I hope everyone had a wonderful relaxing Spring Break. We had pretty days and days like today where it feels like 17 degrees. I’m told that it is normal for southwest Missouri weather. I admit I’m still adjusting to this weather.
However, as we prepare for the last quarter of the school year and our academic Super Bowl of MAP testing, we will look up and the end of the school year will be here before we know it. Lets keep holding students to a high standard both behaviorally and academically. We do this by reminding students of your social contracts and building expectations, preparing our students to answer depth of knowledge (DOK) level 2,3,4 questions, and practicing academic stamina by exposing students to MAP test like questions that require reading. These are just a few of the many examples many of you are already doing.
Each of you have worked hard to teach our students at a high level and we want our students to demonstrate their learning on the MAP test. So exposing our students to what they will see will help them transfer the knowledge gained from the year and celebrating their success is the key to Pershing Success.
I look forward to seeing you all.
Celebrations
Jenny Thomas doing ELA intervention small groups (ALL students learning at high levels)
8th boys basketball team having an excellent season (Being prepared for a global society)
Angie Cox inspiring to find the joy in reading (Global Society)
Community members came out to tour our school and ask questions about the upcoming Prop S bond proposal. (Safe Community)
7th grade Pride team participating in a scholar bowl against students during ICU celebrations. (Community)
Coach Tillman taking time to community with a parent at the car line. (Community)
Related Arts team enjoy pancakes cooked from Mr. Cooper and enjoying down time before spring break. (community)
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
Jan. MOY Galileo
Feb Intervention
Team meeting with Rachel Bodoin
We will have regular team meeting this week. .
6th- Mr. Ash room, 7th Mr. Tillman room, 8th Mr. Gegg room.
Galileo Results Resources
Intervention Groups HERE Middle School
Galileo Alignment by Test HERE (Both Middle and Elementary)
Operational
Principal for a Day:
This will occur on March 29th, please see details below.
District Coaching Update
Instructional coaching for teachers and leaders has been a part of the instructional framework in SPS for some time. In the current model, we recognize the level of support provided may be inequitable in some sites and divisions within the system. In order to better align academic work in SPS and establish consistent support for teachers and leaders, we will be modifying coaching supports for the 2023-2024 school year. This endeavor is a collaboration between the Curriculum, Learning Development and Federal Programs teams and will result in dedicated coaching support at each site from a district instructional coach. Additional information regarding the district coach who will be supporting your site, as well as specifics of the role will be forthcoming.
Events
March 7- Proposition S Community Presentation
March 10- Teacher Work Day (No Students)
End of 3rd Quarter
March 13-17th Spring Break
March 21- Kindergarten Roundup
March 23- SPS University @ Central 5:30
March 28- Staff Meeting (7:50-8:50)
March 29- Chamber of Commerce Visit
March 29- Elementary Third Quater Celebration 9:15am
March 30- Elementary STEAM Night 5:00-6:30pm
April 3rd-7th Assistant Principal/CSI appreciation week
April 4- National School Librarian Appreciation Day
April 4- Election Day
April 5- Paraprofessional Appreciation Day
April 25- National School Bus Drivers Day
April 26- Administrative Professionals Day
April 28- Last day to check out books
Staff Birthdays
3/23 Allison Holiman
3/28 Lauren Parrish
4/2 Megan Johnson Ponsar/ Tommy Wells
4/3 Christina Burt
4/11 April Hughes
4/16 Chris Tillman
4/19 Alisha Davis
4/20 Kelsey Barbigiovanni
4/21 Hannah Swearengin
4/22 Emily Carlson/ Morgan Thomas
4/29 Sally Guillams
4/30 Ieisha Campbell
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