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Our goal is help all of our students attend school on a consistent basis. Regular attendance creates a positive classroom community between teachers and children. Students who attend school are more likely to succeed academically. Students gain background knowledge from discussions while learning in school. Attending school also provides time for social interactions with peers.

We know that some of our students and families have barriers that may prevent them from attending school regularly. Our Attendance committee aims to not judge our families with barriers, but support the need. As a commitee, we are tracking students that have 3, 5, 10, and 15 days of unexcused absences. We encourage staff who recognize a students is struggling with attendance, to reach out to families to offer support.

Chronic absenteeism, is defined as missing at least 10 percent of days in a school year for any reason, including excused and unexcused absences. For example, a student who misses as few as two days per month for each month of the school year is described as being chronically absent. In a school year, that’s 18 to 20 total missed school days.

To help motivate our students and families, we are going to also have incentives for displaying good attendance.

406 students at Woods Lake have an attendance percentage that is equal to 90% or higher! This is great, and we want to keep motivating these students to attend school.

However, we have 111 students that have an attendance percentage rate that is less than 90%. This is 27% of our total school population that have attendance concerns already. We still have time to help them improve their attendance percentages.

At Woods Lake Elementary, we encourage all of our students to follow the ARTS. It is crucial that we model and show efficiacy that all students are capable of following the ARTS sucessfully.

• Achievement

• Try my very best at school

• Maintain a positive mindset

• Strive to meet my academic/social-emotional goals

• Respect

• To myself

• Others

• School property

• Take Responsibility

• For my actions

• For my words

• Safe

• Keep my hands, feet, other body parts, unkind words to myself

• Being in authorized areas with adult permission

• Using walking feet in the building

• Displaying safe actions at all times

TEACHING AND REENFORCING SCHOOL PROCEDURES, ROUTINES, AND RULES

Continue to go over classroom procedures with all of our students. It is important to be consistent with your expectations. We have amazing teacher that are here to help support you in getting successful classsroom management. Do not be ashamed to ask teachers for advice or support.

Please watch the video below that shows an example of another teacher working with students to follow her expectations.

To encourage students to follow the ARTS, we want to provide incentives to reach all students. Please look below at some ways we will enocurage our students school-wide extpectations.

DAILY: Artie Slips, PA Announcements for following expectations

WEEKLY: WOW ART Slip cart

MONTHLY: Award Assemblies, No Referral Celebrations

TRIMESTERS: Artie Store using Artie Slips

Please click the button below to view our system for "Behavior Team" Intervention.

For the month of September, there were a total number of 178 minor infraction and discipline incidents documented in our new system Simplediscipline.

Please take a look at the charts below that displays our behavior data. What do you notice? What are your wonderings?

What do you notice?

What are some startegies that could be used to support us on the day that has the most referrals?

Which areas do we need to focus on reviewing expectations?

Inappropriate physical contact tier 1 and tier 2 had the most incidents for September. This is a area that must be retaught.

I am including a video below that can support our school expectations for being safe.

We are striving to make sure all of our students are receiving tiered-one instruction using the districted mandated curriculum consistenty. It is crucial that all of our students are exposed to tiered-one grade-level instruction as well as small group instruction to meet their individualized needs. As a team, it is our shared belief that all students are capable of academic success, and we must nagivate a path to ensure we are meeting the district expectations

Please reach out for support, if you are not aware of the curriculum and/or need support implementing tiered-one instruction.

Instructional Expectations (September / October)

• Focus on reading, math, science and social studies

• Tier one core instruction is the focus

• Interventions built around Tier one instruction outcomes

• Focus on effective use of instructional time

• Adherence to district curriculum

• Wonders Curriculum must be implemented

• Utilize available instructional materials

• Focus on Teaching and Learning

• Focus on Student Mastery

• Maintain high academic expectations for ALL students

• Continuous Improvement

• Use current data to guide instructional decision making

• Enforcement of district behavior expectations

• Providing meaningful teacher support

• End of the year assessment preparation

• Student Engagement (On task, focused, awake, sitting up)

• Focus on reading comprehension (maintain evidence)

• Skill / Will Discussions

Schedule Expectations:

Non-departmentalized Classrooms
ELA (Reading) - 90 minutes per day (450 minutes per week)
Math - 75 minutes per day (375 minutes per week)
Science or Social Studies - 45-60 minutes 3 times per week (135-180 minutes per week)
Writing - 30-45 minutes 3 times per week (90-135 minutes per week)

Departmentalized Classrooms
ELA (Reading ) - 60-75 minutes per day (350-375 minutes per week)
Math - 60-75 minutes per day
Science or Social Studies - 45-60 minutes per day (depending on departmentalization structure this could be 3-5 days per week; each building is different)
Writing - 30-60 minutes per day (depending on the departmentalization structure, the time could be 30, 45 or 60 minutes and could be 3-5 days per week; each building is different)

Coming next month