We covered A LOT during August PD (school goals, policies, curriculum, safety, meeting student needs, etc.). We appreciate your willingness to “conquer new heights” this school year.
Core Values-Behave With Care
One of our Core Values is “Behave With Care.” We want everyone
to focus on building positive relationships with students and 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 7:40. This will assist with safety by monitoring our
students 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.
School Goal
As I mentioned during August PD, we have three short-term school goals this school year. You are a critical component of us achieving our first goal of students articulating the daily learning objectives while teachers use formative assessments to determine mastery. We want our efforts to result in 70% of students scoring 80% or higher on weekly common assessments.
The
first step in achieving our goal is to provide students an opportunity to
articulate the kid-friendly learning objectives that you have posted. When
doing admin observations, we will check for students’ understanding by simply
asking them, “What are you learning about today?”
Once
you have mastered this step, feel free to move on to providing your students
with a formative assessment (exit ticket) after each lesson to ensure understanding of the
concept(s) taught. More about this step on next week’s blog.
Technology
As you know, we believe in the “whole” child and want to provide
our students the opportunity to socially interact. Majority of their day is
spent listening and learning, so whenever it’s possible (lunch, recess,
engagement strategies during lessons, etc.) we want them using their social
skills. Therefore, students are not allowed on technology
(Chromebooks, movies, etc.) during lunch or dismissal. Students can have the
option of technology during indoor recess, but it should be an option among
other things, not the only choice.
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!
Jamie, Robyn, Stacey and Tameka
thank you for everything! I absolutely LOVE our team. Thank you for everything
that you have done to help us prepare for this upcoming school year.
Emma, Jessica, and Sarah for their support with specials and ensuring we are set
for the first week of school.
Tracy for coaching soccer.
Cindy Chuang for leading middle school ELA.
Steve for processing through electives and providing valuable insight.
Jen
H. for taking care of our staff
t-shirts.
Jen
H. for explaining attendance and the
ABSS process.
Ashley
H. for handling all enrollment
situations.
Deb
and Gary for making our school
beautiful and doing a lot of things beyond your job description! I walk around
our school with pride.
Stefanie for all your support with three
enrollment events in two weeks.
Ashley for organizing the staff lounge. It
makes me happy every time I go in there.
Stephanie
for making sure that we had breakfast,
lunch, snacks, beverages, and candy during August PD.
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 lists
and schedules with a smile and positive attitude during difficulties.
Deb
for always going above and beyond to
help me with so many things. I love how you jump in without me asking and
ALWAYS anticipate my needs.
Amelia and Lindsey
for taking on the Special Education Google Classroom!
Lindsey for creating
and sharing an amazing document with the team.
Ellen, Cindy, Jenaca, Sarah D, and Andria for presenting
information at staff PD!
Mandy for sharing the specials rotations paper to send home.
Ashley B, Sarah M, Kristin, and Megan for sharing resources and providing support to our new
to Keystone teachers.
Theresa for jumping right in and helping organize the classroom from ordering
curtains to putting supplies away. Crystal knows she can count on you!
This Week
Monday, August 30:
·
First Day of
School
· Y5-8 ORF Benchmark 1 (weekly event)
Thursday, September 2:
·
Flo’s Birthday
Friday, September 3:
·
Staff Reference
Guide Acknowledgement Form Due
· Leadership Catalog Due
·
Payday
Breakfast-Interventions
Saturday, September 4:
·
Angel’s
Birthday
Happy Belated Birthday
Teri: July 8
Josie: July 10
Stacey: July 12
Ashley A: July 20
Sam: July 23
Jeanne: August 1
Melani: August 3
Cindy Conti: August 10
Jena: August 10
Diane: August 10
Stephanie: August 17
Tracy: August 20
Christina: August 25
Andria: August 29
Jenaca: August 30
There is a special gift
in the mailboxes of all the people who celebrate their birthdays in July and August.
Important Dates in September
September 6: No
School-Labor Day
September 7: SLT
Meeting 3:50-4:20
September 8: Intervention Meetings
September 10: Family Connection
September 10: Morning Assembly Presentation Due-Cheng
September 13-30: Grades 2-8 Fall NWEA
September 14: Staff Meeting 4-5 PM
September 14: Staff Meeting Snacks-Interventions
September 15: Free
Dress Down for FRL Form Completion
September 17: Social Contract
September 17: Payday Breakfast-8th Grade
September 17: Morning Assembly Presentation Due-Kaminski
September 20-24: Grades 1-2 Fall Math Numeracy
September 24: Substitute Binder Due
September 24: Morning Assembly Presentation Due-August
September 25: Ashley B’s Birthday
September 28: PLC (Team) Meeting 4-5 PM
September 30: Title 1 Parent Information Meeting 6 PM
*If you have an event to add or something has been forgotten, please
let me know!
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