11.09-11.13.2026
Campus Goal 2027 STAAR: 72/50/25
Team,
As we move through November, I am grateful for the care, effort, and commitment you bring to our campus each day. Your preparation, encouragement, and willingness to keep showing up for students make a difference—even when the results take time to see.
Giving our best means being intentional with the things we can control: our preparation, our responses, our expectations, and our follow-through. Consistency turns those daily actions into trust and progress. This week, let’s recognize what is working, support one another through challenges, and remain steady in the practices that help students succeed. Thank you for all the ways you contribute to our school community. Take a look at the video below as we encourage writing across contents, notebooks are a great way to capture thoughts via annotations or glued in graphic organizers. Notebooks are also a great reference tool for students as your walls fill up as well as a great record to look through for progress for our Spring parent conferences. Keep up the great work and please complete survey this week from Hanover and market our HOUSE can food drive for this month.
Charge On!
RLA Plays of the Week
Quarter 2 Week 5
Goal 🎯: TEKS-Aligned Lessons + High Student Engagement that leads to skill mastery
⭐ NON-NEGOTIABLE THIS WEEK: Annotated lesson aligned to TBD
🏆 WINNING FORMULA: Plan, prep, execute with high engagement and progress monitoring.
K-2: Huge shout out for leading independently. PLCs are back on this Friday. I am grateful for your leadership and carrying on as the strong, capable teams you are. I see the prep and delivery in classrooms. Strong learning begins with predictable routines and clear, explicit instruction. This week, take time to model, practice, and reinforce how students use materials, transition between tasks, talk with partners, and begin independent work. Consistent routines help our youngest learners spend more time thinking, reading, and writing.
Make learning concrete and purposeful. Use objects, pictures, and hands-on materials to build vocabulary and connect words to meaning. Model exactly what students should do, give directions in manageable steps, and check understanding by having students demonstrate the task.
Build writing into every content area. Students can draw and label a science observation, explain their math thinking, or write about a social studies concept. Move from oral rehearsal to drawing, labeling, and sentences as appropriate. Each opportunity helps students connect what they understand to what they can communicate in writing.
3-6: This week, focus on executing purposeful lessons with a clear gradual release of responsibility. During “I do,” model the thinking students need to learn. During “We do,” guide students through practice, check their understanding, and give feedback. Release students to “You do” when their responses show readiness, and provide additional support when needed.
Plan for every student to participate through writing, partner discussion, response systems, and explaining answers with evidence. Engagement should make student thinking visible so we can respond during the lesson.
Use progress monitoring to guide both instruction and celebration. Collect evidence tied to the learning goal, identify who needs reteaching or an added challenge, and follow up on the next opportunity. Celebrate specific growth: a stronger explanation, greater independence, a corrected misconception, or mastery of a skill. Help students name what improved and what they are working toward next.
Our winning strategies for tackling listening, speaking, language skills, reading and writing! Build strong skills, master key plays, and move the ball down the field toward RLA success.
The Math Playbook
WEEK 14 | Run the Play. Check the Results.
Last week, we studied the game film by examining student work, identifying misconceptions, and planning intentional instructional responses. This week, it's time to put those plans into action!
The strength of a look-back PLC isn't simply in the conversations we have, but in how those conversations influence what happens next in our classrooms. As we continue through Quarter 2, let's focus on implementing our instructional adjustments, monitoring student responses, and ensuring every learner has an opportunity to move forward.
THIS WEEK'S LOOK-FORS
- Run the Adjusted Play — Bring PLC decisions to life through intentional modeling, purposeful questioning, alternate representations, and targeted practice that directly address identified misconceptions.
- Target the Right Players — Use current student work to refine small groups, lab blocks, and tutoring. Ensure students receive support aligned to their specific needs rather than repeating instruction they've already mastered.
- Make the Thinking Visible — Give students opportunities to explain their reasoning, demonstrate strategies, and apply learning independently. Look for evidence of understanding beyond correct answers.
- Monitor the Field — Use active monitoring and intentional CFUs to determine how students are responding to instructional adjustments. Notice who is progressing, who needs another approach, and who is ready for an extension.
THIS WEEK'S GAME PLAN - The plan matters. The execution matters. The impact matters most.
As you move through the week, consider if students now demonstrate the understanding they were missing, and what evidence proves it. Our goal isn't to reteach for the sake of reteaching. It's to respond to student needs with precision, monitor the impact of our instruction, and make adjustments that lead to meaningful growth.
Operation: MATH Magic
Next Checkpoint: November 13, 2026
Keep those mathematicians practicing! As we approach Checkpoint 3, continue providing purposeful opportunities for students to strengthen fact fluency, monitor individual progress, and celebrate growth.
Following the checkpoint, please update our campus Math Magic tracking spreadsheet (linked below) so we can recognize student accomplishments and determine next steps for students needing additional support.
Grade Level Resources
Grade 1 - Addition/Subtraction Facts within 10
Grade 2 - Addition/Subtraction Facts within 20
Technology Corner
Technology Audit - Staff and Room Audits
Our internal due date of October 30th has passed, and we are currently at 58% for our Staff Inventory, and 71% for our Room Inventory. If you haven't had an opportunity to complete your audits, please do so as soon as possible. If you need additional assistance, please reach out! We want to be at 100% in both categories.
The Cornerstone training (linked below) provides step-by-step instructions on how to complete this task. There is also a short story created by the Controllable Assets Team that out lines how to complete this audit.
How to Complete Your TIPWeb-IT Asset Management Room and Staff Inventories
Check out the pictures & videos here...feel free to drop your own!
*Shout out to these teams - 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, Sped Inclusion (Banks, Hroch, TA Farmer), Office Team (including Nurse Duyck) for 100% completion of the Staff Technology Audit.
* Shout out to staff that stepped in to support the campus with coverage during absence.
* Shout out to Mrs. Delgado and Ms. Diana for supporting Discover Dallas this Saturday.
* Shout out to Mrs. Coriolan for getting her project funded via Donor's Choose.
* Shout out to Mrs. Aranda and Ms. Vasquez for organizing our bookrooms
* Shout out to all who participated in dress up days last week.
* Shout out for keeping lounge and teacher work room tidy. We have more furniture on the way.
Explicit "I Do" Anchors Learning
Screen to scratch in 2nd grade
Agenda with details
PreK Paredes Ofrenda
Even Ghosts love our
Gridiron Grit theme
Stay on top of ATTENDANCE AND GRADES DAILY!
2C Announcements with college facts. Reinforce uniform expectations
11.09.26: College/Career/Military and Mavs Monday
* Spots this week!
* Extended Window Opens
* Staff huddle then committees: Library at 3:45
11.10.26:
* 4th Math PLC
* Boys BB game @ Junkins
11.11.26: House Colors
* Happy Veterans Day: Can wear camouflage with House colors.
* ARDs
*AP Meeting - Walton off Campus
* Girls BB game @ Withers
11.12.26:
* 3-6 RLA PLCs
* Thanksgiving lunch for parents
11.13.26: Campus Spirit Jerseys
* World Kindness Day: Look for special treat
* K-2 RLA PLCs
On The Horizon:
MOY iReady:
12.01 K-1ELAR, 2-6 Spanish RLA
12.02 K-6 Math
12.03 2-6 English
Campus Book Fair
12.07-12.11
SMC 2:
12.08 3-6 Math
12.09 3-6 RLA
ACP:
12.15 5th Science English
12.16 5th Science Spanish
Thank You Partners!
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Chapel Hill Preparatory is a proud Personalized Learning campus in the Dallas Independent School District! At Chapel HIll we believe that every student has the right to a quality educational program. Every student comes to school with a unique set of strengths, needs, and interests. The traditional educational model of “one size fits all” has not worked. Far too many students are left behind, and others are not allowed to excel. We need to create opportunities for learning that reflect the world around our students. Our goal is to transform the broken model of “one size fits all”, into a model of “one size fits one”, leveraging technology to create a unique learning experience for each student. We will begin this transformation by focusing on three key components: quality instruction and social emotional learning, blended learning, and parent and community support.