Feb 6 to Feb 10 - INSPIRE A Culture of Intentional Practices

Word On The Street

Policy Reminders

• Flag Salute – Board Policy #2333 states every classroom must recite the flag salute each day. If you haven’t already, please work this exercise into your morning routine right away. While you’re at it, you might as well recite the school pledge, too.
• Instructional Time and Holiday Recognition – Board Policy #2340. Please consider how you will manage complying with this Board Policy with Valentine’s Day right around the corner. No instructional time should be used for celebrations, and keep in mind that we serve students whose families may not practice this secular tradition.

Writing Prompts
By Feb 8, Literacy Committee Leaders will let the office know when the team is scoring papers. Two hours of paid time per teacher for Winter Prompt Scoring. The team is expected to calibrate using the anchor papers (if available), score all papers together with at least 2 readers, and submit scores to Rebecca by Feb. 27.


Math Assessments
Math Committee leaders were given the January copies of the Math Computation Assessment. Please use them as your team sees fit. There is a spreadsheet form for recording data if your team wants to see trends or progress monitor skills.


LIC Wed Collaboration & Teaming
A community agreement was set in December to swap the CSIP Team meeting with grade level to accommodate the flow of important information. Here’s our schedule for this week’s LIC Collaboration & Teaming:


12:21-12:36 WAC
12:36-1:06 Lunch
1:06 – 1:40 Committee Teams
1:45 – 2:25 CSIP Team **Reminder, read Chapter 1-4 from Annual Growth, Catch Up Growth
2:30 – 3:16 Grade Level Team


RtI - Response to Interventions
Moving forward with modifying how we respond to Level 1 and Level 2 students, a visit to Meeker to ‘see’ their model is on the calendar. What is observed will be shared out at the CSIP meeting on Wednesday.

Staffing Updates
Title 1 Math Support – ugh! Three times is NOT the charm on this important hiring. The position has been reposted…thanks for your patience!

Upcoming ProDev and Team Meetings

Feb 8 LIC C/T
Agenda: Committees, Grade Level, and CSIP

Feb 21 Staff Meeting
Agenda:  Motivating the Unmotivated

Every Monday Matters
In their book, Annual Growth, Catch Up Growth, the authors write: 

Students must read well to do well. It matters little else they learn in elementary school if they do not learn to read at grade level. Even math depends on reading.  There are far more words than numbers in math books.  As the math concepts become more complicated, the verbal descriptions become more involved as well...The body count underscores the message:  Art, social students, science, and math cannot compensate for the loss of learning to read fluently (p.48-49).

Thank you, for your daily committment to helping all our students read confidently.