Friday, September 25, 2015

9-28-15



Monday,
September 28
Tuesday,
September 29
Wednesday,
September 30
Thursday,
October 1
Friday,
October 2
3:00 – 3:45:
Instructional Cabinet , Leadership Team Meeting combined – AP office
4th Period:
New Teacher Mentor Support Meeting (Mentors)
3:00 – 3:45:
School Culture Team Meeting

2:00 – 5:30:
Campus College Fair – Gym 3/4
3:00 – 4:00:
Accreditation Committee – 496  
4:00 – 5:30:
SLT – 496
5:00 – 8:00:
Parent Teacher Conferences  
(Family Night) - 
Domino's Pizza will be served for staff

9th Grade Alley Pond Trip – All 9th Grade
Per Session Due to Ms. Franqui by end of day
1st Marking Period Ends
2nd Period:
Attendance Team Meeting
12:12 – 12:52:
Parent outreach
12:52 – 1:37:
Safety Meeting
12:52 – 2:22:
Grade Team Meeting
1:37 – 2:22:
Paraprofessional Meeting
2:22 – 2:57:
PD – Department Meeting

Initial Planning Conferences (IPC) – Classroom Teachers
All classroom teachers received an invitation to their initial planning conference.  During the conference we will be discussing your instructional and professional goals, as well as your overall rating from the previous school year.  If you have questions about your IPC, please contact Mr. Liu.
Emergency Lesson Plans
Three emergency lesson plans are due to Mr. Valencia by Friday, October 2nd.  You may give the plans via email or hard copy.  As a reminder, the emergency lesson plans are only used during situations where you and/or your co-teachers are unable to provide work that is related to your current unit.  The expectation is to send work along with your notice of absence for each occurrence.
Update Bulletin Boards -
In preparation for Parent-Teacher Conferences (Family Night), please ensure bulletin boards are updated.  A walkthrough will be conducted at the end of the day on Monday, September 28th.  As a reminder, a bulletin board does not need to be restricted to the final product, you may display the process of work that has been occurring in the classroom that will lead to the final product.   You may refer to the PNA staff handbook for additional information on bulletin board expectations:  https://sites.google.com/site/pablonerudaacademynyc/pna-staff-handbook
Student Accommodations
Some questions came up this past week regarding testing accommodations for students with IEPs. To clarify, all students must receive the appropriate testing accommodations as stated in their IEP.   Ms. Heller shared a document (SpEd Testing Accommodations) via Google Drive that outlines each student’s accommodations.  In most cases, students will receive extended time and/or read aloud for “all state exams and other tests as needed.”  English Language Learners also receive testing accommodations, which include extended time and use of bilingual glossaries.  Please work with your co-teachers to ensure students are receiving all of their appropriate services.
Procedures for signing in and out
The protocol and mandates for schools entering attendance has changed at the school level.  Due to this shift, we have put in place a slightly different system so that we can ensure we manage all attendance on our own without central audits.  All staff will be required to punch in if they arrive late, in addition to signing in.  All staff will also be required to punch out as well as sign out when leaving early.  To help streamline this process, there will be a second timeclock and set of cards in Ms. Franqui’s office.  As per the staff handbook, the sign in sheet is available at the front desk at 7:30am, please ensure you sign in before 8:00am.  If you arrive late to work, please immediately sign in/punch in with Ms. Franqui (with the time of sign in/punch in.)  With the new protocol, Ms. Franqui has to mark all staff present daily, which means if you do not sign in you are automatically marked absent until Ms. Franqui has an opportunity to reverse it.  With the new mandates, I implore all staff to follow the procedure to avoid potential fines, suspensions, and terminations that may be levied by central offices. 
Attendance 1st period
A team of teachers, support staff, and leadership met over the summer to make a decision to no longer flip our 1st and 3rd period classes.  We know that this decision greatly affects the 1st period classes in our school.  The attendance team will be pulling 1st period attendance from Skedula in order to make automated phone calls to students that were absent and late for 1st period.   This will only be done for classes that choose to use Skedula for attendance 1st period.  If you have any questions or need support around 1st period attendance, please contact Ms. Del Valle (jdelvalle@pablonerudaacademy.org)
Staff IDs
If you need a new PNA ID card, please see Susan Enright in the 180 cafeteria before 1st period – OR – in the 160 cafeteria during 4th and 5th period.
Per Session Postings
All postings can be found at the following link: