2/12/18 Daily Bulletin

Shout Out

Shout out to Madeline Vazquez and Kathy Powers for their hard work managing the main offices. It is one of the busiest parts of the school and we appreciate all you do to keep our school safe and calm!

Curley Shares

Our January share is coming up this Wednesday, 1/24! Please review the Shares expectations and rituals with your class. Attached here are the times for each share as well as the schedule for which classes are expected to share this week. Thank you!

ILT

Please join us for ILT on Wednesday, February 14th from 3:45pm-5:00pm in Room 101. All staff are welcome! Please bring the book Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain with you! All staff are welcome.

SSC

Please join us for the February School Site Council meeting on Tuesday, February 13th from 5:30pm-7:00pm in Room 209. All staff and families are welcome to attend.

CPT at a Glance

Thanks to the staff who have provided feedback we will have a weekly update about what should be covered at CPT. The CPT at a Glance document will be updated each week. This week is a climate week and your climate representative should have 40 minutes on the agenda. Teams may also continue to reach out to Lindsey Morgan for support with data analysis.

Girls on the Run

This spring we will bring back Girls on the Run at the Curley! The season will begin the week of March 20th. The culminating 5K takes place on June 9th. We need coaches! Practices will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30-5:00 on the playing field. If you want to hear more about the coaching experience, talk to Meg Nason, Jenni Craman, Laura Shea, or Kelly Van Clief who coached our last GOTR team. Contact Meg Nason to join the team this spring.

February, 2018 Curley Cares Student Awards

Please recognize students who are doing their best to support the Curley Cares way by using theFEBRUARY 2018 FORM to submit names for your students to receive an award at our Wednesday, February 14, 2017 Curley Cares assemblies. These awards are intended to reinforce positive student behaviors in support of the Curley Cares rules and the expectation is that every Curley K8 student should receive at least one award each year. With this in mind, please refer to THIS LIST to see those students who have already received award(s) this school year. If you'd like to give more than 3 awards, please coordinate with your grade-level colleagues such as specialists or other staff. If it is for a larger group of students (such as a sports team, etc.) please email Kate (kdavis3@bostonpublicschools.org) directly. Please SUBMIT awards by 4: 00pm Monday, February 12 , 2018. Thank you!

Middle School Valentine's Dance

The Valentines Dance coming on Feb 16th. The dance will be used to fundraise for buses for Canobie Lake. For the dance, we are asking for your help. Please contact Nina Wessen and Maria Amy-Moreno with questions.

You can help us in the following ways:

• Dance admittance will be $3. Bracelets will be in your mailboxes by the week of Feb 12th. Please collect money and pass out bracelets on Friday, Feb. 16. If you would like, please drop off money and the amount fundraised to Nina in 209 and I can collect and give the money to Katie. 
• We are selling water bottles for $1 to further fundraise for Canobie. WE NEED YOUR HELP TO TELL STUDENTS THAT WATER WILL BE SOLD AT THE DANCE FOR $1. 
• There is a strict rule that students MAY NOT RUN in the gym during the dance. If caught running, students will be asked to leave. (We had a safety issue that occurred at the last dance). 
• We need more active supervisors during the dance. Please actively supervise and monitor the students during this time. We want to ensure the safety of our students and of the equipments. 
• Lastly, we will pass out music forms to all teachers on Monday. Please take the time to pass out these forms to your students and have them write in 1-2 appropriate songs that they would like to hear at the dance. We will not necessarily play every single song, but we will attempt to do so if the song is appropriate.

Amazon Smiles

AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support your favorite charitable organization every time you shop, at no cost to you. When you shop at smile.amazon.com, Amazon will donate a portion of the purchase price to our school. You can choose Friend of the Curley from the list offered. None of the items you purchased will be shared with us, it is a quarterly check written to Friends of the Curley from Amazon. http://smile.amazon.com/about

Nominations Open - Boston Educator of the Year

The City of Boston, BPS, and the BTU invite our stakeholders to nominate exceptional educators and to honor their work and dedication through the 2018 Boston Educator of the Year Award. The nomination deadline is February 28, 2018. Visit externalaffairsbps.org/eoy for nomination information and to nominate an educator.

MCAS

Please check out the MCAS Calendar April/May 2018 as you map out your planning for the spring. If you have any questions or concerns please reach out to David Diaz.

K2, 1st and 2nd Grade

The middle of the year testing window is open from January 22nd to March 2nd. If you have running records that show a student is reading on or above your grade's instructional level benchmark, you do not need to do the BAS with them. If a student is reading below the instructional level benchmark, you need to do the BAS to find the highest instructional level and their hard level.
The levels are as follows:
K2 - on or above instructional C
1st grade - on or above instructional G
2nd grade - on or above instructional L