Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Open house last night was a great success! We had plenty of parent participation and everyone seemed to be excited about the start of a new school year. Hats off to everyone for a job well done!
Speaking of great turnout, we had several parents coming to register last night so we will be adding to /changing your rolls. As I have said earlier, don't be tied to certain numbers as caps for your class. We are tied in to the number of classrooms we have now for the first 10 days. I can almost guarantee many of you will have more than preferred cap (if you don't already) of students in your class. Please remember to welcome every child and just teach who shows up. I will handle maintaining class size. If we gain any sections, I will make the appropriate modifications. Don't worry about it.
Reminders-DIBELS refresher-all K-2 teachers-9:00 media ctr
DIBELS training for new staff to K-2, ESL guidance, admin.-afterwards in media ctr
SIOP training for teacher assistants-9:00 art room

Specials will start Thursday as day 1-except computer. Computer will start with day 2 on Friday. Mr. Torian is still deploying computers and has a meeting on Tuesday.
Please turn in copies of who attended your open house in my mailbox. I want to start gathering data on parent participation.

Also, don't forget to post a "where we are" chart outside your do letting other know where your class is-I have seen several posted but not by all. Let's have 100% by Wednesday. To get ideas, just take a walk around. Specialists need to post schedule and support services need to post schedule and who you are serving.

PBS corner
You will receive the PBIS handbook in the next few days. I will send attachments for the students/staff expectations for you to have. These documents can also be found on the "s" drive . I will send detailed directions later

One expectation we want to start off the bat is the use of voice volume by students and staff. Please model voice volume zero for students by your own actions and behavior. Use voice volume 1 only when necessary. Our students were regularly commended for hallway behavior by visitors and parents-let's start out the right way.