Week at a Glance for December 2nd-6th
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Friday is College Day! Got any gently used, OSU, U of O or other university’s children t-shirts or sweatshirts at home? Consider donating them to FAN and Tara will get them into the hands of our students who might not have the means to purchase these types of items. Thank you!
Thank you for letting Miriam know in advance (week+, please) of any outside visitor (those who do not regularly visit or volunteer) coming to your classroom. This advanced notice provides time to check volunteer status and if need be, problem solve any issues that may come from this.
The Webinar on Wednesday with Renaissance provided a great opportunity to learn more about Accelerated Reader (AR), the individual goal setting function, and to ask questions about the program so we can best use it to encourage and recognize our students for their reading. We now have a plan for AR and how students will move their cards around the school in their journey to earning a medal. If you are interested in using AR this year please attend the short overview of the program on Tuesday from 2:45-3:00 in the Media Center.
Week at a Glance for November 18th-22nd
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Duty Schedule for November 18th-December 6th
The feedback on the online master calendar has been verypositive! As events are added or dates adjusted (ie EBISS, Golden Ticket) Miriam usually updates the calendar that day. 🙂
Thank you for your time with progress monitoring. Our EA team is working fast and furious to assess as many students as possible on Wednesdays and your time making sure that all intensive students are monitored weekly and strategic every other is appreciated.
Week at a Glance for November 11th-15th
Book Fair Week!
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Duty Schedule for November 11th-22nd
Thank you for returning your completed salmon-colored reflection sheet from the Collective Genius SIW activity to my mailbox. We will put extras by the mailboxes for those who may not have received one on Wednesday.
After talking with several of you and hearing your feelings and frustrations with “reply to all” and packed email mailboxes, I felt I should share a couple of “reply to all” ideas. We are all inundated with lots of emails. Please be very thoughtful if you reply to all because your question, comment, or idea goes to everyone on the list. If this is on the Lava Ridge Staff thread this is 59 people. If you have a question or wish to offer feedback, best to respond to the sender. Thank you for keeping all of your colleagues time and feelings in mind with your communication. 🙂
You may have noticed on the master calendar that the November Staff Meeting will be on November 12th and not on November 5th. Why? A number of us will be attending the first session of SIOP on Steroids on Tuesday.
Oh the weather! So how do we decide whether to have recess inside or outside when NOAA says the temperature in Bend is 17, weather.com states 21, and KTVZ says 19? A team of us check the temperature close to Lava Ridge, follow the Bend La Pine Schools guidelines and most importantly, factor what is in the best interest of our students. The cold weather guidelines for Bend La Pine Schools state, ” When the outside temperature falls to 20 degrees or below (not including wind chill), the administration will use caution when allowing outdoor school activities” These provide schools some flexibility in weather related decisions so we might still be able to go outside when the situation above arises or have students stay inside when it is 29 degrees and snowing. Honestly these are often tough decisions, rarely make everyone happy, and are debated by many an arm-chair meteorologist. 🙂 Thank you for your grace and may it be a warm winter!
We need your help and input! Rachel and I met recently and discussed the Holiday Sing-A-Long and the dress rehearsal for the 5th grade music program. While both have been stellar events we discussed that they have felt similar and a bit repetitive the last two years. Similar songs, one week apart, etc. As a solution we are going to try mixing it up this year. The 5th graders will lead the Holiday Sing-A-long! So, when should we do this? While having it on the day of the actual 5th grade Family evening concert (12/11) would provide an opportunity for 5th graders to practice in front of a large group we know some would prefer this event be the day before the start of Winter Break. Thank you for your time taking one of the shortest surveys ever.
Week at a Glance for November 4th-8th
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Duty Schedule for November 4th-15th
On Friday, November 1st we are participating in the Education Foundation Principal for the Day event. In the morning we will have a guest community member on site learning about Lava Ridge and the magic that you make happen every day for our students. I haven’t heard who this person is yet and will let you know once I do. We are developing a list of activities for our guest to experience and at this point are planning for:
Please let me know if you have an activity in your classroom our guest could be part of and we will add it to the agenda. Thank you!
I came across this short read on PLCs. The article contains five questions to help teams to focus on improving teaching and learning and achieving equitable outcomes. It can be located here.
Accelerated Reader update- We recently had a conference call with Renaissance Learning (owner of AR) and discussed how we have been using AR and the Star Assessment and our school needs. Below is a recap of the big ideas from the meeting:
Next steps: Miriam has been working to set up another conference call with the company so those who are interested (this means you!) can listen, ask questions and then decide what is best for Lava Ridge. We will send an email letting you know the day/time for this conference call and meeting.
Week at a Glance for October 28th – November 1st
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Bonus Heads Up: October PAW Celebration likely the week of 11/4 (weather dependent)
I came across this article on increasing student participation in class. The focus is on strategies to get all students participating in discussions especially those who may be reluctant to share their ideas.
We are noticing an increased number of students not finishing their lunch or seeming hungry during lunch time. Not sure why but wanted you to know as you reflect on when your students have their morning snack. Thank you!
Week at a Glance for October 21st – October 25th
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Duty Schedule for October 21-November 1
Thank you for letting Miriam know of any visitors coming to your class who do not volunteer for you on a regular basis. This advance notice provides time to make sure the person has completed their background check and so we know they are scheduled to be on campus in the event of any emergencies.
I reached out to Lora Nordquist with the question that came up at SIW on Wednesday about why TAG students are not considered a Historically Underserved group. Lora’s response was:
“when we talk about “underserved students,” we are referencing those groups of students who historically have performed below their non-HU counterparts on basically every metric related to schools: test scores, graduation rates, representation in advanced classes, etc. While we can absolutely talk about better ways to challenge our TAG students…and all students, for that matter, these students typically perform very well on all these measures.”
Week at a Glance for October 14th – October 18th
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Duty Schedule for October 14-22
The Children’s Forest of Central Oregon has the goal of providing all children and youth in Central Oregon first hand connections with nature by providing meaningful, inspirational, and interdisciplinary education programs. More information about lessons, resources, and field trip grants can be found here.
Week at a Glance for October 7th – October 11th
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It is SLGG time! 🙂 The good news is that nothing has changed…still two goals that are based on 100% of students demonstrating growth. The standard form (DIBELS, easy CBM, Lucy) and other form for creating your own goals have not changed. We will put some copies of the standard form by the mailboxes. Thank you for returning to my mailbox by November 1.
Can’t access a Google Doc that has been shared with you? Make sure you are signed in with your gapps account. Often the reason a person can not open a file that has been shared with them is because they are signed in with their personal gmail account. Thank you!
9.24.19 ICCL meeting notes
Jacking Wilson the Sustainability Coordinator shared this cleaning supplies message
Your assistance having band-aids available for minor scrapes and limiting the number of students sent to the health room for ice-packs is so helpful and is really helping Amber and Miriam to be better able to meet the needs of students in the health room and managing visitors/volunteers and our phone system. Thank you! These moves, in addition to having students use classroom phones to make phone calls home, are making a huge difference.
Week at a Glance for September 30th – October 4th
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Thank you for your input into our Conference schedule for the year. Here are the results.
In August I shared information with you about a couple of grant opportunities. A repost of this information is below:
The Education Foundation has a new grant program this year! Deadline is October 18th. Here‘s the scoop.
Here is another grant opportunity from Selco Credit Union. Grants are awarded for up to $1000 for classroom projects through September 30th
The 2019 Inventerprise contest is open. Inventerprise is an annual science contest sponsored by Lonza (formerly Bend Research, Inc) with help from Bend-La Pine School District and Central Oregon Community College. The contest is open to all K-12 students in Central Oregon. Please subscribe to this email list if you are interested in participating or learning more.
Week at a Glance for September 23rd-27th
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**Lockdown drill scheduled for Monday, September 30
The duty schedule for the next two weeks is below. This is for September 23-October 4.
