Who does this remind you of? (heh, heh)
Congratulations on entering the 8th week of school!
School on the Move
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| School on the Move EdVestors Event 10/23/18 |
Your Evaluation
You will receive a notice from me this coming week on this year's evaluation and/or notices from TeachPoint when I upload the meeting visit notes as observations. Below, find this year's focus indicators. I will be adjusting the form I use for our visits to include these.I-A Curriculum, I-D Evaluation
II-A Environment, II-B Human Resources
III-B Sharing Responsibility
IV-D Continuous Learning
Reminder: Your QSP priorities/big rocks serve as your student learning and professional practice goals. Let's keep this aligned and simple!
Chronic Absenteeism
I met with Brian Marques, Director of Opportunity Youth under SELWELL. His office oversees Attendance, Homelessness, and Home/Hospital Programming. The OS/AS team will be consulting with DESE about attendance for students who miss school due to homelessness, religion, or who are medically fragile. Meanwhile, there is an attendance dashboard that is a practical tool you can use to track your attendance anytime.- From Aspen, you can go right to the Attendance Dashboard and obtain a list of 2017-18 students who missed 18 or more days and any student this year who is on his/her way to being chronically absent. It may be useful for you or your designee to explore this site.
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| On the dashboard you will see several tabs across the top. |
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| Click on "Chronic Absenteeism" tab. You can view absenteeism by grade and subgroups. To see students, click on the number above School Level (in this case 33.52%) |
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| When you click on the percentage, this list specific list of students will appear. |
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| To get last year's students, go to the top right corner and click on SY 2017-2018. |
Chronic Absenteeism, Part II
Are you checking attendance on a daily basis? Are students inadvertently being marked absent when they may have gotten to class without checking in the office?
Introducing Molly Peters
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| Assistant Director, ECE, Science |
Molly is one of Network 6's academic liaisons. She and I have been working on a plan to support and bring together science specialists in our network. Molly has worked in BPS since 2012. She was a Science Specialist at the West Zone ELC in Jamaica Plain, a Science Teacher Leader, and the Wipro Science Teacher Fellowship through UMASS Boston. Molly holds Bachelors Degrees in Early Childhood Education and Environmental Science and a Masters in Ecological Teaching and Learning.
Lots of Deadlines...
Educator Evaluation: Goals Due November 1, 2018; at least one observation by November 15th.
Title I Budget/Family Engagement, Wellness Action Plans, etc... Share your plans with me and I will create a folder for you if you have not already shared one with me.
Here is the link to Mary Driscoll's email with dates.
Here is the link to the October page of the Operations Center.
Here is the link to Mary Driscoll's email with dates.
Here is the link to the October page of the Operations Center.
ClassForward: Video Platform Available
Do your teachers use video to share instructional practices for reflection? Do you wish to create "How to" or "Infomercials" for your staff? ClassForward is a a video sharing platform that facilitates a collaborative, online space for teachers, administrators, school leaders, and central office personnel to leverage video as a tool for improvement. Anyone in BPS is now able to go to ClassForward's website and set up their own private account and here is a "how to" guide that explains that process. This is a tool available for all to use if it fits into your school's goals (i.e. peer observation, CPTs, ILTs). All uploaded videos are only accessible to those who upload them, and can only be shared if initiated by the owner of the video.
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| Pumpkins from Russell School |
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| Zeroing in on Math PD at Guild |
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| Data Walls at Mason ILT |
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| Eliot's Principal Traci and students greet the school community at the beginning of the day |
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