🌺 Leadership Team Notes

How are Morning Meetings going?  Everyone seems to be enjoying the time and the students are responsive.  Third grade asked if they could start their MM at 8:15-8:20 instead of immediately after announcements.  We agreed that was fine, and I am thankful for the information! It helps us when doing walkthroughs. 

Are we making any changes to the Wall of Fame?  Last year we used only the fluency score for AIMSWeb qualifications.  This year we will use the composite score. This is for Reading and Math.  I expect more students will qualify.

Considering our new commitment to Be Ready, Be Respectful, Be Responsible, should we add in some non-verbal commands?  We decided to move away from the "time out" signal that has been used in the past and all use the "hushing husky" sign to indicate that everyone needs to stop talking.  We'd also like to add "3 fingers" as a sign to Check Yourself for compliance of the 3 R's. 

Can we still have outdoor picnics with parents for lunch? Yes, but we do have some conditions.  Let's limit to one in the Spring and one in the Fall.  It should be the entire grade level on the same day and please let me know so I can add to the calendar.  Officer Antonio will be outside with you.

Can we have common morning hallway expectations?  We decided that students should come to your designated area and get out a book to read.  Students must have teacher's permission to be on a Chromebook and Chromebook activity should be limited to Successmaker or AR.

We didn't know about the "wear gold for cancer" day until we saw it on FB.  Can we be notified first?  I'm sorry about that.  That is always my intent. I posted on FB and sent the email to you for distribution within the same 10 minutes late Sunday afternoon, but I'm not sure which one I did first!  This was a last minute choice. I'll do my best to think ahead a little better. 

May we expect students to place all Chromebooks in their backpack before they leave the classroom and to go directly to the bus. No stopping at the eraser machine.? YES!  I'll reinforce during announcements

Can we dress up with the High School during homecoming week?  If we did, we would be dressing up two weeks in a row!  Our Red Ribbon Week is the week after homecoming.  I'm going to look at some of the home game Friday themes.  Maybe we can join in some of those. Dressing up two weeks in a row is just too disruptive.

Are there guidelines for Mystery Readers, Guests and field trips?  Yes the BOE gave us guidelines.  The biggest change is the number of Field Trips for our K-2 students.  I've added this document to the Teachers Resource drive.  Protecting Instructional Time