March 4 to 8

GREAT GATE NIGHT
Thank you to Mrs. Williamson, Mrs. Halls, Mr. Dean, Mrs. Lewis and everyone that helped make it happen for a great GATE Night! 
The students did a great job pitching their products during the Mega Shark Tank!






F105 Students Performed Beautifully
And thanks to the judges!









This Week:
Regarding our Active Shooter Drill on Monday

 Classrooms are advised to "consider participating to the point of barricading doors", as discussed in the attached memo. How far your participation goes with this step is up to each teacher, and should be reflective of material presented in the "Run/Hide/Fight" training video. 

 To clarify, teachers should commit to whatever level of participation they believe necessary to impress upon themselves and their students the understanding of this step (hide - barricade) in response to an emergency situation for Active Shooter. 

 For example on Monday, the minimum level is viewing the actual training video and having a class discussion. The maximum level may be barricading the classroom door with as many heavy items in the classroom as safely possible and then having a class discussion. If you have any questions, please let me know. 

 Illustrative Math Implementation Walks This Wednesday with CIA (Roush, Farrar & Ghannam)
Also this week are Illustrative Math Admin Professional Developments!

  • Jay is scheduled to attend all day Tuesday
  • Lisa and John are scheduled to attend all day Wednesday  

Our College and Career Technician Adriana Barrett is Back!
She will be working out of G102. Welcome back Adriana and thank you Nicole and Trena for covering our College & Career department while she was on maternity leave. Adriana supports David Weir on Tuesdays.

 Music In Our School's Month
Congratulations to our Crystal Commodores for their great job on Saturday! At the Armijo Winter Review, both Crystal Drumline and Crystal Guard got 1st place! At the Fairfield High School Pageantry on Parade show, both Crystal Drumline and Crystal Guard got 1st place!  And our Crystal Drum Major, Yahir  got 2nd place in the mace division.  Our Crystal drumline, guard and drum major all improved their scores from the show they did last month. Staff, if you see any of these students, please be sure to congratulate them!


2019 Extended School Year at Crystal
Crystal will be hosting 4 programs this summer: 
  1. The District Math Lab (Marie Macias as Admin)
  2. SPED ESY (Admin TBA)
  3. Title 1 ESY for Crystal Students (Admin TBA)
  4. Title 1 ESY for Grange Students (Admin is Ken Williams)

The Crystal and Grange Title 1 ESY programs will be focused on Literacy and a nice complement to the Math Lab also happening on campus from July 8 to August 2nd.

Programmatic ideas to improve literacy for the students enrolled include one or more of the following:
  • SIPPS Challenge to improve multi syllable decoding and morphology
  • Springboard Close Reading Workshop
  • Springboard Writing Workshop
If you are interested in being a teacher for one of the program(s) listed above, or in being a Teacher in Charge (Admin), please let CMS Admin know asap!

This Week:
Active Shooter Drill - Monday, 3/4/19 at 1:20
Staff Meeting in the Library - Tuesday, 3/5/19 from 3:15 to 4:45pm
Math Collaboration Day - Thursday, 3/7/19

Upcoming:
Upcoming Joint Secondary Special Ed Meeting


All CMS SPED Teachers and one admin from each site will attend after school on March 13th from 3:30 to 5 pm. Location is set for the Adult School library. This is updated information!

 CMS Department Chair Meeting: 3/12/19
March School Site Council Meeting: 3/13/19
Basketball Game: Suisun PD & FD vs. Crystal Middle Students: 3/20/19


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