Way to represent Gold Rush at MuckFest!

September

This Week
Monday
* 11:20-1:30 Flu shots in the Gold Mine room

Tuesdsay
* 7:30 Leadership Team meeting
* Teacher Lab Visits - Primary

Wednesday
* SD: On your own

Thursday
* Digger Dash - see info below
* Jenny admin meeting

Friday
* PLC day - Click here for the agenda

Reminders
* Click here for how to edit READ plans, including where to enter progress monitoring data, parent communication and how to print the report. See Libby if you need help.

* Please make sure your blogs are updated. Our norm is to update these monthly and blogs should include upcoming content and tips for parents at home.

* New teacher lab visits for primary will be on Tuesday. Click here for the schedule. Libby will cover your class when needed.

* If you have any conferences that you would like Jenny or Libby to attend, please let them know.

* Our official student count day is September 25th. Please make sure your attendance is accurate on this day.

Digger Dash
* Instead of spending $1,000 on paper cups, we are asking students to bring their clearly labeled water bottles. Please put the bottles in your buckets and bring them down to stretching. Volunteers will set up the water bottles on tables so students can easily find them. Please communicate this to your families.

* Bring your digger dash banner down to the conference room by Wednesday at noon.
Stickers to track students' laps will be in your box on Wednesday. Please put these on their sleeves Thursday morning before you bring your class down to stretching.

* Schedule
8:45-9:00      Stretching (Preschool & Kindergarten)
9:00-9:15      Race (Preschool & Kindergarten)
9:10-9:25      Stretching (1st & 2nd grades)
9:25-9:55      Race (1st & 2nd grades)
9:50-10:00    Stretching (3rd & 4th grades)
10:00-10:45  Race (3rd & 4th grades)
10:40-10:50  Stretching (5th grade)
10:50-11:35  Race (5th grade)

Happy Birthday
Tobey Vogt - September 20th

Go For the Gold
* Thank you Ashley Peterson and Megan Wallace for administering the i-Ready probe.
* Thank you for coming prepared for your READ plan session. The thought you are putting into meeting your students' needs is appreciated!
* Thank you Kelly Broecker, Jenn Poli, and Ashley Dalcerri for taking a risk and sharing your expertise!
* Thank you Tammy Simpson, Krista Hardin, and Justin Brakefield for helping with Cogat!

Golden Nuggets
Morning Announcements: Leuschner
Lounge Duty: Miller/Reeves

Congratulations Karen Petty on the arrival of your new grand baby!

Harlow Reign Donovan

Born Wednesday, September 5, 2018 at 10:31p.m.

7 lbs 5oz

SEPTEMBER 2018

This Week
Monday
* Read Plans
* 9:00-10:00 3rd grade Cogat
*11:00-12:00 5th grade Cogat

Tuesday
* New Teacher Teacher Lab Visits - Intermediate

Wednesday
* 9:00-10:00 3rd grade Cogat
* 11:00-12:00 5th grade Cogat

Thursday
* 3rd grade plan day

Friday
* 9:00-10:00 3rd grade Cogat
* 11:00-12:00 5th grade Cogat

Reminders:
* Click here for the READ Act schedule for Monday.  Please come with your yellow READ act planning doc and your charged computer.  Click here for the power point presentation and click here for growth and stretch goals. Please come prepared and on time as the schedule is very tight.

* New teacher lab visits will be on Tuesday. Click here for the schedule. Libby will cover your class when needed.

* On a delayed dismissal please do not release students to siblings that are younger than18 years old.

* Click here for the RtI paperwork. Click here for an example.

* Please make sure all reading data has been entered into IC. Please share your reading data sheets with Jenny, Libby and Kristi if you have not done this yet.

* Please remember staff areas, including the lounge and staff bathrooms, are for staff only.

5th Grade Technology CoTeaching

3-2-1 LUCY! Fifth graders blasted off with Lucy this week by creating personal reading goals. To communicate their goals, students created an infographic using Piktochart and explained their infographic by recording their voice in Screencastify.

Each Infographic communicated:
* Specific reading goal
* How the reading goal will help them be a better reader?
* The four action steps they will take to accomplish their goal.
* Evaluating if they completed the goal and what they will do next.

Projects were then published in Google Classroom so students could hear other reading goals and action plans.

Please take a minute to listen to student chosen examples.

Student Sample #1

Student Sample #2

Go For the Gold
* Thank you for your thoughtful participation during our staff meeting.

Golden Nuggets
Morning Announcements: Dalcerri
Lounge Duty: Zankey/Martino

September

This Week
Monday
No school!

Tuesday
* 7:30 Leadership team meeting in the Gold Mine room
* 3rd grade to Plains Conservation Center

Wednesday
* 7:30 Staff meeting in the Gold Mine room

Thursday
* 4th grade plan day
* Jenny admin meeting

Friday
* Mandatory trainings due by today!
* 12:00-3:30 Jenny feeder meeting

Reminders
* Please make sure you have signed up for your goal setting meeting. Please come to the meeting with an idea of a personal goal and ways we can support you. Please also bring your students' hard copies of their DRA/F & P assessments. 

* Please make sure you have shared your reading data sheets.

* Please bring your computer to the staff meeting on Wednesday. 

Happy Birthday
Rochelle Evans - September 3rd
Megan Fleet - September 4th
Jamie Marchese - September 7th

Mandatory Trainings

All DCSD staff are required to complete 6 online mandatory trainings. Please register for the trainings using your DCSD district username and password. If you do not know your single sign on, please contact IT Support at 303-387-0001. All 6 mandatory trainings segments are built into 1 online session.

Search InspirED for the Online Mandatory Training specific to your school or district department using the picture link (sample image below) located in the right navigation pane.

Please scroll to find your site location.*If you work at multiple locations, select the location where you will be evaluated. The 2018-2019 Mandatory Trainings will be open for completion starting July 1, 2018 and are to be completed by September 7, 2018.

Go For the Gold
* Thank you everyone for a great assessment day! We appreciate your flexibility with only having one day.
* Thank you Tobey for setting up for all the events this week.
* Thank you Kylee and Ashley for facilitating the student council assembly!

Golden Nuggets
Morning Announcements: Broecker
Lounge Duty: Padrnos/Mancini

Thank you for being great sports!

August

September

This Week
Monday
Tuesday
* Assessment Day

Wednesday
SD: Team time

Thursday
* Libby admin meeting
* 5th grade plan day

Friday

Reminders
* Please remember to take your picture on Tuesday.

* Please make sure all students have completed the I-Ready Reading assessment.

* Fall parent/teacher conferences are September 27th and October 4th.

Assessment Day
Click here for the assessment day schedule.
Libby will put your most current class schedule in your box on Monday.

Day Of Logistics

·   You will administer DRA/F&P in your individual classrooms.

·   Greeters will deliver your students to your classroom every hour.

·   Students will be escorted back to the gym by one of the greeters where they will meet their parents and take their

   Picture.

·   Please keep the group of students for the entire hour.

·   Note students that did not finish any of the assessments so you can complete them at a later

   date.

·   Take your picture (7:30-8:15 or at lunch)

Get Ready

·   Get enough DRA/F&P student response sheets for the entire day.

·  See Kristi if you need additional copies of F & P books.

·   Read with your kids and look at articulation data to determine an approximate starting level.

·   Plan to read with your kid for the full 20 minutes or complete a reading interest inventory.

·   Plan to have students with you the full assessment hour.

·   Be ready to start right at 8:30 AM.

·   RELAX! Enjoy the time with your kids! Remember no lesson plans!

DRA Administration Norms

·    Always find the student’s Highest Independent level

·    Enter data into IC by TBD

Administer F&P for 3rd graders DRA 38 or above.

Administer DRA for 4th graders who are 34 or below.

Administer DRA for 5th graders who are below DRA 38.

What if students do not pass the fluency part of the DRA? STOP! Do not go onto the next level.

Can I scribe the written part of the DRA? NO! Unless they have a writing goal on an IEP

When do I stop going to the next level? STOP when a student falls in the grey area on any part of the DRA.

Mandatory Trainings

All DCSD staff are required to complete 6 online mandatory trainings. Please register for the trainings using your DCSD district username and password. If you do not know your single sign on, please contact IT Support at 303-387-0001. All 6 mandatory trainings segments are built into 1 online session.

Search InspirED for the Online Mandatory Training specific to your school or district department using the picture link (sample image below) located in the right navigation pane.

Please scroll to find your site location.*If you work at multiple locations, select the location where you will be evaluated. The 2018-2019 Mandatory Trainings will be open for completion starting July 1, 2018 and are to be completed by September 7, 2018.

Happy Birthday
Michelle Anderson - August 30th
Shannon Terry - August 30th

Go For the Gold
* Thank you Karen Warner, Karen Petty, Kerry Dazzio, Megan Fleet, and Cindy Bell for giving up your specials' time to accommodate the band/orchestra assembly!
* Thank you Karen Warner for being flexible with your space!
* Thank you Fat Friday team for the amazing BBQ lunch!
* Thank you everyone for participating in our Digger Dash assembly!

Golden Nuggets
Morning Announcements: Lautenbach
Lounge Duty: Brown/Marchese

August 2018

This Week:
Monday
* 8:00-8:15 Optional I READY Refresher (printing log in, accessing student power point, teacher log in)

Tuesday
* 7:30 Leadership Team Mtg. in the Library
* 8:00 Student Council informational meeting in the Gold Mine room

Wednesday
* Staff Development - On Your Own: Plan for Assessment Day (see Plans below)

Thursday
* Band/orchestra demo performance - 5th grade @ 9:00 - 4th grade @ 9:50 in the gym
* Jenny admin meeting

Friday
* Digger Dash Assembly- Break our school norms and wear yoga pants!  Work out gear is ok!
2:30-2:50 Grades K-2
3:00-3:20 Grades 3-5
* 5:00 Western Night

Reminders
* PTO is providing classroom teachers with $100 for classroom supplies.  Please submit a clean receipt (a receipt with classroom items only) by August 30th.

* Western Night:  If parents send Pony Poop Round Up Forms in for Western Night please put them in the PTO Mailbox.  

* Please make sure that you are demonstrating active supervision during second recess times and following lunch recess norms.

* Please be at the cafeteria at your scheduled lunch time. Students do not have enough time to eat if you are late.

* Please have students pick up lunch tubs right after recess.

* Please sign up for Fat Friday in the lounge.

* This is the last week the books will be in the lounge. Get them while you can!

* Click here for Delayed Dismissal Procedures.  We have delayed dismissal usually due to lightning within 6 miles.

Getting Reading for I READY

The I READY testing window for grades 1-5 begins Monday and goes through Friday, August 24.  Just a reminder that you are doing one session of math and then two of reading.  If you haven't had students log into their devices already please do this asap and let Megan Fleet know if any devices aren't working.  

We also learned that Red flags that designate student rushing show after the test is completed.  You will need to actively proctor the test and restart it prior to the red flag showing.  A yellow flag notes that a child is rushing, but got the correct answer. 

We will hold an optional I READY refresher on Monday at 8:00 in the Gold Mine Room if you need help printing cards, accessing the student power point, monitoring students who are rushing (i.e. red flags) etc.

Getting Ready for Assessment Day

• Day Of Logistics
  ·   You will administer DRA/F&P in your individual classrooms.
  ·   Greeters will deliver your students to your classroom every hour.
  ·   Students will be escorted back to the gym by one of the greeters where they will meet their parents and take their
     Picture.
  ·   Please keep the group of students for the entire hour.
  ·   Note students that did not finish any of the assessments so you can complete them at a later
     date.
  ·   Take your picture (7:30-8:15 or at lunch)
  
  
  Get Ready
  ·   Get enough DRA/F&P student response sheets for the entire day.
  ·  See Kristi if you need additional copies of F & P books.
  ·   Read with your kids and look at articulation data to determine an approximate starting level.
  ·   Plan to read with your kid for the full 20 minutes or complete a reading interest inventory.
  ·   Plan to have students with you the full assessment hour.
  ·   Be ready to start right at 8:30 AM.
  ·   RELAX! Enjoy the time with your kids! Remember no lesson plans!
  
  
  DRA Administration Norms
  
  
  ·    Always find the student’s Highest Independent level
  ·    Enter data into IC by TBD
  Administer F&P for 3rd graders DRA 38 or above.
  Administer DRA for 4th & 5th graders who are 38 or below.
  What if students do not pass the fluency part of the DRA? STOP! Do not go onto the next level.
  Can I scribe the written part of the DRA? NO! Unless they have a writing goal on an IEP
  When do I stop going to the next level? STOP when a student falls in the grey area on any part of the DRA.

Student Council

The informational meeting is next Tuesday, August 21st at 8:00 am in the Gold Mine Room. Students in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade are invited to attend. There will be a flyer about the informational meeting that will go out in the electronic Thursday folders. If students are not able to attend next week but are interested in Student Council, please send them to Ashley Dalcerri or Kylee Lautenbach for an application.

Important Dates for Student Council:

Friday, August 31st (2:00 PM)- Officer Elections (only 4th and 5th graders)

Monday, September 10th- Friday, September 14th- Class Representative Elections (run by classroom teachers)

Tuesday, September 18th (7:45 AM)- First Student Council meeting

More information will be coming your way regarding elections. Please let Ashley or Kylee know if you have any questions, comments, or concerns.

Opportunity

Staff Wellness is looking forward to continuing wellness options and challenges for our staff that assist in creating a healthy culture at our school. 

If you are interested in being GRE's Wellness Champ, please let Libby know.

Mandatory Trainings

All DCSD staff are required to complete 6 online mandatory trainings. Please register for the trainings using your DCSD district username and password. If you do not know your single sign on, please contact IT Support at 303-387-0001. All 6 mandatory trainings segments are built into 1 online session.

Search InspirED for the Online Mandatory Training specific to your school or district department using the picture link (sample image below) located in the right navigation pane.

Please scroll to find your site location.*If you work at multiple locations, select the location where you will be evaluated. The 2018-2019 Mandatory Trainings will be open for completion starting July 1, 2018 and are to be completed by September 7, 2018.

Happy Birthday
Kristen Leuschner - August 18th

Go For the Gold
* Thank you Ashley Dalcerri and Kylee Lautenbach for running student council!
* Thank you teachers for being so willing to have lunch with students!
* Thank you Mel Berry for covering a class last week!

Golden Nuggets
Morning Announcements: Leuschner
Lounge Duty: Leuschner/Lautenbach

August 2018

This Week
Monday

Tuesday
* 7:30 Leadership team meeting in the Gold Mine room

Wednesday
* SD: Prepare for Back-to-School night
* 5:45-7:15 Back-to-School night

Thursday

Friday

Reminders
* Please make sure your lunch tubs are clearly marked.

* If you need to take either an initial or refresher CPI course, click here for the calendar of course offerings.

Revised Supervision schedule

Second recess norms
Please review the recess norms used during lunch time.  These norms should be implemented during second recess as well.

Back to School Night

Jenny will kick off Back to School night from 5:45-6:00 in the gym.  She will share school celebrations, upcoming goals and tips for helping at home. The first teacher session will be from 6:05-6:35 PM & the second session from 6:40-7:10.

I-Ready
Login Cards
You are able to print your I Ready log in cards now.  Students' log in is their birthdate (not their lunch number).  Here is a recap on how to access them:

1) access the site using login.iready.com or the GRE webiste
2) click the management tab on the top and select classes


3) Under the manage tab on the top left of the screen select either your reading or math class
4) Under actions of the top right of the screen select login cards

Student Powerpoint
You can also access the student presentation from your main screen (see below).  It will download via powerpoint.  You need to click the slideshow at the bottom of your window.






Testing Logistics 
Student Log In

• Students can access the log in page using our GRE website
• An I READY app has been installed on ipads and chrome books
• An I READY bookmark has been installed on laptops 
• * Install the upadate on all ipads 2 days before testing
• Approximate Time
• 45 minutes Grades 2-5
• 20-30 Grades K & 1
• Schedule at least 2 sessions for Reading and Math (4 total)
• End point is clear & brain breaks are built in
• Show video introductions for students
• Administration
• Grades 1-5: August 20 - 29  READING & MATH
• 1 session of math first
• Can Use Assessment Day for MATH Only
• K: September 17 - 28
• Watch for Red Flags & Restart - You can only restart reading during the testing sessions

Opportunities
* If you are interested in serving on any of our committees, please fill out this Google Form. Committees include social media committee, data team, tech, RtI, teacher rep for SAC. 

Mandatory Trainings

All DCSD staff are required to complete 6 online mandatory trainings. Please register for the trainings using your DCSD district username and password. If you do not know your single sign on, please contact IT Support at 303-387-0001. All 6 mandatory trainings segments are built into 1 online session.

Search InspirED for the Online Mandatory Training specific to your school or district department using the picture link (sample image below) located in the right navigation pane.

Please scroll to find your site location.*If you work at multiple locations, select the location where you will be evaluated. The 2018-2019 Mandatory Trainings will be open for completion starting July 1, 2018 and are to be completed by September 7, 2018.

Happy Birthday
Bree Roon - August 16th

Go For the Gold
* Thank you Anita and Megan Fleet for helping prepare for Legend Feeder kick off!
* Thank you Karen Petty for our opening flag ceremony!
* Thank you Christy Schwalick, Amy Fugier and Katie Timm for facilitating opening aide meetings.
* Thank you Anita Rudman for setting up Tears & Cheers!
* Thank you Tobey for setting up the flag ceremony and having our building ready for kids!
* Thank you everyone for a fabulous start to our school year!

Golden Nuggets
Morning Announcements: Dalcerri
Lounge Duty: Broecker/Dalcerri