11/7/16 Daily Bulletin

Shout Out

Shout out to Jesse Cardoso, Cari Lopez, Waverly Kidd, Jessica Burque, Connie Redden, Lindsey Wright, Laura Merdkhanian, Olivia Peters and Danielle Moran for their participation in the first ELT meeting this past Friday. Thank you for all the ideas that were shared and we look forward to redesigning the school day for all our students together! Thanks!

Election Day

Tuesday, November 8th is Election Day and the Curley is a voting site. This will mean a lot of traffic around our school all day and potential parking issues. Please keep this in mind as you commute to school for Tuesday. There will be many adults in our building if you see anyone walk through the building to vote please escort them to the nearest door and have them walk through the voting entrance. Also the SPC is hosting a bake sale outside by the Upper School parking lot. Any and all donations are welcome and if students bring in items please leave with Kathy and Madeline in the main office. Students should not visit the bake sale unless accompanied by a parent.

ILT

Please join us for ILT on Wednesday, November 9th from 3pm-4:15pm in Room 214.

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

November, 2016 Curley Shares

Please submit student names for this month's Curley Cares student awards. Use this form to recognize up to three of the students you 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. All Curley K8 staff (not just homeroom teachers) can use the form to recognize students by giving a Curley Cares award. Take a look at this spreadsheet to see which students have already received awards.  Submissions are due by 8:00pm Monday, November 7 and will be presented to students during the Curley Shares assemblies to be held on November 10, 2016.

Staff Breakfast

Next Wednesday, November 9th, your City Year team would like to show our immense appreciation for all of you and the work that you do for the students at the Curley. We will be hosting a breakfast from 7:30-9:00 am in the teacher room in the upper school that will be open to anyone to come by when it is most convenient for you. There will be grab-and-go items if you don't have a lot of extra time, we know you're busy! Details are on the attached flyer, and we hope to see you there. Additionally, classroom teachers can pick up supply kits containing things like tissues and hand sanitizer as a gift from City Year.

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.

International Week Update

We hope staff has made country choices! See Amika, send her an email at amika45@gmail.com or use the attached Google Drive spreadsheet to record your choice - if you have not, already. Also, there will be about a 30-minute meeting of the International Week Planning Committee on Thursday, November 3 in Upper School Room 208 (Mr. Tewksbury's Room) from 2:45 - 3:15 pm. New members are welcome.

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