Happy
Friday Fabulous Staff!
Housekeeping:
- The school year is rolling by quickly and I want us to be able to breath during the stressful season that we are approaching. Please enjoy and may this help bring a smile to your face:
- Thank you all for your patience, during these past few weeks. It is quite difficult being here by myself and handling my day-to-day functions, held 36 formal conference/observations during the probationary cycle, wrote and submitted 12 summative evaluations, produced quick turn-around of discipline referrals, etc. but you all have shown yourself to be a helper in my times of need! The collaboration and interdependency are to be commended!!!I appreciate you all!
- Almost 2,000 pages of report cards have been reviewed for the 3rd quarter...be on the lookout for my email this weekend!
- The formal evaluation schedule of our Continuing Contract Staff H-N has begun, on Tuesday (thanks Mrs. Kozlak for braving out my observation on the day we returned). I have 9 teachers to go through this formal process and then I move onto our Classified Staff. Whew!!!
-Thursday, April 27 is National
Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. While the School Division does not
make special plans to observe this holiday Divisionwide, the day offers an
excellent opportunity to strengthen the connection between public education and
career opportunities. Schools are asked to treat student absences for this
cause as any other excused absence. In addition, accommodations should be made
for staff members who wish to bring their children to work with them on this
day.
“Take
Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day” always falls on the fourth Thursday in
April and is recommended for children aged 8–18 years of age.
-The Office of Special Education received a State Complaint, filed from a parent, regarding incompliance of special education services. The student had just enrolled in Bel Air so we were listed in the complaint (although it originated at the previous school) and we were contacted to provide a slew of information. In expedited form, Mrs. Rivers provided detailed anecdotals, lesson plans and data to support the implementation of IEP services at Bel Air E.S. Wednesday I received a call from our county's Administrative Coordinator for Complaince and she praised Bel Air for our attention to detail and the accusations were unfounded and Bel Air proved compliance to this student's IEP implementation. I thank Mrs. Rivers for her diligence, attention to detail and professional response to the information requested!
-Mandatory/Required
Training:
New
Mathematics Virginia Standards Learning Workshops —What It Means for You &
Your Students
All teachers of
mathematics* at the elementary and secondary level must attend one of the
sessions scheduled to prepare for implementation of the 2016 Virginia Standards
of Learning for mathematics, set for full roll out in SY 2018–19. There are
workshops for every grade level and course through Algebra II. These schedules
show all session options currently available.
- NEW Mathematics SOL Content Workshops for Elementary
Teachers
- NEW Mathematics SOL Content Workshops for Secondary
Teachers
The crosswalk on
the new standards will be implemented next year. Find out what is and is not
changing over the next two years, with a particular focus on the new content
for each grade level/course.
Please register for
one of these sessions through the online Professional Learning Catalog.
* includes teachers of students
with disabilities and ESOL teachers whose students are accessing the general
curriculum and who are on track to take the Virginia mathematics SOL test.
-CRISIS
MANAGEMENT: There is to be no propping of doors leading to outside. This is a
strict violation to our school security and if you see a door propped, please
remove barrier and report to front office, immediately.
- We
have a lot of celebrations that are quickly approaching and I will send out a
schedule of events next week. One that needs to be placed on your calendars is
the Awards Ceremony: May 3rd – 3-5 @ 9:30-10:30 and K-2 @ 2:00–3:00
p.m.
Important
Dates:
SMASH
THE TEST WEEK (refer to email for daily activities)
- April
24th: Reading Specialist Meeting – McDonald will attend with Mrs.
Hulse – Otterblad will be present
- April
25th: Reports Go Home
: SOL Remediation @ 4:00 p.m.
: Leadership Team Meeting @ 4:00
p.m. in Art Room
- April
26th: 4th Grade to Jamestown
: Retention Meetings
: SOL Remediation @ 4:00 p.m.
: Title I STEAM Night
- April
27th: Mrs. Quattrone Returns
: Book Fair Family Night
- April
28th: Gifted IDP @ KLC @ 8-12:30 – McDonald out
: Administrative Assemblies in
Aux Gym
: PAWS Store in the Art Room Continued Reading:
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