9/19/16 Daily Bulletin

Shout Out

Shout out to City Year Boston and the Staples Team serving at the Curley K-8! We truly appreciate being selected for Red Jacket Weekend and we love the updates around the building. Thank you also for hosting a great family field day for our community. You continue to remind us of the importance of service learning. Be sure to check out the Lower School ramp, outside play area and the stairwell by the auditorium and gym for updates.

Shout out to Sharon Pina Pitts for being her awesome self. She can take on any job and easily shift gears. Thanks for being a great teammate and remaining calm when things get hectic.

Shout out to Laura Shea for reminding support staff to bring and utilize visual aids with her students outside the classroom. So exciting to see during the first week of school!

Bulletin Boards

Just a reminder that our first bulletin boards should be completed by 5pm on 9/22 for Open House. We are asking teachers to display any word around Curley Cares learning that has occurred. Also each bulletin board should be accompanied by this document which defines our Instruction Focus, Standards being addressed and a task description.

EDFS

We are extending the due date for Self Assessments till Friday, September 23rd. We apologize but there have been a few EDFS issues that we are working to resolve. 

Reserving Space

If you are interested in reserving the Playing Field or the Auditorium please go to curleyk8.blogspot.com. On the right hand side you will see the title Helpful Links (below the calendar) Click on Book Playing Field or Book Auditorium and submit your request. Requests must be submitted for use.

City Year

Tomorrow (Monday) City Year will not be in the building until 1pm.

Open House

Our Open House for all families will take place on Thursday, September 22nd from 5pm-7pm. Please encourage families to attend. 

School Climate Team

Our first climate meeting of the year will take place on Wednesday, September 21st from 3pm-4:15pm in room TBD. Be sure to choose a grade level representative.

BPS Assessment Calendar

Click This link to access the BPS Assessment Calendar.

STAR Reading Assessment Window(Gr. 3-8 Only)

The fall screening window for the STAR Reading Assessment is September 8 – 21. All teachers should have received a user name and password. Student user names and passwords have also been distributed to those teachers who have confirmed their student rosters. An instructional PowerPoint, to share with students, is on the Curley Drive: https://docs.google.com/a/bostonpublicschools.org/presentation/d/1d1U9ahF7su-CqoZ2zxr-Z9mpt0K7TMdJLCNdcI9P1_0/edit?usp=sharing (Thanks, Ms. Peters!) Please contact Eileen Cronin if you have any questions.

Summer Reading Update

Student response forms for summer reading are available. Students who complete the form, detailing their favorite summer read, will have their picture displayed along with their response, on bulletin boards in the upper and lower schools. Students will also receive Certificates of Recognition at the first Curley Shares. Please return completed forms to Caitlyn Gable (K-2) or Eileen Cronin (3-8) by September 20th.

Curley Student Email and Login Info

For those teachers using Chromebook carts and in need of student login information, you can access student email addresses and passwords on the Curley K8 shared drive in the Technology folder. Student user IDs are their email address; their passwords are their 8-digit date of birth. The AllStudents_EMAIL spread sheet is tabbed by grade level. Since it is only the 1st full week of the school year, please expect the list of students to change.
If you notice any errors in the spreadsheet, please inform Kate Davis (kdavis3@bostonpublicschools.org).

If students are unable to login, check that they have entered their email address and DOB correctly. If they have entered their data correctly and are still unable to login, please email Connie (credden@bostonpublicschools.org) or Kate and include the student's BPS ID number and name. The spreadsheet will be updates over the next few weeks and file with student login data in label format will be shared as well.

Math Updates

1. Logging onto the Pearson platforms.
Teachers and school administrators can access digital material for Investigations 3 and CMP3 by logging onto http://bostonpublicschools.org/backpack with a BPS email address, finding the Pearson icon in the math section, and clicking on it. Student rosters at this site starting tomorrow and these will be updated daily but schools to have scheduled students for math classes since these rosters are not organized by homeroom. We know some schools are experiencing some technical difficulties gaining access through backpack and we are working hard to get those resolved. Investigations 3 includes Beginning of Year (BOY) assessments for Grades 1 - 5 that are available digitally but we are also posting pdf versions of these BOY assessment to our web page. CMP3 has beginning-of-unit readiness assessments but not Beginning of Year (BOY) assessments.

2. CMP3 PD sessions for Grades 6-8 and Investigations 3 PD sessions for Grades 3, 4, and 5
These sessions are for teachers who were not able to attend our introductory sessions in August. Please encourage your teachers to participate.
Here are dates and locations:
Grade 1-2 Sept. 20th 8:30-3:00 School Committee Chambers
Grade 3-5 Sept. 20th 8:30-3:00 School Committee Chambers

K2, 1st and 2nd grade teachers
The BOY BAS window will be open from September 19th to October 21st. Caitlyn Gable will be creating a schedule of testing coverage TBA. Please email her with any dates that you won't be in the building during the testing window.

Documents to Collect

All staff should be tracking the return of the following items:

• Blue BPS Guide Books 
• Emergency Cards 
• Health Records 
• Supply $ (Grades 3-5) 

Attention K2-5 Teachers

Please Sign Up for Class Game Time (CGT) with Playworks
Coach C. needs teachers in grades K2-5 to select a time for Class Game Time (CGT) with Playworks. Each classroom teacher should choose ONE time slot on either Schedule A or Schedule B on the shared CurleyCGTschedule doc. Class Game Time will meet every other week based on Coach C's final schedule. If you have any questions, please check in with or email Coach C (crystal.rosa@playworks.org).

Lower School Bathrooms

The first floor lower school bathrooms are for K classrooms only. Many of the PACE students need adult supervision when using the bathroom therefore we are asking students first grade and up to use a different bathroom. 1st -4th grade home rooms who use the lower school lunch room should review with their class the location of the closest bathroom before going to lunch. Lunch moms have already been informed of the changes. Also the second floor male staff bathroom will continue to be a PACE only bathroom. There is a male staff bathroom located directly below it on the first floor. Thank you everyone for being flexible with these changes, our students and their families greatly appreciate it.

SPED PD Options

Below are some PD options being offered at the Curley during our contractual PD dates. Staff may want to include one or more of these into their team PD plan.

• Sept 29th --- Understanding and Implementing IEPS (A--Specialists, B--Classroom Teachers) 
• Oct 20th --- Goal Writing for Special Education Teachers 
• Nov 17th --- The IEP Process/Meeting Expectations 
• Jan 19th --- Paperwork/IEP Progress Reports 
• Feb 16th --- Tier 1 and Tier 2 Interventions/curriculum modification 
• March 16th --- Behavior Supports 
• April 27th --- Understanding Disabilities and Services available 
• May 18th --- Middle School Transition/Life Skills 
• June 1st --- Inclusion 

Parking Lot

The parking lots are for Curley Staff ONLY. Please speak to all student teachers to assure they know this policy. Also when you arrive please pull all the way in so those that follow you can see if there are spots available. Just a reminder that no one owns a spot

Note from our Nurses

BPS Health services require that all staff must complete two training modules.
1. Blood Bourne Pathogens (slide show and test)
2. Epipen (training module and staff quiz)
This email contains the link for the staff Epipen Training and a short quiz. All staff should click on this link and first complete the "School Staff Training Module" on the left. After you have completed the training module please click on the "School Staff Quiz" link on the right. Once you have completed the quiz please print out your certificate and bring it to the nurse's office. You will be "signed off" once you have the certificate and participate in a brief Epipen demonstration in our office. We ask that all staff have this completed within the first two weeks of school. We have many student's here at the Curley with life threatening allergies. It is important that they are safe in school.

There is also a link for the Blood Borne Pathogen Slide Show and another for the Blood Borne Pathogen Test. Please view the slide show. Once you have completed the slide show, print out the test, complete it and return it to the nurse's office with your epipen certificate.

https://bpshealthservices.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/microsoft-powerpoint-bbp_ppt_09.pdf

http://www.allergyhome.org/schools/management-of-food-allergies-in-school-what-school-staff-need-to-know/