11/22/17 Daily Bulletin

Shout Out

Shout out to Paola Locke for being open to feedback around supporting her students. It has been incredible to watch you implement the feedback immediately and curb student behaviors.


Shout out to Amika for having this wonderful experience during International Week. Students from the SLIFE Program in Ms. Mundo and Ms. Travers presented today to Ms. Bryson's room and shared their learning about the location, history, customs, and culture of Yemen from both research and teacher’s experience abroad. From photos, students recreated scenes from Yemen using watercolors. Additionally, students dressed up in traditional clothing to represent Yemeni people. Using graphic organizers, they wrote about one specific subtopic of Yemen and drew a picture to support information in their power point presentation.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS MCAS TEST DESIGNS  The test designs, number of sessions, question types, and other information related to the ELA MCAS tests are now available: 2018 ELA Test Designs: Grades 3 - 8 Mathematics MCAS Test Designs Please review the following documents that describe MCAS Math test designs, question types, and other information related to the mathematics tests: 2018 Mathematics Test Design: Grades 3-8

Curley Cares Gift Drive

We would like to run a gift drive here at the Curley for the month of December. Please let Kristen Mitchell, know if you are interested in helping to organize this year's gift drive. Please email her at KMitchell@bostonpublicschools.org.

Secret Snowflake

The climate team is running a secret snowflake event. This is a great way to spread cheer around the Curley. Don't worry if you don't know many people outside of your grade level team. We have a Snow Flake Interest Google Form you to fill out. Everyone who fills out the form will be entered into a name drawing. You will then collect your snow man's interest sheet and start planning goodies and surprises for them. For more information please look here.

Fall Term Report Card Grading Window for Grades 1 - 8

The fall grading window for students in grades 1-8 is will open from November 20th to December 10th. Please refer to the materials below for instructions on entering grades.
Reminder: After entering or editing grades in the scores tab, teachers must click Post Grades to write the grades to the report cards. Grades will be saved as you enter them but they will not appear on the report cards until you click Post Grades. (Note: Online it will say Grades 1-5 because we changes to that grading schedule)
Entering Grades Handout
Elementary Comment Codes Handout
How to verify that your grades are posted

Early Release - November 22nd

Wednesday, November 22nd will be an early release day for students. We will operate on a modified schedule for the day. You may view the Early Release Schedule for more information. Please note that there are several changes from the regular schedule, so please be sure to check your scheduled times for lunch and specials. Please also note that dismissal will begin at 1:00 pm. Contact David Diaz or Laurie Ciardi with questions or concerns.

INTERNATIONAL WEEK WRAP-UP

Don’t forget to post a couple of your best photos of International Week activities on the Google Drive. Please add a brief caption about what students were working on! Since several classes are planning to do exchanges this week, Amika will stop by on the Wednesday AFTER Thanksgiving to take down room signs and pick up country stamps. There will also be a survey sent out soon to gather information and feedback on this year’s International Week activities.
Remember that International Week provides just a brief introduction to the richness of our diverse cultural heritage: please review the “Addressing Bias” document for ways to extend global studies throughout the school year. If homeroom teachers hold onto passports, you can encourage students to “stamp” or mark them whenever they learn something about another country or people in the world!

Health and Wellness

The Health and Wellness committee will be performing an environmental audit on Dec 11 (7:30-10am) at the school library. The purpose of the audit is to look for areas in which is in need of environmental and health improvements at the school. To help with the audit, please complete the survey. This will help the committee narrow down specific areas to focus in on during the audit. Please complete the survey by Dec 5th and your name will be entered to win a special Dunkin Donuts treat!

The Health and Wellness Committee will email the results of the survey, the audit, and suggestions for improvements as soon as both are complete. If you would like to be apart of the Environmental Audit of our school please sign up via Al Vega at al.vega@masscosh.org or Nina Wessen at nly@bostonpublicschools.org.

Bulletin Boards Updated by Friday, December 1st

Bulletin boards communicate the values of our school. Bulletin boards are a window into our classrooms that allow us to share the teaching and learning happening inside. Bulletin boards send a message to students that their work is important and valued here. Please update your bulletin board by Friday, December 1st. You must also include the Curley template which describes the learning your students are doing that links to the instructional focus.

Special Education Progress Reports

1. K0/K1 and K2 do not have to complete progress reports this round. This is due to the fact that they do not receive report cards in December.
2. Progress Reports for Grades 1-8 are due by the end of the Day Tuesday, November 28th.
3. Video Progress report: https://youtu.be/1QB2NUuXtVU
4. When entering progress reports please make sure you a entering in your domain/goal area. There are no headings and you will see all goals for all providers when you log in.
5. Do not click Finalize. Click Save and Move On. Karen and I will do the finalization. If you finalize before all providers have entered they will be locked out.

Staff Text - Free Copies in Upper School Main Office

ALL STAFF (teachers, paras, lunch monitors etc...) can sign out their free copy of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain by Zarretta Hammond. This will be an anchor text for our community throughout this year and possibly next year as well. Your ILT representatives will be checking in with you about reading the Introduction and Chapter 1. They will lead each team through a text protocol discussion as well. If you are not a part of a team we encourage you to join a team for this learning experience. The books belong to the school however staff may put their names in them and highlight/take notes in the text.