4-29-10

Thanks

• All of you who help with SAP groups
• To Mrs. Southworth for all her work with History Day
• To Mr. Van Amber for all his efforts with our luncheons this year
• For your kind words this week
• Mr. Crawford, Ms. Scarseth, and Ms. Nola Cook for recognizing students with Respect and Responsibility slips..you are this month's winners for The Fill Inn Station gift certificates!
• For all you do to make CFMS a great place to be

Information

• On May 11 from 9:30-1:00 approx. 40 8th graders will go to help with the elementary track meet. They will walk to the high school.

Reminders

• If you are in an evaluation year and are working on a project please get that turned in as soon as you can
• Luncheon today!!
• Dance today periods 8-10. Dance in B&C, basketball in A, and swimming as well

Next Week

• Mon. May 10: Team Lead, Dept Head, CA meeting in LMC at 8:05
• Tues. May 11: Staff go to lab 410 during a.m. prep to take the Self Assessment Survey in regards to PBIS (I'll be around lab 410 from 8:00-11:30 to assist); about 40 8th graders to the HS to help with the elementary track meet; 6th graders to Ojibwa for Mentor party 11-12:30
• Wed. May 12: UA meeting at 8:05 in Mrs. Smith's room
• Thur. May 13: 7th and 8th graders to Ojibwa for Mentor pary 11-12:30
• Fri. May 14: Goals due; maintenance requests due; 6th grade to the zoo; FCCLA field trip; volunteer, etc. awards due to me
  
  Two Weeks
• Wed. May 19: Collaboration; all admin meeting at 2:30

Data

• 51 students have earned the Presidential Award of Excellence
• 28 students have earned the Presidential Award of Acheivement
• Both require a 3.5 or higher every semester thus far.
• Excellence = 85 percentile or higher on WKCE in Reading and/or Math
• Achievement = 75-85th percentile on WKCE in Reading and/or Math

4-23-10

Thanks

• Administrative professionals for all you do
• Mr. Zabrowski for inviting me out to throw boomerangs

Information

• Individual and collaboration group goals due by May 14
• During our 8th grade team meeting Mr. Kowalski will share information about technology goals
• Start thinking about a goal for us for 8th grade. We'll use most of the time to decide our goal during the team meeting. Some things we've talked about all year: TA curriculum, using the Accomodation tab in IC, Working Lunch, and missing work/poor grades, among others.
• We are short on help for holding the AIMSweb testing as we did the first time this year. It looks as though we'll need to test as we did in the winter.
• May 11 we need staff to go to Lab 410 for about 10 minutes either before school or during their morning prep to take the Self Assessment Survey for PBIS.
• We've started a pilot Executive Skills group through the SAP group format. More information will be shared at meetings.

Reminders

• Lesson Plans!
• TA curriculum. We talk a lot at meetings about what students need, the TA curriculum helps us to hit on some of the social/emotional concerns we all have for our middle schoolers.

Next Week

• Mon. April 26: 11:30 8th grade team meeting in Mr. J's room;
• Wed. April 28: UA meeting at 8:05 in Marcy's room
• Fri. April 30: 4th quarter reports cut-off

Two Weeks

• Mon. May 3: Holy Moly it's May!! 8:05 PBIS team takes the SAS survey in Lab 410; Start AIMSWeb testing
• Tues. May 4: 4th quarter progress reports due by noon; 8:45-3:30 Starfish History Day field trip to Carson Park; AIMSWeb testing
• Wed. May 5: Late Start; 9:45-3:30 Eagle History Day field trip to Carson Park
• Thurs. May 6: Dolphin History Day field trip to Carson Park
• Fri. May 7: 8th grade dance during periods 8, 9, 10 in the gym. More information to come.

Data

• Behavior referrals per day per month:
• March: 3.6
• April: 2.7

Sure feels like there has been more activity in April!!

4-15-10

Thanks

• Happy Birthday Mr. Jochimsen!!
• to Mr. Crawford, the Dolphin Team, Mr. Britton, Mr. Van Amber and others for your efforts on the TA celebration for Mr. J
• to Ms. Hanson for inviting me in to see your study
• to our secretarial staff for your daily efforts

Information

• Please let me know before next Thursday, April 22 if you feel a student should not attend summer school. I need a letter documenting reasons why so I can bring it to BRT.
• Strep throat is going around, please take care of yourself! Wash, rinse, repeat!
• To learn, humans require regular and frequent feedback on thier actions. Without formal feedback to encourage desired behavior, other forms of feedback shape undesired behavior (took that from the training last week!)

Reminders

• Breakfast Friday, April 16 in the Internet Cafe
• All of 6th grade goes to the high school from 9:00-11:00 for a play
• Those due for evaluations please be sure to submit projects to me by May 3rd.
• Lesson Plans
• Document interventions/modifications/student and family contact in IC

Next Week

• Tues. April 20 - Closing ceremonies for Dolphin Team in auditorium
• Wed. April 21 - Late Start/Collaboration; 8:45-11:30 Bembnister/Eckwright classes go bowling; Principals out at 2:30 for an all admin meeting
• Fri. April 23 - 8:05 Technology Meeting in 410; 8:05 Climate Meeting Room 226; End of 5th rotation for 6/7 UA

Two Weeks

• Mon. April 26: 8:05 Math and Reading REACh groups meet; 11:30 8th grade team meeting in Mr. J's room
• Tues. April 27: 5th rotation UA grades due by noon for 6/7 students
• Fri. April 30: 4th quarter progress report cut-off

Data

• 157 Respect and Responsibility slips turned in during March
• 96 Office Discipline Referrals written in March
• Positive to Negative ratio of 1.64 : 1
• 62 8th graders were mailed summer school registration forms