- Students Return

Staff Birthdays  

        12/1 Susan Griffith

        12/1 Jenell Pickering

        12/4 Hannah Wagenknecht

        12/5 Tim Knopf

        12/9 Beth Hailey and Krysten Muench

        12/18 Kathy Null

        12/25 Jennifer Teal and Matt Campbell

        12/29 Jeremy Cook