Last Days

Last Day Plans

Thurs. June 8

8:00 - Staff Meeting- Dance https://youtu.be/sNog54ovi8Q

9:15-11- Outdoor Games- Bill will send you a map and schedule.  If it is raining, please plan alternate activities.

11:15- 1:30- Recess & Lunch at regular times.  Susie and Aria will be cooking hotdogs and hamburgers for a picnic.

Reprint report cards & send home.

2:30 - All School Meeting

3:00- Class Closure

3:38- Song

3:40- All School Wave by busses

4:05- Staff Party at Chloe's house

Fri. June 9

8:00- End of the year breakfast celebration in the computer lab.

Teacher Check Out Sign up

Bring all papers

1.  Check out lists

2.  Grade level paperwork

3. Summer Academy Choice submitted

4.  Support needed for 2017-18

Celebrate 2016-17

Please take some time to reflect and celebrate the great work of 2016-17.

I couldn't be more proud of the dedication we have to help each student to grow and succeed.   Please celebrate with your colleagues.

Learning Celebrations
95% of K-5 Students meeting grade level expectation on F & P (goal 90%)
93% of K- 2 Students meeting grade level expectations on PALS (goal 93%)
63% Students 1-5 met MAP Reading Growth Target (goal 65%)
65% Students K-5 with an IEP Met MAP Reading Growth Target (goal 60%)
Click here for all 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
2016-17- .43/day
Other Celebrations
Amazing PLC Work

Survey Results show our strengths.

Culture Survey shows great improvement.

Click here to see the school board report of Hudson Prairie's Highlights which will be shared June 12.

Please comment with other things to celebrate!

Dace Practice- Best Day of My Life

Dance Practice

Thank you Misty, Aria and Amy for leading our end of the year celebration.

Start practicing!

Here are possible practice dates:

We will narrow them down when we meet.

Th. 5/25

T 5/30

W 5/31

Th. 6/1

M 6/5

T 6/6

W 6/7

Th 6/8

Class Placement- May 22

Class Placement- May 22

Please fill out this form for each student by May 18.  Class List Form

On May 22, we will meet to collaboratively create class lists.

8:00- Special Ed Teachers

10:15- 3rd grade teachers

11:00- 4th grade teachers

12:45- 2nd grade teachers

1:30- 1st grade teachers

2:15- K teachers

3:00- Specialists

Goal:  To help make the best fit for our students’ needs.

Essential Agreements

We will focus on the child’s needs.

We will speak openly and choose words thoughtfully and professionally.

We will be objective.

All conversations will remain confidential.

Process

1. Place Students with Special Needs- IEP, GT, ELL (Flexible)
2. Place students with other needs- separate from
3. Place students with Behavior Needs  (1)
4. Place Students with Academic Needs for Differentiation (Low)
5. Place Students with Academic Needs for Differentiation (High)
6. Balance boys, girls, and numbers.

Susie & Aria will facilitate discussion and keep us on track.

You will have time to review the lists and suggest changes.

June 2- Meet Your Teacher

Why?

• Reduce anxiety for kids
• Teachers meet students
• Short summer

How?

I will make announcements for students to go to their next year class. You will have class lists to let them know where to go.

• 5th-grade specials
• 4 to 5 9:15
• 3 to 4  9:20
• 2 to 3  9:25
• 1 to 2  9:30
• K to 1  9:35

      9:45- Back to classrooms

What?

• Meet kids with a Morning meeting format and fill out Letter
• You may want to share some highlights of the grade.

August- Transition meetings

3rd week of school at a staff meeting

Focused on sharing STRATEGIES that work!

8-8:20-     K-1 2-3 4-5

8:20-8:40   1-2 3-4

End of the Year Success

End of the Year Success

   

    

As we are winding down the school year we need to remind ourselves of strategies to make the final 5 weeks of school successful for students and staff. 

Here are some tips to set up students and staff during the final weeks of school:

1.  Get into a project you've wanted to do all year. Do something hands-on, project-based, and fun. They'll get into anything you're passionate about. 

Ideas:

Passion project

Project Based Learning ideas

Teach peers

Technology integration- Breakout Edu  Showyourwork

Engagement article

• But don't abandon all the routines and structures you've used all year. Kids of all ages need those routines to continue. If you start showing movies all day, every day, or have a whole lot of parties, kids are likely to get a little wacky.

• Give kids time and tools to reflect on their school year. They can write, make scrapbooks, record a video piece, or create drawings. Prompt them to think about what they learned, how they learned, what was challenging, how they dealt with those challenges, what they feel proud of, how they changed, what advice they have for kids entering that grade next year, and so on. Give yourself time to reflect. Read all their reflections, and talk to the kids about what they've learned and how they have changed.  It's critical that you see how you changed, where you have grown, and what you learned. 

• Celebrate with your students and their families, with your colleagues, and with your loved ones. With students, you can have a kind of awards ceremony or portfolio celebrations where you celebrate growth and learning. 

Please add a idea in the comments how you can end the year on a positive note!

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!

I want to pause and thank you for the work you do every day for our kids.  It is hard work that makes a difference in our students' lives.  I hope you can come to Happy Hour on Thurs. Please RSVP. 

PTO has other plans to celebrate you!

You will also have 2 1/4 hours work time to complete your SLO & PPG.

Late Start- Thurs. May 4

8:00-8:30- 

All staff challenge in media center led by technology leaders- Deb, Jess & Jodi

Breakout Edu  Showyourwork

8:30-10:45-  Reflect on SLO and PPG 

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 May 15 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 23 - SLO Meetings  It is optional for the rest of you.

Reflect on PLC Process

Reflect on PLC Process

We are finishing up the PLC process in April.  We will designate PLC time in May for taking surveys, planning for next year, and working on transition sheets for your final F & P assessment.


Reflect on the  HP PLC Process

What went well?
What step of the PLC Process does your team need more support in next year?

Reflect on the  K-5 HP PLC Products

What do you notice?
What do you wonder about?

Self-assess where your PLC is on the PLC rubric.

Discuss one goal for your team next year.

Here are some reflections from the leadership team.  Celebrate your work.

• We followed the norms.
• We trust our teams to have deeper conversations.
• We feel we focused on 4  Dufour Questions questions which kept our PLC student focused.
• We liked moving at our own pace through the process and we feel like we are independent going through the process.
• Discussions helped us to solidify the assessment, and to make adjustments in instruction.
• We feel like we understand K-5 work more and see other grades work.
• We created good common formative assessments.
• We need more time to discuss/share results/ data to determine the next steps.
• Maybe have Chloe attend data talks to help facilitate deeper conversations.
• Continue to learn K- 5 and with vertical PLC
• We need to use PLC to score student work collaboratively so we are on the same page.
• We need to figure out how to make meaningful connections with special ed.
• The extension part is something we need to continue to investigate.

Please add a comment of your reflections of the PLC Process this year.

Appreciating Differences

Here are my favorite Superbowl Commercials that show hope for all people and an appreciation of diversity.  

This is the message that will be shared with us on April 20, when Terry Gulbransen will share her expertise with students with behavior difficulties. 

Please comment thoughts that came to mind as you viewed these commercials. 

How does this fit with school and the work we do?

Empathy Video that Chloe found

Planning for 2017-18- Late Start April 13

Late Start- Building Planning for 2017-18  

April 13, 2017

8-10:30

Immerse

1. Read Article Improving Teacher Empathy to Improve Student Behavior  
2. Think about Reflection Questions from Improving Teacher Empathy to Improve Student prior to the meeting.

Investigate/ Coalesce

8-8:15-  Teaming activity led by Sue Schaeffer

8:15-8:30-

Why Empathy?

• Change with 4K and EBD Cluster Program
• We know that building relationships with students is a strong correlation to student learning.

1. Complete Reflection Questions from Improving Teacher Empathy to Improve Student Behavior  

2. Quotes

3, Every Kid Needs a Champion 7:48

4. Turn and talk - How do you have empathy and be a champion for all students?

8:30-9:00-

Reflect on the 2016-17 as a table and add to it.

• Highlights report

Planning for 2017-18

• Next year planning 2017-18 Packets
• School Map- Building Vision/ Dream
• 4K Program Planning
• EBD Cluster Planning

Summer

• Map
• Calendar

Go Public

9:00-10:30-

SMART Goal Planning (Conference Room)- Goals and Action Brainstorms, Homework guidelines, Brainstorm how Volunteers can be used in your classroom- Conference Room

PBIS Planning (Media Center)- Reward Schedule for next year, kick off, Climate Planning, Retirement Planning-

9:30-10:30-

SST Planning (Media Center)- Improvements in process, Staff professional learning, Cum file tracking, Watchlist for 2017-18-

Continue at PLC- Next year planning 2017-18 Packets