The Flyer: Week 23

Best wishes and all of our love Holly!

We will miss you!

Great Things I Noticed:

100 Day Activities! Thank you for making our 100th day celebration so fun - and a big thank you to Clarissa for organizing and leading our 100th day!
Jump Rope for Heart!
Our Mother/son dance was a huge success!
Our Shared Leadership Team planning and collaborating on Monday!
The great work our Kinder team does preparing our students for future success!

Nuts and Bolts:

Planning days: Please choose a planning day ASAP with your team - we want to you continue the cycle of inquiry by reflecting and taking action on you student's data.
Have you started using your FOSS kits? Don't let this training and these resources go to waste... let me know if you need further guidance in implementing FOSS
2/15/18 RUSD Employee Spotlight Showcase for RUSD employees arts submissions due. Click here for more info about visual arts submissions and click here for more info about performing arts submissions.
When attending a PD or Workshop please notify Cindy of the date, time and location of your PD.
Please let me know if you are interested in becoming the GATE coordinator - With Holly leaving we need to fill that postition
Kids Art Riverside We would like to introduce you to a project called Kids Art Riverside. The focus of this project is to strengthen relationships between the Mayor’s office and local elementary schools while advancing the culture and pride of the city of Riverside. Students are invited to submit artwork based on historically significant events, locations, and people to the the Mayor’s Office, and selected works will be featured on the Mayor’s social media channels. Artwork on the theme of “Juan Bautista De Anza” is due March 9, 2018. Students are invited to submit artwork for the new “Kids Art” initiative through the Mayor’s Office. Click here for more info.
3/16/18 Writing Assessment Upload to Illuminate (Opinion Writing)
On February 5th, Applications will be available for those teachers and classified employees who are interested in working in the special education Extended School Year program that will be provided at two elementary schools, one high school, Sunshine, and Project TEAM. The deadline to submit the application is February 28th. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Latonya Southall in the Special Education office @ extension 83505
2/15 District personnel will be on campus to take inventory of our computers - please make laptops accessible and easy to access on 2/15

Focus:

The Spotlight Method is a method to collect exit tickets after a lesson. Exit tickets are a great formative assessment to determine what the students know about the content presented. In this method the green represents "What I Learned", the yellow represents "I have considered" or "I wonder...", the red respresents "My Learning Stopped Because...".

Check out this video (it is only 53 seconds!) from Teaching Channel:

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/daily-lesson-assessment