Feb 29 - March 4

Our Mission:  “Educate students for lifelong learning and responsible living.”
Our Vision:  “Provide a learning environment that promotes and develops academic and
social growth.”

 

• Monday Feb 29 - Dr. Seuss Week.  Cat In The Hat.  Wear Your Favorite Hat.  Make sure all Intersession forms have been turned in.
• Tuesday March 1 - Fox in Socks/ Wear your crazy/silly socks. Voting Day.  NO FACULTY MEETING. PLC Meetings.  Please bring your benchmark data.  Brett/Cramer at OKCPS Spring Career Fair 3:30 - 8:00 at John Marshall High School.
• Wednesday March 2 Tornado Drill/Fire Drill  Scrambled Eggs Super (Dress like a superhero) PBIS/Leadership meeting after school in library.
• Thursday March 3 Green Eggs and Ham/Grinch Day.  Wear Green  Smart Start 8:30 a.m. in the library
• Friday March 4 - Dress like your favorite Dr. Seuss character!  Also - last day before Spring Break.

A big thank you to Ms. Benedix, Ms. Southwell, and the Reading Committee for organizing our Thunder Bus visit.  Thank you for the ELL department assisting in getting students to the bus and back to their classrooms.

Think Thru Math has a contest just for OKCPS!  Between March 1 – March 31 any OKCPS class that has an average of 4 passed lessons per student will be entered into a drawing to win a pizza party.  Two classes will be selected. 

Please encourage your students to work hard to pass 4 TTM lessons by the end of the month. That’s just 1 lesson per week! Even though they will be on Spring Break two of those weeks, please remind them they can work on it at home too. (Previous work does not count toward the contest. Only work done from March 1-31st).

Let’s make both those parties go to Coolidge students!

Monday March 7 - Intersession
Tuesday March 8 - Intersession
Wednesday March 9 - Intersession
March 14 - March 18  Spring Break

Monday March 21 school resumes

Technology:

Please remember to monitor your students when they are using technology.  I have found pencil marks on ChromeBook screens, we have had one ChromeBook with a cracked screen, labels being removed, etc.  In the computer lab students are not using the mice correctly.  

3rd - 6th Grade:  Think Thru Math:  Please assign TEST PREP for your students.  This will help prepare them for the OCCT.  

As Spring quickly approaches, we know state testing is on your mind. To help with that, Think Through Math has an Oklahoma test prep pathway for each grade level! Each test prep pathway is between 20-30 lessons and focuses on the heavily tested concepts. This is a great review for your students.

To assign test prep, click on the Classes tab and then Current Students. Select the check mark boxes to the left of the students’ names and then click the blue Assign Pathway button at the top of the page. From there, filter by your grade level and Oklahoma and click on Search. Select the test prep pathway and click Enroll. Your students will have more than one pathway, so just let them know you want them working on the test prep pathway.

Our Standards Report goes along nicely with the test prep pathways. After your students complete the test prep, please review the Standards Report to see which standards are highest and weakest for your classes. From there, you can assign some of our shorter, domain pathways to remediate weak areas or pull up a lesson on your board through the Preview An Activity button (under the Content tab) to cover it as a whole class.

Remember the goal is for each student to pass 30 lessons. By now, students need to have a minimum of 15-20 lessons passed. If they are slightly behind, the test prep pathway can help them catch up!

We encourage you to take advantage of these test prep pathways to help prepare for state testing. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you,

Alli Yeager

Instructional Coach

Think Through Math

Cell:  405-830-3463

• PreK - 16 hours, 53 minutes
• K - 16 hours, 23 minutes
• 1st Grade - 133 hours, 39 minutes
• 2nd Grade - 123 hours, 58 minutes
• 3rd Grade - 519 hours, 35 minutes
• 4th Grade - 541 hours, 7 minutes
• 5th Grade - 212 hours, 45 minutes
• 6th Grade - 155 hours, 23 minutes

56% of Coolidge students have met their LEXIA goal in the last 4 weeks.  808 student logins have occurred in the last 30 days.

• PreK - 99% of students are meeting their goals.
• Kindergarten - 53% of students are meeting their goals.
• 1st Grade -71% of students are meeting their goals
• 2nd Grade - 30% of students are meeting their goals.
• 3rd Grade - 7% of students are meeting their goals.
• 4th Grade - 51% of students are meeting their goals.
• 5th Grade - 55% of students are meeting their goals.

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

Melissa Brett | Principal

Coolidge Elementary School | Oklahoma City Public Schools

5212 S. Villa, Oklahoma City, OK 73119

(405) 587-2800

Feb 22 - Feb 26

Our Mission:  “Educate students for lifelong learning and responsible living.”
Our Vision:  “Provide a learning environment that promotes and develops academic and
social growth.”



Week At A Glance:
22nd Monday:  Normal Day, Pat Watson Hunt here 8:00 - 10:00 a.m., Meeting with North Care 10:00 a.m.  Room check for testing in 5th grade classroom, ELL classrooms.  Mr. Christian will test in the small office in the library.  
23rd Tuesday:  4th and 5th will switch specials times for this day due to the 5th Grade State Writing Test.  Please meet with your PLC groups and turn in your notes to Mrs. Brett or Ms. Carmer.  Please include Reading Math, and Science objectives as well as steps for student engagement.
Please refrain from using the 5th grade hallway on Tuesday morning as these students will be testing.  Remember the ELL classrooms will also be in use for testing.  

5th Grade Class Buddies.  
Goodall:  2nd Davis
Griffin:  PreK Southwell
Opheim:  K Ivie
24th Wednesday:  5th Grade State Writing Test Small Groups/Makeup 
25th Thursday 5th grade writing test - small groups/makeup's
26th FridayThunder Bus here from 10 - 11 a.m.
27th Saturday:  Early Birds at Coolidge.  PreK, K, 1st, and 2nd classrooms could be used.  Please be sure your rooms are ready for extra people.  Put away   The building will be open from 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. on Saturday.


Reminder:  
Faculty meetings are for faculty and staff.  Children are not to be in the faculty meeting as confidential information could be included and/or the information is not appropriate for them to know.  Please make arrangements for your children to wait for you in your classroom or with others during our meetings.  Thank you.

5th Writing Test Tuesday:
Goodall - Hill, 17 students
Griffin - Bravo - 20 students
Opheim - Williams - 19 students
M. Alvarez - Diaz - 4 students
Benedix - Jimenez - 5 students
Hobson - Barnes - 5 students
Hunt - A. Martinez 3 students (group 1), 1 student (group 2)
Christian - Boykin - 1 student

OCCT Writing Test for 5^th grades starts Tuesday, February 23rd.  

OCCT testing for grades 3 – 6 starts April 11^th.  

When whole group testing takes place, the small group students will go to their buddy teacher until the whole group testing is over.

Testing Buddies:
6^th Vacant – 2^nd Baker

6^th Keathley – 2^nd Schwartz

6^th Pearson – 2^nd Koenig

5^th Goodall – 2^nd Davis

5^th Griffin – PreK Southwell

5^th Opheim – K Ivie

4^th Gill – K O’Shields

4^th Harden – K Scott

4^th Kappel – K Strickland

4^th Lara – K Werito

3^rd Dye – 1^st Helmick

3^rd Harris – 1^st Keys

3^rd Melchor – 1^st King

3^rd Spitzer – 1^st Reinhardt

3^rd Wanzer – 1^st Robinson

Tardy Students:  PK Barnett/PK Reynolds/PK Kummell/2^nd Gillin

Tentative Testing Schedule:

April 11^th:  Small Groups

April 12 – 13 – 3^rd – 6 Reading a.m. , Small Groups P.M.

April 14 – 5^th Science, 6^th Math, Small Groups a.m., p.m. make up tests

April 18 – Small groups a.m.,, p.m. makeup tests

April 19 – 20  3^rd – 5^th Math, small groups p.m. make up tests

April 21 5^th Social Studies, small groups a.m., p.m. make up tests

April 22^nd – April 30^th  Small groups, makeup’s.

Think Thru Math:
42% of Coolidge students have finished 30 or more lessons on Think Thru Math.  56% of lessons have been passed on grade level.

Leader Board:

• Griffin - 690 lessons
• Kappel - 560 lessons
• Lara - 501 lessons

MyOn:
2.17.16  1,271 hours have been spent reading using MyOn.

Leader Board:

• Fourth Grade:  430 hours
• Third Grade:  356 hours
• Fifth Grade:  179 hours

Lexia Learning

Here is a free webinar offered by the Oklahoma State Department of Education on Classroom Management.  This professional development opportunity can be done on your laptop or on your SmartBoard.

If you are participating please let me know. 

PD: Free webinar offered by OSDE to cover classroom management

One of a classroom teacher’s most important jobs is managing the classroom effectively. Teachers are invited to join a free OSDE webinar entitled “Classroom management: Reshaping the paradigm for a classroom community-centered approach.”

Dr. Marsha Herron, Department Chair of Elementary and Special Education at Langston University, will present the webinar on Thursday, Feb. 25, from 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.

Register today! (Select the Upcoming tab and find the session titled Classroom Management.)

If you have questions, contact Susan Pinson, OSDE executive director of professional development, at Susan.Pinson@sde.ok.gov.

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

Melissa Brett | Principal

Coolidge Elementary School | Oklahoma City Public Schools

5212 S. Villa, Oklahoma City, OK 73119

(405) 587-2800

Feb 15 - 19

Our Mission:  “Educate students for lifelong learning and responsible living.”
Our Vision:  “Provide a learning environment that promotes and develops academic and
social growth.”

Thank you all for the wonderful birthday wishes.  It is great to have a wonderful Coolidge family.  The cards, flowers, balloons, and well wishes were greatly appreciated.  I am truly blessed to work with such wonderful people.

Positive School/Classroom Environment:

Narrate the positive - describe what students are doing well.
Give the students a simple challenge to complete a task.  "Our last center transition took 45 seconds.  I bet you can do even better this time."  Ms. Ivie has incorporated a "table gem" that she is using to help encourage transition and clean up time in kindergarten.
Given an instruction, narrate the positive, then redirect student who is not complying using the least invasive possible.  (Examples:  proximity, nonverbal, eye contact, students name, small consequence) 

Week At A Glance:

• Your are expected to be in the gym for Rise N Shine at 8:00 a.m.  Please be respectful to your teammates by being on time.
• Monday 2-15  NO SCHOOL - Professional Development.  Please be sure you have signed up on Generation Ready for New Teacher Training at NW Classen or the Coolidge PBIS/Behaviors.  
• Tuesday 2-16  Edusoft Benchmark window opens.
• Wednesday 2-17  Great Expectations Toni here  6+1 Writing Workshop  Self Discipline Awards are due.
• Thursday 2-18 Great Expectations Toni here
• Friday 2-19 If you want to wear jeans everyday next week for Jump rope for Heart please give your $10.00 to Coach Barton.
• Ms. Keys class will lead Rise N Shine.  Word of the Week Self-Discipline.  Self-discipline awards will be given out Friday.  Be sure to turn these into Ms. Ozoyca by Wednesday. 

Great Expectations Practice #17  Educators and learners celebrate the success of others and PBIS use the praise, encouragement and affirmations to bolster student morale and motivate.  A strategy would be to target positive feedback to match students' needs.  Sometimes we have to coach students in appreciating others and n acknowledging others' accomplishments.  As adults we must model what we expect from students.

Looking Ahead:
Feb 23rd:  5th Grade State Writing Test
Feb 26th:  Thunder Bus


Please review the state testing PowerPoint concerning procedures for the tests that was sent my email on 2.10.16.



MyOn Stats:  2.10.16  

Level:                    # of Students            # Books Finished            # of Hours Reading
Pre K                           80                                  64                                 6.55
Kindergarten              130                                 59                                 9.70
1st Grade                    120                               212                               30.83
2nd Grade                   106                               319                               61.50
3rd Grade                    134                             1378                              262.94
4th Grade                     111                            1750                              334.68
5th Grade                       78                              539                              127.35
6th Grade                       84                              447                              130.81


Lexia Stats:
Think Thru Math Stats:

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

Melissa Brett | Principal

Coolidge Elementary School | Oklahoma City Public Schools

5212 S. Villa, Oklahoma City, OK 73119

(405) 587-2800

February 8 - 12

Our Mission:  “Educate students for lifelong learning and responsible living.”
Our Vision:  “Provide a learning environment that promotes and develops academic and
social growth.”

Coolidge Elementary has been selected for an Action Based Learning Lab.  It will be in our school for the 2016-2017 School Year.  Special Thanks to Ms. Barton and Ms. Baker for driving this project!





How are you using your FOSS Science?  Congratulations to Ms. Keys who will be a district trainer for First Grade FOSS Science.  
https://www.facebook.com/jami.keys/videos/10206733321026317/

Week at a Glance

Observations:  Pre observation Meetings, Observations, Post conferences continue.  Be sure you have completed your Domain 3 reflections and conference forms prior to your scheduled meetings.

Monday -  Turn in Parent Teacher Conference Sheets
Tuesday -  Title 1 Visit with Ms. Clapper.  PLC Meetings -  Faculty Meeting.  1 hour faculty meeting for State Testing Training. All staff must be trained.
Wednesday - Normal Day
Thursday  - Brett out 9:00 a.m. for Principal Meeting Sunbeam Family Services
Friday - Valentine's Parties 2:30 p.m.  All treats must be store bought and in original packaging.  Be sure you have signed up for Professional Development on February 15th.

Professional Dress: Please remember that even on Friday's when you may wear jeans with spirit shirts you are to professional.  Jeans with holes are not acceptable.

Please be sure to turn in your sign in sheets from Parent Teacher Conferences.  Remember, all students must have an APP form signed.

Focus:  Student Engagement:

When students are engaged in activities there are less discipline problems.  How are you keeping your students engaged?  

How are you using your FOSS Science?  Congratulations to Ms. Keys who will be a district trainer for First Grade FOSS Science.  
https://www.facebook.com/jami.keys/videos/10206733321026317/


Read the QR Code, (you will need to use technology - a qr code reader for a SmartPhone, Chrome book, or I-Pad)  answer the question on Padlet, bring evidence to Mrs. Brett for a prize.

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

Melissa Brett | Principal

Coolidge Elementary School | Oklahoma City Public Schools

5212 S. Villa, Oklahoma City, OK 73119

(405) 587-2800