News for the Week of March 22, 2021

 



This is a reason to celebrate! WOOHOO!


This Week at Brown School

3/22  P2 Character Strength: OPM - Identifying & appreciating the good in others

3/23  March is Reading Month: Round 2 Voting by Noon  

3/24  Late Start Day 
      Strategic Planning Session - Hassenger & Bawks

3/25  Tech Meeting 4:15pm - 5:15pm

3/26   Read my Shirt & Hat Day
       Bucks for Brown $ due

Coming Up...

3/29  P2 Character Strength: Humor
      Wear your jeans & P2 shirt!

3/30   School Improvement Meeting 4:00 p.m - 5:00 p.m.

3/31   Late Start Day!

4/1    Bucks for Brown Read-a-Thon - more details to come
      "Be a Bright Reader" Day - wear neon today!
      March is Reading Month: Final votes due by 10:00 a.m.

4/2 - 4/9  No School - Spring Break 

4/12  School Resumes
     IEP/CST Day
     5th Grade M-Step window opens (4/12 - 5/7)




Here are just a few "winning moments" captured this week at Brown School:


*Teams are so deeply invested in their PLC that they connected remotely even when a member was out of the building. You rock!

*Cornell successfully completed his solo weeks of teaching! Congratulations!

*Stephanie and Kristi teamed up to teach tricky math skills to Amber's students while she had to be away. The power of a team!

*Sara set up a fun "March Madness" bracket team building opportunity. Text her by Friday morning if you'd like to join the fun! Thank you, Sara!

*We're getting fully vaccinated today! 

#CelebrateSmallWins

Instead of "wild card/ make-up week", we decided to plug in "OPM - Identifying & appreciating the good in others" instead next week as this would have been missed over spring break. Thank you for being flexible!



Interested in learning more about the Instructional Cha-Chas before our next grade level release day on May 3rd? Click here to hear a podcast featuring LeAnn Nickelsen, the co-author. 









M-STEP Testing
We are eagerly awaiting news from the State regarding the status of the waiver that was submitted to the federal government. If approved, this request would allow the State to waive the requirement of standardized testing this spring. At this time though, we have to be prepared to assess our 3 - 5 graders based on the schedule published (posted below). More information will come. 


Free Core5 Webinar!
Kim passed along a free, recorded webinar related to how to use Core5 to support student achievement. If you are interested in learning more, feel free to click here. 

Here are a few resources that are referred in the webinar:

If you'd like to see Ms. Ashley Lane's filing tub system, you can watch her video explaining it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G04nac597E

Additionally, here are links to the resources that Meg shared during the webinar:

Lexia Help Center - https://help.lexialearning.com/s/

For Administrators: Interactive District/School myLexia Reports Overview - https://rise.articulate.com/share/nqHyYRSN3olMbujBBY530U95cIetxtte#/

Core5 Class Overview Report Guide - https://www.lexialearningresources.com/tech/documents/reports_guides/Reports_Core5-Class-Overview.pdf

PowerUp Class Overview Report Guide - https://www. 

lexialearningresources.com/tech/documents/reports_guides/Reports_PowerUp-Class-Overview.pdf

Lexia Lessons Slide Decks Overview - https://www.lexialearningresources.com/shared/licensed/Lexia_Lessons_Slide_Decks_Overview.pdf

Digital Lexia Skill Builder Overview -
https://www.lexialearningresources.com/shared/licensed/Lexia_Digital_Skill_Builders_Overview.pdf

Lexia Decodable Readers Overview - https://www.lexialearningresources.com/core5/licensed/fluency_automaticity/Lexia_Decodable_Readers_Overview.pdf

Thank you for passing this opportunity along, Kim!





      
    
  
     
     



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