6/6/16 Daily Bulletin

Shout Out

Shout out to the entire pace team for their help with a difficult situation during dismissal on 6/1/16. Specifically Kandi Quarterson, Corey Edmiston, Ena Daniels, Liz Spring, Kristen Clark, Kristen Mitchell, Tristan Maiden, Monica Cawley, Hadley Keohane and Jeanette Ellis. Thank you all for working together!

Shout out to Melanie Bourgeault for leading her first Curley performance this past Friday. The auditorium was filled with proud parents and students listening attentively to their peers perform. Music is important for all of our students and it takes a lot of courage to stand on stage and perform. We look forward to further performances next year! Thanks!

 

Health and Wellness

Please join us for our last Health and Wellness meeting this year. We will meet at 7:30am on Tuesday, June 8th in room 208.

ILT

Please join us for our final ILT meeting of the year this Wednesday from 3:00pm-4:15pm in room 111. All are welcome.

Summer Send Off

Please join us for the 2^nd Annual Summer Send Off on Wednesday, June 8^th from 6-8pm in the playing field. There will be a potluck picnic so bring some food to share. We will also have a photo booth and a CASP play from 5pm-5:45pm in the auditorium.

Math Summer Learning

Math Summer Learning Calendars are available for students entering Grades 1 through 6.  These calendars provide an overview of math skills that students can work on during the summer, and a calendar of daily activities to help them practice these skills. The calendars are available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Somali, Haitian, Portuguese, and Caboverdean languages. Here is the link: 

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BwuBEj1M3dFXb01RWmZPUWM3VFE&usp=sharing

Please distribute to your students and their families.  We hope everyone has a very fun summer doing math!

Bulletin Boards

It's time to change our bulletin boards one last time!  During art class this week all classes will be participating in a contest to design our Curley T-Shirt for next year.  Next week, you will be asked to display the designs created by your students on your classroom bulletin board.  They must be up by June 13th so that the judges can choose a winner.  We can't wait to see the halls filled with reasons why the Curley is caring!

EOY Math Assessments

For students in Grades 3 - 12 who are taking the ATI end-of-year assessments:

EOY testing is scheduled from June 6-17. ODA will be posting the policy and procedure guides by the beginning of this week. Briefly, schools should return the assessments by June 17 at 4:30pm. For paper tests that are returned by that date, we will make every effort to have assessments scanned (and scores available) by Monday, June 20. For tests taken online, scores are instantaneous.

For students in K2, Grade 1, and Grade 2, there is an end-of-year assessment created by the Math Office that you can find on Aspen/SIS.  These are intended to provide your school with information about how students are performing relative to the math standards at those grade levels and we are not currently collecting those data centrally.

ACCESS Scores

Here are our ACCESS Scores by grade level. There has been good progress since last year across all grade levels! Kudos to you all!

Lead Teacher Position Posting

Below is some information from BPS Central Office regarding this position. Please let Katie Grassa know if you are interested in applying. We are launching the Lead Teacher program for 2016-2017 at this time. The current description includes co-facilitation of the ILT as a key element of the Lead Teacher position. A key piece of our Theory of Action (TOA) is that all schools have effective ILTs guided by a shared vision of collaborative adult learning that engage in CDTs themselves. Including Lead Teachers as co-facilitators of ILT is an important step in building the vision of collaborative adult learning. Please review the Lead Teacher Information Sheet and Lead Teacher position description (also attached below). These documents will provide more information about the role and include guidance for selecting Lead Teachers and a selection process checklist.

Lead Teacher Information Sheet 

Lead Teacher Position Description 

Outdoor Log

Please help us collect information about our outdoor spaces.  If you see something dangerous (needles, dead animals, etc) please use the Environmental Safety Concerns binders in the main offices to log what you found.  Thanks for your help!

EOY Assessments for grades 3-8

The End of Year Assessments are due June 15, 2016. Please schedule your EOY testing dates for Math and ELA by grade level and enter the information on the following link EOY Schedule Spreadsheet. I will prepare bins by homeroom and I will have them ready the day before your administer the assessment. Please contact Mr. Diaz if you have any questions.

ELA Spring Benchmark Period – Grades 3-8

The ELA spring benchmark assessment for grades 3-8 should be conducted between May 31^st and June 10th.  Grades 3-6 will administer DIBELS/DAZE Benchmark 3, and grades 7 and 8 will administer MAZE Benchmark 3. All testing materials will be distributed to teachers this week, and assessment results should be entered into the WIN Data spreadsheet on the Google drive as soon as possible, but no later than June 10th. Please contact Eileen Cronin for any questions regarding the upcoming benchmarking activities.

Bring a Book – Take a Book

A Summer Reading Book Swap is scheduled for Friday, June 17th! Students will be able to choose a “new to you” book or two from the donated collection, as part of Field Day activities. Over the next few weeks, a visit schedule will be developed, with teacher input. Look for notices in your mailboxes to send home with students, in both English and Spanish.

WE NEED BOOKS! 

Flower-covered donation boxes will be located in the upper and lower school lobbies. This is a great opportunity to review classroom libraries and donate gently used books that you no longer need. The deadline for donating books for the book swap is Thursday, June 15th. Please contact Caitlyn Gable (lower school) or Eileen Cronin (upper school) with any questions.

K-4 Field Day

The K-4 Field Day will take place on Thursday, June 16th with a rain date of Friday, June 17th. Please email Mark Righini with and questions.

SPED Progress Reports

The Final round of SPED progress reports will open Monday, May 16th.  They will close on Thursday, June 9th.

Finger Printing

Just a reminder to all staff that finger printing must be completed by July 30th. Please see the BTU Reps if you have any questions and here is a website for your reference as well www.identogo.com/fp/massachusetts.aspx. Also the code you need is 00350000.

Outside Use

Secretaries, counselors, and others need to know where students are for various reasons. With the continuing good weather we need to remind teachers that if they leave their classroom to go outside or to another classroom they need let the front office know and put a sign on your door. Also, if teachers are interested in going outside, they have to wait until all recesses are over at 1:20pm also from 1:30-2:20 each day PACE uses the play structures. If you would like to request field use go to the blog (www.curleyk8.blogspot.com) and under the Helpful Links tab click Book Playing Field.

K-2 Teachers

Teachers should move their students on the Lower School data wall by May 26th. There will be one more final move in June. The EOY BAS window is May 16th - June 16th. Teachers need to find instructional and hard levels for all students. The EOY Dibels window is May 23rd - June 10th.

6/3/16 Daily Bulletin

Shout Out

Shout out to Kate Davis for all her work this year organizing awards for the staff and students. Not only has Kate designed the system but she continuously tweaks the system to make it better. There is a lot of work that goes into printing, organizing notes and reminding everyone to nominate students. Thank you for taking on this important initiative and helping us to celebrating students and staff!

FINAL PAYMENT

This is the last chance for you to pay for the EOY party honoring our retirees. Cash or checks are accepted and the cost is $45. This will be an unforgettable evening with live music, DJ, delicious food and great company. Don't miss out!

Staff Social

Just a reminder our final staff social will take place on Friday, June 3rd starting at 3pm. We hope to see you at Costello's on Centre St.

Bulletin Boards

It's time to change our bulletin boards one last time!  During art class this week all classes will be participating in a contest to design our Curley T-Shirt for next year.  Next week, you will be asked to display the designs created by your students on your classroom bulletin board.  They must be up by June 13th so that the judges can choose a winner.  We can't wait to see the halls filled with reasons why the Curley is caring!

EOY Math Assessments

For students in Grades 3 - 12 who are taking the ATI end-of-year assessments:

EOY testing is scheduled from June 6-17. ODA will be posting the policy and procedure guides by the beginning of this week. Briefly, schools should return the assessments by June 17 at 4:30pm. For paper tests that are returned by that date, we will make every effort to have assessments scanned (and scores available) by Monday, June 20. For tests taken online, scores are instantaneous.

For students in K2, Grade 1, and Grade 2, there is an end-of-year assessment created by the Math Office that you can find on Aspen/SIS.  These are intended to provide your school with information about how students are performing relative to the math standards at those grade levels and we are not currently collecting those data centrally.

ACCESS Scores

Here are our ACCESS Scores by grade level. There has been good progress since last year across all grade levels! Kudos to you all!

Hat Day

We are scheduled to have our first annual Curley K-8 School Hat Day to support our 8th Graders’ Moving On Ceremony on Friday, June 3.  All students and staff members who purchase a bracelet for $1 will be permitted to wear their favorite hat all day next Friday.  Mr. Melzer is putting envelopes in your mailboxes which should include enough fliers and bracelets for the students in your homeroom class.  If a mistake was made or if you need more for the adults in your class, please contact him directly at cmelzer@bostonpublicschools.org. Please consider marking bracelets with a sharpie to distribute on Friday so no students lose theirs.  Thanks for supporting our 8th Graders’ celebration!​

 Spanish Hat Day 2016

 Hat Day 2016

Lead Teacher Position Posting

Below is some information from BPS Central Office regarding this position. Please let Katie Grassa know if you are interested in applying. We are launching the Lead Teacher program for 2016-2017 at this time. The current description includes co-facilitation of the ILT as a key element of the Lead Teacher position. A key piece of our Theory of Action (TOA) is that all schools have effective ILTs guided by a shared vision of collaborative adult learning that engage in CDTs themselves. Including Lead Teachers as co-facilitators of ILT is an important step in building the vision of collaborative adult learning. Please review the Lead Teacher Information Sheet and Lead Teacher position description (also attached below). These documents will provide more information about the role and include guidance for selecting Lead Teachers and a selection process checklist.

Lead Teacher Information Sheet 

Lead Teacher Position Description 

Outdoor Log

Please help us collect information about our outdoor spaces.  If you see something dangerous (needles, dead animals, etc) please use the Environmental Safety Concerns binders in the main offices to log what you found.  Thanks for your help!

EOY Assessments for grades 3-8

The End of Year Assessments are due June 15, 2016. Please schedule your EOY testing dates for Math and ELA by grade level and enter the information on the following link EOY Schedule Spreadsheet. I will prepare bins by homeroom and I will have them ready the day before your administer the assessment. Please contact Mr. Diaz if you have any questions.

ELA Spring Benchmark Period – Grades 3-8

The ELA spring benchmark assessment for grades 3-8 should be conducted between May 31^st and June 10th.  Grades 3-6 will administer DIBELS/DAZE Benchmark 3, and grades 7 and 8 will administer MAZE Benchmark 3. All testing materials will be distributed to teachers this week, and assessment results should be entered into the WIN Data spreadsheet on the Google drive as soon as possible, but no later than June 10th. Please contact Eileen Cronin for any questions regarding the upcoming benchmarking activities.

Bring a Book – Take a Book

A Summer Reading Book Swap is scheduled for Friday, June 17th! Students will be able to choose a “new to you” book or two from the donated collection, as part of Field Day activities. Over the next few weeks, a visit schedule will be developed, with teacher input. Look for notices in your mailboxes to send home with students, in both English and Spanish.

WE NEED BOOKS! 

Flower-covered donation boxes will be located in the upper and lower school lobbies. This is a great opportunity to review classroom libraries and donate gently used books that you no longer need. The deadline for donating books for the book swap is Thursday, June 15th. Please contact Caitlyn Gable (lower school) or Eileen Cronin (upper school) with any questions.

K-4 Field Day

The K-4 Field Day will take place on Thursday, June 16th with a rain date of Friday, June 17th. Please email Mark Righini with and questions.

SPED Progress Reports

The Final round of SPED progress reports will open Monday, May 16th.  They will close on Thursday, June 9th.

Finger Printing

Just a reminder to all staff that finger printing must be completed by July 30th. Please see the BTU Reps if you have any questions and here is a website for your reference as well www.identogo.com/fp/massachusetts.aspx. Also the code you need is 00350000.

Outside Use

Secretaries, counselors, and others need to know where students are for various reasons. With the continuing good weather we need to remind teachers that if they leave their classroom to go outside or to another classroom they need let the front office know and put a sign on your door. Also, if teachers are interested in going outside, they have to wait until all recesses are over at 1:20pm also from 1:30-2:20 each day PACE uses the play structures. If you would like to request field use go to the blog (www.curleyk8.blogspot.com) and under the Helpful Links tab click Book Playing Field.

K-2 Teachers

Teachers should move their students on the Lower School data wall by May 26th. There will be one more final move in June. The EOY BAS window is May 16th - June 16th. Teachers need to find instructional and hard levels for all students. The EOY Dibels window is May 23rd - June 10th.

6/2/16 Daily Bulletin

Shout Out

Shout out to April Pumphret and Candida Mundo for their support this week of families and assuring that all of our students had the necessary vaccines to be safe in school. Thanks!

Shout out to Ms. Prieto for taking in a student today so adults could have a meeting. The student left saying, "That teacher doesn't play! Those kids were all doing their work!" Your expectations were clear even to a visitor! Thanks!

FINAL PAYMENT

This is the last chance for you to pay for the EOY party honoring our retirees. Cash or checks are accepted and the cost is $45. This will be an unforgettable evening with live music, DJ, delicious food and great company. Don't miss out!

Staff Social

Just a reminder our final staff social will take place on Friday, June 3rd starting at 3pm. We hope to see you at Costello's on Centre St.

Boston Herald

The Boston Herald will join us for all of our Curley Shares on Thursday. They want to do a feature about our school and the work we have done around Curley Cares. Tomorrow Madeline and Kathy will hand out copies of releases to send home with each student. In case you need more here is the English version and the Spanish version.

Sharing Fun Memories and Kind Thoughts

We are collecting staff memories, thoughts, and words of wisdom to be shared with our retirees and school partners. Please think back over your time working with each of our retirees and school partners and share a few thoughts about their contribution to your life, the lives of our students and families, and/or the larger Curley community across the years. 

• Please share your fun, funny, or just plain memorable moments and kind thoughts about one or all of our retirees or our partners. 
• Consider your everyday interactions with these colleagues and how their contributions (big or small) have supported you, our students, or our school. All comments will be shared ANONYMOUSLY during our final PD on June 2, 2016. 
• If you have trouble viewing or submitting this form, you can fill it out in Google Forms.
  

Bulletin Boards

It's time to change our bulletin boards one last time!  During art class this week all classes will be participating in a contest to design our Curley T-Shirt for next year.  Next week, you will be asked to display the designs created by your students on your classroom bulletin board.  They must be up by June 13th so that the judges can choose a winner.  We can't wait to see the halls filled with reasons why the Curley is caring!

EOY Math Assessments

For students in Grades 3 - 12 who are taking the ATI end-of-year assessments:

EOY testing is scheduled from June 6-17. ODA will be posting the policy and procedure guides by the beginning of this week. Briefly, schools should return the assessments by June 17 at 4:30pm. For paper tests that are returned by that date, we will make every effort to have assessments scanned (and scores available) by Monday, June 20. For tests taken online, scores are instantaneous.

For students in K2, Grade 1, and Grade 2, there is an end-of-year assessment created by the Math Office that you can find on Aspen/SIS.  These are intended to provide your school with information about how students are performing relative to the math standards at those grade levels and we are not currently collecting those data centrally.

Curley Shares

We will hold our June Curley Shares on Thursday, June 2. Below is a reminder of the schedule for the day:

• 2nd/7th 9:00-9:30 - Redden, Silverstein, Higginbottom, Burke, Mountain, DaSilva, Clark, Mylett, 7A, 7B, 7F, 8F
• K0&K1/4th 10:10-10:40 - Cullen, Goldstein, Merdkhanian, Maiden, Mitchell, Chisholm, Guzman, Pradas, Tefera, Wright, Javaloyes 
• 1st/6th 11:15-12:00 - Ciardi, Banks, Craman, Kidd, 6A, 6B, 6C, Quarterson
• K2/5th 12:00-12:40 - Solimini, Cronin, Smith, Shea, Rand, Daly, Moran, Quatrale, Davis, Iatrou, Mundo
• 3rd/8th 1:25-2:10 - Ferguson, Petmezis, Signes, Rivera, 8A, 8B, 6G, 7G, 8G

ACCESS Scores

Here are our ACCESS Scores by grade level. There has been good progress since last year across all grade levels! Kudos to you all!

PD

Our last ALL staff PD will take place on Thursday, June 2nd from 3pm-4pm.

Hat Day

We are scheduled to have our first annual Curley K-8 School Hat Day to support our 8th Graders’ Moving On Ceremony on Friday, June 3.  All students and staff members who purchase a bracelet for $1 will be permitted to wear their favorite hat all day next Friday.  Mr. Melzer is putting envelopes in your mailboxes which should include enough fliers and bracelets for the students in your homeroom class.  If a mistake was made or if you need more for the adults in your class, please contact him directly at cmelzer@bostonpublicschools.org. Please consider marking bracelets with a sharpie to distribute on Friday so no students lose theirs.  Thanks for supporting our 8th Graders’ celebration!​

 Spanish Hat Day 2016

 Hat Day 2016

Lead Teacher Position Posting

Below is some information from BPS Central Office regarding this position. Please let Katie Grassa know if you are interested in applying. We are launching the Lead Teacher program for 2016-2017 at this time. The current description includes co-facilitation of the ILT as a key element of the Lead Teacher position. A key piece of our Theory of Action (TOA) is that all schools have effective ILTs guided by a shared vision of collaborative adult learning that engage in CDTs themselves. Including Lead Teachers as co-facilitators of ILT is an important step in building the vision of collaborative adult learning. Please review the Lead Teacher Information Sheet and Lead Teacher position description (also attached below). These documents will provide more information about the role and include guidance for selecting Lead Teachers and a selection process checklist.

Lead Teacher Information Sheet 

Lead Teacher Position Description 

School Climate Team Meeting

Our next meeting will take place on Wednesday, June 1st from 3:00pm-4:15pm in room 212.

Outdoor Log

Please help us collect information about our outdoor spaces.  If you see something dangerous (needles, dead animals, etc) please use the Environmental Safety Concerns binders in the main offices to log what you found.  Thanks for your help!

EOY Assessments for grades 3-8

The End of Year Assessments are due June 15, 2016. Please schedule your EOY testing dates for Math and ELA by grade level and enter the information on the following link EOY Schedule Spreadsheet. I will prepare bins by homeroom and I will have them ready the day before your administer the assessment. Please contact Mr. Diaz if you have any questions.

ELA Spring Benchmark Period – Grades 3-8

The ELA spring benchmark assessment for grades 3-8 should be conducted between May 31^st and June 10th.  Grades 3-6 will administer DIBELS/DAZE Benchmark 3, and grades 7 and 8 will administer MAZE Benchmark 3. All testing materials will be distributed to teachers this week, and assessment results should be entered into the WIN Data spreadsheet on the Google drive as soon as possible, but no later than June 10th. Please contact Eileen Cronin for any questions regarding the upcoming benchmarking activities.

Bring a Book – Take a Book

A Summer Reading Book Swap is scheduled for Friday, June 17th! Students will be able to choose a “new to you” book or two from the donated collection, as part of Field Day activities. Over the next few weeks, a visit schedule will be developed, with teacher input. Look for notices in your mailboxes to send home with students, in both English and Spanish.

WE NEED BOOKS! 

Flower-covered donation boxes will be located in the upper and lower school lobbies. This is a great opportunity to review classroom libraries and donate gently used books that you no longer need. The deadline for donating books for the book swap is Thursday, June 15th. Please contact Caitlyn Gable (lower school) or Eileen Cronin (upper school) with any questions.

K-4 Field Day

The K-4 Field Day will take place on Thursday, June 16th with a rain date of Friday, June 17th. Please email Mark Righini with and questions.

SPED Progress Reports

The Final round of SPED progress reports will open Monday, May 16th.  They will close on Thursday, June 9th.

Finger Printing

Just a reminder to all staff that finger printing must be completed by July 30th. Please see the BTU Reps if you have any questions and here is a website for your reference as well www.identogo.com/fp/massachusetts.aspx. Also the code you need is 00350000.

Outside Use

Secretaries, counselors, and others need to know where students are for various reasons. With the continuing good weather we need to remind teachers that if they leave their classroom to go outside or to another classroom they need let the front office know and put a sign on your door. Also, if teachers are interested in going outside, they have to wait until all recesses are over at 1:20pm also from 1:30-2:20 each day PACE uses the play structures. If you would like to request field use go to the blog (www.curleyk8.blogspot.com) and under the Helpful Links tab click Book Playing Field.

K-2 Teachers

Teachers should move their students on the Lower School data wall by May 26th. There will be one more final move in June. The EOY BAS window is May 16th - June 16th. Teachers need to find instructional and hard levels for all students. The EOY Dibels window is May 23rd - June 10th.