May 20th

CELEBRATIONS!

• Great turnout for our New Family Event for incoming students in 2019-2020!
• Heather Callahan and Jen Page completed 67 assessments for students trying to qualify for SSA!
• Walk, Bike to School Day was a huge success!  Thanks to the following people for helping to make this event so successful (Diana Callahan, Rachel Ward, Alexandra Gamez, Dawn Spiggle, Jennifer Page, Jamika Robinson, Ny’Asia King, Holly Collins, Heather Burton and Travis Shillings)!  The kids really enjoyed the exercise!
• Ashley Cooper and Mallory attending the job fair!
• Jennifer Wiliams, Star Davis, Maggie Lohr, Ceil O’Laughlin, Mary English Hand, Alexandria Judge-Lenkeit, Mallory Mbalia for being a part of our interview team
• 5 Points 5K was a huge success!!  

Wish Well

• Andrea Trowell
• Rachel Frasier
• Sherry and family
• Melissa Pelton - has decided to resigned from her position in ID Mod 2 effective on Friday the 17th

Internet Server Down This WEEK!!!  (read if you did not see the email!)
You will have no internet access Tuesday (hopefully it will be back up at noon!)

What this means for you:  

Monday at 10:00-  please leave all printers ON and left ON Monday, May 20th. The county is doing a network electronics upgrade and will be connecting to your printers to match network configurations remotely --so even if your printer has no ink or paper and its on the network, turn it on and leave it on.

You will have NO printer access after 12:00 on Monday until Tuesday afternoon!

Tuesday at 7:00 am-  Classroom teachers will be taken off network.  Everyone else will be taken off at 9:00 am. The server team is starting with the classrooms to speed the process up.  Their goal is to have us back on the internet by noon on Tuesday. Our phones will be down. Once everything comes back online, please check the phones to be sure you see the screen is on.  If it is not, please let the front office know.

SIP Chair Members-  Please work with your team and nominate who your team would like to represent at the SIP team.  This does not have to be a rotation of who is up. We are looking for a team member that is passionate about school improvement, would be a great voice to represent your team and someone that can bring the information back to the team members.  Please submit your person by Friday!

K/1 Theater Production-  Join us this Thursday night for our K/1 production of at 6:30.  The theater elective taught by Ms. Spiggle and Mrs. Kellie have worked hard and will be sharing their talents with their families.  If you are unable to attend, the school will have the opportunity to attend the production on Friday. Please be on the lookout for an email from Mrs. Kellie!.  

Technology Inventory on Friday, May 31st in the afternoon!
(Yes, it’s the Science EOG)

This is the Yellow Butcher Pa per Andrea described to you….
There are more details available at http://inventory.wcpss.net.

This may be slightly disruptive in classrooms for a brief period of time on your inventory day(s). Please make every effort to assist the teams in moving quickly through your site in order to minimize disruption.

• To keep the barcode team’s visit as brief as possible, please:
• Have all technology gathered together in each room for the team to access (put on “yellow” butcher paper).
• Point out any technology that is hard to reach or not gathered together.
• The inventory team should not talk with you, they have been instructed to talk with Alexandria.  
• The barcode team will remove cases (iPads) from devices if needed. Teachers may speed up the process by doing this ahead of time, but it is not necessary. 

EVAAS
Thank you to the 85% of the staff that completed the EVAAS roster verification, you will be receiving an email from Travis with changes that we need to make to be in compliance -- we have 31 students over claimed and 51 underclaimed student %s.

Updates from media center
Student books are due Friday, May 24. Please have students come talk to Elizabeth or Barbara Westbrook (my sub) ASAP if they cannot find a book.
Feel free to schedule Media Center Stations with Barbara. Stations are a fun way to engage students in higher level thinking skills during these last hectic weeks.

Last day of electives this Thursday
Please have your elective report cards completed by May 31st.  This will allow you to have other things completed and all teachers an opportunity to start to print and make copies of the report cards! Specials schedule will coming out this week, we will follow the Friday schedule.

Cumulative Folders
Please remember to be collecting your work samples to go in the cumulative folders.  If you have any questions, please reach out to Alexandria. Additionally, please remember you need to do the following to put in the cumulative folders:
Photocopy Elective Report Cards
Photocopy Report Card

Professional Development Opportunities
Summer Writing Institute:  Due to popular demand, we are offering for the 3rd year in a row the Teacher Summer Writing Institute from June 17-21st at Carroll Middle School.  Please share this opportunity and Teacher Summer Writing Institute with classroom teachers at your school.  We have 50 spots available. First come first served!

Forest to Classroom PD
Forest to Classroom PD will providing a PD focused on STEM Education July 22-25, 2019 at Haw River State Park.  For additional information or to register, click here.

Skype a Scientist
Want to give your students the opportunity to get to know a real scientist without leaving your classroom?  SKYPE A SCIENTIST is a program that allows students to chat with scientists about concepts they are learning about in class.  Click here for more information.  

Assessment Literacy Canvas Course
Are you wanting to enhance your science assessment skills?  Check out the Assessment Literacy course found on Learning Central.  You can enroll in the self paced course designed for educators looking to explore various assessment topics- from common types of assessment to a framework for creating and designing assessments.  You can even earn CEU’s.

Save the Date for SciREN
Are you interested in meeting and talking to local scientists about how to adapt their research to use as material in your classroom?  Then please save the date for the 6th Annual Scientific Research and Education Network (SciREN) Triangle Networking Fair and Educator Open House at the The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh on 9/26/19.  SciREN brings K-12 STEM teachers, informal educators, and other interested parties together with STEM researchers from various universities and institutions around North Carolina. Click here for more information.  

Curriculum Information-  
Spotlight on 2019-2020 Lesson Revisions:
Throughout this month, be on the lookout for the 2019-2020 curriculum links to be posted on Cmapp!
Although the order of math units at all grades will remain the same, all units have been updated based on teacher feedback collected this year.
Skype a Scientist
Want to give your students the opportunity to get to know a real scientist without leaving your classroom?  SKYPE A SCIENTIST is a program that allows students to chat with scientists about concepts they are learning about in class.  Click here for more information.

Mclass updates-  Please read the following mClass EOY Reminders.

End of year Checklist - see here  (you received a paper copy, however links are live on this document)

End of Grade training dates -
This training sessions are for all certified staff members, if needed will be able administer the EOGs.  We will also be training Hall monitors in this capacity so that they can alleviate administrators. You will need to plan to attend this session if you have not already attended one. If this day and time does not work for you please let Mallory know.   See Mallory if you have questions about administering the EOGs.

Tuesday, May 21: 8:00am

Training session for proctors are below. You will need to attend one session. All Instructional assistants and office staff will need to be trained for EOGs. See Jennifer Page if you have questions about proctoring. She is trying to have parents proctor the EOGs, but are in need of quite a few more volunteers.

Volunteer tea

The tea will be on May 24th THIS FRIDAY!!! :) Please sign up for food or bring in cash (this goes to Mallory) - sign up
If you are willing to help set up after school on Thursday please let Mallory know.  Thanks!!!

Together we are better!  Feel free to share feedback/celebrations anytime here

Calendar/Important Links:

• May 23rd:  Q4 electives end
• May 23rd:  K/1 Production at 6:30pm
• May 24th:  Volunteer Tea from 11:30-2:00pm
• May 28th:  Leadership Meeting at 7:45 am
• June 4th:  Business Meeting at 7:45am
• June 7th:  Field Day
• June 7th:  First Friday (CAM):  6-8pm
• June 11th:  School Family Assembly
• June 11th: Fifth Grade Celebration -- Day’s events
• June 11th:  Student’s last day
• June 12th: Workday