Thanks, all y'all, for your hard work getting ready for and carrying out your team meetings and/or assisting with childcare during Connect To School Night last night. It really was a team effort that was required to pull this thing off, and I was so pleased that each and every one of you rallied and contributed in any way necessary to ensure it went well.
My thanks especially to Paulsen and Ronn for coordinating the most well-organized, safe, and secure on-site childcare arrangement imaginable. Well done!
My own personal impressions during the event, as well as the feedback that many, many parents have deliberately taken the time to share with me since, has all been universally positive. No kidding. Overwhelmingly, universally positive.
Turn-out for most of you was such that most of your classrooms looked quite full, but I have a sense that because many of our parents arrived in pairs, turn-out was probably in the 50% range in actuality, which is far short of our goal of 100% turn-out. That's probably something to work on, should we decide to do this event again in the future.
I'm sure there are other things for us to work on, too, as we move forward.
I'd like to know your thoughts and reactions to Connect To School Night, as we start to process the successes and/or failures of this first-of-its-kind event. Regardless of your assignment or role during Connect To School Night, please take a couple minutes to complete this brief reflection form TODAY. If you feel that, due to your role during Connect To School Night, you cannot answer a question, please leave it blank.
Pre-conferences
I will be in attendance at your CT meetings next week to review the TPEC Rubric as well as many of my expectations for your formal observations/evaluations for this school year. Meantime, it would be a good idea to review the rubric for yourself. It's always available online on TrueNorth Logic under the TPEC Resources tab.
Please remember(s)...
- Morning Math: Please remember, Morning Math from 8:45-9:15 (or shortly before the beginning of your first special) is a mandate, not an option. I appreciate your compliance.
- Math Grouping: Please remember, your weekly schedule has been arranged to provide you and your grade-level cohorts with large blocks of uninterrupted common teaching time. I will appreciate your careful consideration of how your team might best plan to collaborate during these times in order to differentiate instruction to disparate ability groups at your grade-level. Such collaboration is not a mandate at this time... but it's safe to assume it's something I very much hope will occur.
- Standards: Please remember, it's appropriate to have a standard and learning goal posted on your white-board or Promethean for each lesson you are teaching throughout the school day. Likewise, it is ideal if your students are able to articulate this goal to me whenever I stop in.
- Snow-delay Schedules: Please remember, when we start school two-hours late after a snow-delay, our morning rotation of special classes will be canceled entirely. You should begin your day with Morning Math at 10:45 on such mornings and resume your regularly scheduled day 30 minutes later at 11:15.
- Web pages: Please remember, our www.fusd1.org/marshall website is our first-face to much of the outside world. If you have not already done so, please update your classroom/teacher page today. At minimum, your page should feature the following updates:
- correct school year
- correct grade-level or assignment
- correct email address
- correct telephone extension
- correct room number
Fall 2014 conferences will occur on Monday 13 October, Tuesday 14 October, and Wednesday 15 October. On Monday and Tuesday we will release at 12:25. On Wednesday, we will release at 11:10. As we have done before, we will serve sack lunches each of those days. Our Wednesday 15 October lunch schedule will be as follows:
- 9:35-9:55 -- K-1 eat lunch
- 9:55-10:15 -- K-1 on playground
- 10:00-10:20 -- 2-3 eat lunch
- 10:20-10:40 -- 2-3 on playground
- 10:25-10:45 -- 4-5 eat lunch
- 10:45-11:05 -- 4-5 on playground
Anna Hudson has submitted her resignation from our morning Fit Kids position. She has been a part of this program from the beginning and we will miss having her on our staff. Her last day at Marshall will be 24 September. If you are aware of anyone who would like to apply for her position, please send them my way or refer them to the FUSD Human Resources webpage where they may apply. The reference number of the posting is CL001251.
Travis Agnew has agreed to fill in for Anna in the morning as well as during his afternoon shift for a short time while we look for someone to fill this role.
Calendar
Week B
- Monday, 15 Sept.
- Coe at Admin Council, 11:00-4:00
- Tuesday, 16 Sept.
- Science Council in the Lab, 4:00
- Site Council in the Library, 5:00
- Thursday, Sept 18
- Faculty Meeting in the Library, 7:45
- Dr. Garland, Mr. Sauer, and Board-member Kulpinski will attend
- Friday, 19 Sept.
- Mustang Gallop Kick-off assemblies in the Gym, 9:00 (K-2) & 9:30 (3-5)
- Coe at conference in PHX, all day
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