Thursday, April 23, 2015

April 23, 2015




Welcome to the Speas Global Elementary Blog!
All staff members, let's make sure we are teaching, reteaching, and teaching again the procedures in the common areas (Hallway, Cafeteria, Bathrooms, Playground, Bus).  We should be giving out lots of Bee's for students demonstrating the basic expectations.  It is a good idea to review the procedures before you leave one area to travel to another area.  


Our Mission: It is the mission of Speas Elementary School to provide its students with the tools necessary to successfully meet the challenges they will face in a diverse world.
Goals:
To increase English Language Arts achievement by 10%
To increase Mathematics achievement by 10%
To increase Science Achievement by 10%





Check out this graphic about global education.  The things above water are just the tip of the iceberg.   Try to go deeper in your instruction and touch some of the issues below the surface.

ISS
Specialists will begin holding ISS in their respective areas on their assigned days.  The schedule is below.  Teachers, specialists may be contacting you for work for students assigned to ISS.  Please get them work as soon as possible.   




Day
Teacher
Location
A
Arora
Room 213
B
Bowen
Music
C
King
Art
D
Childers/McMasters
Media/CL
E
Lindquist
Gym

Teachers: Having Trouble with Defiant Students?  Have you tried these strategies?

http://www.interventioncentral.org/behavioral-interventions/challenging-students/school-wide-strategies-managing-defiance-non-complianc

Our jobs may get hectic as we try to close out the year strong.   Here are some things to remember about what we may call disrespect or defiant behavior:
cont.

The three relational forces that drive their school behaviors
ÒThe drive for reliable relationships.  Students want the safety of a primary safe and reliable relationship.  Students would prefer parents, psotive friends, and teachers, but they’d take an “iffy” friend if no one else were available. The relationships that teachers build with students form the single strongest access to student goals, socialization, motivation, and academic performance.  To foster high achievement, every student will need a reliable partner or mentor.

Ò The strengthening of peer socialization.  Socialization is the drive for acceptance that encourages students to imitate their peers and join groups, from clubs to cliques to gangs.  Students want to belong somewhere,  Evidence suggests that  it is peers, not parents, who have the greatest influence on school-age students.  Academic success must be culturally acceptable among students.

The quest for importance and social status.  This is the quest to feel special.  Students compete for attention and social elevation by choosing roles that will distinguish them (e.g., athlete, comedian, storyteller, gang leader, scholar, or style maverick).  Kids are very interested in what other kids do, whether others like them, and how they rate on the social scale.  Every student will need to feel like the “status hunt” can just as well lead to better grades as better behaviors


Announcements:

2nd Grade to Butterfly Farm

 National Theater Performance 1:30 Gym grades 3-5

 Happy 1st Day of Summer (in Iceland)


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All staff members, let's make sure we are teaching, reteaching, and teaching again the procedures in the common areas (Hallway, Cafeteria, Bathrooms, Playground, Bus).  We should be giving out lots of Bee's for students demonstrating the basic expectations.  It is a good idea to review the procedures before you leave one area to travel to another area.  
SMOD Tickets (dress code violations) are located in the workroom.  Please keep the bottom portion for your own records as a way to keep track of the number of violations.  The continuum is as follows:


1st offense: verbal warning, and letter will be sent home to be signed.  Parent or guardian notified of violation
2nd offense: Teacher notifies parent or guardian and student is removed from class until proper SMOD is delivered.

(Teachers, we all should be enforcing this, it will only work if we all enforce it).
Calendar









4.23
4DX
Johnson out; 2nd grade to butterfly farm; 1:30 National Theatre Performance grades 3-5 gym
4.24
5

E
X
School-Wide Assembly Diggerdoo Down Under
4.26
5.1
Canty out meeting
5.4




TRC Window Opens
5.5
Ash out AM
5.8




GSN Module 4 due; PEP checks begin
5.14
Ash out AM; Papa Murphy’s Spirit Night
5.7
4th Grade Heritage Theater, New Winston Museum
5.20
Johnson out AM
5.22
1st Grade NC  Zoo 8:00-2:00 PM; Yoforia Movie Night; Ready EOG window opens; TRC window closes
5.27




EOG ELA
5.28




EOG Math
5.29




EOG Makeups
6.1




EOG Sci 5
6.2




EOG Sci 5
6.3




EOG Makeups
6.4




RTA/EOG Makeups
6.5
EOG/RTA Makeups
6.7
6.8




EOG and RTA Makeups
6.9




EOG and RTA Makeups
6.10




3rd Retest
6.11




RTA and Retest
6.12




Last day for students; RTA and Retest
6.22




Last day for teachers

Global Holidays
ThursdayApr 23Yom HaAtzmautAustralia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States
ThursdayApr 23Language DayColombia
ThursdayApr 23Day of AragónSpain
ThursdayApr 23St George's DaySpain
ThursdayApr 23Castile and León DaySpain
ThursdayApr 23Yom HaAtzmaut (Independence Day)Israel
ThursdayApr 23First Day of SummerIceland
ThursdayApr 23National Sovereignty and Children's DayTurkey
ThursdayApr 23St. George's DayUnited Kingdom
ThursdayApr 23St George's FeastHoly See (Vatican City)
ThursdayApr 23Day of Turksu1

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