Weekly Update!

It's "B" Week and 
Read Across America Week!





Duty this week.........
AM
Car Line: Rish
Cafeteria: Pennington
Sidewalk between the building and gym: Bambeg
Back Hall: Marshall, Mince, Dickerson
Library: Wilson
Cates old room: Ellison
PM
Car Line Giangrosso, Gudgen, Windham
Front Lawn/Historic Entrance: Bamberg
Front Hall Intersection: Grogan
Top of Ramp/teacher workroom: Johnson


and our Pledge Helpers.
Mon: Marshall
Tues: Johnson
Wed: Dickerson
Thur: Odom
Fri: Cates

We'll close out nominations for Team Member of the Month Wednesday.  Don't forget to nominate a 3rd, 4th or 5th grade teacher!








Nancy will use the Guest Reader google form to check in your guest readers this week.  Please make sure the date, time and person's name is listed. Please send me pictures of your readers and children.  Action shots that are not posed are the best!

Fourth and Fifth grade students should take all there things with them to EnRICh.  We will dismiss directly from EnRICh.

Check the calendar for details concerning our Staff Meeting/PD Monday afternoon and Collaboration Tuesday.

Doors will be judged throughout the day Tuesday.  Every door should be decorated to honor a specific book or author. It doesn't have to be elaborate!

Weekly Update

It's "A" Week and 
Data Week!



Please be on time for duty!
AM
Car Line: Shannon
Cafeteria:  Prickett
Sidewalk between the building and gym: Wilson
Back Hall: Dickerson, Odom, Mince
Library: A Smith
Cates Old Room: Tilford
PM
Car Line: Gudgen, Jones, Harrison
Front Lawn: Grogan
Front Hall Intersection: Wessel
At the slope/Teacher Workroom: Windham





Our Pledge Helpers this week...........
Tues: Patterson
Wed: F Smith
Thur: Rish
Fri: Windham

Our Affirmation Challenge will run through the end of this month!  Please take a minute this week and send someone in our building a written word of encouragement.







Second, third, fourth and fifth grade teachers! My goal of having all of our students score At or Above Average is displayed in the hall with a question in place of the Spring results.  "How will you get there?"   Please brainstorm with your students something they could do to help us meet this goal.  Use a 1/2 of a post-it note and allow the students to write some of the best suggestions.  Every class should be able to fit 5-6 ideas on the Reading and Math poster.



Please remember Holli Ford's brother who is in ICU with heart problems and Sabrina Johnson's husband, Scott.  Scott received the diagnosis of Hodgkin's Lymphoma and will start chemo therapy Friday.  This is scheduled every two weeks for 6 months. If you want to help out, here's the link for  Friday Meals 






Up Coming Deadlines
Wednesday - last day to make reservations for Dads and Granddads Breakfast
Friday - last day to turn in 6 Flags Reading Logs
Monday 2/25 - Doors decorated for RAA Week



Collaboration this week is a little different.  We'll be having Data Meetings across PE and Specials.  We've moved Collaboration for 1st grade and 3rd grade to Thursday.  All other grades will meet Tuesday.  Please plan on at least one of you helping with the transition of students between Specials and PE.




The Google Doc for our Second Trimester Celebration will be going out ASAP.  Teachers will need to fill in PaceSetter Information, Students with all A averages, AR Leader, DreamBox Champion, and Husky Hero.  Osburn will fill in CES Dogs and Tyner will fill in Millionaires, Multi- Millionaires and Wall of Fame.  Rosetta will fill in student who completed all DreamBox Standards in their grade level. Our Celebration is Friday Afternoon!

TAC

January 30, 2019

TAC Meeting

Questions and Answers

1.What research supports students knowing and understanding their test scores/reading data/levels (the test numbers)? Robert Marzano explores empowering students with data in his book The Art and Science of Teaching. His research shows a 32 percentile gain in achievement when students track their own progress.  These are a few articles that support student data tracking:

https://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2016/02/10/empowering-students-with-data.html 

https://www.edutopia.org/article/why-student-data-should-be-students-data from 

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/37598/how-students-can-be-partners-in-data-driven-approaches-to-learning

2. Why are we spending collaboration and training time completing office administrative tasks? It was the most time efficient way to accomplish the task. Fourth and Fifth grade teachers were asked to commit 15-20 minutes, two weeks in a row, during PE time, to prepare test documents for parent pick up and put testing stickers on student files. All teachers had their specials time to collaborate.

3. What ways do Jennifer Serravallo/Lucy Calkins/current literacy specialists support the use of AR? STAR? Serravallo and Calkins advocate for volume reading. TCS uses AR/STAR to monitor volume reading and to serve as a tool for finding “just right books”. When our Reading Coaches,  McGough and Peters attended the “Teachers College” in NY, this question was asked to Lucy Calkins.  Calkins indicated that AR/STAR easily pair with LC.  Many of Serravallo’s strategies use leveled texts and Accelerated Reader offers a system to leveling text. Renaissance products, Serravallo strategies and Calkins can and should complement each other.

4. How/when is Trussville planning on adopting the Fountas and Pinnell Reading

curriculum? Textbook adoption for reading does not come up for a few more years. It is not being considered at this time.

Weekly Update!

It's "B" Week

You have duty this week!
AM
Car Line: Pennington
Cafeteria: Mitchell
Sidewalk between gym and school: Shorter
Back Hall: Patterson, Windham, Feild
Library: Franklin/Harrison
First grade room: Latham
PM
Car Line: Wessel, Grogan, Gudgen
Front of school near the gym: Philpot
Front hall intersection: Shannon
Top of ramp near workroom: Wilson





Our Pledge Helpers....
Mon: Wessel
Tues: Higg
Wed: Feild
Thur:Mince
Fri: Philpot



The Affirmation Challenge should be easy this week.  It's the week of affirmations!  Please send two affirmations this week.  One should go to a parent that helps you out and another to someone in the building you admire. 

Everything you need to help celebrate Read Across America Week is in the Teacher Resources Team Drive in a folder named: Read Across America.  

Key Things Remember...........

1.  Doors will be judged Tuesday February 26.

2.  Parents shouldn't decorate doors during the school day. 

 If you have extenuating circumstances let me know. 

3.  Please choose readers that would not typically be in our building.  We are also looking for different readers.  Please check the list.  If you need ideas, please ask us. 

Our goal is to inspire our students!

4. Open House is Thursday. Student Data Notebooks should be out on each student's desk. Each grade level is assigned a 45 minute block of time welcome parents. 

Our weekly prayer group is now meeting in Amy Meredith's old room.  You are welcome!  7:15 every Wednesday morning.








According to everyone's schedule, our students are participating in enrichment/remediation activities between 2:15 -3:00. No one has recess scheduled during this time.




Please remember third grader, Maddie Eaves in your prayers.  She was hospitalized Friday.  She is an asthmatic and had complications with the the flu.  She is hoping to be back in school towards the end of the week.  This flu can be scary!





Any parent coming to your Valentine Party should be listed on the Valentine Party Sign Up   If they aren't listed, they are NOT an approved guest and Nancy will tell them that the teacher didn't list them on the guest list (limited the four). You do not have to turn in a guest form for these parents.





PD time tomorrow will start with everyone meeting in the library for about 15 minutes. Sound Partners Training (Meredith's Room) and the Textbook/Technology Committee (conference room) will meet immediately following.  If you are not involved in these meetings you may collaborate with other teachers and use this time for planning.  Very close to 3:30, or when all meetings are over, the google duty sign up form will go live. Please let us know if you have any questions.

Weekly Update!

It's "A" Week!







You have duty this week.......
AM
Car Line: Johnson
Cafeteria: Williams
Sidewalk between gym and school: Shorter
Back Hall:  Odom, Wilkerson, Crocker
Library: Feild
Room 1034: Ellison
PM
Car Line: Gudgen, Wilson, Bamberg
Front of school near gym: Marshall
Front Hall Intersection: Jones
Top of Ramp/teacher workroom: Higg





Our Pledge Helpers this week.....
Mon: Bamberg
Tues:Wilkerson
Wed: Wilson
Thur:  Mills
Fri: Crocker





Affirmation Challenge - Write one note this week  telling someone that works at Cahaba you appreciate them and why.

Please make sure your class understands our School-Wide signal (the time out sign) and what it means.  I think it's great that several of you have other signals (hushing husky is one) that are used in your classroom, but it cannot compete or confuse students on our School-Wide signal.  Thanks for your help with this.

SOME SAFETY REMINDERS
Students should never go outside the school without an adult.  This includes sending students to retrieve things left at recess.  The front of our school is a city street!

If you are on the track and see a community member ignore the signage and enter the track area, call the office immediately and report.

The Collaboration Room has student information  displayed on the walls, therefore the door will stay locked.  If you need access to the Collaboration Room, please let Nancy know and she can give you a key.

Erica Hankins is available to substitute.  She is listed in Ready Sub and she asked me to share her cell number.   205-566-1745

It really helps all of us if you will reach out to me through email or text concerning discipline problems.  Please refrain from bringing students unannounced to the office.  Of course, this does NOT apply to emergency/volatile situations.  If you need immediate help, you should use your intercom to call Nancy.  Someone will come to your room immediately. 

Please do not put your unwanted things in the workroom, multipurpose room, custodial closet etc.. You may list it on our google page Trash to Treasure  or take it to the dumpster.