Week 6

Great Things I Noticed

• An entire school coming together to support good attendance in our students!  
• Parents, community members, teachers and staff enjoying coffee and donuts on a Wednesday morning... once we got the coffee brewed ;)
• 1st Graders learning about Polygons in Ms. Borza's class!
• 5th graders fully engaged in grammar with Mr. Wible!
• The 3rd grade team reaching out to Pati DeRobles for help in deepening their understanding of ELD! 
• Miles and Miles of Smiles -Thank you for supporting this  program for our students!
• Preschoolers learning about how our differences make us stronger 
• 4th Graders discussing "How our Actions Effect Others"
• Nelva being organized and efficient and getting everything ready for our first School Site Council - Thank you so much!! 

Nuts and Bolts

• Fall Festival - October 26th - Sign up for a booth and don't forget to send a letter home asking for donations
• Halloween Parade will be on October 31
• Please let me know if you have a received an email from "Ellevation" regarding monitoring for some of our ELD students 
• We will be have another "Coffee with the Principals" on 11/8 - We are considering allowing the parents onto campus to observe/participate in an art lesson in your classrooms from 9-10 (after coffee).  Please chat about this and let us know what you think - 
• Ed Elements is on campus Monday 10/9
• Talk to your teams about calendaring release days for Personalized Learning goal setting (after training on 10/18) 
• Cindy will be out of the office until 10/23
• The "Great California Shake Out" will be 10/19 at 10:19am
• No Team Meeting on 10/26 (Fall Festival fun!)
• I have only heard from two teachers regarding a visit to the Ron Clark Academy - please let me know if you are interested!  
• PROGRESS REPORTS!!  Have them completed and turned in by the 11th, we will sign and send out on the 13th.  

Upcoming Events

• 10/9 Ed Elements Visit
• 10/11 Progress Reports Due
• 10/11 Leadership Meeting
• 10/11 Gallup window Opens
• 10/12 Fall Pictures
• 10/12 Principal Meeting (Carrie out morning)
• 10/12 Long Night of Arts and Innovation (Riverside Event)
• 10/16 Miles of Smiles Sealants (through 10/20)
• 10/16 School Board Meeting
• 10/18 Staff Meeting (PL online learner profile training)
• 10/19 State of the District Luncheon (Carrie and Clarissa off campus)

Friday Focus

Evidence Based Writing

Evidence Based Writing is one of the focus areas that your leadership team decided on during our Shared Leadership Meeting.  This, along with Precise Academic Language, will be the two areas that we will be focusing our energies on going forward.  Both of these work into all of the areas we have already discussed this year, rigor, equity and our EL population.  

Evidence Based Writing happens when students develop an argument and use evidence directly from the text to support their assertions.  It relies on precise academic language and can be implemented across the curriculum areas.  

This video shows a teacher using evidence based discussion techniques during a science project.  The strategies the students use during her lesson, will be translated into writing  that will include the evidence and language they have used in class.  

How are you using evidence based discussion or writing with your students?  Let's make sure we are amplifying what we are already doing and using these opportunities for collaborative conversations, academic language and evidence based writing across our day.

Let's make sure we are sending out thoughts to Raquel and her family during the difficult time.