January 23, 2017

Our Mission:  “Educate students for lifelong learning and responsible living.”

Our Vision:  “Provide a learning environment that promotes and develops academic and

social growth.”

Attaining Learning Outcomes = Higher Achievement

• Monday:  Regular Day.  F & P January Assessments
• Tuesday:  OKCPS Teacher for A Day.  PLC Meetings, Faculty Meetings.  
• Wednesday:  Yearbook Meeting after school, library.  
• Thursday:  Brett out - Principal Meeting
• Friday:  Delta Dental Recheck, In the Gap in the building

Shout Out to the awesome Math Team that put together the Coolidge Math Night.  Students, parents, and teachers all had a good time.  Be sure you signed the sign in sheet if you plan to use that  event as part of your Snow Make Up Days.  

Wiley Blevins Phonics: To download the software to be able to use Phonics WhiteBoard Activities please  Start Here:    Interactive Whiteboard CD   OKCPS Phonics Sequence

What Research Says About Phonics:

• Phonics Instruction can Help All Children Learn to Read
• Explicit Phonics Instruction is More Beneficial Than Implicit Instruction
• Most Poor Readers Have Weak Phonics Skills and a Strategy Imbalance
• Phonics Knowledge Has a Powerful Effect on Decoding Ability
• Good Decoders Rely Less on Context Cludes Than Poor Decoders
• The Reading Process Relies on a Reader's Attention to Each Letter in a Word
• Phonemic Awareness is Necessary for Phonics Instruction to be Effective
• Phonics Instruction Improves Spelling Ability
• A Teachers's Knowledge of Phonics Affects His or Her Ability to Teach Phonics
• It is Possible to Overdo Phonics Instruction.

First Grade Blueprint   Second Grade Blueprint  Third Grade Blueprint
Fourth Grade Blueprint  Fifth Grade Blueprint  Sixth Grade Blueprint

MyOn Data:

Congratulations to the fourth grade.  Consistently this year they have completed the most books and spent the most time reading with MyOn.  They will receive tickets to the Blue Basketball Event at the Cox Convention Center.

As a school we have read 3,645 hours and 34 minutes.  19,614 books have been completed.   We are falling behind our reading on MyOn from last year.  Please encourage your students to read MyOn at home as well as at school.   

1. First Place 4th Grade with 1,321 hours 12 minutes.  6,828 books completed.  
2. Second Place 2nd Grade with 723 hours, 12 minutes.  5,343 books completed.
3. Third Place 6th Grade with 595 hours, 34 minutes.  2,254 books completed.

Don't forget to complete your F & P January Assessments - the end of January is coming up.  Be sure you upload your data into the Google Drive.  Be prepared to discuss your students progress compared to their Star Data  and 2nd Quarter Reading Grade.    Do I use fiction or non-fiction texts to assess my students?

o   We are using just fiction this year.

Ms. Cramer and Mrs. Brett will be conducting the final round of observations.  This is an informal observation so there will not be a pre and post conference with this observation, but it will COUNT in your final evaluation score.  

Coolidge Problem of Practice is Student Engagement.  During the informal observation and walk throughs we will be looking for student engagement.  

• Engaging Students- The technique used to help students practice should support students as they develop automaticity or controlled processing with skills, strategies, or processes by engaging in appropriate practice activities 

Practicing Skills, Strategies, and Processes

When the content involves a skill, strategy, or process, the teacher engages students in practice activities that help them develop fluency.

Evidence:

Teacher Evidence:

• Teacher engages students in massed and distributed practice activities that are appropriate to their current ability to execute a skill, strategy, or process

  • Guided practice if students cannot perform the skill, strategy, or process independently
  • Independent practice if students can perform the skill, strategy, or process independently

Student Evidence:

• Students perform the skill, strategy, or process with increased confidence
• Students perform the skill, strategy, or process with increased competence

Resources:

Instructional Coaches Ashleigh Helmick and Carrie Skaggs are here to help you with your instructional strategies, lesson planning, transitions, or other areas you may choose to work on.  Coaching sessions are not part of the evaluation process.  A coaching session length is determined by the teacher and the I.C.  

To Develop Every Child Into a Reader:

• Everyday a child reads something they choose to read.
• Every child reads accurately
• Every child reads something they understand.
• Every child writes something that is personal and meaningful daily.
• Every child talks with peers about reading and writing.
• Every child hears an adult reader read fluently.

Coolidge Elementary Academic Goals for 2016-2017

• 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%

OKCPS Literacy Standards

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OKCPS Math Standards

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Melissa Brett | Principal

Coolidge Elementary School | Oklahoma City Public Schools

5212 S. Villa, Oklahoma City, OK 73119

(405) 587-2800

(405) 208-1581 (cell)