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. 


TeachersWhere What DateTime
1AndersenConference RoomBell to Bell11/1/179:00 to 11:45
2MulksConference RoomBell to Bell11/1/179:00 to 11:45
3Alarcon-YoungConference RoomBell to Bell11/1/179:00 to 11:45
4MolinaConference RoomBell to Bell11/1/179:00 to 11:45
5SpinelliConference RoomBell to Bell11/1/179:00 to 11:45
6A. DohertyConference RoomBell to Bell11/1/179:00 to 11:45
7BowerConference RoomBell to Bell11/1/179:00 to 11:45
8DeanConference RoomBell to Bell11/1/179:00 to 11:45
1A. DohertyConference RoomGr. 8 Springboard (Comprehension)11/1/1712:15 to 3:00
2MikkolaConference RoomGr. 8 Springboard (Comprehension)11/1/1712:15 to 3:00
3TomasConference RoomGr. 8 Springboard (Comprehension)11/1/1712:15 to 3:00
4SomervilleConference RoomGr. 8 Springboard (Comprehension)11/1/1712:15 to 3:00
5CurrieConference RoomGr. 8 Springboard (Comprehension)11/1/1712:15 to 3:00
6WilliamsonConference RoomGr. 8 Springboard (Comprehension)11/1/1712:15 to 3:00
7WilliamsConference RoomGr. 8 Springboard (Comprehension)11/1/1712:15 to 3:00
*Next Literacy Training with Buckerfield Consulting for Grade 6 and 7 ELA Teachers to do "Comprehension" will be November 13th and follow a similar schedule.

Title 1 Program Beginning This Week: English 3D After School Program: Improving Student Performance for English Learners and Long-Term English Learners

Students that have been invited to attend this program meet a minimum lexile criteria in order to participate. Please note
  1. English 3D is Mondays and Wednesdays from 3:05 to 4:05 in F101.  
  2. English 3D starts Monday, October 30th at 3:05
  3. Vince Sturgis and Amy Doherty are co-teaching the class
  4. English 3D will always be held in F101. 
  5. A roster of students accessing this program can be found in HERE (scroll down to view Crystal's). 
Please note, these students' are a big indicator for our progress on the CA School Dashboard.  This program is a major focus for our Title 1 spending because improving the performance of English Learners is a crucial area of focus for our site. Please know which of your students are accessing this program and encourage their progress! 

Title 1 Program Update: Mental Health Clinician Services to Reach 1.4 FTE This Week

Kim Holland, our 1.0 FTE Mental Health Clinician is scheduled to return to campus this week. Danielle Slade, our 0.4 FTE Mental Health Clinician has already been on campus. Together, they are scheduled to be working out of G102. This room also doubles as our Conference Room before and after school and a workorder has been placed to have teachers' keys work to access the room. In every instance our Mental Health Clinicians are working with a student, please do not enter G102, unless they open the door for you to allow you in. In addition, please see the "Conference Room" Calendar to minimize confusion.  Thank you to all for respectfully sharing our limited space.

Title 1 Program Update: Math 

At our September SSC Meeting, the proposal to have Math Professional Development rounds was discussed. Unfortunately, our proposal to have Phil Gonsalves work with our Math teachers fell through. We are actively looking for new opportunity for our Math teachers to participate in. Please stay tuned!

Special Education Program Update: School Psychologist

Crystal has the very good fortune to welcome a full-time school psychologist, Marielle Mayorga. Marielle is a former employee at CMS, has extensive knowledge of students and staff, and will be working hard out of the old SRO Office to ensure our IEP's are in compliance. We are so happy to welcome her back! Her email is marieller@fsusd.org and a work order has been created to add her to the "Crystal-All" distribution list.


CMS Learning Walks Data Snapshot (up to date as of 10/30/17):

In this Cult of Pedagogy article, Norman Eng describes how he wrestled with the burden of writing full lesson plans every day, for every class, five days a week. Eventually, he hit upon the idea of formulating lesson plans on three things:
            • The What – What do I want my students to know (or do) by the end of class? What is the content knowledge or skill to be learned? – for example, evaluating the credibility of online sources.
            • The How – What method, strategy, tool, or activity will ensure they reach the goal? 
            • The Why – So what? What is the ultimate purpose for learning this content or skill? What’s in it for students? How will they benefit? 

Here is his template for the "One Sentence Lesson Plan":


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