We're going to get together as a group for a couple hours on TUESDAY morning, August 5th from 10:00-12:00, after the all-FUSD welcome-back meeting at COCONINO High School (which is currently slated to run from 8:00-9:00 AM) BEFORE district-level meetings for various staff (which have blocked out 1:00-3:00).
Our meeting shouldn't take too long. If you don't have other meetings (and most of you don't), you can work in your rooms the balance of the day afterward.
Please bring your laptop to our First Faculty Meeting. It will come in super-handy. Together, we will review most of our important stuff online, set a few bookmarks, save a tree or two, and leave it at that.
Of course, please feel free to print these things out (or not), either before or after we meet... If you like. Totally up to you. But in an effort to save expensive paper, invaluable support-staff time, my time (for whatever it's worth), as well as wear-and-tear on our dearly-beloved, oh-so-delicate copier, I will link to them here, and let you use them when/as you see fit.
These documents will always be here. All year long.
Welcoming remarks
Introduction of new staff:
- Ms. Foubert joins the Marshall staff as a new third-grade teacher.
- Ms. Fisk joins the Marshall staff as a new fifth-grade teacher.
Ms. GurleyMs. Marshall joins our staff as the new teacher in our Sensory Communication classroom.- Ms. Hanno joins our staff as an RTI Specialist.
- Ms. Poland joins our staff as an 2-3 SEI teacher
- Joel Axler joins our staff as school psychologist
- Ms. Garner, Ms. Skinner, Ms. Fousel, Ms. Weiss, Ms. Nichols, Ms. Robinson, and Ms. Engelman join our staff as paraprofessionals in a variety of roles. Mr. Almquist will rejoin our staff (after an absence of one year) as a paraprofessional.
Recognition of returning staff with new assignments:
- Mr. Bergs will rejoin our staff as a third and fourth grade multi-age teacher.
- Mr. McAllister will become our technology teacher this year.
- Ms. Perkins will become our new 0.8% Structured English Immersion, English as a second language coach.
- Ms. Ronn will take over our Cross-Categorical Life-skills classroom.
- Marshall floor-plan
- Master Planning Calendar
- Always up-to-date!
- Includes: special events, testing dates, grading periods, conferences, assemblies, etc.
- Key dates
- Back To School Night
- Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014, 5:30-7:00
- Parent-Teacher Conferences
- Oct. 13-15 (prior to Fall Holiday)
- Mar. 11-13 (prior to Spring Break)
- Other dates: Master calendar
- Marshall Specials & RTI Schedule [A] [B]
- Marshall Lunch Schedule (unchanged from 2013-14)
- Teachers, please stay with your classes for 10 minutes
- Mon.-Thurs.
- K-1: 11:35-12:15
- 2-3: 12:05-12:45
- 4-5: 12:35-1:15
- Friday
- K-1: 10:35-11:15
- 2-3: 11:05-11:45
- 4-5: 11:35-12:15
- RTI Reading Schedule (unchanged from 2013-14)
- Monday-Thursday
- Tier 2 (begins week of 15 Sept.)
- 11:25-11:50 2nd & 3rd
- 11:55-12:20 4th & 5th
- 12:25-12:50 K & 1st
- Tier 3 (begins week of 15 Sept.)
- 8:45-9:15
- Morning Math: 8:45-9:15 (unchanged from 2013-14)
- begins week of 11 August
- Monday-Friday
- Preview, Review, Reteach
- Further discussion of strategies, creation of common formative assessments in your CTs
- Faculty Meetings (unchanged from 2013-14)
- 7:45-8:30, third Thursday of the month
- See: Master Calendar
- the third Thursday of each month shall always be reserved for Faculty Meetings
- The Blue Note will confirm if a meeting will occur on reserved Thursdays
- Committee Meetings
- Please email your meeting dates to Coe well in advance
- Sign up for committees below...
- Collaborative Team Meetings
- during your 2-hour specials block each week
- Will begin 11 Aug. 2014
- Professional Development meetings: 1:00-3:00
- See: Master Calendar
- 22 August: Parent Group Data Meetings
- 24 October
- 23 January
- 27 February
- Morning routine (unchanged from 2013-14)
- All classroom teachers will lead students in the following prior to the first lesson of the school day, as required by state statute:
- The Pledge Of Allegiance (you must give students an opportunity to recite the pledge, however you cannot compel them to speak)
- A moment of silence (not to exceed one minute)
- All classroom teachers will use the 8:45-9:15 time-frame for Morning Math or Tier 3 reading interventions
- End of the day routine (unchanged from 2013-14)
- At bus dismissal time, please ensure that students do not leave your classroom until their "flight" is called; students who leave class before their "flight" will be returned to class
- On the first day of school, please make a list of student names and their bus-route numbers
- Send students who are confused about this information to office for confirmation prior to lunch-time on the first day of school
- Send a copy of your list to office; keep a copy for yourself
- K-2 teachers, please arrange with your teammates to have at least one teacher walk-out and wait with walkers/parent-pickup during the first few weeks of school
- Coe's 2014-2015 Calendar
- Always up-to-date!
- 2014-2015 Marshall Staff List
- 2014-2015 Observation Schedule
- 2014-2015 Marshall Class Lists
- in your mailboxes and on the doors on 28 July
- The Marshall School Blog (for our families)
- The Marshall School Facebook page (also for our families, but you can "like" us, too)
- Blue Note blog acknowledgement (a must) each week (unchanged from 2013-14)
- Student Information Packet materials
- pick up in cafeteria now, no later than on 06 Aug after PTO luncheon
- Use checklist to ensure that all forms have been collected
- Free-and-reduced lunch form is essential; PLEASE ask all families to complete
- Marshall Telephone Extensions
- Standards Reports (unchanged from 2013-14)
- The Blue Note "Important Stuff" resources: see sidebar at-left
- Call-off system (unchanged from 2013-14)
- Use the AESOP system to call off
- TPEC Observations (unchanged from 2013-14)
- ALL teaching staff will have two formal observations this year
- Pre-conferences to review TPEC rubric (available under the TPEC Resources tab online) will be held in CT meeting during the week of 15 Sept.
- First will be scheduled by-the-week
- Submit your weekly schedule (not plans) by Friday of week prior to your scheduled observation; I will arrive at a time of my choosing during the week of your scheduled observation.
- If your score on your first evaluation is at least a 3.0, and you have been employed as a certified teacher in FUSD for three or more years, we will determine together whether or not to waive your second observation
- Scheduled observation calendar (Plan ahead; no changes, please)
- Marshall Employee Emergency Contact Info
- Marshall Committees Sign-up
- See: new committees, new task descriptions
- Marshall Workday Sign-out form
- All staff, please use this form whenever you're leaving campus for non-work-related activities (ie: the dentist) during the school day, except during your duty-free lunch period
- CPS Reporting
- Avoid waiting on hold all day by reporting online. Register for an account here.
- Complete report online via this link. (see sidebar also)
- Print and deliver a copy of your report to me within 24 hours.
- If you prefer, you may still call 1-888-SOS-CHILD (1-888-767-2445)
- Our Core Values (unchanged from 2013-14)
- Marshall Teacher AM/PM Duty Schedule
- Sign-up lottery
- 2014-2015 Professional Expectations
- See: handout
- Review and sign; return to me no later than the end of the week
- Health Office procedures (unchanged from 2013-14)
- Workplace Injury Procedures (Workers' Compensation) (unchanged from 2013-14)
- If you get hurt, you must make a report the day you are injured
- Incident Referrals
- For minor Tier 1 behavior management or social interaction concerns, please attempt to resolve within your classroom or domain.
- For Tier 2 level concerns (frustration, refusal to work, minor disputes and/or acts of insubordination), please consult with Ms. Edwards when possible.
- For Tier 3 concerns (fighting, major acts of aggression and/or insubordination), refer the student to the principal's office. Please complete the Incident Referral form (see sidebar also) for all office referrals.
- Emergency Procedures (unchanged from 2013-14)
- Emergency (red) Folder materials
- Red Folder video
- Major incident assignment list (coming soon...)
- Emergency Drill dates (see Coe's Calendar)
- 19 Sept: fire (procedures) (see tab at-top also)
- 24 Oct: lockdown (procedures) (see tab at-top also)
- 21 Nov: fire
- 12 Dec: lockdown
- 23 Jan: fire
- 20 Feb: lockdown
- 27 Mar: fire
- 17 Apr: lockdown
- 15 May: fire
- HQ Attestations
- Coe will deliver the appropriate form to you soon
- Complete, sign, and return the form(s) relevant to your position
- Important Documents
- See Blue Note Blog sidebar
- FUSD Elementary Standards Reports
- FUSD Curriculum Maps
- ADE Common Core Standards
- Parent Group Data Meetings (an "APTT-inspired" approach)
- During CTs in August determine and prepare the following for Open House night on 11 Sept.
- Student data reports and packets for parents on each student
- Topics and materials (.ppt?) for discussion/presentation during ~40-min Group Data Meetings
- Goals to establish with parents for at-home work
- Materials to send home with parents to assist in meeting goals
- Determine if you wish to include the Parent Compact (or wait until Conferences)
- Protected Instructional Time
- Required teaching/intervention blocks built into Master Schedule
- 90-min ELA
- 60-min Math
- Tier 2 reading intervention
- Tier 3 reading intervention
- Library
- Built into Master Schedule
- Opportunity to attend during Weeks A & B
- Pleas notify Travis well in advance if you will not attend
- Wellness
- Built into Master Schedule
- Must attend during Weeks A & B
- Specials: art, music, technology, PE
- Built into Master Schedule
- Specials alternate, 2 each during Weeks A & B (unchanged from 2013-14)
- Magnet programs
- Built into Master Schedule
- Suzuki and Magnet Monday electives are extracurricular (unchanged from 2013-14)
- 301 money (for eligible teaching staff only)
- See: handout
- Important documents, log-sheets, worksheets (see: Blue Note sidebar)
- Two pools of money: Teacher Performance Pay Plan (TPPP; =$1000.00 award max.; pays in June 2015) and Classroom Site Fund (CSF; = 24 hours max.)
- TPPP has two branches within it: a District-wide component and an Individual component
- District-wide component = 25% of award max. based on district letter grade and school letter grade
- Individual component = 75% of award max based on your TPEC evaluation category, student achievement rate, and completion of at least 30 hours of "professional responsibilities" for which logs must be kept.
- CSF activities must be directed at the goal of improving student achievement and must be completed outside the contract day. Activities will be available for sign-up via TrueNorth Logic's TPEC website. Regional, state, and national conferences are not eligible for CSF credit.
- Recess Schedules (unchanged from 2013-14)
- The following are included as part of your mandatory instructional minutes:
- K: one AM & one PM 15-min. recess; one 10-min. PM rest time
- 1-3 one AM & one PM 15-min. recess
- 4-5 one AM or PM 15-min. recess
- Recess times should be indicated in your daily/weekly plans
- Please:
- move and scan while on duty
- No clumping, no texting
- All adults on duty must wear yellow safety vest
- Tax Credit
- Overview/Review
- Your participation in this program is absolutely essential
- Tax Credit Expenditure Request form
- Mandatory:
- $1.00 activity fee (PTO may choose to vote on this issue. If not...)
- A "reasonable effort' must be made to collect the board-established $1.00 activity fee in order to allow us to expend tax credit funds.
- Send-home form (if needed)
- Tax-credit funded activities must be extracurricular and non-graded
- Tax-credit activities should nevertheless have goals that are standards-based
- Title 1
- Projected budget increase for 2014-15 due to current 56.9% FRL eligibility and increase in per pupil allotment: 136.7%
- Program Overview
- Ours is a school-wide program
- we do not have "Title 1 families" and "non-Title 1 families"
- every student at Marshall is a Title 1 student
- we are proud to be a Title 1 school
- Continuous Improvement Plan
- Family Engagement Plan
- The Marshall School Parent Compact
- must be completed no later than end of conferences in Oct.
- Free & Reduced lunch forms!
- with your student-materials in Gym
- encourage ALL families to complete
- Academic Improvement Committee
- Will meet in 2014-2015 to review/revise CIP/FEP/PC
- Sign-up online
Other Stuff From Other Folks
- PBS procedures (Edwards)
- Classroom Management Plan form
- Incident Referral form
- Parent Group Data Meetings (APTT) (Hanno and Grant)
- Student Support Referrals (Hanno, Grant)
- IDM process flowchart
- Data-based decision making intervention process
- Parenting Arizona (Murray)
- Magnet Mondays (Reasor)
- Laboratory & Workshop (Reasor)
- Schedule
- PBS Phase II (PBS Committee)
- Ongoing implemention
