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Good evening teachers,

I hope that you all had a restful weekend. After last week, we were all in need of good weather and the weekend. Although it was a tough week, we made it through and will continue to push forth with being consistent in our practices. Thank you for your hard work! Please know that you all are appreciated!

As we are approaching a busy week, here are a few updates:

Benchmarks: Benchmarks will be administered February 9-12, 2016. Although we have a two week window, I would like to provide the second week as a time for you to grade and enter scores into EdPerformance. Also, more time is needed to ensure that we administer make ups properly.

Tuesday      February 9: Science
Wednesday February 10-Math
Thursday    February 11-Social Studies
Friday         February 12-ELA

Mid-Year Conferences:
Here is the link to sign up for your midyear conference:
 https://calendar.google.com/calendar/selfsched?sstoken=UU16Q2hIdGF3VmxIfGRlZmF1bHR8ZTZhM2Q4ZTM4OGNlYzhlOTI4NzEyZWU2MzI0MTk4Mzc

If I am your evalator for your mid year, please click the link above to sign up for your conference. In the last AP Blog, I provided you with what you will need to complete in order to be properly prepared for your conference.

 30 min Observations
If you have not had your 30 minute observation, please plan for me to visit before Wednesday.

ISS: If you have students assigned to ISS, please send their assignments to Mrs. McDavid via email or paper. It is imperative that you are providing the students with the same work that is being presented in class. Do not send novels  unless there are written assignments to accompany the reading. However, you can assign reading for the student to do upon completion of their work.

Happy New Year!

Good evening teachers,

I hope that you all are enjoying your three day weekend! Although it is cold, the weather is beautiful. Thank you for a great return. We have implemented the changes well and the only request that I have is for us to remain CONSISTENT with our practices. Below you will find some much needed information. Please read carefully and see me if you have questions.

RTI: Our school's impact check is February 3rd. As we are preparing to show off our best practices you will need to update your students' information in your grade level's spreadsheet.

• Ensure that you have indicated what students have failed the classes during this last grading period. You will need to add the columns and either place a x or color code the box for students that are failing your class.
• Make sure that you have entered the second administration GRASP and SRI scores for your students. After analyzing your team's data, determine the percentage of students that made progress. It is also requested that your team determine the percentage of your bottom 25% that made progress on SRI and GRASP.
• Due to observations, I will not be able to stay for the entire planning to discuss RTI with your team. Please continue to meet in my absence to ensure that the work is complete.

Observations and Midyear Conferences: Due to unforeseen circumstances, I have missed my appointments with some of you for your formative evaluation. Please expect to see me soon. Calendar invites will be sent to inform you of the day that I am planning to come to your class. It is my goal to have all observations and mid-year conferences complete before January 31st. 

• If you have received your formative, please go into the CCSD platform and sign off. A schedule will be sent before the end of the week that will allow you to select a time to schedule your mid-year conference to discuss your concerns. 
• As you prepare to meet with me for your midyear, please do the following:

1. Review your Formative # 1 Summary with feedback. 
2. Review all comments that were made on your performance standards. 
3. Standards rated with a 1 or 2 will require a progress goal with specific ways you intend to improve upon these instructional strategies.  
4. Please review the professional goals that you set at the beginning of the year. During the conference you will be required to comment on work that you have done thus far on those specific goals.  
5. If you have any attachments that you'd like to support your professional growth knowledge, student performance, etc...feel free to upload and add them to your platform.  If you have watched any of the professional learning lessons, feel free to add those to your mid-year conference also. 
6. Once your comments are entered into the platform, I will comment and finalize your mid-year conferences.  

Routines:

• Continue to hold students accountable for being late. We asked for a tardy bell and Dr. B answered! Let us all show her just how thankful we are for that bell! A new schedule was shared last week. Make sure you are not holding students in the hall as a grade level. This causes an issue when we are trying to conduct hall sweeps. 
• Send work to ISS. Mrs. McDavid is doing a great job of updating the list. If we are going to place them in ISS we must make sure that we do our part and send the assignments.
• Remember to be on duty at 8:00 sharp.
• Also, remember to monitor your students in the cafeteria. Please make sure students are cleaning their areas and wiping the tables. We want to leave the cafeteria presentable for the next grade level.
• Observe the first and last 15 minute rule
• Check for uniform violations and alert Mrs. Griffith

As a result of revisiting our rituals and routines school wide, discipline referrals decreased last week. Please continue to work as a team so that we can have a great end of the year.

Testing: ACCESS and Benchmark tests are upon us. Please expect a schedule by the end of the week that will provide you with dates and details for both assessments.

PSP: Encourage your students to remain after school for PSP. Beginning this week, we will begin reviewing standards that will be covered on the Math and ELA Benchmarks.