Maya and Dylan started their first day of fifth and seventh grade! I can't believe how fast time is going by. I am starting my 8th year here at Suisun Valley and Chris is starting his 5th year at Vaca High. I look forward to seeing you and you families tonight.
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Suisun Valley Virtual Book Club: Kids Deserve It: Pushing Boundaries and Challenging Conventional Thinking
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Expectations vs. Standards (Good Enough to Repeat)
Expectations should not be confused with standards. Standards are levels of achievement. Teachers who practice positive expectations will help their students reach high standards. It takes just as much energy to achieve positive results as it does to achieve negative results. So why waste your energy to fail when the same amount of energy can help you and your students achieve.
Key idea: Expectations of students will greatly influence their achievement in school and in life.
There is absolutely no research correlation between success and family background, race, national origin, financial status, or even educational accomplishments. There is but one correlations with success, and that it ATTITUDE!
Humans have a success instinct. They want success. They strive for success.
Knowing what you can or cannot achieve is called expectation. An expectation is what you believe will or will not happen.
Classic Research on Expectations
Robert Rosenthal in the 1960’s fed erroneous information to a group of South San Francisco elementary teachers. In the spring of the preceding year, the students at a school were pretested. The researches and administrators told the teachers they were special teachers who were to be part of a special experiment. They were told, “Based on a pretest, we have identified 20 percent of your students who are special. They will be ‘spurters’ or ‘bloomers’ and are a designated group of students of whom greater intellectual growth is expected. The names were really selected at random. The teachers were told to not tell the students or the parents. “Thus we expect and know that you will do extremely well with these special students.” Eight months later all students were tests again. The results showed a significant gain in intellectual growth for the 20 percent who were designated as special. The teachers were quite surprised to learn that neither the teachers nor the students were “special.” The expectations, however, made all the difference.
Students tend to learn as little or as much as their teachers expect. Teachers who set and communicate high expectations to all their students obtain greater academic performance from those students than teachers who set low expectations.
(Taken from The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher by Harry and Rosemary Wong
Here’s to high expectations for all students and ourselves! As a No Excuses School we have committed to teaching our expectations for the first 10 days of school.
News: BEHAVIOR EXPECTATION DUE (Your class rules are due today). This was in staff handbook :) ALL emergency sub plans are due in important docs folder 9/1. Please make sure 504 plans are attached to plans when you turn them in.
Please make sure you read pamphlets in August staff meeting folder and sign off that you read them on Kristin's desk. This must be completed by 8/25. Please make sure you complete Mandated Reporter and turn in certificate.
New Information
The MAP Test Administration for Elementary and Secondary Schools will occur in two separate testing windows this year in the Fall and Winter administrations.
ELEMENTARY TESTING WINDOW - SEPTEMBER 17 - OCTOBER 5 - (Earbuds for Grades 1 & will be delivered to your site in early September)
SECONDARY TESTING WINDOW - AUGUST 20 - SEPTEMBER 7
It is critical that you abide by the designated timeline for your grade level even though the system will allow you to test your students. The result of testing outside of your window will be that you will NOT have access to your student results or any of the report data. There is no work around for this so please be sure to follow the calendar.
NEW THIS YEAR!
- Students will have ONE opportunity to test in Reading and mathematics. They will no longer be able to retest. This will help keep testing to a minimum. It is critical that you proctor and monitor the students closely so that you can be sure students gave their best effort so that accurate data is measured on where students are in their learning. In addition, the system will prompt the proctor letting them know if a student is "rapid guessing".
- Equity for All - Accessibility & Accommodations - Removing Barriers - Be sure to look at the available supports. Here is the link to see what is available in MAP
- To turn on Text-To-Speech - Simply turn the Chromebook on and click on "Ctrl Alt Z and this will turn on the ChromeVox spoken feedback feature. Then open the MAP APP and the screen content will be read aloud. Students will need earbuds.
Here are the test names for each assessment by grade level.
PLEASE BE SURE TO SELECT THE CORRECT NAME FOR YOUR GRADE LEVEL WHEN SETTING UP YOUR TEST SESSIONS. This will ensure that students do not have the ability to select the incorrect test.
Grades 1 & 2 -
Growth: Reading K-2 CA 2010
Growth: Math K-2 CA 2010
**reminder - Grade 2 take these tests and not the Growth 2-5 tests ***
Grades 3-5
Growth: Reading 2-5 CA 2010 V2
Growth: Math 2-5 CA 2010
Grades 6+
Growth: Reading 6+ CA 2010 V2
Growth: Math 6+ CA 2010
Observable Fish Moments at SV:
I have really appreciated how everyone has volunteered their own time (BEING there) to either help out a new staff member in such a short amount of time. Staff members are really CHOOSING their attitude when there was SO much to do before Wednesday. Keep smiling :) YOU are MAKING someone’s day just by offering a helping hand or just by listening. You make me proud!!
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