Just Do Your Job

Good morning Team,

We have a new baby to celebrate in our King Family -- Nora Kelly Lamb was born last Thursday!

 Mrs. Lamb and the baby are doing well.


This week, I am keeping it short, we all know what we need to do.  If everyone does their job, we will have a productive week.

Field Tests - We will begin KPREP field tests for grades 3-5 on Tuesday and will test throughout the week.  Mrs. Mozier has sent/is sending information and updates.


Staff Meeting:  Bring a copy of your MAP class breakdown report by GOAL, laptops, and Envision Volume 1 -- we will discuss covered math standards thus far and preparing for the end of the year and KPREP testing.

Staff Incentive:  All staff who are present each school day from March 2nd - May 28th, will have $100 added to your supply money for next school year!

Feedback and Parent Communication

Team,

Thank you for attending Gold Day and participating with our activities.  So far, 17 staff members have completed the feedback survey.  Please click on this link and complete it if you have not already done so. This information is crucial to support our efforts moving forward.

Monday is Parent-Teacher Conference Day, please ensure the following:

• Provide the front office with a copy of your schedule
• Be sure to call all parents that you do not meet with in person
• Complete the form documenting how many conferences you had (will be available in the office)
• Input the number of conferences in Infinite Campus under the "Parent-Teacher Conference" tab
• Turn in the form to the office before you leave for the day

Professional Learning Communities -- be sure to create and stick to your agenda

Faculty Meeting

• K-2 -- please bring a copy of your "Section Summary" from the last grading cycle printed from Infinite Campus for content grades (if you are not sure what this is, bring your laptop). We will discuss grading and report card grades
• 3rd - 5th -- You will meet with Mrs. Mozier to discuss the KPREP field tests

We have an Alternate Leadership Team meeting Feb. 20th at 4:15 PM in the conference room to discuss budget.  Please feel free to stop by my office Monday, 2/17, if you have budget input, questions, concerns, or feedback.

Have a productive week!

Individual Education Plans and Accommodations

Team,

In our work to support all students, we must be aware of a student's Individual Education Plan and follow the guidance of these documents to promote student success and follow federal law.  Currently, we have approximately 60 students who receive services as part of the Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).  These students have identified disabilities that qualify them for additional services to support their success in school.

We MUST read, understand, and follow a student's IEP completely.  This means, we have to...

• Read it and understand it's contents
• Collect data to support student goals with fidelity
• Implement accommodations and special designed instruction with fidelity and provide evidence of this implementation
• Adhere to minutes of instruction for special classes and mainstream classes

Last week, Mrs. Gutterman sent a sheet to all homeroom teachers to ensure that all are aware of IEP contents and mandates.  It is the expectation that all staff who work with students with IEPs have knowledge of plans and follow the plans explicitly.

Our staff must collaborate to be certain we understand these expectations and know how to implement actions with purpose and fidelity.  If you have questions or concerns please consult the ECE teacher with which you share students and/or Mrs. Gutterman.  Please check your classroom systems to ensure you are up to date with student IEPs and how you accommodate students to meet their learning goals and needs -- what evidence do you have to support implementation within your instruction -- 

Please welcome Susan Vialpando, who begins today as our new Reading Recovery Teacher

We currently have the following positions posted on the JCPS Website -- Resource Teacher (behavior coach), 2 Instructional Assistant Positions, Permanent Auxiliary Teacher

Faculty Meeting Agenda

* PBIS Reboot

Team Leader Meeting

* Transforming to the Instructional Leadership Team

Gold Day Agenda

* PBIS rollout based on PBIS team work and feedback

* Turnaround Plan for King Elementary -- our new School Improvement Plan - draft and feedback

* Team collaboration time

Multi-Tiered Systems of Support

Team,

Last week all teams had extended planning time to work on upcoming units for instruction.  This is the important work for System One of our Six Systems for a Strong Learning Climate which is to ensure we provide instruction based on  Kentucky Academic Standards.

This week, we will have meetings to review the progress of students previously identified for academic or behavior Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS).  This work supports System Five which is to provide academic and behavioral supports for students, including acceleration and System Four -- progress monitoring and analysis of student work.  Please refer to the schedule Ms. Camp linked to The Living Calendar.  

It is imperative that you bring progress monitoring data and student work samples to support progress made by the student since the last meeting.  The purpose of these meetings is to ...

• Identify students who are in need of additional support/you have concerns about their progress or growth (This was done previously this year unless you are identifying a new student)

• Bring collected data and work samples for identified students to the meeting to discuss progress and next steps with a team. (If you do not have this information -- there is no point coming to the MTSS meeting -- let me know if this is your situation ahead of time) 
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• For academic students -- this would be progress monitoring data based on interventions such as running records, lessons provided for remediation, skill building results from Study Island, iRead, or other technology programs, etc.
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• For behavior students -- this would be frequency data, point sheets, evidence of interventions provided and results.

Thank you for your diligence with supporting students.  Please be sure your lesson plans are out on your desk/table and that you are using a daily exit slip that aligns to your learning target for each lesson.

Have a great week, if all certified and classified staff have completed Comprehensive School Surveys and Impact Surveys (certified only) we will NOT have faculty meeting this week.  We will check results Tuesday morning.