Kleckner's Korner

Park Crest Elementary!

by Grace..

We received this award because I saw the extra mile that many teachers have gone to provide a safe learning environment for their students - with humor, smiles, sweat, and even tears. This has been an exceptionally difficult year for all of us, yet I have seen teachers and staff who have managed to still check in on one another and make sure we’re all ok. They have taken care of each other, themselves, AND their students - not only academically but social-emotionally as well.

I was thinking we could maybe earn the bronze, so I turned in an application. We won the gold! Yay for us!

Here is the application I submitted:

Park Crest SEL Award Application

Your goal posters are looking amazing, a May Madness calendar is up for students to monitor the days until STAAR and we have whole school challenges starting on Monday! These next few weeks are going to be full of energy with lots of goals being met! I can't wait!!

Whole school challenges - I'm going to come around and see if everyone in the grade level met their goal by looking at your posters - if everyone did I'll color in a green box, if not the box will be colored in blue. If we hit 75% of our boxes being colored in we'll celebrate!

Planning Week! - Make sure you have all of your DOLs and weekly assessments ready to go!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EF8U-oA3nIHj_su2GUP6y7-e90MA97qkSxaKTdV4y_Q/edit#gid=0

The deadline for summative evaluations is May 14th.

Summative ratings will be comprehensive; they will include: the 45 minute observation, the fall and spring TTESS walkthrough observations and classroom walkthroughs. The summative ratings are the ratings that will be used for TIA purposes.

You will need to complete two things prior to this appointment for your summative: (1) respond to the reflective questions and (2) mark goals as complete if completed and attach evidence demonstrating how you accomplished your goals this year. If they are not completed, leave as is and they can be carried over to next year. https://eduphoria.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011951447-Life-of-Professional-Goals-in-Strive (Start at step 6)

The questions for both your professional and student goal are:

1. Identify the evidence of goal attainment/progress including the impact on student achievement.

2. Identify the professional development participation connections for this goal.

3. Describe how you used this goal and the professional development above to impact instruction and student achievement.

4. What if anything, would you have done differently? How will you extend this goal/learning?

After you answer the questions you will click SUBMIT to APPRAISER button on the menu bar.

Once you have completed these tasks please email us letting us know. Tasks are due at least 24 hours prior to our conference. If not submitted before that time your conference will be rescheduled.

Please bring your Chromebook to our meeting.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Do you have friends with jobs? Click the link below and tell me more!

I Have a Speaker Friend for Career Day!

Don't forget, the data sheet changed to the simplified version below:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14E5o_Uuto7iaHmTPZQeHQDzhIeApy1JDm-oFyobsUDY/cop

1. Teachers will record only 3 points for each student:
1. In-person or Remote
2. Independent Reading Level
3. Fiction/Nonfiction (for in-person students only)

1. Teachers will need to input the required information of their students (First name, last name, ID, grade). They will also need to select if the student is a remote or face-to-face learner.

2. Teachers will select the levels per DRA/EDL activity using the dropdown menu per column.

3. Teachers will save their spreadsheets labeling it “DRA/EDL EOY 2021_[Teacher last,first](Campus name)”

4. Teachers will add their ELST or Inter-ST as an editor to their completed google sheet once complete.

Important Dates:

DRA/EDL EOY Assessment window: 5/3/21 - 6/4/21

Last day for Teachers to complete and turn in their Classroom Data google sheet to their campus ELST or Inter-ST: 6/7/21

Any questions? Contact Selena.

Background Knowledge

Thoughts from Reading Academy:

Background knowledge is an important piece of visualizing. If you ask children to close their eyes and visualize a family eating dinner, each child is going to use her or his background knowledge to create that visualization. Everyone has a different interpretation of what family dinner looks like according to his or her personal experiences. Therefore, the visualizations will vary. Each student reads the same text on the page but constructs a mental image unique to their lives. This variation is important to explore and discuss.

1069's for April are due 5/7/2021, and the May 1069's will be due on May 21st please be sure to have this completed on time as I will need to have them printed and filed by May 25th.

Please be sure to have students complete their Monthly I-station test, this data is used to complete their 1069's and the I-station report will be put in their Cum Folders.

Thank you to everyone that has reached out to students to get signed up for MAP testing. Please encourage your remote students to signup for testing if they have not already (the EOY MAP Schedule shows who has signed up and their testing date/time). Please ask them to arrive promptly at 8:15 and 12:15 to ensure they have enough time to finish.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/409084fafac29a7fb6-remote

I have already heard back from most teachers confirming your MAP Accommodations as listed on the EOY MAP Schedule, but if you have not please look at it and let me know if any adjustments need to be made. The accommodations given are also listed on each teacher's tab.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hwc0yevzyHqV3LP_dbg4DuTMq9NUxHI6Hnl7Vw1kE94/edit#gid=236820769

Please use the link to help manage your student's testing status and add any notes needed.

I can't even express how thankful I am for all of you and everything you do for our students! Taking the time out of your week to think about me put a smile on my face every single day. I couldn't do my job without each of you and there isn't a single one of you I would want to do it without. Thank you for being you and for being a part my life and the life of Park Crest!

Here's the link to this week's information. The pdf information is housed in the Park Crest Shared Drive in the Weekly Administrative information Packet Folder. We're all accountable for knowing the information.

None this week...

May

1 - National School Principal Day

3 - DRA Window Opens

3-7 Teacher Appreciation Week

4 - STAAR Training - (ALL STAFF EXCEPT - ABC, PreK, Linsey, Jennifer, Jordan)

7 - School Lunch Hero Day

13 - 5th - STAAR Science - Online and Paper (4th grade asynchronous)

12 - National School Nurse's Day

14 - 3rd and 4th - STAAR Reading Online - (K, 1, 2, 5 - asynchronous)

18 - 5th - STAAR Math Online (3rd grade asynchronous)

19 - 5th - STAAR Reading Online (3rd and 4th asynchronous)

21 - 3rd and 4th - STAAR Math Online (K, 1, 2, 5 asynchronous)

21 - Last day of Library - EXCEPT 5th grade specials rotations

27 - MAP Window Closes

27 - Career Day

28 - Student/Staff Holiday

31 - Memorial Day - no school

June

2 - PreK Field Day 11-12

3 - 3rd-5th Field Day

4 - K-2 Field Day

4 - DRA Deadline

8 - Early Release - afternoon campus PD

9 - Full Day District Staff Development - registration opens in May

If you need assistance with individual concerns or counseling services, please reach out to Mrs. Medrano-Johnson at gmedranojohnson@garlandisd.net,

or fill out the following Park Crest Request for Counseling Services form.

ELA

• A recording of the training can be found here.
• This link to the slide deck will provide teachers with their own copy to use as part of their test preparation instruction. The link will force you to make a copy.
• This ELAR STAAR Online Tools poster can also be used with students to prepare them for the assessment. It MAY NOT be posted during testing. USE NOW!
• Additional information regarding online test taking is available on this one-pager.

MATH

• Traci Vickery created a video provides teachers with a 20 minute explanation of the tools available for students to use during the Online Math STAAR.
• This Math STAAR Online Tools poster can also be used with students to prepare them for the assessment. It MAY NOT be posted during testing. USE NOW!
• Links to these resources can also be found on the Math Landing Pages in the Curriculum for 3rd - 5th grade.
• Additional information regarding Math online test taking is available on this one-pager.