Shout Out
Shout out to K2 and 3rd grade for being the first teams to fully complete the BIMAS! The Climate Team thanks you and you all should look forward to a treat soon.Shout out to Carolyn Silva-Sanchez for reaching out to offer advice and encouragement in an area she heard I was struggling in. It felt really good to be supported by a colleague who I don't often work with!
Shout out to Ms. McDavitt. She welcomed us on Friday when we couldn't stay in our classroom and our classes had a really great day learning together!
Shout out to Helenia Solomini for being flexible one Friday in the bad weather! Thanks for staying calm and putting your students first!
Shout out to Lindsey Morgan, Kristen Mitchell, and all of the staff in her classroom for supporting me with a tough situation on Friday morning. I am so appreciative of you all!!Shout out today to John DePalm who spent his planning period leading a rhythm circle with Ms. McDavitt's class. The kids loved seeing how talented their gym teacher was and were totally engaged. It was a wonderful spontaneous collaboration. Check out the video clips here too!
Shout out to Ms. Samuel for taking part of her lunch time to support a class in transitioning back from the library. Thank you for showing you care about our students!
Shout out to Eileen Cronin and Lisa Portadin for leading a planning day for all middle school ELA teachers. it was great to step away and have time to plan as colleagues as we kick off a new curriculum in Term 2! Thanks!
Shout out to the students from 5D for piloting the 'No More Bullying' Program for MGH! The students did an amazing job learning about responsibility, compassion, self-control, and integrity this week and practicing these behaviors with our special guest Penny the therapy dog! The students made our classroom a calm and peaceful place for Penny to relax and feel comfortable!
Shout out to Eileen Cronin and Lisa Portadin for leading a planning day for all middle school ELA teachers. it was great to step away and have time to plan as colleagues as we kick off a new curriculum in Term 2! Thanks!
Shout out to the students from 5D for piloting the 'No More Bullying' Program for MGH! The students did an amazing job learning about responsibility, compassion, self-control, and integrity this week and practicing these behaviors with our special guest Penny the therapy dog! The students made our classroom a calm and peaceful place for Penny to relax and feel comfortable!
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. Coaches and admin will be leading meetings for teams this coming week on Monday and Tuesday. Middle School will only have Content meetings this week on Tuesday.Bulletin Boards
It is that time again, please make sure to have your bulletin board updated with student work by Monday, November 19th. All bulletin boards should have the Curley template posted with it. This is a great project for a student teacher and/or a set of responsible students. It is important that things are stapled up in all corners. Please note that you can share whole group learning (number talk, sample of writing process, response to reading etc....) The work does have to be perfect we prefer authenticity. Bulletin Boards make our hallways feel warm and welcoming and help us celebrate our students.
It is that time again, please make sure to have your bulletin board updated with student work by Monday, November 19th. All bulletin boards should have the Curley template posted with it. This is a great project for a student teacher and/or a set of responsible students. It is important that things are stapled up in all corners. Please note that you can share whole group learning (number talk, sample of writing process, response to reading etc....) The work does have to be perfect we prefer authenticity. Bulletin Boards make our hallways feel warm and welcoming and help us celebrate our students.
Early Release Schedule
Wednesday, November 21st will be an early release day for students and staff. Please review the Early Release Schedule for that day and reach out to David Diaz or Laurie Ciardi with any questions or concerns.
INTERNATIONAL WEEK UPDATE
International Week is just around the corner — November 26-30! Now is the time to gather resources, plan your exchanges, and invite families to visit. Contact Amika if you have any questions or need help with resources.The expectation has been that all participants exchange visits with at least one other class, usually on Friday, to learn about one another’s country and to do an activity together. Many classes exchange with their cross-grade buddies; others will exchange with grade level peers. Please check, add to, or correct the Google document (insert link) to let us know with whom you plan to exchange and when.
Passports and country stamps will be given out this week, before the Thanksgiving break. Please send passports to specialists with your students during International Week!
CURLEY CARES GIFT DRIVE
We are running the Curley Cares Gift drive again this year. We would like your in put about which students should be a part of this event. Please work with your grade level team to fill in the following form. All submissions should be completed by Nov 20thCurley Gift Drive Student Selection
Supporting Collegues Addressing Difficult Behaviors
As a school with a population of students with diverse needs, we have students who demonstrate challenging behaviors. Often these behaviors happen in common areas of our school. In the midst of a tantrum, a child's behavior can look unsafe or overwhelming and when we see a teacher in a challenging situation, our first instinct is to offer help or support in some way. Although intentions are good, typically adding another adult to the situation who is not familiar with the child or the child’s behavior plan, can cause more harm to the situation than help.
As we build our best practices for supporting all students at the Curley, we would like to create a culture where the lead teacher will ask for support when he/she needs it. The lead teacher will give you (the supporting adult) a specific task (i.e. please help my class walk down the hall). If you think a teacher needs support and has not asked, you can check in by making eye contact. Please do not speak to or interact with the child. Some behaviors are increased by adult attention and for some children withholding attention is part of a treatment plan. If a teacher does not need your support, ignore the situation and instruct your students to do so as well. We encourage you to follow up at a later time to further discuss a situation.
Para Professional Technology Course
BPS & BTU are offering two hours training in Google for Paraprofessionals after school. As of now, there are three locations: Charles H. Taylor Elementary, Curley k-8 School, and the JF Condon. The times for training varies per school. Please see Cassandra Samuel with any questions or Sign up here or copy url. https://goo.gl/FnJFR9
ACCESS Testing
As a school with a population of students with diverse needs, we have students who demonstrate challenging behaviors. Often these behaviors happen in common areas of our school. In the midst of a tantrum, a child's behavior can look unsafe or overwhelming and when we see a teacher in a challenging situation, our first instinct is to offer help or support in some way. Although intentions are good, typically adding another adult to the situation who is not familiar with the child or the child’s behavior plan, can cause more harm to the situation than help.
As we build our best practices for supporting all students at the Curley, we would like to create a culture where the lead teacher will ask for support when he/she needs it. The lead teacher will give you (the supporting adult) a specific task (i.e. please help my class walk down the hall). If you think a teacher needs support and has not asked, you can check in by making eye contact. Please do not speak to or interact with the child. Some behaviors are increased by adult attention and for some children withholding attention is part of a treatment plan. If a teacher does not need your support, ignore the situation and instruct your students to do so as well. We encourage you to follow up at a later time to further discuss a situation.
Para Professional Technology Course
BPS & BTU are offering two hours training in Google for Paraprofessionals after school. As of now, there are three locations: Charles H. Taylor Elementary, Curley k-8 School, and the JF Condon. The times for training varies per school. Please see Cassandra Samuel with any questions or Sign up here or copy url. https://goo.gl/FnJFR9
ACCESS Testing
Staff, it is that time of year again to prepare for ACCESS: This year all teachers need to retrain for administering the test. You will need to log into to www.wida.us, read the information and take a quiz for each section you need to take. You must score at least 80% on the section in order to be certified to administer the test. All students grade 1-8 will be taking the test on-line. Grades 1-3 will take the writing section on paper.
New Staff or those who did not takes the training last year.
- You will need to create an account on www.wida.us using username Massachusetts, password patriot. Create an account and follow the steps below.
All Staff
• Teachers in Kindergarten: sign into www.wida.us your account and take the Kindergarten training module and quiz.
• Teachers in Grades 1-8: sign into www.wida.us and take the online administration test.
• All teachers that have or service students that are ACCESS ALT will need to sign into their account and take the testing listed above as well as the Alternate ACCESS quiz.
• Any non-teaching staff and administrators need to take kindergarten, speaking 1-6, paper and online. Once you have taken and passed the quizzes please bring in the completed certification to Kathy or Madeline by Friday January 4th 2018.
If you have any questions feel free to ask Waverly.
New Staff or those who did not takes the training last year.
- You will need to create an account on www.wida.us using username Massachusetts, password patriot. Create an account and follow the steps below.
• Teachers in Kindergarten: sign into www.wida.us your account and take the Kindergarten training module and quiz.
• Teachers in Grades 1-8: sign into www.wida.us and take the online administration test.
• All teachers that have or service students that are ACCESS ALT will need to sign into their account and take the testing listed above as well as the Alternate ACCESS quiz.
• Any non-teaching staff and administrators need to take kindergarten, speaking 1-6, paper and online. Once you have taken and passed the quizzes please bring in the completed certification to Kathy or Madeline by Friday January 4th 2018.
If you have any questions feel free to ask Waverly.
Preference Sheets
We are beginning the planning process for SY 2019-20 and would like to take into consideration teacher preferences for next year. We are sending these out earlier than the schedule required by the contract so that we can better prepare for the budget process and for meeting the needs of our students for next year. We anticipate that the Curley will have the same grade configuration as this year. Please fill out the attached form to indicate your preferences for SY 2019-20. Please complete by Friday, November 30, 2018.
School Preview Time
It is that time again! Families will be choosing schools for SY 2019-2020. We will host three events here at Curley for perspective families. Current Curley families will support these three events and provide guided tours throughout the building.- Friday, November 30th 9am-10am
- Friday, December 14th 9am-10am
- Friday, January 18th 9am-10am
Artifacts
Please be sure to upload your artifacts on EDFS by Friday, December 21st. You should upload 1-2 artifacts for each goal (two goals) AND each standard (four standards) for a total of 6-12 artifacts. SLG and PPG - Upload your tracker of student conferences with your focus student & evidence of relationship building with the focus students
Standard I - Upload a Unit Plan created with your team and a sample of student work
Standard II - Upload evidence of differentiation (or modification if applicable) and a sample of students work to match this
Standard III - Upload a sample call log or documentation of communication with families
Standard IV - Upload evidence of your professional collaboration such as a minutes from a team meeting
Please be sure to upload your artifacts on EDFS by Friday, December 21st. You should upload 1-2 artifacts for each goal (two goals) AND each standard (four standards) for a total of 6-12 artifacts. SLG and PPG - Upload your tracker of student conferences with your focus student & evidence of relationship building with the focus students
Standard I - Upload a Unit Plan created with your team and a sample of student work
Standard II - Upload evidence of differentiation (or modification if applicable) and a sample of students work to match this
Standard III - Upload a sample call log or documentation of communication with families
Standard IV - Upload evidence of your professional collaboration such as a minutes from a team meeting
November, 2018 Curley Cares Student Awards
The next Curley Cares assembly of the 2018-2019 school year will be held in Friday, November 30, 2018. Curley Cares awards are intended to reinforce positive student behaviors in support of the Curley Cares rules and the expectation/hope is that every Curley K8 student should earn at least one award each year. Throughout the year, reach out to members of your grade-level team, paras, specialists, and other staff to help try and make this happen. With this in mind PLEASE take a moment to recognize students who are doing their best to support the Curley Cares way.
Please use the NOVEMBER 2018 FORM to submit student names so they may receive an award at our Friday, November 30, 2018 Curley Shares assemblies. You may reference the 1819_CurleyCaresStudentRecipients list to see the names of students who have already received awards this year. Please SUBMIT awards by 4:00pm Tuesday, November 27, 2018.
Please use the NOVEMBER 2018 FORM to submit student names so they may receive an award at our Friday, November 30, 2018 Curley Shares assemblies. You may reference the 1819_CurleyCaresStudentRecipients list to see the names of students who have already received awards this year. Please SUBMIT awards by 4:00pm Tuesday, November 27, 2018.
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. Below are the Powerpoint presentation and the FAQ.
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 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, 12/13 3:45-5:45pm*
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 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*
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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