School Bulletin Week of January 21

Monday
Staff Room Cleanup- Susan Straughan
MLK Day No School
Tuesday
9:00 – 10:30 Principals PDD @ Noralto
11:00-1:00 Mtg. Gayle Moore and David
2:15 Student Council mtg. room 9
Wednesday
SST’s all day
12:00-2:30 DLAC Mtg. Karen and Mary Lou
2:30-3:30 Staff Mtg.
Thursday
2:30-3:00 CARE Team mtg. Ana, Erin
2:30-3:30 Interventions Team mtg.
Friday
Free Dress Day

Note:
Sixth Graders go to Camp next week. Kathy Saulter will stay back with the sixth graders that don’t go.
On Tuesday’s Principals PD Day we did walkthroughs at Noralto. We broke up into groups of two and were assigned a grade level to go into. We were looking for :
Active Engagement/Assessment
Nonlinguistic representations, vocabulary pics, graphic organizers being used
Schedules posted with workshop differentiated by need
After we visited the classrooms we came back together to debrief and post up on chart paper what we observed. It was very nice to see how other schools are doing and I am happy to say that the principals would see some good things happening here. At some point we will be doing the same here at Johnson. I’ll let you know when that is.
This week I met with Gayle Moore, a consultant who will be working with me as a coach. She has many years of experience as a principal. She works for an organization called Spring Board. They have been working for a number of years studying effective schools and helping PI schools replicate what those schools are doing. They focus on PLC’s and Cycles of Inquiring. I am excited to have an opportunity to work with her and to bring us an opportunity to grow and become one of those schools that are cited with we speak of effective schools.
At this weeks staff meeting we will work on our School Vision/Mission. We will meet in room 14.
Remember:
What do we want all students to learn?
How will we know when they have?
What will we do when they don’t?