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!!!