Greetings Team!
Thank you for another great week! This was short week for us. Detailed below you will find helpful information for our upcoming week:
- COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER FOR THE WEEK: Please review our parent newsletter for the week: CLICK HERE
- STUDENT CONDUCT: Spring has officially sprung at Cliftondale! (Please make certain to review my burb in the parent newsletter pertaining student misconduct) As we historically do when the weather begins to change, we are seeing an increase number of ODR (office direct referrals) for student misconduct. Please make sure that we are reteaching our behavior expectations. This should be done through our PBIS Lessons. Please also make certain that you engage with the student's parents pertaining their child's behavior before making an office referral. Teachers should also referral a student to Dr. Ford for counseling services.
We have had several fights to occur with inadequate adult supervision. Students MUST be monitored at all times. In addition, when providing students out of class timeout, students must be placed in a teammates classrooms. Students should not be placed in the hall.
Please make certain that we are actively monitoring our students during recess. We have a lot of playfield and it is important that you are attentive to your students whether their playing on the play-structure or the large playfield. Please remember, students should not have cellphones out during recess.- 9 WEEK GRADES POSTING: Remember....All teachers were provided with an extension. Grades for all teachers are due by 9:00 am on Monday, March 13th.
It's time to post grades! As it is our 9 week posting time, teachers are required to have the minimum number of grades as detailed within FCS Board Policy. Please review our grading guidance for the minimum number of grades per grading category by CLICKING HERE or reviewing the grading section below. We begin posting grades from our gradebooks to the 9-week progress check Tuesday, March 7th. Our full grading timeline is accessible by CLICKING HERE. Grades should be posted and saved to the progress report window by 3:00 pm on Thursday, March 9th. The process for posting grades is the same as it was for the 4.5 week progress check. In lieu of comments, teachers will enter Non-Academic Skills for ALL students grades K-12 for the 9 weeks grading period. - PK LOTTERY REGISTRATION: PK lottery registration is March 1st-March 17th. Please let me know if you have child that will be 4 years old on or before September 1st and you'd like for he/she to attend Cliftondale ES next year.
- TKES OBSERVATIONS: We are fully back into the swing of things and have started completing 2nd semester evaluative observations. For walkthroughs, teachers will be evaluated on 3-4 TKES standards. For formatives, we will evaluate you on all 10 TKES standards through a 30-minute observation. TKES STANDARDS In addition, please expect to see our Coaches conducting observations as well. Coaches will come in to review your small group instructional practices. Small groups are expected to occur in all class daily, with the exception of days in which we operate off of a modified schedule or are testing.
- LESSON PLAN EXPECTATIONS: All teachers are expected to post lesson plans in your grade specific lesson plans by COB each Thursday. This is a school expectation and non-negotiable. In addition, all detailed schedules should be uploaded HERE. All schedules should contain your small group time block for reading and math. This too is a school non-negotiable. *The deadline for uploading has passed.
PBIS REWARDS: Relationships and Routines is a Big Rock for FCS and Cliftondale ES. PBIS is a part of this big rock and a part of our daily practices and expectations here at Cliftondale. The premise of PBIS is that continual teaching, combined with acknowledgement or feedback of positive student behavior will reduce unnecessary discipline and promote a climate of greater productivity, safety and learning. We reward students for exemplifying our Mustang M.U.S.T. This expectation is for all teachers and staff members for all students PK-5th.
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR COMPETITION WINNERS FOR FEBRUARY: McCain, Lovelace, Williams, Brassell, Igbinoba, Hall, and Knight. I hope that your students thoroughly enjoyed their gameroom experience! Shout Out to our PBIS Coaches, Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Collins, leading PBIS and creating this awesome experience for our students.
Remember, this competition continues monthly for the remainder of the school year. Wondering how to win? It's by simply issuing PBIS points CONSISTENTLY to scholars that earned them in your homeroom class. See more details below.
-Issue PBIS Rewards to scholars daily
-Three Random data days will be pulled by PBIS Coach and shared during PBIS Townhall Meeting
-Based on these three days the teacher with the highest points issued to scholars on their grade level will earn a free gaming pass for his/her class!
PBIS Important Dates:
-March 16th: PBIS Store Opened: PK-2nd Grades
-March 17th: PBIS Store Opened: 3rd-5th Grades
-March 24th: Gameroom Opened: PK-5th Grades
-April 13th: PBIS Townhall Meeting
*Remember, all teachers are required to be a part of our townhall meetings.STUDENT SUCCESS SKILLS: Please notate our upcoming SSS observation dates/times/grade levels
-March 8th
5th Grade-7:45-8:00
-March 9th
1st Grade- 1:50-2:10
-March 22nd
3rd Grade-7:45-8:00
Kindergarten-1:15-1:30
2nd - 2:00-2:15
-March 24th
4th Grade-7:45-8:00UPCOMING STAFF MEETING DATES: We will have staff meeting on Tuesday, March 7th at 3:00 pm. Please notate, we will also have our required GMAS Preadministration Training on March 28th for all certified teachers and paras. For this session, please plan for at minimum 1-hour.
SCHOOL BOARD APPRECIATION WEEK: Fulton County Schools is joining in a statewide celebration to acknowledge the work and dedication of our local school board members. The week of March 13-17, 2023 has been proclaimed School Board Appreciation Week in Georgia. Each member contributes her own strengths to the district, and these different contributions and perspectives make our Board a formidable group. We thank them for their leadership, their commitment to our students and our community, and for supporting our mission, “Where Students Come First.”
*We encourage you to allow students to make cards for our District 4 Board Member, Mrs. Franchesca Warren. We will provide our school gift on Friday. Please turn in your student notes/cards to Ms. Render by Thursday afternoon.
Kind Regards,
Mrs. Canty
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to all of our Mustangs that celebrated their birthday in March:
Johnson Kenyetta : March 2nd
Bailey Stephanie : March 5th
Render Hope : March 5th
Riley Kiersten : March 6th
Whyte Tiffany : March 10th
Heard Charni : March 11th
Carter Carmen : March 16th
Schaffer-Lewis Chandra : March 16th
Adams Jasmine : March 21st
Hightower Atiyyah : March 22nd
