The CMS Helpful Handout

Title 1 Program Beginning This Week : Literacy Training with Sara Veloz: Improving Student Performance in ELA & Supporting NEW Teachers "Bell to Bell" will feature  Department chair cohort focusing on how to coach and support practices for STPS/PIP/Intern teachers to gain a solid understanding of pedagogy…..STPS/PIP/Intern Teachers  will need teacher planning materials (Teacher Editions) for a content area they are currently teaching.   Grade 8 ELA teachers will need to bring their TEs for Springboard Training. Please see the schedule below for details.  Teachers Where What Date Time 1 Andersen Conference Room Bell to Bell 11/1/17 9:00 to 11:45 2 Mulks Conference Room Bell to Bell 11/1/17 9:00 to 11:45 3 Alarcon-Young Conference Room Bell to Bell 11/1/17 9:00 to 11:45 4 Molina Conference Room Bell to Bell 11/1/17 9:00 to 11:45 5 Spinelli Conference Room Bell to Bell 11/1/17 9:00 to 11:45 6 A. Doherty Conference Room Bell to Bell 11/1/17 9:00 to 11:45

Clarifying Attendance at Staff Meetings, Department Meetings Teachers, your time is extremely valuable and so is the time that is required of you for monthly staff meetings. To clarify, CMS teachers should attend 2 meetings each month - the monthly staff meeting (usually the first Tuesday of each month) and the monthly department meeting (usually the 3rd Tuesday of each month). Both of these meetings take place after school for an hour, and meet the obligation. ** Grade 6 teachers should select their CORE department meeting relative to their block schedule. To support the work of each department, administrative responsibilities have been adjusted to support each department. Department Chairs will share with each administrator the agenda, attendance and minutes from each department meeting. The administrator responsible for supporting each department is: Jay Dowd: Art, Physical Education and Special Education Lisa Lewis: Social Studies and English Language Arts Alison

To help you prepare for the return of school activities at Crystal, here is some FAQ for Monday (same information emailed on Friday, 10/13): Will there be after school activities for students when we reopen? Yes, most activities will resume as normal. The plan now is for lunch/recess/PE/sports practices to be inside for Monday until further notice. After-school sports scheduled for Monday will be given a “go/no-go” by noon. The district will continue to monitor the air quality and if it changes, will message everyone with updates. What should you do If your working conditions on campus are uncomfortable or unbearable: If your working conditions are uncomfortable or unbearable, please: (1) immediately let site admin know (2) site admin will immediately notify our director (3) our director will notify maintenance. In addition, staff may bring fans to their workspace from home (please make sure fans are UL listed). Will there be district sponsored Professional Development du

October 10th: PBIS Booster Training is Cancelled... Keep your sub assigned to CMS!  MAP Testing: We NEED to FINISH TESTING!! As of today, we still have hundreds of students that have not completed testing for the MAP. Let's all pull together , share those Chromebooks and get this done! I'm asking everyone to make this their TOP PRIORITY to complete all MAP testing on or before OCTOBER 11th . If you have any questions, please let your dept. chair, admin or the MAP coordinator know! Thank you for your dedication and for getting 'er done!! Great Schools Use Data! Thank you to everyone for their participation and contributions to our IPR. As a result, we now have a "Theory of Action" to guide our work. All Departments will be having collaborative discussions to identify causes behind low student performance and working with admin and support staff to develop action plans for those students most in need . After we complete MAP testing (!), our data review

October Staff of the Month! Congratulations to Darin Drumheller - Certificated Staff of the Month! Darin has done a great job working with Independent Study, Coaching, Teaching PE, and more. Congrats, Darin!! Congratulations to Jeanne Lohr - Classified Staff of the Month! Jeanne used her expertise to create, refine, and deliver our Master Schedule - an amazing job!! We will use our "Staff of the Month" parking spot and the "principal's" parking spot for the staff of the month from Crystal.  MHC Welcome and Schedule We are fortunate to welcome Danielle Slade, experienced and revered FSUSD Mental Health Clinician to Crystal on Mondays and Fridays as 0.4 FTE. We will use our Title 1 money to pay for her position. Welcome to Crystal, Danielle! Kim Holland, our 1.0 FTE Mental Health Clinician is due back 11/2/17. When she returns we will have a total of 1.4 FTE for the students at our school. Big Event #1: Inspire Dreams Fair is October 3rd Please