2/14/18 Daily Bulletin

Shout Out

Shout out to the Curley Attendance Team for being recognized yesterday at the SEL conference for having "GOLD" attendance. Our attendance team has worked hard to improve attendance outcomes, communicate with students, created plans that support families and collaborated with teacher to get students to school each day! Thanks to the Curley Attendance Team, Kayla Corshia (SW Intern), Risgairy Marrero (Guidance Intern), Traci Arnold (City Year), Hali Holtzman (City Year), Sugeily Santos and Jessica Burque.

100th Day of School

Wednesday is the 100th Day of School!!!!

City Year Grades 3-8

City Year would like to introduce you to an SEL initiative that invites students to recognize each other for showing that “Curley Cares.” All students in grades 3-8 are eligible to participate. The initiative asks students, alongside City Year AmeriCorps members, to act as “detectives” on the lookout to catch students around the school caring. A poster with pull-off tabs attached to its bottom will hang in every participating classroom. When students or a City Year see a classmate “caring,” and with teacher approval, they can rip off a tab, write the name and grade of the student who was caught caring, and place the filled-out tab in the manila envelope located next to the poster. Students should use Curley values (i.e. “I care about myself, my classmates, and my school”) to determine whether or not a student should receive a tab. We are asking teachers to introduce the initiative to participating classrooms, grades 3-8, the week of February 26th so students are prepared to start their search for caring classmates by March 5th. Guidelines both for students and teachers could be found here. City Year will collect and count all tabs by March 22nd. Recognized students will be entered into a raffle for various prizes, like a brand new backpack. We will announce raffle prize winners the week of March 26th. Please do not hesitate to contact us at jrusso1@cityyear.org orawelch1@cityyear.org with any questions and/or concerns.

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.

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.

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