Professional Development Tracking

As of Thursday, September 19th, Chalkable PD will NO LONGER be available for course enrollment. You may wish to print your training history before September 19 for historical record. Seven years of training history and course information will be transferred from Chalkable PD to the new PowerSchool platform.  All Grade Level Collaboration Data Meetings are available for you to sign-up.  If you have any problems, please contact Janet Benson. 

TAC (Teacher Advisory Council) Nominations

It is time for us to elect our TAC (Teacher Advisory Council).  The purpose of TAC is to have a vehicle to field questions about the school or district.  This year we will elect one representative from each of the following groups:

• Preschool/Kindergarten/1st
• 2nd/3rd
• 4th/5th
• Special Education
• Specialists

Please click on the link below to nominate an individual in any or all of the categories above.  Please put only one name in each category (for example:  list one name for 2nd & 3rd grade...either a 2nd or 3rd grade teacher).  Please do this before you leave Thursday, August 29th.  Our committee names will be communicated on Friday.
https://forms.gle/d72zRU5uxndazVBj9

TAC Overall Procedures

Questions should be stated in a question format and submitted to one of the TAC committee members.  

• Questions are due to representatives one week prior to when they are due to the principal.  
• TAC questions and answers will be provided to the faculty after that. Due dates this year are below.

Questions Due to Principals	Questions Returned to Staff
September 27	October 4
November 19	December 3
February 3	February 10
April 6	April 13

Weekly News

A Week

Class(es) of the Week:  Bennett & Blackmon 

Please send a group of students to the office each day by 7:55 (with a post-it containing their first names)

PACE Character Trait:  Wisdom

Paine Power Word: Cite 
Please utilize Powerpoint (from link on blog) to teach Power Word.

Duty Schedule: Please refer to your duty schedule for this week to ensure all stations are covered. 

The courtyard will be closed this week for renovation.

A representative from AFT will be in the collaboration room on Monday, August 26th.

Paine Precepts this Week

Monday:  "Teachers can open the door, but you must enter it yourself." - Chinese Proverb

Tuesday:  "A person who never made a istake never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein

Wednesday:  "You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." - Zig Ziglar
Thursday:  "To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way.  You can't just accept the ones you like."  - Mike Gafka
Friday:  "Preparation is the key to success." - Alexander Graham Bell

Wednesday Collaboration

All grade levels will collaborate on upcoming lessons.  If necessary, please use this time to finish your Educator Effectiveness requirements due by 8/30.

Thursday Afternoon Meeting Agenda

• Safety Information
• My One Word
• Paine Pack 
• Update our "About Me" on Teacher Websites
• Math/Science Teachers in Grades 2-5 will have PD on Gizmos (Blaire Perry)

Baseline Testing Schedule & Information

Paine Highlights for the Week

What a great week of teaching and learning at Paine Elementary!  Our faculty and staff showed students how excited we were to see them each morning when they arrived at school.


Meaningful learning targets were posted in classrooms around the school to help students take ownership in their own learning.  Students were already building reading stamina!  We already have a 5th grade millionnaire!

It is only the second week and our teachers are already conferring with students to assess progress and advance each student's learning.  Teachers were differentiating by providing small group instruction.

During collaboration time on Wednesday we set up our gradebooks and planned upcoming lessons.

We had fun greeting our colleagues in our first Thursday afternoon faculty meeting, where Mrs. Meredith facilitated ESL training for our staff.  We also discussed Educator Effectiveness requirements and learned that our school indicator for 2019-2020 is RIGOR & RELEVANCE.

On Friday we celebrated the students who completed our summer reading and math challenges.  Thank you to Mrs. Ramer and our PTO for organizing this fun celebration!

Chat Night Schedule

Weekly News

What a fabulous start to the 2019-2020 school year!  Thank you to everyone for your flexibility to ensure every student was taken care of.  We saw so many teachers greeting students with high fives, hugs, and most importantly....smiles!  YOU'RE THE BEST!

B Week

Class(es) of the Week:  Brasher & Bryant 

Please send a group of students to the office each day by 7:55 (with a post-it containing their first names)

PACE Character Trait:  Wisdom

Paine Power Word: Will begin next week.

Duty Schedule: Please refer to your duty schedule for this week to ensure all stations are covered. 

Paine Precepts this Week

Monday:  “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss

Tuesday:  "Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen." - Conan O'Brien

Wednesday:  "You must do the things you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt

Thursday;  "Do the right thing, even when no one is looking."

Friday:  "There are three ways to ultimate success:  The first way is to be kind.  The second way is to be kind, The third way is to be kind."  - Mr. Rogers

Summer Challenge

We will be going through the summer challenge forms and will have our celebration Friday afternoon for the students who participated.  More information to follow.

Precept Teams

Faculty Precept Teams will be finalized and communicated this week!  

Sunshine

Please join "Sunshine".  It is $30 for the year (and you may split this in half). Ellen Ormond will be managing Sunshine for us this year, so checks may be given to her.  This money is used to spread some sunshine when faculty or staff experience illness or loss.  It is also used for faculty celebrations.  We will provide you a copy of the updated by-laws this week.  Also, we will be drawing for Sunshine Reserved Parking Spaces each month for those that join.  Thank you for supporting our Paine Family!

Grade Level Chairs

Kindergarten - Penny Moore

1st Grade - Kelli Tweed

2nd Grade - Kim Dahlke

3rd Grade - Jana LoPresti

4th Grade - Kimberly Felts

5th Grade - Cheryene McGuire

Wednesday Collaboration

All grade levels will collaborate on upcoming lessons.

Grades 3-5 will set up INOW Gradebook

Thursday Afternoon

District Level PD will not begin until September, so we will have a faculty meeting.

Agenda

• Complete opening faculty meeting (last few slides of information)
• Reflect on Duty Schedulel, etc. (start of school)
• Update on Lunchroom tables, etc.
• Educator Effectiveness (bring your computers)
• (Please let us know if there is something else we need to cover at this meeting)

Baseline Testing Schedule & Information

Early this week, we will provide you with our school schedule on obtaining our baseline student data in math, reading, and science.

Family News

Rachelle Taylor will be having her second round of treatment and labs on Friday.  Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers.  Also, please continue to pray for Maggie Burns as she recovers.

Monday & Tuesday Schedule

Please keep Maggie Burns and her family in your prayers.  They were in a car accident on Sunday.  

Monday and Tuesday

Thank you for your hard work getting your rooms ready for the start of school.  They look amazing!

Monday

Meet the Teacher for grades 1-5 (various times throughout the day)

Teachers in grades 2-5 must attend the ACAP meeting in the collaboration room at 9:30.  Please bring your laptops.  

Tuesday

PTO will be providing a faculty breakfast on Tuesday and then we will have our faculty picture made in the courtyard (wearing out Paine t-shirts).

You will have the remainder of the day to get ready for Wednesday!

Please don't forget to complete the duty schedule for first trimester by Tuesday afternoon.  

Also, please make sure you have entered your preferences in the Paine Pack Survey and the Precept Team Survey.

Welcome Back - Schedule

Thursday, August 8th

7:45 – 8:25          Faculty Breakfast in Lunchroom

8:30 – 11:00        Opening Faculty Meeting

1:00 - until          TCS Institute (HTHS)

Friday, August 9^th

8:00-10:00           Math Meeting for all Math Teachers 

12:30-3:30           Meeting with ALL Sped & Grade 3-5 Inclusion Teachers 

Sunday, August 11^th

4:00 – 5:00          Meet the Teacher: Kindergarten & Wainwright

Monday, August 12^th

8:00 – 9:00          Meet the Teacher:  5^th Grade

9:30 – 10:30        Meet the Teacher: 1^st Grade (Except Wainwright)

9:30 – 11:30        ACAP Meeting – All teachers 2^nd through 5^th 

2:00 – 3:00          Meet the Teacher – 3^rd Grade

5:00 -6:00            Meet the Teacher:  2^nd Grade

5:30 – 6:30          Meet the Teacher – 4^th Grade

Tuesday, August 13^th

8:00 – 8:30          Faculty Picture in Courtyard

Teachers will have all day to work in classrooms.