I wanted to share with you some findings from our lock-down on Thursday. First of all, I am so impressed with how quickly everyone springs into action and things become quiet. Within seconds, someone would think that there are no children in the building. I know you have practiced this with your students a great deal and it shows. All doors were locked and students were not visible. Again - good job.
Areas that we are going to keep working to improve:
1. Barricading our doors - some teachers did barricade their doors and we were impressed with that! We will be coming around in the next few days to have discussions with each teacher about what would be best to use to barricade the door with and where it should be located in the room.
2. Ready to fight - again - some teachers had some type of object or a plan in mind of how they would fight the intruder once they entered the room. Do you have a plan?
3. Download Google Chat if you have not already done so on your phone.
4. If you do not have students in your room when a lock-down is called and it is safe to do so - please come down to office to assist.
The staff leadership team met on Wednesday and I wanted to give you a brief run-down of what we discussed.
1. Family Learning Night will be on January 31st from 4-6. The main focus of this night will be our student-led conferences in their homeroom.
Michelle Bell will have a room for pre-k students.
Kindergarten classes are going to focus on AR for their conferences. Parents will read a book with their child and take an AR test here at school so they will be familiar with the process.
First grade students are going to share with their parents about Lexia, DreamBox and Reflex math progress.
Second thru fifth grade classes will be sharing their leadership notebooks.
The book fair will be in the library and Angela is going to have Panther Emporium set up as well.
We may do a photo opp with a friendly dinosaur for students and families.
Pizza, drinks and cookies in the cafeteria.
2. January House meeting on the morning of 1/25. It will be a regular breakfast house meeting and will be over by 8:30. The focus this month is on ambition. Google slides with the plan for the meeting will be posted to the Living Calendar.
3. We decided not to do another One School One Book project this spring but make big plans for next fall.
4. Action team meetings will be held on January 23rd at 3:00 pm in the library.
~It's CPA Time Again~
Many grades will be beginning the 2nd round of CPA testing next week. Here are just a few reminders about CPA testing and the purpose of it.
1. CPA's should only cover content and skills that the students have been taught. No new material.
2. Round 2 CPA's should spiral and go back to review some content from the first round.
3. CPA's should be done under a testing situation. Exceptional education students and 504 students should receive accommodations like they would on the KPREP.
4. USE THE DATA from the CPA's - that is the only way to make it a good use of our time.
Remember to do your #observeme observation this month. If there is a class you want to observe that is outside your planning time - let me know and we will cover for you. It's all about your learning!
21st Century for the Spring Semester begins next week!
Next Week at a Glance...
Monday - 1:30 Jr Beta Showcase in the gym
4:00 SBDM meeting
Tuesday - KONA Ice Day
Wednesday - Jr. Beta leaves for state meeting
Good luck to our Jr. Beta students! Bring home the hardware!
Last reminder - Bathroom Spruce-Up project on the long five-day weekend. Judging will be held on Tuesday morning!!!!
