9/9/18 Daily Bulletin

Shout Out

Shout out to Ms. Brophy for being an amazing addition to the 5th grade team! She has jumped in with countless great ideas and boundless enthusiasm!

Shout out to Tristan Maiden for running the ABA operations session last week. We appreciate your leadership in helping us work out the kinks.

Shout out the the specialist team especially Melanie Bourgeault for keeping our team on task! Also to Peter Pizzi for giving our team great feedback!

Shout out to everyone for being so warm and welcoming, and especially my fellow SEI folks, Nina Wessen and Maria Amy-Moreno, for immediately making me feel like one of them!

Rosh Hashanah

Tomorrow, Monday, September 10th is Rosh Hashanah. Please mark any students who are absent for the holiday as an excused absence. If you need support reach out to Cristina Silva (K-3) or Sugeily Santos (Grades 4-8).

Dismissal Timing

Just a reminder about our dismissal timing for this year.

• 3:00pm - Afternoon announcements, all students headed to CASP, Tenacity or any after school activities. 
• 3:02pm - Walkers are called for dismissal. Walkers are not allowed back in the building once they leave, so there should be one-way traffic towards the front door. Bus students who have family approval can leave as walkers. Teachers and partners on dismissal duty will have a list of bus students and walkers to verify. Hallways must be clear before buses are called. 
• 3:04pm – A call is made for student to move to their bus rooms K-5.
• 3:06pm – Bus numbers are called and a staff member escorts students to the bus. The staff member should walk outside with the students and load them on the bus. The staff member should remain with the students until they are seated on the bus.
• 3:25pm - Remaining bus students report to the respective main office to wait for buses.

Shelfie

Do not forget to upload your "Shelfie" to help us hype up the library opening next week. This should be uploaded by Wednesday, September 13th. Take a team selfie holding your favorite book!

New Staff Emails

New staff should have received an email with their ID numbers and new BPS email address. Please email Katie Grassa from your new address so we can switch you on the List Serv.

Dropping Students from SIS

If you receive notification that a student is not returning to the the Curley please reach out to Cristina Silva (K-3) or Sugeily Santos (Grades 4-8) so we can drop them from our attendance.

First Day of Kindergarten

All students in K0, K1 & K2 will report to school on Tuesday, September 11th.

Morning Announcements

We will start morning announcements on Monday, September 17th and this will happen each at at 8:35am.

ILT

Please join us for our first ILT meeting of the year. We will meet on Wednesday, September 12th from 3:45pm-5:00pm. Location is TBD.

Evaluation Deadline

Please be sure to sign on to the Educator Development and Feedback System (EDFS - https://eval.mybps.org/evals/) and submit your self assessment by Friday, September 14th. Do NOT forget to click the orange submit button on the left once you complete it.

Lexia RAPID Information

During this week's CPT (9/10 - 9/14), either Caitlyn Gable, Eileen Cronin, or Lindsey Morgan will be coming for the first 40 minutes to discuss the administration of the Lexia RAPID Assessment.

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

Schedule Conflicts/Errors

Please submit any schedule conflicts or errors to this Google Form. Schedule Conflicts/Errors

Middle School Elective Fair

Middle school students will attend an elective fair on Monday (9/10) and Tuesday (9/11). Homeroom teachers please look at the group list and find your class. Escort your students to the appropriate location listed in the table below. Students will be escorted to the second floor at the end of the elective period. Students will choose their elective on Tuesday prior to the end of the elective period. We will have elective student lists for you by Tuesday evening. Electives will begin on Wednesday (9/12/18).
Group A: 7A, 7B, 7F, 8A, 8B, 8F, 8G,
Group B: 6A, 6B, 6C, 6D, 6F, 6G, 7G

Location	Monday 9/10/18	Tuesday 9/11/18
Lower School Gym	Group A	Group B
Upper School Gym	Group B	Group A

Curriculum Resource (EL, EC, Sci, SAS, etc...)

• The simplified EL Guides can be found here.
• Early Childhood Resources: new Early Childhood site, under "Unit 1" there are updated, standards-aligned, shared reading, read aloud and SFL informed writing lessons. Currently only Unit 1 is up there- we'll be rolling it out unit by unit this year. 
• A note from Brooke about the EC units: New teachers to FK2 will use the updated curriculum, while the roll out for teachers already using the curriculum will be slower. We have a team of about 12 experienced FK2 teachers from the district who are meeting in a PLC to try out the revised lessons, share experiences and provide feedback. That being said, the updates are public on the website and anyone can access them. We will have the additional read alouds and writing mentor text available for folks to pick up and sign out at the K conference, but folks can reach out if they don't get them there and want them. If you have K2 teams in your networks who use Focus and need/want support aligning their instruction to the standards, using the new curriculum guides in Focus is an important first step. 
• Science curriculum/Message to teachers - We apologize for the delay with new science materials. Holly Rosa will give us a better sense of when materials will be in teachers’ hands this week. 
• Here are the quick links to our ELA SAS and Math SAS (Investigations) to plan for the year. 

Counseling Services for Students

The Guidance Office is charged with providing a range of services to students, families, and faculty that support and promote the successful functioning of our students. One of the ways we do this is by providing students with individual counseling services. We are very fortunate to have amazing clinicians from The Home for Little Wanderers, Children Services of Roxbury (CSR), and Community Service Institute (CSI) to support our students. These Clinicians provide a range of services including, but not limited to: providing solution­-focused strategies to help students manage problems that may arise during the school day, providing crisis assessments and developing safety plans, and working with teachers to help them understand how a student’s social­/emotional concerns may impact their academic performance and identify classroom strategies that can help the student to be successful.
If during the course of this school year, you have a student in need of counseling services, please inform Ms. Santos (4-8th grade) or Ms. Silva (K-3rd grade). All students seeking or in need of counseling services MUST receive parental consent in order to receive school-based services. You can obtain parent permission by sending home the "Parent Permission Form," then, submitting the form to Ms. Santos or Ms. Silva. You can find copies of this form on this link, in the lower or upper school office, or by visiting the Guidance Office located room 203 US.

Excellence For All Scholars Program

This school year marks the start of Excellence for All (EFA) Scholars Program. The EFA Scholars Program will be a site-based after school prep program at EFA middle schools. The EFA Scholars Program provides opportunities that increase the likelihood of students gaining admission into Boston's Exam Schools. The EFA Scholars Program also equips students and families with knowledge that will prepare them for college and career.
We are in need of two instructors. Please read the information below and review the flyer by clicking on this link for additional information. If you are interested, please contact Angel Calvin at 617-635-6560 or via email at angel_calvin@mail.harvard.edu.

• ISEE PREP INSTRUCTORS: Teachers/staff will receive training in ISEE Prep instruction by Summit Educational Group. Two training dates will be offered: Wednesday, September 19th and Friday, September 21st. Training will take place at the Bolling building from 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM on both days. Instructors are required to attend only one of the trainings offered. ISEE Prep instructors will receive a stipend of $40 per hour.
• PROGRAM DURATION: The EFA ISEE Prep program will run from October 1st - November 1st. The program will take place on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays throughout the entire month of October. Since the exam date for the ISEE for BPS schools is quickly approaching, our program will meet three times a week for two-hour sessions to ensure our students are as prepared as possible for the exam.

New 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

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.

Laminator 

The laminator roll is back up. (Thanks Leah for the help!) Again, pay close attention to feeding in products straight, ensuring they don't get to spinning on the heating rolls and jamming, and watching that they're feeding out the back gray rolls that exit product out the back of the laminator. Contact me or an experienced laminator user (Kate Davis, Leah Travers, Lindsey Wright, Deb Bryson, Lindsey Morgan...) One must use the SLOWEST Run speed, use two hands to carefully line up the product you wish to laminate and keep your fingers on the product to ensure a true exit course. Thanks, Charles Tewksbury

Duties/Bus Room

Here is the quick link to the duty list. This includes bus rooms.

"Lunch/Recess" Duty on the Master Schedule 

Make sure that you have checked the Master Schedule Lunch/Recess tab. Teachers have a 40-minute lunch break, then they will go relieve lunch monitors for the times in the chart (shown below). It may just be 5 minutes of transitioning your students or it may be monitoring recess (6-8 grade).

Updated Lunch Schedule

Spanish

We are still in the process of hiring a Spanish teacher. We will have a sub until the teacher is hired which should be soon. In the meantime, Sharon Pina-Pitts will provide coverage for your Spanish P&D.

Cafeteria Expectations and Routines

Please take 5-10 minutes before bringing your students to lunch to review the following expectations and routines for the cafeteria. Lunch monitors and people serving lunch duty will also be aware of these. Click here for the expectations as well as the routines to practice and share with your students.

Guide to the Boston Public Schools (Formerly Blue Guide Books Handed to Families)

The following is a message going out to families:
In an effort to reduce paper waste and create a more efficient system, BPS has decided to move the guide online. Families and students will view the guide and fill out necessary online at www.bostonpublicschools.org/family guide.

The guide is available in English and nine other languages. It outlines many of the district's policies, programs, and services. A separate booklet contains forms needs to be completed at www.bostonpublicschools.org/contact.

A limited number of paper booklets will be provided to each main office for families of students who are new to BPS or do not have access to the internet. We encourage you to go online and complete the form for each of your students as soon as possible. Thank you for your cooperation.

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.

Emergency Cards

In your mailbox (upper and lower school) is a copy of the English/Spanish Emergency card, instructions for volunteers on how to do CORI forms online and your bus tags and labels. We need emergency cards from all students. Once you receive one from everyone please make a copy for the main office and the nurses office as well.

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.

Calling all summer readers!

Students who have been reading over the summer, either by completing required summer reading books (Grades 4-8) or completing a summer reading log or bingo sheet will be recognized as a “Reader Leader” during September . Teachers should collect logs, bingo sheets or required reading assignments when students return from summer vacation. The names only of these students should be emailed to Caitlyn Gable (K-2) or Eileen Cronin (Gr. 3-8) by September 21st. Students whose names are submitted will receive a Certificate of Achievement during the first “Curley Cares” assembly and will have their picture posted on a central bulletin board, along with a brief summary of their favorite summer read. Forms to record favorite summer reads will be distributed the week of September 10th. Contact Caitlyn or Eileen with any questions.