11/4/15 Daily Bulletin

Shout Out

Shout to April Ricciardone for embracing the ACE curriculum used by PACE educators and starting to incorporate it into her Occupational Therapy work with students! We appreciate your willingness to embrace change and jump on board of a team initiative. Thanks!

Field Trip

The nurse's need 2 weeks notice in advance of a field trip and should be given notification of all permission slips that say that the student requires medication during the day. If we have appropriate notification we can go through the list of students attending and determine if there are any medical conditions that staff need to be aware of while they are out of the building. We can also send along a first aid kit and any inhalers/epipens that must accompany the students. Please email Nurse Regan and Pumphret when you are planning your next trip.

November 25th

We will have an early release on November 25th. This means that we will dismiss students starting at 12:25pm and all adults can dismiss starting at 12:45pm.

Middle School 1st Term Grading Window

The first term grading window is open from October 29th until November 12th at 11:59 p.m. If you have any questions or problems, please contact Adrian Ward-Jackson. Also grades close on Friday, November 6th.

Safety Plan

Please click on this LINK and complete the fields for any facilities concerns you may have in order to comply with the plan. It is important that everyone fills this in by Friday! We are working on a response to all of your questions and will get this to you by the end of the week!

School Climate

The Climate team will meet on Wednesday November 4th from 3:00pm - 4:15pm in room 212. We will also have our monthly staff social at 3pm on Friday at Canary Square. We hope you can join us!

PARCC

Attached is information about accessing PARCC resources that are now available.  You will need to create an account for yourself in order to be able access and examine the material. Resources include released items from last year's PARCC PBA and EOY assessments, rubrics, and samples of student work for math and ELA. Resources also include wonderful formative "instructional tasks" for K2 - Grade 2 also for both math and ELA. There are many other resources there as well and we are just in the beginning stages of exploring them all. Regardless of what the state decides in terms of assessments, we know whatever assessment is chosen or created will need to be aligned with our standards, and all these resources will help us do just that. We hope you find the collection useful!

Faculty Senate Meeting

On Wednesday November 4 at 730 in the lower school conference room we will have our  first Faculty Senate Meeting. Faculty Senate can be very instrumental in fostering collaborative work between educators, staff and administration.  There is going to be a Boston Teacher Union organizer to run the first meeting.  I hope everyone can make it. 

AWC Meeting

Thursday afternoon from 3pm-4pm Curley staff and families are welcome to a meeting to discuss AWC and hear about the most up to date information from the district level to assure that all students have opportunities and access.

Vision Screening

NEEI will be back Monday, November 16th to finish K1 & K2 vision screening and any students who were absent.

11/3/15 Daily Bulletin

Shout Out

Shout out to Ms. Taylor Knight, Ms. Prieto, Ms. Amy-Moreno and Ms. Ennis for taking our SEI students to the Boston Public Market on Friday October 30th. Our thanks to Donald Wiest for his generous support. These young learners were able to taste the many flavors at the Boston Public Market, learn about nutrition as well as sampling locally sourced foods. It was a wonderful trip. Check put the market here http://bostonpublicmarket.org/. Also here are some great pictures compliments of the teachers.

Math Club

Fliers should go home with student tomorrow about a new math club started by two parents for 2nd and 3rd graders. Please be sure to send it home in back packs.

Voting

Tomorrow is Election Day and the neighbors will vote in the Upper School Cafeteria. Please be sure to avoid the middle staircase by the main office when escorting students to lunch and specialty. Also all families who vote must enter through the voting entrance. With limited space in the upper school cafeteria on Election Day, we are asking that teachers please be timely in picking students up from lunch. Please note that there is a very small window of time between the start of one lunch and end of another lunch.

Middle School 1st Term Grading Window

The first term grading window is open from October 29th until November 12th at 11:59 p.m. If you have any questions or problems, please contact Adrian Ward-Jackson. Also grades close on Friday, November 6th.

Safety Plan

Please click on this LINK and complete the fields for any facilities concerns you may have in order to comply with the plan. It is important that everyone fills this in by Friday! We are working on a response to all of your questions and will get this to you by the end of the week!

School Climate

The Climate team will meet on Wednesday November 4th from 3:00pm - 4:15pm in room 212. We will also have our monthly staff social at 3pm on Friday at Canary Square. We hope you can join us!

PARCC

Attached is information about accessing PARCC resources that are now available.  You will need to create an account for yourself in order to be able access and examine the material. Resources include released items from last year's PARCC PBA and EOY assessments, rubrics, and samples of student work for math and ELA. Resources also include wonderful formative "instructional tasks" for K2 - Grade 2 also for both math and ELA. There are many other resources there as well and we are just in the beginning stages of exploring them all. Regardless of what the state decides in terms of assessments, we know whatever assessment is chosen or created will need to be aligned with our standards, and all these resources will help us do just that. We hope you find the collection useful!

Faculty Senate Meeting

On Wednesday November 4 at 730 in the lower school conference room we will have our  first Faculty Senate Meeting. Faculty Senate can be very instrumental in fostering collaborative work between educators, staff and administration.  There is going to be a Boston Teacher Union organizer to run the first meeting.  I hope everyone can make it. 

AWC Meeting

Thursday afternoon from 3pm-4pm Curley staff and families are welcome to a meeting to discuss AWC and hear about the most up to date information from the district level to assure that all students have opportunities and access.

Vision Screening

NEEI will be back Monday, November 16th to finish K1 & K2 vision screening and any students who were absent.

Tech Literacy Resource

K-12 Schools & Districts has trial access to TeachingBooks.net that everyone associated with the institution may freely use through December 8, 2015. On TeachingBooks.net you will deeply enrich everyone's reading experiences with:

	K-12 Schools & Districts access directions:
		Go to: http://TeachingBooks.net/Fall15 Enter your work email address and click "Submit"

Once you sign in, search for high quality, ready-to-use instructional resources by book, author, illustrator, subject, series, award, or booklist. Or browse to find dynamic connections to books and authors.

11/2/15 Daily Bulletin

Shout Out

Shout out to all staff for their hard work in preparing our students for the PARCC assessment last spring. The unofficial data has been released and the Curley saw some positive gains! In ELA as a whole school we had an increase in CPI and SGP and in math we had an increase in CPI, SGP and Level 4 & 5 (formerly known as proficient and advanced)! In grades 3-5 ELA we had gains across the board which shows that their was a successful implementation of EL in just the first year! Grade 5 had above average growth scores in both ELA (69) and math (78.5). 6th grade had above average growth in ELA (63). 7th and 8th grade had math gains in CPI, SGP and Level 4 & 5 (formerly known as proficient and advanced)! You should all be proud of your hard work. Want to know how your current or former students performed? Check out the data here stored in the PARCC folder on our drive.

Curley Cares Student Awards

Please submit the names of any students you would like give a Curley Cares Award to during our student Curley Shares assemblies next Thursday, November 5, 2015. Submissions are due on Monday, November 2, 2015 by 5:00pm. Please be sure to include the homeroom of each student receiving an award as it will help ensure awards are sent to the correct assembly. Thank you all very much for helping sustain this effort to recognize our students - your support is appreciated! You can fill it out in Google Forms.

Safety Plan

Please click on this LINK and complete the fields for any facilities concerns you may have in order to comply with the plan. It is important that everyone fills this in by Friday!

PARCC

Attached is information about accessing PARCC resources that are now available.  You will need to create an account for yourself in order to be able access and examine the material. Resources include released items from last year's PARCC PBA and EOY assessments, rubrics, and samples of student work for math and ELA. Resources also include wonderful formative "instructional tasks" for K2 - Grade 2 also for both math and ELA. There are many other resources there as well and we are just in the beginning stages of exploring them all. Regardless of what the state decides in terms of assessments, we know whatever assessment is chosen or created will need to be aligned with our standards, and all these resources will help us do just that. We hope you find the collection useful!

Save the DATES!!!!!

Theatre Workshop / Saturday / November 14th / 9:00am

For school groups only. Experience a whole new world at BAA in the Theatre department. Audition Workshop / Saturday / December 5th / 9:30am

A great opportunity for students and families/caretakers to ask questions directly to the judges who will be making the decisions on audition dates. This event is open to the public and no registration is required! Winterfest / Thursday / December 17th / 10:30am at Berklee Performance Center

A holiday treat for students and teachers.  For reservations please contact Blanca Bonilla /bbonilla@bostonartsacademy.org

Faculty Senate Meeting

On Wednesday November 4 at 730 in the lower school conference room we will have our  first Faculty Senate Meeting. Faculty Senate can be very instrumental in fostering collaborative work between educators, staff and administration.  There is going to be a Boston Teacher Union organizer to run the first meeting.  I hope everyone can make it. 

AWC Meeting

Thursday afternoon from 3pm-4pm Curley staff and families are welcome to a meeting to discuss AWC and hear about the most up to date information from the district level to assure that all students have opportunities and access.

School Climate

The Climate team will meet on Wednesday November 4th from 3:00pm - 4:15pm in room 212.

Vision Screening

NEEI will be back Monday, November 16th to finish K1 & K2 vision screening and any students who were absent.