From Kerry Morton…Math Book Club! – Are you interested in earning 2 graduate credits while you learn more about Strengths-Based Teaching and Learning? Well, this is the book club for you! It will start January 14th and end June 10th. Here is the syllabus. We will have two meetings over WebEx. The remainder of the assignments will be asynchronous in Canvas. Watch for more information about how to register on Performance Matters next week.
Limited In Person Instruction (LIPI) is going well. We are continuing to focus on serving students who are not able to or are not participating in CDL and have been adding students as needs arise and staff are available. If you have a student in your classroom that is not able to participate in CDL and you would like to host them in your classroom from 8:30-10:30 please let Lybe or I know.
Thank you for your time communicating the importance of Lexia to students and families. This is our main source of literacy data for this year and is an incredibly useful tool for providing feedback to move our students’ reading progress forward. Below are some ideas from TLC for encouraging Lexia usage:
Ideas for encouraging Lexia usage:
- Instead of focusing on time on Lexia, focus on units completed. The general rule is that students complete about 2 units for every 10 minutes. So a goal might be: My goal is to complete 4 units each day.
- Acknowledging students who have met usage in your live meetings
- Put students in breakout rooms to do Lexia and drop into each group to give feedback
- If you meet usage you can choose one assignment to not do
- Certificates
Below are the favorite Disney characters of our staff. Some received multiple votes and the number of additional votes is listed in parentheses.
- Goofy (4)
- Minnie Mouse (3)
- Mulan (2)
- Mickey Mouse (2)
- Tigger (2)
- Beauty and the Beast
- The Genie
- Cinderella
- Buzz Lightyear
- Ariel
- Olaf
- Dory from Finding Nemo
- Dr. Stephen Strange
- Merida
- O’Malley the Alley Cat from The Aristocats
- Moana