Shout Out
Shout out to Team Jungle Book, Kim Taylor Knight, Emanuela Alves, Shawn Paulling, Jesse Cardoso, Laurie Ciardi and Jenni Craman for planning, organizing, teaching and empowering our students to perform on stage. It was a beautiful production and we are lucky to have a space to share it with all of our students K-8. We are a better school due to our robust arts programming and our students learn so much from participating in these experiences. Thank you for being you and for believing in the artist in all of us!
Shout out to Amy Lieberman, Annette Beaudrault, Olivia Peters and all our 6th-8th graders who spent Saturday in Natick participating in the Destination Imagination Regional Competition. Also thanks to the staff who came out cheer on our students Eileen Cronin, Sharon Ennis, Rose Rodriquez, Adrian Ward-Jackson, Mr. G (Tenacity) and Seneca. Three of our teams took 2nd place and our 7th grade team of Arlene and Ariel took home The Spirit of Destination Imagination Award!!! Congrats to all who helped and participated. You can see more photos here.
Shout out to Madeline Vazquez, Leah Barcan, Waverly Kidd and Caitlyn Gable for offering ESL courses to Curley families both in the evenings and mornings. The response and turnout from families has been incredible!
Shout out to Genet Mehari, Sharon Ennis, Olivia Peters, Alissa Ferro, Charles Tewksbury, Deirdre Anderson, Nelly Rivera, Konstantinos Petmezis, Sara Silverstein and Nina Wessen for volunteering for interview committees on Thursday evening! We appreciate your time and dedication to hiring your future colleagues.
Shout-out to Maria Torres for her kindness, patience, and flexibility with our students. Thank you for going out of your way to help students make good food choices at breakfast and lunch.
School Climate Team
Please join us for the school climate team meeting on Wednesday, March 21st from 3:45pm-5:00pm in Room 215.
PD
We will host our teacher PD (this is for teachers unless paras owe time from a missed day in the summer) on Thursday, February 1st from 3:45pm-5:45pm. We have broken up the staff into 4 smaller worker groups for the remainder of our PD sessions. Please click here to see your group and your plan for the remainder of the sessions. Please email Katie Grassa with any questions.
Happy Teacher Challenge!
Thank you to everyone who sent in pictures for week 1 of the Curley K-8 Happy Teacher Challenge. We're excited to have 50+ names in our raffle thus far! Please keep them coming! Each picture you send is a separate entry. Here are some of the pictures sent in from our week 1 challenge. See all entries here.
For week 2 we have two more challenges for you! We can't wait to see who you meet and what you do for yourself. Here's to a happy week!
Curley Shares
Our March share is coming up this Wednesday, 3/21! 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!
Laminator
The Laminator has been loaded and is ready to go. Please practice the normal precaution that the finished laminated product is feeding out the back; always slow the Run Speed from 4 green bars to ONE green bar. Don't be shy about asking for an experienced person to assist if you've never used our laminator. One more word about self-imposed laminating limits. This double roll I've loaded is our next-to-last replacement roll. There is the likelihood that there can be no money spared for ordering any more laminate this school year. It's a long time until June 27. Do some planning before the laminator's in motion - pool your laminating projects among teams, rethink the need to laminate everything you'd wanted to, take advantage of a teammate for quicker loading of the laminator and reducing the space gaps between items. These practices might spell the difference in stretching our supply of laminate until school's ended.
Contact Charles Tewksbury with questions or for advice on laminating.
Contact Charles Tewksbury with questions or for advice on laminating.
Health and Wellness Update
Thanks to the help of parent volunteers, staff responses to our survey, and BPS Facilities, the Curley Walkthrough and Environmental Audit in December 2017 has yielded the following results and action plan. If you do not see your room number on there or your environmental concern, please email Nina right away. A lot of work has already been done and is still being done to address your environmental concerns. Please be patient with facilities at this time as they work to complete all work orders to fix things.
The walk through yielded three easy things that staff can do to help make our school environment better:
- If you have book shelves or supplies blocking air vents, please move them. This will help in temperature regulation in the classroom and decrease dust and allergen blowing around in the classroom. If you need parent volunteers to help move bookshelves or other objects (declutter), please email Nina and we will arrange a service day to help you.
- In order to ensure healthy air quality for all students, in 2017, all BPS schools and staff should switch all their cleaners to green cleaners. Due to this policy, we will be hosting a Green Cleaner Swap day on Monday April 2 (7:45-10am) where all staff can swap or get a bottle of green cleaner. Parent volunteers will drop off cleaners to your classroom or you can come to the upper school cafeteria to swap out your cleaning solution. Refill Stations will be set up for staff who will need future refills. Your specific refill station will be written on your bottle so you know where to drop it off and pick it up.
- Based on the walkthrough, there have been some sighting of pests. If you see live or dead pest(s), please be sure to document your sightings in our pest log with Ms. Vasquez or Ms. Powers. Once the pest sighting has been logged, facilities will come in immediately to take care of the problem. We don’t want sightings to go undocumented because then we would have a bigger pest problem on our hands in the future.
The walk through yielded three easy things that staff can do to help make our school environment better:
- If you have book shelves or supplies blocking air vents, please move them. This will help in temperature regulation in the classroom and decrease dust and allergen blowing around in the classroom. If you need parent volunteers to help move bookshelves or other objects (declutter), please email Nina and we will arrange a service day to help you.
- In order to ensure healthy air quality for all students, in 2017, all BPS schools and staff should switch all their cleaners to green cleaners. Due to this policy, we will be hosting a Green Cleaner Swap day on Monday April 2 (7:45-10am) where all staff can swap or get a bottle of green cleaner. Parent volunteers will drop off cleaners to your classroom or you can come to the upper school cafeteria to swap out your cleaning solution. Refill Stations will be set up for staff who will need future refills. Your specific refill station will be written on your bottle so you know where to drop it off and pick it up.
- Based on the walkthrough, there have been some sighting of pests. If you see live or dead pest(s), please be sure to document your sightings in our pest log with Ms. Vasquez or Ms. Powers. Once the pest sighting has been logged, facilities will come in immediately to take care of the problem. We don’t want sightings to go undocumented because then we would have a bigger pest problem on our hands in the future.
New Field Trip Request Procedure
Starting Monday, 3/12/28, all field trips requests should be submitted in the following way. If you have already submitted a paper previously, that is ok, but all new requests should be done in this way. Check out this powerpoint for additional information on the steps.
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Fill out electronic form at least 2 weeks in advance. This link will be available in the blog daily. Field Trip Request Form
- Print your form submission.
- Email list of students attending to nurses.
- Get nurse and cafeteria signature at least 2 weeks in advance. They can sign anywhere at the bottom of your page.
- Turn in to either main office.
- Pass out permission slips and have students return. (English p.12, Other Languages)
Fill out electronic form at least 2 weeks in advance. This link will be available in the blog daily. Field Trip Request Form
MCAS
Please find the ELA groupings attached. Locations are still being worked on. Please let Jessica Burque know of any concerns before Friday, March 23rd.
ELA MCAS 3/7/8
ELA MCAS 4/5/6
Math will be out shortly.
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.
Please find the ELA groupings attached. Locations are still being worked on. Please let Jessica Burque know of any concerns before Friday, March 23rd.
ELA MCAS 3/7/8
ELA MCAS 4/5/6
Math will be out shortly.
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.
ELA MCAS 3/7/8
ELA MCAS 4/5/6
Math will be out shortly.
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.
2018 BPS Climate Survey - Due 4/2/2018
Parent, Teacher, and Student Climate Surveys will be released online on March 12th. Chromebooks and document cameras will be awarded to schools with high parent participation rates and the greatest improvement in parent participation. We are asking teachers to have students complete these in class and for staff to complete them during Climate CPT time (your climate rep will have more info). Also any encouragement you can give to families to have them complete it would be greatly appreciated! We use this data to plan for next school year and really value the feedback!
Parent, Teacher, and Student Climate Surveys will be released online on March 12th. Chromebooks and document cameras will be awarded to schools with high parent participation rates and the greatest improvement in parent participation. We are asking teachers to have students complete these in class and for staff to complete them during Climate CPT time (your climate rep will have more info). Also any encouragement you can give to families to have them complete it would be greatly appreciated! We use this data to plan for next school year and really value the feedback!
Sporting Events
There will be no student spectators in the gym during after school sporting events. The gym is very small and cannot accommodate many people. Please be sure to escort students out of the building at the end of the school day. Students spectators may not attend the game with staff or partners. If a student is with his or her parent, he or she may attend however, the student must vacate the premises when the parent leaves.
There will be no student spectators in the gym during after school sporting events. The gym is very small and cannot accommodate many people. Please be sure to escort students out of the building at the end of the school day. Students spectators may not attend the game with staff or partners. If a student is with his or her parent, he or she may attend however, the student must vacate the premises when the parent leaves.
Middle School Passes
Please be sure to give students official Curley passes when they sign out of the classroom. If you need new passes, please see Ms. Peters in room 216.
Please be sure to give students official Curley passes when they sign out of the classroom. If you need new passes, please see Ms. Peters in room 216.
Winter Term Report Card Grading Window for Grades K2-8
The elementary grading (Grades K2 - 8) window is open from March 5th to March 25th. Please refer to the materials below for assistance entering your grades. After entering grades, teachers need to click the "Post Grades" button to write the grades to the report card.
Entering Grades Handout
Elementary Comment Codes Handout
How to verify that your grades are posted
Please see Ms. Morgan (K2-2), Mr. Diaz (3-5), Ms. Ward-Jackson (6-8) if you have any questions.
Entering Grades Handout
Elementary Comment Codes Handout
How to verify that your grades are posted
Please see Ms. Morgan (K2-2), Mr. Diaz (3-5), Ms. Ward-Jackson (6-8) if you have any questions.
Hiring New Staff
All jobs were posted on www.teachboston.org as of Thursday, March 1st. We are looking for staff and families to help us interview candidates and select the best staff to join our team next year. Please reach out to the person leading the committee if you are interested in participating. We will also share this with families and encourage them to join committees as well.
All jobs were posted on www.teachboston.org as of Thursday, March 1st. We are looking for staff and families to help us interview candidates and select the best staff to join our team next year. Please reach out to the person leading the committee if you are interested in participating. We will also share this with families and encourage them to join committees as well.
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 Instructional week. Due to the snow storm ILT did not meet and will therefore not present learning but ILT facilitations should plan and support their team with instructional work this week in the meeting.
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 Instructional week. Due to the snow storm ILT did not meet and will therefore not present learning but ILT facilitations should plan and support their team with instructional work this week in the meeting.
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