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)!

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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