Coaching Connections

Callaway Hills Elementary School

Theme: Cougar Pride: Positive Relationships Impact Dreams Everyday

Vision: Engage, Empower, Excel, Everyone, Everyday

Mission: Callaway Hills is a place everyone wants to be. We build unforgettable relationships, empower all to grow as learners, and are committed to developing problem solvers and creative thinkers within our school community.

• WE will increase student achievement.
  
• WE will close the achievement gap between sub-groups.
• WE will develop and support an effective and positive culture.
• WE will provide a safe and caring environment that supports the well-being of all students and staff.

The purpose of the Instructional Coaching Model is to help close the student achievement gap and accelerate learning for all students by building teacher capacity through implementation of effective instructional practices (Casey, 2008).

A Coach is:

• A collaborative partner
• A colleague
• A listener
• A researcher
• A learner
• A resource
• A mediator of thinking
• A supporter for professional learning
• Not an evaluator

What are possible focus areas for 2018 - 2019?

• Student Engagement and Cooperative Learning
• Common Formative Assessment Design and Analysis
• Collaboration around Research-Based Instructional Practices and the Rigor and Relevance Framework
• Content Knowledge Building and Collaborative Planning
  
• Implementation of the Response to Intervention (RTI) Model to meet student needs
• Data Collection and Analysis (Formative and Summative) for student Acceleration and Intervention
• Personalized Professional Development: providing descriptive feedback relevant to professional goals. ƒ
• Developing, monitoring and reflecting on individual goals in coaching plans/cycles

What are the guiding principles of the coaching model?:

• Student learning is at the heart of our work. ƒ
• Professional learning emerges from mutual respect, collegial relationships and a shared responsibility for student learning. ƒ
• Job embedded learning provides authentic context. ƒ
• Gradual release of responsibility supports student and adult learning.

I am incredibly excited about this opportunity. I am willing and ready to do whatever necessary to support you, your students, your interests, goals, and professional learning! Please think of me first when help is needed. I want to assist in classrooms, and will strive to remain connected with students and their learning! I know this year will be an amazing year for all of us!

The term ‘relationship’ is rooted from the word ‘relation’ and is defined as a mutual affiliation or connection between individuals or groups of people or entities.

With good relationships, we are able to easily attain personal and career goals because we are surrounded with individuals who support us in many aspects. An organization successfully achieves its mission-vision when the team members are in a harmonious relationship with each other. With good mutual associations, an individual personally finds contentment and satisfaction in many things. (cssd.org).

Students: Morning Meetings (planning sheet), Class Meetings, Class Building, Celebrate Successes, Specific Positive Feedback

Parents: Articles 1 and 2, Design and share a teacher brochure, Try communicating with Remind, Celebrate Student Successes, Call/Email/Classroom Newsletter

Community: Invite Guest Speakers, Arrange Fieldtrips, Seek out Role-Models

Colleagues: We Are Family!

Please select a day and time for me to read aloud to your students and to get to know them a little!

Teambuilding: Team Names/Motto/Banners/Cheer, Fan-N-Pick: Team Questions/Mat

Classbuilding: Mix-Pair-Share, Stand Up- Hand Up- Pair Up, Check out the Classbuilding Kagan Resource Book for resources.

Cheers and don't forget those Gambits for integrating social skills.

Kagan Online Magazine: Issue #58

iReady Benchmark Assessments K-5

• iReady will be given 4 times this year in ELA and 3 times in Math.
  
• The testing window for the iReady Reading benchmark assessments includes: [Aug 27 - Sept. 7], [Nov. 8 - Nov. 20], [Feb. 4 - Feb. 15], [April 29 - May 10] . Callaway Hills will complete testing by September 4th.
• The testing window for the iReady Math benchmark assessments includes: [Aug 27 - Sept. 7], [Jan. 7 - Jan. 17], [April 29 - May 10].

Reading Assessments (K-5) (please print off and and refer to often)

Assessment Chart

Content Area Summative Assessments

• ELA- End of Unit Assessments are no longer administered!
• Math- End of Unit Assessments will be given through HMH and administered in grades K-5.
  
• Math Performance tasks will be completed in grades K-5.
  
• Science Assessments will be linked and required once available.
  

• All students in grades K-1 should have at least 4 running records per quarter.
• All students in grades 2-5 should have at least 3 running records per quarter.
• If a student is reading below grade level in grades 2-5, he/she should have at least 4 running records per quarter.
• All K-5 students should have observation/anecdotal notes.

• BOY: Beginning of Year assessments need to be entered into Infinite Campus by the last school day in September.

1. Kindergarten: Letter ID, Print Concepts
2. 1st Grade: Words Their Way
3. 1st Grade through 2nd Grade: Next Step Text Level
   
4. 3rd through 5th Grade: Next Step Text Level for BOY planning and grouping

• Quarterly: Quarterly assessments need to be entered into Infinite Campus by the end of each Quarter to allow the information to be reported on the Grade Card.

1. Kindergarten: Letter ID and Words Their Way Quarters 1 and 2
2. Kindergarten through 5th: Running Record Text Level
3. 1st Grade Quarter 2: Words Their Way
4. 2nd Grade Quarter 2: Words Their Way

• EOY: End of Year assessments need to be entered into Infinite Campus by the last day of the Elementary Grading Window.

1. Kindergarten: Print Concepts, Next Step Text Level
2. 1st Grade: Next Step Text Level
3. 2nd Grade: Next Step Text Level

10 Reasons to Use Heterogeneous Teams

Kagan Connections: Balanced Literacy

Classroom Management and Procedures

12 Ways to Use Padlet Tomorrow

Voki to Engage all and Build Relationships

Poll Everywhere: Live Interactive Audience Participation

Goose Chase scavenger hunts

Student Goal Setting 1 and Goal Setting 2

Planbook and Chalk: Online Lesson Planning sites.

Dese Unwrapped Standards

Ideas/Topics for August/September

Morning Meetings and Class Meetings

Creating a Community of Readers and Writers

Scholastic Reading Counts Goal Setting and Reports Interpretation

Using Formative Assessments to Guide Instruction

Math Workshop with Go Math!

Science Collaborative Planning

Close Reading

Kagan Structures and Team Formations

Infinite Campus Reporting

What are you interested in learning more about???? I'm here for you!

Let me know by complete the interest inventory!

Running Records Training for new staff only...

Jan Richardson Next Step Guided Reading Assessment PD: Tuesday, August 21, 2018 3:15 to 4:15. K-2 in the Library, 3-5 in IC Room

Email: malissa.pistel@jcschools.us
Website: http://www.jcschools.us/callawayhills
Location: 2715 State Road AA, Holts Summit, MO, United States
Phone: 573-896-5051
Twitter: @PistelConnect