October 10th, 2016

High Point News

Week of: October 10th, 2016

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Device Deployment Next Week
On the 18th, our school will be getting 240 laptops and we will be disbursing them among grades K-5. Our goal is to have all the new devices in every classroom by the 21st. The digital citizenship lessons on the 19th are as follows: 

Times	Teacher A (2 people in each class)	Teacher B (2 people in each class)	Teacher C (1 or 2 people in each class)	Teacher D (1 person in a class)
8:00-8:30	Collins	Milazzo	Gilmore
8:35-9:05	Schafer	Owens	Nobles	Silverman
9:10-9:40	Hawkins	May	Ittig
9:45-10:15	Johnston	Strafford	Calhoun	Jannausch
10:20-10:50	Pereira	Negrin	Todd
10:55-11:55	LUNCH
12:00-12:30	Gopal	Marinos	Foster
12:35-1:05	Spears	Abernathy	Nagler
1:10-1:40	Rogers	Ellis	Bradshaw	Quist
1:45-2:15	Churchwell	Cornibe	Evans	Rhoades

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November 7th and 8th

November 7th - RFF Day for HPES
Schedule will be coming out soon; ALL staff report on this day

November 8th - FC Teacher Workday
IB Meeting Schedule in Lib’s Portable
Work sessions are mandatory; please arrange your voting time around your scheduled work sessions. If there is a conflict, please see Ms. Roberts.   

Kindergarten        2:30- 3:15 pm

First Grade           1:30-2:30 pm

Second Grade      12:30-1:30 pm

Third Grade          11:00 - 12:00 pm

Fourth Grade       9:30 -10:45 am

Fifth Grade           8:00 -9:15 am

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RTI Reminders

As a grade level, form Tier 2 groups and begin interventions and progress monitoring: Start on October 12^th (two days of intervention, one day of progress monitoring due to the short week.)

Submit a master list of intervention groups to MAdej including students full TAC name, Tier levels, title of intervention, days and times of intervention, progress monitoring tool, and interventionist. You may create a grade level chart or fill out this OneDrive form (one form per group). CLICK HERE

Please complete a Language Checklist in EASY for all Tier 2 and Tier 3 students: Due October 30

Please clear the flags in EASY: Due October 30 (DO NOT BEGIN UNTIL YOU GET THE ALL CLEAR – SYSTEM IS NOT WORKING)

Please complete a Skills Inventory or a Behavior Skills Inventory in EASY for all Tier 3 students: Due October 30

Here is a link to the OneDrive folder that has the forms mentioned.

CLICK HERE

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Report Cards Timeline

We appreciate everyone's help and support with correcting class lists. Due to class list issues, we have pushed back the timeline a week.

Grades and competencies (2-5 only) in TAC should be uploaded by Sunday, October 23rd. The official report cards will be printed on Monday, October 24th. In order to save time and paper, we are only printing the report cards ONCE. There will not be a printed verification sheet; only the official report card. 

Any corrections that need to be made should be made in TAC and on the printed report card and given to Ms. Alexander. Reprints will be placed in your box by Thursday, the 27th. 

All report cards will be sent home in the report card envelopes on Thursday October 27th instead of Thursday, the 20th. Extra envelopes will be available at the front office. 

The peer review process that we have done in the past is still encouraged but not required due to time constraints. Teachers are still responsible for the contents and accuracy of the report cards. All parent concerns or questions will be directed back to the teacher if needed. 

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What I've been thinking about...

Below is a great article about fostering inquiry and curiosity in the classroom. It gives specific ideas; not just the inquiry philosophy. Thank you Ms. Roberts for the article!!! 



http://www.edutopia.org/blog/does-your-classroom-tell-story-stacey-goodman?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

******VISUALS OF BEST PRACTICE*******

Tiffany Churchwell's students describe Harris Tubman using the attributes of the Learner Profile!

*******WRITERS' GALLERY**********

The pledge and writers' gallery will be hosted by Ms. Strafford's class this week.

The pledge and writers' gallery will be hosted by Ms. Johnston's class next week. 

******CALENDAR OF EVENTS*******

Monday, October 10th 
NO SCHOOL - HOLIDAY

Tuesday, October 11th 

Professional Development Day/Conference Day

Wednesday, October 12th

College Spirit Wear!!
2nd Grade In-House Field Trip
2:50 - PBIS Meeting
After School Tutoring Program 

Thursday, October 13th

SIOP Training
1:30 - ETT for Kindergarten
2:50 - PLCs

Friday, October 14th 
7:30 am - PTO Board Meeting

******BIRTHDAYS! ****************

We are sorry we missed Kristin Mayhall's birthday last Friday!!
Happy belated birthday to Jennifer Silverman yesterday!! And a very happy birthday to Kate Johnston on the 12th and Farrahn Evans on the 14th!!  We  hope you all have a wonderful birthday!!!