Leading & Learning: Friday, October 21

General Updates

Please offer celebrations and growth opportunities in the comment sections of the report card - be specific when you can do so regarding academic skills.
You may use this section to address work habits/behavior concerns but such concerns should not consume the message you wish to convey, and positive suggestions for corrective measures should be added.
If there are major concerns (academic/behavior), the report card should NOT be the first line of communication with a parent/guardian.
Interventions should be specific … but be careful in using “education jargon” that parents may not understand or may misinterpret.
Put yourself in the shoes of the parent … what would you want to know and what feelings would you want to feel?

Picture Make-Ups: Picture make-up day will be on Monday, November 7th for students who need makeup pictures, or who were absent on the original picture day. See Carol for more information.
Literacy Professional Development:In accordance with the timeline detailed in our SIP plan, literacy professional development is scheduled for next Friday, October 28th from 7:45am - 9:45am. Similar to our experience last year, coverage will be provided for literacy classroom teachers. Pairings are below. Coverage will begin promptly at 8:45am.

Strom	Saludo
Oliver	Wise
Thompson	Brown + Williams (after Café duty)
Abel	Skinner
Blum	Coventry and then Montague
Wierman	Ruedy and then Kholi
Fogleman	Sullivan (8:45-9:15) +Brandt (after cafe duty)
Kurtz	Leigh +Foglia (after cafe duty)
Smith	Yoshikawa
Hewitt	Bartley
Gess	Dridi
Bennett	Rose
Cassidy	Christiansen
Dow	Wolfgang
McCann	Henderson
O’Brien	Moore +Constantino (after carpool)
Price	Watkins (8:45-9:15) + Schisler (after bus duty)
Bus: Schisler, Jeffries	Carpool: Brownell, Constantino
Cafeteria: Foglia, Williams, Brandt

IRT/Literacy Updates

Teachers, please check this DOCUMENT to ensure that you are aware of the current gradebook practices regarding assignments and report cards.
If you would like a refresher regarding standards based grading click HERE for descriptors.
If you have any system difficulties, please let me know ASAP so we can troubleshoot/submit a heat ticket.

NKT Window: Kindergarten and First Grade: The window for your NKT assessments will close on Tuesday, the 25th. Please let me know ASAP if you anticipate not being able to assess all of your students before the end of Tuesday.

Click HERE for your Quarter 2 grading grids. Please remember to make a copy of the grid you need and then add the copy to your google drive.
Click HERE for the Big Ideas on the Elementary Report Card for your grade level work. These documents are broken down by grade level.

Magnet Updates

Repeat from Last Week:

Please remember to sign up for the Magnet Fair on Saturday, November 5th. Please discuss with your team and sign up HERE. (I need all language teachers and at least one member from each grade level (if possible more from K).) Also, please consider helping with Setting up on Friday after school if you are unable to make it on Saturday. THANK YOU!
Language Teachers, Elective Teachers, and Classroom Teachers: If you have any sample student work that fits our magnet theme please plan on saving it and sharing it with me to use during the magnet fair. THANK YOU!

Media & Technology

CONTEST: The 4Cs come to life when teams plan together. Add coffee or chocolate and you get the 5Cs at Wiley :) Get out of your classrooms and come plan in the media center once a week. The first team to tweet the following, #5Cs@wileyelementary, will win coffee or chocolate for their planning.
TWITTER: Twitter is an excellent professional development resource for educators. It’s a simple way to read current research, learn new strategies and to both share and collaborate with other educators. I love seeing all of the wonderful things happening in education on Twitter! One of my goals is to highlight more of the amazing happenings in Wiley classrooms. Help Lynn & I to do this by sharing your Twitter handle. What’s your Twitter handle?

Google Work Sessions: Chris will begin offering Google work sessions. To launch this series, we will start with the basics. If you would help with Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Drive, Google Sheets, etc - please come to one of the following work sessions in the media center. Sign Up Here

I am also happy to arrange team or individual work sessions if you email chahner@wcpss.net some possible dates/times.

PTA Updates

Repeat from Last Week:

If we were given $20,000 to spend on something that would benefit ALL students or make an impact on ALL teachers. What would you suggest? Please take a moment with your team or on your own to share all ideas that come to mind. Please use THIS form.
Teacher Grant Applications will be ready soon. Start thinking about Professional Development or other things for which you might want to consider writing a grant.

Important Dates

Happy Birthday: none this week

This Week:

*Global Read Aloud continues

*Soctober Collection continues

Monday (10/24)

Tuesday (10/25)

Wednesday (10/26)

Thursday (10/27)

Friday (10/28)

Literacy Professional Development from 7:45am-9:45am - see schedule above; End of First Quarter

Looking Ahead:

Book Character Dress-Up Day - Oct. 31
TOY Nominations due - Nov 2
Staff Meeting - Nov 3
Wiley/Broughton Pep Rally … for Friday night’s football game - Nov. 3 in afternoon - more details coming
Wiley/Broughton Community Night @ Broughton Football Game - Nov. 4
Magnet Fair - Nov 5
Report Cards go home - Monday, Nov 7
2-hr delay, election day - Tuesday, Nov 8
Holiday - Friday, Nov. 11

This Week’s To-Do List

Friday, October 21, 2016