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A beautiful art piece from a second grade student in Mrs. Garrett’s class<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This and That:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2\/12 SIW Plan:<\/strong> We will be continuing our PLC work by working in collaborative teams to dig a little deeper into our identified writing essential standards. Follow this link for updated essential standards.<\/a> Teams will identify one of the essential standards to unpack and develop a plan for teaching this year (addressing PLC questions 2-4).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Staff Breakfast: <\/strong> Mark your calendar and come hungry for the staff breakfast sponsored by the district this Thursday!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winter Core Effectiveness:<\/strong> Core effectiveness is going to be run a quite a bit differently than past core effectiveness meetings. During FALL core effectiveness this year, all teams chose a goal based around templates. This had the unintended benefit of enabling me to get around to almost all classrooms for a mini observation during template time. Between the actual observation of template time and mini debrief with the teacher, I was able to get a strong pulse for the philosophical beliefs around templates and comfort teaching them. What I was somewhat surprised to see, was how VERY closely our winter DIBELS data correlates to these mini observations. Teachers and teams that are teaching the templates DURING CORE, with confidence and understanding of their importance, and at least 4 days per week are getting EXCELLENT results on DIBELS pathways of progress. For this reason, instead of teams meeting to look at the data and set a new goal, I am setting the goal for all classroom teachers this winter. By April 1, ALL classrooms will need to be using the new templates at least 4 days per week DURING CORE. <\/strong><\/em> Core effectiveness time will be individualized by team based on what support your team needs to make this happen. Most teams will be meeting with our district coaches for at least a half day to make sure they know how to access and use the new templates. I was able to touch base with most grade level teams last week , and will get to the remaining teams this week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Relationship, Responsibility and Regulation<\/em><\/strong> Quotes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Working with kids and changing behavior is a slow process, which is sometimes so hard to remember, especially in our “helper” roles. The author of the book, Pete Hall, shared a story, which is a good reminder. “When I was a child, I experienced horrific food poisoning from scrambled eggs. I’d had eggs many times prior with no ill effect, but that one dreadful event tainted my view of eggs, In fact, my systems of meaning were so impacted that I couldn’t even stomach the thought of eating an egg until nearly two decades later. The threat that came from that experience was so powerful that even though I cognitively knew I would most likely not get food poisoning from eggs again, I still refused to eat them. In a stressed state (with my “downstairs brain” activated), I was unable to process rationally, and future events were affected.” This is an example we can all relate to, and it’s not even a major trauma. Changing our systems of meaning, and changing kids’ systems of meaning is a YEARS long process.<\/strong>“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Article of the Week:<\/strong>\u00a0Scientific Evidence on How to Teach Writing is Slim<\/em><\/a> One quote from the article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Another lesson is that students also need explicit grammar and punctuation instruction but it should be taught in the context of their writing, not as a separate stand-alone lesson. Beyond a well-structured writing course, Slavin and his colleagues noted that in these studies of writing, the classes were \u201cexciting, social and noisy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

OEA Workshop:<\/strong> Thought some of you might be interested in this OEA classroom management and de-escalation strategies<\/a> workshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To Do:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Art Workshops:\u00a0<\/strong>If you haven’t already, follow the link NOW to sign up for your spring Art Workshop.<\/span> Repeated blurb from last week… ALL STAFF:\u00a0please follow this link<\/a>\u00a0by Thursday 2\/6 to let us know what workshop you will be teaching. Please do not double-up staff unless you plan to double-up the number of students you are taking in your workshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BINGO Night Baskets:<\/strong> PTO is planning to put the finishing touches on the BINGO baskets the week of 2\/17, so please have all basket items to the conference room by 2\/13. A volunteer sign-up for BINGO Night support will be sent out in the next week or two. If at all possible, please sign-up to help out (even if only for a short time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reminders For This Week:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n