2/26/18 Daily Bulletin

Shout Out

Shout out to Nubea Martorell for joining our team as a new K1 Paraprofessional! You all may know Nubea since she has worked for CASP for several years as our K1 teacher as well as delivered our fruits and vegetables twice per week for the last two school years.

Shout out to Maria Amy-Moreno and Nina Wessen for leading the middle school dance on the Friday before vacation! The students truly look forward to this every year!

Shout out to Jesse Cardoso, Emanuela Alves, Adrian Ward-Jackson, Kim Taylor Knight, Shawn Paulling, Sandra Samuel, BalletROX, Bashir Kayou, Ms. Brown and Ms. Solomon for leading the Black History Month Performance on Friday before vacation. Our Middle Schoolers and 2nd graders shined on stage and the messages shared through the performances were moving for the audience. Thank you for your efforts!

 

 

Visit

Tomorrow, Monday, February 26th Dr. Karla Estrada, Deputy Superintendent of Academic and Student Support Services, will join us for a visit of our school. She will be present from 9:45am-10:45am.

ILT

Please join us for ILT on Wednesday, February 28th from 3:45pm-5:00pm in Room 101.

Staff Social

Please join us for the staff social on Friday, March 2nd from 4pm-6pm at Costello's on Centre Street.

SPED Progress Reports

2nd round of Progress Reports are due in Edplan by March 14th. You will enter new information under the last written progress report. Please be careful not to erase information in the text box. You can label your entry "2nd Marking Period 3.2018" or "Progress Report 2 March 2018". Please make sure your name and title appear after the entry. Progress Report Video please review the guidelines below as well. All reports for meetings should be uploaded to Edplan now. Please upload as a pdf.  Please see Jessica or Karen with any questions/concerns.

Teach Plus Courses

We are excited to share a free professional learning opportunity for your teachers. The Boston Educators Collaborative connects teachers throughout the city of Boston to share best practices and refine their instructional practice over five weeks. The courses are entirely teacher-led. Participants can receive PDP points or pay for UMass Boston graduate credit. Here is a direct link to the information on our website. I have also attached a flyer for sharing. BPS teachers can register directly on My Learning Plan.

LLI Materials Now Available in Upper School

Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) materials are now available in Ms. Arroyo’s room in the upper school. Lessons and books from the Blue kit (Levels C-N) and Red kit (Levels L-Q) may be borrowed to use as part of your intervention instruction for students reading below grade level. These materials are most effective when used in addition to daily guided reading lessons.
Ms. Arroyo uses this space for small group instruction daily, so please keep in mind the following schedule when picking up or returning materials. You can access materials during the following times:
Daily from 8:15 - 9:00
Monday: 8:15 - 9:45, 10:45 - 11:10, 12:45 - 2:10
Tuesday 11:50 - 2:10
Wednesday 11:50 - 2:10
Thursday: 12:45 - 2:10
Friday: 8:15 – 10:45, 1:30 – 3:05
Contact Ms. Arroyo for access before 8:15 and after 3:05.
Please be sure to follow the posted guidelines for checking out materials, and be sure to return and re-file materials in their appropriate box within three days of checking items out. Together we can assure that the LLI kits are complete and accessible to all. Please contact Eileen Cronin with any questions about using or accessing these materials.

ELL After School Programming

Any ESL staff interesting in running an after school program for ELs at the Curley, please contact Chi Nguyen cnguyen@bostonpublicschools.org

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.

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 an ILT week.

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