Celebration of 2015-16

Learning Celebrations
93% of K-5 Students meeting grade level expectation on F & P (goal 90%)
97% of K- 2 Students meeting grade level expectations on PALS (goal 93%)
55% Students K-5 met MAP Reading Growth Target (goal 60%)
59.3% Students 1-5 met MAP Reading Growth Target (goal 60%)
52% Students K-5 with an IEP Met MAP Reading Growth Target (goal 60%)
SMART Goal Data

Behavior Celebrations
Average Major/ Bottom Line Behaviors per day
2011-12- .56/day
2012-13- .64/day
2013-14- .6/ day
2014-15- .5/ day
2015-16-.53/ day

95% of students graduated from CICO

Other Celebrations
Survey Results-  These are partially complete.  If you have not completed it, click here.

Increase of books in circulation in the library

Increased use of Instructional Coaching

Click here to see the school board report of Hudson Prairie's Highlights

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Don't forget we will continue to celebrate Friday, June 3 at my house.  

4261 Bailey Lake Drive

Woodbury, MN 55129

All Staff and significant others are invited.  

Please bring an appetizer or dessert to share.  

I hope to see you all there!

The Reflective Practitioner

Reflection is an important practice for teachers to do throughout each day and throughout the school year. 

Reflection is seen as indicators under Standard 6:  Professionalism.
6.4  Incorporates learning from professional growth opportunities into instructional practice and reflects upon the effectiveness of implemented strategies

6.5   Identifies and evaluates personal strengths and weaknesses and sets goals for improvement of skills and professional performance based on self-assessment and/or in collaboration with their evaluator

Your SLO and PPG provides you an avenue to formally reflect on how you have grown as a teacher and how your students have grown.  These need to be submitted on Friday, May 20 at 4pm.

EP Teacher/ Specialist  Professional Goal Setting Review with final data updated

  

If you are on cycle, you will need to set up a meeting with me on May 24th.  It is optional for the rest of you.  SLO End of Year Meetings 

Here are some reflective questions to ponder and help you develop your PPG and SLO for next year:

1. What are some things you accomplished this year that you are proud of?
2. What is something you tried in your classroom this year for the first time? How did it go?
3. What is something you found particularly frustrating this year?
4. Which student in your class do you think showed the most improvement? Why do you think this student did so well?
5. What is something you would change about this year if you could?
6. What is one way that you grew professionally this year?
7. Who amongst your colleagues was the most helpful to you?
8. What has caused you the most stress this year?
9. When was a time this year when you felt joyful and/or inspired about the work that you do?
10. What do you hope your students remember most about you as a teacher?
11. In what ways were you helpful to your colleagues this year?
12. What was the most valuable thing you learned this year?
13. What was the biggest mistake you made this year? How can you avoid making the same mistake in the future?
14. What is something you did this year that went better than you thought it would?
15. What part of the school day is your favorite? Why?
16. Who was your most challenging student? Why?
17. In what ways did you change the lives of your students this year?

Celebration of the Year- Watch me Whip/ Nae Nae

Celebration

Here is a tutorial to practice for our end of the school celebration dance.  

On Thursday, we will create a recess Cool Tool and practice this dance. 

Tutorial

Official Video

With all of the data coming in, please reflect on growth academically and social-emotionally with your students.  Celebrate with Good News Phone Calls!  This is a way to build our efficacy of the hard work as a teacher!  

Please comment on a celebration of your students.  Do not use names!

Thank you for your hard work in helping every student grow!

Hudson Web Page Redesign

Hudson Web Page Redesign- Thurs. Staff Meeting

How did we get here?

We conducted  pilots of two top contenders of systems viewed as  “all in one” solutions for a teacher webpages and integration platforms.  These systems were the new eChalk and Canvas.  We also took a close look at a few other systems that offered a different sort of solution.  

What were are priorities?

1.  The first of these priorities is ease of use.  We all felt strongly that whatever solution on which we ultimately land, it must not be overly time consuming.  

2.  Secondly, we placed a high value on the integration with Google Apps for Education and specifically, Google Classroom.  Google Classroom has already been embraced in our system and the feedback from the survey that went out to all staff members suggests that integration with Google Classroom is a top priority.

What is our solution?

The solution we are recommending is “Schoolblocks”.  Schoolblocks offers a solution for school and teacher webpages.  We are only recommending the teacher webpage portion of the program which is called “Classblocks”.  We are very excited about the potential this solution will offer.  Classblocks is designed from ground up to integrate with Google Apps and Google Classroom.  

How will we learn about it?

We will be offering extensive professional development near the end of this school year, throughout the summer, and into next year.  The initial setup of Classblocks will not be terribly complicated.  The biggest roadblock to successful implementation will likely be with teachers who have extensive content in eChalk.  They will need to save everything they want to continue to use in Google Drive or on their network drive for future use.  

Please explore this video before our staff meeting and list any questions in the comments.

SchoolBlocks