The Week Ahead

January 13-17

Welcome our newest eaglet William Randall Kerns!

January 21 Protected Teacher Workday

We are thrilled to learn and grow together at our January 21st workday! We’ve curated some amazing session options based on your feedback, designed to leave you feeling inspired and energized to try something new. To help us plan effectively, please make your Interest-Based Session selections using this form by Friday, January 10.

While all teachers are required to attend both sessions, we’re excited to extend an open invitation to all staff to join sessions that spark their interest. Teachers, if you have tasks that your Instructional Assistant can help with during the day, IAs are welcome to hang back during session times to help get things done in the classroom.

If you have any questions, reach out to Ashley. We can’t wait to collaborate and grow together!

2025-2026 Vandora Staff Intent Form

Please share your intent with us for the 2025-2026 school year by Friday, January 17.

We're Getting Promethean Boards!

We are so excited to share that our school will be receiving Promethean Boards very soon! These will replace the current TV in your classroom.

As a first step in this process, a tech team will visit our school Friday, January 17 to complete a Promethean Project Site Survey. This will consist of a technician coming in your classroom and looking at what TV or panel is currently in every learning space and ensuring that space has there required components for a Promethean panel. The technician will need access to every learning space, but this is minimally disruptive as they will just need to verify the TVs model number and will be out of the space in just a few minutes.

We will keep you updated with communication related to this process as we receive it and we will also offer training to ensure we make the most of these boards in your classroom!

MOY mClass Benchmark Reminders

MOY mClass Testing Window: January 10 - February 3

2025 School Goals

Overall Goal: Earn School Grade B (70% proficient)

Goal 1: ALL subgroups will meet or exceed growth in reading, math & science as reported by EVAAS.
Goal 2: The percent of students demonstrating proficiency will increase in

Reading from 49.2% to 68%
Math from 66.7% to 77%
Science from 67% to 90%

2024-2025 Grading Grids

Quarters in pink mean they're ready!

High Impact Strategy Share

December: Think, Ink, Pair, Share

Effect Size: 0.79

When using Think, Ink, Pair, Share, we ask students to respond to a question and give them independent THINK time to process their response. Then, they INK by writing their thoughts on a sticky note or in a journal. Lastly, students PAIR up (using collaborative pairs) with their partners to share what they wrote down. The "INK" adds extra bang for your buck and increases the effect size as compared to the regular Think, Pair, Share protocol.

November: Distributive Summarizing

Effect Size: 1.00

Distributed Summarizing is stopping strategically at several points during a lesson to let students think about and solidify their learning through thinking, writing/sketching, or conversing about what was just taught.

Repeating to remember not only helps solidify new learning, but also helps in resetting attention spans, which is approximately their chronological age+ 1-2 minutes. (Rule of thumb, stop every 10 minutes)

You can use collaborative pairs at strategic points throughout the lesson to help with Distributed Summarizing!

October: Numbered Heads

Effect Size: 0.92

Numbered heads is a cooperative learning activity consisting of four steps. Students are assigned a number. The teacher announces the task and time limit. Students put their heads together, do the activity, and ensure the whole group completes the task.

As with any new strategy or procedure, be sure to provide explicit instructions, modeling, and practice time before expecting perfection and before giving up!

January Car Wash Sign Up

AM & PM Duty Coverage

This is just a friendly reminder to secure coverage for AM and/or PM Duty when you're out. If you're unable to secure coverage, let Ashley, Alinna or Valentina know.

Some duty assignments were changed, and we appreciate you all being flexible if you were involved in the change(s). Below are some staff that should be willing to help if you're out to ensure each duty is covered each day.

AM Duty Back Up Coverage

Donnovan Lewis
Jeanna Leauma
Klarisa Prikazsky

PM Duty Back Up Coverage (to ask in that order)

Jeanna Leauma
Donnovan
Shirley Rogers
Tarcher Smith

Spirit Night Staff Participation

Sign up to get a Papa John's Pizza Wednesday night!

2024-2025 Picture Folder

Let's capture the magic of this school year by adding pictures to our picture folder located in our shared drive!

2024-2025 Yearbook Information

Order your yearbook NOW to guarantee your yearbook arrives the first week of June. Waiting until later means you'll have to pick it up during the summer, and why wait when you can have it sooner?

🎨 Customize your yearbook with 2 FREE personalized pages featuring your favorite photos of your student(s)! It's a unique keepsake they'll treasure forever.

Have questions? Feel free to reach out to Kim Schuh and she would be happy to help! 📚✨

Staff Favorite Things

Share Attendance Concerns Here!

Important Quarter 2 Dates

Below are important dates to keep us on track for celebrating our students' successes and the effectiveness of your instruction! We will highlight this growth in our Q1 SIP Quarterly Review. These dates are created to help us pace our work and not get overwhelmed.

January 7: Staff Meeting
January 14: Committee Meetings
January 15: CDAT
January 17: Quarter 2 Ends
January 21: Protected Teacher Workday
January 28

Report Cards Go Home
Staff Meeting

February 4: LeaderSIP
February 11: Committee Meetings
February 12: CDAT Meetings
February 14: Data Due in Spreadsheet (including MOY mclass data), data Triangulation, and quarterly review documents completed
February 18: SIP Q2 Quarterly Review

Eagle Service Club Request Form

Counselor Referral Form

What's Coming Up!

Monday, January 13

K-5 Classroom Teachers will be observing each other this week using the schedule and process outlined in this document.
3rd Grade Math NC Check-In A this week
3:40 Laxton & Kerns Baby Shower (Media Center)

Tuesday, January 14