Woods Lake Weekly Notes

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Team,

Thank you for your hard work and dedication in making last week's events a success! Your efforts truly made a difference. As we move forward, let’s continue to prioritize social-emotional learning, student achievement, attendance, and positive behavior while striving to meet our data targets.

Together, we can achieve great things!

Wishing you a great week!

Increasing Student Achievement:

• Differentiated Instruction: Tailor your teaching methods to meet the diverse needs of your students, ensuring everyone has the opportunity to succeed.
• Data-Driven Decisions: Regularly assess student progress and adjust your strategies accordingly to support their learning.

Improving Attendance:

• Positive Reinforcement: Recognize and reward students for consistent attendance.
• Engagement Strategies: Foster a welcoming and engaging classroom environment that encourages students to come to school daily.

Enhancing Behavior:

• Clear Expectations: Set and communicate clear behavioral expectations in your classroom. Consistency is key.
• Restorative Practices: Implement restorative approaches to address behavioral issues and promote a supportive school culture.

Team,

I am sharing the following KPS Instructional Expectations with you again:

1. Focus on Reading, math, science, and social studies

2. Tier one core instruction is the focus

3. Interventions built around Tier one instruction outcomes

4. Focus on effective use of instructional time

5. Adherence to district curriculum

6. All identified goals expected to be met

7. Wonders Curriculum must be implemented

8. Utilize available instructional Materials

9. Focus on Teaching and Learning

10. Focus on Student Mastery

11. Maintain high academic expectations for All Students

12. Continuous Improvement

13. Use current data to guide instructional decision making

14. Enforcement of district behavior expetations

15. Providing meaningful teacher support

16. End of the year assessment preparation

17. Student Engagement (On task, focused, awake, sitting up)

18. Focus on Reading comprehension (maintain evidence)

19. Intense focus on high quality instruction/Student Outcomes-Math Activities (Focus on Number Sense-Grades 3 to 5)

20. Posting student work every classroom

21. Ensuring that all identified student achievement goals are met

22. Make sure that learning targets are posted and match what the students are doing

Team,

Please continue to be intentional about meeting your individual and team 5% increases with the longitudinal and M-STEP data. Tier I instruction needs to be strong. Small group and intervention time needs to be consistent and intentional.

Week At A Glance

Monday

• Bolton's class conducting morning announcements this week.
• Parent Teacher Conference Notes will go home with students today
• Grades 3 through 5 please complete the Panorma Survey: The survey will be open from Monday 2/17 to Friday 2/21. Directions are attached (same process as last time).
• Spelling Bee for participating students @ 9:30 am
• Mitchell will email In Building Transfer information to teachers today
• Email Mitchell Kalamazoo Promise You Make A Difference Award Nomination with a brief summary on why you are nominating that person
• SMORE Parent Newsletter: https://secure.smore.com/n/h8f6b

• Please take accurate daily attendance when are being audited

• Please click on the link to access the Assessment Calendar:
  

  2024-2025 Assessment Calendar Please adhere to the district timeline for assessments.

• WIDA Assessment Calendar WIDA Schedule

• CST @ 10:15 am
• Make sure that lesson plans are uploaded, learning targets posted, and current student work is posted.
• Please prepare students for Superintendent and District Administrator visits
• KEA Building Meetings
• Alexander absent
• Warnsley absent
• Eaton leaving @ 1:45 pm
• Ms. Mandy in late

Tuesday

• Costco Reading Buddies Program starts today. Eight 3rd grade students will be tutored for 10 weeks every Tuesday during lunch/recess
• AT Program
• Mentoring Today for selected 4th grade students
• Mitchell will administer practice number sense problems to 5th grade

Wednesday

• Lockdown Drill today
• Dance Company Field Trip to Miller Auditorium from 9:10 AM to 11:15 am (Huckendubler attending)
• Half Day for Students. Students dismissed @ 12:06 pm. AM Schedule in the AM
• Mitchell will administer practice number sense problems to 4th grade
• Building Level Professional Development
• 12:09 pm-End of Teacher Work Day
• 12:19 pm to 12:49 pm-Lunch on your own
• 12:49 pm to 3:59 pm-Professional Development
• Parent Teacher Conference Notes due
• No PEEP

• There will be a mandatory Multilingual Parapro PD as follows:

  
  

  
  

  * Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2025

  * Time: 11:50 AM - 2:30 PM

  * Location: West Main Professional Development Center - Rms 201 & 203

  * Theme and Focus: Strategies Supporting Multilingual Learners and Data-Driven Decisions

  
  

Thursday

• Kids in Tune Concert @ 5:30 pm @ Air Zoo
• IEP Day
• Mitchell will administer practice number sense problems to 3rd grade

Friday

• WMED STEM Day w/5th Grade from 9:30 am to 12:00 pm
• PTO Family Dance from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm in the Gym

Saturday

• KPS Wellness Fair from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm @ Linden Grove Middle School

1. Thank you to the Woods Lake Team and PTO for making the Love of Learning Family Pancake Breakfast, Candy Grams, Picture Day, and Valentine's Day a success.

2. Thank you everyone for being positive key communicators for our school and district.

Woods Lake Smore Parent Newsletter: https://secure.smore.com/n/h8f6b

KPS News: https://secure.smore.com/n/n6cs1

PE, Health, Life Skills Newsletter: https://secure.smore.com/n/by94r

ELA Department:e ELA newsletter

Math Department:

• Math Department

• Smore

Art Department: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FZ62XR_m-9m2sm-zls11Zw2DzVAeBkAwNAGO04Ie_-k/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.uwtpzkmp9874

KPS Wellness Post: https://secure.smore.com/n/kysgf.

MTSS Newsletter: https://secure.smore.com/n/ghb6d-mtss-monthly-memo?ref=email

Link to Special Education Blast,https://secure.smore.com/n/5f4ryw

From the ML Coaches: Weekly Teaching Tip

February Language Champion Challenge (ends Friday, February 28th)

For the past five weeks, we have focused on different strategies related to making input from text comprehensible. Now, we want to see how these strategies are being implemented in the classroom!

Submit an image, video, and/or a portion of your lesson plan to exemplify the use of one of the target strategies in your classroom by 5:00 pm on Friday, February 28th using the Google Form. Participants will receive a certificate, a token of appreciation, and will be featured in the next newsletter and in the Google Classroom. Thanks for being a language champion!

Check out our newsletter for more information about the challenge.

Join our Google Classroom (Class code: s3y4osm) for all past and present newsletters and even more examples and resources.

February

10-Jose Garcia

13-Carol Eaton