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Faculty Meeting Tuesday 5/11 -
More talk about portfolios! Schedules for Key math assessment Tim presents on learning on display and global connections (Tim, feel free to add)

Tuesday 5/4

Let's close on portfolio content and template. Seems like it is to be in Tim's room, but we can switch out since Tim presents at the next one. Will keep you posted if we will move the presentation from Beth and me to a portfolio study week on the schedule. Community Room -or K if we need more room Announcements - Hiring portfolios quiz? CSE

Memory presentation by Soren
Discussing the upcoming portfolio reports Whole school implementation of Problem-Solving Conferences Assembly Announcements/Coordination

HAPPY APRIL BIRTHDAYS:
Amy--Saturday, 4/10 Jenn-- Thursday 4/15 Sarah-- Monday 4/19 = = = = = = =Agenda for Faculty Meeting on 4/20=

=(Feel free to add items here.)= ="Brain-Based Teaching"= =A multimedia extravaganza by Soren= =Already, critics are mildly nonplussed:=

"stunningly adequate..." ---NY Post
"Could be useful, I guess!" --Roger Ebert = = =Agenda items for faculty meeting 3/9=

People coming in late to exercises/meeting?

Autism spectrum presentation HAPPY MARCH BIRTHDAYS (SO MANY OF YOU!) TO: Soren, Tuesday 3/2 Quatiba Thursday 3/11 Jacqui Sunday 3/14 Beth Tuesday 3/23 Victoria Wednesday 3/24 Pat Thursday 3/25 Treats for ALL of you at Faculty Meeting on Tuesday!

Hi Everyone- I just got my newsletter from Responsive Classroom and wanted to let everyone know about a 1-day workshop in March called: Responding to Misbehavior. It sounds right up our alley! It is $200 which isn't terrible compared to the week-long workshops. It is in Danbury, CT which is also not too far,....maybe if people are interested, a small group could go and then present on what we learned? Might be fun! Maybe a pre-k-2 teacher, and a 3rd -5th teacher and a specialty teacher and therapist? :) Enjoy your snow day! -Rachel

Weekly Update - February 8-12
 * Would be interested in going - Suzanne**
 * Reports
 * **Half reports due the 8th.**
 * **If you have all your reports to me by Friday the 12th - you do not need to come in for PD. If you do NOT have them all complete and you must come in and finish all reports by 3:30 that day.**

>> >> >> Please look for the DRA2 (grades 4-8) blackline masters book or CD in your classrooms.-Thanks, 3rd, and 4th/5th grade team. >> >> >> HAPPY FEBRUARY BIRTHDAYS TO: Angel-2/3, Arelis 2/12 and Zoe 2/13. :) >> **​ >> Introduce Allison Page, new second grade teacher - Angie >> Reports Update - Angie >> A few minutes to go over assembly - Beth >> Soren to facilitate:**
 * Facilitated by Shannon, Jenn, Zarah etc.
 * Please add comments here if I have not included information you need
 * check the wiki weekly for updates

__Diversity/Anti-bias__
= = =Weekly Update= __January 11-15__ Nick Spillum is Head of School for the Day on Friday - details at the faculty meeting We will go over more assessment and report details Tuesday**
 * Tuesday Faculty Meeting - I will attach the schedule on the wiki by end of day today

=Reports=

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =Welcome Back!=

(I keep hearing the theme to Welcome Back Kotter from the late 70s- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVS3WNt7yRU - if you are interested)
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__Weekly Update__
===January 4-8, 2010 - Let the next decade begin! (Although, Jim from the church, informed me that the new decade actually does not start until 2011 since the millennium should not have started until 2001. - just an FYI)===


 * Please send a quick thank you email to your class reps for helping with the holiday events and for being supportive throughout the year. Just seems like a good idea if you haven't already.
 * The school should be clean and tidy for your return. The staff has been busy over the break cleaning nooks and crannies and I have been busy cleaning the server.... take note when you get back.
 * We will spend some time on Tuesday going over some of the structures of the T drive and O drive so we all have a good understanding of storage as we move into the next round of reports.
 * Yes, I said it! Reports. Not to panic, but you should be spending time in the next few weeks with another round of DRAs and formal math/writing assessments so you have data to back up your mid-year reports. You should have all you data collected by the end of January. We will discuss report formats this week as well.
 * FYI for down the road - PT Conferences are February 23rd. First 1/2 due on the 8th of Feb. Seond 1/2 on the 15th.

//Speak Kindly//
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**- Town Meeting 1-5**

 * Town Meeting Pk-K
 * Faculty Meeting -
 * Faculty Meeting -

8:40 - 9ish Holiday Sing-a-Long 9:30 Some Class Parties start 10:45 (make sure all parties over and that you are settling you class to be seated in the gym at 11 11:00 Peace and Light Festival Students and parents can go back to the rooms to pack up around 11:45 when the assembly is over Noon Dismissal Happy Holidays and a Peaceful New Year!**
 * CHANGE
 * - Holiday Lunch PK-5, parents invited but not expected**
 * - Half Day

December 7-11

 * Check the assembly page here and your IDEAL email from Beth for all the info you need for the next few assembly agendas and your responsibilities.
 * If you have service learning updates or info to add to the bulletin board in the Lobby, by Jacqui's desk, please do so.
 * Please continue to check the service learning link here as well.

Where: in the PK When: 4-6 (with additional toasting afterwords at the pub of choice) Why: In place of faculty meeting and more festive. Also, nice to have this time together to celebrate making it this far in the year and to bring levity and festivity into the faculty culture.** __Movement Assembly__ - PE, OT, Dance performances** = = =Check out the NYSAIS Diversity Workshop Wiki= =http://nysaisdiversity.wikispaces.com/=
 * __Faculty Holiday Party__
 * __PK and K Curriculum Mornings__ - impacts morning exercises in that PK and K kids will attend and need supervision.**
 * __PA Workshop__ - speaker topic is positive discipline in the home.**


 * (NYSAIS staff and teachers and administrators of member schools) **

//[|**NurtureShock:**]////[|**Beyond Discipline:**]// //[|The Stuff of Thought:] Language as a Window into Human Nature//**by Steven Pinker (Paperback - Aug 26, 2008)** [|Proust and the Squid:] [|Click here for many more titles] What are you reading? Barbara Swanson = = =Weekly Update=
 * by Howard Zinn,**[|Outliers:]

December 1-4

 * - Faculty meeting in the first grade.Topics include calendar of events for December, the last day before winter break, and service learning projects. Two videos - Effective Feedback and Emmanual Jal, War Child**
 * - Assembly includes first grade performance and Hip Hop dancers etc... see Assemblies page on Wiki**
 * - This weekend is the B&N Bookfair event. Come if you can. Support your peers during panel presentations and use the school vouchers to buy holiday gifts - a % of all good sold with our voucher goes directly to the Bookfair proceeds.**
 * - I have heard from most of you who need to schedule an evaluation before winter break. I have enjoyed seeing the lessons and talking with you about your professional growth.**
 * - I will try to get all the PASE Team info and documents up here on the Wiki by the end of this week. I will set a light schedule for timelines and tasks.**

__November 16__

 * Grade 1 trip to New Vic to see //Peter and the Wolf//
 * Faculty Meeting this week will be a PASE Team kick-off


 * Annette will be giving Financial Aid Form Workshop to parents 5:30 & 6:00PM


 * Harvest Festival Assembly

//The best portion of a good man's [person's] life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.//**)**

__A Few Big Things__

 * Town Meeting focus on acceptance - still following the rights and responsibilities from the Peaceable School Curriculum
 * Any last minute reports must get to me ASAP in the morning. All the ones handed in on Friday have been edited and will be in your file folder ready for you to correct once I unpack in the morning. If there were no mistakes, then I will place them directly in your final folder. Please try to get all your finals with the corrections into the final draft before 2PM so Pat and I can copy in time for dismissal.Well done folks!!
 * PT Conferences- look nice, be honest, take conference notes and make sure to put a copy of conference notes in any child's team binder if you shared anything important that we need to track.
 * No faculty meeting
 * I will be away from W-F this week at a Head of School Conference (NYSAIS) I will still check emails and my voicemail if you need me. There is spotty cell service, so leave a message and I will check between meetings.Let me know of any conference you want me to attend if you haven't all ready.
 * - Anyone??**
 * Assembly says Math Morning but I won't be there, and did not think ahead to this conference when planning, so we can discuss what you want to do. If you could all open your rooms for some math games that is great - but if you have other things planned, it could be any type of invite, even DEAR if we all agree to do that instead???? Discuss here if you want....
 * I will be away from W-F this week at a Head of School Conference (NYSAIS) I will still check emails and my voicemail if you need me. There is spotty cell service, so leave a message and I will check between meetings.Let me know of any conference you want me to attend if you haven't all ready.
 * - Anyone??**
 * Assembly says Math Morning but I won't be there, and did not think ahead to this conference when planning, so we can discuss what you want to do. If you could all open your rooms for some math games that is great - but if you have other things planned, it could be any type of invite, even DEAR if we all agree to do that instead???? Discuss here if you want....

Qoote of the week: "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. [|William Butler Yeats] = = = = = = = = =Weekly Update=
 * Thanks for all your hard work, especially of late. This was an intense last few weeks and I promise to look at the calendar next year to make sure we don't get jammed up this way again.
 * PASE Teams will start next week, and I will pass out team group members and goals at the next faculty meeting. More on that at the faculty meeting.
 * Evaluations will start in November for all new faculty. Thanks to all of you who have taken time to set up a meeting. Remember, since I am away this week, you can push your pre-eval meeting to next week if you want that time. Up to you.

Full Week -The 6th WEEK!!

 * Thank you for remembering to hand in your


 * **. I hope it is not too much of a pain. I am going to start handing them back with comments and will start popping into the classrooms next week - since we will be past the 6th week, I think you all are ready to get into high gear and you should have your schedule and routines down pat by now (of course, there will always be tweaks, but you should be hitting your stride by now)**
 * - All new faculty needs to set up an evaluation pre-meeting with me through Pat, for the first two weeks of November. I want to do the first evaluation by the end of November. All new faculty from last year will have dates in December. If you have completed 2 full years here then you will be in January. If you have completed 3 or more years, then you will be in February.
 * If you are new to the school this year, you should set up your first
 * meeting with me by the end of next week if you haven't done so already. I want to meet with you before we start the evaluation process to go over goals for the year. If you are a returning faculty member, please set up your meeting by the first week of November.**
 * **You have to set this up according to your schdeuld and my appointment calendar with Pat. Please don't make Pat chase you down!**
 * PD - I am meeting with Soren to set a schedule for the rest of this trimester that takes into account all the feedback posted here and from the faculty meetings. IF we don't get to it at this week's faculty meeting, it will be on the agenda for next Monday's Professional Development Day on Monday.
 * PD - I am meeting with Soren to set a schedule for the rest of this trimester that takes into account all the feedback posted here and from the faculty meetings. IF we don't get to it at this week's faculty meeting, it will be on the agenda for next Monday's Professional Development Day on Monday.

//*agenda item-could I have 2 minutes to review the assembly schedule? thanks, beth :)// = = =Professional Development (new content! 10/13/09) = Faculty Meeting Minutes __Agenda for Meeting 10/14/09__ =Weekly Update=

Short school week packed full of extras.

 * - No faculty Meeting (moved to W prior to Open House)**
 * - 6PM Open House after faculty meeting. Same as last week with minor changes. Pizza at faculty meeting in the 3rd grade room.**
 * -- A small film crew will be in the building both days to create a professional video to use for the Capital Campaign and for the Auction. I will ask a few of you to be interviewed on Thursday (interview day) and Friday is the day they will be walking around from class to class. Let your students know about the filming and that they should ignore their presence - that it should be natural.**
 * You should be finishing all your assessments within this and next week. I will go over your Student ILPs so that we can start filling it all out and have the document ready for our PT Conferences in a few weeks. I will also share the Individual Goal Matrix with you this week so you can know where they live on the server and begin to fill those out in advance.
 * We have a PD day coming up and I want to use it for productive meetings rather than filling out this paperwork. Some time will be set aside, but not the entire day.
 * Please hand in your lesson plans each week.
 * Pat will contact you to set up your Teacher PD Planning meeting.
 * Make sure you have contacted your Class Reps to discuss the year with them.
 * Make sure to hang your weekly news in the lobby, give Pat a copy as well and save them on the server so Jessica Markus can locate them easily.
 * We ned to start the Zoo Patrol, a rotating class job that goes to the pet store to buy supplies for the school. November is grade 4-5 - see Jacqui Ortega.


 * 1 pair of footed white (or cream) pjs (I know, a long shot :) or
 * 1 white (or cream) hooded sweatshirt or fleece shirt, white leggings
 * fake fur, furry vests-stuff like that
 * furry hats, etc.
 * assorted solid colored leggings or old pants

= Weekly Update =

September 21 - 25, 2009
=== Flu Update - There has been a verified case of Influenza A - which if you have at this point, doctors assume it is Swine Flu, the regular flu is Influenza B. Also, it is not flu season, so any flu now is most likely our piggy friend. A kindergartner was verified and a few others have had low fevers or have vomited, even at school, this week. (Including Nona, who is still puking today with a low grade fever, but no worse than any other flu that I can tell.) I am calling our pediatrician tomorrow to see if she wants to verify Influenza A or just call it that since we have a case at the school. Will keep you posted. === All this means, is that I will send a note next week that we have a verified Influenza A case - not Swine Flu, and that we understand if those families with children with compromised immune systems want to keep their children home. We will not close school unless we have 4-5 verified Swine Flu cases within the same week. That is a cluster. If we have 2-3 kids, the CDC does not consider it the thing to do. It seems that folks are contagious 2 days before symptoms and up to several (7) days afterwards. So, closing school, unless we do so for a week or so, each time we have one case, would mean that we would never have school, since kids can get the virus at any other place andthe cycle will continue. Please, we must know who is sick in your class with a fever, who went home sick, or who called in sick. Our system of communication in this area is still weak!! I will be very diligent this week with our cleaning practices, and you must have your students wash hands for 20 seconds with soap!! (they should sing the ABC's and that is the time limit) More later..... Even Sunday so check back, also post your thoughts...

Tuesday - Thursday
Morning Exercises Curriculum Mornings - Things to have in your handouts... I have copies of: Responsive Classroom Guidelines AMNH sample Central Park sample Differentiated Education definition ILP sample page Themes for your grade Our school philosophy guidebook - new Benchmarks for IDEAL You could include state standards if you like - I have You could include, and I am just brainstorming now and might add more tomorrow -- Math, Reading, Writing, Handwriting, Science, Social Studies paragraphs on your overall plans/goals Post ideas here... will have their own packet available and we will hand them out to families of various grades. -beth === Friday Assembly - I might be out on a personal day, daughter needs to get her driver's license and I have to get her there in New PAltz -, Soren will either help lead assembly in my place, or he will take her to her diver's test....I will look for least impact If you have not already done so, please bring me your picture (you @ the age of the grade(s) you are teaching now) by this Tues., if possible. It's ok if it's not the exact age, but also let me know the age you are in the picture I will add that to the slideshow. thanks! -beth ===

= = = = = = =Weekly Update=

September 14 - 18, 2009

 * I will be on lunch duty M-W with everyone. I ask that at least one teacher from each grade be present all week. Those of you on "Duty" should lead the lunch routine. Please begin thinking about the song, prayer, poem, or chant you will say on your lunch duties.
 * Morning Drop Off Duty Schedule complete - on the O drive and posted by your mailboxes. Change in how it works will be explained at faculty meeting. It is getting too crowded for the library to be the only host place.
 * Morning


 * I will be present at the front all week to make sure that parents do not come downstairs until Friday morning. Remember, be diligent about tardies and getting notes up to Jacqui if you have a change in pick-up etc. Also, any sick kid goes home!
 * Afterschool begins this week. We will have a list to you before the end of the day of who attends. All your kids stay with you and at 3:45, those going to afterschool, are dismissed to Ms. Simms in the Gym.
 * Any duties that you have that you cannot fullfill, you must find a replacement. Good form to trade with someone if it is a lunch duty.

Monday

 * Town Meeting 8:35 Grades 1-5 in the gym (PK/K make sure we set something up consistently on your schedule)
 * Electives begin. There will most likely be some bumps along the way. Be patient with each other. Monday electives are Art Workshop and Musical Theater.
 * Katie and Ilyssa, our part time therapists start tomorrow too - if you see some new faces in the building during the afternoon, say hello.
 * There is an admissions tour in the early morning. We haven't spoken about these since it would be unlikely that we would be having one at this time in the year... however, another candidate for the first grade class has come our way. She will spend some time in the 1st grade classroom/schedule between 9AM-10AM in case you see a new child in your specialty or elective classes... just for tomorrow.

Tuesday

 * Faculty Meeting - K room - General agenda items: Assessments, final schedules, Back to School Night Agenda, reflection on the first week (routines that worked and those that did not.)

Thursday

 * Back To School Night - Required Evening event - Details discussed at faculty meeting.

Friday

 * Assembly
 * Early dismissal

= We read this poem last night in one of my classes and thought it was so amazing I had to share!! Sarah =

Before I Was a Special Parent
//I didn’t know that SORROW never leaves you where it found you I didn’t know that such unbridled JOY could come from heartbreak// //I didn’t know that my child would be my TEACHER// //I didn’t know the meaning of UNCONDITIONAL LOVE// //I didn’t realize that the little stuff is really THE BIG STUFF// //I didn’t know how well someone could COMMUNICATE without words// //I didn’t know that when God sizes us up, he measures the HEART, not the head.// //I didn’t know that milestones are not as important as SMILESTONES// //I didn’t know that my child would TOUCH the world not from what she has done, but from what she cannot do// //I didn’t know the POWER of her powerlessness.// //I didn’t know that I had so much to learn.// try to post the agendas at least 24 hours before the meeting. **

Feedback or responses, please post in black.
=Weekly Update -=


 * Regularly, we will have Faculty Meetings on Tuesdays, but will skip this week and meet at 2PM instead.
 * I need all of your elective sheets - please hand them in to PAT - not Jacqui.
 * I need someone to volunteer to set the lunch seating chart in place, as well as our clipboard for behavior notes.
 * I will be emailing each team with any outstanding task questions I have.
 * Check your email daily now - check the wiki daily as well.

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 * School hours for teachers 8AM-4:30PM daily.
 * If you do not have conferences and you have plans in place for the next day, then teachers may leave at 3:45PM. There are potential meetings afterschool, tutoring when necessary, and other obligations that may take your time until 4:30 throughout the year.
 * PK and K have half day dismissal at noon W-F this week only.
 * There is no afterschool until the week of the 14th.
 * Be patient with each other and know that there will invariably be issues with the schedule. Have backup plans for everything. Be ON TIME for specialty classes drop off and pick up!!! Specialty teachers - be in your room on time and ready to go when the teachers come for their classes. (I think this week Music/Art is coming to the classrooms.)
 * Notes on the Schedule: Morning Exercises begin week of the 14th. However, on

hi wiki-ans, reminder that if anyone would like to send me a picture (jpeg) featuring your world (and local) travel destinations this past summer, please do! perhaps a slideshow at a near-future assembly will come of it...also, kindly send pictures to me from the first day of school-definite slideshow there :) one other slideshow/ bulletin board idea: baby pictures, or picture of you when YOU were in the grade you are teaching.. I think that could be really cute. __the singing:__ If you would like to sing in the "First Day Of School" song, practice is tentatively slated for after-school this Thursday, from 3:45-4 p.m in the music r oom. I know we're all busy, but you might feel a little famous and have a good laugh. Rachel-there is a solo line for you! :) thanks!! beth
 * for a practice assembly. Same time frame.Specialty teachers are to attend and any person who has lunch duty.
 * Remember that electives do not start until the week of the 14th, once we have all the students placed in classes.

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