Sunday Night Shout Out - March 1, 2020

Congrats to our CCES Academic Team for their performance at Regional Governor's Cup this week. What a great year it has been for them!  Make sure you congratulate these students this week.  We will be recognizing them later in the week at morning assembly.

Here are the STAR scores for our fourth round of testing.  We have hovered around the 75% mark all year and that is great.  Let's encourage students to work hard and set big goals for themselves this last few weeks.  It's a great time of year to remind them why we do what we do and how Lexia, Reading Plus, Study Island, reading AR books, studying vocabulary, and what they are doing in class - all helps them to grow as a reader.  Students think we have them doing all these things just for the heck of it.  Make those connections about how all these things can help them to grow!  

Please add your leader of the month for February to this slide.  We will recognize them on Wednesday morning at assembly.  

Also - some of our January Kona Ice winners didn't get their free cup.   If you have any of these students - please get their cup from my office.  They will need it on Tuesday to get their free Kona Ice.  The January Kona winners were:  Leigh Ann Bow, Jaxson Scott (1st grade), Evan Cash, Nicholas Anderson, Kynslee Perdue, Lilianna Hagan.  

Don't forget to stop by my office on Monday and get ring pops for those students who met their STAR goal!

Please turn in your SLED day paperwork for Day 4 this week.  This includes 3 student samples of strong student work per grade level.  



THIS WEEK AT A GLANCE...

Monday
Tuesday	Panther Store during special class  Kona Ice at regular time
Wednesday	9:07 am - Statewide Tornado Drill  Grade level PLC's 3rd Grade Hot Cocoa sale for 4th/5th
Thursday	3rd Grade Hot Cocoa sale for 2nd/3rd
Friday	3rd Grade Hot Cocoa sale for K/1st

Sunday Night Shout Out - February 23, 2020

As I said earlier in the week in the email, our fidelity monitoring visit went so well.  Here are some positive things that were noted during the visit:
1.  Expectations for student learning were high.
2.  In many classrooms, students were doing work above grade level - including reading above level text.
3.  There was no hand holding and students rose to the occasion.  It was said over and over again that teachers gave minimal instructions but students were able to quickly get to the task.  That is attributed to effective practice on classroom procedures.
4.  Student talk and student activity clearly outweighed teacher talk and teacher activity.

There were only a couple of areas in which we didn't score exemplary and we scored accomplished in those.  One area of growth that seemed to surface during the discussions was for differentiation and we knew that before the monitoring visit.  Differentiation is HARD.  Above is a list of ways that you can differentiate in the classroom.  

I challenge you to really work toward incorporating more of this in these last weeks of school.  As you are planning your lessons - think about how you can differentiate the content, text, or activity for the different level of learners in your class.  An important thing to remember is to not water the content down for your lowest level.  They should work at the level they need to be at.  However, how can you push every student to work at a higher level?  Step outside your comfort level and try something new.  I would love to hear your ideas about what you would like to try. 

This week we will be doing the state field testing. Andrea has sent out all the materials in the past couple of weeks.  Please be patient as we work out the kinks to this new system.  Please be observant as students are testing - this is a great indicator as to what they new testing will be like.

PANTHER STORE

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We will be having our Panther store for students to spend their February Panther Bucks on Tuesday, March 3rd.  Students will have had the opportunity to earn 16 Panther Bucks from their behavior calendars as well as any extra bucks they've earned.  I will send out an email later in the week with more info.  The store will basically work like it did last time.  We have some new inventory!  

Please select your Leader of the Month for February by Friday at add to the slide.  

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Good luck to our CCES Academic Team as they compete in Regional Governor's Cup on Monday and Saturday!  They are going to do great.

STAR Testing

STAR testing is also this week for the 4th time this year.  Motivate students to do their very best - we want to see the highest scores of the year.  We will be rewarding students who meet their goal with ring pops.  Those should be here by Tuesday or Wednesday.  I will send an email as soon as they arrive!

This Week at a Glance...

Monday - Live Scoring for 4th grade Science

            - Written Comp & FPS competing at Regional

               Governor's Cup

Tuesday - 3rd grade Field Testing Day

             - Grade Level PLC's

Wednesday - 4th grade Field Testing Day

                 - Action Team meeting at 3 pm

Thursday - 5th grade Field Testing Day

Friday - AR Goal ends

Have a great week!

Saturday Night Live - February 15, 2020

Congrats to our CCES Academic Team for their performance at District Governor's Cup.  Many individual and team awards as well as 1st place overall!  Now on to Regional's next week.  Also - a huge thank you to their coaches Mrs Henderson and Mrs Hannah for working with these students.  Also thank you to all those that helped up to host district competition.  It was a great day!

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Only 12 weeks of school left in this year - how crazy!  We discussed our plans for the rest of the year this week at PLC's.  Make every moment count as we embark on the last 1/3 of the school year!
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Tuesday we will be hosting the monthly Chamber of Commerce meeting in the library at noon.  We will have several visitors in the building - please remind students of this as they are in the hallways.  Our student lighthouse team will be helping to serve during this meeting so please excuse them from class.  

FIDELITY MONITORING VISIT

We will be having our Fidelity Monitoring Visit on Wednesday.  Michelle Bell has contacted those that will be observed.  

~~No PLC meetings this week.~~

This Week at a Glance....

Monday - No School

Tuesday - 12 pm Chamber of Commerce meeting

                  Library closed from 11 - 1:30

Wednesday - Fidelity Monitoring Visit

                       Leadership Team meeting at 3 pm

Thursday - Dipping Dots

Sunday Shoutout - February 2nd, 2020

Congrats to our Jr Beta students and sponsors for all their achievements at the state Jr Beta Convention last week.  We will be recognizing our winners one day this week at morning assembly.  They are starting on their work for National Convention in Fort Worth, Texas in June!

Don't forget our Panther Store on Monday.  Students will visit during special class.  Please email me if your class choose one of the whole class items.  Also remember - they must use all their Panther Bucks earned from their behavior calendar.  They can only keep actual bucks that they have for next month.

FIDELITY MONITORING VISIT

On Wednesday, we will have visitors in the building from Clinton and Wayne counties to conduct a fidelity monitoring visit for our SRCL grant.  They will be visiting different classrooms throughout the day.  

This week our CCES Academic Team will be participating in the district competition which will be hosted here at CCES.  We have Written Comp and FPS on Tuesday during the school day so please be aware that there will be visitors in the building that day.  The rest of the competitions will be on Saturday.  Good luck to our students and coaches - we know you are going to do great!

Also - if you need planning ours - we could use your help on Saturday.  Please let Kelli know if you can help.

PANTHER LABS

 We will begin Panther Labs on Monday, February 10th.  Third, fourth, and fifth grade teachers - please add students to this spreadsheet for the students you would like to invite. We plan on sending home letters to parents at the end of this week.

This Week at a Glance...

Monday	-Panther Store  -Mid-term ends
Tuesday	-FPS and Written Comp competion - 2nd floor computer lab and library -Kona Ice Day -Grades posted by the end of the day -Open Library afterschool
Wednesday	-Fidelity Monitoring Visit
Thursday	-Mid-term grades go home -Super Reader Ballgame
Friday
Saturday	-Governor's Cup competition

Saturday Night Live - January 18, 2020

Going to do one blog post for this short week ahead combined with the last week of January.  We have a lot going on during the next few days.

Best of luck to our Jr. Beta club as they travel to Louisville this week for the state convention.  A special shout-out to our awesome Beta sponsors who work tirelessly for months to prepare for this.  Can't wait to see how well they do.

Our school safety audit will be on Tuesday.  We will be sending out an email this weekend giving a specific schedule.  Parents, students and staff will be interviewed throughout the day.  This will give us solid feedback about how we can make our school campus safer.

I thought this was a really good chart to share with you that the central office created.  There is a printable copy here that you can print out and keep handy for your reference.  This is a great tool to use as you do your lesson planning.

Next Two Weeks at a Glance...

Tuesday 21st -      KCSS Safety Audit

                           1st grade Parent Night - if you need                                     planning hours let me know - this would                               be a great opportunity and we could use                             your help

Wednesday 22nd -Beta leaves for Louisville

Monday 27th -      Six week RTI meetings during planning.  

                           All RTI teachers will need to attend.  

                           Please bring student BEHAVIOR data as 

                           well.

Tuesday 28th -     100th Day of School

Wednesday 29th - Action Team meetings at 3:15

Thursday 30th -    Circus Field trip for select students

Friday 31st  -        House meeting during the morning

                           1st Semester Vocabulary Party

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!

Sunday Night Shoutout

Here we go!  A full week of school is ahead of us.  We got off to a great start last week.  Everyone did a great job of practicing and teaching our new PAWS expectations - keep that up!  Remember - we don't want it to just be posters on our wall but truly how we deal with student behavior.  We will be having a PBIS team meeting tomorrow afternoon and I will update after that. 

WINTER MAP SCORES

As you can see, most of our percentages of proficient/distinguished are lingering around the 50% mark.  Of course, we want those higher than that.  The good news is that we took the test a few weeks earlier than we did last year so we have gained some time.  Just keep on keeping on in the classroom.  We will do our best to keep the calendar clear so that you can have as much time with instruction as possible.

Please add your leader of the month for December to this slide by Tuesday afternoon.  We will recognize them on Wednesday morning at assembly. 

There are a lot of germs floating around this time of the year.  Please help keep sickness away - remind students to wash their hands after going to the bathroom and before eating.  Also - keep hand sanitizer readily available.  Also - have a student clean desks, door knobs and other highly touched objects with disinfectant wipes.  If you need hand sanitizer or disinfectant wipes - please let us know.

We will have our 2nd nine weeks awards ceremony on Wednesday, January 15th during special class time in the gym.  We will be giving out certificates for honor roll, perfect attendance and leaders of the month for Oct, Nov, and Dec.  The library will be doing certificates for Super Readers.  If there are any students you want recognized during this time, please get us that information.  Also - please share your grade level's specific time with parents through Remind.  

This Week at a Glance

Monday	PBIS team meeting at 3:00
Tuesday	Kona Ice Day  - schedule as usual Reading Plus training at 2:45 in 2nd floor computer lab
Wednesday	Grade Level PLC's - please bring a device and MAP/STAR scores
Thursday
Friday	Book Fair begins today

Have a great week!