11/10/16 Daily Bulletin

Shout Out

Shout out to City Year for hosting an amazing breakfast for staff today! It was a challenging morning for many and being greeted with delicious treats and hot coffee it quickly changed the building morale to more positive. Thank you for caring about the staff this week! Thank you!

Curley Shares Assemblies are Tomorrow!

Please make note of the share times/classes listed below so you know when your students are scheduled to attend. Assemblies will take place in the upper school auditorium so make sure to check in with your buddy class and review your plan for sitting together.

9:40-10:20

• K2/5th/PACE 3: Solimini, Lopez, Smith, Shea, Rand, Daly, Moran, Quatrale, Bryson, Mundo

10:20-11:00

• 3rd/8th/PACE 6 :  Garcia, Petmezis, Signes, Rivera, Quarterson, Mylett, 8A, 8B, 8F, 6F, 7G

11:20-12:00

• 2nd/7th/PACE 5 :  Burke, DaSilva, Redden, Beck, Maiden, 7A, 7B, 7F, 6G

12:40-1:20

• 1st/6th/PACE 4 :  Ciardi, Banks, Craman, Kidd, Clark, 6A, 6B, 6C, 8G

1:25-2:10

• K0-K1/4th/PACE 0-2 :  Cullen, Goldstein, Merdkhanian, Park, Guzman, Mitchell, Hyde, Perera, Pradas, Tefera, Wright, Javaloyes, Strait

Please check in with your grade-level Climate team representative if you have any questions regarding Curley Shares. Thanks!

International Week Update

There will be a Resource Exchange in the Teachers’ Room TOMORROW — Wednesday, November 9th — from 2:45-3:30 PM. If you have resources you would be willing to share with colleagues about countries you’ve visited or studied, please talk with Amika during the day or stop by after school.

Please also talk with your Big/Little Buddy colleagues to arrange exchanges during the short week before Thanksgiving. We encourage you to arrange exchanges with other classes as well, depending on what works best for you — we understand that scheduling across grade levels can be a challenge and a few classes are not participating in International Week this year. Please let Amika know if you need help with arranging an exchange!

Veteran's Day

Just a reminder that there is no school on Friday, November 11th in observance of Veteran's Day.

Early Release

We will dismiss early on Wednesday, November 23rd for the Thanksgiving Holiday at 12:30pm. A schedule for the day will come soon.

Grades Close (6th-8th)

Grades close for all 6th-8th graders on Thursday, November 10th. All grades are due to be uploaded by Tuesday, November 15th. Please do not forget to click POST. If there are any issues with you student lists please see Ms. Jackson ASAP.

Reading Progressing Monitoring (Grades 3-8 Only)

Progress monitoring using the STAR Reading Assessment will begin this month for all students reading below grade level as determined by the fall STAR reading data. This includes students ranked “On Watch”, “Intervention” and “Urgent Intervention”. See the Reading Progress Monitoring Schedule below. Please note that there is no progress monitoring scheduled during January or June. The Winter and Spring Reading Benchmark Assessment will take the place of progress monitoring during these months. Please contact Eileen Cronin prior to conducting any progress monitoring activity to assure that individual student goals are in place and if you have any questions. 

Reading Assessment Schedule

Week of	Progress Monitoring	Benchmark Assessment
11/14/16	PM1	X
12/12/16	PM2	X
1/4 – 1/13	X	Winter
2/13/17	PM3	X
3/20/17	PM4	X
4/24/17	PM5	X
5/22/17	PM6	X
6/12 – 6/21	X	Spring

Race Dialogues

Curley K-8 is partnering for the third time with YWCA Boston to offer Dialogues on Race & Ethnicity. We will be having an open, honest, and action oriented dialogue on race, ethnicity, and community. As a group we will learn about key concepts in racial equity and use personal experiences to foster deeper understanding of race’s impact in their lives. We will also develop an action plan to build a more inclusive and equity driven school community. 

At the Curley our core values are that We Care About Ourselves, We Care About Each Other, and We Care About Our School. Our community is a very diverse community so part of caring about ourselves, each other, and our school is being willing to engage in conversations about the different races and ethnicities that are apart of our community. By doing this we will build a stronger community bond by learning about and respecting the different cultures that we come from. 

So come out and be apart of our courageous conversation on race and ethnicity. We are looking to engage in conversations with a diverse audience. We will have our dialogues on race and ethnicity on 11/10, 11/17, 12/1, 12/8, and 12/15 from 5:30pm - 7:30pm. All dialogues will happen at the Curley. Food and childcare will be provided for children 3 and older. To sign up please contact, Sean Guthrie, Principal Fellow, at sguthrie@bostonpublicschools.org

Bulletin Boards

All bulletin boards should be updated by November 15th and each board should display student work (either final products or process) that ties directly to our instructional focus "Teachers will vary demands and resources, to optimize challenge in writing tasks, so students can express a clear, organized idea." If you need help please check in with your Climate Representative and don't forget to access added resources and description template here.

Math PD

Here is a flier with some upcoming PD dates and times.

Buddy Clean Up Information

Hello Curley Community,

Thank you for your participation in Buddy Day and at our Keep It Clean, Curley launch last week at Curley Shares.  There is a lot of excitement around these initiatives and we want to keep the momentum going! Beginning next week, we will launch our buddy cleanups.  Each class will be responsible for cleaning up their designated zone once each month.  You will decide on the time with your buddy teacher.

Here is everything you need to know about Buddy Cleanup:

Materials Needed

Routines and Procedures

Map of Cleanup Zones

Cleanup Calendar

Schedule at least 20 minutes for your cleanup.  Once your zone is clean, you might choose to stay outside and have the littles teach their bigs a game they’ve learned during Playworks class game time. Thank you to Ms Guzman, Ms. Merdkhanian, Ms, Tefera, Ms. Solimini, Ms. Bryson, Ms. Mundo, Ms. Ciardi, Ms. Silverstein, Ms. Hins, Ms. Redden, Ms. Fleming, Ms. Signes and Mr. Melzer whose classes will be cleaning our campus next week. If you take photos of your classes cleaning up together, please send them to us or put them in this folder.  We will add them to the Keep It Clean bulletin board in the lower school entry.

We recognize that these activities can take away from instructional time, but remember there is teaching and learning involved in building cross grade relationships and doing service for our school community.   We welcome any feedback on this new initiative.  We want make it as simple and easy for you to gather with your buddies and keep our campus clean!

 With care,

The Climate Team

Save Your Shoes

Cleaning out your closet? Save your old shoes! We need them for our Peacelove expressive arts workshop on November 15. Please drop shoes off in the box outside of Ms. Nason’s office in the lower school. Thank you!

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. Here is the link to sign up   https://goo.gl/forms/BwtGbumLgXBfLUMF2

• 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