Shout Out
Shout out to Lindsey Wright, Waverly Kidd, Olivia Peters and Laurie Ciardi for their active participation in the 1st ELT planning meeting with our Schedule B schools. We look forward to further collaboration with you all. Thanks!
Shout out to David Diaz and Adrian Ward Jackson for leading the School Showcase on Saturday. Many families came out to tour the Curley School and may just choose us to educate their child next year. Thank you for giving up family time to support our school!
Shout out to David Diaz and Adrian Ward Jackson for leading the School Showcase on Saturday. Many families came out to tour the Curley School and may just choose us to educate their child next year. Thank you for giving up family time to support our school!
ELT Planning Meeting
Today 4 staff volunteered to attend the ELT Planning Meeting. We met at the BTU from 8:30am-3:30pm with 7 other schools that will be adding 40 extra minutes to their day in SY2016-2017. We want to be sure to communicate with staff after each meeting to assure that this process is transparent.
Here are some key messages we would like to share from today's learning:
- Our Extended Learning Time initiative is about building a better school day for our students, teachers and families.
- With more time, our school will have more opportunities to provide targeted learning time for students, increase small group instruction, provide enrichment opportunities in order to increase student engagement and academic outcomes. At our first session we identified these urgent needs:
- African American and Hispanic males do not perform on standardized tests at the same level as their White and Asian peers.
- ELL and SPED students do not perform on standardized tests at the same level as their general education peers.
- Overall as a school we struggle with reading and writing skills according to standardized tests.
- We are just at the beginning and we need you to play an active role in the process of developing a new school experience for our community.
- Between January and June the ELT Team will implement a community engagement process moving forward, stay tuned for meeting dates and other pertinent updates.
- In the coming weeks you can get involved by reaching out to a member of the ELT team with questions and ideas (Ciardi, Grassa, Kidd, Peters, Wright). Click Here and you can submit your ideas and questions anonymously.
BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT PD OPPORTUNITY
The Applied Behavior Analysis Department will be hosting a three-part Behavior Management Professional Development Series in 2016. See attached flyer.
RSVP for these sessions here:
- Session 1: Behavior Assessment
- Session 2: Behavior Support Plans
- Session 3: Advanced Problem Solving
Tenacity
Attention Curley Staff! Tenacity’s Annual Mid Year Ceremony is next Thursday, December 17, 2015 in the lower school café! The invitation is open to ALL Curley staff who wish to come by and support Tenacity students’ hard work this semester! Please feel free to stop by (even if just for a quick hello J ) to check out our student work displays and mingle with Tenacity’s students, families, and staff! There will also be tennis activities and fun videos of students in action and playing tennis! A short presentation/awards ceremony will follow dinner and begin around 6:25pm. We hope to see you there!
Coat Labeling
Please encourage students and families to label coats with student's names. There are many coats placed each day in the lost and found and we want to try to return them to the rightful owner.
Door Painting this Thursday
Come join the Climate Team, City Year and a few of our students this Thursday for door painting. Let's get a fresh coat of paint on our 1st floor doors! We'll have music and pizza and to assure the time passes quickly. Email Jesse Cardoso with your RSVP or any questions.
Curley Holiday Shopping Night
Buy your presents on Thursday, December 10th
from 4pm-8pm and our wonderful local businesses will donate 10% of their sales
during that time period. So far, businesses include Streetcar, On Centre,
Kitchen Witch, Boing and Stella and Dot.
Artifacts
Just a friendly reminder to all staff that artifacts must be uploaded to EDFS by December 15th. Administrators need time to review artifacts prior to writing Formatives. Please remember that 2-3 items should be uploaded for each goal (Student Learning & Professional Practice) AND each standard (I, II, III, IV). This means around 12-18 artifacts, we know you are doing many amazing things but uploading more than that makes it challenging to review each item thoroughly. Be sure that there is evidence tagged to each goal and standard. Also note that it is just as important to include a thorough description of what you uploaded. Do no assume that the evaluator will know why you choose to upload a particular document. Please let your evaluator know if you have any questions.Health and Wellness
There is no Health and Wellness meeting tomorrow. We apologize for any inconvenience.PD Opportunities for Teachers
February Institute:
ELA and Math teachers in Grades 3-8: During the February Institute (formerly known as the February Acceleration Academy), teams of select BPS teachers will work with district Professional Learning and Academics leaders to design cognitively demanding tasks for a variety of student learning needs. Teacher leaders participating in the February Institute will extend this work by coaching teachers of the April Academy and Summer Learning Programs. Together these teams of teachers and leaders will help pilot these engaging new approaches while providing students with extra week(s) of high-quality instruction. Full details of the February Institute position can be found in the February Institute Teacher Leader Job Description.
UnboundED: Grade 4 ELA teachers & Grade 9 Algebra teachers: The UnboundED Conference has a two-branched approach designed to build both content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge, deepening teachers’ understanding of what should be taught and how to best teach it. The branches will focus on either 4th grade ELA or Grade 9 Algebra I instruction. Cross-school cohorts of teachers will experience what it is like to be a learner in the context of our new standards and to develop their proficiency with strong instructional techniques to help students meet those new standards. Full details of the UnboundED teacher leader position can be found in the UnboundED Teacher Leader Job Description.
Reminder: After entering or editing progress grades in the scores tab, teachers must click Post Grades to write the grades to the progress reports. Grades will be saved as you enter them but they will not appear on the progress reports until you click Post Grades.
Reminder: After entering or editing grades in the scores tab, teachers must click Post Grades to write the grades to the report cards. Grades will be saved as you enter them but they will not appear on the report cards until you click Post Grades.
UnboundED: Grade 4 ELA teachers & Grade 9 Algebra teachers: The UnboundED Conference has a two-branched approach designed to build both content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge, deepening teachers’ understanding of what should be taught and how to best teach it. The branches will focus on either 4th grade ELA or Grade 9 Algebra I instruction. Cross-school cohorts of teachers will experience what it is like to be a learner in the context of our new standards and to develop their proficiency with strong instructional techniques to help students meet those new standards. Full details of the UnboundED teacher leader position can be found in the UnboundED Teacher Leader Job Description.
PARCC Data
Please used this LINK to find PARCC data that you can manipulate to sort by any of the categories in the top row. To do so click on the triangle in the top right corner in each cell and choose how you want to filter the data. You can manipulate on Google Sheets or download the document into Excel. If you download into Excel please highlight the top row and click Data, Filter, Auto Filter to be able to sort through data. Please invite an administrator to attend this meeting if you need support. All teams should review this before the winter break.
ILT
Please join us for ILT on Wednesday, December 9th from 3pm-4:15pm in Room 111.
SSC
Budgets are due out this week to schools and therefore the SPC meeting has be postponed until Tuesday, December 15th from 5:30pm-7pm in room 101.
Grades 6 – 8 Term 2 Progress Reports
The term 2 progress grading window for students in grades 6-12 will open from December 3rd to December 14th.Reminder: After entering or editing progress grades in the scores tab, teachers must click Post Grades to write the grades to the progress reports. Grades will be saved as you enter them but they will not appear on the progress reports until you click Post Grades.
School Showcase
We have three more showcase sessions Friday, December 11th from 9-10am, Friday, December 18th from 9-10am and Thursday, January 14th from 3-4pm.Fall Term Report Card Grading Window for Grades 1-5
The fall grading window for students in grades 1-5 is will open from November 23rd to December 11th. Please refer to the materials below for instructions on entering grades.Reminder: After entering or editing grades in the scores tab, teachers must click Post Grades to write the grades to the report cards. Grades will be saved as you enter them but they will not appear on the report cards until you click Post Grades.
ACCESS Certification
Training for ACCESS needs to be re-completed by the entire staff by Monday, December 21, 2015. To complete the training go to the wida website: https://www.wida.us Log on (if you can't remember your password remember that your email may have been yourname@boston.k12.ma.us ) all accounts previously created are still active. To create a new account: Type in username: massachusetts, password:patriot and create a new account.
Once you log on you need to go to the paper-based Grades 1-12 training. Make sure you are under the Test Administrator tab (not coordinator). You will find a checklist that needs to be completed as well as the link for the tests you have to take. Once the test is completed please turn your training certificate to Kathy or Madeline. Kindergarten teachers need to take the Kindergarten training and test. All SAR and PACE teachers need to take the Alternate Access Training and test. If you have questions please contact Waverly.
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