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The Week Ahead......
Monday October 5th-
Day 6-
Out of Building-Frey (Half Day PM)
Tuesday October 6th-
Day 1-
Faculty Meeting Tasks-Due (Agenda)
Out of Building-Laird (Full Day)
Wednesday October 7th-
Day 2-
Primary Grade K-2 Q & A: VOLUNTARY check-in! @ 8:15-8:30 AM
-Brick & Mortar/Hybrid Topics (i.e. Attendance, Seesaw, etc.)
-Face-to-Face (6ft distanced): LGI
-with Key/Godfrey/Frey & Ogle
Out of Building-Laird (Full Day)
Thursday October 8th-
Day 3-
Intermediate Grade 3-6 Q & A: VOLUNTARY check-in! @ 8:15-8:30 AM
-Brick & Mortar/Hybrid Topics (i.e. Attendance, Seesaw, etc.)
-Face-to-Face (6ft distanced): LGI
-Virtual: https://meet.google.com/esf-bzvy-cts
-with Key/Godfrey/Frey & Ogle
Great Outdoors Day- Jeans allowed
Fire Drill - 9:30 & 10:00 AM
Out of Building-Laird (Full Day)
Friday October 9th-
Day 4-
Differentiated Supervision Action Plan due in PA-ETEP
Student Learning Objectives due in PA-ETEP
Out of Building-Jennings (Full Day), Laird (Full Day), O'Handly (Full Day), Orwig (Full Day)
Pre/Post Assessments:
Reading & Writing:
For the past two years at CV we have used the 2-hour delay to grade Lucy Calkins Assessments (post). Those discussions brought us to a focus for K-2 sentence structures & 3-6 paragraph structures based on the rubric and common elements between grade levels. We examined one line of the Lucy Calkins' writing rubric dealing with conventions.
Any Lucy Calkins pre-assessments for CV should really only look at one line of the rubric for each Lucy Calkins unit, and in addition, match up with a state standard that then aligns with the standards-based report card. Many of you have begun teaching a Lucy Calkins unit. If a pre-assessment prior to Unit 1 was not given, the post-assessment will provide you, as the classroom teacher, a glimpse at what writing or reading elements should be a focus for the next unit and differentiated for each student. Each rubric is different and each unit has a different focus. Yes, the match may not be perfect. However, the post-assessment along with your formative daily check-ins should provide you enough data and information to guide the next unit's instructional focus and what rubric line of focus should be once all the data pieces are put together. It is then that a pre-assessment is given to guide instruction, formative daily check-ins given, through it all provide a clear pathway for each student to exhibit mastery growth in the post-assessment. We don't know where to improve as a teacher or as the student without a look at the data that informs our instruction and learning - overall growth. In addition, with only measuring one line of the rubric that matches your standard of focus, grading time is reduced.
-More to come on October 28th.
Math:
Modules of instruction the district has adopted are aligned with the PA Core and the PDE Curriculum Framework linked HERE. CV began the work of building two units of math instruction aligned specifically with the PA Core standards. Just as noted last year with Troy Strayer, pre-and post-assessment data inform instruction to measure where a student is and how as a teacher, you will guide them - overall growth. Please ensure you are using your hard work with EDM tools, these are still available to you to use. Just as Lucy Calkins will be guiding instruction as outlined above, so should pre-and post-assessments for math.
-More to come on October 28th
Byrnes Dates - Update your Classroom Calendars!
Fall, 2020 Spring, 2021
Grade 3 - Oct 30 Grade 5 - April 13
Grade 2 - Nov 5 Grade 1 - April 14
Grade 4 - Dec 11 Grade 6 - March 16
Materials & ZOOM links and more will be coming next week for fall dates. Spring dates will receive their materials & ZOOM links in January.
Dental Thoughts with Kathi Hunger-Sanders
-Personal Protective Equipment-Link HERE
