April / May / June 2015

Calendar

Monday – Severe Weather/Lockdown drills 10:30

Tuesday – Collaborative Release Half Day – Grades 2 & 4

Wednesday – Staff development: Revising / Creating Grade Level Inquiry Projects

Thursday – Kindergarten Field Trip to the Wildlife Experience 9:15-2:15                    

Friday – Talent Show (Please see daytime schedule below)

             

Reminders

• Please give Christy Schwalick enough notice to complete all end of year projects including copying, laminating and binding.

• FYI, there is a health training at Gold Rush on Tuesday at 7:00 am.  Parking will be limited.

• Please have your students go straight from the weather drill to the lockdown drill.

• Our Junior Achievement date is Friday, May 15^th. Click here for more information on your grade level.

Talent Show Schedule -  May 1^st

9:20-10:20

All 2^nd grade + Gold and Red Schedule:

Marchese, Hawk, A. Lewis, Shepperd, Castro

Lautenbach, Kramer, Wilson, Nolan

10:30-11:30

All 1^st grade + Black and White Schedule:

Brown, Dalcerri, VanderVeen, Meredith, Rayens

Poli, Holtzer, Gray, Cieply

This will take the place of all morning specials. There will be regular afternoon specials from 1:35 on.

EOY PARCC

SPED/RtI, kindie, 3^rd, and 4^th:

All materials to Gold Mine room by Thursday, April 30^th.

Laptops

Power cords

iPad headphones

Power strips

3^rd grade materials will be returned Thursday, May 7^th.

5^th grade will drop off their materials on May 7^th.

All remaining materials will be returned Thursday, May 14^th.

Thank you for your flexibility!

Date Change

EOY PARCC test for 3^rd and 4^th grades will now be May 4^th, 5^th and 6^th. This is a change from May 5^th, 6^th and 7^th.

Happy Birthday

Stacie Martino – May 2^nd

Go For the GOLD

• Thank you Kristi Barta, Tammy Simpson, and Stephanie Braden for being so flexible and proctoring CMAS!

• Thank you Jeannette Shepperd for hosting the CITE 6 meeting.

• Thank you to the CITE 6 committee for providing feedback on the year!

Golden Nuggets

Lounge Duty: Lautenbach/Rayens                        Friday Treats: Kindie/Preschool

Morning Announcements:  Dalcerri

Morning Supervision: M. Lewis, Pearne, Castro, Evans, Gray, Lautenbach

April 2015

Calendar

Monday – CMAS: 5th Grade @ 10:30-12:00 & 4th Grade @ 1:45-3:15

Tuesday – CMAS: 5th Grade @ 10:30-12:00 & 4th Grade @ 1:45-3:15

Wednesday – CITE 6 meeting 8:00 @ Jeannette  Shepperd’s room

            Staff development: Inquiry Book Study

            CMAS: 5th Grade @ 10:30-12:00 & 4th Grade @ 1:45-3:15

Thursday – Libby admin meeting – 8:00.                             

Friday – Conference comp day. No school!

             

Reminders

• Please refrain from being on the internet or streaming music/videos during CMAS testing times.

• Please do not prop any doors open. Our perimeter is to be secure at all times.

• Please remember the norm to finish all recesses by 3:40.

• Our Junior Achievement date is Friday, May 15^th. Click here for more information on your grade level.

CMAS  Schedule:  Monday - Wednesday

5^th grade – 10:30-12:00

4^th grade – 1:45 – 3:15

Please remember to not be on wifi during these times.

EOY PARCC

SPED/RtI, kindie, 3^rd, and 4^th:

All materials to Gold Mine room by Thursday, April 30^th.

Laptops

Power cords

iPad headphones

Power strips

3^rd grade materials will be returned Thursday, May 7^th.

5^th grade will drop off their materials on May 7^th.

All remaining materials will be returned Thursday, May 14^th.

Thank you for your flexibility!

Date Change

EOY PARCC test for 3^rd and 4^th grades will now be May 4^th, 5^th and 6^th. This is a change from May 5^th, 6^th and 7^th.

Happy Birthday

Misti Wilson – April 24^th

Go For the GOLD

• Thank you Gail Golish for an outstanding book fair!

• Thank you leadership team for your feedback and great ideas last week!

• Thank you Karen Petty for a great assembly!

• Thank you Megan for getting the computers ready for CMAS!

Golden Nuggets

Lounge Duty: Hawk/Holtzer                       Friday Treats: No Treats

Morning Announcements:  Hawk

Morning Supervision: M. Lewis, Pearne, Castro, Evans, Gray, Lautenbach

Leadership Team Notes

Draft Schedule for 2015-2016 (see below)
* Gold Rush is one of two feeders participating in a new special education model.  The model will requires we serve all sped students with 1.5 special educators compared to 2.0.  The remaining .5 will go to an assessment specialist.  The need to service many students in the afternoon resulted in the changes to the grade 4 and 5 schedule.

* Changes to third and second grade specials/lunch was due to the fact that we wanted less students in the cafeteria.  Most students eat around noon as full day K and K enrichment also eat at this time.  We changed the 2nd and 3rd grade schedules as there will only be 4 sections of second grade next year.

* We are working on a school recess schedule, the library schedule and the schedule of the "odd man out" schedule in grades 3-5.  Stay tuned!

Class Placement
* We will begin class placement on May 6th.
* RtI and special education students will not be placed in the same class due to the sped schedule.
* Special educators and RtI will work with classroom teachers to preplace students.
* Our goal will be to create balanced classes.  We will place with teachers' names on lists.
* We will indicate students who require additional time on our coding system (X on the top of the
   page).

Beginning of the Year
* We will keep our same beginning of the year schedule as we had this year (Meet Your Teacher, Back to School Night & Assessment Days).  We traded the December work day for an additional day in August.

* Parents will sign up for Meet Your Teacher Day for one of the following five 25 minute slots: 10:00-10:25, 10:30-10:55, 11:00-11:25, 11:30-11:55, 12:00-12:25.  This will allow parents and students time to connect on a more personal level.  We will have a faux staff meeting at 12:30 so we are all able to dismiss for lunch.

* Assessment Days will be held the Thursday and Friday of the second week of school so that students are not tested on day 1. During our assessment days students will be assessed on DRAs, I station math and I station reading.  See information below regarding I station.

August 2015

READ Act Assessments
* After reviewing several assessments for READ Act, Gold Rush will move forward in all grades by implementing the I Station Assessment in reading and math next fall.  This will give us time to play with this assessment before it is required for CITE 6.

* Teachers liked I station because of its quick assessment times (15 minutes), teacher reports, game like feel for students, progress monitoring feature, and instructional elements.  This assessment will replace AIMSweb reading and math.

* Teachers on the leadership team are piloting this assessment now and all students will be assessed in math during technology.  We will show teachers how to access their class reports.


School Goals & Theme for 2015-2016
* We will focus on performance based assessments and teaching to the World Class Outcomes.  We want to ensure that our staff development aligns to CITE needs so teachers are able to advance.

* Teachers expressed an interested in working with cross grade level teams more frequently.

* Our theme next year will be connecting both personally and professionally.

April 2015

Calendar

Monday – Fire Drill – 10:15 & Book Fair

Tuesday – Book Fair

Wednesday –  Staff Development Digging further into Inquiry

                        UP Close and Musical Symphony Spotlight assembly(see schedule below)&Book Fair

Thursday – Jenny admin meeting – 8:30

       Leadership meeting 1:00-4:00 in Stephanie Brown's Room

       3^rd – 5^th grade laptops, power cords, iPad headphones, and power strips to

       Gold Mine room by 9:00 am.        

                   Book Fair & SAC meeting 5:00-6:00

Friday – Severe Weather and Lockdown drill – 10:30, Read In (see info below) & Book Fair

Reminders

• Student council is hosting a Read In on Friday, April 17^th. Students may bring change to wear their PJs to school to support our new school garden.

• If you have not done so already, please sign up for an assessment day in the lounge.

• Our Junior Achievement date is Friday, May 15^th. Click here for more information on your grade level.

Opportunity

If you are interested in having Kelli Minatta (Hanrahan) as a student teacher, please let Jenny or Libby know.

CMAS 

3^rd–5^th: Please turn the following materials to Gold Mine room by Thursday, April 16,^th at 9:00 am.

Laptops

Power cords

iPad headphones

Power strips

All materials will be returned on Thursday, April 23^rd.

Schedule for assembly – Wednesday, April 15th

1:45-2:30 – All second grades plus White schedule Kindergarten, 3^rd, 4^th, and 5^th and Gold schedule 3^rd, 4^th, and 5^th. (Holtzer, Hawk, Gray, A. Lewis, Ceiply, Shepperd, Castro, Graham, Murray-Close, Pearne, Steckler, Woolums, Poli)

2:45-3:30 – All first grades plus Black schedule Kindergarten 3^rd, 4^th, and 5^th, and Red schedule Kindergarten 3^rd, 4^th, and 5^th. (Lautenbach, Dalcerri, Rayens, VanderVeen, Kramer, Wilson, Nolan, Meredith, Cleary, Rossi, M. Lewis, McMillan, Martino.

EOY PARCC

SPED/RtI, kindie, 3^rd, and 4^th: All materials to Gold Mine room by Thursday, April 30^th.

Laptops

Power cords

iPad headphones

Power strips

3^rd grade materials will be returned Thursday, May 7^th.

5^th grade will drop off their materials on May 7^th.

All remaining materials will be returned Thursday, May 14^th.

Thank you for your flexibility!

End of Year Testing Dates - Change

EOY PARCC test for 3^rd and 4^th grades will now be May 4^th, 5^th and 6^th. This is a change from May 5^th, 6^th and 7^th.

4^th grade Social Studies and 5^th Grade Science CMAS testing will be April 20, 21, and 22.

Happy Birthday

Rebekah Geiger – April 16^th

Shannon Wilde – April 17^th

Go For the GOLD

• Congratulations Jenny Brown on completing your doctorate!

• Thank you Stephanie Brown, Jamie Marchese, Karen Warner, Mel Berry, Tammy Simpson & Ashley Gray for your help figuring out the schedule for next year!

• Thank you Jeannette Shepperd for all of the hard work and time you have dedicated to planting the garden!

• Thank you Karen Petty for scheduling the UP Close and Musical Symphony Spotlight assembly! Please see the schedule below.

Golden Nuggets

Lounge Duty:  VanderVeen/Dalcerri   Friday Treats: Office Staff

Morning Announcements:  Holtzer

Morning Supervision: Rossi, McMillan, Nolan, Isberg/Nelson, A. Lewis, Rayens

Welcome Back

I hope you had a wonderful Spring Break!

April 2015

Calendar

Tuesday - Collaborative Scoring Release Half Day - Grades 1 & 3, Self Evaluations due in InspirED

Wednesday – Staff Development: Digging further into Inquiry

Reminders

* Certified Teachers: End of year self evaluations are due in InspirED by Tuesday, April 7th, @ 3PM.

• We will need all  3-5computers (not 1^st or 2^nd grade) brought back to the Gold Mine room by the morning of April 16^th for CMAS testing.

• Our Junior Achievement date is Friday, May 15^th. Click here for more information on your grade level.

• There is a document in your box that teaches students the difference between bullying and normal behavior. Please go over this with your students.

• Please see information below regarding the Parker Personal Financial Literacy cadre

• Please walk your student out of the building at the end of the day!

Date Change

EOY PARCC test for 3^rd and 4^th grades will now be May 4^th, 5^th and 6^th. This is a change from May 5^th, 6^th and 7^th.

4^th grade Social Studies and 5^th Grade Science CMAS testing will be April 20, 21, and 22.

Happy Birthday

Lauren Rayens – April 6^th

Pam Ditus – April 9^th

Ali Cleary – April 10^th

Go For the GOLD

• Thank you Kristi Barta and Charlene Gilbert for the baked potato bar!

• Thank you Janis Panico for training the staff in Workday!

Golden Nuggets

Lounge Duty: A. Lewis/Wilson       Friday Treats: SPED/SPED EAs

Morning Announcements:  Lautenbach

Morning Supervision: Martino, Woolums, Cieply, Hurley, VanderVeen, Holtzer

PFL Cadre

We hope that you all have had a wonderful school year so far.  We are the Parker Personal Financial Literacy (PFL) Cadre.  We are currently working with Great West Financial to implement and enhance PFL across the district.  We are sending this message to you because students from your school have participated in a personal financial literacy survey that we sent to you last fall.  We are now sending this out again as a post survey follow up.  We would like to ask teachers and students to complete the post survey so we can gain more information about the need for PFL in our schools. We have a post survey window from April 6, 2015 - April 17th.  Please click on the link to access the surveys for teachers and students.  

Helpful Links on the Right
* Look to the top left corner under pages for links to 1) the custodial request form and 2) the GRE curriculum site.

Workday is LIVE!

You'll want to login and take a look around.  You can do that by going to http://workday.dcsdk12.org.  Use the browser you like such as Firefox, Safari or Chrome.

You'll use your District userid and password for access.  example: Userid = jjdoe

You will be presented with the screen for our  DCSD Central Authentication Server (CAS).  (see screen shot below)

Remember to LOG OUT of Workday when you are finished using it.  

Later this week you will be asked to fill out a brief questionnaire. Please review this document in preparation for the questionnaire.

Training documents and videos can be found on the Workday at DCSD Google site. Please contact Janis with any questions or support that you need regarding Workday.