{"id":871,"date":"2021-12-03T00:52:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T00:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/brian.kissell\/?p=871"},"modified":"2021-12-03T16:26:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T16:26:10","slug":"12-3-21-weekly-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/brian.kissell\/2021\/12\/03\/12-3-21-weekly-update\/","title":{"rendered":"12\/3\/21 Weekly Update<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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SEL Concerns Ticket<\/a> Please use this if you have concerns with a student\u2019s lagging SEL skills and you would like to do some collaboration with us (Heidi T.  and\/or Brian) to problem solve. Thanks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FYI Ticket<\/a> 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!!!!! New and improved: <\/strong>You can now check more than one teacher for each FYI! Please use this function when more than one student is involved (including the victim if there is one). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Staff Shout Outs<\/a> are BACK! Please fill out when you see\/hear about the great things our staff is doing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How\u2019s it going?<\/a> Please keep these coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Highland Culture of Care <\/strong>is looking for teachers and\/or grade levels to sign up for assembly videos! You can do that here<\/a>. Our character trait for December is Generosity! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lexia Celebrations:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have a lot to celebrate when examining our Lexia progress as a K-5 school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Highland is leading the charge in our use of Lexia to address unfinished learning for our students due to the pandemic.  When you examine the graphic above, where usage is high we have a high percentage of students on track to be proficient or better with their grade level material.  When students are well-informed of the importance and necessity of completing their units, their usage and performance goes up [this falls under the high-leverage teaching practices of Clear learning intentions and success criteria as well as and building student ownership of their learning.] <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The graphic above shows our growth from the start of the year to now with the percentage of students moving into grade level content or higher.  Although I know there are reservations about the use of iPads, it\u2019s really difficult to argue against such highly individualized learning for all students at all levels.  This program provides such varied opportunities for learning that are just not humanly possible to provide in a normal classroom school day.  Again, the goal\/intention is not to constantly advocate for more Lexia or more Dreambox, we are advocating for the \u201cjust-right\u201d amount for each child.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dreambox Celebrations:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The graphic above shows a nice contrast between the group of students completing the usage goal of 5 or more lessons per week versus two other groups.  Students completing 5 or more lessons are progressing at almost twice the rate as students completing between 2 and 5 lessons per week.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Above you can see our percentage of students moving into the \u201con-track\u201d category for being proficient or better with grade level content.  86% of our students are currently on track with being proficient with their grade level content as of the end of November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hiring Update<\/strong>: We are planning on doing our interviews for the secretary position on Wednesday 12\/8 in the late afternoon.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Storyline Classroom Funds<\/strong>: Ashley is working on these for you this week.  Thanks for your patience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HB 3294 – <\/strong>The dispensers in the bathroom will be filled in the coming weeks.  The advice we are given is to keep the only partially filled at first, as there have been some issues with them being stuffed in the toilet, causing blockages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SLGG Form<\/strong> <\/strong>– Here is a link to the SLGG form<\/strong><\/a> –<\/strong> If you or your team have questions about these and you would like to meet, please let me know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LEXIA SLGGs –<\/strong> For those of you interested in using Lexia as one of your SLGGs goals, Jenn Montoya made a screen cast for how to use your Lexia data to set your baseline and determine the goals  for your students for typical growth and ambitious growth.  Here is a <\/strong>screencast video<\/strong><\/a> explaining this process.  <\/strong>This is a very straightforward and relevant way to both complete your SLGG and impact your students\u2019 learning with this program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week Preview:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PLC Week:<\/span><\/strong><\/em> PLC Form<\/em><\/a> <\/em>–<\/em><\/strong> every other week you will see this prompt for our designated PLC weeks.  Your team is always permitted to meet more frequently, but for the purposes of these PLCs we are only requiring the form for these designated weeks.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n