I want to refocus us back on our goal this year of increasing our growth scores for all students. historically, we have done a great job with students in the bottom quartile: our struggling students, and our proficiency levels for ELA and Math are not bad... but the metric that is keeping us from being solidly in the A school range is student growth.

To ensure that ALL students are growing, we need to be intentional about small groups and meeting with ALL students. Success block was designed for small group instruction and for helping to meet the needs of all students. Please make sure you are not overlooking your average to high kids and just assuming they are growing and thriving too.

NWEA results often get our attention of students who are not going to be proficient but we need to drill down into who did not meet their growth target and why. We will be holding growth celebrations near the end of the month, but we need to change what we are doing for those that are not making or not showing their growth.

One of the most challenging things and most rewarding things about teaching is that the kids are all different and they all need something different. It is our job to find the key to maximizing their learning.

I know we can take your success with the Bottom Quartile students and maintain work, while learning how to better push the upper quartiles. These are often students who are ritually compliant but we need to better engage them in the learning. We are sending a team to
Kagan strategies training this weekend in Dallas, and they will be coming back to share their learning in PD on the next two early release students.

I look forward to seeing our team grow in this area!

~Principal Sauer

New Live School PBIS Reward Cart Schedule -

starts this week: LiveSchool Cart Schedule.docx

Monday 1/13:

E Day for Elementary Resource

B Day for Middle School

*Open Enrollment for new families and siblings of current students begins

1st Grade Field Trip

Updated tutoring letters sent home (including 1st grade)

Report Cards Go Home

NWEA Kinder Math (Berman, Acree, Finnegan)

-4th Grade ODM 3:30-6

-Jazz Band 3:15-4:30

-B3 Coding and Drones

-Pro-Martial Arts 3:00-4:00

No Girls Who Code

Basketball Home Game at Hope Christian Academy 6pm

Tuesday 1/14:

A Day for Elementary Resource

A Day for MS Electives

NWEA Kinder Math (Pawlak, Asbacher, Perkins)

PLCs in 203

Honor Roll Ceremony 2nd grade 8:30am, 1st grade 9:30, Kinder 1:45

Tutoring starts back next week

Scoliosis Screening for all 6th graders

- Happy Feet Soccer K-1 ends 3:45, 2nd-4th ends 4:00

- Artists in Motion 3:30-5:30

- K-4 Indian Classical Dance 3:15-4:00

- Brick, Beakers & Bots - Drones & Bots Robotics Club K-5

- Drumline 3:15-4:30

No Girls Who Code

No Indian Dance

No Girls on the Run & Heart & Sole

-Basketball Practice

Wednesday 1/15

B Day for Elementary

B Day for Middle School

NWEA Kinder ELA (Berman, Acree, Finnegan)

PLCs for middle school who didn't have planning Tuesday

Honor Roll Ceremony 3rd grade 8:30am, 4th grade 9:30, 5th 1:45

ODM 3rd & MS 3-6pm

Basketball Home Game at Hope Christian Academy 6:30pm

Thursday,1/16

A Day for MS Electives

Elementary Boosterthon in AM

8:30am - K & 1, 9:45am - 2 & 3, 11:00am - 4 & 5

No Elementary Resources/ No Elementary Common Planning

NWEA Kinder ELA (Pawlak, Asbacher, Perkins)

Honor Roll Ceremony Middle School 1:45pm

Tutoring starts back 1/21

- Playball Club 3:00-4:00

- Artists in Motion 3:30-5:30

-Jazz Band 3:15-4:30

-Basketball Practice

No Girls on the Run and Heart & Sole

Heavy PM sub day...

Friday 1/17:

NWEA testing closes - please make sure all make ups are completed

C Day for Elementary

B Day for Middle School

Happy Birthday to Amy Finnegan

High number of subs, any emergencies and we will need to split classes

Spirit Day - Jeans w/Staff Shirt or logo shirt

Anime Club

Basketball Practice

Note:

Girls on the Run: online registration begins 1/10- program begins on 2/10

Heart & Sole: online registration begins 1/10- program begins on 2/10

Upcoming:

• 1/20 No School

• 1/21 Tutoring starts back grades 1-8

• 1/22 3rd Grade FSA Night 6:00

• 1/22 SAC 8am

• 1/23 MOSH in house field trip for K

• 1/27 & 1/28 Girls Who Code Jan. Start Dates
  

• 1/28 100th day of school K celebration and dress up

• 1/29 Early Release

• 1/30 PTC 8:00am

• 1/31 End of Recommitting Window

• 1/31 DCSS Fundraiser at 'Pump it Up', starts at 6 p.m
  
• 2/5 Muffins in the Morning-K-1st from 8-8:30 a.m
  
• 2/6 Muffins in the Morning- 2nd-5th from 8-8:30 a.m
  
• 2/7 Kick off for Jump Rope for Heart
  

• 2/10 Progress Report Grades Due

• 2/12 Progress Reports Go Home

• 2/14 Jump Rope For Heart Event

January

· Sarah Schuette – 5th

· Jessica Wilkes -10th

· Amy Finnegan -17th

· Kelsey Castaldo – 19th

· Valerie Heldenbrand – 28th

Although scoring right at the CSUSA national average of 23% for strongly agree, "Engagement" was the lowest score that students gave DCSS on the fall survey with an average composite score of 61 out of 100.

Categories were Engagement, Equity, Local Decision Making, Loyalty, Safety, and Social Emotional were the categories. Highest were Safety and Equity. For the lowest score "Engagement" the questions are below:

To learn more about the WHY behind our PD on Kagan Structures... an article to build your understanding. See below

See Mike if you need assistance loggin into the program. If you need further help or leave balances appear incorrect, please utilize the help email address:

The mailbox is: Adpsupport@eduservesolutions.com

Reminders -for full day, mark 8 hours and put 7:30-3:30 (teachers) and 1/2 day is 4.5 and either 7:30-11:30 or 11:30-3:30 - do not leave the times blank or it may put in 8am-8am and charge 24 hours of leave!

Please use the small forms available upstairs and downstairs to fill out a staff shout out to thank a peer for going above and beyond. Notice something amazing, fill one out! Place in the turn in location outside of the Principal's office. Ms. Papke will use these to put in the daily reminders as staff shout outs, and on Friday's we will be doing drawings for prizes from the turned in shout outs!

Positive Referral Online Form

This year’s main fundraiser is the Southside Stingray Obstacle Challenge! It’s a two-week program that kicks off with a Pep Rally on January 7th. Families will then gather pledges for every obstacle your student completes (30-35 obstacles) at the Southside Stingray Obstacle Challenge, which will happen on Thursday, January 16th. This year our goal is to raise $10,000 for technology, musical instruments and athletic equipment, and we need your help! We’ve asked the experts at Booster to power our fundraiser to make it easier, more profitable, and more fun.

Students will also experience an amazing character theme, MINDSPARK: WILD WEST! Booster’s most exciting theme yet combines S.T.E.A.M. skills (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) with character-building. While they're teaming up with the MindSpark Kids to save Dr. Shock, our students will learn five character traits that will help strengthen themselves and our world.

Donations will go toward technology, musical instruments, and athletic equipment and the entire two-week experience. So please help our school by getting pledges from family and friends and entering them on FUNRUN.COM. Also, all families are invited to come out and cheer on our students at the Southside Stingray Obstacle Challenge. Thanks so much for your support!

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