The Key Notes : August 2019

August PD

We covered A LOT during August PD (school goals, policies, curriculum, safety, etc.), but we kept the “fun!” Thank you for being willing to build cathedrals and save starfish this school year!

Click on the slideshow to view your enthusiasm for Keystone. Happy New Year!

Keeping our Classroom Framework in mind, we want everyone to focus on building positive relationships with students and establishing classroom routines/procedures during the first few weeks of school.

One way to build positive relationships with your students is to greet your students. We expect all teachers to greet their students at the door every morning starting at 7:50 AM! This will assist with safety by monitoring our students and adult visitors in the hallways. But most importantly, it helps you to gauge your students’ moods so you can be proactive instead of reactive.

Please position yourself in a way that you can still see inside your classroom and have a Do Now posted to avoid unwanted behaviors from occurring within the classroom.

See this teacher’s creative greeting.

School Goals

As I mentioned during August PD, you are a critical component of us achieving our school goals. We will continue backwards planning during our PLC meetings this month.

Keystone 100 Day Sprint

2019-2020

Goal: To increase the number of students proficient on Interim 1 and 2 by 5% from the 2018-19 school year in both ELA (55% and 57%) and math (48% and 51%) through personalized instruction (workshop).

Classroom Framework-Teaching: Personalized Instruction

Teachers uses preplanned corrections and extensions in a whole group, small group and individualized setting, to address deficit, grade level or advanced learning needs.

What	Who’s responsible?	By when?
Principal will communicate school goal of personalized instruction (workshop) to staff at August PD. The presentation will include the “why.”	Principal	August 19
During PLC meetings and our three Early Release days, teachers will complete Steps 1-3 (Backwards Planning, Analyze Results, and Workshop Planning) in the Data Dig process.	All Staff	Early Release: October 31, December 6, and February 14 PLC Meetings: October 22, December 3, January 28, February 25, March 24, April 28, and May 26
Deans will monitor Step 4 (Workshop Implementation) of the Data Dig process through observations.	Deans	3^rd week of every month (November 2019-May 2020)

Shout Outs

Keystone Staff for your participation, engagement, and enthusiasm during August PD. I’m always proud to be a part of the Keystone team!

Stacey for presenting intervention information to our staff. You have prepared our teachers the skillset to provide personalized instruction to our students.

Ashley G. for presenting about anxiety. Your knowledge and resources will benefit ALL our students!

Liz for presenting sensory information to the staff. You were able to provide us with valuable resources to support our students.

Jill for presenting the “why” and “how” to our staff about our school goal. Your presentation has set our school up for a successful year.

Sarah D. for presenting all things tech. Thank you for rolling out a lot of new initiatives so efficiently.

Jen H. for taking care of our staff t-shirts.

Jen H. and Deb for organizing and distributing ice cream during the Ice Cream Social.

Jen H. for explaining our new ABSS process. This will allow you to provide services and support to a lot more students.

Stephanie for ALL the things that you have done the past month to make sure that our August PD went smoothly.

Ashley H. for taking on the task of class schedules with a smile and positive attitude during difficulties.

Deb, Tabitha, and Gary for making our school beautiful! I walk around our school with pride.

Deb and Tabitha you went above and beyond to help me with the staff and parent room. I love how you would jump in without me asking.

Jamie, Robyn, and Cari thank you for EVERYTHING!!! I don’t have the words to describe how grateful I am for each of you. You are the best deans ever! You put in an indescribable number of hours, ideas, patience, and hard work preparing for this upcoming school year during the summer. This school year will be great because of your contributions.

Sloane for presenting ELA content to the middle school teachers. Thank you for leading excellence!

Andria for presenting math AND ELA content to the elementary teachers. I appreciate how dedicated you are to the success of Keystone’s students.

Teri and Nicole for presenting the new ELA content to your colleagues. Your commitment to our school is obvious because you didn’t even let long distance deter you!

Jill and Teri for working together to create a yearlong writing scope and sequence for the 3-5 teachers. The clear expectations and consistency will allow us to meet rigorous expectations.