BIG UPS
Big Ups to EVERYONE who helped make our campus look awesome for our Information Nights and Enrollment Season! Teachers – thank you for curating work on display boards and cleaning up your rooms! Special thanks to Caleb and Jill who pulled some double duty in the last week or two to help prepare our campus!
- Did you know that this is even a Core Practice #25: Creating Beautiful Spaces That Promote Learning: “When people enter the school, they are immediately aware of being in a place that celebrates learning. The walls are filled with high-quality student work showcased in common spaces and classrooms. Student work is displayed in a way that honors the work, giving parts of the school a museum quality that inspires student and community pride. Work is often supported by explanatory text that includes student voice and reflection. The mission of the school is evident to guests, students, and teachers throughout the building.“
Big Ups to Luke and Lauren for generating a fun spirit of competition between their Crews for MightyCause donations. This kind of spirit and sense of healthy competition is part of what it means to BUILD A CULTURE OF CREW and what is meant by EL Education when Your efforts helped your crews CHARGE ahead on donations, surpassing our 8th grade crews that had the early lead. #competitionandcollaboration
Big Ups to Phoebe and her Crew for organizing and running super fun MS Community Meeting last Friday.
Big Ups to Anita and Lauren for building on and deepening a really COOL partnership with Bend Studio as a part of our 9th grade “Realms Payer One” expedition! Thanks to Anita and Lauren, Bend Studio experts are in our school inspiring our students and helping them build great skills in ELA and Math!
Big Ups to Eric for organizing an awesome Watershed Presentations Session with our 7th and 8th graders last Friday. Having students present their field based (and classroom) learning in the form of a culmination like this deepens the learning by helping students REALLY recognize how much they know!!
THE OUTLOOK CAL – All You Need To Know!
Our Outlook calendar is still the GO TO PLACE for all the details.
- Wed Jan 17th – 2nd RMS and RHS Information Night (details below)
- Fri Jan 19th – Choice Option School Applications Due
- Fri Jan 19th – STAFF CREW!!
- Fri Jan 26th – RMS Winter Dance! (volunteer below)
- Fri Jan 26th – YouthTruth Student and Staff Survey Closes
- Thurs Feb 1st – RHS Winter Semi Formal Dance!
- Fri Feb 2nd – No School At RMS-RHS (EL Education Professional Development)
- Mon Feb 19th – No School – Presidents Day
- Wed Feb 21st – Butler Day
- Wed-Thurs Feb. 28th & 29th – Student Led Conferences! (details coming soon)
If you want to see an overview of the trimester, I have added this “trimester 2 overview” tab to our major dates calendar. PLEASE NOTE – 6 out of 12 of the trimester 2 weeks are 4 days weeks!!
YOUTHTRUTH SURVEY IN CREW THIS WEEK!
As per the Outlook calendar – we are administering the YT Survey in Crew this week!
Two PRO TIPS:
- Make it a Canvas assignment (HS only since most MS Crews do not have a Canvas I believe?) and students can submit their date/time stamped last page in the survey
- Share with students that ALL VOICES MATTER and that all of our staff (including EA’s and non-instructinoal staff) take the YT Survey as well – in fact, we encourage YOU to complete YOURS while students are doing theirs!
ALL THE DETAILS HERE:
- The survey must be completed in one sitting. We expect it to take about 25 minutes for the survey, not including set up instructions
- Youthtruth Survey – Click here to view the Student Survey questions.
- Select the CORRECT URL!
- Student Survey URL for RMS – ytsurvey.org/rms24
- Student Survey URL for RHS – ytsurvey.org/realmshs24 (corrected link!)
- Teacher Survey Instructions & Proctor Script (No Logins)
DUTY SCHEDULE FOR TRIMESTER 2
We may not have been quite as clear as we needed to be about duty shift ups!! Please check out the TRI TWO DUTY SCHEDULE here and make sure you are on top of your duties. Let us know if there is an issue or conflict!
MIGHTY CAUSE – YAHOO!!!
We SURPASSED our goal and I want to share a BIG THANK YOU on behalf of the Friends of Realms board! We raised over $18,000!!
We will be crunching all the numbers and re-calculating things for our Crew based Incentive parties and Butler Day – STAY TUNED!
Lastly, Caleb, myself, and the FoR board will be asking for some feedback from you about the process soon so we can be sure we LEARN from this year’s experience…. stay tuned!
2nd TRIMESTER PHOTOS – YEARBOOKS IN PROGRESS! HELP US WITH PICS!!
Our yearbook creators (Kim W at the MS and Rob Woo at the HS) THANK YOU IN ADVANCE for dropping ANY ALL ALL PHOTOS into the shared albums!
2nd & 3rd TRI FIELDWORK PLANNING – GO TIME!
What an AWESOME Fall Fieldwork Season – THANK YOU ALL!
NOW IT’S TIME TO PLAN FOR TRI 2 (AND TRI 3):
Trimester 2 fieldwork is obviously coming up, and we’d like to get permission forms prepped and all our outings calendared and support you in the planning! Please email Caleb (CC Roger) and get your tri 2 ideas onto our radar screen ASAP!
ALSO – trimester 3 is NOTORIOUSLY BUSY, so if you have fieldwork hopes for tri 3 please be SURE to let Caleb know ASAP.
STAFF CREW THIS FRIDAY – JAN 19th!
Team – thanks for your suggestions about Staff Crew on the Friday before break! We have a Staff Crew planner (similar to our Community Meeting planner) that is designed to make sure we have a clear plan for the who and what of our Staff Crews for the year!
Here are STAFF CREW DATES AND AGENDA PLANS/TOPICS that includes your “suggested topics for staff crew” from your dry erase table contributions right there so that our facilitators can pull from this list.
If you are interested in facilitating one of our remaining staff crews, please sign up on this document above!
The dates are ALSO in OUTLOOK.
UPCOMING SIW’S
- 1/17: Educator Network (traded for Info night attendance)
- 1/24: SLCs and Peer Observations (can we try to pull both of these off??)
- 1/31: Teacher Prep
RESOURCE: LEVEL UP YOUR CHALK TALKS!
