The Jaguar Pride Weekly Update #13
November 2nd, 2026
🌟 Junkins Elementary Staff Welcome to Week 13! 🌟
🌟 Full-Day 3-6 PLC Days Are Coming… Let's Make Every Minute Count! 🌟
Our upcoming Full-Day Professional Learning Community (PLC) Days are an incredible opportunity to do some of the most important work we have as educators: intentionally planning for student success. These days are not simply about completing tasks. They are about using our collective expertise to ensure that every student receives high-quality instruction, targeted support, and meaningful learning experiences.
Throughout the day, we will dive deeply into assessment data, analyze student work, unpack standards, and collaboratively design lessons that are aligned, rigorous, and responsive to student needs. Every conversation, every plan, and every decision should answer one essential question:
"What do our students need most, and how will we ensure they get it?"
By the end of our PLC day, we will have accomplished meaningful work that directly impacts classroom instruction, including:
✅ Four weeks of lesson plans aligned to upcoming learning objectives
✅ Targeted intervention and enrichment plans for LABs
✅ Aligned checks for understanding and assessment tools
✅ Exemplars and instructional resources ready for immediate implementation
Our agenda is designed to move us from analyzing where students are today to planning where they need to go next. We will spend time examining a variety of data including students' half band goals, developing instructional sequences, creating differentiated supports, and rehearsing key instructional moments so that we enter our classrooms feeling confident and prepared.
As you prepare for the day, we will bring/review:
- Current SMC and Power DOL assessment reports
- Student work samples
- Curriculum resources
- Upcoming texts/exemplars
- Laptop
- Existing lesson plans
This day is an investment in our students and in one another. The strength of our instruction grows when we collaborate, challenge our thinking, share best practices, and remain focused on student outcomes. Together, we have the opportunity to create learning experiences that accelerate achievement and ensure every child reaches their full potential.
Let's arrive ready to engage, collaborate, problem-solve, and create. The work ahead is important, and I am excited to see the impact it will have on our students in the weeks to come.
We are not just planning lessons; we are planning opportunities for students to thrive.
Let's make it a powerful day of learning and collaboration!
#JaguarPride 🐆 #TogetherWeGrow #EveryStudentEveryDay
Monday, November 2
- College Pride - Wear your college SWAG!
- School Climate Survey will be emailed
- Attendance Committee 10am
- 5th Grade Field Trip Environmental Center
- MTSS PreK 1:30pm
- MTSS PreK 2:00pm
- Boys Soccer Game
- Faculty PLC 3:45-4:30 bring laptops
Tuesday, November 3
- Election Day - No School! - Get out and VOTE!
- PD Flex Day 2
Wednesday, November 4
- Kinder Annual ARD 10:45am
- MTSS 1st Grade 9:00am
- MTSS 1st Grade 9:30am
- MTSS 2nd Grade 10:00am
- MTSS 3rd Grade 2:20pm
- 4th Grade ARD 12:55pm
- 6th Grade ARD 2:15pm
- Reading PLC K-2 Team Lead Room
- Reading PLC Full Day Planning 3rd & 4th Grade Room 218
Thursday, November 5
- MTSS 2nd Grade 10:00am
- Math PLC K-2 Team Lead Room
- Reading PLC Full Day Planning 5th & 6th Grade Room 218
- Tutoring 3:45
- Boys Basketball
Friday, November 6
- School Pride - Wear your school SWAG
- Math PLC (3-6) PLC Room
- Power DOLs (3-6) Non negotiable
Saturday, November 7
- Discover Dallas at Fair Park
🎨 Campus Celebration Poster & Custom Badges
Check out the campus Math Magic poster with custom badges in the first hallway to celebrate each grade level’s milestones and achievements! Please be sure to take a look when passing by, and encourage your students to spot their grade’s badge as a proud reminder of what their hard work has accomplished.
🌟 Grade-Level Celebrations & Highlights
- Grade 2: You achieved a stellar 98.39% completion rate on Checkpoint 1 and have already reached 62.90% on Checkpoint 2. Your consistency and proactive tracking have set a fantastic standard.
- Grade 1: Fantastic progress on Checkpoint 2! Reaching a strong 78.95% mastery demonstrates your students’ rapid growth and engagement in their daily math routines.
- Grade 3: recording a solid 57.69% proficiency on Checkpoint 1 as our upper-primary students tackle more rigorous grade-level expectations.
Seeing our students gain confidence and celebrate their math accomplishments is a direct reflection of your instruction and daily encouragement.
1. Daily Updated
- Lesson Objective and Success Criteria, Unpacked TEKS document
- Time Stamped Agenda
- DOL - Daily Exit Ticket
- Teacher Exemplar including students common misconceptions, teacher strategies and HOT questions.
- Clip board in hand or posted with Teacher Exemplar
2. DO NOW Fluency/ Bell Ringer (Spiral Review) NO longer than 5- 8 minutes.
3. Direct Instruction NO longer than 15-20 minutes and must include student engagement strategies (turn and talk, table talk, Read-Draw-Write, White Boards, Think-Talk-Write).
4. Students must talk and write every day.
5. Feedback for Learning during independent practice.
MRS. E DRESSED IN CHARACTER!
MS QUINTANS & STUDENT DRESSED AS TUESDAY!
MRS SCOTT WITH SON HAVING FUN!
MRS. ANDALES WITH SON!
MS TORRES & SON ENJOYING THE EVENT!
MRS ESTINOS HAVING FUN!
MRS. ADOPTANTE WITH DAUGHTER!
MS CRAIN ENJOYING THE EVENT!
MS. QUINTANS HAVING FUN!
Mr. Chandler thanking the Student Council
Student Council learning about leadership
