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!!