Great Things We Noticed!
- 2nd and 5th grade teams working hard on student centered assessment with Dave Horton!
- Pink Day!
- Pie in the Face is awesome!
- A windy Halloween!
- Socktober socks being taken to Path of Life in Riverside!
- PL 101 and the PL success email's Erin is sharing - I love how we support and share ideas across grade level and content areas!
- 65% of our staff has completed the Gallup Survey! Great progress!
Nuts and Bolts:
- Please let Longi and I know if (and when) your report cards are ready to be checked. Please don't forget the following:
- Check Title I school for all students
- For ELD Students check the box and complete the ELD addendum
- For Read 180 Students check the Read 180 box (Christina will fill out Read 180 addendum)
- If you have a student that earned all 1's (in any given area) check the "At Risk for Retention" box
- Input attendance on Wednesday - If you are holding your conference earlier than Thursday and Friday you have to go back and double check attendance for students you have met with
- ILE Quick Tips can be found at bit.ly/ILEQT - Sign up and receive emails with EdTech tools, tips and resources
- Please take your Gallup Engagement Survey - When we get 100% participation we will give recess duty coupons for certificated staff and extra break coupons to classified staff! Ask your teammates if they have completed the survey!
- We are in the midst of the United Way Campaign - Information will be in boxes this week
- VERY IMPORTANT - Please remember to take your walkie to recess. It is difficult for our office staff to explain to parents why it is taking so long to find their students.
- We have been asked to create Veterans day Cards for our local VA medical clinics and hospitals. Please schedule with your students time to create "Thank You for Your Service" cards that will be distributed on November 11th to Veterans in the Riverside VA facility. Example templates (for your use or consideration) have been placed in boxes.
- Ideas for Veterans Day Activities can be found here, here, here and here
- All classroom thank you's are due to the office by NOVEMBER 8th
- November 13-16 - Hawthorne Attendance/Spirit Days!
- We will have special spirit days planned AND Longi and I will be coming through classrooms looking for GREAT student attendance!!
- Please verify the information located on the "Parent Education Level Verification Forms" (Grades 2-6) - These were placed in boxes this afternoon
- We are required to gather email address for ALL PARENTS by the end of this school year. Please pass out half sheet and collect information (for parents that need it) during your conferences!
- If you are one of our ELPAC examiners or are interested in becoming one follow the information below:
- ELPAC Summative 2018-19 Test Administration Preparation (Action Item) Sign ups for the required ELPAC examiner trainings indicate that 17 of 50 sites are represented. All training of ELPAC trainers and examiners are listed in the PD Hub under RAE 00-12. Please have your examiners and coordinators sign up for the appropriate training. Training dates range from November 5 through February 21 with various scheduling. The number of available subs is limited on each of the dates, so please have your staff sign up early. The test window opens February 1 and concludes with district ELPAC window closing on May 15. All required coordinator trainings have be completed. If your primary ELPAC coordinator did not attend the required ELPAC 2018-19 Coordinator training, please have them contact Carmel. Thank you. Carmel Acosta-Cooper, ccooper@rusd.k12.ca.us, ext. 80805
- EarthWatch Applications are now available. Teachers can apply at the following link: https://earthwatch.org/program/signup?type=Teach%20
- ELA Assessment window: 10/15-11/7
- K-2 Reading Comprehension assessments sent to sites from Publications
- Kindergarten and First Grade audio link sent to teachers and accessible on PowerSchool Learning > TK-6 ELA/ELD > Assessments (Reading)
- 3rd-6th IAB Interim Block - Reading: Informational Text (Illuminate)
- K-6 Writing Assessments sent to sites from Publications
- Writing assessments, including rubrics and exemplary models, are also located on PowerSchool Learning > TK-6 ELA/ELD> Assessments (Writing)
- Festival of Lights Coloring Contest
- In celebration of lighting Riverside’s downtown and The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa during the Festival of Lights “Switch-On Ceremony”, K-6 students are invited to participate in Holiday Coloring Contest. Winners will receive a $50 gift certificate and a holiday stocking filled with goodies. Submissions due November 12, 2018. More info.
- A note from Gallup:
Riverside Unified School District has partnered with Gallup, an independent research and consulting company, to conduct the RUSD Engagement Survey. You will soon receive an email from Gallup inviting you to participate in the online survey. It will be open from October 29 to November 9 and should take only a few minutes to complete. Gallup will hold your personal responses completely confidential. Under no circumstances will your responses be revealed to anyone at RUSD. After everyone has completed the survey, Gallup will generate reports that summarize the responses for each department/site. To protect your confidentiality, reports will be generated only for groups with at least four employees participating in the survey. No individual responses will be reported. You will learn the results of the survey later this winter. It is important that you participate in the survey so your voice can be heard. Please watch for another email message from Gallup which will give you instructions on taking the survey.
Gallup"Helping People Be Heard"
- The email from Erin had LOTS of good information:
- Here is a website I have created for Hawthorne PL. bit.ly/PL-101. I have added documents, pictures and
websites from Hawthorne teachers. If you have anything to add please send me an
email. There are so many amazing things going on and our best resource is
sharing what our awesome Hawthorne teachers are already doing!
- Thank you 3-6 grade teachers for having your students take
the PL survey! We got some awesome data from it because almost 200 students
took it. I really appreciate that! Here is a link to the
data (Click Hawthorne at the bottom). We will be reviewing this data at a
staff meeting soon.
- On Monday at our meeting Tina shared a website she started
using with her kids- www.freckle.com The
free version of this website gives students an assessment in ELA and Math and
allows them to work through standards at their own pace. It places them on a
continuum (K-9 standards). On the PL survey, just over half of the students
stated that they were not able to work ahead if they already knew the content-
so this would be a way advanced students could move ahead. There is also the
ability to assign some practice/benchmarks/exit tickets and get assessment
data. In math, there are some free inquiry-based lessons you can do as a class
to promote collaboration. They are linked to other content and include
discussion, math talks, and mental math. There are some free lessons you can do
in social studies and science as well. 5/6th grade- The math would
be good for the 5th grade students who have finished Zearn, and 6th
grade students until the new Zearn curriculum comes out. It is definitely worth
checking out.
- Message from Kristi Forsythe:
- I
hope all is well, your parent conferences run smoothly, and you have a restful
Thanksgiving break. This email is just a friendly reminder that all your
grade level Digital Citizenship (DC) lessons are suppose to be taught by
Nov. 9th. If you are having problems reaching this flexible deadline, please
let me know. Please make sure you fill out the DC completion form before
you go on break. It is located on the new RUSD DC Site on the bottom of each grade
level page.
FOCUS:
Our 5th and 6th grade students are taking or have taken the Gallup student engagement survey - I thought it would be helpful to all of us to see what questions the Gallup people ask to gauge our level of student engagement. How can you use these questions in your daily interactions with your students?
Birthdays:
11/18 - Erron Turner Floyd (IA/MM Carol OK's Class)
Upcoming Events:
11/2 - Minimum Day
11/2 - Carrie and Longi out (Erin Admin Designee)
11/5 - Longi out
11/5 - PTA DJ Party
11/6 - SST Marathon Day
11/7 - Coffee with the Principal
11/7 - Make-Up School Pictures
11/7 - Leadership Meeting
11/8-11/9 - PTC Days
11/8 - K12 Principals Meeting (Carrie out morning)
11/9 - End of First Trimester
11/12 - Veterans Day
l1/13-11/16 - ATTENDANCE DAYS/SPIRIT DAYS!
11/19-11/23 - Thanksgiving Break
