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Principal's Message
January 24, 2012
Dear Families,
This is the time of the year where we will have teams of teachers participating in a variety of professional development, and all teachers will be re-assessing students to measure their progress from September until now. We have one team attending a conference on Class-Wide PBIS: Critical Features of Evidence Based Classroom Management Practices. These teachers will be learning new strategies to maximize structure, recognize appropriate behavior, establish a continuum of procedures to respond to inappropriate behavior and reinforce positively stated expectations. Another team will be attending a conference on Professional Learning Communities. We have been operating as grade level teams within professional learning communities (PLC’s) for the past two years at Champlain. Our teachers are developing so many great skills in this area that two other schools within the Burlington School District came over on Wednesday after school to watch us in action. These teams are using data to reflect on their instructional practices in literacy and math and to discover ways to help more and more students achieve the standard and beyond. The follow up professional development helps us fine tune our skills so that we can work even more closely as colleagues towards common goals. All students will be re-assessed in both literacy and mathematics by February 17th. In Kindergarten the literacy assessment is called the Primary Observation Assessment (POA), and in grades 1-5 the assessment is called Fountas and Pinnell. These assessments were last given in September. The information obtained at this point in the year will show the great progress that students have made and help teachers re-adjust their reading groups based on students’ current levels. Similarly in mathematics, teachers will gain more current information on students’ math skills in order to best meet their needs during math. Parent teacher conferences occur in April, however, if you have questions about your child’s progress, any time after February 17th would be appropriate to contact your teacher. At that point each teacher will have current data that can be shared if you are interested. As always, your support at home in terms of setting a spot for homework each night, providing time for children to read, write, and do mathematics helps so much. Don’t forget to go to our Champlain website, scroll down the bar on the left hand side, click on Parent Resources and then Champlain Family School Partnership or go directly to: http://school-family-partnership.weebly.com. This website that our Family School Partnership team created has additional home connections for literacy and mathematics activities that can be enjoyed with your children.
Sincerely,
Leslie
Dear Families,
This is the time of the year where we will have teams of teachers participating in a variety of professional development, and all teachers will be re-assessing students to measure their progress from September until now. We have one team attending a conference on Class-Wide PBIS: Critical Features of Evidence Based Classroom Management Practices. These teachers will be learning new strategies to maximize structure, recognize appropriate behavior, establish a continuum of procedures to respond to inappropriate behavior and reinforce positively stated expectations. Another team will be attending a conference on Professional Learning Communities. We have been operating as grade level teams within professional learning communities (PLC’s) for the past two years at Champlain. Our teachers are developing so many great skills in this area that two other schools within the Burlington School District came over on Wednesday after school to watch us in action. These teams are using data to reflect on their instructional practices in literacy and math and to discover ways to help more and more students achieve the standard and beyond. The follow up professional development helps us fine tune our skills so that we can work even more closely as colleagues towards common goals. All students will be re-assessed in both literacy and mathematics by February 17th. In Kindergarten the literacy assessment is called the Primary Observation Assessment (POA), and in grades 1-5 the assessment is called Fountas and Pinnell. These assessments were last given in September. The information obtained at this point in the year will show the great progress that students have made and help teachers re-adjust their reading groups based on students’ current levels. Similarly in mathematics, teachers will gain more current information on students’ math skills in order to best meet their needs during math. Parent teacher conferences occur in April, however, if you have questions about your child’s progress, any time after February 17th would be appropriate to contact your teacher. At that point each teacher will have current data that can be shared if you are interested. As always, your support at home in terms of setting a spot for homework each night, providing time for children to read, write, and do mathematics helps so much. Don’t forget to go to our Champlain website, scroll down the bar on the left hand side, click on Parent Resources and then Champlain Family School Partnership or go directly to: http://school-family-partnership.weebly.com. This website that our Family School Partnership team created has additional home connections for literacy and mathematics activities that can be enjoyed with your children.
Sincerely,
Leslie
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