Hey Panda Family,
In-Person Meetings: The district has approved us to resume having meetings in-person! We must still practice social distancing and be masked, but this is definitely something to celebrate. We will continue to have our staff meetings via Zoom for the remainder of the year. Jayne will reach out to your grade level regarding PLTs.
SIT Meeting: SIT will meet this Tuesday, May 11 @ 3:30 in the Media Center.
The Teacher Contest: We have one more fun Teacher Appreciation activity for you this week, The Teacher Contest! On Wednesday, May 12 you will receive an email with all the contest details and your team for the week-long game. Your team, which will consist of other staff members, will work together to accomplish fun missions. We look forward to this exciting team-building game! SCC will be providing gift card prizes to the winning team! Good luck!
Ms. Murray's Birthday: Ms. Murray's Birthday is Monday, May 17. We really encourage you and your class to do something special for her on this day. Ms. Murray does so much for our school, all as a volunteer. Please join us in celebrating her on her birthday. Thanks!
Field Trips: Your grade level may begin scheduling field trips for next school year. Please do not put down any deposits at this time. Please make sure to communicate with other grade levels and Ms. Gardner when scheduling your field trips. Different grade levels going on the same field trips to the same locations will not be approved (i.e. three different grade levels all going to Old Salem).
PDP & Summative Conferences: All certified staff should have received an email from myself or Ms. Gardner regarding PDP & Summative Conferences. Please make sure you read this email and sign up for a time slot. Sign-up sheets are outside our office doors. Before our meeting, you should have your PDP updated with evidence and marked "complete". Please do this at least 2 days before our meeting. Also, have your green notebook updated. We will collect these so we can refer to them when adding comments to both the PDP and Summary Evaluation.
PBIS News & Updates (from PBIS Committee):
- K-2 @ 8:45-11:00
- 3-5 @ 12:15-2:30
- PGE support staff members will run the stations. Ms. Fox will be sending out sign-up information.
- Homeroom teachers- please send a message to parents about students packing their lunch if possible.
- Instead of having students pay for extra events and/or snacks, the PBIS Team decided to do the Paw Store K-5.
- May 28th: 3-5
- June 7th: K-2
- PAW Store (Virtual Students can place an order)
End of Year Staff Celebration: The end-of-the year staff celebration will be Tuesday, June 1 at 6:00 at Earl's Restaurant in W-S. This event is hosted and organized by our School Culture Committee. Located at 121 W 9th St. in Winston-Salem. Due to Covid this is a Staff Only event. If you plan to attend please fill in the link below and give your grade level SCC Representative $5.00 to help cover the cost of tax and gratuity.
CARES & Counselor Updates (from Ms. Ceglowski):
- CARES will meet this Wednesday, May 12. Please email/text Ceglowski with any engagement concerns.
- Some have expressed concern about getting materials returned from remote students. To make it easier, I'd like to get a complete list of what needs to be collected so that Ms. Davis and I can consolidate our efforts. So, if you have books or other materials that need to make it back to PGE and you are aware of transportation issues, please let me know.
- Referrals are really picking up. If you think it would be helpful for me to come and do a whole group lesson with your class on a specific topic, please check this link and sign up for a slot. I only added 6 slots for now but I can add more if needed. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qNuNcCCkk3YLFyrWGePX4GDgYvl3iuJxT4m1p_Kd4_M/edit?usp=sharing
- If none of these dates/times work, just email me and we will figure something out!Grades 3 and 5 can just email me what you want me to address and I'll do it in my regularly scheduled specials time.
Timothy’s Technology Corner Newsletter: The May edition provides a little bit of everything including something new, something old, something to think about going forward, along with some encouraging words, and a little bit of humor to assist you in dealing with the hecticness of these next few weeks. The headlines in this edition include:
Coming Soon: Newsela 101
Moving Forward with Canvas
Encouraging Words from Gerry Brooks
Stress-Relieving Humor
Where is Timothy? (May Calendar)
Canvas Tips Contest: Thanks to Leigh Hopkins, ITF at Kernersville Elementary and Middle for the idea. It is so good that I must do this myself! - As we are wrapping up the 2020-21 school year, think about all the things you have accomplished! You have created some amazing resources and lessons that are in Canvas ready to be copied into next year’s courses.
Take a minute and share your Canvas Quick Tip in this form. I will share this with everyone in an upcoming newsletter. (For all who submit at least one tip, names will be put into a drawing for a prize!)
Don’t have a quick tip? Check out these: Ditch That Textbook: 20+ tips for using Canvas LMS
Remote Students Returning to In-Person: We have decided not to wait until 4th quarter to communicate to all remote parents that their child can return to in-person learning. Please send the following message to your fully-remote students via Dojo (you can let them know it is from Mr. Elkins):
Hey Pandas! Effective immediately, your child may return to full in-person learning if you so choose. Any remote students that want to immediately return to in-person learning will need to be a car rider, use a morning/afternoon daycare van, or go to Imprints. If your child needs bus transportation, please contact the front office to get it arranged before your child plans to return to in-person learning (bus transportation is only available for residential students). If your child will be a car rider, please ask your teacher for a pink car rider sign. Students returning to in-person learning are committing to all 4 days of in-person learning each week. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact the front office at 336-703-4122.
- Mr. Elkins
If parents decide to send their child back for in-person learning please let Ms. True know who the student is and when they will begin in-person learning.
Student Attendance: Managing student attendance this year has been such a rollercoaster. The guidance from the district is constantly changing. Luckily, we only have a few more weeks of remote learning and managing concurrent attendance. See below for the latest guidance from district. To be clear, I do not expect you to prepare materials for in-person students that are out on a moment's notice and participate virtually. See below:
Please share this clarification regarding taking attendance of the students, especially now that more students have returned to school. Our goal is to indicate “Present or 1R” for all students who engage in daily instruction.
PowerSchool indicators:
- Leave blank, if “Present”- All students who engage in face-to-face learning.
- Indicate 1R- For all Remote learners who participate in instruction, both those who are full-time remote students and those you may be home for quarantine or learning from home on specific dates.
- Mark Absent- Any student who is not present for either in-person or online learning.
We want all students learning and not excluded. Please do not exclude students from joining their classes, if they are supposed to be in school, but are logging in from home on a given day. We want all students learning and not excluded. In-person learners should email or call their teacher if they will be learning from home on a particular day and indicate the reason why. If they join remotely, they are present (1R).
Need help assisting parents with choosing summer programs? Use this link to help you be able to answer their questions.
NC TEST: I need everyone to check that you have an NC Test account.
To do this, go to this site: https://center.ncsu.edu/ncauth .
If you think you have an account, try to log in. If you need to reset your password, then click "reset password".
If you have no idea what NC Test is, then use this link to watch a 4 minute "how to" video that I made that will tell you how to set up your account.
PLEASE do this before your EOG training! It does take 24 hours to reset a password, so keep that in mind.
Mrs. Secrest will be coming around to see if you have completed this yet.
EOG Training: We have our EOG training planned for May 12. (K-1 is 8:30, 2, Specialist, other certified staff is 12, 3-5, EC is 2:00) Use the staff meeting link to join!
Going to be absent during the EOG testing window (May 25-June 11)? Just fill this out so I know when to not include you in our testing plan. Fill it out once for each day you will be absent. Thank you!
Pop to the Top: The schedule has been created. Sign up for a time slot here. There are also details related to the event on May 17 for you to check out. Since you have iReady results, you can start punching those cards. Let me know if you have questions!
Testing Dates:
April 26-May 14: iReady 4-5 Reading and K-5 Math testing window
May 3-14: iReady K-3 Reading testing window
May 12 - EOG Training (K-1 is 8:30, 2, Specialist, other certified staff is 12, 3-5, EC is 2:00)
May 17: iReady “Pop to the Top” incentive
May 21: all computers that are needed for testing will be borrowed from K-2 classrooms for testing and will not be returned until testing is close to completion (I’m hoping you will have them back on June 2)
May 24 to June 8: K-2 Math EOY assessment window
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