Sunday Night Shout Out - January 12th, 2020

STAR scores for round 2 are shown above. Our goal for the year is to be at 80% of students on grade level or showing 1.2 years growth for the year.  Keep working!  Remember - there are so many things that we do every day to improve our students reading skills - Lexia, AR, daily reading instruction, vocabulary, etc.  It is good to remind students of why they do all those things - we want them to be better, stronger readers.  Students need to know the WHY!

We are in full swing of our PBIS reboot.  Charts are hung around the school, Panther Bucks are being given out, and we have our Minor Infraction Sheet ready to go.  We also have a small group of staff going to a training in Louisville this Thursday to learn more about how we can intervene with our Tier 2 and 3 behavior students.

We are not only asking you to change how you handle behavior in the classroom.  We are also working to improve how we handle behavior issues in the office.  We are trying to line the consequences up with the misbehavior when we can.  We are also changing afterschool detention so that students will receive instruction on how to improve their behavior - specific to behavior that landed them in ASD.  Hopefully all these efforts will result in improved student behavior, which in turn, results in more student learning.

*Remember to keep using the language around our anchor statement - PAWS.  This should be daily talk in our classrooms and common areas.
*If students are struggling to meet your expectations - PRACTICE!
*Special class teachers, special ed teachers, janitors, assistants, cafeteria staff - remember to pass out your Panther Bucks when you see behavior that exceeds your expectations.  

We will be having grade level PLC's on Tuesday of this week.  Please bring your strike chart and/or any tracking tool you use for student misbehavior.  We are going to start looking for hotspots.  Also - bring any work that you have done on your Project Based Learning unit to share with your team.  

Members from the Kentucky Center of School Safety will be here all day on Tuesday, January 21st.  They will spend the day touring the school as well as interviewing groups of staff, students and parents.  We will be sending out a schedule of those interviews sometime this week.  

Just a reminder to send parents a message about our Awards Day on Wednesday.  All parents in the grade level are invited to attend. They will enter and exit through the gym.  

CPA'S BEGIN THIS WEEK!

We also have Book Fair in the library this week.  

This Week at a Glance...
MONDAY  -     1st day for 21st century
                     Student Lighthouse Meeting at noon
                     SBDM meeting at 4 pm
                     Open Library
TUESDAY -      PLC meetings
                     Lockdown Drill
WEDNESDAY - Awards Day during special class in the gym
                     Leadership Team meeting at 3:00

Have a great week!