April 30th - May 4th

Case21 and EOG Dates 

Case 21- April 30 - May 1 (Monday - Thursday) - Track 4
April 30 - Science only fifth grade
May 1-3: 2nd through 5th grade classes taking reading, math, and math.

EOG - Track 2-- Thursday, 5/3 (S. Roach's class) will be taking the Science EOG.  

Early Release feedback - There are 3 questions to complete on the survey for Early Release.  Please provide your input for the April 27 meeting.  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dG5MX2s2czNmeXVfR2I3SmN3WU1VV0E6MQ.

TWC
The TWC survey is now closed.  Thank you to the 61 people who completed the survey.   We had a 83.56% completion rate. We were 12 people short of reaching 100%.  The survey will be used to gather inforamtion for the School Improvement Plan, and the Leadership Team as we continue to support our school.

Meetings

Behavior - May 4th@8:00 in the media center - Discussion positive implementation of SAIL Expectations.  Thanks to Lorrie Sardiello for leading this discussion.  Agenda will be emailed this week.

Literacy Team - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGtJZkNnSm5INTR0Ty1LMy1jdnFtUUE6MQ - So far 19 people have completed.  Great job 5th grade team, 80% have completed the survey, the most of all teams!

PLT notes - here is the link to blackboard for school notes - http://blackboard.wcpss.net/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab=courses&url=/bin/common/course.pl?course_id=_4003_1

Scheduling team - May 14th.  Minutes were e-mailed to team members. We will meet to finalize special times and look at adding in lunch and recess to preserve value statements.

SIP -  Article that aligns with the OCE vision! http://ascd.typepad.com/blog/2012/04/7-more-ways-to-go-from-on-task-to-engaged.html

Teacher Links - -

PBL (Project Based Learning) - here is a site from the state of West Virginia that goes in depth in definitions, lesson templates, etc - http://wvde.state.wv.us/instruction/pbltemplate.html.  Also if you click on the Teach21 you will see "standards for 21st century learning per grade level" per WV.

Seen this resource link before?  Never hurts to republish a good one!   http://www.schrockguide.net/bloomin-apps.html

Teacher Resources -

As we are thinking about Common Core and vocabulary taught....
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/matching-teaching-student-learning-ben-johnson

TED Animation meets Education - http://ed.ted.com/ - this is a site that has short videos from national presenters (also includes multiple choice and open-ended questions about that topic).  I found out why we vote on Tuesday, do you know?