Hey Panda Family,
Krystal Laughlin: Please join me in welcoming Krystal Laughlin to the Piney Grove family! Ms. Laughlin will be joining the 4th grade team and we are so excited to have her on board. Her first official day will be 2/21/22, but she will be in this week to meet the class. Ms. Laughlin is a former Piney Grove parent of Ashleigh Ziglar, who is now a student at KMS. Ms. Laughlin interned with us years ago and has since worked in WS/FCS and Guilford County Schools. Welcome to the Panda family, Krystal! 🐼
Fire Drill: Tuesday, 1/25/2022 @ 2:00. We are announcing it so it will not interfere with your testing.
iReady Diagnostics: Please open the iReady Reading diagnostic and complete this week. If you so choose, your students may also complete the Math diagnostic this week too. Please just avoid having them complete both diagnostics in the same day. The only iReady component that we will be monitoring over the next two weeks is diagnostic completion.
MOY iReady School Incentive: Students who show 50% or more growth on both the Reading and Math iReady diagnostics will earn a trip to play putt-putt in February. We will let the students know about this incentive during morning announcements on Monday. Please wait to tell your students how they did on the diagnostics until after they have completed both of them.
- The Math and Reading Check-In 2 window will be extended through Friday, January 28.
- Make-up testing will be available through February 4.
- Schools should schedule classes to test by January 28, and use the following week for make-up testing only.
K-3 mCLASS/DIBELS window has been extended through February 4th.
DPI K-2 Math Mid-Year Formative Assessments window has been extended through January 28th.
iReady K-5 Reading MOY window has been extended through February 4th.
ACCESS Testing (ESL students): January 24 and end around March 3rd.
- Mrs. Pereda will do the practice tests with the students 1/24 and 1/25. She will follow her regular schedule.
- Mrs. Pereda will not pull students at their regular ESL time when actual testing begins.
- Testing will be held in the POD. Please remind students to be quiet when entering and leaving the POD.
- Students will take their Chromebooks with them to test.
- Be flexible when students are leaving your classroom for testing.
- Reminder- 2 paw bucks per day
- Next Event: Feb. 11 Panda Chef during your specials. Please add your students to the spreadsheet by February 9. (linked to Panda Chef).
- As we did with the Glow Stick party, grade level teams will help supervise the event.
- We will utilize the cafeteria for the event
Grades: 2nd Quarter now ends on 1/25. Please make sure to finish inputting grades into PowerSchool. Friendly reminder to all 3rd - 5th grade teachers - students can not have an assignment grade lower than a 50 (district policy).
Mid-Year PDP Conferences: The sign-up for Mid-Year PDP meetings is hanging up outside mine and Leslie's office. Please sign up with me if I do your evaluations & please sign up with Leslie if she does yours. Conferences must be completed before 2/18/2022. Make sure your Mid-Year PDP is updated before we meet. This includes your progress to date on your goals, as well as any artifacts that you want to upload that show evidence towards completion.
Morning Announcements: We will have old school intercom announcements this week since we were not in school to film student led announcements.
Shoutout: Shoutout to our wonderful WS/FCS maintenance crews that helped clean our parking lots and sidewalks from all the snow and ice! Next time you see a maintenance crew member in the building please make sure to tell them Thank You for all they do!
Technology Updates
IF Updates
Need assistance while I am out? Contact one of these wonderful folks:
ELA- Kathryn Kear kakear@wsfcs.k12.nc.us
Math- Adrienne Egerton abegerton@wsfcs.k12.nc.us
Early Learning- Anna Crisp amcrisp@wsfcs.k12.nc.us
MTSS- Robyn Varga rmvarga@wsfcs.k12.nc.us
PLT- Mollie Jenkins mbjenkins@wsfcs.k12.nc.us
AIG/CogAt/ITBS school-based questions- Teresa Sweeney tsweeney@wsfcs.k12.nc.us
Items from Previous Weeks
Mid-Year Parent Conferences: Just like we have done in year's past, we would like all PreK - 5th grade teachers to complete Mid-Year Parent conferences with all of your families. The primary focus of this conference should be to review MOY results, discuss behavior concerns/successes, and to set a positive tone with each family for the remainder of the school year (make sure to always start each conference with something positive and end with something positive). These conferences should be brief and most will last 10-15 minutes. You may schedule them in-person, over the phone, or through Zoom (your choice). Please have these conferences completed no later than Friday, February 25. When you have completed all of your Mid-Year conferences please complete this Google form to let us know - Mid-Year Parent Conferences Completed. Thanks!
ELA Updates (from district): Please share these ELA updates with teachers.
- If your MOY benchmark window is showing incorrect on your device, please encourage your educators to sync their devices when logging in to mCLASS Assessment. MOY windows have been updated in the mCLASS system but these will not show as updated on teacher devices until a sync has occurred.
- It is important to ensure teachers select MOY as the time of year.
- Invalidations for MOY- please see attached document outlining these changes. DPI and Amplify have changed the process for MOY so that once the district approves the teacher can do the invalidation herself. This will definitely be a more effective process than BOY.
- MOY window opens January 10th running thru February 1st.
- Please review the following slides before administering MOY https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QHyNcEI2KGvaO2BNQOroorKOnn_I4QY9uJhKSCjBZmI/edit?usp=sharing
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