2/9/18 Daily Bulletin

Shout Out

Shout out to Ms. P who gives her all every single day and always remains patient and calm, despite how trying a day may be! You have the best ideas for classroom activities and bring so much positivity to our classroom! We are SOOOOO thankful for you!!!

Shout out to Ms DeMarco for always going out of her way to bring excitement to our classroom. The highlight of our week is when you are with us for Thankful Thursday writing each week!

ASSET Pro Dev Courses, Various dates

Hosted by: ASSET departments
Target Audience: School Leaders, Teachers, Paraprofessionals, Grade 3-5 Science Teachers, etc. All ASSET departments have compiled their teacher Professional Development offerings for the 2017-18 school year into this course catalog. The listings include date, times, and locations. Contact for additional information: Steven Ramirez

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

Welcoming Schools Feedback (It is anonymous)

Thank you so much having us come to the Curley to finish out the Embracing Family Diversity Module! I wanted to share some resources and the link to the evaluation. Thanks! Danielle Murray
link: tinyurl.com/HRCWSeval
All of the lesson plans can be found out: www.welcomingschools.org

Data

The week of February 5th teams in grades 3-8 should schedule time for Lindsey Morgan to review STAR data. She has reach out to each team via email as well.  There are many data slides that will help to support this conversation. Be sure to check out your current students and even some former students as well. Help us congratulate students for exceptional growth!
STAR Math Data 1/31

STAR Reading Data 1/31

February - Black History Month

February marks the start of Black History Month. How will you address this with your students? How can you ensure that we are not glossing over it and only celebrating in February? Below is a resource that was shared from former Curley teacher, Layla Hijab Cable (laylahcable@gmail.com).

The National Black Lives Matter Week of Action in Our Schools is launching an online gallery for student and community work during the Week of Action: Feb. 5th - Feb. 9th. Calling all educators, youth workers, young people, students, caregivers, parents, dreamers, activists, revolutionaries! Join us in imagining the world and schools we want to see. Invite, share, and respond to the prompt:
“In a school where Black Lives Matter, we…”
Send the creative responses whether images, words, video, audio, etc. to blmphled@gmail.com. We will be adding contributions to our publication. We ask that you give us your location and what age or grade is submitting to be shared along with the work.
Check us out: https://medium.com/national-blm-week-of-action-in-schools

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.

Bulletin Boards Updated by Friday, February 9th 

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, February 9th. You must also include the Curley template which describes the learning your students are doing that links to the instructional focus.

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.

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. Lindsey Morgan will support teams in grades 3-8 on analyzing STAR reading data. 

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