Shout Out
Shout out to Alisa Fleming, Craig Melzer, Alissa Ferro, Paige Stokes, Jim Carvalho and Olivia Peters for their support of a brand new student to our school this past week. The family was very nervous about their 7th grader transitioning in mid-year and reached out to say their daughter had a FABULOUS first week of school and she LOVES all her teachers. Thank you for creating a welcoming climate for students for and easing the qualms of this family.Shout out to Meron Tefera, Laura Strait, Leida Arroyo, Sharon Pina-Pitts, Lindsey Wright and Teresa Javaloyes for leading a presentation for families about Excellence For All. They all left impressed with what they saw in classrooms and excited about what their child will learn next year in grade 4. Thank you!
March, 2017 Curley Cares Student Awards
Recognize those students who are doing their best to show growth and support the Curley Cares way by using THIS FORM to submit names so students can receive an award at our upcoming Thursday, March 23, 201 7 Curley Cares assemblies.Please refer to THIS LIST to see those students who have already received awards this school year .
The intent behind Curley Cares is reinforce positive (caring) behaviors and that each Curley K8 student receive at least one Curley Shares award each year.
All Curley K8 staff members - not just for homeroom teachers - can submit student names for an award.
If you'd like to give more than 3 awards, please coordinate with your grade-level colleagues such as specialists or other staff. If it is for a larger group of students (such as a sports team, etc.) please email Kate (kdavis3@bostonpublicschools.org) directly.
Submissions are DUE by 4:00pm on Monday, March 20 , 2017 .
STAR Reading Progress Monitoring (Grade 3-8 Only)
Progress monitoring is scheduled for March 20th - 24th for all students reading below grade level, including students ranked “On Watch”, “Intervention” and “Urgent Intervention” for the winter STAR Reading Benchmark.Progress monitoring is completed independently by focus students, and can be scheduled during the WIN block or other convenient time. To begin the assessment, students log into “STAR Reading”, and begin testing. Progress monitoring should take no longer than 20-25 minutes per student.
Please contact Eileen Cronin if you have any questions.
Winter Term Report Card Grading Window for Grades K2-5
The elementary grading (Grades K2 - 5) window is open from March 7th to March 24th. Please refer to the materials below for assistance entering your grades. After entering grades, teachers need to click the "Post Grades" button to write the grades to the report card.Entering Grades Handout
Elementary Comment Codes Handout
How to verify that your grades are posted
Instructional Focus Review - POSTPONED TILL 3/28/17
On Wednesday, March 28th from 8am-1pm representatives from BPS will join us for a walkthrough of classrooms and look for evidence of our Instructional Focus "Teachers will vary demands and resources, to optimize challenge, so students can express a clear, organized idea." Visitors may enter any classroom during this window.Lion King Performances
The Lion King performance dates have been announced:
School Shows
· March 21st and 22nd at 9 a.m. Curley Auditorium
· March 22nd at 1 p.m. Curley Auditorium
Evening Shows
· March 23rd and 24th at 6:30 p.m. Curley Auditorium
*****April 6 Shubert Theatre Doors open at 5 pm & Show starts at 5:30. (This is an amazing opportunity for all of our students!!!!!)· March 21st and 22nd at 9 a.m. Curley Auditorium
· March 22nd at 1 p.m. Curley Auditorium
Evening Shows
· March 23rd and 24th at 6:30 p.m. Curley Auditorium
Families are welcome to come to either performance and all students will attend one of the daytime performances.
REVISED SCHEDULE based on feedback
Here is the link for the Lion King schedule:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15CezwWnrjIk8g5avYF30Wkkx02yoV0GCowuFERHrmXs/edit?usp=sharing
The Curley School Parent Council (SPC) will be hosting their 10th Annual Silent Auction at Canary Square on Tuesday, March 28th from 6pm-9pm and would like to extend an invite to all staff, friends and families. The money raised from the Silent Auction goes to directly supporting our school such as Playworks, BalletROX, Arts supplies, science supplies, staff luncheon, Chromebooks etc... There will be more information that will follow about the online auction. Any donations or specific questions can be directed to Ann DeGeorge (ann.c.degeorge@gmail.com) or Eyleen Iraola (eiraola@gmail.com).
REVISED SCHEDULE based on feedback
Here is the link for the Lion King schedule:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15CezwWnrjIk8g5avYF30Wkkx02yoV0GCowuFERHrmXs/edit?usp=sharing
10th Annual Curley Silent Auction
The Curley School Parent Council (SPC) will be hosting their 10th Annual Silent Auction at Canary Square on Tuesday, March 28th from 6pm-9pm and would like to extend an invite to all staff, friends and families. The money raised from the Silent Auction goes to directly supporting our school such as Playworks, BalletROX, Arts supplies, science supplies, staff luncheon, Chromebooks etc... There will be more information that will follow about the online auction. Any donations or specific questions can be directed to Ann DeGeorge (ann.c.degeorge@gmail.com) or Eyleen Iraola (eiraola@gmail.com).
Hiring
Hiring season is here! We have 10 jobs posted on www.teachboston.org. We need your help in hiring the best teachers to join our team. Please sign up to be on the interview committee ASAP. No previous experience is necessary but we value your opinions.
Please note that, because of the student groupings and testing times, there will be some disruptions to the day. Specialty classes will be missing some students, and students will have lunch at different times based on when they are testing. Unfortunately, some students will miss their specials on the testing day. Please be sure to take note of which groups your students are in, and what time they have testing and lunch. Mr. Diaz sent out the groups of students earlier this week.
Feel free to reach out to Mr. Diaz or Ms. Ciardi if you have any questions.
Amika is putting up a new Bulletin Board outside the Teachers Room and needs your help! Please send her a photo of the cover of a book you are currently reading, or have recently read and enjoyed. Commentary welcome, but not necessary. Email full-size photos to: amika45@gmail.com. THANK YOU!
Position
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Interview Date
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Interview Time
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K0/K1 ASD
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Wednesday, March 22
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3pm-6pm
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K1/K2 ASD
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Wednesday, March 29
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3pm-6pm
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Grade 1
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Tuesday, March 14
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3pm-6pm
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Grade 2 Inclusion
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Friday, March 10
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3pm-6pm
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Grade 3 Inclusion
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Friday, March 10
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3pm-6pm
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Grade 5
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Thursday, March 16
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3pm-6pm
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Grade 6 Math
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Friday, March 17
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3pm-6pm
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Grade 7/8 Math
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Friday, March 17
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3pm-6pm
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Grade 7/8 Science
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Tuesday, March 14
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3pm-6pm
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K-8 Theatre Arts
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Monday, March 20
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3pm-6pm
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NAEP
As you know, NAEP testing is coming up on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. Grade 8 will be testing on Wednesday, March 8 and Grade 4 on Thursday, March 9. Here is the schedule for the testing days.Please note that, because of the student groupings and testing times, there will be some disruptions to the day. Specialty classes will be missing some students, and students will have lunch at different times based on when they are testing. Unfortunately, some students will miss their specials on the testing day. Please be sure to take note of which groups your students are in, and what time they have testing and lunch. Mr. Diaz sent out the groups of students earlier this week.
Feel free to reach out to Mr. Diaz or Ms. Ciardi if you have any questions.
Get BPS Technology Updates - Join the BPSTechnology Group
Click here to go to Google Groups and join the BPSTechnology Group. Once you join, you will start receiving regular updates written by OIIT's Digital Learning Team to inform members of the BPS Community about professional development and other digital learning opportunities such as:- Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities, such as workshops and other offerings and updates from the Digital Learning Team
- Learning Challenges and Links to Resources to help you build your digital literacies and learn more about digital tools for your classroom
- Social Media Updates, including links to new blog posts and other opportunities to build your professional learning network within BP
- Network and BPS Application Updates from OIIT
- In order to join, you must be logged into Google using your BPS login. Once you get to the Google Group page, just click on "Join" to join the group and start receiving regular updates from the BPS Digital Learning Team.
Save the Date
Please reserve Friday, June 2nd for our End-of-the-Year and Retirement Party.
Place: Florian Hall
Time: 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Appetizers, Buffet, Music, Dance, Celebrations!AN INVITATION TO STUDENTS IN GRADES 3-8!
Help needed! Please consider having your students write some “Random Acts of Kindness” to insert in the envelopes on the bulletin board across from the Teachers Room! These can be kind words or suggestions for kind acts. And a reminder… they are for adults as well as students!Field Trips
Are you going on a field trip soon? Have you shared this information with the nurses and the cafeteria? This is a friendly reminder that the nurse's and cafe should be notified 2 weeks in advance of scheduled field trips. Teachers should also be carefully checking the returned permission slips. They should notify the nurse's office when a parent checks the "yes" box stating that their child requires medication while on the field trip.
WHAT ARE YOU READING?
Let’s share with one another and show students that teachers are readers, too!Amika is putting up a new Bulletin Board outside the Teachers Room and needs your help! Please send her a photo of the cover of a book you are currently reading, or have recently read and enjoyed. Commentary welcome, but not necessary. Email full-size photos to: amika45@gmail.com. THANK YOU!
MCAS (Yes, it is that time of year again!)
As we get closer to our MCAS testing date we want to make sure we are continuing to make progress towards our team goals that are linked to the school wide instructional focus:
- Teachers will vary demands and resources, in order to optimize challenge in writing tasks, so students can express a clear organized idea.
It is important that we are preparing students to express clear organized ideas because this will lead to improved student outcomes. We want to be able to see improvements in our data from last years results.
Please use the link below to prepare students for the technology that they will be using on MCAS 2.0. Our students come to this online test with a range of exposure to technology. It is expected that all students taking MCAS 2.0 will have taken the practice MCAS 2.0 online for math and ELA by Friday March 3rd. The admin team will be checking in with teachers to ensure you are familiar with the online tools of MCAS 2.0.
Please map out how many weeks you have until your MCAS dates and plan to cover the major standards that you want to cover before the MCAS. It’s more important to cover essential standards over trying to cover as much as you can before MCAS. This is a case where less is more and quality trumps quantity.
MCAS Calendar Link
Any questions, concerns or ideas regarding MCAS scheduling or the practice test should be sent to David Diaz.
As we get closer to our MCAS testing date we want to make sure we are continuing to make progress towards our team goals that are linked to the school wide instructional focus:
Please use the link below to prepare students for the technology that they will be using on MCAS 2.0. Our students come to this online test with a range of exposure to technology. It is expected that all students taking MCAS 2.0 will have taken the practice MCAS 2.0 online for math and ELA by Friday March 3rd. The admin team will be checking in with teachers to ensure you are familiar with the online tools of MCAS 2.0.
Please map out how many weeks you have until your MCAS dates and plan to cover the major standards that you want to cover before the MCAS. It’s more important to cover essential standards over trying to cover as much as you can before MCAS. This is a case where less is more and quality trumps quantity.
MCAS Calendar Link
Any questions, concerns or ideas regarding MCAS scheduling or the practice test should be sent to David Diaz.
- Teachers will vary demands and resources, in order to optimize challenge in writing tasks, so students can express a clear organized idea.
Please use the link below to prepare students for the technology that they will be using on MCAS 2.0. Our students come to this online test with a range of exposure to technology. It is expected that all students taking MCAS 2.0 will have taken the practice MCAS 2.0 online for math and ELA by Friday March 3rd. The admin team will be checking in with teachers to ensure you are familiar with the online tools of MCAS 2.0.
Please map out how many weeks you have until your MCAS dates and plan to cover the major standards that you want to cover before the MCAS. It’s more important to cover essential standards over trying to cover as much as you can before MCAS. This is a case where less is more and quality trumps quantity.
MCAS Calendar Link
Any questions, concerns or ideas regarding MCAS scheduling or the practice test should be sent to David Diaz.
Using ESS
If you wish to request a day off (medical appointments, religious holidays, professional day, bereavement, personal day etc...), sign on to Boston Employees Self Service (ESS, Please bookmark this page). When possible, request a personal day at least two weeks in advance. Staff members will request sub coverage through SubCentral (https://subcentral.bostonpublicschools.org/logOnInitAction.do). Please do not decide whether you think a sub is needed and submit the request as soon as you know a day you will be absent. We have many unexpected coverage needs that might need sub help. We are attaching a list of subs who usually work at the Curley upon request.
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
- If it is after 6:30am, also send an email to Katie Grassa, David Diaz and the secretary.
If you wish to request a day off (medical appointments, religious holidays, professional day, bereavement, personal day etc...), sign on to Boston Employees Self Service (ESS, Please bookmark this page). When possible, request a personal day at least two weeks in advance. Staff members will request sub coverage through SubCentral (https://subcentral.bostonpublicschools.org/logOnInitAction.do). Please do not decide whether you think a sub is needed and submit the request as soon as you know a day you will be absent. We have many unexpected coverage needs that might need sub help. We are attaching a list of subs who usually work at the Curley upon request.
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
- If it is after 6:30am, also send an email to Katie Grassa, David Diaz and the secretary.
Buddies Update
Are you struggling to think about what to do with your buddy classroom during these cold, snowy, winter days? Check out this link for ideas and feel free to add any fun ideas you may have!
Are you struggling to think about what to do with your buddy classroom during these cold, snowy, winter days? Check out this link for ideas and feel free to add any fun ideas you may have!
SPED PD Options
Below are some PD options being offered at the Curley during our contractual PD dates. Staff may want to include one or more of these into their team PD plan. Here is the link to sign up https://goo.gl/forms/
- March 16th --- Behavior Supports
- April 27th --- Understanding Disabilities and Services available
- May 18th --- Middle School Transition/Life Skills
- June 1st --- Inclusion
Below are some PD options being offered at the Curley during our contractual PD dates. Staff may want to include one or more of these into their team PD plan. Here is the link to sign up https://goo.gl/forms/
- March 16th --- Behavior Supports
- April 27th --- Understanding Disabilities and Services available
- May 18th --- Middle School Transition/Life Skills
- June 1st --- Inclusion