11/5/15 Daily Bulletin

Shout Out

Shout out to Nurse Regan and Nurse Pumphret for their communication and collaboration around supporting student health needs. Whether it is preparing for a field trip or organizing free flu shots for staff you have found ways to best support our staff. Thank you!

INTERNATIONAL WEEK UPDATE

Now that countries have been selected, it’s time to gather resources. This would be a great time to reach out to families! Please contact Amika and/or talk with your City Year Corps member (grades 3-8) if you would like help. Be sure to schedule time(s) with your Big-Little Buddy colleagues to visit one another’s classes on Monday &/or Tuesday, November 23rd/24th. This is when students will teach about their country and stamp visitors’ passports. NEXT PLANNING MEETING: Monday, November 9th, 3-3:30 PM – please join us!

Walkthrough

As part of our professional practice goal we will be tracking whole school improvements in implementing UDL practices. The first of 3 walkthroughs will take place November 10th. A range of classes will be visited by ILT members for approximately 15-20 minutes. During this time, ILT members will be taking low inference observation notes. This walkthrough in not evaluative and data will be shared through the ILT.

Water Jugs

Please take all empty water jugs down to the water room next to the teachers room. Some students have been using them as toys in the hallway and we would like to reduce distractions.

PD

Tomorrow there will be PD from 3-5pm for all adults participating in the Cohort 1 Literacy Collaborative training.

Curley Shares

Just a reminder that we will be celebrating our monthly Curley Shares tomorrow. 

2nd/7th 8:45-9:30

K0-1/4th 10:10-10:40

1st/6th 11:15-12:00

K2/5th 12:00-12:40

3rd/8th 1:25-2:10

Flu Shot

Representatives from Rite Aid will be coming to the Curley School on Tuesday 11/10 to administer Flu Shots to our staff. This Flu Clinic will run from 11am-12:30pm in the Lower School Office conference room. If you would like to receive a Flu Shot, please bring your Health Insurance Card with you that day. Rite Aid accepts 99% of Health Insurances for flu shots. Please direct any questions about the Flu Clinic to the Nurse's Office.

Field Trip

The nurse's need 2 weeks notice in advance of a field trip and should be given notification of all permission slips that say that the student requires medication during the day. If we have appropriate notification we can go through the list of students attending and determine if there are any medical conditions that staff need to be aware of while they are out of the building. We can also send along a first aid kit and any inhalers/epipens that must accompany the students. Please email Nurse Regan and Pumphret when you are planning your next trip.

November 25th

We will have an early release on November 25th. This means that we will dismiss students starting at 12:25pm and all adults can dismiss starting at 12:45pm.

Middle School 1st Term Grading Window

The first term grading window is open from October 29th until November 12th at 11:59 p.m. If you have any questions or problems, please contact Adrian Ward-Jackson. Also grades close on Friday, November 6th.

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! We are working on a response to all of your questions and will get this to you by the end of the week!

School Climate

The Climate team will meet on Wednesday November 4th from 3:00pm - 4:15pm in room 212. We will also have our monthly staff social at 3pm on Friday at Canary Square. We hope you can join us!

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!

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.

Vision Screening

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