I hope you had a great conferences week. It was great to see families in the building, collaborating around student learning. You do a great job of building that partnership with families. Thank you for your relationships and focus on students-first!
#allstudentsmatter Challenge!
During the month of February, I am challenging you to blow up Twitter with #allstudentsmatter tweets! The challenge- look for words, actions, and things your colleagues (across the entire building) are doing to show that all students matter, every day! I will be doing weekly drawings in February to highlight some of our tweets - with some great prizes!
So, your challenge - go off and find ways your colleagues are putting ALL STUDENTS FIRST (words, actions, etc). Then, tweet it out using #allstudentsmatter.
Let's blow up Twitter with all the great people we have at McKinley!
I have appreciated all the work that has gone into knowing, planning, and teaching to instructional levels (based on the Fountas and Pinnell Benchmarking). This is a great tool for us to know a laser-like focus on reading strategies, skills, and text to use to move our readers forward.
One caution to remember when using instructional levels - they should never define the student. We should never have students "become" their level ("you are a G reader"). Also, we should never create an environment where students feel they need to master a level to "pass a grade". We, as a teachers, use this data as a benchmark- we have goals to get students to a level by the end of the year. That is our internal benchmarking. I caution us to remember that the level is just that - a level to guide instruction.
PLC Documents:
Thank you for joining me on Monday for a PLC check in. We are doing some great work - and will continue to get better. Here are the documents electronically:
Essential Standards Chart Guiding Questions
PLC Process Explained
Engagement Strategy:
This engagement strategy is a specific strategy in the area of math. I have shared this in the past - it's called "Number Detectives". It's a great way to warm up and build number sense with students. It can be used at any grade level! Click here to access Number Detectives
Building Weekly Newsletter:
Click here to access the building weekly newsletter
McKinleyStrong Educator of the Week:
The McKinleyStrong Educator of the Week goes to Special Education Teacher, Brianna Luhman. Brianna is a positive, focused, and compassionate educator who creates a love of learning in her students. The thing I appreciate the most about Brianna is her "never give up" attitude toward students - she will do whatever it takes to make students successful learners and people. We are very lucky to have Brianna on our team - keep up the great work, Ms. Luhman!
Have a great weekend, everyone!
-Justin
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