3/30/16 Daily Bulletin

Shout Out

Shout out to Liz Spring for supporting teachers in completing their MCAS Alt portfolios. We all appreciate your time and dedication for this assessment tool. Our students are making progress and this will help us show everyone the amazing work they can do. Thanks!

Shout out to the SPC for planning and hosting the Annual Silent Auction! We appreciate all you give to the Curley community and feel so lucky to have you on our team! THANK YOU!!!

Shout out to Genet Mehari and Olivia Peters for assisting with interviews for the middle school science position. We appreciate your time and support in the hiring process! Thanks!

School Climate Surveys

Please make sure that the BPS School Climate Surveys go home with students and encourage families to complete them. This information is important to our school! Also we are asking teachers to complete the survey with their students and for themselves as well. We use this data as we plan for next school year! Your voice and opinions matter so please complete it. If families want the online link it can be accessed here: http://www.bostonpublicschools.org/Domain/737

Artifacts

All artifacts must be uploaded on EDFS by Friday, April 15th. Everyone should be uploading the most up to date data for your student learning goal. Also please reread your Formative Evaluation and see what else your evaluator said you need by the Summative Evaluation.

School Climate

There will be a School Climate Team meeting on Wednesday, March 30th from 3:00pm-4:15pm in room 212. All are welcome!

Bulletin Board

It is time to switch our boards again. All bulletin boards must be changed by Friday, April 1st. (This is not an April Fool's Joke ;) Click here for the link to the bulletin board template.

April 7, 2016 Curley Cares Student Awards

 Click on this link and fill out the form to recognize the students we work with who exhibit consistent or improved understanding of the Curley Cares rules as demonstrated by a specific deed, general conduct, overall academic perseverance and/or improvement, or some other form of participation.


Awards will be presented during the next Curley Shares assemblies scheduled for Thursday, April 7, 2016. Submissions are due by 4:00pm Tuesday, April 5, 2016 Thank you!

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To receive email confirmation of your submission, please do the following:

Check the "send me a copy of my responses" box before clicking "submit". You should receive an email confirmation that your submission was received. In addition, email me (kdavis3@bostonpublicschools.org) with any questions or concerns.

Wake Up The Earth

Please bring your family, friends, schools, whatever; join us in the Parade that will kick off the 2016 Wake Up the Earth Festival, May 7. Please forward our flier to your families and friends.   For more information please see spontaneouscelebrations.org or google Wake Up the Earth Parade.

PARCC Update Teacher grades 3-5

As we are moving closer to the testing date, I am going to start sharing more information with you regarding PARCC. I know that there is a lot of information out there but I am checking with Mark Racine the District's Director of Technology regularly to make sure that you have all the necessary information. Please take time to revise the following documents :

5 Steps to Preparing you School for the PARCC Assessments 

• Familiarize yourself with the changes from paper-based to online assessments. Compare traditional question types to online assessments using this question mapping tool for elementary students and middle-school students. 
• Give staff & students a practice test in the testing platform. Visit the PARCC Practice Test site to take samples for ELA or Math 
• Familiarize staff & students with accessibility and accommodation features. View the full accessibility manual here or take a practice test using large print, TTS, accommodated screen reader, ASL, or Braille versions by visiting the practice test page. 
• Prepare students by walking them through the PARCC tutorial prior to the actual assessment. Visit TestNav tutorial page to practice in the TestNav app.
• Encourage students to practice typing at home and at school. Visit the Typing page to find free typing resources for elementary or middle grades.
• Please note for step 4, students should be able to log on the TestNav app (located on the lower side corner) using the Chrome books. Students do not need a password and they are able to see their scores when they complete the practice test. The links work best with Safari and Firefox. 

SAVE THE DATE!!!!

Reserve the date, Mark your Calendar, Let's Celebrate - End-of-the-year celebration and retirement party

Thursday, June 9, 2016

5:00-10:00 p.m.

The Florian Hall

55 Hallet Street, Dorchester, MA 02124

Buffet, Music, Surprises

More information in the coming weeks

Curley Cares Funds Committee

AWC for All

Please join us for an open community meeting regarding AWC for All. We will meet on March 31st from 3pm-4pm.

Trauma PD

Many staff have been talking about getting support for students who have experienced trauma and ways to best support them in the classroom. Check out this amazing PD opportunity through UMass Boston. I personally know some of the facilitators who are educators in Boston and I strongly recommend the course. Click here for more information.

PARCC

Here is the PARCC Draft Schedule for May. Please take time to review this and send all ideas, questions and concerns to David Diaz on how to best improve this schedule. It is important that we solidify these dates on the calendar. We will need "All Hands On Deck" during this testing window.