9/27/18 Daily Bulletin

Shout Out

Shout out to Colin McDougall and Sarah Quatrale for prioritizing long-term student success even at the busy start of the year. You have set up family meetings, followed up, and gone the extra steps to make sure we are meeting students’ needs!

Shout out to Peter Pizzi for sharing helpful resources with staff!

Shout out to Sugeily Santos for helping us to solve a glitch with updating attendance. We appreciate your ability to fix this quickly and help us keep our system working.

Family Handbook

Attached you will find a link to our Family Handbook in 8 different languages. I apologize for the late roll out but it has taken a month to gather these translations and they just arrived. This was created by School Site Council and we would like it to be given to each family tomorrow evening. Madeline and Kathy will be running off copies for you in Spanish and English. Families should sign the last page with you and their child.

Teaching Schedules on Master Schedule

All homeroom teachers should submit their weekly teaching schedules to the scheduling committee by next Friday, Oct. 5. Your schedule should be created in Google Sheets. Make sure it has editing access and is shared with assigned point people below. It should have times down the left side and days of the week across the top. Here is an example: Example Teaching Schedule.
K1 - 2nd: Waverly Kidd
3rd - 5th: Laurie Ciardi
SAR and PACE: Jessica Burque

Emergency Cards

Secretaries and nurses are still missing some copies of the homeroom emergency cards. Please drop them off by the end of the week.

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. Also many families have reached out and asked about Inclusion. The Inclusion Team has created a document to share with families about our model. Please make copies and share whether or not you are teaching inclusion.

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 will walkthrough classroom and observe instruction.

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."

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. 

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.

Superintendent's Circular

There is a new Superintendent's Circular Titled: School Access Control. Please read this document. Also note that we will hold an Active Shooter Training for all staff on Thursday, December 13th from 3:45pm-5:45pm in the Auditorium. There have been many questions about IDs and keys. We are working with Central Office on this matter and expect to hear this fall about a new key plan rolling out across the district.

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

BTU Elections

We will hold BTU Elections for the additional PD hours on Monday, October 1st. As well as a vote for the remaining open BTU Representative positions. Please see your BTU Reps with any questions.

Playworks

Attached is the Playworks Bi-weekly (every other week) Class Game Time Schedule. Please email Coach Jessika with any questions.

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.

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.