I know we all want to wish Evelyn the best of luck in her new career choice and thank her for everything she contributed to our Benjamin family.
I want to thank Danielle for the preparation and Angela for her execution in our AI staff learning meeting. I also love that many of our teaching assistants took advantage of Dr. Woell's new decree that they could attend. I want to emphasize that I think there is some really valuable tools that we can all benefit from and I hope each of you continue to explore these tools on your own or during team. I am also looking forward to reading your feedback on the evaluation google forms you filled out. Later in the year we will look at this from the student end.
Thanks to all of our coaches for a very busy game week with three home volleyball and soccer matches and an away CC meet our staff has been busy with some long days!
Just a reminder that Betty is available Mon, Tue, Wed (and if we are off on a Monday you can add Thursdays) in the library from 10am-1:30pm to help students. If you need a student to take a test with supervision or have to send them to the LMC to work on absent/missing work she is available to assist.
How to set up your classroom for optimal executive functioning and engagement.
CICO will be launching next week with HW club coming up soon (after the Sept. 19th data meeting) I appreciate your frequent communication with parents and students about their work completion and achievement levels. This communication and partnership will help most of our students do their best. CICO and HW club are short term interventions that should be used with our most concerning students with patterns of achievement and work completion gaps to help get them back on track.
Brain Breaks
Thanks to the PST team for all of their early brainstorming and problem solving they have done to meet students needs already this year.
An oldie but a goodie..
Don't forget that if you are on cycle you should be working on your student growth goals and forms 1 & 2 if you are doing an alternative evaluation this year. Also, I will be doing some pop ins in the next couple weeks and I am also ready to schedule some formal observations with you.
Outdoor Ed will be here before you know it. Mark and Colleen did an excellent job at the parent meeting Wednesday night. Please try to avoid missing time during those three days (October 16-18) as I will already be trying to fill 5 teaching positions.
I really appreciate Dr. Woell and Dr. Filas for staying on top of the new construction punch list as they were both checking on work as it continues to be completed and lending a hand to finish the work in the 5th grade wing.
I appreciate April getting two drills under her supervisory belt and appreciate our whole staffs execution to make them go smoothly. I don't need to remind everyone that school safety is our number one priority.
I am excited for clubs to be starting next week and appreciate the planning that goes into making these clubs function smoothly. Please remember that the activity bus will be leaving Benjamin at 3:45pm. We will remind parents one last time of this opportunity and the stops that it will make.
I sent out my IAR data comparison sheet Please make sure we are spending times in teams to break down some of this data along with individual student scores. The more we can identify students with deficiencies in their scores the sooner we can start planning in class assistance as well as tier 2 and 3 school interventions. The subject area meetings this week are another great place for this work.
Boosting student memory
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