Wildcat Staff

"CULTURIZE: Every student, every day, whatever it takes." ~ Jimmy Casas

1. Thank you Melissa for presenting visual journals. I have put this in our Wildcat Staff folder for you to review. If you would like comp books to start this project please see Linda.
2. Thank you to our PTO for providing lunch for us on Friday!
3. Stacy and our Amazing Show Choir students will be performing at the Padres game again! September 17. Please see the email I sent to fill out the form. The money is due tomorrow.
4. Keep posted for more events.
5. We are finished with schedule changes.
6. You all are so amazing and thank you! We will be walking through classrooms to offer an assistance and support to you and our Wildcats!

Please upload one of your first day pictures from school with a favorite memory from your first day or a memorable experience from a school day. Please include why it was so memorable. I will print the picture and story to hang up in our staff lounge. It can be from any grade! I can't wait to see them all!

I have created a MONTHLY STAFF FUN folder. In that folder I have created a folder for first day pictures. Please upload and name it with your name.

Upload them here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1C8345gjGB9qNVQxx292VMyqn8U9JKQbQ?usp=drive_link

Please save this as a bookmark. This drive is where all the collaboration documents, list of teachers, meeting topics, and advisory information is accessed.

CLICK HERE: 24-25 Wildcat Drive

CLICK HERE: 24-25 ADVISORY FOLDER IN THE WILDCAT DRIVE

CLICK HERE: 24-25 ADVISORY SOCIAL SKILLS SCHEDULE

THIS WEEK

1. NO SCHOOL ON MONDAY: September 2, 2024 to observe Labor Day.5.

2. Cross-country Wednesday and Thursday: Practice starts 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm

6. Cross-country practice: Friday 6:15 am- 7:30 am

5. Early Release Day every Friday. School is out at 1:15 pm.

UPCOMING:

1. Back to School Night: September 5 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm.

2. Make-up picture day: September 13.

3. Sullivan Show Choir sings at the Padre game: September 17

4. Sullivan Show Choir sings at the Board Meeting on September 18.

4. First LUNCH ON THE LAWN: September 20.

Please make sure this is posted everyday and the students are writing this in their planners.

A Simple Way to Remember:

• Learning Intention (Target) = What is it that I want you to learn? (I CAN STATEMNTS)

Success Criteria = Things that you can observe. What will you use as concrete evidence of learning?

Last year, the Leadership Team decided on a common language when we are presenting and holding our students accountable for understanding the knowledge and ultimately demonstrating the knowledge learned.

IF students know what is expected of them at the end of each lesson and it is clear how you expect them to learn it, THEN we should see academic success and content knowledge increase.

We have decided on using the language of: Please use these words and format.

POST YOUR :

Learning Target or Target: This is what we want students to know and what they are academically aiming for during each lesson.

Success Criteria or Tool or Activity: This is how the students will obtain the knowledge or the LEARNING TARGET.

Goal or "I got it...": This is how the students will monitor themselves so they can take ownership of their knowledge.

Learning Target: I can write a linear equation using the form y=mx+b

Success Criteria: I can identify the slope from a table, graph, or situation ! I can identify the y-intercept from a table, graph or situation ! I can identify the x- and y- coordinates of a point when given a table, graph or equation.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F9y5fe4mYlPjf1iiI1kjGesyUStbr-Us/view?ts=66bcea82

Like last year, we will start on time at 1:40 in Room 9 (Mrs. Foxley) and end at 3:10 every Friday. It is important that we have everyone participate and collaborate with one another. If there is an emergency and a Friday collaboration is missed please set up a meeting time with me the following Monday to review what you missed.

Here is the link to the dates of all the collaboration meetings this year!

CLICK HERE.

We have 4 types of meetings this year:

1. Department Data Teams

2. Achievement Teams (grade level)

3. Professional Development

4. Staff Meeting

This year, again, we will begin all of our meetings in ROOM 9, Mrs. Foxley's room to sign in and share some shout-outs!

1. Department Data Team meetings: These will be in the department leads room.

The objective of the meeting:

• Review data from common formative assessments
• Discuss and make discussions based on:

• What do we want students to learn? (essential standards)

• How will we know if they have learned? (team-developed common assessments)

• What will we do if they don’t learn? (systematic interventions)

• What will we do if they already know it? (extended learning)

2. Achievement Team Meetings (Grade Level): We will stay in room 10 and break off into grade levels.

The objective of the meeting:

• Focus on the Academic and behavioral needs of the student.

• Review Communication with families

• Review communication with the student, and is there a trusted adult?

• All team members advocate for each student.

• Events, Field trips, collaborative projects

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Coach A = 8th grade team

Mrs. Pecore = 7th grade team

Mrs. Ledri = 6th grade team

Coach Grippo = 7th grade team

3. Professional Development Meeting:

We may have guest speakers, Sullivan Teachers, and/ or Administration give professional development to our staff. If you have an idea or would like to have extra training please let me know as I am open and willing to offer outside training or bring it to Sullivan! I am supportive of what you need to help our students achieve!

4. Staff meeting:

Like last year, we will focus on site-specific information such as testing, site scores, survey results, safety, ect.

This year our advisory is in the morning and will be 18 minutes long. The main purpose of our homeroom is for us to help the students WIN the first 18 min of the day, smile, great them, and help them set up and get organized for the day.

You will do the same thing every week!

This time will go fast! We decided as a school to use planners so the students can be more organized and it helps with communication with our parents. The expectation is for ALL students to write in their planners every period every day. We will check that they have written down the homework or what was completed in each class during advisory. This should be the first thing they get out for you every day after you great them at the door!

We are going to positively reward all the students who fill out their planners with a chance to enter the weekly drawing! MORE TO COME.

• We will be asking you to review area expectations with students every Monday.
• Please have the students take the First Day of School Survey.
• The following Monday we will start reviewing the area expectations. CLICK HERE.

MONDAY: EXPECTATIONS

TUESDAY: STUDENTS WILL READ THEIR INDEPENDENT BOOK

WEDNESDAY: W.I.N. TIME (What is needed) Students will log into Aeries and write their grades into their planner. They will organize their binders and clean out backpacks.

THURSDAY: Complete the reflection in the planner. You may use that prompt or make up your own.