STEAMing with JSA

MM 12/12/16 First and foremost thank you for all of your hard work inside the classroom to ensure that all of our students are getting a quality education at JSA Magnet. I would also like to say I appreciate all of the teachers that ensure the safety of our students by doing a wonderful job performing their supervisory duties before, during, and after school. I know that we are winding down and about to head into the holidays and I would like to personally thank our entire staff at JSA for the wonderful job you do. Thank you for everything.  We are going to focus on how we are monitoring student progress with formative, summative, and daily work data. Please take the time this week to establish a complete picture of your students and take time out to have a data chat on key areas as we go into the break.  Our video is holiday themed and mirrors our quest to achieve our goal of student achievement (cookie) and the lengths we go through in order to reach it.  ...

MM 12/5/16 Good morning staff as we head into the winter break we would like to reflect and focus on the student progress. Please check the status of your students progress and look at ways to provide the reinforcement and practice needed to ensure success. We would like to preview the reading/math/science progress data of our students. Please do your best to have data chats with the students prior to the winter break.  https://youtu.be/L3eO8gYmWCc  EDUCATIONAL FOCUS please focus on your student data and track the growth using the baseline information from the beginning of the year and the student progress displayed through grades, formative, and summative assessments throughout the year. Please reflect back upon the students FSA scores if available along with the most recent FAIR, STAR, IBTP, and quarter test data. HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK Mrs. Pruitt, 1st grade, u sing plickers to assess students in math and allowing immediate feedback and referencing diff...