SEL Concerns Ticket Please use this if you have concerns with a student’s lagging SEL skills and you would like to do some collaboration with us (Heidi T. and/or Brian) to problem solve. Thanks!
FYI Ticket Please use this if you have an incident or recurring incidents with a student. This helps us with follow through, communication and data. Thank you!!!!!
YouthTruth Survey – The YouthTruth survey is open until 1/28. Here’s the link to the staff survey.
Highland Culture of Care: Our character trait for the month of January is kindness. Thank you to the kindergarten team for signing up to make a video for the January assembly on the 28th Here is the link to our year long assembly plan with a few kindness resources. I also have some great books on kindness in my office.
As a team, we are continuing to read Classroom 180. Our next SIW will be on February 2nd and we plan on discussing domains 2 and 3. We also want to hear from YOU! The plan is to hold another “Fishbowl” to discuss regulation and using the language of trauma. You can also bring your wonderings and problems that need solving! Thanks! ~Heidi Thomas
SEL Lessons: Reminder, I (Heidi) am ALWAYS happy to come in and teach what I call an anchor SEL lesson! I also love helping teachers brainstorm ways to integrate SEL into their day. I have a lot of resources to share with you, just let me know what you need. This is the time of year when we start to see behaviors showing up more frequently and at higher rates. Class meetings, restorative circles and targeted lessons are just a few ways we can help mitigate them.
Attendance: FYI – We changed the way we are coding covid cases and quarantine cases in attendance to help with 10 days drops. – see Ashley with any questions. If you notice a student showing up to the classroom who has a C19 already in their attendance, please let the office know and we’ll look into it. Thank you for your patience with this evolving system.
SafeTouch: As of 1/20/22 we are putting all SafeTouch lessons on hold district-wide. There is work being done to provide updated material and new format for next year.
State Testing: SBAC is happening this spring, so please put this on your radar. We’ll target the weeks of May 16-20 and May 23-27 as our primary testing window.
From Kinsey – Just a reminder about some upcoming months and some resources for each. Look for more resources from Christie Boen.
1. Black History Month: February. Resources here.
2. Women’s History Month: March. Resources here.
Ordering supplies – in hopes of making this a little more accessible, here is the form for providing your orders for Ashley. Be sure to make a copy each time you use it and that will keep the original ready for next time. Ordering Form
TLC Update – There are a lot of important items in the TLC update including report card info: January 19th Elementary TLC Update
Storyline Design Course: Save the date June 27-July 1. We may have an opportunity to provide the storyline design course in Bend this summer. More details later.
Week Preview:
- Monday 1/24
- Tuesday 1/25
- 2:30-3:15 Culture of Care Team Meeting
- Wednesday 1/26
- SIW – Individual Teacher Prep
- Thursday 1/27
- Friday 1/28