September 24

 

 

GOOD-Things 

Science team using PLT team time to develop CFA (High Levels of Learning for All)

Elementary Team engaging in PLT’s by looking at Galileo data (High Levels of Learning for All)

Volleyball team getting ready for action (Community) 

Ms. Routh takes the time to talk with a student (Safe Community) 

Mrs. McCord uses and effective strategy QSSA to allow students to process learning (High Levels of Learning)

Students during dismissal take the time to read and discuss funny themes about a book (Safe Community/Global Society)

Kick-Off Slides 2023 

Day 3- Kick-off Slides 

Day 2- Kick-off Slides 

Day 1 - Kick-off Slides 

Why collaborate- presentation HERE

Instructional 

Professional Learning Teams (PLT’s) 

This week schedule will look like the following

Elementary
Rise and Shine- CFA Data 

Middle School
CFA Data and PLT 

Science- Julie McClure’s room 

ELA- Christina Burt’s room 

Social Studies- Kevin Kleiner’s room 

Math- Maria Grindstaff’s room

Elementary- Mrs. Fleetwood's room

Grading Expectations Reminder
Pershing Grading expectations is at least 2 grades per week entered into Eschool.

Mid-Quarter Dates

September 22

November 17

February 2

April 19 

Instructional Focus 

As we know the Guiding Coalition chose 6 marzano instructional practices that we will particularly focus on this year. Of those 6, three will be our intentional focus for the first semester

1. Tracking Student Progress

2. Processing Content

3. Increasing Response Rate

Click on the links above for extra resources on how to incorporate into your lessons or even give validation to some things you are already using. This week as the admin team enters your classroom we will specifically be looking for evidence of processing content. Example are 

1. Thnk, pair, share 

2. collaborative processing with a shoulder partner Asking students to summarize, ask clarifying questions, and make predictions about new information in small groups

• Discussing students’ summaries, questions, and predictions

Operational 

Mid-Term Progress Reports

Due to issues ensuring everyone was able to load grades we held off on running progress reports until Monday. So they will be ran and dispersed Monday during Seminar. 

Parent Teacher Conference Suggested Schedule 

Parent Teacher Conference window is Oct.23 - Nov. 3rd. Below will the Parent Teacher Conference Suggested Schedule for Middle School. Tuesday will be the mandatory late night until 8:30 pm for the entire K-8 building. These will be the days that you will have Administrative support in the building. You and your team have the option to schedule conferences outside of these time as long as we adhere to the following

• Tuesday Oct. 24 is the mandatory late night for the entire building
• Teachers do not have to stay the entire late night if the 7.25 hours is attained on other conference day off contract. 
• Teachers/teacher teams may determine when the additional hours/conferences will occur outside of contract time.
• Teachers & Core Teacher teams will submit their conference schedule in advance of the first scheduled parent/teacher conference to the principal.
• Scheduled conference times will total 7 hours and 25 minutes and serve as a trade out for not having to work on November 6th.
• Teachers will also submit a conference logs at the conclusion of the parent/teacher conference window to the principal.

Date	Time	Minutes
Tuesday Oct.24	4:15-8:30 pm	255
Wednesday Oct. 25	4:15-5:30 pm	75
Thursday Oct. 26	8:00-8:30 am  4:15-5:30 pm	30  75
Total Minutes		435 (7.25 hrs)

Last Week to have Safe Schools Training completed. 

PTSA MIDDLE SCHOOL SONIC DRINK DAY 

Please make sure your safe schools training is done by September 30th. 

Elementary Parent Newsletter 

https://www.smore.com/njvw7

Important Dates 

September 

1 Elementary Back2School Bash

4 Labor Day (No School) 

7- Pershing Cardinal Night- Elementary 

8 Middle School Madness 

12 Staff Meeting (7:30-8:30 am) 

    14 Pershing SPU/Open House - Growth Plans Due

            15 -Hispanic Heritage Month Begins (9/15-10/15)

      22 Mid-Quarter 

Oct

        2- Custodian Appreciation Day

        4- SCPTA @ Jarrett 9:30 am

         6- Principal for a Day (Vistors in the Building)

        10- Staff Meeting 7:30-8:30 am/ Dr. Shaw site Visit

        19- 6th Costume Ball and Elementary Monster Mash

        23-Nov 3 - Parent/Teacher Conference Window

Birthdays 

September 

2 Brooke Shivers 

2 Rebekah Ferguson

3 Maria Grindstaff

6 Amy Rader 

7 Tammy Cook 

13 Heather Murray

24 Paige Fleetwood 

25 Natalie Hass 

October

        6 Megan Patton

        20 Damika Bowden

        24 Renee Wise

Decemeber

    6- Alice/Mental Health Training 4:30-6:30 pm

September 18

 As we begin week 5, we acknowledge that we are in full swing of school, and the end of the week will mark mid-quarter of the 1st 9 weeks. I want you to stop and acknowledge the small successes you were able to do within the first 4 weeks of school and celebrate. Celebrate you, your kids and the process. Those successes you were able to have are a result of the small habits you were able to stack everyday to lead to 1% daily improvement and a growth mindset.  Each of you work hard and that hard work is seen and appreciated. We will have a wonderful week at Pershing because you are here. 

 

GOOD-Things 

Mrs. Cox gets awarded two grants from the Springfield Public Schools Foundation. (Promote and encourage strong partnership, working collaboratively with all stakeholders to support the goals and vision of our school. Vision Statement)

Mrs. McCord uses a fun way to teach students the expectation of placing their name on their paper. (Use PBIS to teach students procedures to meet high expectations. Vision Statement)

SPSU/Open House was a success (Promote and encourage strong partnership, working collaboratively with all stakeholders to support the goals and vision of our school. Vision Statement)

Pershing Collaboration. (Monitor progress for all students in order to use data to provide intervention and extension by using research based instructional strategies. Vision Statement).

Mrs. Mammen takes time before class to conference with a student. (Use PBIS to teach students procedures to meet high expectations - Vision Statement)

Kick-Off Slides 2023 

Day 3- Kick-off Slides 

Day 2- Kick-off Slides 

Day 1 - Kick-off Slides 

Why collaborate- presentation HERE

Instructional 

Professional Learning Teams (PLT’s) 

Great 2nd week of working in PLT’s. Most of all our teams have completed the essential skill planner as a guide through the Teaching and Assessing Cycle with Essential Standards. This week schedule will look like the following

Elementary
Rise and Shine- Galileo Data (Math and ELA)

Middle School
Monday - Finish Essential Skill Planner/ PLT

• Plan CFA to be given before Sept. 25 on first Essential 

Tuesday- ELA/Math Galileo Data/ Social Studies & Science PLT Plan CFA
Wednesday - Team Day
Thursday -  PLT
Friday- Mr. Wells Check in PLT

Science- Julie McClure’s room 

ELA- Christina Burt’s room 

Social Studies- Kevin Kleiner’s room 

Math- Maria Grindstaff’s room

Mid-Quarter Progress Reports
Sept. 22 is the mid-quarter point and we will be printing progress reports to send home with students this week. An email with the specific date will be coming this week.

Grading Expectations Reminder
Pershing Grading expectations is at least 2 grades per week entered into Eschool.

Mid-Quarter Dates

September 22

November 17

February 2

April 19 

Youtube

As you know YouTube and Netflixs have been blocked by the District.  We have this knowledge base article available for teachers on how to embed YouTube videos correctly.

Growth Plans 

Please access this link HERE and follow the steps for completing your growth plan in KickUp.

After you have completed your growth plan a member of the Admin team will schedule a meeting with you to review. Please let us know if you have any questions. 

Operational 

Burrell Introduction

Have you Seen this helmet? If so could you bring it to Mr. Wells' office thank you. 

Please make sure your safe schools training is done by September 30th. 

Supervision Schedule 

I have linked the Supervision Schedule to the right of the blog. Please check to make sure you know when you are assigned duty. If you are absent for any reason please make sure that someone is covering your duty. 

Elementary Parent Newsletter 

https://www.smore.com/njvw7

Important Dates 

September 

1 Elementary Back2School Bash

4 Labor Day (No School) 

7- Pershing Cardinal Night- Elementary 

8 Middle School Madness 

12 Staff Meeting (7:30-8:30 am) 

    14 Pershing SPU/Open House - Growth Plans Due

            15 -Hispanic Heritage Month Begins (9/15-10/15)

      22 Mid-Quarter 

Oct

        2- Custodian Appreciation Day

Birthdays 

September 

2 Brooke Shivers 

2 Rebekah Ferguson

3 Maria Grindstaff

6 Amy Rader 

7 Tammy Cook 

13 Heather Murray

24 Paige Fleetwood 

25 Natalie Hass 

September 10

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. We completed the third week and we are full tilt into the school year. Our goals have been and will always be having high expectations academically and behaviorally. Never underestimate the power of stopping to reinforce/reward the behaviors we want to see and re-teaching those behaviors when necessary, either individually or to the entire class. We want to make tiny gains in both of these areas because we know that over time those time gains will stack up to amazing accomplishments for ALL of our students. Below you will find a graphic of how that works. I look forward to a great week. 

GOOD-Things 

Mrs. Moorhead doing her thing with students during Middle School Madness. (Global Society)

Middle School madness (Community) 

Mr. Knopf’s class measures different objects during class using different units. (Learning at High levels- processing content)

Cheerleaders bringing the pep (Global Society) 

PLT’s engage in collaboration (Ensuring high levels of learning for ALL) 

Mr. Cooper helping a family in need on a hot day (Community) 

Ambassadors represent Dr. Lathan during the Japanese Sister City event. (Global Society)

Kick-Off Slides 2023 

Day 3- Kick-off Slides 

Day 2- Kick-off Slides 

Day 1 - Kick-off Slides 

Instructional 

Staff Meeting: We will have our staff meeting on this Tuesday, Sept. 12 7:30-8:30 am

Galileo Testing: We hope to have Galileo testing data by the end of the week. This will allow us to anaylze this data and make action steps toward mastery of standards.

Professional Learning Teams (PLT’s) 

Great start to our PLT’s last week. Below you will find the list of accomplishment from the week;

1. Why collaborate- presentation HERE
2. Each team created team norms
3. We completed the survey Critical Issues for team Consideration
4. Adjusted PLT schedule to Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, Friday (Middle School) 

Wednesday will now be our grade level team time. Your plan will be in the morning and grade level team time in the afternoon on this day.

This week during PLT’s we will be looking at Educlimber and how we are going to use it in our PLT process. We are also going to have time on Friday to look at Growth Plans.

Science- Julie McClure’s room 

ELA- Christina Burt’s room 

Social Studies- Kevin Kleiner’s room 

Math- Maria Grindstaff’s room

Mid-Quarter Dates

September 22

November 17

February 2

April 19 

Youtube

As you know YouTube and Netflixs have been blocked by the District.  We have this knowledge base article available for teachers on how to embed YouTube videos correctly.

Growth Plans 

Please access this link HERE and follow the steps for completing your growth plan in KickUp. We understand that this is new and different so we will take this portion slow. Please have these growth plans completed by Sept. 14. If there are any questions, we will have time during our September 12th staff meeting to answer questions. 

After you have completed your growth plan a member of the Admin team will schedule a meeting with you to review. Please let us know if you have any questions. 

Operational 

Middle School Madness 

 Middle School Madness was a success. Thank you to all that helped in some way to make this event a success for our students and community.

SPS U/Open House 

This event will take place September 14, 2023 5:30-7:30. We will serve dinner for all and this will be an opportunity for parents to learn more about our system and know more about you as you teach their children this year.

Burrell Introduction

Have you Seen this helmet? If so could you bring it to Mr. Wells' office thank you. 

Please make sure your safe schools training is done by September 30th. 

Supervision Schedule 

I have linked the Supervision Schedule to the right of the blog. Please check to make sure you know when you are assigned duty. If you are absent for any reason please make sure that someone is covering your duty. 

Elementary Parent Newsletter 

https://www.smore.com/njvw7

Important Dates 

September 

1 Elementary Back2School Bash

4 Labor Day (No School) 

7- Pershing Cardinal Night- Elementary 

8 Middle School Madness 

12 Staff Meeting (7:30-8:30 am) 

15 -Hispanic Heritage Month Begins (9/15-10/15)

14 Pershing SPU/Open House - Growth Plans Due

22 Mid-Quarter 

Birthdays 

September 

2 Brooke Shivers 

2 Rebekah Ferguson

3 Maria Grindstaff

6 Amy Rader 

7 Tammy Cook 

13 Heather Murray

24 Paige Fleetwood 

25 Natalie Hass