July Workdays
July 2: Mandatory Workday: Welcome to 2012-13 school year. We will meet as a staff in the Media Center. Agenda will be sent the last week of June.July 3- Workday: No scheduled meetings at the school level--
July 4: Work on Relaxation---HAPPY JULY 4th! Celebrate our Independence
July 5: Required Workday-Central Services- Race to the Top Professional Development-More details to come.
July 6: Workday
Promotion and Intervention / PEPs / SST
Promotion and intervention team meetings on June 27th and 28th. See Alice's email on May 17th and June 8th for details.EOG Testing
Congratulations to our Track 3 and 4 students and teachers! WOO HOO!!!! We have a few students who will need to take the retest, but overall they followed Track 1 and 2 in producing great results!Getting Ready for Formative Assessment Common Core Standards: Webinar Round-Up -
I know several grade levels have been meeting and discussing Common Core and getting ready for next year. I'm not certain if any of you have had the time to take advantage of the webinars on NC FALCON, which were available to us over the past three months. The webinars were presented by teachers and other educators with information about implementing various formative assessment principles as outlined in NC FALCON.Webinar No. 1: Implementing Formative Assessment;
Webinar No. 2: Collecting Evidence of Student Learning;
Webinar No. 3: Learning Targets for Common Core Standards.
A recording of each webinar is available in NC FALCON (http://center.ncsu.edu/nc) in the additional resources section and the documents and resources presented during each webinar are available in the Falcon Forum in a thread (named by the webinar number).
As an NC educator we do have access to NC FALCON. If you not created your login, go to http://center.ncsu.edu/nc click on login in the upper right hand corner. On the login page you will be prompted to enter your login, find an existing account (if you have forgotten your login), or create a new account. When you click on “create new account” you will be prompted to enter information to set up a login. If you have trouble with the login, contact the help desk at ncdesk@ncsu.edu or 919/515-1320. For more information on the formative assessment webinars, please contact Carmella Fair at Carmella.Fair@dpi.nc.gov.
This is one more resource for us as we begin "diving" into Common Core. Not only does this help with classroom instruction, team time, and PLT conversations, it is a great opportunity for personal professional development.
Staff Changes
Welcome Back Allison Kaiser. Allison has returned as the Intervention Teacher for the remainder of the school year.We wish Chrissy Lantry well as she begins her new job in the "outside" world.
Wikispace
Have you noticed the calendar in the hallway by the mailroom? Looks empty! It will have a new purpose for the 2012-13 school year. So, where will the request go for your classroom activities? We will be using an online calendar for keeping up with all the events at OCE. It will be a fantastic way to check on what's happening while you are tracked out, or schedule your events. No more handing in the papers! More to come on this great way of organizing our school!Committees
Our School Improvement Plan will be our guide for the 2012-13 school year. Our committees will be created from our Comprehensive Needs Assessment which provides the data summary for our SIP. All committees will meet on Friday's for the 2012-13 school year. Dates will be determined by the individual committees. More details to come at a later time from Heather and Rachael.Teacher links
http://ipadeducators.ning.com/profiles/blogs/kindergarten?xg_source=msg_mes_network - fun blog (this is entry discussing "Everything I need to learn, I learned in kindergarten"https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1gflnxzTc77HP1XNcF0J8-tRFo3uzKdfd5Zth5GI4yqE - Should you use a blog, wiki, or doc (great chart that gives details about which is appropriate
Teacher resources
Blog on Voice thread (great tool for verbally communication
Teachers' D5 Share and Swap Stop http://www.sanjuan.edu/webpages/gguthrie/balanced_literacy.cfm?subpage=127464
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