Looking Ahead September 7 - September 11th

Looking Ahead September 7 - September 11th

• Monday - Sept. 7 - No school, Labor Day
• Tuesday - Sept. 8 Great Expectation Visit - Toni Shamley,  Turn in your conference attendance forms if you haven't already done so.  Gifted and Talented Testing this week.  1 hour Faculty Meeting - Rules in School, Teaching Discipline in the Responsive Classroom. 
• Wednesday- Sept. 9 - Fire Drill, Tornado Drill.  Student Store Opens - check the email from Ms. Burmaster on when your students can utilize the store.  Great Expectations/PBIS meeting with Stephanie Schultz State Department 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

• Thursday-  Sept. 10 Brett Out All Day, Principal Conference.  Burmaster and Barnes out for Diabetes training.
• Friday - Sept. 11 - Last day for announced informal observations

All students must have an APP form complete.
STAR progress monitoring will occur twice a month for all students.  You may use the computers in your classroom or your scheduled computer time for progress monitoring.  All students will be using LEXIA for a portion of their Tier II interventions.  Students may access LEXIA and Moby Max at home as well as at school.  Think Thru Math will be an intervention tool for math for students in 3rd - 6th grade.  Training for Think Thru Math is Wed. September 23rd.


Being a Great Expectations school doesn't mean we don't have to discipline students.  We are working with students and each other to learn life principles and self-discipline.  Discipline isn't just punishing, forcing compliance or stamping out bad behavior.  Rather, discipline has to do with caring about others, controlling one's self and putting someone else's wishes before one's own when the occasion calls for it.

How is your classroom discipline?  What behaviors are you seeing?  What are the consequences?  How's that working for you?  Classrooms that have strong student engagement have less discipline issues.  Use your SNAPS for students you have caught you being good.  Check with Ms. Burmaster if you need additional SNAPS.  This year has started out strong - lets keep going strong.

As a building we will be starting a book study on Responsive Classroom Management.  We will be reading the book,  watching video clips, and responding to the different scenarios presented.
Rules in School.  Teaching Discipline in the Responsive Classroom,

Coolidge Student Attendance Goal:  98%
Coolidge Student Attendance -   August:  94.5%

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Looking at the statics for Go Noodle.com only 33% of our staff have signed on and are using this resource.  Shout Out to Ms. Byers whose class has participated in 51 physical activity breaks followed closely by Ms. Kummel (43), Ms. Southwell (40), and Ms. Reynolds (34) activities.  Shout Out to Mr. Dye and Ms. Helmick’s classes for participating in 29 physical activity breaks.   Ms. O’Shields and Ms. Ive have both participated with 26 and 20 activity breaks respectively.  Ms. Peake’s class has participated in 23 activity breaks.

http://support.gonoodle.com/knowledgebase/articles/231421  

This online program will assist you in getting the children moving in a positive way. 

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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%.

STAR:  https://hosted58.renlearn.com/217454/


Oklahoma State Blueprints:

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