Monday, 1/20 No School, MLK Holiday
Tuesday, 1/21
Wednesday, 1/22
Thursday, 1/23 Staff Appreciation Luncheon; Student Coalition Mtg, 11:15 am
Friday, 1/24 3rd Gr Traditions Feast, Covered Area 12:00-1:00
Saturday, 1/25 National School Choice Week Kick-Off
Monday, 1/27
Tuesday, 1/28
Wednesday, 1/29 Early Dismissal, 12:30; Parent Conferences
Thursday, 1/30
Friday, 1/31 Kinder Snow Day
What is National School Choice Week?
excerpt from http://schoolchoiceweek.com/about
National School Choice Week provides an unprecedented opportunity, every January, to shine a positive spotlight on the need for effective education options for all children.
Independently planned by a diverse and growing coalition of individuals, schools, and organizations, National School Choice Week features thousands of unique events and activities across the country. The Week allows participants to advance their own messages of educational opportunity, while uniting with like-minded groups and individuals across the country.
Participants in National School Choice believe that parents should be empowered to choose the best educational environments for their children. Supporters plan events that highlight a variety of school choice options — from traditional public schools to public charter schools, magnet schools, private schools, online learning, and homeschooling.
National School Choice Week is a nonpartisan, nonpolitical public awareness effort. We welcome all Americans to get involved and have their voices heard!
You Can Show Your Support for School Choice...
Join us on Saturday, January 25 at Minute Maid Park for the kick-off celebration beginning at 5:00 p.m. Check twitter for our location at the event. There will be music, dancing and speakers, along with a District Roll Call. Schools are encouraged to wear school gear and show District or School pride with posters. Arrive no later than 4:30. Parents, students, community members and teachers are invited.
School Attendance Took a Big Dip
As you may know from our annual School Improvement Goals, we are expected to maintain an annual average daily attendance rate greater than 98.00%. You will see from the chart above that over the last three year we have actually dropped rather than increased to the 98% goal set by the District. You will also notice that our attendance rate in December is often lower than in other months, but this past December was unusually low. That, along with the usual dip in March due to travel, puts us on course to come in well below our 98% goal.
We will be offering incentives to encourage individual, grade-level and campus-wide attendance rates of 98% or greater. Please make every effort to ensure your child is at school each day, unless they are ill. Scheduling appointments for after school hours is encouraged. Please also be advised, no travel related absences will be excused.
Remember, attendance impacts school funding. This school year we only received 97.31% of the funding allocation, resulting in a loss of $69,940. We need your support to improve our attendance and ensure our school receives every available funding dollar.
Tuesday, 1/21
Wednesday, 1/22
Thursday, 1/23 Staff Appreciation Luncheon; Student Coalition Mtg, 11:15 am
Friday, 1/24 3rd Gr Traditions Feast, Covered Area 12:00-1:00
Saturday, 1/25 National School Choice Week Kick-Off
Monday, 1/27
Tuesday, 1/28
Wednesday, 1/29 Early Dismissal, 12:30; Parent Conferences
Thursday, 1/30
Friday, 1/31 Kinder Snow Day
What is National School Choice Week?
excerpt from http://schoolchoiceweek.com/about
National School Choice Week provides an unprecedented opportunity, every January, to shine a positive spotlight on the need for effective education options for all children.
Independently planned by a diverse and growing coalition of individuals, schools, and organizations, National School Choice Week features thousands of unique events and activities across the country. The Week allows participants to advance their own messages of educational opportunity, while uniting with like-minded groups and individuals across the country.
Participants in National School Choice believe that parents should be empowered to choose the best educational environments for their children. Supporters plan events that highlight a variety of school choice options — from traditional public schools to public charter schools, magnet schools, private schools, online learning, and homeschooling.
National School Choice Week is a nonpartisan, nonpolitical public awareness effort. We welcome all Americans to get involved and have their voices heard!
You Can Show Your Support for School Choice...
Join us on Saturday, January 25 at Minute Maid Park for the kick-off celebration beginning at 5:00 p.m. Check twitter for our location at the event. There will be music, dancing and speakers, along with a District Roll Call. Schools are encouraged to wear school gear and show District or School pride with posters. Arrive no later than 4:30. Parents, students, community members and teachers are invited.
School Attendance Took a Big Dip
We will be offering incentives to encourage individual, grade-level and campus-wide attendance rates of 98% or greater. Please make every effort to ensure your child is at school each day, unless they are ill. Scheduling appointments for after school hours is encouraged. Please also be advised, no travel related absences will be excused.
Remember, attendance impacts school funding. This school year we only received 97.31% of the funding allocation, resulting in a loss of $69,940. We need your support to improve our attendance and ensure our school receives every available funding dollar.
Spotlight on IB:
What are Key Concepts?
excerpt from Making the PYP Happen
Central to the philosophy of the PYP is the principle that purposeful, structured inquiry is a powerful vehicle for learning that promotes meaning and understanding, and challenges students to engage with significant ideas. Hence in the PYP there is also a commitment to a concept-driven curriculum as a means of supporting that inquiry.
Which concepts were chosen and why?
A set of eight concepts was drawn up, each of which, it is felt, is of major importance in the design of a transdisciplinary curriculum. These concepts are:
- form - the understanding that everything has a form with recognizable features that can be observed, identified, described and categorized.
- function - the understanding that everything has a purpose, a role or a way of behaving that can be investigated.
- causation - the understanding that things do not just happen, that there are causal relationships at work, and that actions have consequences.
- change - the understanding that change is the process of movement from one state to another. It is universal and inevitable.
- connection - the understanding that we live in a world of interacting systems in which actions of any individual element affect others.
- perspective - the understanding that knowledge is moderated by perspectives; different perspectives lead to different interpretations, understandings and findings; perspectives may be individual, group, cultural or disciplinary.
- responsibility - the understanding that people make choices based on their understandings, and the actions they take as a result do make a difference.
- reflection - the understanding that there are different ways of knowing, and that it is important to reflect on our conclusions, to consider our methods of reasoning, and the quality and the reliability of the evidence we have considered.
At Roberts, students are encouraged to consider all concept levels when developing questions to help guide their learning. Often times, when we are asking questions about new ideas or information we are focused on questions of form or function. It is important we encourage learners to consider other concepts such as change, connections, perspective and responsibility.
Ask your child about some of their questions from their classroom Wonder Wall for the current Unit of Inquiry. Are they developing questions other than those falling in form or function?
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