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Reflections From Working As A Sub To provide one more sub for the department chair learning walks, I "subbed" for the vacancy all day in H101 for the Math 7 Co Teach. Little did I know that it would be a very insightful experience! Some reflections: The Open Up/Illustrative Math curriculum is very rigorous for both teaching and learning. Open Up challenges students to think through productive struggle. For teachers, orchestrating those opportunities requires deep content knowledge and strong understanding of the curriculum. The most success I had with Open Up was when my co teacher and I relied on each other’s strengths. Coteaching Rocks! It's a really cool model for supporting students and the brief moments of reflection Krystal and I shared were really helpful for improving the next lesson’s delivery. Unlike elementary, the immediate chance to teach the same lesson consecutively throughout the day allows for small improvements each period. It was definite

PE Teachers getting full engagement and full inclusion going on the Blacktop!! 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 CMS PTSA President sharing props for growing the PTSA by 50 members!! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ College and Career Happenings Upcoming Inspire Dreams Start Now Fair- Permission Slips for 8th Grade Students go home Monday Students MAY NOT go if they don’t return the slips! Students will use the results of their Naviance Career Key Assessments 8th Grade Teachers will attend as chaperones Schedule for “IDSN” - October 8th: 6 Buses Load at CMS at 9:10 Leave CMS at 9:25 Arrive at Kroc/Drop Off: 9:40 Pick up at Kroc: 10:40 Return to CMS: 11:05 College and Career Club (CalSOAP Club) Current Solano College students and CMS alumni Geniece and London will be supporting the College and Career Club this year (Thursdays and Fridays at lunch). They will also be available to help out in the classroom to work with students. The new College and Career Tech will be

Department Chair Learning Walks will happen on Thursday, September 26th .  Department chairs will each be walking through classrooms for ½ of the day. The goal of these walks is for department chairs to get a sense of each departments’ instructional strengths in order to drive impactful professional development this year and achieve department-specific goals. For this cycle, and subsequent monthly rounds, all teachers will be observed at least once over the course of the day and as a school we will all uphold the following norms: We only record strengths-based evidence of what is happening in the classroom. All notes will be given to the department chair after the debrief Department chairs will give feedback to teachers in their department within 24 hours  We all learn from each other. We focus on what is transferable to other classrooms in response to the inquiry question. When observing: don’t talk to students nor interrupt the teacher! Also, smile! We are excite

“It cannot be overstated,” says Fisher and Frey , “learners need a host of experiences with rich informational texts and a sliding scale of scaffolds and supports to access the information contained in them.”  This outstanding teacher is using  using meaningful and varied repetition and review to teach math vocabulary! These students are being taught vocabulary in D201 using visual representations of key terms in math!! Student of the Month - ORGANIZED The Cougar Code Student of the Month for being Organized is due from each teacher by Friday. Please enter names in to the spreadsheet ! Teachers will get something like this postcard above to share your nomination with parents/students. At the end of the month, the office will mail it home. Please remember that sub plans are due to your department chair on Tuesday. Please share a copy with Kiana as well. ASD will start this week on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. Please look for the sign up sheet and

This amazing teacher is using sentence frames to teach Springboard to English Learners during ALD! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👏👏👏👏👏🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Small Group Instruction in G106! Everybody gets what they need with these wonderful teachers!! 🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊 This great teacher has students digging in to content and learning on the same page in English Class!! ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ Every Wed and Fri: Hundreds of Cougar Credits redeemed for positive behavior at the Cougar Store!! 🎯🎯🎯💰💰💰💰💰💰🎯🎯🎯🎯 Stella, Kayla, Ed, Bryce, Vince, Alex, Mike, Molly and Maggie went over the student agenda, emergency procedures, and conducted the PBIS survey for every student at CMS last week!! ✔✔✔✔✔✔✔✔✔✔💬💬💬💬💬 Big turn out at ELAC!! Hilda Quevedo will be the Committee's president and DELAC represeentative!! 🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋 Still feeling  it!! The first day of school was a great day for CMS!!!! 💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘 Measures of Academic Progress