MCP - Lola Rowe North News

Good Afternoon North Team,

Take a moment to reflect on the quotes below:

" Technology is a just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important." ~Bill Gates

"Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones. It all depends on how you use them. ~Unknown

"When you see something beautiful in a student, let them know. It may take a second to say, but for them it could last a lifetime. ~ Robert John Meehan

"What all good teachers have in common; however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less." ~Marva Collins

"Teach in the ways a child learns, don't force a child to learn in the way we teach." ~Unknown

Which one resonates with you the most? Why? How will you use these quotes to motivate you during this five day week?

As you listen to the song below, imagine the voices of your scholars singing the words to you!

All of you are doing a GOOD JOB and don't you for one second doubt it!

"You’re the engine that makes all things go
And you’re always in disguise, my hero."

~Lyrics from Good Job by Alicia Keys

Primary Grade Level Planning Meetings This Week

K4:

Monday, September 14, 2020 from 2:00-2:45

First Grade:

Wednesday, September 16, 2020 from 2:00-2:45

K5:

Wednesday, September 16, 2020 from 3:00-3:45

Primary Happenings

• DIBELs Beginning of the Year Benchmark Assessments begin THIS WEEK!--The BOY assessment window will be open from 9/14-10/15. Please make a plan with your EA for testing administration. Let Mrs. Badger know if you have any questions.

• Thursday, Sept. 17th: Primary PD

• Progress Reports--Tuesday 9/22. Please be sure to have your gradebook up to date. Reach out to Mrs. Badger with any questions regarding grading.

Primary Shout Outs:

Week 3 down and the primary team is ROCKING it! We are seeing and hearing so many amazing things happening in our youngest virtual classrooms.

This week’s shoutout goes to Mrs. Hudson and Mr. Smith! The energy and enthusiasm Mrs. Hudson has is contagious! You can’t help but participate in their virtual classroom. Both teacher and EA were shouting scholars out making sure all scholars were participating! K5 is so lucky to have these amazing educators!

It is our FIRST FULL week and our FIRST MATH PD week! Super EXCITING!!! It felt great to get in all classrooms and provide feedback. I have shared your feedback with you and we will discuss during our GLP meetings.

Week’s Agenda:

• Math PD

• 2-5 Tuesday, September 15th

• 6-8 Wednesday, September 16th

• Grade Level Planning Meetings (All teachers)

• Support and Enrichment Meeting (6-8 EAs)

Week’s Skyrocket Focus:

(Note: Same as last week. We are making progress! Let’s push 100%!)

• Strand 2 Teacher Action 3: Lesson requires students to engage (notes, annotating, chat box, etc) consistently throughout.

• Strand 2 Teacher Action 4: Teacher states daily objective/learning outcome to students, what they will accomplish by the end of the lesson, and how/why they’re both meaningful.

• Strand 2 Teacher Action 8: An appropriate amount of time is allocated for each lesson portion to ensure students have enough reps, both guided and independently, to master the content.

On Tuesday, September 15, 2020 at 8:30 am, All teachers will receive an email documenting what is in their gradebook and what must be added by September 21st to be prepared for progress reports on September 22nd.

• 2nd grade planning session from 10:30 am - 11:00 am
• 5th grade planning session from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
• 4th grade planning session from 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
• 3rd grade planning session from 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
• Network 3rd - 4th ELA PD from 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

• Network 5th - 8th ELA PD from 2:45 pm - 4:00 pm

Thursday, September 17, 2020

• 6th grade planning session from 10:00 am - 10:30 am
• 8th grade planning session from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
• 7th grade planning session from 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Gradebook Goals for the Week

Grade and input into Skyward at least,

• 2 to 3 Classwork assignments in Classwork category
• 2 to 3 Exit Tickets or Quizzes in Quiz category
• 2 NewsELA articles in Personal Learning Category
• 1 to 2 Life's work assignments/Independent work in Life's Work category

Wit and Wisdom Week 02 Goals

Complete 1 to 2 lessons. Remember to "chunk" lesson into manageable segments allowing you to teach scholars the key skills, concepts, and knowledge being presented by the GMT.

NewsELA

Complete 2 articles this week from the Reading Skills Check. If scholars have already completed 3 to 4 Reading Skills Check articles, you may begin to assign adjusted reading level articles. We will review NewsELA data during our planning session.

Happy Sunday!

We are almost a month into school and based on the classrooms that I observed this previous week, I can tell classroom cultures, RAPS, and relationships are not only established, but fine tuned to be working for everyone involved.

SHOUTOUT to Ms. Carson, Dr. Mbalia, and Mr. Riley for demonstrating what a fine tuned classroom looks like. Through instant, positive feedback, proposing questions in the chat, and checking for understanding in various ways, (asking questions, making predictions, creating guided notes) this team engaged their scholars in a number of ways to accommodate the needs of ALL their scholars. Despite having been the first week of implementing Wit&Wisdom, they are eagerly moving into the next step to establish a co-teaching dynamic to better support their scholars. Thank you for taking the initiative on this right away!

SHOUTOUT to Ms. Jensen, Ms. Armstrong, Mr. Cullen, and Ms. J. Williams on completing our campus’ first IEP of the year! It was a HUGE adjustment for this scholar and many changes needed to be made/discussed, but that didn’t stop them from working as a team to provide the best support possible for this scholar!

Check THIS out this Week

Subscribe to “Calmed by Nature” on YouTube. They offer a wide range of calming sceneries and audio (lofi hiphop chill beats in the city, rainy day in a coffee shop, campfire on the beach, etc.) you can play while waiting for scholars to enter your classroom, play in the background during independent work, or to offer a calming ambience in the background for yourself while working.

New Scholars to MCP

• Please forward any information to me regarding incoming scholars who have a 504 plan or IEP

• While I have received most information on our new scholars, I am still finding families who are reaching out to homeroom teachers indicating their child has a 504 plan or IEP

• I need this information ASAP--thank you to those who have already shared this with me!

Thank you to everyone who added me as a co-teacher in their google classroom in a timely manner last week; it is greatly appreciated! I look forward to popping into more classrooms throughout the coming weeks.

Definition: Trust is the assured reliance on character, ability, strength or truth of someone or something

Strand: T.3 Works with a Team

SEL Competency: Relationships

“The glue that holds all relationships together is trust and trust is based on integrity.” ~Brian Tracy

Proactivity Calendar

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BF3oNk8frx1hEgzC36hiKnG5xBBdsilxXzu5xJtXQlw/edit#

Sometimes we forget how powerful, awesome and equipped we are. Take a moment to remind yourself that you are capable. Complete this reminder above by following the steps in the picture above. I encourage you to write your reminder on a sticky note and post it where it is always visible.

MindUp

Lesson 2: Mindful Awareness

MindUp Curriculum K-2

MindUp Curriculum 3-5

MindUp Lesson Plans

MindUp Resources

Attendance Goal for the 2020-2021 School Year 95.10%

College Weekly Attendance %

UW- Green Bay (K4) - 94.05%

Concordia University (K4) - 97.62 %

UW-Wisconsin (K5) - 98%

Grambling State University (K5) - 92.31%

Tennessee State University (1st) - 97.22%

Florida A & M (1st) - 98.91%

Notre Dame (2nd) - 99.04%

University of Texas (2nd) - 93.27%

UW-Whitewater (3rd) - 100%

Savannah State University (3rd) - 100%

North Carolina Central University (4th) - 96.15%

Bradley University (4th) 98 %

Class of 2030 had all of their scholars present last week!!! Way to go!!

Resources

Found this on Facebook and thought it was an awesome resource

“Just wanted to share the 52 libraries with copyright permissions again for anyone who has not seen it. This was truly a labor of love. I received permissions to share these stories from YouTube channels who received copyright permissions from publishers. If your district cares about copyright or you really like to honor copyright, these books are all copyright approved! (NO fair use claims, only actual copyright approval!)

You may not take these libraries/books and sell on TpT. That could get you into very big trouble with copyright anyway. “ This was copied from the actual post from Casey Verdugo

1/3

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Yea1_21elHA-k1Hnf_o3b3oDCjsdFQ5Lw_huU-dGLxM/edit?usp=sharing

2/3 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qhmbNjG5OmHaQ90CGYqN6htuKlnZdn-h-kavpjWos_E/edit?usp=sharing

3/3

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qhmbNjG5OmHaQ90CGYqN6htuKlnZdn-h-kavpjWos_E/edit?usp=sharing

Zoom Expectations

This is a video Ron Clark created around Zoom expectations.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPtAt1ZUXw8&feature=youtu.be

Greetings Middle School,

A huge shout out to my middle school staff that have come through this week!!!! Come through with your engaging lessons, proactive language, differentiated instruction, high energy, and support from one another!! You all are on FIRE and I love it!!! Let’s continue to lift one another up by keeping the lines of communication open and supporting our TEAM through the power of the word thank you, hard work, and following up. We have all gotten significantly better at something in these few weeks of school already...what is it for you?? We are all SuperHeroes that bring various levels of POWER and EXPERTISE to our Team! Let’s show it off this week!!

Stress to scholars the importance of working as a University Team and showing honesty and sincerity in situations. Remember to highlight the positive through public praise, positive phone call, & TRECK Credits.

Important Links this week

Prides (Tuesday/Friday)

Prides Protocol (explain to scholars the order of how Prides is ran)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nHItvwoUO4zFcZT5iNFvelMeMvTl1ZOBi4H6202ay9E/edit?usp=sharing

Prides Lesson (Badgework)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PmvvKHFdECqyFPx2NUIy7TFP5jekX95XSnW2wIPI3J4/edit

Wednesday Middle School Circle….Dr. Jay's ZoomRoom

https://milwcollegeprep.zoom.us/j/97612784705?pwd=UWtDanFBa1NQMm8wV2pBNEYvMkZ1dz09

MindUp (Thursday)

Leeson 2

MINDUP Lesson

High School LEAD Course (Friday)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TSSmpnvBGO86K_fGbCMHZ18f9J6aZqeZg0GkeglQOLk/edit?usp=sharing

Reminers

• PRIDES have begun!!! From the feedback thus far, attendance is the big issue! We will have to end PRIDE groups at 8:55 and instruct scholars to log back into homerooms for attendance. If you have any suggestions on how this will work any better, your ideas are welcomed!!

• Just a reminder, at no point do we cancel classes or dismiss class more than five minutes early. We consistently teach from day one! (Education and Success are our scholars Birthright!!)

• This week we have had a couple of situations where scholars are joining other classes, not attending classes, and using inappropriate language online. Please continue to sweat the small stuff and hold scholars accountable. Follow the correct protocol, stay in consistent communication with parents, and do not forget to complete the scholar contact log. Teachers that have experienced this have done a wonderful job of informing myself, meeting with scholars, and having parent conversations! (Way to build meaningful relationships and hold high expectations!!!)

• In the spirit of heroes, on Friday, all four campuses will be commemorating the life and legacy of Chadwick Boseman by having a spirit day. Scholars can acknowledge the superheroes within themselves and wear something to express it. In addition, we are also have our first Virtual Lit Friday!!!! The criteria is…. scholars that have maintained 85% of their virtuous dollars and have 90% attendance in classes. I will run the reports and inform you on Thursday who those scholars are. I will also post the list on my google classroom. So please inform scholars that the incentive is near!!!! More details will come this week...

8th grade Teachers

The spreadsheet link with high school information is below. This was shared in the LEAD google classroom. https://docs.google.com/document/d/10ZsrklrXmi8imkK2XrID-xmwlIM1bhnx/edit.

Please make sure you are aware of this document, along with the weekly assignments and checklists that scholars should be using as they go through the course. HS Parent nights are being scheduled before the high school fair, which is at the beginning of October. Specific dates will be coming out by next week.

Shout Outs!!!!!

Ms. Walker for utilizing raffle tickets to encourage attendance and engagement!

Mr. Hansen for teaching lessons with fidelity and going above and bringing rigor in his lessons!

Ms. Felder for being brave and vulnerable with personal connections to the MindUp lesson!!

Mr. Johnson for taking over science class and bringing in real life connections to the concepts!

Mr. Hayes for taking over math class seamlessly!!

Let's Take on this Five Day Week like the Heroes that WE ARE!!

“Rules without relationships inspire rebellion”. ~ Josh McDowell

Pitchford's Culture Corner 9.14.20

Think about if any of these questions have ever crossed your mind or if you have asked a colleague one of these questions. Why won’t that scholar listen to me? Why won’t they turn their camera on? Who does that scholar think he is? Why is she so disrespectful?

In the book, Hacking School Discipline, by Nathan Maynard and Brad Weinstein, 9 “hacks” are outlined to create a culture of empathy and responsibility using restorative justice. Hack 1 discusses how to create a culture of communication to resolve conflict. When scholars are not given a voice when a situation arises, we are indicating that their voice does not matter and that the situation can be resolved by giving out a punitive punishment. Does that solve the problem? It’s more like putting a bandage on a wound that requires surgery. The scholar has only learned that the behavior will result in a punishment. The whole story is never revealed nor are the reasons for the behavior ever uncovered. We need to hear what the scholar is trying to say through their behavior and use that as our guide to redirect them. To do this, we must build relationships with our scholars, develop our classroom culture and climate and give scholars a voice.

Before assigning a consequence for a behavior, we must seek first to understand and then move toward restorative mediation. Here’s a list of questions to ask a scholar to better understand their behavior:

1. Identify the behavior you need to talk to the scholar about.

2. Ask the scholar to join you in a breakout room to talk or for a quick conversation via private chat when possible (not “get into this waiting room because you don’t know how to act”) or ask a scholar to stay after the zoom class is finished.

3. Ask the following questions to learn more about the behavior and why it happened

• What were you doing? or What happened?
• What were you thinking about when _____ happened?
• Who was affected by your action and how?

4. Guide the conversation toward a positive resolution

Once you understand more about the behavior, you can move toward the restorative mediation, where the goal is to create a resolution that addresses the situation directly. As scholars’s voices are heard, relationships will grow, which in turn will increase on task student outcomes in your class!

We are in this together! We are here to support you in this journey of creating a culturally safe, equitable classroom environment, conducive to rigorous learning for all scholars.

Take Care of Yourself!

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