Monday MM - Day "F"

Good Morning!

Today the Downtown school will be in the gym to practice for their talent show tonight

Specials for the remainder of the week will follow the 3rd quarter schedule;

• Monday  - Day "F"
• Tuesday  - Day "A"
• Wednesday - Day "B"
• Thursday  - Day "C"
• Friday  - Day ZERO More info to come.

PTA GROUNDS were AWESOME! Thanks to the 14 faculty members who came out to demonstrate the T in PTA.

Faculty meeting Wednesday.

• Bring a pencil and paper
• Bring your cell phone to text for a survey
• Do NOT bring work
• Attendance is required as we will map out the remaining Wednesday PD

NC TWCS Window Is Now Open – Your Voice Matters 
The 2014 NC Teacher Working Conditions Survey (NC TWCS) is now being administered statewide through Friday, April 4. The NC TWCS is an online, anonymous statewide survey of licensed school-based educators that assesses teaching conditions at the school, district and state levels. All NC public school-based, licensed educators and instructional staff, including administrators, are encouraged to take the survey

PTA Survey Request

For those teachers that have already responded to the PTA survey, thank you. For those who have not, please help the Council by responding to this brief survey
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LKJWNNZ

SIT Tuesday @ 3:30 to prioritize the short cycle methodology on dismissal and from Steve Oates;

• It is also the time of year to start planning for the next two year school improvement plan. I want to commend your School Improvement Teams as they have been doing a good job updating their SIPs at their quarterly reviews. Some of you even did an overhaul of your plan this year based on last year’s comprehensive needs assessment (CNA). 
• It is important that our 2014-2016 two year SIP plan be complete and ready to post when the 14-15 school year begins.  This means much of your work will need to happen this spring if you want to take advantage of staff still on the payroll. 
• Since most of you use EOG scores to base your goals on, I understand without the EOG data you will not be able to set realistic goals.  However, you should be able to do your CNA, school data and summary analysis, improvement strategies, action steps, and fidelity and progress indicators.  Please review the CNA information on the web portal for types of data that are available to you at this time.  Then once the scores come in you can pull a team to set goals.
• Please note that on the administrators web portal in the Accountability and Research section, you will find a tab titled “Comprehensive Needs Assessment” that contains all the templates, PPTs and other related materials that Judy Penny shared with us last year.  If there is a need I will see if she can come do a quick refresher.
• Also, for non STAR-3 schools it time to plan your 3^rd quarter review. If you think about it, this 3^rd quarter review should really be the kick off to your CNA. I believe STAR-3 schools will do their review with Wayne as usual.

Subs:
Rosemary  for Karon
TBD for Sara Davis pm only