11/2/15 Daily Bulletin

Shout Out

Shout out to all staff for their hard work in preparing our students for the PARCC assessment last spring. The unofficial data has been released and the Curley saw some positive gains! In ELA as a whole school we had an increase in CPI and SGP and in math we had an increase in CPI, SGP and Level 4 & 5 (formerly known as proficient and advanced)! In grades 3-5 ELA we had gains across the board which shows that their was a successful implementation of EL in just the first year! Grade 5 had above average growth scores in both ELA (69) and math (78.5). 6th grade had above average growth in ELA (63). 7th and 8th grade had math gains in CPI, SGP and Level 4 & 5 (formerly known as proficient and advanced)! You should all be proud of your hard work. Want to know how your current or former students performed? Check out the data here stored in the PARCC folder on our drive.

Curley Cares Student Awards

Please submit the names of any students you would like give a Curley Cares Award to during our student Curley Shares assemblies next Thursday, November 5, 2015. Submissions are due on Monday, November 2, 2015 by 5:00pm. Please be sure to include the homeroom of each student receiving an award as it will help ensure awards are sent to the correct assembly. Thank you all very much for helping sustain this effort to recognize our students - your support is appreciated! You can fill it out in Google Forms.

Safety Plan

Please click on this LINK and complete the fields for any facilities concerns you may have in order to comply with the plan. It is important that everyone fills this in by Friday!

PARCC

Attached is information about accessing PARCC resources that are now available.  You will need to create an account for yourself in order to be able access and examine the material. Resources include released items from last year's PARCC PBA and EOY assessments, rubrics, and samples of student work for math and ELA. Resources also include wonderful formative "instructional tasks" for K2 - Grade 2 also for both math and ELA. There are many other resources there as well and we are just in the beginning stages of exploring them all. Regardless of what the state decides in terms of assessments, we know whatever assessment is chosen or created will need to be aligned with our standards, and all these resources will help us do just that. We hope you find the collection useful!

Save the DATES!!!!!

Theatre Workshop / Saturday / November 14th / 9:00am

For school groups only. Experience a whole new world at BAA in the Theatre department. Audition Workshop / Saturday / December 5th / 9:30am

A great opportunity for students and families/caretakers to ask questions directly to the judges who will be making the decisions on audition dates. This event is open to the public and no registration is required! Winterfest / Thursday / December 17th / 10:30am at Berklee Performance Center

A holiday treat for students and teachers.  For reservations please contact Blanca Bonilla /bbonilla@bostonartsacademy.org

Faculty Senate Meeting

On Wednesday November 4 at 730 in the lower school conference room we will have our  first Faculty Senate Meeting. Faculty Senate can be very instrumental in fostering collaborative work between educators, staff and administration.  There is going to be a Boston Teacher Union organizer to run the first meeting.  I hope everyone can make it. 

AWC Meeting

Thursday afternoon from 3pm-4pm Curley staff and families are welcome to a meeting to discuss AWC and hear about the most up to date information from the district level to assure that all students have opportunities and access.

School Climate

The Climate team will meet on Wednesday November 4th from 3:00pm - 4:15pm in room 212.

Vision Screening

NEEI will be back Monday, November 16th to finish K1 & K2 vision screening and any students who were absent.