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SENDAK NEWSLETTER FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 6 - 10, 2025
Happy New Year!! May 2025 bring you many moments of joy, success, and inspiration, just like you give to all our students!
iReady and DIBELS Assessments
Grade Level Data Digs are scheduled for the week of January 27.
ALL grade levels (K-5) administered the iReady Math to their students before the Winter Break. Thank you for ensuring that all students (who were present took the assessment).
Grades 3-5 also administered the iReady Reading to most of their students. There are some EL students who still need to take this assessment. Please complete this assessment by January 17th. We will be looking at the iReady Math Data during Psychomotor following the MLK weekend.
Although the window for DIBELS assessment for Grades K – 2 opened two weeks before the Winter Break, many of the classes opted to administer it after the winter break due to the Winter Program performances and rehearsals. Please complete administering the DIBELS assessment by Wednesday, January 22. The Data Digs and planning for Academies will be scheduled for the week after.
iReady MyPath: Math and ELA
Now that we are starting the new semester, please ensure that ALL students are doing their MyPath minutes (45-60 minutes of each Math and ELA) every week.
MyPath especially helps students who are below grade level. Teachers don’t have time to meaningfully differentiate instruction for individual students. MyPath does it……But like anything, it has to be monitored to ensure that students are on the right path to success….SO keep an eye on those studetns who are stuck or struggling with concepts.
Also, now that parents have access to iReady thru the Parent Portal, get their support to ensure student success.
I will provide you with weekly updates, as a reminder and a “nudge”.
Tuesday Banked-Time PD and Staff Meeting (1:40 – 2:40)
This Week: Grade Level Planning
Next Week: Building Digital Citizenship (including Staff Meeting)
School Site Council meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, January 8, at 2:40 pm in the library.
Agenda will be 2025 – 2026 budget.
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
1/11 Fatima Muraj
1/13 Karine Saakyan
1/23 Claudia Lozano
1/29 Amanda Anguiano
Monday, January 6
At Sendak: Laurie Bernhard, Kyung Lee-Kim (Music), Melissa Kishner (AP-EIS), Nurse Tina
7:55 First Bell
8:00-810 Morning Assembly
8:10-8:30 Breakfast in the Classroom
2:25 Dismissal
Tuesday, January 7
At Sendak: Leticia Panduro, Laurie Bernhard (Alt. Tues.) Melissa Kishner (Alt. Tues.) Nurse Tina, Margaret Younan
7:55 First Bell
8:00-8:15 Breakfast in the Classroom
1:25 Dismissal
1:40-2:40 PD: Grade Level Planning
Wednesday, January 8
At Sendak: Nurse Tina
7:55 First Bell
8:00-8:15 Breakfast in the Classroom
2:25 Dismissal
2:40 School Site Council meeting in the Library
Thursday, January 9
At Sendak: Laurie Bernhard, Cintia De Laura (Art), Leticia Panduro (Alt. Thu.) Cindy Lemus (PSA)
Off Campus: G.Khatchadourian to New Principals’ Academy
7:55 First Bell
8:00-8:15 Breakfast in the Classroom
2:25 Dismissal
Friday, January 10
At Sendak: Laurie Bernhard, Nurse Tina, CFG
7:55 First Bell
8:00-8:15 Breakfast in the Classroom
2:25 Dismissal
Upcoming Important Dates:
January 6 2nd Semester Begins
January 20 MLK Day – School is Closed
January 23 Student Success Awards
February 17 Presidents’ Day – School is Closed
February 27 Student Success Awards
March 3-7 Parent Conferences
March 5-7 Minimum Days
March 11 Spring Picture Day
March 31 Cesar Chavez Day – School is Closed
April 3 Student Success Awards
April 10 Bring Your Parents to School Day
April 14-18 Spring Break – School is Closed
April 24 Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day
May 5 Smarter Balanced Assessment Starts
May 13 5th Grade Panorama Picture Day
May 22 Students Success Awards
May 26 Memorial Day – School is Closed
June 6 Minimum Day
June 9 5th Grade Culmination – Minimum Day
June 10 Last Day of Instruction
6 Instructional Priorities:
- Literacy – reading, writing, and speaking across all subjects
- Numeracy – real world application of math concepts
- Science – Integrating Next Generation Science Standards
- Assessments informing instruction – DIBELs, DRDP, iReady, and SBA
- Professional and Leadership Development – ILTs
- Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Cycles
To ensure District-Wide coherence, the following 7 Teaching and Learning Framework elements will be the focus for professional development, PDSA, Instructional Rounds, and classroom observations.
1b1. Awareness of Students’ Skills, Knowledge, and Language Proficiency Uses information about students’ academic strengths and needs, language proficiency and social emotional wellness in planning.
2a3. Academic Climate The academic environment is safe and supportive; risk-taking is encouraged, students freely share their culture, language, and ideas, and student mistakes are treated as learning opportunities, never with ridicule.
3a4. Use of Academic Language Academic language is used to communicate and deepen understanding of the content and is inclusive of the culture and language of students.
3b2. Discussion Techniques and Student Participation Techniques are used to ensure that all students share their thinking around challenging questions including strategies that affirm students’ culture and language.
3c1. Standards-Based Projects, Activities and Assignments Standards-aligned learning activities cognitively engage students in the lesson.
3c2. Purposeful and Productive Instructional Groups Students are grouped in order to promote productive cognitive engagement in the lesson.
3d3. Feedback to Students Students receive specific, culturally sensitive and timely feedback that will move their learning forward.