Peek of the Week

EILAND CORE VALUE OF THE MONTH: VALIANT LEARNERS (continued for December)

Throughout the month of December, please have conversations with your students (community circles is a great time) about what it means to be VALIANT LEARNERS. Before the Christmas Break, we will be asking teachers to nominate students from their classrooms that displayed this Eiland Core Value.

Monday, December 2nd:

-Kinder PLC

-1st PLC

-MOY Running Records window opens

-FINAL DAY to pay and RSVP for Staff Christmas Party with Ms. Octavia. $15 for Sunshine members and $20 for non-Sunshine members and guests. Location: Lupe Tortilla, 22465 TX 249 Tomball Crossing

Tuesday, December 3rd:

-5th PLC

-Morning Announcements on WORKPLACE (online)

-STEAM Express at Eiland

-Traveling Naturalist-Kinder AM

Wednesday, December 4th:

-4th PLC

-Morning announcements over the regular intercom

-STEAM Express at Eiland

-Traveling Naturalist-1st Grade AM

-Eiland Spirit Night at Chick Fil-A! If you mention Eiland Elementary when ordering your meal, a percentage of sales goes to Eiland!

Thursday, December 5th:

-3rd PLC

-Morning announcements over the regular intercom

-Nutrition Class for Parent University

-STEAM Express at Eiland

-Traveling Naturalist-2nd Grade AM

-5th Grade Math CCA

-Eiland Faculty and Staff Christmas Party at Lupe Tortilla at 6-8pm

Friday, December 6th:

-2nd PLC

-Morning Announcements on WORKPLACE (online)

-KFHS Orchestra Holiday Performance for All Eiland at 9:30am in GYM

If you keep the POTW pulled up on your phone and/or computer, please occasionally REFRESH the page (in case updates are made to the POTW).

-PARENT CONFERENCES (Title I Requirement): Please refer to email sent (verbiage here) sent on 9/29. Please use this link to access the Google Sheet to document your conference dates with parents. These conversations must be documented and completed by December 13th.

-TUTORING and AFTER SCHOOL CLUBS: Tutoring has started (the week of 9/30). Days for after school tutoring will be on Tuesday and Thursdays. The day for after school club meetings will be on Mondays. Please remember that all tutoring must have a properly completed time sheet, lesson plans and student signatures. For all After School Club ideas/proposals, please contact admin. Please use this Google Sheet to track of students and teachers participating in tutoring.

-Do you need support with using technology in your lessons? Meaghan O'Hara is available every other Monday to help you use Schoology, SeeSaw, Flipgrid and other digital learning platforms with your students. She will be in the PLC Room ready to help! You can also make an appointment to meet with her (mohara1@kleinisd.net).

-Lesson Plans: Please ensure that all lesson plans are completed by Thursday night and uploaded into your Google Team Drives. Teacher and Co-Teachers, please ensure that you are communicating exactly how your time together in the classroom will be used to work with students.

-Student Supervision: Please ensure that all students are supervised at all times. Remember, our goal is to be proactive rather than reactive in preventing situations where students could potentially be unsafe and/or involved in a preventable incident.

-New Students that are BUS RIDERS: If you receive a NEW student that rides the bus, please ensure to give the bus driver the NEW BUS RIDER slip that you receive from Mrs. Lemus on the FIRST DAY. This is important in ensuring that our new students arrive home safely on their first day.

-Daily Sign-In: Use this link to sign-in when arriving on campus and to sign-out when leaving campus in the afternoon: https://csi/CSI/SignIn/Main.aspx

At PLCs this week, please ensure to:

-Please keep "Good Things" between 3-4 minutes maximum

-Please ensure that your team has a prepared PLC Agenda prior to your PLC day

-Moving forward, please add 10 minutes to each PLC agenda to enter RTI progress monitoring data. Please bring your documentation (running records, etc.) in order to ensure that the RTI Google Sheet is current. As you enter student data, we can have quick discussions on moving students.

-FOR THIS WEEK: Please come prepared to discuss the article that I shared a couple of weeks ago. Please come ready to share 3 "Aha's" and 1 action item from the article that you will embed into your practice.

KID TALK this week:

Please use this link to submit the names of students that you would like to discuss. Kid Talk is an opportunity to be "solution-oriented " as we discuss students that are struggling academically/behaviorally in spite of support. In order for these conversations to move along smoothly, please be prepared to discuss student data, specific interventions attempted and specific areas of concern. We will set a timer and discuss each student for 3 minutes.

Example conversation:

"Johnny is currently reading at a level F. He is reading at this level at 97% accuracy but struggles with multi-syllabic words and comprehension. He is currently in RTI and we are using LLI as a support during this time"

Non-example conversation:

"Johnny is low. He struggles with reading"

Example conversation:

"Johnny struggles with staying in his seat and following directions. We have called/met with his parent to discuss our concerns. We have a visual schedule for him in the classroom to support him with knowing what he should should be doing during the day".

Non-example conversation:

"Johnny is not well behaved. He is always getting into trouble"

REMINDER:

-If your agenda has unfilled time, please focus your team's attention on ensuring that your upcoming lessons (Tier I instruction) is crystal clear for you, your team and your students. This addresses the first question of PLC: What must students learn?

Ideas and questions to consider:

• Are you crystal clear on what the focus of each lesson will be?
• Are you crystal clear on how to teach it? (Delivery, hook, presentation, questions, sentence stems, new vocabulary, content/language objectives, student groups, etc)
• Are you crystal clear on how the students will demonstrate their learning?
• Taking time to model lessons for one another is an excellent way to sharpen one another's skills. This "acting out" of upcoming lessons helps us practice our teaching in front of our teammates and they can provide useful feedback.
• What materials do you and your students need? What do you need to prepare prior to the week's lessons to ensure that instructional time is maximized and "dead time" (slow transitions from one activity to the next) " is minimized?

Long Range Planning Week. We want to be crystal clear on what we are doing when we return in January! :)

Also, this week Mrs. Scheller is completing the "Hour of Code" with homerooms according to the sign-up sheet.

Monday, December 9th:

-Kinder PLC

-1st PLC

-Meaghan O'Hara (Digital Specialist) on campus to support Eiland Staff with digital learning

-Long Range Planning: 3rd Reading AM

Tuesday, December 10th:

-5th PLC

-Morning Announcements on WORKPLACE (online)

-Long Range Planning: Kinder Math AM

-Long Range Planning: 5th Math AM

-Long Range Planning: 4th Reading PM

-3rd Grade Math Learning Assessment shutdown

-4th Grade MAP Math

Wednesday, December 11th:

-4th PLC

-Morning announcements over the regular intercom

-Long Range Planning: 2nd Reading PM

-4th Grade Math Learning Assessment shutdown

-5th Grade MAP Reading

-KFHS Band Holiday Tour for All Eiland at 1:30pm in Gym

-Action Teams meeting after school, 3:50pm-4:50pm

Thursday, December 12th:

-3rd PLC

-Morning announcements over the regular intercom

-Long Range Planning: 4th Math AM

-Long Range Planning: 1st Reading PM

-4th Grade MAP Reading

Friday, December 13th:

-2nd PLC

-Morning Announcements on WORKPLACE (online)

-2nd Grade Math Learning Assessment

-Fat Friday

-Reminder: This year, we will continue to use Wednesday afternoons as our designated time for faculty meetings and/or professional development. Not every Wednesday will be used to meet but we will communicate the dates ahead of time.

-Conversations around student data at PLCs after Learning Assessments/CCAs have been targeted and focused on student learning. We are analyzing the data and using it to drive our instruction!

-Ms. Freeman (our cafeteria manager) and her team did a phenomenal job of serving hundreds of meals to our Eiland students, staff and families!

-Our teams of co-teachers, specialists and front office staff were instrumental in having our Thanksgiving Feast run as smoothly as possible!

-Coach Waldo spotted and walked our "guest intruder" to the front office when he noticed that she was in the building without a proper badge/visitor sticker! Safety first!

-We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving Break!

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