Week 27

  

Great Things We Noticed: 

• Student of the Month presentations!  We love doing these! 
• Supervisors support in getting ready for students to come back on campus!
• Office staff calling families to ask about their program choice for next year!
• Great conversations around making sure we have everything we need for In Person Return to school!
• Longi doing a phenomenal job running things on her own! 

Nuts and Bolts: 

• Read Across America
• Slide Show/Dress Up Days
  
• Sign up for Arlington High School Reader
• Trimester Three Google Classroom Links add here
• It is very important that you sign in each day when you are on campus. This helps us with contract tracing and making sure we have accurate numbers. Here is the link in case you need it https://forms.gle/wXJeFGReFU3eKMgY6
• We are partnering with Big Brothers/Big Sisters to connect our students with mentors in the community! If you have a student (grades 1-6) that is disconnected, unmotivated, lonely or depressed send me or Angelica their names and we will place the referral.
• Check out the ILE site RUSD Engage for some great tips from fellow teachers on engagement! http://bit.ly/rusdengage

• Student Engagement Site:

  Try engaging your students with a virtual scavenger hunt. CLICK HERE to watch the short video on how to apply this engagement strategy to your classroom routine. This works well with all content areas and ages!

• If you or your team would like office hours with ILE sign up here:

  Jessie Gurbada

  Sharisa Chan

• Elementary Teacher Newsletter

• ELA/SLA Site: The Elementary ELA/SLA site has been updated. We hope that it is easier to navigate and more user friendly.
• MOY District Math Assessments - Scores for 2nd grade and 6th grade are due on 2-26-2021.
• Math Manipulatives - use your manipulative kits to make individual bags of manipulatives for each student to use.
• Elementary Hybrid Resources - Use these resources to help you during Phase 2 and Phase 3.
• Elementary ELA/SLA -Writing PD offering The Elementary ELA/SLA team is excited to offer a Virtual Saturday Literacy Symposium: “Power Up Your Literacy: The Write Stuff” on March 13th. This flyer has been added to the Elementary Newsletter and will be emailed out to teachers.
• New! Riverside Art Museum "Live" Virtual Classes RUSD Arts is pleased to offer a limited number of "live" virtual art classes for any interested elementary classrooms this spring through the Riverside Art Museum. Classes take place during synchronous instruction so students can interact with RAM teaching artists. More info
• Elementary Music Band & Strings Schedules for Phase 2 & 3 As in-person students transition to on-campus learning, the Elementary Music Program will be providing additional sectional classes on alternate days for those students to attend on their asynchronous days. Band Phase2 Schedule | Band Phase 3 Schedule

Personalized Learning Ideas from ILE:

Goal setting with Dreambox	Use the Student Overview report when meeting with students. Let students choose a gap that they would like to fill in.  The teacher can give an assignment based on the student’s goal.  This allows student to pick what they want to work on and set goals to complete appropriate assignments
Sponge activities with Dreambox	Have students jump on Dreambox if they finish early during a live activity.  During this time, students can work on personalized lessons or if they are in the first 4-6 weeks of use the program will gather information about student knowledge.

Dr. Hansen's Call To Action: 

Common RUSD Goal:

To create inclusive and equitable learning environments for all

Our Call to Action:

1. Continue to reflect on your own mindset regarding race and privilege.

2. Begin to dismantle inequities for all students and staff (policies, practices, procedures).

3. Listen to the voices of students, families, and employees (what are their stories?).

4. Go out and ACT NOW!

Examining Learning Through an Anti-Racist Lens

Upcoming Events:

RUSD Calendar 

RUSD Assessment Calendar

• 3/1 - Open Office Hours with Carrie and Longi 11:30-12:30
• 3/1 - Grade Level Leadership Meeting 3
• 3/4 - School Board Meeting 5:30
• 3/9 - In Person Students Return

Birthdays:

3/10 - Gabriela Vasquez (Instructional Aide Mild/Mod)

3/17 - Morgan Little (Kindergarten Teacher)

3/20 - Josefina Vega (Noon Duty Supervisor)

3/31 - Erin Barnett (Kindergarten Teacher)

 

I just wanted to say thank you for your emails, texts, thoughts and prayers over the past week.  It does, and did, help knowing that positive energy and prayers were coming our way.  I am eternally grateful to the office staff and Longi for taking over and really letting me let go to focus on my family. This was not an easy week to leave work, but knowing that they were taking the lead put my mind at ease.  For those of you that donated money to my family and our Meal Train I am forever grateful, know that you have eased my parents minds for the next few weeks.  Hawthorne is a special place, and I am blessed to be a part of it, thank you so much.