Friday, October 23, 2020

Last week of October, 2020

Teachers are amazing!

Collecting Data to better plan

The following message went out to families on Thursday, Oct 22nd.  Please remind families through your messaging too.  Thank you!

Linked in this email is a very important survey due Oct. 28th.
To assist us in our planning for return to in-person learning, we need to know each student's plan for either remaining in remote learning or returning to in-person learning once health benchmark indicators allow for our students to phase back into our building.
You will notice in the survey that we have included detailed information on the following to assist you in making your decision:

1) FUSD's plan for phasing students back in by grade level
2) FUSD's Health Metrics Dashboard
3) Marshall's Return to In-Person Learning Plan

Please review those plans carefully and submit your survey by 5pm on Wednesday, October, 28th.  Thank you for your continued partnership as we move safely forward, together.
Marshall's Family Survey - https://forms.gle/CVU3udzY8mf2vd7r9

Spotlight on Angela Waltner, ELL Specialist

Hi, my name is Angela Waltner. I am the new part-time ELL Specialist for Marshall. This year, I am working with first and third grade. For the last five years, I was the SEI teacher at Mount Elden Middle School. Prior to that, I worked in Peoria Unified School District as a title I intervention specialist for a K-8 fine arts school. I also taught third and fourth grades in Cartwright school District for five years. I am a fourth generation Arizonan. My mom graduated from ASU, I graduated from ASU, my grandfather graduated from ASU when it was called Arizona State College, and my great great aunt graduated from it in the late 1800s when it was Arizona’s teacher Preparatory college. I received my Masters from NAU. I enjoy doing intervention and assisting students learn English.

If you are familiar with the Valley, my great grandmother is Mary Coyle of Mary Coyle’s ice cream, my cousins are the Cerreta’s from Glendale’s Cerreta chocolate factory, and my other cousins are the former owners of Pedro’s Mexican Food restaurant.
I am married to a wonderful man named Joe. We have one fabulous son, Dylan. We coach his baseball and football teams. I love animals and currently have three dogs: Faith, an Akita mix, Bella, a Great Pyrenees mix, and Torque, a Great Dane mix.
I look forward to working at Marshall and getting to know all of you.

Collaboration Hours
We have enough money to begin with up to 4 hours of collaboration time for our teachers to be paid just over $28/hr off of contract time to work on UDL lesson development.  Keep your focus narrow.  Tackle one part of the UDL design process at a time.  Please fill out THIS sheet to communicate with me your collaborative plan and don't forget to fill out a time sheet for that time period.  
Teacher Collaboration Hours   <-----Please fill this out!



SHOUT OUTS  (<--you can click the green words and submit)  
Please help us all see what is happening behind the scenes! 

~Thank you Ms. Arnold, Fisher, Gerlick, Grimmett and Krause for being SO kind and patient with me as I pop back and forth to interrupt AGAIN with questions and/or more clarification about lessons, students or tech issues. I appreciate you!! Thank you!!!!! ~ Ms. Vikki

~Thank you Ms. Hartsock for turning our fundraiser into a success!

RTI CORNER

It has been a busy couple of weeks here in the RTI office!  We have set goals for students, started Progress Monitoring and we have set the schedule to continue.  Ms. Schepper and Mrs. Anderson are helping us with Progress Monitoring, which is so great!  We have also built a schedule for Schepper and Anderson for RTI, Progress Monitoring and helping with small groups.  They just started this week!

Amy and Russ




TCI Social Studies Curriculum
Mr. Kasch spoke with Christine Everett in Mary Kay's office regarding the Social Studies text website and your need for a password.  She said it was set up and ready to go for those grade levels who requested it.  Login with your email as your username, then your last name followed by 20 for the password (e.g.- Kasch20).  
We know it is aligned to the old standards but hope it's a useful resource. 
 

Restorative Practices
The restorative approach is a set of guiding principles for the school community, which sees relationships as central to learning, growth and an equitable, respectful school culture. It is a paradigm shift from traditional rule-based, punitive discipline systems. It is not a program, curriculum, or specific activity. Restorative Practices focus on building, maintaining, and when necessary, repairing relationships among all members of the school community. It is based on growth and deep learning not compliance. 
These practices include: 1) Language that invites and encourages curiosity, empathy, respect, trust, honesty, compassion, accountability, inclusion, collaboration and repairing harm; and 2) Tools for community building, such as Connection Circles and Restorative Conversations; and tools for addressing conflict and challenging behavior such as Restorative Agreement Meetings, Problem Solving Circles, Restorative In-School Support Areas & Rooms, Restorative Mediation, and Community Group Conferencing.
We will continue to build our Marshall Restorative Culture throughout the 2nd quarter.  I am looking forward to building useful resources on THE HUB...soon!



Coming Up

Monday, Oct 26th
~Red Ribbon Kick Off – wear red
~Glitter explosion at noon! 

Tuesday, Oct 27th 
~From Head to Toe, I Make Good Choices – wear crazy hair and
crazy socks 
~7:30am School Improvement Committee Meeting
~5:30pm Governing Board Meeting

Wednesday, Oct 28th  
~My Futures So Bright – wear sunglasses and neon colored clothes
~3:30pm - Certified invited to Zoom with Hulls (negotiations)
https://fusd1-org.zoom.us/j/92885090421?pwd=SnovdnMrZDRVa0lDZi9sRzQreXR4QT09

Thursday, Oct 29th  
~Marshall Mustangs THINK – wear a Marshall tee or school colors

Friday, Oct 30th
~We are Good Characters – wear a costume or dress up as your favorite superhero
~12:30-1:15pm Staff Meeting - Review data from parent survey



Friday, November 6 -  1:30-3:30 CAST PD for Marshall and DeMiguel
Wednesday, November 11 - Veterans Day Holiday
Wednesday, November 18 - Final building walk-through
Wednesday, November 25 - Friday, November 27 - Thanksgiving Break
Friday, November 27 - Native American Heritage Day
Friday, December 18 - End of 2nd QTR
Monday, December 21- Friday, January 1 2021 - Winter Break

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