November 18

Shout-Outs & Celebrations

(Consider sharing your shout-out!)

• Carolyn and the fifth grade team have given so much of their energy to a student in crisis. Thank you!
• Fourth Grade collected gently used books to send to schools that suffered damage from Hurricane Matthew. Way to take action!
• K team has swooped into action to help us prepare for Tuesday’s media event. Amazing flexibility and willingness to jump in to support the cause … thank you!
• AND, thanks to Katie for volunteering to serve as our substitute choir master for Tuesday's event in Angi's absence. (It's wonderfully helpful to have an Assistant Principal that can do just about anything!)
• Many thanks to Judy and our Wiley Pals for a fabulous “community event” this past week.
• Shout Out to Lynne for taking over the Monday Chinese Rotation! Thank you!

General Updates

• Let Carol know if you have an ‘event’ planned for Monday or Tuesday.  She can work with you to determine a plan for sign-in for visitors and sign-out for students leaving early.  
• The International Showcase will take place on Friday, December 16 during elective times.  Parents and Elective Students for the grade level pairs will be invited to watch.

Time of performances

4-5 from 10:40-12:00

2-3 from  12:30- 1:45

K-1 from  2:00-3:15

IRT/Literacy Updates

• ***NOVEMBER IRT UPDATE: Please click HERE to access the November update. It is filled with important information so please take the time to read through it. If you have any follow up questions regarding the updates, please let me know.

• Interim and Report Card Dates: Looking ahead, HERE are the upcoming dates for interims and report cards. As we near December 5th for Quarter 2 Interim reports, I will post reminders/updates in this blog.

• (REPEAT) TRC Progress Monitoring:
• Kathy Foglia and I have the grade level (K-3) progress monitoring kits. If you have a student who needs progress monitoring for TRC, please see one of us so we can get you started.

Magnet Updates

• Student Ambassadors:
• Please make sure your student Ambassador is ready to greet our tours and explain something you are working on.  The classes that have put this in effect have really impressed our parents and it has been great watching our students take leadership roles!  (Remember to have an ambassador in each homeroom as well as Language and Electives.)
• Hallway Display for Q2:
• If I haven’t already, I will be checking in with your grade level to see what your plan is for Q2.  As usual if you want ideas or a helping hand please reach out, I am always glad to help!

Media & Technology

• Reminder: Students will report to the Media Center instead of Chinese for Monday Rotations. They do not need any materials.
• CREATION AND PRESENTATION APPS:

• (repeat) WILEY iPADS - Apple IDs and Passwords (Updated Nov 10th)
• Here is a list of Apple IDs and Passwords for Wiley
• Please see Kathy/Chris before resetting any account settings on a Wiley iPad
• Do NOT update to iOS 10 - there are many issues right now.

Important Dates

Happy Birthday:  none to report

This Week

Monday (11/21)

• K - dental screening throughout the day
• PTA’s restaurant night @ Village Draft House in Cameron Village

Tuesday (11/22)  

• Sunshine Committee’s Staff Outing @ Kings Bowling Alley North Hills
• 10:00am - media event

Wednesday (11/23)

• Workday - if not planning to work, please submit leave form to Ann
• Building will close early - Reggie & Katie will let you know.

Looking Ahead:

• Staff Meeting - Dec. 1
• Early Release - Dec. 2
• Winter Thanks - Dec. 2 (during early release)
• Band Concert - Dec. 8
• 3rd Grade IOWA testing - Dec. 12-13
• International Showcase - Dec. 16

Thursday, November 10

Shout-Outs & Celebrations

(Consider sharing your shout-out!)

• If you happen to see Cye Jones, 5th grader, please congratulate him as he was recently notified that he will represent Wiley as our 2016/17 Spotlight on Students!  He will be recognized at a December BOE mtg. Thank you 5th grade team & Judy for the nomination!
• SHOUT OUT to FIRST Grade!  The Hallway is looking awesome!  Love, love, love the sweet potato stamped potatoes to represent how many pounds you donated. Also, love the student work that you have posted so far!  I cannot wait to see it all complete!
• Shout out to Mary Whitehouse and Judy Williams for providing such a compassionate level love & support to our Wiley babies this week.  
• Shout out to Ann for weaving the staff calendar, weekly blog posts, AESOP absences, and tons of random requests into a reliable & informative Daily Memo! THANK YOU! (Oh yeh, and she manages the budget, manages substitutes, handles field trips, places supply orders, administers medicines, ... )

General Updates

• The 11/22 scheduled UN Council Mtg will be canceled due to some logistical concerns. We will have our next UN Council Mtg on December 2. Stay tuned to learn about our activity.
• PTA’s ‘Winter Thanks’ will change a bit this year. Instead of a during-school celebration, PTA will honor our staff with a catered lunch in the media center just after dismissal on Friday, December 2nd (it’s an Early Release day). Cohorts will meet after Winter Thanks and they will have about an hour for their study.

IRT/Literacy Updates

• Calculators: All 3-5 classroom, CCR and AIG teachers, we are inventorying our calculator supply. Please take a moment to complete the CALCULATOR COUNT.

• TRC Progress Monitoring:
• Kathy Foglia and I are in the process of setting up the grade level (K-3) progress monitoring kits. If you have a student who needs progress monitoring for TRC, please see one of us so we can get you started.

Magnet Updates

• Hallway Display for Q2:
• Loved all the Dot Day display’s from first quarter!
• If you haven’t already… Don’t forget to start setting up your hallway display with a title/description and begin some sort of background for what your Q2 unit might include.
• Things to Think About:
• Possibly setting up display as a grade level vs. as a class.
• Include what will go in hallway and where as part of your planning.
• Selecting different items related to the same theme/unit to display for different students.  (Example: Students 1-6 you display their writing, Students 7-12 you display a diagram or picture they made, Students 13-18 you display some math work, etc…) In the end something for every student is in the hall but not the same thing is in the hall over and over.
• Put some sort of border, backing or matting behind each student work.
• Do not hang them in a straight line, try to offset them.  
• Include at least one 3D item per grade level.
• Make sure it looks neat (especially if you use butcher paper, make sure it is cut neatly or folded to hide the uneven edge.
• Don’t do it all in one day break it up so you do a part each week until you have it all complete.

Media & Technology

• Reminder: Students will report to the Media Center instead of Chinese for Monday Rotations. They do not need any materials.

• MTAC Committee: Lynn and Chris will be forming a new Media and Technology Advisory Committee.  Please email Lynn at vchristiansen@wcpss.net if interested in serving on the team. We will meet monthly.

• Overdue Books:  The Wiley Media Center has over 400 overdue books.  Lynn will place overdue book reports into your boxes.  Please help get our books back from the students.

• WHO TO FOLLOW: Pedro Noguera @PedroANoguera  

           Professor of Education, UCLA Primary interests: urban education, race and public policy,    

           changing the world.

• CREATION AND PRESENTATION APPS:

• WILEY iPADS - Apple IDs and Passwords (Updated Nov 10th)
• Here is a list of Apple IDs and Passwords for Wiley
• Please see Kathy/Chris before resetting any account settings on a Wiley iPad
• Do NOT update to iOS 10 - there are many issues right now.

Important Dates

Happy Birthday:  Lisa Zhang (11/16)

This Week & Next Week

Monday (11/14)

Tuesday (11/15)  

Wednesday (11/16)

• Intervention Team Mtg.

Thursday (11/17)

• SIP - Quarterly Review @ 7:45am in Smith’s classroom
• Wiley Pal Event

Friday (11/18)

• Tour at 10:30 am

Monday (11/21)

• K - dental screening throughout the day
• PTA’s restaurant night @ Village Draft House in Cameron Village

Tuesday (11/22)  

• Sunshine Committee’s Staff Outing @ Kings Bowling Alley North Hills

Wednesday (11/23)

• Workday

Looking Ahead:

• Staff Meeting - Dec. 1
• Early Release - Dec. 2
• Winter Thanks & Learning Cohorts - Dec. 2 (during early release)
• Band Concert - Dec. 8

November 7

Shout-Outs & Celebrations

(Consider sharing your shout-out!)

• Hela, Ute, and Yuko- For making global connections happen in their language classes! Through our partnership with Raleigh Sister Cities French, German, and Japanese have all been partnered with a school in either France, Germany, or Japan.  They have been corresponding with students in the other countries and are all working on sending videos to the other schools about themselves and Wiley! *There is not a Spanish-speaking partner … yet!  
• 1st Grade - Shout out for Global Goal ZERO HUNGER!  Teachers partnered with the Society of St. Andrews to coordinate a field trip opportunity.  The first graders went potato gleaning and all the potatoes they gleaned went to the Inter-faith Food Shuttle. Can’t wait to read about what the students write!
• 3rd Grade- LOVE, LOVE, LOVE how you incorporated The BFG into your Global Learning and across all subjects.  The hallway looks awesome so far, cannot wait to see it complete!
• Magnet Fair helpers -
• Thank you to Angi, Kathy J., Matt, Ryan, Katie D., and Michelle for help with setting up on Friday night!  I couldn’t have done it without you!  Everything looked amazing and we got many complements.
• Thank you to Ute, Hela, Zandra, Lynn, Karen, Julie, Crystal, Matt, Carolyn, Margaret, Chris, Kristin, Katie W., and Leslie for being there to answer all the questions and representing Wiley!  Several parents were coming and asking me if they could pay someone to guarantee a spot at Wiley!
• Congratulations to the:
• Teacher of the Year: Eman Ziada Brandt
• Teaching Assistant of the Year Elizabeth Montague

The Wiley family is honored that you are representing us!

General Updates

• Picture Make-ups: Monday, November 7 is picture re-take day for students either absent on picture day, or wanting a re-take. Photographers will be on campus from 8am-12pm. You are welcome to send students needing a make-up at any point during that the 8-12 window of time.
• 2-hour delay schedule is on Wiley Playbook - here, you will find the elective and lunch pick up schedule; carpool will dismiss to media center and YMCA will dismiss to gym at end of day

IRT/Literacy Updates

• Calculators: All 3-5 classroom, CCR and AIG teachers, we are inventorying our calculator supply. Please take a moment to complete the CALCULATOR COUNT.

• Report Card Resources:
• NEW: Regarding conference dates, gradebook will not automatically populate. You can put that in the comment section.
• 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.
• Working off of Ms. Ruedy’s updated class numbers, I have placed report card envelopes in your mailboxes. I gave each homeroom teacher one additional envelope. Please remind students to return their envelopes for use for the entire year. I have limited extras. Thank you!!

Magnet Updates

• HOMEROOM Teacher Printing of Elective Report Cards:  
• Make sure to go into OASIS and log in.  

Username:  wcpss(idnumber) Password: (Same as email password.)

• Click onSOCR
• Click on Home
• Click on Home Page Options
• Click on Print Report Cards
• IF nothing happens try a different browser.  (The issue is that your browser is setup to disable pop-ups.)  If this happens and you have tried 2 different browsers please let me know before the due date of Monday, November 7!  

• Hallway Display for Q2:
• Loved all the Dot Day display’s from first quarter!
• If you haven’t already… Don’t forget to start setting up your hallway display with a title/description and begin some sort of background for what your Q2 unit might include.
• Things to Think About:
• Possibly setting up display as a grade level vs. as a class.
• Include what will go in hallway and where as part of your planning.
• Selecting different items related to the same theme/unit to display for different students.  (Example: Students 1-6 you display their writing, Students 7-12 you display a diagram or picture they made, Students 13-18 you display some math work, etc…) In the end something for every student is in the hall but not the same thing is in the hall over and over.
• Put some sort of border, backing or matting behind each student work.
• Do not hang them in a straight line, try to offset them.  
• Include at least one 3D item per grade level.
• Make sure it looks neat (especially if you use butcher paper, make sure it is cut neatly or folded to hide the uneven edge.
• Don’t do it all in one day break it up so you do a part each week until you have it all complete.

Media & Technology

• Monday Rotation Update: Lynn Christiansen will be taking over Ms. Gao’s Monday rotation starting this week. Please send students to the media center. They do not need to bring any materials.
• MTAC Committee: Lynn and Chris will be forming a new Media and Technology Advisory Committee.  Please email Lynn at vchristiansen@wcpss.net if interested in serving on the team. We will meet monthly.

• WHO TO FOLLOW: Bill Ferriter
• Twitter:@plugusin
• Blog: The Tempered Radical
• COMMUNICATION & COLLABORATION TOOL:  Chatterpix Kids
• Free iPad app to bring learning to life!
• Amazing way to recognize perspectives and communicate ideas while empowering students to narrate, create the dialogue, script or text. Can be used with non-fiction, fiction, animate or inanimate objects.
• Animal Research Ex. 1   Animal Research Ex. 2    Biography Example   
• Character Perspective - Book Character New Year’s Resolutions      

• GOOGLE WORK SESSIONS: Chris will begin offering Google work sessions. To launch this series, we will start with the basics. If you would like 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
• Monday, November 7th @ 4:00 in Ms. Stockert’s Room
• Tuesday, November 8th @ 9:15 (2-hour delay morning)

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

• WILEY iPADS:
• iPad Issues?  We are having some problems with our Wiley iPads. Many of our iPads are going to be restored to factory settings this week. If you have an iPad that you cannot unlock or that is NOT working, please bring it to Kathy no later than Tuesday at noon.
• Here is a list of Apple IDs and Passwords for Wiley
• Please see Kathy/Chris before resetting any account settings on a Wiley iPad
• Do NOT update to iOS 10 - there are many issues right now.

Important Dates

Happy Birthday:  Missy Overby, November 10

This Week:

Monday (11/7)

• Report Cards go home in Monday folders
• BT mtg. @ Meredith College - 4-6:45

Tuesday (11/8)  - Election Day

• 2-hour delay - schedule here
• Bagged lunches in classrooms

Wednesday (11/9)

• Intervention Team Mtg.
• Peer Observers training @ 8:15

Thursday (11/10)

• Learning Cohorts @ 8:00
• Tour @ 2:00pm

Friday (11/11)

• HOLIDAY

Looking Ahead:

• Wiley Pal Event - Thursday, Nov 17 - *note that Sunshine Committee event @ Kings has been changed to Tuesday, Nov. 22
• Safety Patrol in Raleigh Christmas Parade - Saturday, Nov. 19
• UN Council Meetings -Nov. 22
• Staff Meeting - Dec. 1
• Winter Thanks - Dec. 2 (during early release)
• Band Concert - Dec. 8

This Week’s To-Do List

• Breathe!  A break is on the way!  :)