Hayes Elementary : August 2016

Sunday, August 28, 2016

Look ahead for August 29, 2016

Notes from Mr. Ross:

There are seven million minutes from Pre-K to graduation. Don't waste a moment!

Parent conferences are Thursday and Friday this week. Hayes has traditionally held parent conferences Thursday evening from 3:30pm to 7:00pm and taken a half day on Friday, having meetings from 8:00am to noon. It is your responsibility to set up conferences in order to meet as many parents as possible. It is not acceptable for our departmentalized staff members to sit together and meet as a group. I know parents have a desire to talk to everyone but it makes it impossible to meet with 80 plus sets of parents. So, you will need to be flexible and aware of your partners needs and concerns. YOU CAN MEET WITH PARENTS AT ANYTIME AFTER SCHOOL OR DURING PLANNING THIS WEEK TO ENSURE EVERYONE GETS A CHANCE TO VISIT.

Handouts will be sent out our during parent conferences indicating that the infinite campus APP for parent's smart phones will be operational. In short, that means our parents will have access to their child's grades ANYTIME they want them. Teachers are required to have their assignments AND grades in weekly. Now anyone can see what's going on in your classrooms at anytime. Our lessons, assignments and grades need to be aligned with the school district and state standards. It appears Mr. Wells was correct, big brother is here.

By the time parent conferences begin on Thursday I expect the math word walls, mountain math and anything else that has been requested on the walls and being utilized. No exceptions.

Oklahoma State Blueprints:

OAS-ELA Standards: OAS ELA

OAS-Math Standards: OAS Math

OAS-Math Blueprints: Math Blueprints

OAS-Science Standards: OAS Science

Generic Morning Announcement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6dAG5eWCok&feature=youtu.be

Everyday Math Codes:

1st Grade EDM Codes

2nd Grade EDM Codes

3rd Grade EDM Codes

4th Grade EDM Codes

5th Grade EDM Codes

EDM Online Activation

GAME ON! Powerpoint:

Game On!

Teacher Handbook:

Handbook

Math Vocabulary Word Walls:

Word Walls

EM 3 Resources

RTI:

RTI

Hayes Elementary Master Schedule 2016-2017:

Master Schedule 16 - 17

Mastery Connect:

okcps.masteryconnect.com

Star360 logins:

Student Login: http://10.3.110.92/rploginstudent/

Username: FirstName.LastName (this is their single sign on login information used for computers)

Password: XStudentID#

Teacher Login: http://10.3.110.92/rploginstaff/

Once the student has successfully logged on, they will then select either STAR Early Literacy (K-1), STAR Reading (2-6) or STAR Math (2-6). After selecting an assessment, the student will need to select the class labeled reading. The student will then proceed with the pre-test. Once the student has completed the pre-test, a box will pop-up asking for a monitor password to advance to the real assessment portion. Please note that the student will select the class labeled reading for both STAR Math and STAR Reading after they select the designated assessment from their dashboard.

Admin/Specialist Login: https://hosted58.renlearn.com/217454/

Videos Worth Watching:

Why We Need to Practice a Little Self-Compassion - via @MindfulOnline

Articles Worth Reading:

What Are the Best Strategies for Surface to Deep Learning? - via @educationweek

Think teachers aren’t paid enough? It’s worse than you think. - via @washingtonpost

English Teachers: Ask Us How to Assess Students - via @educationweek

Texas Teacher's 'No Homework' Rule Strikes a Chord With Parents - via @educationweek - This is an interesting article

Study considers number of unreported homeless students - via @smartbrief

Implementation Collaborative - via @mrjoshflores

Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement - via @edutopia

10 Easy Ways To Create an Amazing #SchoolCulture as a Principal This Year - via @gcouros

Culture Killers: Staff Issue or Leadership Issue? - via @casas_jimmy

Starts with the Red Carpet - via @benjamingilpin

9 Apps to Up Your Teaching Game - via @WeAreTeachers

Oklahoma board approves 349 more emergency teaching certificates - via @newsok

10 Easy Ways To Create an Amazing #SchoolCulture as a Principal This Year - via @conprin

TheJenRoberts Report - via @JenRoberts1 - 101 teachers to follow on Twitter!

Nine Skills That Will Help Make Our Children Future-Ready - via @wise_tweets - A-ha moment for me.

Color Code and Organize Your Google Drive - via @TCEA - Great way to get organized!

Weekly Specials Schedule: WHITE WEEK

Weekly Look Ahead:

Monday August 29, 2016 - Normal school day; lesson plans due by 8:00am; Star360 window closes September 1st!! Campus Admin. meeting with Ms. Amzyki from SpEd.; 2 IEP meetings

Tuesday August 30, 2016 - Vertical team meetings in the book room; Faculty Meeting Tuesday after school (Going through how-to talk to parents); Learner First Meeting from 3:00pm to 4:00pm in the book room. Campus Admin. meeting with Northcare at 8:30am; 1 IEP meeting

Wednesday August 31, 2016 - Normal School Day; Campus Admin. meeting with Someone from central office at 9:00am to talk about something important

Thursday September 1, 2016 - Normal School Day; Scholastic Book Fair Begins!!! A Writing Sample is due in all Green Folders. (This should be ongoing in your class and not an issue to have completed.)

Friday September 2, 2016 - Scholastic Book Fair continues; Dollar Day Dress Your Way! Students pay a dollar and are allowed to wear school appropriate clothing to school. Three and a half day weekend!!!!!!!!!!

Sunday, August 21, 2016

Look ahead for August 22, 2016

Notes from Mr. Ross:

There are seven million minutes from Pre-K to graduation. Don't waste a second!

Week four here we come! It is very pleasing to be able to walk around the building and see all the learning going on in classrooms.

Short message from me this week. It includes a request that you communicate with your students. While it is really nice to have the "rock star status" in various parts of the building it is distracting to the learning process when I walk in and all of the students stop what they are doing to say hello. So... I am asking that the students are coached to give me a wink. This will help to minimize distractions while allowing the students to acknowledge me. Clearly the older grades (4,5,6) do not need to apply this practice since their is no such thing as "rock star status" in those grades.

Thanks for all your hard work. It is appreciated.

Oklahoma State Blueprints:

OAS-ELA Standards: OAS ELA

OAS-Math Standards: OAS Math

OAS-Math Blueprints: Math Blueprints

OAS-Science Standards: OAS Science

Generic Morning Announcement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6dAG5eWCok&feature=youtu.be

Videos Worth Watching:

Expect Great Things

Why Pre-school is so important - No just teaching the letter "F"

Kid President - Here's a corn dog I bought you because you're my friend!

Guide to Adulting - It's tough adulting!

Articles Worth Reading:

College and Career Readiness: Redefining Ready - via @edutopia

19 Dr. Seuss IPad Reading Apps Organized By Text Level - via @TeachThought

13 Children’s Books That Encourage Kindness Towards Others - via @buzzfeed

Attending Texas Charter Schools Hurt Students' Future Wages, Study Finds - via @educationweek

What's the Best Part of the Grade You Teach? - via @WeAreTeachers

Want To Be Innovative? - via @tonysinanis

7 things teachers want you to know - via @usatoday

Weekly Specials Schedule: RED WEEK

Weekly Look Ahead:

Monday August 22, 2016 - Learner First Meeting; lesson plans due by 8:00am; Star360 window is still open!! All students should be tested by the end of this Friday. We will use this data to drive our vertical teaming conversations and more importantly our academic instruction. The Learner First Meeting will be held in the library from 10:00am to noon, we will NOT have an alternative schedule or major class coverage.

Tuesday August 23, 2016 - Vertical team meetings in the book room; We will be going through our data notebooks and creating some measurement standards; NO AFTER SCHOOL MEETING THIS WEEK.

Wednesday August 24, 2016 - Normal School Day; 1 IEP

Thursday August 25, 2016 - Normal School Day

Friday August 26, 2016 - Dollar Day Dress Your Way! Students pay a dollar and are allowed to wear school appropriate clothing to school. Popcorn, or Freeze Pop party for the Game On winners!

Sunday, August 14, 2016

Look ahead for August 15, 2016

Notes from Mr. Ross:

There are seven million minutes from Pre-K to graduation. Don't waste a second!

I am very happy with most of the things I have been seeing these past two weeks. Continue to emphasize routines and procedures as these will carry you throughout the school year. "Pay me now or pay me later" was the saying my college track coach yelled out at the beginning of every practice for the three years I worked under him. He would make that comment when we athletes went out to fast in the first of several reps. I'd like to think it fits in this case for setting a tone that will last beyond the honeymoon period at the beginning of every school year. You need to set the tone now or run the risk of having the students run you from September all the way to May.

Please see below in regards to Star360 testing...

RSA Assessments begin Monday! The links below are the Single Sign On URLS for STAR 360, teachers and students (you must be on network or on VPN). The students link should already be copied to student computers and also appear under OKCPS bookmarks on Chromebooks. Of course, they’ll enter their network credentials to gain access.
Administrators have a different login link (NOT SSO), which most of your should already have. If not, reach out to Leigh Parks and she’ll pass that along to you
http://10.3.110.92/rploginstaff/
http://10.3.110.92/rploginstudent/
SUPER IMPORTANT: Infinite Campus shows about 32 sections that do not have a primary teacher assigned to the HOMEROOM course. If there isn’t a primary teacher assigned, those students will be unable to test. If you wait until Mondayto fix, it takes about 24 hours for the next upload to Renaissance Learning and time for the data files to process before they’ll appear in STAR 360.

- Hayes Elementary's Pre-K classes are again introducing colors to their classes this week. As a result I have the days/colors the front office staff will be wearing this week. Please feel free to join in wearing the following colors on the following days.

Day: Color

Monday: Black
Tuesday: Brown
Wednesday: White
Thursday: Gray
Friday: Green

Never forget that some students waited all weekend to get back to school. For some, it's the only place they feel safe and valued.

Oklahoma State Blueprints:

OAS-ELA Standards: OAS ELA

OAS-Math Standards: OAS Math

OAS-Math Blueprints: Math Blueprints

OAS-Science Standards: OAS Science

Generic Morning Announcement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6dAG5eWCok&feature=youtu.be

Videos Worth Watching:

Nike: Unlimited Youth - via @nike

Articles Worth Reading:

Stop the Blame Game: Teaching Students to Take Ownership and Responsibility - via @WeAreTeachers

My Secret Mission as a Seventh-Grade Teacher - via @WeAreTeachers

How to Speak Well... and Listen Better - via @successmagazine

13 Common Sayings to Avoid - via @edutopia

Here’s How We Keep Kids in School and Stop Chronic Absenteeism - via @edu_post

Educators continue to grow their classrooms with technology - via @pclarion

Pokemon Go... and Global Success Skills? - via @edutopia

3 Reasons to Rethink Your Basal Reader - via @RossCoops31

10 Things Every Great School Should Be - via @TeachThought

7 Ways to Help Students Who Struggle with Anxiety - via @WeAreTeachers

What Happens to Student Learning When Teachers Change Positions in Schools? - via @educationweek

Teacher reluctantly leaving Tulsa for Texas: 'It's not just salary ... it's about respect' - via @tulsaworld

Weekly Specials Schedule: BLUE WEEK

Weekly Look Ahead:

Monday August 15, 2016 - Normal School Day; lesson plans* due by 8:00am; Star360 window opens!! All students should be tested by the end of next Friday. We will use this data to drive our vertical teaming conversations and more importantly our academic instruction.

Tuesday August 16, 2016 - Alternate schedule in order to accommodate for ESL training Pre-K through 2nd. I will have a hard copy of the schedule ready to go by Monday afternoon. I apologize for the necessary change, this training was intended for August 27th but had to be rescheduled due to an illness.

Wednesday August 17, 2016 - Normal School Day; Picture day in the school's library; Grade level meetings during planning time. Dress for success!

Thursday August 18, 2016 - Normal School Day; Mr. Ross at Principals meeting;

Friday August 19, 2016 - Dollar Day Dress Your Way! Students pay a dollar and are allowed to wear school appropriate clothing to school.

Sunday, August 7, 2016

Look ahead for August 8, 2016

Notes from Mr. Ross:

There are seven million minutes from Pre-K to graduation. Don't waste a second!

*** - Remember that Tuesday evening is Hayes Elementary's open house. It is from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm. This isn't parent conferences, there ARE NO R.S.A. forms to fill out... Be yourself. We have a short 5 question survey for you and your parents to fill out. It will begin to help encourage those year-long positive conversations that we all worked so hard with the Learner First last year. Para-professionals do not have to attend Tuesday evening.

- Hayes Elementary's Pre-K classes are introducing colors to their classes the next two weeks. As a result I have the days/colors the front office staff will be wearing the next two weeks. Please feel free to join in wearing the following colors on the following days.

Day: Week one/Week two

Monday: Red/Black
Tuesday: Blue/Brown
Wednesday: Purple/White
Thursday: Orange/Gray
Friday: Yellow/Green

Never forget that some students waited all weekend to get back to school. For some, it's the only place they feel safe and valued.

Oklahoma State Blueprints:

OAS-ELA Standards: OAS ELA

OAS-Math Standards: OAS Math

OAS-Math Blueprints: Math Blueprints

OAS-Science Standards: OAS Science

Generic Morning Announcement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6dAG5eWCok&feature=youtu.be

Teacher Login: http://10.3.110.92/rploginstaff/

Once the student has successfully logged on, they will then select either STAR Early Literacy (K-1), STAR Reading (2-6) or STAR Math (2-6). After selecting an assessment, the student will need to select the class labeled reading. The student will then proceed with the pre-test. Once the student has completed the pre-test, a box will pop-up asking for a monitor password to advance to the real assessment portion. Please note that the student will select the class labeled reading for both STAR Math and STAR Reading after they select the designated assessment from their dashboard.

Admin/Specialist Login: https://hosted58.renlearn.com/217454/

Videos Worth Watching:

Brett Favre Hall of Fame - via @coachjstepp

Articles Worth Reading:

Math Curriculum Framework Project – Unit 1 Draft - via @OKMathTeachers

“Did you fail school or did school fail you?” - via @conprin

5 Barriers To More Authentic Teaching And Learning - via @TeachThought

How Does Being an Outsider Give You a Creative Advantage? - via @MindShiftKQED

3 Difficult Habits That Get Easier The More You Practice Them - via @inc

10 Reasons to Try Genius Hour This School Year - via @conprin

Are You Trying To Solve the Wrong Problem? - via @katiemtlc

Your Leadership Only Drives Success, Not Powers It. Here's What Does - via @inc

Does Your School Build Dreams or Crush Them? - via @DavidGeurin

21 Faces Everyone Who Knows An Elementary Teacher Will Recognize - via @buzzfeed

Teach your kids to take risks - via @theMomiverse

11 Teacher-Tested Ways to Make Your Classroom Parents Adore You - via @WeAreTeachers

1st-Day Lesson — Frogs on a Log - via @TalksWTeachers

Parents: 19 Meaningful Questions You Should Ask Your Child's Teacher - via @edutopia

The brainy questions on Finland’s only high-stakes standardized test - via @washingtonpost

The Most Important Work We Do: Tips for Building a Compassionate Classroom - via @WeAreTeachers

Change happens. You can either do it, or it will be done to you. - via @gcouros

Embracing Formative Assessments This School Year - via @web20classroom

8 Ways For Teachers To Save Time In The Classroom - via @TeachThought

Creating a School Culture that Values Independent Reading - via @ScholasticTeach

Weekly Specials Schedule: WHITE WEEK

Weekly Look Ahead:

Monday August 8, 2016 - Normal School Day; lesson plans* due by 8:00am

Tuesday August 9, 2016 - Normal School Day; Vertical Teaming during planning time, Short Faculty Meeting after school; Open House from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm.; 1 IEP; Channel 5, KOCO, book distribution at Hayes Elementary (in the library)

Wednesday August 10, 2016 - Normal School Day; State required Intruder Drill (2:30pm); Mr. Ross lunch with the Language and Cultural Department

Thursday August 11, 2016 - Normal School Day

Friday August 12, 2016 - First Dollar Day Dress Your Way! Students pay a dollar and are allowed to wear school appropriate clothing to school.