Looking Ahead:  August 31 - September 4

GE Practice Focus:

Practice 1:  Educators and learners model desired behaviors and attitudes such as those set forth in the Life Principles and the Eight Expectations for Living.

Practice 2:  Educators and learners speak in complete sentences and address one another by name, demonstrating mutual respect and common courtesy.

Practice 6:  The environment is non-threatening and conductive to risk-taking.  mistakes are viewed as opportunities to learn and grown.

Word of the Week:  Honesty

Learning Goal: As a learner, I will use critical thinking skills daily.

• Monday August 31st:  ID Badges - They will be here to take pictures for our ID badges.  They will be here at 7:30 a.m.  Edwards class leads Rise N Shine This week.

• Tuesday September 1st:  PLC Meetings - Interventions and Renaissance U.

           NO FACULTY MEETING

• Wednesday September 2nd:  Pat will be here for classroom walk-thrus 8:00 - 9:30 a.m.

• Thursday September 3rd:  Smart Start 8:30 a.m., First night of conferences.  Brett out for principal meeting a.m.  Please send home login information for students for Lexia and Moby Max.  The students can access the websites from home.  Lexia should be used for Tier 11 interventions daily.  The RSA plan has been submitted to the State Department.  Progress monitoring is to be done on all students twice a month thru STAR.

          Honesty Awards at Friday (Thursday) Finale

• Friday September 4th:  No School For Students - Parent Teacher Conferences till noon.

• Monday September 7th:  No School - Labor Day.

Marzano - classroom visits looking for 1, 4, 24  September 2nd with Pat Hunt

# 1 - Learning Goals and Rubrics

These are good examples of objectives and rubrics.  This is the beginning of a skill specific rubric key words.  Rubrics should be for Power Standards not simply a simple 1 -4 personal check for understand.

# 4 - Classroom Routines:

Do students know the Coolidge Common Procedures for the library, restroom, hallways, gym, cafeteria?  Have you taught students common procedures for classroom:  how to ask for help, what to do if you need a piece of paper, where do you turn in your work, how do centers work in the classroom, if absent how do you find out about make-up work, how do you line up - what does that look like, etc?

 #24  Noticing When Students Are Not Engaged

This design question encourages teachers to think about and plan for ways to engage students with the content of instruction. This should not be viewed as a need to entertain students, but as a way to capture their attention in ways that keep them involved in the learning. 

When students are active participants in the learning, engagement and retention increase. 

This requires a multi-faceted approach that focuses on the five factors associated with high levels of student engagement: 

• High energy • Missing information 

• The self-system (the system that controls what we attend to) • Mild pressure • Mild controversy and competition.        

Coolidge Elementary Academic Goals for 2015-2016

• All Students WILL achieve academically.
• Reading:  Increase reading proficiency by at least one grade level.
• Math:  Increase math achievement by 10% with 80% mastery of math facts on grade level.  
• Writing:  Increase writing proficiency by 15%
• Student Attendance:  Increase student attendance to 98%.
• Increase Faculty Attendance to 98%
• Decrease suspensions by 25%.

Oklahoma State Blueprints:

http://ok.gov/sde/oklahoma-academic-standards

**NOTES FROM THE OFFICE**

1.   Attendance must be in by 9:00 am!! I need to send report in and I really do not want your name to go on it J

2.   ALL MONEY must be turned in by 9:00 am, because it has to be counted, receipted and sent to bank.

3.   When you buzz the office YOU HAVE TO HOLD DOWN THE BUTTON so we see the light blink.

4.   Make sure you pick up your mail daily and anything on the counter with your name on it (copies, laminating, etc..)

5.   Please make sure awards are turned in on time, if you lose them make sure to let Hannah know.

6.   When students are sick, please send to nurse or office with a note.. do not call parents.

7.   You have 24 hrs to fill out a withdraw form that is given to you. Send it down to Mrs. Nelson (library) she will see if the student owes any books. She will make sure the form is given to me.

8.   PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE take a wal0101kie talkie when you take your kids out on recess, when parents come to pick up their children we cannot leave the office to go outside and get them.

9.   When your children have lost their recess, they may walk around the playground with hallway procedures. They may not be sent to the office.