April 2015
Calendar
Monday – CMAS: 5th Grade @ 10:30-12:00 & 4th Grade @ 1:45-3:15
Tuesday –
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
15th. Click here for more information on your
grade level.
CMAS Schedule:
Monday - Wednesday
5th
grade – 10:30-12:00
4th
grade – 1:45 – 3:15
Please remember to not be on wifi during these times.
EOY PARCC
SPED/RtI,
kindie, 3rd, and 4th:
All
materials to Gold Mine room by Thursday, April 30th.
Laptops
Power
cords
iPad
headphones
Power
strips
3rd
grade materials will be returned Thursday, May 7th.
5th
grade will drop off their materials on May 7th.
All
remaining materials will be returned Thursday, May 14th.
Thank
you for your flexibility!
Date Change
EOY PARCC test for 3rd and 4th grades will now
be May 4th, 5th and 6th. This is a change from
May 5th, 6th and 7th.
Happy Birthday
Misti Wilson – April 24th
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.
