9/24/18 Daily Bulletin

Shout Out

Shout out to to former Curley K-8 Art Teacher, Jesse Cardoso, for stopping by to see us all on Thursday afternoon and for giving us two FREE rolls of laminating film for our laminator! We so appreciated see you and this expensive and special treat!

Shout out to the substitute teacher covering in Brophy's classroom for following the fire drill protocol. Also to Ms. Brophy for having a clear plan for the fire drill including and attendance list with student pictures (downloaded from SIS), which also doubles as a seating chart for the class. This made taking attendance easier for any adult.


Shout out to Ms. P and Ms. DeMarco for their endless support and willingness to “come to the rescue” when unpredictable challenges arise! Your flexibility is always so appreciated. Thank you!

Shout out to Katie Baulier and her husband, Michael, Principal at the Mozart, on the birth of their beautiful baby girl, Bailey Elizabeth Baulier. She was born on Saturday and her mom says she is tiny but mighty!

 

CPT this Week

We are launching the use of the Curley Work Plan Calendar.  You can click on the hyperlinks and it will bring you to agendas/ppt and information by week of the school year.
Here you will find the agenda for CPT this week. - Data - MCAS Open Response Review
This weeks meeting will be facilitated by an administrator or coach and we will come for the first part of your CPT. For middle school we will meet during content meetings on Wednesday morning and for specialists we will meet at your Tuesday meeting time. 

ILT

Please join us for ILT on Wednesday, September 26th from 3:45pm-5:00pm in room 101.

Flu Shots at Curley K-8 10/5/18

We will be offering Flu Shots for staff in the Teacher's Room on 10/5/18 from 12pm-3pm. Please bring your insurance card and complete this attached form. If you have questions please reach out to nurse April Pumphret.

Teacher Goals and Action Steps

Please upload your Student Learning Goal (SLG) and Professional Practice Goal (PPG) on EDFS by Friday, September 28th. Here is a link to the goals and actions steps we are working on as a team. Please do NOT write students names in the goals. You may substitute a phrase such as "Focus List Students."

Open House

Open House was voted on last spring and it will take place on Thursday, September 27th from 5pm-7pm. Please encourage families to attend! We will have the library open for families to visit as well. Please make sure to have your bulletin board up with student work by Wednesday, September 26th. All bulletin boards should have the Curley template posted with it.

Visitors

On Thursday, September 27th we will welcome all the principals from the UVA cohort to our school. We are hosting principal PD here and we may make some classroom visits.

Head Injury Protocol for Students with Hearing Devices

Dear Faculty and Staff, 

There are students in your school building who utilize hearing aids and/or cochlear implants. It is important that these students wear their devices throughout all waking hours and that proper function be maintained in order for the child to make effective progress.
If a child with a hearing aid and/or cochlear implant gets a head injury, please proceed with the following protocol:
1. As with all students, send student to school nurse.
2. Proceed with required protocol for informing parent/guardian.
3. Contact Deb Aviles or Regan Andrade if they are in the building, if they are not in the building email/call Alyse Zucker, (Educational Audiologist).

We will call the parent and hospital/dispensing audiologist to discuss next steps for the hearing device. Children with cochlear implants and hearing devices require a team of people to support his or her needs. Thank you for being part of the team in keeping our students safe!

Health and Wellness Committee

We are going to have our first meeting next Wednesday, September 26th at 7:15 a.m. in Room 209. This is really good timing as Curley is registered for the BPS Walk to School Day on Wednesday, October 10th, so this meeting will be a good opportunity to discuss and plan what we would like to do. Debbie Brendemuehl, who is the Safe Routes to School Communication Specialist for the Health and Wellness Department at BPS, will be there at the meeting to get us going.

Clarifying Breakfast Timing 

Breakfast is served each morning starting at 8:15am. Before 8:30am, students may take breakfast to go to their classrooms or eat in the cafeteria. After 8:30, students will be sent from the cafeteria to class with their breakfast. Students can eat their breakfast in the classroom so assure they do not miss learning time.

Lexia Rapid

The Fall Testing window for MAP Growth and MAP Reading Fluency begins September 17th and ends October 5.
Student access to Lexia RAPID
1. Students log on to the Chromebook with their BPS email and password*
2. Go to the Clever Backpack Login
3. Click the Lexia app
*You may use badges to log in younger students. For more information on badges through Clever, see Digital Backpack/Clever FAQs.

Teacher access to Lexia RAPID
1. Go to the Clever Backpack Login
2. Click the myLexia app
3. You are now signed in!
Please note that all of the information in Lexia originates in ASPEN and syncs nightly with Clever, so some updates may take a day to appear. If you do not see all of your students in your class, or if a student does not have an account, check to see that the student is assigned correctly in ASPEN. For additional questions regarding log in information and access, please contact formatives@bostonpublicschools.org. School leaders, instructional coaches, etc., who do not see accounts in myLexia should also contact this email in order to receive access.

Nursing Reminders for staff

Please send students to the nurses office with a written pass with time and reason for coming to nurses office.

Please complete EPIPEN / Blood borne Pathogens Training and submit to nurses.

Please reminder parents / Guardians students are not allow to bring medications in to school parents or an adult has are required to do this as a safety precaution. Medications with the exception of emergency medications are only to administered by a nurse. If parents / Guardians have any questions or concerns please direct them to the nurses or administrative staff.

Please ask parents to submit most recent physicals and immunization forms and pass along emergency cards as they are received (ASAP).

Please refer to last years nurses tab on the google drive for life threatening allergies, this need to be updated is currently based on last years information, we will update this ASAP.

Starting Monday September 17th to 21st, BPS Health Services Paras will at the Curley providing screenings for Grades 1 thru 5. This is being done early this year to minimize time lost from learning. Please be patient and accommodating as possible.

Transportations Issues

Please submit any transportation issues or concerns to this Google form. This is for issues families report to the school and ones staff have identified as well. Transportation Issues and Concerns Form

Field Trip Request Procedure

All field trips requests should be submitted in the following way, check out this powerpoint for additional information on the steps.

• 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)
• The SPC has allotted each grade level $500 to put towards field trips; any questions should be send to treasurer@curleyk8.com.

Sick Day Procedure (teachers and paraprofessionals)

• Call/text Katie Grassa at 857-265-4954 immediately, no matter how late/early Enter the absence in SubCentral (teachers only). Link: https://bostonps.eschoolsolutions.com/logOnInitAction.do
• Enter absence on Boston Employees Self Service
• If it is after 6:30am, also send an email to Katie Grassa, David Diaz and the secretary.

Substitute Folders - Due by September 28th

K0-3rd grade teachers will hand in sub-folders to Mrs. Powers. PACE teachers should hand in to Ms. Spring or Ms. Mountain. 4th-8th Grade teachers will hand in sub-folders to Mrs. Vasquez. All teachers should prepare a substitute folder at the beginning of the year. Replenish sub folders quarterly or when plans have been used.
Sub folders should include:

• Classroom rules and expectations
• Updated class lists and seating chart to take attendance
• Lesson plans with detailed instructions. Lessons should be aligned with what you are currently teaching. Work should reflect mastery objectives and last the entire period.
• Homework
• Lunch duty schedule (if applicable)
• Family contact numbers
• Students’ bus assignments (if applicable)
• Fire drill and evacuation procedures

ID Badges

Please remember to wear you badge tomorrow and also to let yourself in the building. If you have lost or misplaced your badge please let Kathy Powers know. We recognize that not all new staff have their IDs yet and we are working on this.