Today is day 6 on the specials calendar.
Third-Fifth grade teachers will have NCWISE electronic grade book training today after school.
No Classified staff meeting today due to a scheduling conflict. The meeting will be tomorrow, Tuesday September 22 after school.
Congratulations to Mrs. Gumbs for starting the 5thsyracuseorange.blogspot.com for her class ! it's great, check it out.
Please include the following events in this week's schedule and your newsletters: The WS Little symphony will perform for fourth and fifth graders on Wednesday, September 23 at 10:15.
The annual Title 1 parent meeting will be Thursday, September 24 from 6-7:30. Parents will get an opportunity to learn about Title 1 services, what it means to be in school improvement and SES services. SES providers will be on hand as well to describe their services. Staff is not required to attend but are certainly invited.
PLC's will start next week. Everyone involved has received a schedule of PLC meetings. In preparation for our first meeting, I am asking staff to read the following pages in the book, "Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work": pages 14-17, 22-24 and 68-72. These excerpts are all parts of the first three chapters of the book. Feel free the read the entire chapters if you like. It's very interesting reading. Specialists and support staff have received the book and will be participating in PLC's as well. First we are going to get the grade level PLC's up and running. Mr. Johnson and Mrs. Hufstader have agreed to receive additional training on implementing a PLC and they will share at a later time.
PBS corner-Students who bought lunch with an administrator will eat with the administrator of their choice this week. Teachers, a key component of PBS is good communication with parents. Remember when a child receives a classroom discipline form for a level one or level two behavior, a phone call home is part of what we have agreed to as a staff. The call doesn't have to be made immediately or if necessary an assistant could cover your class while you make the call. When a child is sent to the office for a level three behavior because a level 2 behavior has been done two or more times, the administrator will look for documentation of the phone call before action is taken. This is not the case for behaviors that immediate office referral (fighting, assault on school personnel, etc-just check the PBS manual.)