January+2010

Leadership Meeting January 6th > >
 * First in Math- Let Mayo know of any students who are no longer at Wells. He will delete them from your class.
 * To motivate students, Mayo will do a “Player of the Week” and “Team of the Week” (see bulletin board beside Reeves’ door)
 * ClassScape- Ms. Paul will add new students to your class list. Make sure you are using ClassScape. Mr. Davis said eventually students will be taking EOG online, not on paper. Students need to know how to use “highlighter” tool.
 * ClassScape- only use Pre-made Assessments. Save the custom assessments for common assessments.
 * Discovery Education-extended United Streaming for rest of the year. Make sure you check out the “Learn 360.com” aspect of Discovery Education. It is great for science; virtual labs/videos, etc. The science labs are interactive. Great resources there. You can burn videos on CDs now instead of deleting them after they have been used.
 * January 20th: Mandatory workday. 9:00 a.m.- PARS training (Ms. Vick) for TA’s in PLC room; Gaggle Training (safe email for all students) for grades 2-5 @ 10:00 a.m.; 1:00 p.m.-All TA’s will need to meet in library to assemble data notebooks (PDSA); Leadership team will meet @ 1:00 p.m.
 * Black History Month- Mr. Tucker would like to know if we would like to have some type of program for Black History Month. Chorus can perform. Meet with grade level to see if everyone is on board and to offer ideas. Tucker will head everything up.
 * Dr. Price wants all Teacher of the Years to bring concerns back from schools- any concerns (nothing petty) that might affect school system overall. Let Tucker know if you have any ideas/concerns. Dr. Price would like to hear positive thoughts as well.
 * Web pages- All teachers need to update their web pages. Some have not been updated since August. Could add pictures, podcasts, projects, etc.
 * Evans wants to do a Career Week for entire school. She wants to bring in guest speakers; have a career dress up day; maybe have college students visit to talk about their goals; etc). Ms. Evans will attend Collaborating Planning (every Thursday) over the next couple of weeks to plan with each grade level. She would like to start this during the week of April 19th.
 * PDSA- falling through the cracks. Some people are using it and others are not. All students in the school will have their own data notebook. Students will graph their own data each week. TA’s are assembling them on January 20th in library. We will be sending a letter home asking parents to send in $2 to help cover costs. Mayo is going to send out the letter on email tomorrow. Print it out and sign your name at the bottom. Mr. Davis will be coming into our rooms to look at data notebooks to make sure we are using PDSA and our kids are progressing. Class Scape is great to use for pre and post tests. Envision Topic Tests are great for Math. Make sure you are meeting as a grade level to come up with the quizzes each week for PDSA. Everything needs to be uniform.
 * Please clean up your data on ClassScape. Make sure you are having your students complete the pre and post tests. Have them completed by next Wed.
 * Book room- Please make sure you are returning books in a timely manner and not losing any along the way. We do not have money to replace any lost books. We are supposed to be sending books home with children to read nightly. Make sure your students bring them back. Mr. Davis is drafting a letter to go home explaining that if these books are lost, they will need to paid for by the parents.
 * Talk with grade level about what to do about bookroom (how to manage it and keep up with books). A suggestion was made to scan the books when they are checked out and when returned. Second grade would like for each grade level to pick a month to clean up the bookroom.
 * Please go down to Ms. Battle’s old room to take the old books that are no longer used in bookroom. Take them and use them in your classroom library.
 * SIP- School Improvement Plan- Reps will meet with grade level to discuss “midyear” section (planning, progressing, or completed)
 * Books on Tape- are available. See Ms. Berry. Mayo is in the process of making more. They are designed for lower level students to check out. For example, a first grader could read a second grade book to challenge them. These books/tapes stay at school.
 * Don’t send students unsupervised to library to take ClassScape quizzes. Ms. Berry said there is no one there to supervise them. They are sharing answers and working collaboratively. Mayo will move some extra computers into both labs.