September 4th
Happy Labor day weekend. I hope everyone enjoyed the 3 day weekend after our 1st full week of school. It seems as if our students are quickly getting back into the routine of school, this is with the help of each of you taking the time to teach expectations and celebrating those students that meet those expectations on a daily basis. In addition to seeing clear behavioral expectations being taught, the Admin team is also seeing great strategies being implemented to help our students achieve academically. Great job as we get 1% better every day to ensure we live out Mission.
GOOD-Things
Safe Community- Elementary Back2School Bash
Safe Community/Global Society- Ms. Douglas takes time to reinforce building expectations with Elementary student.
All students Learn at High levels- Mrs. Martin uses a note taking strategy to help guide through processing content.
Safe Community- Pershing students orderly exit the building during fire drill.
ELA has their I can statements posted and referenced multiple times throughout the lesson.
Kick-Off Slides 2023
Instructional
Galileo Testing was a success. We finished the week with very few makeups needed as compared to last year about this time. That is credited to the work you did to promote the importance of this assessment. We look forward to the data we will receive as we make academic goals for the year.
Professional Learning Teams (PLT’s)
PLT’s will begin this week. Like previously communicated, these will take place in designated areas. This is Admin directed time that we will dedicate to the PLC process Monday-Thursday. This time will be flipped on Friday’s to allow you time with your grade level team.
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
We will have the Pershing tradition of Middle School Madness Friday September 8th, 4:15- 6pm. Several of you signed-up for this event to be your 1 event supervision. We will send out an email reminding you.
SPS U/Open House
This event will take place September 12, 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.
Handbook Collections
Congratulations to Mrs. Steineke’s 1st Grade Class, Mr. Tindle’s 6th grade Seminar, and Mr. Knopf’s 8th seminar for being the first to turn in 100% of their class handbook signature page. These classes won an Ice Cream Sandwich Party this past Friday.
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
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
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
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