Sunday, January 22, 2017

Dear colleagues,
Welcome to Semester 2 and congratulations for finishing or almost finishing the grading and comment writing for the Semester 1 report cards! As the reports will go out on the 3rd of February, it is time to get together and celebrate the turning point of the school year. Keep an eye on the blogger for information about school-wide TGIF as we are finalizing the date, time and venue within a couple of days. Also, on Saturday evening Feb 4, the PTA will host the annual Teacher Appreciation Dinner.

This week we will get together a couple of times as a whole faculty. First, on Wednesday we will all be planning our units in the Multipurpose Room together and utilize the collaboration and sharing of ideas. Secondly, on Friday we will have our first assembly of the year 2017.

The report card committee (Saiko, Karen T, Jen C, Ellen, Steve) will meet this week for the first time on Thursday afternoon. If anyone has got samples or ideas for reporting from other schools, please share those with the committee members.
Have a great week!
Supervision:                                          Links to Supervision Schedule 16-17    Supervision Protocol
Time
12:15-12:40
12:25-12:55
12:25-12:55
12:15-12:40
12:25-12:55
Duty
Cafeteria Tables
Playground
/ Gym
Playground
/ Atrium
Cafeteria line
Indoor recess ELAC Gym
Jan 23
Kaight
Joy
Yoshiko
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Maiko, Kaight
This week's schedule:
Day
Morning
Afternoon - After School
Mon
8:45 ES Student Support Meeting

Tue


Wed
8:30-10:00 ES Coffee - Assessment and Reporting
12:30 Assembly rehearsals
14:40 - 16:30 Collaborative Planning
16:00-16:30 Practicing Cognitive Coaching
Thu
12:30 Assembly rehearsals

Fri
9:00 School Wide Leadership Team
11:00 Assembly (Main Theater)
14:00 ES Leadership Team
Professional Learning
Wednesday Professional Learning:
We will all get together in the Multipurpose room to work on our units, and the specialist teachers will connect with those grade levels where they can find authentic and rich connections between the learning.

Coordinator's Meetings:                                 ES Team Planning Meeting Schedule
  • UOI Collab: Planning for UOI#4.
  • Literacy:  Continue Planning Units of Study #4 (Most teams looking at Reading)
Future Dates:
20 Jan End of Semester 1
23 January Report Card Comments to Heikki, Kim, and Trevor
23 January ERB Wrap Writing Assessments for Grades 3 - 10
1 Feb Morning Faculty Meeting 7:50 - 8:25
3 Feb Semester 1 Report Cards open to parents
20 - 21 February (Mon- Tue) Winter break
22-24 Feb (Wed-Fri) Specialists focused Written curriculum PD with Tania Lattanzio