Meadow Hall Staff Newsletter

Welcome Back! We hope everyone had a relaxing and enjoyable break with family and friends. Including a "bonus day" off! We hope everyone has power and didn't have too much of an inconvenience with the outages.

Our next Staff breakfast will be held on Wednesday, November 30th! Thank you to the following staff members for hosting:)

Jessica Souza, Melissa Bryant, Rachel Hellman, Kate Werner, Jenniffer Garcia, Trisha Hummer, LaToya Wellington, Ron Kohler and Lorin Umbel

Linked here are the 4 proposed scenarios for next year's school calendar. Please complete the survey to provide input to the Board of Education regarding which calendar option you prefer. The survey is open from now until November 30th. The superintendent's recommendation will be discussed at the December 6th board meeting.

Here is another way to view the calendar options.

Scaffolding and PM Assessments*NEW

Any student with an IEP, 504, or EL plan must receive the accommodations listed in their respective document for Performance Matters assessments. Here are some general approaches that CANNOT be used for students without a documented plan:

1. Printing PM assessments

2. Copying PM assessment questions onto paper with an answer space for students to complete in advance, then allowing students use that very paper to go into the test and simply enter what's on the paper

3. Working through problems in the platform with students problem by problem

4. Copying the PM questions, changing the numbers in the problem, and then using the test clone for review

UPDATED: Parent Overview - Providing Enriched Learning in Elementary Mathematics

The Parent Overview-Providing Enriched Learning in Elementary Mathematics has been updated to include communication about the report card as well as refinement to the explanation for Tier IV. Translations have been requested. Please use the linked PDF for parent conferences and other communications.

Revised Evidence of Learning Assessments in Grades 1 and 2

Several Evidence of Learning Assessments have been revised for the 2022-2023 school year. Revised assessments are as follows:

• G1 EOM2 (MP2)

• G1 MM4 (MP3)

• G1 MM6 (MP4)

• G2 MM4 (MP2)

Revised assessments are linked in the grade level assessment overviews.

Students who are enrolled for their first marking period in a U.S. school can but are not required to receive the score NEP on their report cards for ELA, Math, Science, and/or Social Studies content areas. Grades should be collected throughout the marking period and the NEP designation should be decided and entered at the end of the marking period.

Please take a look at the committees all MCEA staff signed up for on this document. There is no specific date/time that committees need to meet. Rather, the committee simply needs to complete their event(s) and meet as often as required to make that happen. Please email Desmond and Ilana the requested dates for your committee's event(s) by December 16th. We would like to have things on the calendar and make sure we don't create conflicts with each other or the PTA's events. For events after the school day, we need to reserve through ICB so other organizations don't rent our school at that time. Please appoint one or two people to "lead" the committee, so admin knows who to communicate with regarding the details.

Tuesday, December 6th - next PTA meeting

Update grades this week!

Communicate with your committee to set up potential dates for your events and choose a committee "lead" to communicate with Admin.

Teachers - complete the data reflection questions due Friday, December 2, 2022.

Tuesday, November 29

• Equity PLC @ 3:45

Friday. December 2

• Data Reflection due (teachers)

Tuesday, December 6

• Leadership Team mtg @ 3:45pm
• PTA mtg @ 7pm

Wednesday, December 7

• Early Release Day - 12:55pm

Tuesday, December 13

• Staff mtg @ 3:45pm

Thursday, December 15

• Interims due by 5pm

Friday, December 16

• Committees communicate dates/plans of events to Admin

Tuesday, December 20

• Equity PLC mtg @ 3:45pm

***Winter Break: December 23rd - January 2nd

Email: Ilana_N_Simhon@mcpsmd.org
Website: https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/meadowhalles/
Location: 951 Twinbrook Parkway, Rockville, MD, USA
Phone: 240-740-5260