12/12/18 Daily Bulletin

Shout Out

Shout out to Hadley Keohane for being a super awesome teammate who's always willing to share thoughts, ideas and her resources to support students that she might not even know! You're an asset to us all, Hadley!

Shout out to Ms. Signes for jumping in to help out with arrival duty! We appreciate it!

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 Climate - Grow the Green Protocol. Some teams have mentioned they are behind it is expected that both of these ILT meetings are also completed before we leave for winter break. ILT - Reflection or ILT -LASW.

PD

We have an all staff PD on Thursday, December 13, 2018 from 3:45pm-5:45pm. Every para and teacher in attendance will be paid. This will be Active Shooter Training lead by the Boston Police Department and we will conclude with Staff Awards!

Early Retirement Incentive

In an effort to assist in early planning and hiring for the 2019-2020 academic year, the district offers a $1,500 incentive to eligible members of the teachers unit who inform us of their intent to terminate at the end of the school year. The application for the incentive must be submitted by Jan 11, 2019. See attached circular for more details. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
Raecia T. Catchings
Director of Employee Services
rcatchings@bostonpublicschools.org
Phone: 617-635-9619

ILT

Please join us for our final ILT meeting of 2018 on Wednesday, December 12th from 3:45pm-5:00pm in room 101.

Special Education Progress Reports

Special Education Progress Reports are coming out this week. Please make sure that these reports go home with report cards this week. Spanish copies are to follow. They may come in chunks.

Secret Snowman

It's WEEK 2 of the Curley Secret Snowman Exchange. You have all week to secretly deliver a small gift to your Secret Snowman (check their info sheet for gift ideas & to make sure they won't be out). The suggested theme of the week is Something Sweet or a Holiday Treat - share your favorite treat, home-made or otherwise with your Secret Snowman. Remember that you should keep your total spent throughout the entire exchange to $25. Please email Joanne Mylett at, jmylett@bostonpublicschools.org, with any questions.

ELA BPS Interim 2

All students grades 3-8 who take MCAS will take the 2nd BPS ELA Interim the week of December 17 - 21. Click here for access codes: SY18-19 Interim Assessment #2 Access Codes. Here are the Accommodations Groupings. Please edit as needed, and reach out to Ms. Morgan if you have any questions and/or need support!

• Tuesday (12/18): 3rd & 6th
• Wednesday (12/19): 4th & 7th
• Thursday (12/20): 5th & 8th

INTERNATIONAL WEEK FEEDBACK

Please send photos and provide feedback about your International Week experiences this year. The feedback survey can be done on paper (check your mailbox) or in Google Forms > International Week Feedback 2018. Completed paper forms should go in the basket on top of the Teachers’ Room file cabinet. THANK YOU!

December, 2018 Curley Cares Student Awards

The next Curley Cares assembly of the 2018-2019 school year will be held in Friday, December 21, 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 (any staff member with a BPS Google login can access the form).
With this in mind PLEASE take a moment to recognize students who are doing their best to support the Curley Cares way. Use the DECEMBER 2018 FORM to submit names in order for students your work with to receive an award at our Friday, December 21, 2018 Curley Shares assemblies. You can use this list of students to review which students have already received awards this school year.
If you'd like to give more than 3 awards, please coordinate with your grade-level colleagues such as specialists or other staff or (if necessary) email Kate (kdavis3@bostonpublicschools.org) directly.
Please SUBMIT awards by 4:00pm Monday, December 17, 2018.

EOY 2018 Staff Breakfast

Please join us for a staff breakfast on Friday, December 21st at 7:15am in the auditorium! We will celebrate the end of 2018 before we all head off to vacation!

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.

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, 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

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*

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.