Goodbye January...

An accurate depiction of my January...
Some sideways, some upside-down but several on their feet! 

What a month it was!  Thank you for your hard work on report cards, new RTI groupings, great GDMs, Magnet Monday celebrations, student and teacher recognitions and more!  We sure know how to pack it all in.  Keep up the great work (and momentum)! 




SHOUT OUTS  (<--you can click and submit)
~~Congratulations Reece Garcia who took 1st place in the AZ College Savings' writing contest for the whole county!!!!  Mrs. Krause submitted a few essays to the following contest I found in AZDaily Sun on 10/22/19....
"Fifth grade students have until Oct. 31 to submit an essay to Arizona Family College Savings’ first-ever essay-writing contest for a chance to win one of 20 prizes worth $529. The prizes will be put into an AZ529 college savings plan. One winner for Coconino County will be chosen, but no local submissions have been received yet."
We are so proud of Reece!  Way to empower your students, Mrs. Krause.
~~Thank you Mr. Kasch and Mrs. Hanno for working so hard to get our intervention groups down to 5 students in almost all RTI groups!  Let's crush this cycle!  
~~Thank you Ms. Christina for working triple time in the front office. Thank you to those who helped!  
~~Thank you Mrs. Foubert and Mr. McAllister for assisting in my absence on Friday. 

100th day and didn't realize the resemblance until lunch!

~~Thank you Ms. Shaw and Mr. Fedde for representing Marshall at The Voice! 
~~Thank you Ms. Grimmett for representing us at Negotiations. 
~~Way to rock the 100th day of school Mrs. Flores!!

Now it is time for you all to make sure that those who inspire a "shout out" are not missed.  Clearly, I don't see everything.  Please click the title "Shout outs" above to submit a quick shout out to a colleague you wish to recognize and validate."  No limit! 
 
ELL ELEMENT

Strategy #2~BUILD IN MORE GROUP WORK.“Kids aren’t just empty glasses that we pour stuff into and then at the end of the day they dump it back onto a test,” says Kim, an ESL teacher who was the subject of my very first podcast interview. “If you really want the kids to learn, they’ve got to be engaged.” That means less teacher-led, whole-class instruction, and more small groups, where students can practice language with their peers in a more personal, lower-risk setting. And if ELL students attend your class with a resource teacher, make use of that person: In most cases the resource teacher doesn’t have to work exclusively with the ESL students; they can work with smaller groups that happen to contain these students, helping to improve the teacher-student ratio and give kids more time to practice.

Upcoming Evaluations: Lester, Hobson & Hartsock


Coming up National School Choice Week!
Monday, Jan 27
~10:25am School Choice (flash mob!!)
~11:30-12:30 Reasor at OATIF mtg
~Magnet Monday Semester II begins

Tuesday, Jan 28
~1-2pm NAU basketball team
~5:30pm Governing Board Meeting

Wednesday, Jan 29
~1-2pm Reasor in Mtg with MK Walton
~4-6pm Reasor @ FUSD Safety Committee

Thursday, Jan 30
~4:00-5:00pm Dr. Blake Brandes Staff PD in Library
~5:00-5:30pm Collaborative planning for Growth Mindset
~5:30-6:30pm Parent Night with Dr. Blake Brandes in Gym

Friday, Jan 31
 Happy birthdays to Steve McAllister & Suzanne Stephani
~6:45-8:30am Reasor, Overton & Fedde at Growth & Inspiration Council
~K-2 Assembly 9:00-9:30am

~3-5 Assembly 9:45-10:30am (Kinder lunch will be tight so exit asap)

~12pm Reasor to Phx 
~***Salary Ad. DEADLINE

Bus Duty: 2nd grade teachers 

(TPPP eligible)!

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 February 5th~ Kindergarten Registration 4:30-6:30pm

February 5th ~ PTO meeting
February 7th ~ NOBLE assembly
February 12th ~ 4th grade to AZ Science Center

February 14th ~ Kinder Valentines Dance

February 17th ~ No School 

February 21st ~ Science Fair Set up
February 22/23 Science Fair judging and walk throughs
February 28th ~ Marshall PD 1-3pm

March 4th ~ PTO meeting
March 7th ~ Viola Awards

March 9th ~ STEM night at NAU dome

March 11-13th ~ Parent/Teacher Conferences

March 16-20 ~ SPRING BREAK!!!

January is the month for starting.

It's a four-day work week!  Will it go as fast as a three-day weekend?  Hold on tight!!! 
Did you know? 
2020 police warning  ---->

Don't forget
Salary Advancement
January 31, 2020 deadline to submit your Professional Development for Salary Advancement paperwork.  
 

Planning for 2020/2021 Last Chance
Please fill out this brief google form (click <--) to assist in planning for next school year. FUSD budgeting mtgs are upon us.

SHOUTOUTS 

~~Congratulations Ms. Fisher for being presented with the Teacher of the Month award from 92.9 KAFF Country.  "We know it takes a commitment to excellence to be a great teacher. Thank you Marshall Elementary School! #Community" -Clear Title Agency of Flagstaff.
~~ Thank you Katie Krause, Jennifer Carrozzino and the rest of the amazing PBIS committee for the wonderful "Innovative Assembly"!  The students were talking about innovation ALL DAY!!! 
~~ Thank you Ashley Hartsock for the well organized Magnet Monday Showcase Event!  We had a great parent turnout!  The dance performance brought tears to many! We are all looking forward to Sem. II beginning on 1/27.
~~ Thank you to all who gave up their prep, their service minutes, their time to cover classes in the absence of substitutes this week.  I know it is hard to forgo your responsibilities to fill in for others but it is so important.  Thank you for putting the needs of students first.  I see you!  They see you!  I appreciate it! 

Attendance: YIKES!!!

School	Satisfactory	At-Risk	Moderate Chronic	Severe Chronic
Cromer	48.1	36.6	12.8	2.4
DeMiguel	56.2	32.5	10.0	1.3
Killip	57.9	26.2	12.3	3.7
Kinsey	49.0	32.8	14.4	3.7
Knoles	56.1	30.5	10.6	1.8
Leupp	48.3	33.7	16.3	1.7
Marshall	41.2	37.4	18.3	3.1
PdH	50.0	35.8	12.1	2.1
Sechrist	59.0	31.2	8.7	1.0
Thomas	51.5	31.5	13.5	3.7
MEMS	52.2	27.7	14.8	5.3
Sinagua	52.7	27.8	15.3	4.2
CHS	67.2	21.0	6.8	5.1
FHS	67.2	23.7	7.0	2.1
Summit	18.3	14.8	26.8	40.1

This Thursday is the 100th day of school!
Our funding for the next school year is based off of our enrollment count on Thursday! Please take a moment on Tuesday/Wednesday to talk about the important of attendance. As you can see, we are not fairing well in comparison to the rest of the district. We need to begin with a more focused approach on tiered supports for attendance. We are working on improved tiered interventions in the front office. Please, help us on the front lines. Together, we can really begin to move the needle on getting students to school!

Every day we strive for an A. Attendance is the key!
Tier 1 interventions include communications to students/families regarding the importance and benefits of school attendance, monitoring data, ensuring a welcoming school culture, and schoolwide recognition and celebration of attendance progress.  
Tier 2 interventions include alerting students/families of attendance concerns, scheduling conference or phone calls to identify barriers and family needs, making connections to school/community resources, developing a plan with the student for making up work and/or tutoring, and providing morning check-in and setting of attendance goals.   
Tier 3 interventions include implementing an agreed upon intervention plan, referrals to appropriate service agencies (social services, human services, counseling, housing, and health services), incorporating positive reinforcements into plans to support improved attendance, and regular monitoring and contact on agreements, and following up on each absence.

ELL ELEMENT
Three ESL teachers tell us what they know about the things regular classroom teachers can do to improve instruction for ELL students. I will highlight one of twelve strategies each week that are simple, not very time consuming, and best of all, they will benefit all students in your classroom.

Strategy #1~ MAKE IT VISUAL “Avoid giving instructions in the air,” says Melissa Eddington, an Ohio-based ESL teacher. “ELL kids have a harder time processing spoken language.” So instructions – even basic directions for classroom procedures – should be written on the board whenever possible. Challenging concepts should be diagrammed or supported with pictures. And modeling the steps of a process or showing students what a finished product should look like can go a long way toward helping students understand. “Sometimes showing our students what to do is all they need in order to do it,” Eddington says. Not only will this kind of nonlinguistic representation improve comprehension for ELL students, it will help all of your students grasp concepts better.

Upcoming Evaluations: Macias & McAllister
Evaluations for the remainder of the year: *Schedule changes
Week of 1/27: Lester, Hobson & Hartsock
Week of 2/3: Kasch, Hanno & Beck
Week of 2/10: Joe, Foubert & McCauslin
Week of 2/17: Herberger, Ryan, Milios
Week of 2/24: Mijares & Gustafson 
Week of 3/2: Voorhess & Gerlick
Week of 4/6: Beck, Lester & Hartsock
*The evaluation calendar is up to date on THE HUB.  Please note this is subject to change.

Also, we will conduct a minimum of 5 more eleot observations throughout Marshall at random this semester. 

Coming up
Monday, Jan 20
No School MLK Jr. Day

Tuesday, Jan 21
~RTI cycle begins
~NAU basketball is here from 1-2pm weekly.  Want them to work with you or your student(s), let us know in the front office.  
~4:30pm Reasor at City Hall

Wednesday, Jan 22 
~It's a great day to talk about ATTENDANCE!

Thursday, Jan 23 100th day of school!!
~1:15-3:30pm Middle School Registration
~4:00pm Native American Pot luck with Ms. Greyhat (location TBD)

Friday, Jan 24
~Reasor & Overton in Phoenix at ASA workshop all day.  Foubert and McAllister can assist with administrative needs. 

Bus Duty: 1st grade teachers 

(TPPP eligible)!

Please acknowledge you have read this post.

Jan. 27-31 National School Choice Week 2020! 
WE ARE ALMOST READY!!!  IT'S A THING!  

Jan. 30 Professional Consultant for Staff PD 4-5pm
Jan. 30 Parent Workshop 5:30-6:30pm

Jan. 31 Professional Consultant Assemblies