Celebrations
- Kindergarten Orientation Event was a success! Shout out to Ashley for leading this event...to the Kindergarten Team for their support talking with new families and welcoming the new students....and to Melissa, JR, Jill, Tanya for bring their students to perform/showcase their work!
- Teacher Appreciation Week was a success! We have a wonderful group of parents that support our work!
- K-1 and 1-2 Vertical Planning meetings were organized and thoughtful! Teams looked at specific programs and standards!
- Everyone... it's the end of the year! This is hard work and we are doing it!!!! :)
Wish Well
- Everyone... it's the end of the year! This is hard work!
- Everyone... it's the end of the year! This is hard work!
Communication:
Proctor Training-
Teacher assistants, please mark your calendars for one of the following trainings:
May 15th @ 9:20
May 15th @ 12:00
May 16th @ 1:00
Proctors, please review the following documents (as well as watch the video) prior to your proctor time to allow our face to face time to be significantly shorter:
Teacher assistants, please mark your calendars for one of the following trainings:
May 15th @ 9:20
May 15th @ 12:00
May 16th @ 1:00
Proctors, please review the following documents (as well as watch the video) prior to your proctor time to allow our face to face time to be significantly shorter:
Proctor Guide Link: bit.ly/UGTMproctorguide
Testing Code of Ethics link: bit.ly/testingcodeofethics
Standards next year- The Math and ELA standards are changing slightly next year. Many of you have heard us discuss this over the past 2 years when the state agreed to these changes. At this point, we have reviewed/shared both the ELA and Math standards. Some grade levels will be touching on the ELA standards as a team in the upcoming weeks. Links to the resources shared: ELA and Math The math department has created some live webinars as well. Click here for information. Please let Alexandria know if you would like any support understanding/digging into these new standards!
Feedback -- If you have more feedback (things that have worked or things that could be better throughout the school year) you would like for us to consider, please feel free to email, discuss or fill out this form. https://goo.gl/forms/XNwhdAo6gU8lOfck1. This would include concerns and idea for next school year. Responses can be found here.
Clean School -In an effort to provide a clean and safe school, the custodial team has had on-going meetings to increase their support to make sure that our learning spaces are clean and supporting the students. Click on the link Customer service updates to see the custodial expectations. If you have a maintenance concern or need please email Mr. Marrow. If you have a cleaning concern please email Ms. Mbalia. Mr. Marrow and Ms. Mbalia will be conducting weekly walkthroughs.
Scheduling Committee
It is that time of year to start planning for the next!
There will be an initial scheduling committee meeting on Friday May 18th at 7:45am.
Please send one representative from each grade level or area.
At this initial meeting please have prepared:
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Primary request/s for your team
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Suggestions for improvement
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Reflections on what has worked well
We will focus our work (primary needs) based off of the feedback from each area or grade level.
Realizing that this work is very important and will likely need more than one meeting time,
please be aware of the following dates and times for additional meetings:
Friday May 25th at 7:45am and Friday June 1st at 7:45am.
Please know that all opinions will be considered and that the ultimate scheduling decisions for next
year will be based on what is best for the school. Thank you so much for your time and insight!
Creativity
Student and Staff Awesomeness - Check out what our team is doing in their classrooms -- via Twitter - @underwoodgtm -- #weareunderwood Keep up the great work! Artpleasure tweets
Collaboration
Room Parent 2018-2019- We have been working closely with the new PTA board, and they are trying to streamline all the work done within the school. One of the discussions has been the consistency within classrooms as a room parent. They asked for the following survey to be filled out so they can share this with Corie Jackson, our new room parent leader.
MClass- The window for EOY MClass window opens May 14th and closes June 4th. It is imperative that you organize a plan with your team that allows you to assess each other's students. Additionally, we are asking that you assess your students that you feel will be in the red or yellow on the TRC prior to May 17th so we can get summer school letters distributed (by May 21). Using the TRC as an indicator is new this year, and the county will need to establish a plan to allow for number of students that will be invited.
Standards next year- The Math and ELA standards are changing slightly next year. Many of you have heard us discuss this over the past 2 years when the state agreed to these changes. At this point, we have reviewed/shared both the ELA and Math standards. Some grade levels will be touching on the ELA standards as a team in the upcoming weeks. Links to the resources shared: ELA and Math The math department has created some live webinars as well. Click here for information. Please let Alexandria know if you would like any support understanding/digging into these new standards!
Feedback -- If you have more feedback (things that have worked or things that could be better throughout the school year) you would like for us to consider, please feel free to email, discuss or fill out this form. https://goo.gl/forms/XNwhdAo6gU8lOfck1. This would include concerns and idea for next school year. Responses can be found here.
Clean School -In an effort to provide a clean and safe school, the custodial team has had on-going meetings to increase their support to make sure that our learning spaces are clean and supporting the students. Click on the link Customer service updates to see the custodial expectations. If you have a maintenance concern or need please email Mr. Marrow. If you have a cleaning concern please email Ms. Mbalia. Mr. Marrow and Ms. Mbalia will be conducting weekly walkthroughs.
Scheduling Committee
It is that time of year to start planning for the next!
There will be an initial scheduling committee meeting on Friday May 18th at 7:45am.
Please send one representative from each grade level or area.
There will be an initial scheduling committee meeting on Friday May 18th at 7:45am.
Please send one representative from each grade level or area.
At this initial meeting please have prepared:
- Primary request/s for your team
- Suggestions for improvement
- Reflections on what has worked well
We will focus our work (primary needs) based off of the feedback from each area or grade level.
Realizing that this work is very important and will likely need more than one meeting time,
please be aware of the following dates and times for additional meetings:
Friday May 25th at 7:45am and Friday June 1st at 7:45am.
Realizing that this work is very important and will likely need more than one meeting time,
please be aware of the following dates and times for additional meetings:
Friday May 25th at 7:45am and Friday June 1st at 7:45am.
Please know that all opinions will be considered and that the ultimate scheduling decisions for next
year will be based on what is best for the school. Thank you so much for your time and insight!
year will be based on what is best for the school. Thank you so much for your time and insight!
Creativity
Student and Staff Awesomeness - Check out what our team is doing in their classrooms -- via Twitter - @underwoodgtm -- #weareunderwood Keep up the great work! Artpleasure tweets
Collaboration
Room Parent 2018-2019- We have been working closely with the new PTA board, and they are trying to streamline all the work done within the school. One of the discussions has been the consistency within classrooms as a room parent. They asked for the following survey to be filled out so they can share this with Corie Jackson, our new room parent leader.
MClass- The window for EOY MClass window opens May 14th and closes June 4th. It is imperative that you organize a plan with your team that allows you to assess each other's students. Additionally, we are asking that you assess your students that you feel will be in the red or yellow on the TRC prior to May 17th so we can get summer school letters distributed (by May 21). Using the TRC as an indicator is new this year, and the county will need to establish a plan to allow for number of students that will be invited.
MClass- The window for EOY MClass window opens May 14th and closes June 4th. It is imperative that you organize a plan with your team that allows you to assess each other's students. Additionally, we are asking that you assess your students that you feel will be in the red or yellow on the TRC prior to May 17th so we can get summer school letters distributed (by May 21). Using the TRC as an indicator is new this year, and the county will need to establish a plan to allow for number of students that will be invited.
Critical Thinking
EOG Links- Here is the updated link for all things EOG (Lunch times, recess schedules, testing plan).
EVAAS - These rosters and to be completed by May 18th. Be sure to have students at 100% (your instruction + additional instructor) prior to sending them to Travis.
Testing Windows- It's that time of year!!! We know you have a lot on your plate and want to ensure we are providing proper supports. We are working hard to find proctors for the EOG's outside of our school and are ensuring if we do have to pull them, they are pulled evenly! Listed below are the windows for each test. If you need help organizing your schedule, please reach out to Alexandria.
NKT- May 16- May 31
MClass- May 14- June 4
EOY Math Assessments- Now until June 8th
Case 21 (2nd grade)- May 22 and May 23
EOG's- May 29-June 5
Mclass - Teachers prior to assessing students on the iPads in Mclass, you will need to follow the directions that Christine sent to you. You will now need to access your mClass assessments on your Ipad and laptop through the NCDPI Single Sign On (SSO) System on your iPad and computer. Here are the two resources she highlighted in her email:
Proctors have not been inserted and administrators are roughly put into the schedule (this is subject to change). Please let us know if you have any questions or notice anything that needs to be fixed/changed: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s3SeqB7TID2PIdt48-g1GftFovgpNJHjiqiYjmLV-6s/edit?usp=sharing
Testing Windows- It's that time of year!!! We know you have a lot on your plate and want to ensure we are providing proper supports. We are working hard to find proctors for the EOG's outside of our school and are ensuring if we do have to pull them, they are pulled evenly! Listed below are the windows for each test. If you need help organizing your schedule, please reach out to Alexandria.
NKT- May 16- May 31
MClass- May 14- June 4
EOY Math Assessments- Now until June 8th
Case 21 (2nd grade)- May 22 and May 23
EOG's- May 29-June 5
Mclass - Teachers prior to assessing students on the iPads in Mclass, you will need to follow the directions that Christine sent to you. You will now need to access your mClass assessments on your Ipad and laptop through the NCDPI Single Sign On (SSO) System on your iPad and computer. Here are the two resources she highlighted in her email:
MTSS Plans- All Tier II and III plans have to be reviewed and exited by May 31st, 2018 to allow time for conversion from EASi to ECATS/ECATS-MTSS. Work with your case manager to ensure these plans have been exited properly.
2018-19 The Elementary Programs at a Glance - this link provides information from the Academics department on instructional time for the school day.
Calendar/Important Links:
May 15- Proctor Training (EOG's); 9:20 in the media center
- Proctor Training (EOG's); 12:00 in the media center
May 16- Proctor Training (EOG's); 1:00 in the media center
May 17-CD Cohort meeting; 7:45am
May 18-Volunteer Luncheon
-Scheduling Committee Meeting; 7:45am (one rep per grade level needed)
May 22-SIP/Leadership meeting; 7:45am
May 24-Q4 electives end
-K-1 Theater Production; 7pm
May 25-Scheduling Committee Meeting; 7:45am (one rep per grade level needed)
June 6th - Field Day
June 8th - Last day of school for students
June 11th - Make up day for all staff members
**EOG Update- The EOG's are on the following dates. We will doing all EOG's in the traditional format except for Science. Science will be done on the computer.
May 29- 3rd and 4th ELA
May 30- 3rd and 4th Math
May 31- Vinson/Nightingale Science (computer)/Make-ups
June 1- FV/Goto Science (computer)/Make-ups
June 4- 5th Math/Make-ups
June 5- 5th ELA/Make-ups
June 6- Make-ups
May 15- Proctor Training (EOG's); 9:20 in the media center
- Proctor Training (EOG's); 12:00 in the media center
May 16- Proctor Training (EOG's); 1:00 in the media center
- Proctor Training (EOG's); 12:00 in the media center
May 16- Proctor Training (EOG's); 1:00 in the media center
May 17-CD Cohort meeting; 7:45am
May 18-Volunteer Luncheon
-Scheduling Committee Meeting; 7:45am (one rep per grade level needed)
-Scheduling Committee Meeting; 7:45am (one rep per grade level needed)
May 22-SIP/Leadership meeting; 7:45am
May 24-Q4 electives end
-K-1 Theater Production; 7pm
May 25-Scheduling Committee Meeting; 7:45am (one rep per grade level needed)
June 6th - Field Day
June 8th - Last day of school for students
June 11th - Make up day for all staff members
May 25-Scheduling Committee Meeting; 7:45am (one rep per grade level needed)
June 6th - Field Day
June 8th - Last day of school for students
June 11th - Make up day for all staff members
**EOG Update- The EOG's are on the following dates. We will doing all EOG's in the traditional format except for Science. Science will be done on the computer.
May 29- 3rd and 4th ELA
May 30- 3rd and 4th Math
May 31- Vinson/Nightingale Science (computer)/Make-ups
June 1- FV/Goto Science (computer)/Make-ups
June 4- 5th Math/Make-ups
June 5- 5th ELA/Make-ups
June 6- Make-ups
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