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