The Key Notes

This Week

Monday, January 18:

· No School-Martin L. King Jr.

Friday, January 22:

· Progress Reports

· Pay Friday Breakfast-6^th Grade

Saturday, January 23:

· Brian’s Birthday

Lunch Anyone?

Our wonderful Board will be providing the staff with lunch on Tuesday from Boneheads BBQ. In addition, they will be staying for all three lunch periods to give everyone a holiday gift

We have two new team members-Tifanie Goodman and Crista Long. Tifanie is our new intervention para tentatively scheduled to start on Wednesday. Tifanie comes with several years of experience working with students in a school (para) and non-school (behavior technician) environment. Crista Long is our new recess/lunch aide tentatively scheduled to start on Monday. Crista is a parent at Keystone with kids in Y5s, Kinder, 5^th, and 7^th.

Please find some time next week to welcome our newest team members.

Lastly, today will be Morgan’s last day. She has accepted a job outside of the school setting. We wish her well.

Admin Observations

During admin collaboration observations this week, we will continue observing workshop, but our focus is on students’ understanding and articulating the learning objective (I can) for the workshop lesson.

It is critical that students understand what they are learning and why they are learning it. This can be accomplished easily. In the beginning of your small group lesson, make a statement similar to this, “Today, we are going to review improper fractions. On Friday’s unit assessment, I noticed you were really close to getting the correct answers and I want to help you master this skill. Who can tell me what we will be learning about today and why?”

Progress Reports

Parents will be viewing their child’s progress report on the Parent Portal on January 22. As a part of our Green School initiative, we will not be printing progress reports. Please make sure that you have a true representation of their child’s academic progress by having enough grades entered and that you have collaborated with your grade level for consistency.

Digital Platforms

In-person teachers should continue to use digital platforms in their classrooms. Please create a lesson each day utilizing one. This will keep students familiar with the platforms in case we have to go remote again unexpectedly. Please continue to have students take their Chromebooks home every day.

Staff Meeting

January 12 Staff Meeting Agenda

1. Icebreaker

2. Good News

3. Best Practice Share Out

4. Gradebook Expectations

5. Interim 1 Results

6. Safety Protocol Review

7. Q & A

8. Launch

*You will be attending the meeting from your classroom using the Google Code: KeystoneStaffMeetings in the calendar invite. Starting at 3:45, please go to the staff lounge to sign in, gather the documents that we will be discussing, and grab some snacks.

*Meeting begins promptly at 4:00.