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 

Sept 4

 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 

Day 3- Kick-off Slides 

Day 2- Kick-off Slides 

Day 1 - Kick-off Slides 

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 

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 

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