PHS FRIDAY, Monday, October 13 Tennis @ Camas Recognition Meeting in the library at 2:45 OCTOBER 10, 2014 Essential Question: What do we want students to know? Tuesday, October 14 Evaluation help in the library after school Senior Cap and Gown Orders during STAT Volleyball @ home Soccer @ Fort Cross Country @ Lewisville Wednesday, October 15 Picture retakes Staff Meeting in the library at 2:45 Tennis @ home Thursday, October 16 Shifts with Common Core: Common Core impacts everyone, particularly with its focus on nonfiction reading. Although Math and ELA are directly impacted, Social Studies, Science, and CTE courses can support the students with this skill. Let’s be IN FRONT of the Common Core Standards, carving our own path, and focusing on the things we can control. Next week we will focus on curriculum in your classroom, but this week I wanted to provide what I think is the best Common Core Resource available. Please go to the following website: http://achievethecore.org/ Healthy Youth Survey in Social Studies classes New Teacher Orientation Senior Cap and Gown Orders during STAT Keep the Learning Targets Up! Volleyball @home Girl’s soccer @ WF West Friday, October 17 Football @ WF West Saturday, October 18 Learning Targets in ASL! PSAT PLC Early Release: We have 25 PLC Groups working in a variety of areas. From content alignment to developing assessments, I can’t tell you how exciting it is to see teachers working with teachers to improve teaching. So simple! Here are some pictures of our work from Wednesday: Smarter Balanced Resources: This account will let you immediately access the Smarter Balanced Digital Library. Other services of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium come online in the fall of 2014 and you will use this same login to make use of those services. You are required to change your temporary password. Click the following link to access your account and update your password: https:// www.smarterbalancedlibrary.org. You will not be able to log into any Smarter Balanced systems until you have updated your temporary password and provided an answer to a security question. You can find out more information about Smarter Balanced systems on the Smarter Balanced web site at http://www.smarterbalanced.org/. Community Newsletter: Each month I work with the journalism students and Patty Alway to produce a newsletter. Please click the link below to see October’s Newsletter. http://prairiehighschool.org/wpcontent/uploads/2014/09/ September26.pdf If you ever have anything you would like included, please email myself or Patty so we can get it in the newsletter. Homeroom Evaluation Support Falcon Claw Returns: Falcon Claw is a Prairie Book Study. We will plan on reading three books and meeting on the following dates: December 1st, January 19th, February 2nd, March 2nd, April 20th, and May 4th. Meet in the library after school on Tuesday, October 14th if you need any support with Homeroom. Reminders st Please email me by Friday, October 31 , if you are interested. If you are interested you can also send a book selection. We will review book selections on vote on which 3 books we would like to read. What do you think? We are thinking about doing away with sending home a paper copy of the 6-week grades. We would work to push them out through Skyward and inform parents of the change through a Connect Ed phone call. Do you have an opinion on this? Please let me know. Parent Conferences: TPEP Please complete your Self Evaluation by October 15th. You only need to complete the selfevaluation for the criterion you are being evaluated on. Wear your ID Although this may be a new habit some of us need to establish, please wear your ID at all times when on campus. Thursday, October 30: EOC Date Change: 12:00-3:00 PM 5:00-8:00 PM st Friday, October 31 : 12:00-3:00 PM On October 31st, please do not wear Halloween Costumes to the conferences. If you dress up for school, which is awesome, please bring a change of clothes. The Biology EOC has been moved from January 28th to February 4th. Thanks!