Weekly Update #24

This Week's Schedule             

Monday, March 7, 2022                       School Site Council (2:30)

Tuesday, March  8, 2022                     Optional PD (Running Records)                

Wednesday, March 9, 2022                 Learning Walks, Half Day (12:15)                   

Thursday, March 10, 2022             

Friday, March 11, 2022                                           

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Things to Consider

Please read the weekly update carefully.

Operational: 

 PLT's are MATH with Liz and Glenda

• Learning Walks :  Next Wednesday, March 9, will be our Learning Walks. Our focus is Literacy. 
• Four teams consisting of 2-4 members will be coming into classrooms in 15 minutes intervals. 
• Each team will be observing the classroom set-up, the instruction given by the teacher and the student's use of reading strategies during literacy. 
• You may teach either ELA Whole or Small group/Guided Reading during your scheduled time frame. You may need to adjust your Wednesday schedule to accommodate the visit.

Here is the schedule:
              

	Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4
9:00 – 9:15 am	102	103	205	206
9:20 – 9:35	106	104	209	G1
9:40 – 9:55	109	108	107	101
10:00 – 10:15	105	G3	121	122
10:30 – 10:45		100	220	210
11:00 – 11:15	207		203
11:20 – 11:35	G2	208		202
11:40 – 11:55

• Grade 3-5 Teachers: During the month of March, have your student's complete the practice lessons on TestNav and use this time to create lessons to familiarize your students with all the tools on Test Nav.
• MATH PLT - There are going to be some shifts to a few Math PLTs.  Please follow the schedule below in preparation for next week..
• Monday (K : 9:15-9:55) (2: 12:50-1:30)
• Tuesday (1: 10:00-10:40) (3: 10:45-11:25)
• Thursday (5: 12:05-12:45) (4: 1:35-2:15)
• We will be in Glenda's office. Please bring your laptops, planned lessons for next week, a task that has not been presented and we want to further develop, and materials that might go along with the task.
• New Community Member: Please help me welcome Albert Rodriguez who is a paraprofessional in Ms. Buckley's class.  Welcome to the Connery Family!
• Small Group Observations - Glenda and Liz will be coming around to all classrooms to observe small groups throughout the spring.  Small groups should be taking place in both ELA and Math. Please ensure that you have a rotation board/schedule visible, differentiated activities/skills connected to the whole group learning or grade-level fluency standards. Classroom teachers should be planning and implementing Guided Reading or Strand 1 lessons in ELA and planned and targeted small group lessons in Math. 
• TeachPoint Reminder- All teachers: Don't forget to upload any pictures and/or evidence throughout the spring to TeachPoint.  Include the standard and/or goal that the evidence covers and a brief summary. 
• New Teachers - Formative/Mid Cycle Evaluations have been posted to your TeachPoint. Please review these evaluations and then sign them. Also, sign any other TeachPoint forms that are unsigned. If you have any questions, please see Glenda and Liz.
• Planning Expectations - Please send us your sub plans when you are out.  Especially if you are out for a series of days.  Remember that sub folders are for unexpected emergencies.  Since our school structure is set up to plan during PLTs for a week out, all lessons should already be planned for the following week. Therefore, we ask that you share your most updated plans so that students do not fall behind and so that our classes are moving along at the same typical pace as their grade level peers.  
• If you aren't well, please let us know of a team member that can share your grade level plans.
• As a reminder, when you have an absence you need to contact Glenda, Liz and your CIT before 8am. Also, your absence must be posted in AESOP before 8am. 
• Peer Observations - scheduling is underway and teachers have already observed others.  If you have not begun peer observations, please reach out to your CITs. 
• Mentor observations will be continuing. 
• Resources for to consider using for Women's History Month:
• https://www.colorincolorado.org/books-authors/literacy-calendar/womens-history-month-booklists-classroom-resources
• https://mass.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/womens-history-month/
• https://www.adl.org/education/resources/tools-and-strategies/womens-history-month-resources

Books

• Courageous Girls and Women: Asian Pacific American Heritage
• Latinas Who Made a Difference
• Native Women's History: American Indian Heritage
• Famous Authors and Librarians: Hispanic Heritage
• Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo
• Women in Science
• Sonia Sotomayor: Books for Kids and Teens
• Revised Lunch Plan - Click here for our new lunch model in support of the DESE guidance. Please let us know if there are any lunch issues.
• Assessment Calendar - please note that the assessment calendar was updated.  Click here for all dates including the Star Renaissance Expectations.
• Connery Assembly Schedule:  
• Friday, 03/18/22: Grade 5 - 1pm
• Friday, 04/08/22: Grade 2 - 1pm
• Friday, 05/20/22: Grades PreK & K - 1pm    

Staff Information:

• Office Referral
• Updated Calendar

Math:

• i-Ready:
• Makeups done ASAP- Please look through your diagnostic status to ensure that students have completed their assessment. 
• Once diagnostic is complete, students should resume personalized instruction lessons 2-3x a week. 
• Math Fluency  
• Make sure your growth analysis document is complete.  
• Use your growth analysis plan created during Math PLT to target student intervention.  

    Social Work Updates:

• Exciting News! This week, a third Social Worker joined our team. Please join us in welcoming Danielle Bornstein to Connery! 
• SW Extension Update: We now have two phones. Our original extension, 2914 remains in use. Please generally use this extension to get in touch with Jess. Our new extension, 2951 is also now in use. Please generally use this extension to get in touch with Kristel & Danielle.
• SW Support Referral Form- This is a friendly reminder to please utilize the Social Work support referral form that was emailed out/discussed at staff meeting early in the school year. This form should be used when requesting non-emergency/crisis support. Some examples include:                                                                                                                                                     *An observation request                                                                                                                     *A social-emotional wonder/concern                                                                                                 *Collaboration/discussion of strategies to support a student or general concerns regarding a           student          
• Part Two of our De-escalation Presentation: We are looking forward to sharing the second part of our De-escalation presentation with you during the March staff meeting on March 22nd at 2:30pm
• Behavior Management Resource - Minors and Major Behaviors and De-escalation Strategies
• Incident Report/Office Referral Requests:                                               
• Please place all completed forms in the Social Work mailbox.                                   
• Please ensure that each section/prompt on the form is filled out completely (i.e. child's full name, grade, steps taken, etc.) before submitting.                                                              
• If there is more than one child engaging in a behavior/incident, please make the appropriate number of copies for filing purposes.                                                      
• Glenda has asked that the following scenarios be an immediate phone call to either her office or the SW office in addition to completing an incident report/office referral as soon as possible:                                                                                                        
• physical unsafe behaviors with staff members or other students (hitting, kicking, etc.)               
• self-harm or threats of any kind                                                               
• Winter Gear: We have some remaining hats, coats & gloves the SW office. Please call the SW office to arrange pick up of any of these items.

Health and Safety:

• Recess has presented an increase of injuries.  The injuries occur most during activities that are unstructured.  Please use this resource guide as a means to support full class activities.
• Please remind students to wear their masks properly.  Here is an awesome PPT that Marla, our behavioral specialist created.  
• Connery Do Not Admit List: PendingResultsLog_DoNotAdmit_Connery.xlsx  This has been updated

Misc. Info: Inventory for Professional Development - please complete so that we can track the books that we each have in our classrooms.

Book Recommendations

Poetry Book Recommendations from Barnes & Nobels

Technology Issues

• Reminder: Please let Liz or your CIT know if a student is not bringing their laptop to school daily. 
• Please remember to submit all technology issues to the Helpdesk by emailing: servicedesk@lynnschools.org . Be sure to provide as many details as possible including name of user having issue (email or stu#), problem, program being used, etc.
• Please enter tickets for EACH problem they encounter with as much information as possible included. 

Looking Ahead

• March 14 - ILT
• March 16 - Early Release (1:15)
• March 18 - Grade 5 Assembly (1:00pm), Marks close