Monday, October 9, 2023

October 9

 Happy October,

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and you had an opportunity to enjoy the cool autumn weather. We are making  great progress within our building. Let's keep up the good work. 



GOOD-Things 



All students were engaged in a processing content activity in Mr. Gegg’s room. (All students learning at High Level)



Students working together to practice a piece for Orchestra (Global Society)

2nd Grade student stops to read the bulletin board “The Best Part of Me” outside Mrs. Fleetwood’s room. (Safe Community)


Mrs. Pohlman’s Spanish students engage in a great processing content activity to help them communicate. (High Levels of Learning)


Students use writing strategy learned in English class to help write open responses in Social Studies class. (Learning at High Levels)




Mrs. Murray engages 21 students in Dungeons and Dragons club (Safe Community/Global Society)





Elementary Team celebrates Mrs. Patton’s 40th Birthday (Safe Community)



Congratulations to the 7th Grade Volleyball who came in 2nd place in the City Tournament (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
PLT 
CFA- 10/10 


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




Staff Meeting Tuesday 10/10 7:30-8:30 . We will host our first committee meetings. 

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 




Principal for a Day

Logan Aguirre of 417 Magazine was in the building on Friday participating in the District wide Principal for a Day program. Mrs. Aguirre had nothing but wonderful things to say about Pershing and the wonderful things she wittnessed being a part of this program. 


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) 



Elementary Parent Newsletter 

https://www.smore.com/crtph






Important Dates 

Oct

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

          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

        16- Picture DAY

        19- 6th Costume Ball and Elementary Monster Mash - End of 1st Quarter

        20- Teacher Work Day- No School for Students

        23-Nov. 3rd - Parent/Teacher Conference Window

        31- Monthly Staff Meeting- 7:30-8:30 am


Birthdays 

October

        6 Megan Patton

        20 Damika Bowden

        24 Renee Wise



November

    8th- Student Access Training - 7:30-8:30 am


Decemeber

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