October 16

GOOD-Things 

Mrs. Cook teaches 21st Century Skill of caring for another human. (Safe Community and Global Society)

Mrs. Martin uses a Gallery walk as a way of processing content. (Learning at High Levels)

Mrs. Nasby and Mrs. Steineke classes participate in Buddies (Safe Community and Global Society)

Mrs. Frazier’s class learned about letters and sounds by practicing spelling classmates' names. (Learning at high levels and Safe Community) 

Mr. Tindle’s class builds canapolts and tracks their progress throughout the process. (Learning at High levels)

The last football game of the year ends with a win and Pershing/Hickory tailgate at Kickapoo. (Safe Community)

Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Lewis monitors student learning by using proximity to check for understanding during the independent practice portion of the lesson.

Mr. Gegg led the induction of 30 members to National Junior Honor Society (NJHS). (Safe Community and Global Society)

Mr. Satterfield celebrates students by putting work on display as exemplars. (High levels of Learning and Celebrating Success)  

Pershing Committee’s meet and make next steps. (Safe community ensuring high levels of learning for all students, being prepared for a 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- 

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 10/31 7:30-8:30 . We will be whole group. 

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 

School pictures will be on Monday, October 16, 2023. Click HERE to view the schedule. To make sure instruction time is maximized, be sure to follow steps below. Also reference email sent by Ms. Douglas for further information.

Food Truck Day 

Our PTA/PTSA wanted to provide an opportunity for you to purchase your lunch on the Teacher Work Day October 20th and get some yummy food. We have booked Brockrito from 11 AM-2 PM it is a taco truck. If you click on the link it will lead to the Facebook page which has a link for the menu.

Name: Brockrito

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

        18- Student Flu Shot Clinic

        19- 6th Costume Ball and Elementary Monster Mash - End of 1st Quarter/ DCA due in educlimber

        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

    1st- Churro Food Truck day for Spanish Classes

    6- P/T Conference trade out day

    7 Professional Day

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

Decemeber

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