Shout Out
Shout out to Jon Hatch for coming to the rescue of a teacher in need with some wonderful teaching materials. Thank you for always being so supportive and generous with your time and resources. You are truly appreciated!Shout out to Mr. Bertoni and the boys basketball team for winning another game. This time in a tight one against Edison 44 to 43. Go Flying Lions! If you have any players on the basketball team in your class take a minute to congratulate them.
Shout out to Ms. Jackson for staying until 6:00pm on a Friday to help out with interviews.
Shout out to Ms. Tefera, Mr. Cardoso, Ms. Alves, and Ms. Taylor-Knight for another amazing production of The Lion King Friday night in front of a packed house. Thank you for being willing to spend two late nights for performances this week and overseeing 5 productions!
Shout out to Matt Ennis for getting a teaching position at Mather Elementary School.
Shout out to Ms. Alves for an amazing live performance this weekend at 10 Rocks restaurant.
The themes for the week will be as follows:
Monday: Curley Spirit Day
Tuesday: Sports Day (students are encouraged to wear gear and swag from a team they like)
Wednesday: Crazy Sock Day
Thursday: College Day (Teachers are encouraged to wear gear from their Alma Maters, and students from a college in Boston they support, or any other one they'd like to attend)
Friday: Grade level color day (Each grade and their grade buddies will be assigned a color to share)
8th and 3rd grades: Purple
7th and 2nd grades: Blue
6th and 1st grades: Green
5th and K2 grades: Red
4th and K1 grades: Pink
If there are any questions about next week don't hesitate to reach out to me via email or in the City Year team space. Thank you for your time and lets get our students amped up!
-The City Year Team
Please contact David with any thoughts or questions.
MCAS 2.0 Quick Check
MCAS 2.0 Roles and Responsibilities
Date: Monday, March 27th
Time: Schools may pass out hats at any time during the day
Who will Receive: All students grades K-8 and their classroom teachers
Share Your Stories: Please send any photos or quotes (from students with Media Releases on file) by emailing Tess Atkinson at tatkinson@bostonpublicschools.org or tagging BPS in any social media posts.
Use computer science to improve our bus stop placement and bus routing (solving a variation of the traveling salesman problem).
Using our more automated routes and community preferences, help us equitably and efficiently balance our school start times.
This event has attracted a wide range of professional computer scientists (FedEx, Uber, Microsoft, and others), academic researchers from local universities (Harvard, MIT, Boston University, and others), and various college and graduate students. We believe that a particularly precocious BPS student may be able to solve the problem so encourage them to participate, and that this event may provide tangible examples of computer science in action.
Thanks, April
We Take Care of Each Other... Submit Staff Curley Cares Awards
During next week's whole-school PD (Thursday, March 30 from 3:00-4:15), staff members will once again have the opportunity to recognize their colleagues by giving Curley Cares awards. This is your chance to acknowledge deeds (both big and small) that have made a difference in your work life. So take some time to consider the contributions of the people you work with each day and how their actions support the Curley K-8 "We Care..." philosophy. Chose one person who you would like to recognize and share your appreciation by filling out the Curley Shares Staff Award form. If you have any problems accessing the form, please contact Kate Davis or Laura Shea.
Submissions are due Tuesday, March 28, 2017 by 4:00pm.
MCAS 2.0 Testing Schedule
In preparation for the MCAS please take a look at the MCAS google slides. The administrative team will be visiting grade level meetings to go over MCAS logistics. Please take a look at the MCAS google slides so that you will be prepared to ask any questions you may have when the admin team comes to your grade level meetings. Below is the schedule of when the admin team will be at your grade level meetings.
MCAS Google Slides
Entering Grades Handout
Elementary Comment Codes Handout
How to verify that your grades are posted
Shout out to Ms. Alves for an amazing live performance this weekend at 10 Rocks restaurant.
Mandatory PD
We will be having a mandatory PD session this Thursday 3/30 from 3 - 4:15pm.10th Annual Curley Silent Auction
The Curley School Parent Council (SPC) will be hosting their 10th Annual Silent Auction at Canary Square on Tuesday, March 28th from 6pm-9pm and would like to extend an invite to all staff, friends and families. The money raised from the Silent Auction goes to directly supporting our school such as Playworks, BalletROX, Arts supplies, science supplies, staff luncheon, Chromebooks etc... There will be more information that will follow about the online auction. Any donations or specific questions can be directed to Ann DeGeorge (ann.c.degeorge@gmail.com) or Eyleen Iraola (eiraola@gmail.com).City Year
The MCAS is drawing nearer every day. To help keep students motivated and in school during this time City Year is hosting a school wide Spirit Week. I am attaching the flyers we're distributing in English and Spanish, each classroom will have a copy of both by tomorrow, and many will have them today. We are encouraging teachers and staff to participate as well to help keep morale high!The themes for the week will be as follows:
Monday: Curley Spirit Day
Tuesday: Sports Day (students are encouraged to wear gear and swag from a team they like)
Wednesday: Crazy Sock Day
Thursday: College Day (Teachers are encouraged to wear gear from their Alma Maters, and students from a college in Boston they support, or any other one they'd like to attend)
Friday: Grade level color day (Each grade and their grade buddies will be assigned a color to share)
8th and 3rd grades: Purple
7th and 2nd grades: Blue
6th and 1st grades: Green
5th and K2 grades: Red
4th and K1 grades: Pink
If there are any questions about next week don't hesitate to reach out to me via email or in the City Year team space. Thank you for your time and lets get our students amped up!
-The City Year Team
Library
We are excited to open our library in SY 2017-2018. Please refrain from taking books from this space or using it during the day or afternoon. We will need this time to prepare for our opening next year. Thank you!MCAS Update
We wanted to send you some MCAS information in advance of next week. As an admin team we have tried to think about how to best simplify this process for all teachers and in turn reduce stress for both staff and students. Attached are two documents for your reference. Teams should review these this week and pay close attention to student groupings since there have been updates.Please contact David with any thoughts or questions.
MCAS 2.0 Quick Check
MCAS 2.0 Roles and Responsibilities
Boston Red Sox Hat Giveaway!
Hat Giveaway DetailsDate: Monday, March 27th
Time: Schools may pass out hats at any time during the day
Who will Receive: All students grades K-8 and their classroom teachers
Share Your Stories: Please send any photos or quotes (from students with Media Releases on file) by emailing Tess Atkinson at tatkinson@bostonpublicschools.org or tagging BPS in any social media posts.
Computer Science Bus Route Efficiency Challenge
There is a computer science challenge event open to the public at District Hall in the Seaport District on Saturday, April 1st at 10:30am (registration and breakfast starting at 10am). We believe that some of our tech-minded students and staff may be interested in attending (please encourage them to RSVP here!). This event is the start of our first-ever Transportation Challenge -- which you can learn more about on our website -- that has two goals:Use computer science to improve our bus stop placement and bus routing (solving a variation of the traveling salesman problem).
Using our more automated routes and community preferences, help us equitably and efficiently balance our school start times.
This event has attracted a wide range of professional computer scientists (FedEx, Uber, Microsoft, and others), academic researchers from local universities (Harvard, MIT, Boston University, and others), and various college and graduate students. We believe that a particularly precocious BPS student may be able to solve the problem so encourage them to participate, and that this event may provide tangible examples of computer science in action.
Bulletin Board Reminder
Teachers please update your bulletin boards by Friday April 7th. Use this link to see bulletin board expectations. Use this link to print bulletin board template which should be posted on the bulletin board. Thank you.Lion King Performances
The Lion King performance dates have been announced:
Evening Shows
*****April 6 Shubert Theatre Doors open at 5 pm & Show starts at 5:30. (This is an amazing opportunity for all of our students!!!!!)
Evening Shows
Families are welcome to come to either performance and all students will attend one of the daytime performances.
Message From the Nurse's Office
Spring usually means an increase in field trips. With that in mind we ask that you watch this short video as a fresher on how to use an epipen. It is less then two minutes long. As a reminder, if you are going on a field trip or leaving the building with students it is important to check in with the nurses well in advance. Some students have medication that must travel with them and some students have medical conditions that may need monitoring or special consideration when they are out of the building. Please review permission slips carefully. There is a section in which parents are supposed to check off whether or not their child requires medication on a field trip. Also, please be aware if you have student's in your class who have Life Threatening Allergies. They are supposed to be listed on SIS but we have found that they are not always listed properly. Feel free to email or stop into the nurse's office if you are not sure about allergies in your class. There are emergency epipens in both offices. The epipens in the yellow box are for adults and older children. The ones in green boxes are for smaller children (usually 1st grade and under).Thanks, April
Staff Curley Cares Awards
We Take Care of Each Other... Submit Staff Curley Cares Awards
During next week's whole-school PD (Thursday, March 30 from 3:00-4:15), staff members will once again have the opportunity to recognize their colleagues by giving Curley Cares awards. This is your chance to acknowledge deeds (both big and small) that have made a difference in your work life. So take some time to consider the contributions of the people you work with each day and how their actions support the Curley K-8 "We Care..." philosophy. Chose one person who you would like to recognize and share your appreciation by filling out the Curley Shares Staff Award form. If you have any problems accessing the form, please contact Kate Davis or Laura Shea.
Submissions are due Tuesday, March 28, 2017 by 4:00pm.
MCAS (Changed as of 4pm on 3/17/17)
Below you will find the NEW MCAS testing schedule. We had to make some changes to the Math and Science testing dates. DOE is requiring all schools to test in the following sequence: ELA, Math, and Science. As a result, testing dates have been adjusted. Please print and save this calendar. Let David Diaz know if you have any questions. Please look at the new schedule by clicking on the following link:MCAS 2.0 Testing Schedule
In preparation for the MCAS please take a look at the MCAS google slides. The administrative team will be visiting grade level meetings to go over MCAS logistics. Please take a look at the MCAS google slides so that you will be prepared to ask any questions you may have when the admin team comes to your grade level meetings. Below is the schedule of when the admin team will be at your grade level meetings.
MCAS Google Slides
We Care About Our Community!
The Curley Community is excited to announce that we are launching a Community Caring Project this spring. We will kick off the project by hosting a school-wide Caring March on April 12th at 1:30pm. All staff and students will participate and families will be invited to march with us.
Many of our students have participated in marches for various causes over the past few months and there have been discussions in many classrooms about the rights of different groups of people in our community. There is some inspiring work already happening at the Curley. Ms. Strait’s 4th grade class is doing a Hunger Project, Ms. Mylett and Ms. Moran’s class is spreading kindness by making kindness rocks, and Ms. Merdkhanian’s K1 class had their own march after several students attended the Women’s March in February.
We would like for all classes to gather with their buddy classrooms to collaborate on this project. Students should think about what they care about, and work with their buddies to create signs and posters for the Caring March. There are lots of things that we care about in our community. The possibilities are endless!
Here are some things that students may care about and want to put on signs:
- Animal rights
- Illnesses
- Hunger
- Access to school
- The environment
- Immigrant rights
- LGBQ rights
Timeline for the Curley Community Caring Project
- March: prepare for the Caring March by talking to your students about what they care about and creating signs and posters with your buddy class
- April: March with your buddy class on April 12th at 1:30.
- May and June: Create and complete a community service project. Ideas, lesson plans, resources and support will be provided.
Winter Term Report Card Grading Window for Grades K2-5
The elementary grading (Grades K2 - 5) window is open from March 7th to March 24th. Please refer to the materials below for assistance entering your grades. After entering grades, teachers need to click the "Post Grades" button to write the grades to the report card.Entering Grades Handout
Elementary Comment Codes Handout
How to verify that your grades are posted
Instructional Focus Review - POSTPONED TILL 3/28/17
On Tuesday, March 28th from 8am-1pm representatives from BPS will join us for a walkthrough of classrooms and look for evidence of our Instructional Focus "Teachers will vary demands and resources, to optimize challenge, so students can express a clear, organized idea." Visitors may enter any classroom during this window.Hiring
Hiring season is here! We have 10 jobs posted on www.teachboston.org. We need your help in hiring the best teachers to join our team. Please sign up to be on the interview committee ASAP. No previous experience is necessary but we value your opinions.
Position
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Interview Date
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Interview Time
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K0/K1 ASD
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Wednesday, March 22
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3pm-6pm
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K1/K2 ASD
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Wednesday, March 29
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3pm-6pm
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Grade 1
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Thursday, March 23
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3pm-6pm
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Middle School Math
| Thursday & Friday March 23 & 24 |
3pm-6pm
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K-8 Theatre Arts
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Monday, March 20
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3pm-6pm
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Save the Date
Please reserve Friday, June 2nd for our End-of-the-Year and Retirement Party.
Place: Florian Hall
Time: 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Appetizers, Buffet, Music, Dance, Celebrations!Field Trips
Are you going on a field trip soon? Have you shared this information with the nurses and the cafeteria? This is a friendly reminder that the nurse's and cafe should be notified 2 weeks in advance of scheduled field trips. Teachers should also be carefully checking the returned permission slips. They should notify the nurse's office when a parent checks the "yes" box stating that their child requires medication while on the field trip.
Using ESS
If you wish to request a day off (medical appointments, religious holidays, professional day, bereavement, personal day etc...), sign on to Boston Employees Self Service (ESS, Please bookmark this page). When possible, request a personal day at least two weeks in advance. Staff members will request sub coverage through SubCentral (https://subcentral.bostonpublicschools.org/logOnInitAction.do). Please do not decide whether you think a sub is needed and submit the request as soon as you know a day you will be absent. We have many unexpected coverage needs that might need sub help. We are attaching a list of subs who usually work at the Curley upon request.
Sick Day Procedure (teachers and paraprofessionals)
- Call/Text Katie Grassa at 857-265-4954 immediately, no matter how late/early
- Enter the absence in SubCentral (teachers only). Link: https://bostonps.eschoolsolutions.com/logOnInitAction.do
- If it is after 6:30am, also send an email to Katie Grassa, David Diaz and the secretary.
If you wish to request a day off (medical appointments, religious holidays, professional day, bereavement, personal day etc...), sign on to Boston Employees Self Service (ESS, Please bookmark this page). When possible, request a personal day at least two weeks in advance. Staff members will request sub coverage through SubCentral (https://subcentral.bostonpublicschools.org/logOnInitAction.do). Please do not decide whether you think a sub is needed and submit the request as soon as you know a day you will be absent. We have many unexpected coverage needs that might need sub help. We are attaching a list of subs who usually work at the Curley upon request.
Sick Day Procedure (teachers and paraprofessionals)
- Call/Text Katie Grassa at 857-265-4954 immediately, no matter how late/early
- Enter the absence in SubCentral (teachers only). Link: https://bostonps.eschoolsolutions.com/logOnInitAction.do
- If it is after 6:30am, also send an email to Katie Grassa, David Diaz and the secretary.
Buddies Update
Are you struggling to think about what to do with your buddy classroom during these cold, snowy, winter days? Check out this link for ideas and feel free to add any fun ideas you may have!
Are you struggling to think about what to do with your buddy classroom during these cold, snowy, winter days? Check out this link for ideas and feel free to add any fun ideas you may have!
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/
- April 27th --- Understanding Disabilities and Services available
- May 18th --- Middle School Transition/Life Skills
- June 1st --- Inclusion
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/
- April 27th --- Understanding Disabilities and Services available
- May 18th --- Middle School Transition/Life Skills
- June 1st --- Inclusion
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