Observations and O3s

All FLO and goals are complete! Thank you for commitment to your professional development.

There are no observations this week, but we will be having O3s. Please bring your completed Emergency Sub folder that contains two days of lessons and all accommodations logs (SpEd, IAT, and 504s) for me to review and sign.

Workshop Observation

Please schedule one 30 minute workshop observation for either the week of October 9 or October 23 using our Google Doc. I will be focusing on the competencies and indicators of Planning: Differentiated Planning and Teaching: Personalized Instruction. Please schedule by Thursday, October 5.

Classroom Framework Evidence

We will begin our normal Classroom Framework schedule in October. Please start to collect your evidence and/or begin to think about when you want me to observe your instruction for the following competencies.

 

Week of October 9-13: Planning

·        Bring lesson plans for the weeks of September 18, 25, October 2, and 9 (to be included as FLO #1 evidence)

·        Schedule a 30 minute observation for me to observe your workshop this week or the week of Oct 23 (to be included as FLO #1 evidence)

Week of October 16-20: Teaching

·        Schedule a 15 minute Teaching observation

Week of October 23-27: Assessing

·        Please bring evidence to your O3 for the indicator “Actionable Feedback” (to be included as FLO #1 evidence)

·        We cover the first two indicators during grade-level meetings, but additional evidence can be brought since we haven’t administer interims or unit assessments yet. (to be included as FLO #1 evidence)

·        Schedule a 30 minute observation for me to observe your workshop if I didn’t observe it the week of October 9. (to be included as FLO #1 evidence)
 

 Don’t forget the Classroom Framework schedule for each month

Week 1: Classroom Culture (observation)

Week 2: Planning (bring evidence to O3)

Week 3: Teaching (observation)

Week 4: Assessing (bring evidence to O3)

Grade Level Agenda

See below for this week’s grade level meeting agenda. Please bring your Reading Street and Math Expression TEs. Let me know if you have any questions or would like to add anything to the agenda prior to the meeting.

Agenda

1.   Analyze Interim 1 assessment questions to determine adjustment to instruction

2.   Determine Unit 2 writing schedule

Hall Meeting Agenda

I am excited that we will be having our first hall meeting on Tuesday. We will have one hall meeting per trimester. See below for the tentative schedule. Please let me know if you would like to add anything prior to Tuesday.

1.    Ice Breaker

2.    Good News

3.    Old Business

a.    Review my personal goal from 16.17 school year

b.   Review last year’s staff survey results from our hall

4.    New Business:

a.    Determine team goal

b.   Best practice share out

5.    Questions

Happy Birthday

 

Leah-October 3

Important Dates

Please view the right side of the blog for important dates in

Reminders

·       Lesson plans will be due October 9-13 at your O3 for the following weeks: September 18, 25, Oct 2, and 9.

Please note: You are not required to type out lesson plans for Moral Focus, however, please include the title of the lessons that you will be teaching in your lesson plans.

·       Submit your suggestions for our team goal by October 2. We will vote/determine what our goal will be for the 2017-18 school year at our first hall meeting.

·       Please provide me with a copy of your weekly newsletters; either a paper copy or by email.

This Week

Monday, October 2:

·       College shirt day

·       National Hispanic Heritage Presentation

Tuesday, October 3:

·       Hall Meeting

·       Leah’s birthday

Wednesday, October 4:

·       Count day

Thursday, October 5:

·       PTO Fun Run

Friday, October 6:

·       Primary Hall Awards

·       U of M/MSU Free Jean Day

Curb-side: Seltz

Lunch Duty

3^rd-Groover

4^th-Seltz

5^th-Wolken

The highlighted name is the person responsible for staying in the gym if Jorvonna or Polly is the only adult in the gym, no matter the grade. Please do not leave until Jorvonna or Polly enters the gym to ensure that a staff member is supervising the students at all times and we have adequate coverage. Thanks!

Observations and O3s

Full lesson observations continue this week. I will be observing the competencies of Classroom Culture and Teaching.

There won’t be any regular scheduled O3s, instead only scheduled Goal Setting O3s.

Grade-level Meeting

See below for this week’s grade level meeting agenda. Please bring any resources that you are currently using in workshop or small group. Let me know if you have any questions or would like to add anything to the agenda prior to the meeting.

Agenda

1.   Workshop and Small Group Discussion

a.  Expectations/Structure

b.  Resources

c.   Data

2.   Intervention Services

Reminders

·       Lesson plans will be due October 9-13 at your O3 for the following weeks: September 18, 25, Oct 2, and 9.

Please note: You are not required to type out lesson plans for Moral Focus, however, please include the title of the lessons that you will be teaching in your lesson plans.

·       Submit your suggestions for our team goal by October 2. Once I have everyone’s suggestion, I will send out an email for everyone to vote/determine what our goal will be for the 2017-18 school year.

·       Please provide me with a copy of your weekly newsletters either a paper copy or by email.

·       Emergency Sub Folders are due the week of Oct 3-7. See previous post for specifics

·       Review all safety drills with your students. See previous post for specifics  

This Week

Tuesday, September 26:

·       PLC Meeting

Friday, September 29:

·       Middle School Hall Awards

Curb-side: Burger

Lunch Duty

3^rd-Marks

4^th-Burger

5^th-Brown

The highlighted name is the person responsible for staying in the gym if Jorvonna or Polly is the only adult in the gym, no matter the grade. Please do not leave until Jorvonna or Polly enters the gym to ensure that a staff member is supervising the students at all times and we have adequate coverage. Thanks!

O3s and Observations

Full lesson observations begin this week. I will be observing the competencies of Classroom Culture and Teaching.

There won’t be any regular scheduled O3s, instead only scheduled Goal Setting O3s.

Moral Focus Grading

As a reminder from our grade level discussions, you will enter four Moral Focus grades per month/virtue. Two grades for behavior and two academic grades based on the criterion below.

Academic Scoring Scale:

·       3.0 fully completed

·       2.0 partially completed

·       1.0 adult assistance needed or not attempted

Behavior Scoring Scale:

·       Use NHA’s Moral Focus Virtues Rubric

Lesson Plans

 

If you are planning on submitting lesson plans, it begins next week. Remember that lesson plans will be due October 9-13 at your O3 for the following weeks: September 18, 25, Oct 2, and 9.

Please note: You are not required to type out lesson plans for Moral Focus, however, please include the title of the lessons that you will be teaching in your lesson plans.

Team Goal

Thank you for the grade-level discussions around determining our team goal. Please do not forget to submit to me your suggestions by October 2. Once I have everyone’s suggestion, I will send out an email for everyone to vote/determine what our goal will be for the 2017-18 school year.

 

 

Reminders

Don’t forget-

·      Please provide me with a copy of your weekly newsletters either a paper copy or by email.

·      Emergency Sub Folders are due the week of Oct 3-7. See previous post for specifics

·      Review all safety drills with your students. See previous post for specifics  

This Week

Tuesday, September 19:

·       SLT Meeting

Thursday, September 21:

·       $1 Jean Day-JDRF

Friday, September 22:

·       Groover’s flag bearers

·       Social Contracts posted

·       3-5 Hall Awards

Curb-side-Pippin

Lunch Duty

3^rd-Pippin

4^th-Wagner

5^th-Young

The highlighted name is the person responsible for staying in the gym if Jorvonna or Polly is the only adult in the gym, no matter the grade. Please do not leave until Jorvonna or Polly enters the gym to ensure that a staff member is supervising the students at all times and we have adequate coverage. Thanks!

Classroom Culture Observations

I will observing Classroom Culture this week!

O3s

O3s begin this week!  During your O3, we will discuss your Classroom Culture observation, if applicable, and discuss the Goal O3 setting process.

Grade-level Meetings

Grade level meetings begin this week. See below for this week’s grade level meeting agenda. Please bring your pacing guides. Let me know if you have any questions or would like to add anything to the agenda prior to the meeting.

Agenda

1.   Pacing Guides

2.   Gradebooks

3.   Assessments

4.   Moral Focus Grades

5.   FLO #1 Expectations

     6. Wing Goal

Full Lesson Observation #1

 

Full Lesson Observations (FLO) #1 will occur September 18-October 10. This is a 30-45 minute observation that focuses on all four competencies from the Classroom Framework. Please schedule your FLO #1 using the shared GoogleDoc by Friday, September 15.

Please note: You have three weeks to select from when signing up for FLO #1.

I will be collecting several pieces of evidence for your first FLO ratings. See below for the evidence needed. We will discuss this in further detail during your grade-level meetings.

Classroom Culture

·        Evidence will be gathered from the FLO

Planning: due October 9-13 at your O3

·        Submit September 18, 25, Oct 2, and 9 lesson plans for evidence; if applicable

·        Differentiated Planning: evidence gathered from October’s workshop observation

Teaching:

·        Evidence will be gathered from the FLO

·        Personalized Instruction: evidence gathered from October’s workshop observation

Assessing: due October 23-27 at your O3

Submit October’s assessing evidence

Reminders

·      Social Contracts should be posted by September 15

·      Emergency Sub Folders are due the week of Oct 3-7. See previous post for specifics

Review all safety drills with your students. See previous post for specifics

This Week

Monday, September 11:

·       College shirt day

·       MAP testing begins (Sept.11-13)

Tuesday, September 12:

·       Staff meeting (don’t forget to wear your jeans and colorful shirts)

·       Curriculum Night 6-7pm

Thursday, September 14:

·       Allison’s Birthday

Friday, September 15:

·       Conti’s flag bearers

·       Primary Hall Awards

 

Curb-side-Groover

 

Lunch Duty

3^rd-Groover

4^th-Seltz

5^th-Wolken

 

The highlighted name is the person responsible for staying in the gym if Jorvonna or Polly is the only adult in the gym, no matter the grade. Please do not leave until Jorvonna or Polly enters the gym to ensure that a staff member is supervising the students at all times and we have adequate coverage. Thanks!