10/19/15 Daily Bulletin

Shout Out

Shout out to Lindsey Wright for assisting a colleague with the new system for writing IEP goals online. It entails a lot of cutting and pasting and can be cumbersome until you figure the process out. She was so pleasant, patient, thoughtful and very helpful.  This experience confirms my belief that people, although they may appear quiet, are really nice people and when given the opportunity to show their true self though acts of kindness, they will. Thanks!

Shout out to Anna Youman for taking on the Arts Liaison position and acting as a rudder in the art department at the Curley. We appreciate your support helping both the school and the families.

Shout out to Connie Redden for her hours of work around the school supporting technology. Thank you for your time and support.

Progress reports for students on IEPs

Dates for Progress Reports this year have been identified.  All progress reports will be completed on SEIMS.  I have attached the Power Point on how to access them.  Please let Joyce or I know if you have any questions.

Middle School (Grades 6th-8th) Dates

-First Term October 19th-Dec 2nd

-Second Term January 11th-January 27th

-Third Term March 28th-April 20th

-Fourth Term May 16th-June 8th

Elementary School Dates

-First Term November 9th-December 2nd

-Second Term February 29th-March 16th

-Third Term May 16th-June 8th

All progress reports should address each individual benchmark and include the rate of progress towards mastering the goals.

Win

The “soft launch” of the WIN block for students in grades 3-8 over the past two weeks has given grade level teams the opportunity to work out logistics and student assignments.  Once ANET testing is completed this week, we move into our next phase of WIN implementation, beginning October 26th, during which specific program instruction is expected to begin, if it hasn’t already. Rosters of students, by WIN placement, will be distributed this week for grade level teams to review and confirm, so that our WIN data spreadsheet is accurate and reflects current students’ assignments. Please take time during your grade team meetings to quickly review these rosters as well as confirm plans for moving students to their appropriate WIN rooms. Also, as standard operating procedure, all students should come to their WIN room with a pencil and an independent reading book, just in case technology is not working, or if substitutes are covering the period.Again, thank you for your continued hard work to assure that all Curley 3-8 students receive “what is needed” to be successful readers!

Movie Night Fundraiser for PACE

PACE will be holding a Family Movie Night Fundraiser on Tuesday, November 10th from 5-7pm (There is no school the next day). This event will help raise money for field trips which provide very important social and community experience for students on the Autism Spectrum. Tickets will be $3 a person and will include the movie ticket, popcorn and water. The movie will be Big Hero Six rated PG and all students must be accompanied by an adult. Staff is welcome to stay and help support PACE either by enjoying the movie, helping to supervisor or run concessions. Staff family members are welcome as well free of charge. Please email Kristen Mitchell for further details kmitchell@bostonpublicschools.org.

ANet

Thanks again for your patience during our first online testing session. This week is our A1 math session. Please check the schedule in the ANet folder which is located on the Google drive. Please email the names of any student that needs to makeup the ELA session to Adrian Ward-Jackson. The ELA data is ready for review. Please submit your ELA reteach plans to your evaluator by Friday October 23rd.

School Climate Team

Please join us on Wednesday, October 21st from 3:00pm-4:15pm in room 212 for the Climate Team Meeting.