Assistant Principal, Lisa Rowan... Communications sent an email last week about administrative changes. Lisa is able to stay at Hunt for the 2012-2013 school year. While we would have welcomed a new member to our staff, Lisa's leadership will continue to move our work forward! A BIG Yahoo for this gift!
Spring DIBELS Data...will be in chart format soon and available for you to analyze and celebrate! Thanks, Kristin and Dawn for getting the data into the system so quick!
Student Assessment Data...hold on to your student copies of the CORE MAZE, Computational Fluency, Number Corner End of Year Assessment, Spring Writing. These will be forwarded to next year's teaching team for reference and data review. A process for passing them on is under development...stay tuned.
Field Day & BBQ - June 14...please review the flier from PTA requesting parent volunteers. Return the forms to the office the day they are returned to you, please. Stay tuned for more details.
Awards Assembly - June 12...be thinking about the names you will be nominating for the Character Traits.
K-2 @ 9:30
3-6 @ 10:30
End 'O Year
Drama, Dynamics, and Discipline - Is it time to revisit the behavior and learning expectations? Kids act out for lots of different reasons - one is change. More clearly, impending change. Is it possible some of your students are feeling anxious about the end of the year? YOU have been the constant positive adult in many of your student's lives. The idea that you won't be 'there' is scary for even the most stable and confident child. What simple act can you do or say every day that assures our kids that the end of something is really the beginning of something new and good? It might mean you need to revise or update your classroom behavior plan to capture the positive and promote good character.
Student Placement Rosters - due to Colleen. Specialist will be able to review this week for input.
Staffing - is confidential for now. Please avoid sharing details about our tentative plans. As you all know, so much can change as we close one year, and open another.
Printshop Orders
Open Court - hold until we hear Board approval for Literacy and Social Studies adoption. Hunt's interest in rolling out the new materials in September was provided to Student Learning.
Bridges - stay tuned.
Read Well - see email from Cynthia Russell forwarded to you on May 17
Student Planners/Calendars/Behavior Charts/Parent Communication Journals (etc) - Primary (K-3) tools can be printed; Intermediate (3-6) hold tight until we hear about AVID plans (grade 3 is included due to the looping cycle starting this year).
Room Changes - there are only a few changes, but everyone can help make the transition easy. The goal - leave your room (even if you're staying) in a tidy, clean, and ordered manner.
Blue Light Specials -This might be the year you consider purging materials. Please avoid putting your unwanted items in the staff lounge or in the hallway for 'saling'. Follow this process:
- Send an email
- Keep the items in your teaching/work space
- If no one wants the 'stuff' - dispose of them properly (ie: Obsolete, Surplus, or donate if the item is not PSD owned).
Close of the Year - Student Learning will communicate the closing procedures. We will 'Hunt-ify' them to address our needs - stay tuned.
Every Monday Matters
A hunch...this word has shown up several times the last few weeks - both in my professional and personal life. I love that this week's quote has it! We can't quantify a hunch, or provide 'best-practice-research-based' reasons for why we need to listen to the subtle whispering of a hunch, but we must. Hunches are likes taps on the shoulder saying 'Notice me! I want and need you to pay me attention!" Who in your class is hunching you? Does he or she need to be reminded that they are loved, believed in, supported, recognized, simply known...I have a hunch, you know which kids need you to notice them. Follow that hunch...and have a GREAT week!
~Rebecca
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