Hickory Elementary School

Monday, February 3: Art (B Day)

• Dr. Palmer Visit
• SBG PD w/ Katie Lingg

Tuesday, February 4: Music (C Day)

• CFIP

Wednesday, February 5: Art (A Day)

• EL CFIP

Thursday, February 6: Music (B Day)

• Dental Unit

Friday, February 7: Art (C Day)

• IEP Meeting

This morning's Staff/SIT Meeting was a great opportunity to celebrate all of the great things happening at Hickory the first half of the school year, as well as a great opportunity to reflect and re-center our vision of (1) Set a purpose for everything that we do & (2) Always put students at the forefront of every decision. Our next steps that we identified today that will help us reach our targets are:

• Create opportunities to bring in transfer tasks and complex text to build interest from students
• Focused vocabulary instruction within content
• Model effective communication
• Improve tone of decency
• Appropriate use of sarcasm
• Continue integration efforts
• Recognize students effectively communicating
• Trauma Informed Training
• Open communication, positive relationship building amongst staff
• Gotcha Tickets (positive referrals)
• Opportunities for students to be leaders (older/younger peers)
• Activities in the community/inviting parents
• Continuing to model social skills/reactions - role model situations
• Continue to encourage students to be self-aware
• Find opportunities for students to recognize and celebrate others

The exercise that we used today to evaluate our SIT goals will be a consistent process that we will use to analyze students ability to communicate throughout the 2nd half of the school year.

This week, during CFIP we will be analyzing students communicating on the ELA Previ Assessment. Grades PK-2 please plan to bring a set of writing samples in response to reading from students that are not meeting grade level expectations. Grades 3-5, LT's will have ELA Previ written responses pre-printed for you. For access to the CFIP AGENDA CLICK HERE

Reminder, the new master schedule will take effect Monday. Please use the following links for more information regarding encore times, encore rotations, and encore classes:

MASTER SCHEDULE

ENCORE ROTATION

ENCORE CLASSES

Katie will be discussing the new mass comment feature, data analytics in the gradebook and answer transfer questions.

Because we usually have only 1 or 2 people show up, please complete this form (so that she will know who to expect). If fewer than 5 people are signed up to attend, then Katie will just reach out to those individual teachers to answer any questions they may have instead of coming to Hickory that day.

February 5, 2020 Grades must be complete in Gradebook – Transfer Student Marks to the Report Card

• Do not use the REPORT CARD PREVIEW SCREEN /TRANSFER BUTTON after this date

February 6, 2020 Report Card edits may begin

• Review/ edit scores (4, 3, 2, 1) on Report Card
• Finalize comments
• Mark each student report card COMPLETE
• View student Report Cards

February 7, 2020 Principal review of Report Cards

February 10, 2020 Report Cards are posted to StudentVUE and ParentVUE by noon

February 14, 2020 Report Cards distributed to students

As you know, this school year we have been implementing the use of sensory tools with students in order to promote regulation, improve focus, increase participation, and therefore enable students to be more available for learning.

The key to a sensory-informed classroom is that it supports the various sensory needs of the students in a way that allows them to continue learning without having to leave the classroom.

If you are interested in implementing sensory tools in your classroom, please click on THIS LINK! and add your name to the form. This will also include training in how to incorporate them into your daily instruction, routines, and procedures.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CuXu8cLLkeoTNtJhjsExgYFkY4gRfBM0XQj1_v0OQ8Q/edit?usp=sharing

Please have your grade level's portion of the Monthly Newsletter completed for February by Monday, February 3.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6EUuCMQ03V85-GA5_XWAa_2Awh97tzwXsqz0Lk6_9s/edit?usp=sharing

Christa and Todd would like to get a list of students who would want to try out for the 24 Game teams. Christa will be visiting each class for 5-10 minutes to do a quick demo explaining what the 24 Game is and to answer any questions:

4th Grade ---- Thursday, February 6th @ 9:00AM (Alkire) and 9:10AM (Shank)

5th Grade ---- Thursday, February 6th @ 1:45PM (Horton)

Friday, Feb. 7th @ 10:15AM (Horton again)

After Christa visits each class, please collect names of students interested and Christa will pull groups at some point to give them a quick 2 min. fact check. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to Christa, Todd, or myself.

For those signed up for the Google Classroom Reading Conferences book study, please complete a goal setting conference and post your artifacts as soon as possible.

I have released additional pay sheets in the "Hub" for you to complete. For this chapter, you are eligible for 2 hours of additional pay. After you post, your pay will be able to be approved.

REMINDER FROM LAST WEEK'S NOTES & REMINDERS:

Through the 1st month of school, we continue to have great attendance at WCPS District Professional Development. Because of the district's PD relevance to the teaching and learning in our classrooms, any staff member who attends WCPS PD, can receive an ADDITIONAL 2 HOURS of Title I workshop pay.

In order to receive this pay through Title I, you must submit an artifact that you have planned for or implemented instructionally for the Title I Binder. This could be in the form of an action plan, lesson plan, student work, etc.)

You will receive this pay once the artifact is submitted to Josalyn and will be available through the electronic additional pay system.

Please see the list below of content PD for the 2019-2020 school year.

WCPS professional is open for registration on Frontline.

Please see the images below for a detailed schedule for professional development for the 2019-2020 school year.

Hickory Staff Handbook

Instructional Expectations

Operational Expectations