Nov 5 - 9 Jackson , Motivation Rise N Shine

Opportunity Statement:   Coolidge Elementary will continue to provide all students with Opportunity Statement:   Coolidge Elementary will continue to provide all students with academic, social, and emotional growth opportunities through great teaching and the utilization of our community resources.  We will maintain high expectations for all students, as well as expand our efforts to cultivate a positive school culture that encourages intellectual and social growth

Coolidge Vision and Mission

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

Our Vision:  “Provide a learning environment that promotes and develops academic and social growth.”

Ms. Jackon's Class Rise N Shine

• Monday, Nov 5. New Teachers Meeting 3:30 p.m.
• Tuesday - No School - ELECTION DAY
• Wednesday, Nov 7 - 10:00 Lock Down Drill
• Thursday, Nov 8 - Brett out A.M. Summit Meeting,
• 4th Grade Field Trip ORR Family Farm
• Friday, Nov 9 - Veteran's Day Assembly,
• 1:00 - 1:30 PreK - 2nd,
• 1:45- 2:30 3rd -6th
• Sat, Nov 10 - Volleyball Tournament, Football Tournament

Informal Observations - the window has opened. Just an FYI I will be evaluating Standards Based Planning,  Identifying Critical Content from the Standards (required evidence in every lesson), and Professional Responsibilities (including lesson plans posted, ABL lab usage (data taken from spreadsheet of sign in sheets on the computer), PLC/Faculty meeting attendance, Safe School completions, etc).

Remember - you can ASSIGN MyOn books for your students to read as part of their Daily 5 Literacy Block. With MyOn these assigned books can be on their level while still focusing on the literacy skill you are covering. Also, MyOn has many books that are non-fiction in Social Studies and Science. Please utilize this valuable resource.

5th grade had spent the most time reading on Myon with 335 hours and 56 minutes. The most popular book in October was Bone-Chilling Ghost Storeies. It was read 26 times for 228 minutes.

What was the most popular book on MyOn the month of October for Coolidge students? Please respond in the comments section. Don't forget to include your name. Drawing will be held Tuesday during Rise N Shine for all correct responses.

Benchmark Literacy - you should be finishing up Unit 3 test. Unit 4 is the last of November, first of December and we start Unit 5 when we return from Winter Break.

Relevance of School

Student-Facing Definition		Building Blocks Definition
I believe that school is valuable and the things I learn are interesting.		A student’s sense that the subject matter he or she is studying is interesting and holds value
Overview
When you feel that school is relevant, you believe that the things that you are learning are important and worth knowing. If you feel that what you are learning is worth knowing, then you are more likely to be motivated and engaged, even if the content of what you’re learning is rather boring. There are two basic ways that learning can be relevant: Utility Value: Mastering the content will help the student meet their short-term and/or long-term goals. For example, if a student is interested in becoming a veterinarian, then (s)he will be more motivated to learn in Biology. Relatedness: This answers the question, “What does this have to do with me and my life?” If students see that mastering the content will help them understand themselves, the world around them, or someone close to them, then they are more likely to be motivated to learn.
General Tips and Tricks		Quick Teacher Tips
Find a Reason Why: Find yourself feeling bored? Stop and ask yourself these questions: Why is this important, in general? How might this relate to your life inside and outside of school? How does this relate to you or to a community that you belong to? How might this relate to your life now and/or to your life in the future? Try using this process from Character Lab to organize your reflective process! Work with a Peer - Helping each other be successful can add purpose and meaning to your learning.		Discuss “The Why:” On a daily or weekly basis, stop class and do a think-pair-share using one or more of the following prompts: Why is this important? How might this relate to your life inside and outside of school? How does this relate to you or to a community that you belong to? How might this relate to your life now and/or to your life in the future?
Teacher Toolkit
Strategy	Description		Individual/ Group	Prep Time
Prompt Specific Real-World Connections	Plan questions for class using this frame: How might this help you with _____? (fill in relevant part of students lives. Examples below: How might knowing how to add decimals help you when shopping? During a unit on the American Revolution: “So the colonists were unhappy about ___ and England was frustrated about ___. What are some ways that conflict can be handled? When writing argumentative essays: have you ever tried to convince someone of something? What strategies sometimes work?		Individual or Group	5 mins
Plan a Field Trip	Plan a field trip and make explicit connections between the students field trip experiences and what they are learning in class. The trip doesn’t have to be over-the-top! For example, if you’re learning about nutrition plan a trip to the local grocery store and have students explore questions related to shopping for a balanced diet. If you’re learning about percentages, plan a trip to the mall and assign students a project related to shopping for the best sales discounts.		Group	3 hours
Invite a Guest Speaker	Inviting a guest speaker in can show students ways in which their learning applies to the real world and can open their eyes to professions that they never heard of before.		Group	3 hours

COMMUNITY MEETINGS

The district will be holding community meetings that could lead to school closures, repurposing schools, new boundary lines, etc. in order to be efficient and equitable.  Dates are:  November 5^th – 6 p.m. at Star Spencer High School; November 6^th – at 7 p.m. at Northwest Classen High School; November 7^th – 6 p.m. at U. S. Grant; November 8^th – 6 p.m. at U. S. Grant (in Spanish); and November 12^th – 6 p.m. at Douglass High School.  Meetings will also be held in January.

AFT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES

We will be offering an Engagement Strategies workshop on November 7^th.  The workshop is from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.   All teachers are welcome to attend.  The workshop does count as snow day credit.  If you are being evaluated this year, the workshop will provide you with key instructional strategies. All workshops are held at the AFT office at 2915 N. Classen, Suite 420.  To register, email Kelli at kelli@okcaft.org.

Managing and Embracing Change

Gail Boushey

Issue #538

Whether it was a new school, team, grade level, curriculum, or, of course, a group of students, we all experienced some type of change this year. If the change required us to adopt new patterns of behavior, we can find comfort in knowing that new behaviors don’t happen overnight, but when we make micro-shifts each day, the tiny increments of change day in and day out will have a cumulative effect.

 A second-grade teacher recently told me she was having a difficult time meeting with individual students. She was used to staying in place and having groups come to her, so standing up and moving to confer with individuals didn’t feel natural or comfortable yet. Her honesty and her ability to articulate the heart of the change enabled us to determine what steps she could take.

We came up with small shifts in behavior that would lead to her desired goal. Her first step was to stand up and just walk around after she finished meeting with a small group. She did this once, and then a second time, and on the third time she sat down next to a student and conferred.

Micro-shifts in behavior are small and doable. When we start this way, we experience success and are likely to continue. For example, if we want to confer with students each day, we’ll work with one student today. If we want to teach brain-compatible focus lessons, we’ll teach one lesson today that focuses on just a single teaching point. If we want our students to be independent, we’ll teach them how to build stamina with Read to Self. If we want assessments to inform instruction, we will assess one student today.

Then, we keep doing those things, every single day. We’ll get used to conferring with a student and want to confer with more. We’ll see the follow-through with the brief focus lessons and want to teach more brain-compatible lessons. We’ll see that our students have more reading stamina and don’t want to stop reading, so we will extend their time. We’ll experience the deep understanding we get of a student from assessing them and will want to find out more about the other students too.

We may not think what we did this morning by meeting with one student was important, but it was, or that teaching students to read independently for three minutes made a difference, but it did. The more I work with teachers and students and learn to embrace change myself, the more convinced I am that the road to success is paved with cobblestones just like these.

A Day at the Pumpkin Farm

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Photo Credit: JR Conlin

Perry and Paula are visiting the pumpkin farm. Mom drives as Dad sings with them in the car. Finally, they see Farmer Jack’s Pumpkin Patch.

It is a huge field of pumpkins. The pumpkins grow on vines. Farmer Jack shows them a perfect pumpkin.

“This is the stem,” he says. “It is attached to the vine.”

He says the outside of the pumpkin is the rind and the lines are called ribs. He cuts the pumpkin in half. Perry and Paula touch the seeds and pulp inside. It is sticky and gooey! Farmer Jack gives them roasted pumpkin seeds. They are crunchy!

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OKCPS ELA Standards by Grade Level	OKCPS and OAS Crosswalk	OKCPS ELA Bundles
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1st Grade	1st Grade Crosswalk	1st Grade Bundles
2nd Grade	2nd Grade Crosswalk	2nd Grade Bundles
3rd Grade	3rd Grade Crosswalk	3rd Grade Bundles
4th Grade	4th Grade Crosswalk	4th Grade Bundles
5th Grade	5th Grade Crosswalk	5th Grade Bundles
6th Grade	6th Grade Crosswalk	6th Grade Bundles

OKCPS Math  by Grade Level	OKCPS-OAS Crosswalks	OKCPS Standards by Bundles
Pre-Kindergarten Math	Pre-Kindergarten Crosswalk	Pre-Kindergarten  Bundles
Kindergarten Math	Kindergarten Crosswalk	Kindergarten  Bundles
1st Grade Math	1st Grade Math Crosswalk	1st Grade  Bundles
2nd Grade Math	2nd Grade Math Crosswalk	2nd Grade  Bundles
3rd Grade Math	3rd Grade Math Crosswalk	3rd Grade Bundles
4th Grade Math	4th Grade Math Crosswalk	4th Grade  Bundles
5th Grade Math	5th Grade Math Crosswalk	5th Grade  Bundles
6th Grade Math	6th Grade Math Crosswalk	6th Grade Bundles

Elementary ELA Year- at- a- Glance
Kindergarten Year-at-a-Glance
1st Grade Year-at -a Glance
2nd Grade Year-at-a-Glance
3rd Grade Year-at-a-Glance
4th Grade Year-at-a-Glance
5th Grade Year-At a-Glance
6th Grade Year-at-a-Glance

OAS for Social Studies Bundles	OKCPS Social Studies Unit Plans
1st Grade American Heroes	1st Grade Social Studies Unit Plans
2nd  Our Democratic Heritage	2nd Grade Social Studies Unit Plans
Third Grade Oklahoma Studies	3rd Grade Social Studies Unit Plans
Fourth Grade United States Studies	4th Grade Social Studies Unit Plans
Fifth Grade United States History	5th Grade Social Studies Unit Plans
Sixth Grade Western Hemisphere Geography	6th Grade Geography Unit Plans

OAS Science Standards by Bundle	OKCPS Science Unit Plans (Please note: You will need your OKCPS log-in to access)
Kindergarten
1st Grade Science	1st Grade Science Unit Plans by FOSS Kit
2nd Grade Science	2nd Grade Science Unit Plans by FOSS Kit
3rd Grade Science	3rd Grade Science Unit Plans by FOSS Kit
4th Grade Science	4th Grade Science Unit Plans by FOSS Kit
5th Grade Science	5th Grade Science Unit Plans by FOSS Kit
6th Grade Science	6th Grade Science Unit Plans by IQWST Kit