"Win"ter ( I know corny!)

I am seeing so many teachers making great use of their WIN time, providing interventions as Instructional Assistants work with the other students, or teachers dividing up students to target instruction in response to the progress monitoring and assessment data. Thank you!

As you are providing interventions for those students who are not meeting benchmarks, please also make sure that you create an official plan within MTSS Explorer, and that you are progress monitoring. If a parent asks or we decide that a student may need to go through the evaluation process that data must be documented in the system. If we do not have it documented, it did not happen when it comes to this process. If you need assistance creating a plan. please ask your grade level case manager.

Interim Reports go home next Friday, December 7th. This is a great time to share specific data with your parents. Whether it be successes or areas of struggle, parents want to support at home. Let them know how they can help.  Tara has updated the resources on the GHE homepage that you can share with parents. Some of you are already sharing that. Hang in there folks! We have some fun days coming up and you are doing great work!

Ms. Gehrett's Goldfish work in teams to critique Ms. Gehrett's journal entry.

You all work so hard. So kiss your brain!

Thank you to Ms. Fulghum and Ms. Rocker for making such an adorable hallway display!

Hall of Fame:

Thank you Ms. Goodman and Ms. Cossa for presenting to our third grade parents about CogAt testing and IOWA testing.

Thank you to first grade for communicating very specific parent information for upcoming units and a parent survey to get feedback on their strengths and areas of improvement! Thanks for being so brave!
Thank you to Coach G for all of your weeks of holding down the fort in the gym without your permanent partner and for helping us hire a new Rock Star who starts Monday!

Welcome Ms. Belinda Williams, our new PE teacher!

Thank you to our teachers who are putting MTSS Explorer to good use! I am seeing lots of good plans in there.

Thank you to Case Managers for helping to support that work.

Thank you to all who have turned in your conference sign in sheets.

Thank you to 4th and 5th grades for your hard work with EL. A shout out to Ms. D'Amico and Ms. Zimmerman whose classes I happened to be in today as they were diving into their complex text on rainforests!

He survived!!!

Reminders:

Monday, December 3rd- Make- up school pictures- Please consult the list that Steve sent out to make sure that none of the kiddos who need  a pic miss it.

Tuesday, December 4th Leadership Team Meeting

Friday December 7th- Interims go home (I know right?!)