The Flyer: Week 26 - Lunar New Year was February 5th-Welcome to the Year of the Pig!

Great Things We Noticed:

Mystery Science in 4th grade! The students were learning about rocks and landslides and velocity and all kinds of cool stuff!
Clay in 3rd grade! The students created clay pots that were awesome!
Dancing on Fridays! Who knew we had a mini Michael Jackson in 4th grade?
Our PL Team planning Passion Projects! Big things are happening at Hawthorne!
Our AWESOME Science Fair winners! Thank you Mr. Comeaux for another successful science fair!
Students using Little Alchemy in Ms. Montgomery's class!

Nuts and Bolts:

I wanted to share some of the feedback I received from Cabinet after the instructional rounds visit. These quotes are taken straight from the emails! Thank you so much for your engagement while we "embrace the journey".... You should be PROUD!

From Lynn Carmen Day, Chief Academic Officer:

Cabinet was so grateful for the opportunity to learn about the rounds at Hawthorne! The process was amazing and for those of us who have not been intimately involved in the instructional rounds process, it was a great learning experience. We truly saw evidence of student-centered learning, problem-solving, evidence-based writing, and thoughtful and strategic instructional practices. Noteworthy!

Thank you for your feedback about our engagement and phone use. This feedback will help us be better for our next training/walk through. Of course, we always want to show how much we respect and appreciate our teachers and leaders as they deserve.

Again, please thank your amazing teachers who opened their classrooms to us, and especially those teacher leaders who trained us . The professional growth experience at Hawthorne was so awesome that I hope to return next year with Board of Education (and no phones J)

Have a great day, Lynn

From Jen DeAnda, Director Strategic Initiatives and Projects

Hi Carrie,

I know I speak for the entire group when I say we truly enjoyed spending time at your site, and witnessing excellence in action through your students, teachers, and staff. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your school and remarkable team with us.

I truly apologize for how the teachers perceived the level of engagement from the group. Although there are occasionally issues that must be addressed immediately, it was not our intent to appear as distracted from the visits. I can assure you that we took away a great deal of information and will be more vigilant about the optics while visiting sites.

Thank you again for all of your work in making Hawthorne an outstanding school.

Sincerely,

Jen

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Those of you interested in PBIS and it's use in your classroom would be interested in THIS seminar at RCOE. Please let me know ASAP if you want to attend.
Student of the Month Assemblies will be 2/20 - certificates will be due 2/14
Aquarium of the Pacific assemblies are Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week! Please check your email for the schedule from Erin Masi.
We have had 23 teachers participate in some level of PL training or work this year - Thank you Erin for facilitating this! Please fill out the PL survey when it comes your way... we want to measure our growth!
For those of you who need to finish ALICE training - the Library will be open Wednesday at 3:00 for certificated and 2:00 for classified staff. ALL staff members need to complete the online training.
We have a TON of oranges that need to be picked (hopefully the frost didn't ruin them!).... Take your class out and pick some oranges in the trees along Victoria and the front of the school.
The instructional Design day was very productive - Thank you to Longi and the SLT team for their work and focus! The team decided that DOK and RACE are areas they would like to analyze and will be walking ALL CLASSROOMS during the next Instructional Rounds. More information to come at the 2/20 staff meeting -
I will also be reviewing the "voluntary/involuntary" transfer process at the 2/20 meeting.
The 2/27 Team meeting will be our opportunity to share our collaboration AVID strategies with mixed team level groups. The last area of focus is INQUIRY (science is great for this focus area!)
Interesting article about Read Across America shifting its focus to diversity: https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=nea-focuses-read-across-america-diversity-not-dr-seuss
REMINDER: When attending training or seminar it is important that you are on time and ready to roll at the starting time. Please adjust your schedule accordingly if a training has an 8:00 start time.
REMINDER: You should be checking your email and your box at least twice a day - We noticed several flyers left in boxes on Friday that needed to go home with students.
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