10/31/18 Daily Bulletin

Shout Out

Shout out to Deirdre Anderson, Julia Badiali, Laura Negoshian and Janet McDavitt for their clear structures and supports for students. Thank you for helping students to be safe an calm as they transition to specialties. It truly helps when starting to teach the next content course to them. Thanks!

Shout out to Jessica Burque for fighting for what is right for a family in need!

CPT this Week

You can track the work of the school year on 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. All staff agenda ILT- Adult Learning Cycles.

Halloween

We are again hosting Pajama Day on October 31st. We would love to see our entire Curley Community wearing pajamas. We are asking everyone to donate $2 as a way to raise funds for our Curley Cares student initiatives throughout the school year. The Curley K-8 will not have a Halloween celebration during the school day. As a community we are focused on health and wellness and therefore we ask that all candy remain at home. We are also asking that students leave all costumes, masks, face painting and clown paraphernalia at home as well. Thank you in advance for your support around this matter.  Attached is our Celebrations Policy

FYI - Helpful Tool

October is Emotional Wellness month and the perfect time to practice meditation and mindfulness. We are pleased to announce that in a partnership with the popular meditation app, Headspace (Meditation and Mindfulness made simple), all BPS employees will have access to an annual subscription. Click here and breathe.

Safe Mode Drill This Week 

We wanted to remind everyone of our Safe Mode Procedures because we will have a drill this week. This drill has been planned for some time but with the recent violence this past weekend we wanted to give you all a heads up. We will get on the intercom and ask everyone to go into Safe Mode. We will further describe that the building will function normally except that no one can enter or exit the building. We will also do the remind app text to notify everyone of this once the drill starts and when it concludes. Please let the admin team know if you have any questions.

6.28 CONTAINMENT PROTOCOL
Containment is a protective action used to safeguard faculty, staff and students when there is Boston Police activity near the school or a potentially dangerous situation near or in the school.
Safe Mode -Exterior Issue

• This is for exterior issues. Safe Mode is a protective action used to safeguard faculty, staff, and students from an external threat as a result of law enforcement activity near the school or a potentially dangerous situation near the school.
• During the initiation of SAFE MODE, the principal or designee will announce the following message via intercom and/or using school administrators and safety officer. 
• “Attention faculty and students: We are now in SAFE MODE. Remain in your classroom. If you are in the hallway, stairs, or bathroom, move to the nearest classroom. Do not leave until told to do so, even if an alarm sounds.” 

Upon notification of SAFE MODE faculty and staff should do the following:
1. If you see, hear, or observe the threat outside of your building bring all students and staff into the building immediately.
2. Check the hallways for people nearby and bring them into the classroom.
3. Check adjacent classrooms through interior doors for unsupervised students.
4. Shut off classroom lights
5. Secure and barricade the classroom door, cover door windows using available resources (e.g large paper), close windows, pull down shades (if you have them).
6. Move students away from windows and doors and stay in your current location.
7. Take attendance. Verify the missing and extra people in your room. Write the names on a piece of paper and wait for your safety point person to contact you or text the list to your safety point person.
8. Stay with your students in the classroom until further instructions are given.
9. Only use the intercom to notify the main office of emergencies or special needs.
10. SAFE MODE ends only when an administrator or designee announces it via intercom or through door to door notifications.

No adults can leave or enter the building while we are in Safe Mode.

Safe Word

• We will have a safe word if we need to enter a classroom during Safe Mode. The teacher should ask the person trying to enter what the safe word is and our response will be #curleycares
• SAFE MODE ends only when announced by an administrator.

Reverse Evacuation (moving from outside to inside)

In the event that students are outside when we need to go into Safe Mode, an administrator will notify the staff via the radio that they need bring the students into the building. If there is no radio response or no radio, an administrator will go outside to notify them in person. The lunch monitors will blow the whistle to alert the students that recess is over and students will be escorted inside through the closest door.

Internal Threat
This is for an interior issue. Internal threat will be announced if there is any person in the building who is looking to cause harm to people.

• When there is an Internal Threat, the principal or designee will announce the following message via intercom and/or using school administrators and safety officer. Please note that the principal or designee will also provide information on the location of the internal threat.
• “Attention faculty and students there is an INTERNAL THREAT.”
• All staff should review the following video from Ohio State University: https://dps.osu.edu/active-shooter (Do not show this video to students)

1. No one will be in the hallways.
2. Anyone with information on the threat should be calling 911 to alert police of the situation
3. Occupants will be using the RUN, HIDE, FIGHT protocol to decide their actions.
◦ RUN if you know it is safe to do so: get as far away from the building as you can (you should not be able to see the building from where you have run to).
◦ HIDE if you cannot run: barricade where you are (if you can) and stay out of site of the threat.
◦ FIGHT if it is your last resort and the threat is in the space and is going to hurt you or people you are with.

Helpful Hints: “Know Your Space”
• Know all available exit points if you ever need to RUN
• Know what you can use to barricade your door and conceal yourself from sight if you ever need to HIDE (chairs, tables, chart paper, etc.)
• Know what you can use to FIGHT if it is your only option (fire extinguisher, chair, laptop, etc.)

The Principal will announce the following over the intercom: “Attention faculty and students: we are now in containment. Remain in your classroom. If you are in the hallway, stairs, or lavatory, move into the nearest classroom. Do not leave the room until told to do so, even if an alarm sounds.”

You should do the following upon notification of containment:
• Check the hallways for people nearby and bring them into the classroom. Check adjacent classrooms through interior doors for unsupervised students.
• Lock or secure the classroom doors and close the windows.
• Move students away from the windows and doors. Shut off your lights and stay in your current location.
• Take attendance. Verify the missing, the injured, and the extra people in your room. Write the names on the yellow paper & wait for someone to contact you for that list (may be by intercom or in person). In the event you do not have yellow paper, use other paper and preferably a red pen.
• Stay with your students in the classroom until further instructions.
• Only use the intercom to notify the office of emergencies or special needs.
• Containment ends only when the Principal or designee announces it via intercom or door to door.
• Restrict student cell phone usage.

The administration will do the following:
• Lock all exterior doors
• Designate staff members who will check and lock bathrooms
• Make notifications via the PA system, Superintendent and Police
• Notify families during containment via a ConnectEd message
• Do a room-by-room sweep of the entire school. They will engage any person not in a classroom
• Send a Robo Call notice to all families within a short time after the containment is complete

Family ESL Classes

We are looking to offer ESL classes to Curley families one evening a week for 10 weeks. This will be funded through the Office of English Language Learners. The teacher will be paid the BTU teacher hourly rate for this work for 4 hours per week. Please email Katie if you are interested in this opportunity!

Copy Machine Etiquette

Please do not send any wireless copies from your classroom to the copier machine. You may print wireless if you are in the teacher's lounge. This will prevent work documents from being mixed up and copier from being emptied so quick. This had become particularly challenging for those who are personally at the copy machine and a job is sent to the copier remotely which interrupts the person at the machine. Thanks for your understanding and cooperation.

BPS Math Interim #1

Grades 3-8 will administer the BPS Math Interim the week of Nov.5-9. Grade levels will administer the same day as the ELA Interim. Access codes and accommodations groupings coming soon!
Tuesday: 3rd and 6th
Wednesday: 4th and 7th
Thursday: 5th and 8th

Special Education Professional Development Offerings

November 8th 3:45-5:15 Progress Report Writing RSVP Here
February 7th 3:45-5:45 Behavior Management RSVP Here

Attendance Update

Homeroom teachers are responsible for marking student absences excused or unexcused. The office will no longer be handling this process. Also, It is important that homeroom teachers are logging calls related to student attendance. We can not move forward in the attendance process if there are no calls logged. If you have attendance questions about a specific student and/or parent letter please email Lauren Jones-Forbes at curleysuccess@gmail.com.

Beginning Monday, October 29th a member of the Attendance Team will be sending an email around 12pm to all teachers who have a student marked absent that day. This is to ensure that our records are accurate as sometimes a student misses homeroom and is marked absent when they are physically present in school.

BIMAS

The Behavior Intervention Monitoring Assessment System (BIMAS) is a measure of social, emotional and behavioral functioning in children and adolescents ages 5 to 18 years. It includes 34 change-sensitive items that are used for universal screening of behavioral health and for assessing response to intervention. There will be optional times in CPT for you to complete the data entry. The due date is November 21st. Marquel Norton (mnorton5@bostonpublicschools.org) and your Climate Team Rep will be available to answer any and all your questions about BIMAS. Attached are FAQs and the Powerpoint presentation.

 Curley BIMAS Presentation

 BIMAS (FAQ)

Acceleration Academy

We are most likely hosting an Acceleration Academy in February (2/19 - 2/22). We are looking for teachers in grades 3-5 to plan and teach a literacy unit and teachers in grades 6-8 to teach math. We will have about 15 students per class, the days are 6 hours in length, and teachers will be paid $2,000. Questions? Reach out to Adrian.

PD Dates

See information below clarifying the remaining PD dates for teachers and paras. If there is a * next to these dates/times staff will be paid for these per BTU contract.

Teachers

• Thursday 11/1/18 3:45-5:45
• Thursday 12/13/18 3:45-5:45
• Thursday 1/24/19 3:45-5:45*
• Thursday 1/31/19 3:45-5:45
• Thursday 3/7/19 3:45-5:45
• Thursday 3/28/19 3:45-5:45*
• Thursday 4/4/19 3:45-5:45 PD MAKE UP DATE IN CASE OF SNOW CANCELLATION
• Thursday 4/11/19 3:45-5:45*
• 4 additional hours to be used by Grade Level/Content teams to pre-plan a curriculum unit of study - dates must be submitted by 10/9/18 to Katie Grassa*

Paras

• Thursday, 11/8 3:45-5:45pm*
• Thursday, 12/13 3:45-5:45pm*

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.