End of the 3rd quarter

Mrs. Overton's Quarter 3 Reminders  

• Week of Monday, February 24th - Specials teachers prepared grades.
• Friday, March 6^th –  Attendance Rollover and Specials Grades by 12 noon
• Wednesday, March 11^th – Friday, March 13^th – Standards Reports go home during Parent Teacher Conferences
• Friday, March 13^th – End of 3^rd Quarter 

Very Important - All Report Cards must be "Marked Complete" in order for them to be correctly posted in Synergy.  Please let her know if you need help remembering how to do this. 

6th Annual Flagstaff Community STEM Celebration <- click here

Marshall makes this our STEAM night! Our table has been an event favorite. We need to know who will participate this year. What interactive project can you bring to the table? Wish to display something? Great! Marshall is doing AMAZING things! This is our chance to show the community! Please let Ashely Hartsock know as it is a couple weeks away! Put some students in charge of an activity. We will stand back and watch the magic.  Bring it guys!

33rd Annual Science Fair was a HUGE Success!  

Thank you ALL for your hard work and dedication to this Marshall tradition.  

STAFFING 2020-2021

I met with Mrs. Anderson and Mr. Penca to discuss our staffing for the 2020-2021 school year.   As expected, due to declining enrollment we will lose one FTE, that equals one teaching position.  That is the bad news.  The good news, I do believe the loss will be made up through attrition.  

For contracted staff who are non-continuing (less than 3 years teaching in FUSD) admin is required to complete a form to indicate your continuing status with FUSD.  This is based on informal observations and formal evaluation scores.  I will be completing those forms prior to spring break.  If you have any questions, please reach out to me.  

ELL ELEMENT

Strategy # 8  PRE-TEACH WHENEVER POSSIBLE.
If you’re going to be reading a certain article next week, give ESL students a copy of it now. I f you plan to show a YouTube video tomorrow, send a link to your ESL students today. Any chance you can give these students to preview material will increase the odds that they’ll understand it on the day you present it to everyone else. “That kind of thing is wonderful,” Yurkosky says. “The kids feel so empowered if they’ve had a chance to look at the material ahead of time.”

Upcoming Evaluations
Evaluations for the remainder of the year: *Schedule changes
Week of 3/2: Gustafson, Kasch & Mijares
Week of 3/9: Milios, Voorhees & Gerlick
Week of 4/6: Ryan 
Week of 5/18: Lester, Beck & Hartsock 
*The evaluation calendar is up to date on THE HUB.  Please note this is subject to change.  Please also note there must be 60 work days between your 1st and 2nd evaluations. 

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


Coming up
Monday, March 2
~12:30-5pm Reasor at Admin Council

Tuesday, March 3
~11am Reasor at OATIF mtg
~Grades 3-5 Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra
~1-2pm NAU Basketball

Wednesday, March 4
~Arnold & Grimmett to Snowbowl
~PTO canceled

Thursday, March 5
~Herberger/Beck at Snowbowl
~Negotiations 4-6pm

Friday, March 6  - End 3rd Qtr
~9-11:30am Hauer at PS meeting
~8am-4pm Restorative Practices Training Reasor & RP Team
~1-2pm AzM2 Mandatory Training Grades 3-5 in library
~2-3pm ILLP work session in library

Bus Duty: Special Area Teachers (Kinder switch)

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March 9th ~ STEM night at NAU dome

March 11-13th ~ Parent/Teacher Conferences

March 16-20 ~ SPRING BREAK!!!

March 24th 5:30-6:30pm Rock the AzM2

March 30-April 1 ~ Suzuki Violin Performances 

Student Survey this week

As mentioned in the blog last week, the Student Engagement survey for Grades 3-5  is open and available on StudentVue.  
In the past, we were able to conduct this survey in the Tech. lab with Mr. McAllister.  This year, all 3-5 teachers will need to conduct the survey.  This survey is a chance for our students to have a voice.  Your Marshall Leadership Team uses this data to steer our school improvement plan. 
1) Please communicate to students the purpose of the survey "is to understand how students feel about their experiences at school".  
2) Please make sure all student select Marshall as their school (we had problems district-wide with this last year and it can really mess up our results).
3) To access the student surveys:
~Have students log into StudentVue as if they were taking a district assessment.
~Click on the "Assessments" tab.  
The student survey is listed as a test and looks like the screenshot below.  Students have access to take the survey at any time this week.  Remember, even though it is a "test" in Synergy, students will not see the results of the test or survey.  It is not critical for students to "Submit" the test where they find the survey link, but they do need to complete all the questions on the survey.

FUSD plans to close these surveys on February 28.  Please let me know when the survey is completed with your class.  THANK YOU!!!

SHOUT OUTS  (<--you can click and submit)  
Please help us all see what is happening behind the scenes! 
~Thank you Mrs. Overton (and teams) for covering administrative duties in my absence. 
~Thank you Mrs. Harsock and the STEAM Council for setting up the annual Science Fair.

ELL ELEMENT

Strategy # 7. USE SENTENCE FRAMES TO GIVE STUDENTS PRACTICE WITH ACADEMIC LANGUAGE.All students, not just English language learners, need practice with academic conversations. Sentence frames – partially completed sentences like “I disagree with what _________ said because…” – show students how to structure language in a formal way. Keep these posted in a highly visible spot in your classroom and require students to refer to them during discussions and while they write.
For this kind of language to really sink in, though, Kim says it has to become a regular part of class. “They won’t do it if it’s not the norm in the class, because they’ll be embarrassed to use it among their peers,” she says. “But if they can put it off on the teacher and say, Oh, well, you know, Miss Kim makes me talk like this, then they don’t look as hoity-toity as they would otherwise.”

Coming up

Monday, Feb 24

~Science Fair in Gym (judging all day)

~Sack Lunches in the classrooms

~Reasor out

Tuesday, Feb 25

~Science Fair in the Gym - open all day for walk-thrus

~Sack Lunches in the classrooms

~9-10am Reasor at OATIF mtg

~1-2pm NAU Basketball

~5:00-6:30pm Science Fair Family Night 

~5:30 Gov. Board Mtg

Wednesday, Feb 26

~Denmark College Visit 

~11:30am-12:30pm THE BUDGET Mtg with Penca and Anderson! 

~4:00-5:30pm Reasor and Overton at Safety Committee

Thursday, Feb 27

~9am, Fisher, Krause, Herberger & Beck at Snowbowl

Friday, Feb 28

~9:00am Blue ticket store open
~Last day for Student Survey

~1-3pm Marshall Mandatory PD 

Willow Bend and Matt McIntire in the library

Bus Duty: Special Area Teachers 

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March 3rd ~ 3-5 Symphony

March 4th ~ PTO meeting

March 6th ~ 3-5 AZM2 training 1-2pm
March 6th ~ ILLP work session 2-3pm Library

March 9th ~ STEM night at NAU dome

March 11-13th ~ Parent/Teacher Conferences

March 16-20 ~ SPRING BREAK!!!

March 24th 5:30-6:30pm Rock the AzM2

March 30-April 1 ~ Suzuki Violin Performances