Colleagues,
Below are some notes for next week, from this one, and for others in the future…I hope you have a good weekend!
Nice job launching Lava Read this week everyone! Below is picture from the 1st grade kick-off.
Student Learning Growth Goals: No big changes to report this year with SLGGs. The state of Oregon still requires all certified staff to have two goals that reflect achievement growth for all students in their class. These two goals can be shared by a team or can be set individually. When you or your team have set your goals let’s sort out a time to meet before Thanksgiving, discuss, and sign-off on them. Elementary SLGG Forms can be located here or here and I will also put some hard-copies by the mailboxes.
Mini-Observations: Last year was the first year of the new Mini-Observation guidelines developed in the summer of 2017. Below is a re-post of the information that was shared last year:
Probationary Years (#1-3)= Six observations total. Two formal observations are required by the state. Four mini observations. Two of the minis can be professional.
Contract Employee During Summative Evaluation Year= Six mini observations. Four classroom observations and two professional observations.
Contract Employee in non-evaluation Year= Three mini observations. Two classroom observations and one professional observation.
Are the Stars Aligning? We will have to see and as we wait, mark your calendars for November 13th, 15th , and 16th when the Sunriver Nature Center will be here with their giant planetarium. We are planning that it will be set up in different neighborhood commons each day from 1:00-3:30 so classes can visit and learn in 2o minute rotations. The ICCL Team will be working to set up a schedule and will have more details out to you before the October full moon.
Week at a Glance for October 8-12
Monday:
Tuesday:
- 8:05 Sibling Conference Schedule in the Media Center
Wednesday:
- 8:05 ICCL Meeting
- SIW @ Grade Level Time to Explore Amplify Kits (No 2:30 meeting)
Thursday:
- Picture Day
- MAC Day!
Friday:
- Lion Dash 2:15-3:15
- Newsletter
- No Lion Pride Drawing
Picture below of some of our 5th graders processing text. Thank you for all of your work setting up our students with effective discourse routines! It has been cool this week to begin hearing the shift in our collaborative conversations from our start of the year training routines of “turn and talk” or “tell your partner” starters to more structured and cognitively demanding prompts. (ie. compare, explain, why?).
Carole’s SIOP Instructional Tip for the Week: After asking a question to an English language learner, wait for additional time for them to process the information and then respond.
Why WAIT time? ELL’s need time to translate in their head. It also takes time for them to formulate their response. Most of them want to answer, it just takes longer for them.
School Psychologist Roles: With the goal of setting up our school psychologists to have the greatest impact Special Programs has created a document that prioritizes their roles. Thank you Kelly for everything you do!
Essential Roles for School Psychologists
The 27th Annual Inventerprise Science Contest is open. The contest is open to all Central Oregon students in grades k-12. More information can be found at:
http://inventerprise.bendresearch.com/
They’re back…Day 20 already?
To help us best navigate our first year with Amplify and assist with some staff questions, we invited Skip Offenhauser to meet recently with our ICCL Team. Notes from this meeting can be located here