Celebrations
I just want to celebrate all of you for your hard work to make last week run as smoothly as possible. Starting the week with portable restrooms was not how I envision starting this semester. However, everyone adjusted as the SPS maintenance department worked hard to ensure that our water was restored on the middle school side as quickly as possible.
Since many of you have taken it upon yourselves to let my wife Hope know that we just had to have a dog, I just want to let you know she heard you and we now have a puppy. I want you guys to meet Memphis. We are both excited and after a week we have realized that our lives have changed drastically.
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
Elementary Learning Walk will be on 1/13Team Meetings (Middle School)
On Monday teachers will meet as a grade level. This meeting with be an informational regarding tier 2 intervention. Below are the times and room number we will be meeting. Thanks and have a great weekend!
7th Grade – Room 208 – 9:05AM
6th Grade – Room 227 – 10:56AM
8th Grade – Room 113 – 10:47AM
Operational
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
SPED - Cross Cat
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.
Grade Cards will be uploaded to HAC (Home Access Center) this week and will send a paper copy home as well. We hope to have the paper copy read to send home Tuesday or Wednesday of this week.
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.
Club Encore
4-5 Reading Tutor for Elementary Encore. Monday and Wednesday mornings from 7:30-8:30am. Begins mid January and goes for 10 weeks, 20 total tutoring days. The stipend is paid upon completion ($1,125). Curriculum is already made and they will just have to execute the lessons with the students. Usually no more than 8 to students in this group. I will get the students enrolled and communicate with parents on dates, signing up, and more. They can email me or reply to you if interested!
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 24- Staff Meeting (7:50-8:50)
Jan 26- SPS University @ Hillcrest
Staff Birthdays
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
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