Friday, October 2, 2015

10-5-15

Monday,
October 5
Tuesday,
October 6
Wednesday,
October 7
Thursday,
October 8
Friday,
October 9
2nd Marking Period Begins
10th Grade college fair trip
4th Period:
New teacher Mentor Meeting - 450
3:00 – 3:45:
Instructional Cabinet
And Leadership Team combined – AP Office

Grades due by 8am
3:00 – 4:00:
Accreditation Committee – 496 


2nd Period:
Attendance Team Meeting
12:12 – 2:22:
Field Day

End of day procedures
All teachers should ensure that students do not leave class before the end of the day bell rings at 3:00PM.  The tone and culture of every class should promote students asking for permission to leave the classroom, and not that students can freely walk in and out of class during the lesson and at the end of the day.  All teachers must also ensure student chairs are put up at the end of each day. Additionally, all student chairs should be taken down at the beginning of each day. Leaving chairs on desks creates a safety hazard for students. Please have students take down all chairs, even if no one will be sitting in the chair during the period.   
Field Day
This school year’s first Field Day will take place Friday, October 9th. Instead of attending Department and Grade Team Meetings, all staff members will be participating in Field Day Activities.  An activity sign-up sheet will be placed with the sign-in sheet Monday morning.  Please sign-up for an activity that you are interested in.  If you have questions about Field Day, contact Mr. Torres (ttorres@pablonerudaacademy.org).
Emergency Lesson Plans (Reminder)
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.
Student Accommodations
Some questions came up last 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  (Reminder)
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 (Reminder)
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
New Teacher Posting – PSAL coaching opportunities – Girls indoor track, Girls Varsity Basketball

All postings can be found at the following link: