Brownsville Buzzness March 11, 2018

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CALENDAR  

11 Daylight Saving Time - Spring forward! Iphone time will take care of you.

                            13 TA Meeting 10 AM Cafeteria

                            13 Fire Drill 11:10AM

                            13 K Registration

        13          Dragon Kung Fu Performance (1:15 - 3rd Grade)

                            14 Spring Bus Evacuations 1st half

                            15 Spring Bus Evacuations 2nd half

                            15 SBIT/RTI Gradelevel Meeting 1st and 3rd

                            15 Used Books Sale in Comm Thtr Rm 5p.m. -7p.m. \

                            15 #BeeHiveNight 5:30 - 6:30p.m.

                            20 Statewide Tornado Drill 10:00AM

                            20 4th Field Trip to St Anne’s Belfield - Va Festival of the Book 9:30am-12:15pm

                            20           3rd Grade Performance ROBINSON, HENRY, CROTTEAU 1:20 & 6:00PM

                          21          Honors Choir to Monticello H.S.     11:20AM - Parent Pick-up

                          22    3rd Grade Performance Chernauskas, Simounet, Pallante 1:20 & 6:00PM


REPORT CARD COMMENTS AND TIMELINE 
Show that you know and enjoy the student; share progress without using ed jargon/scores. Keep it simple to understand; if you share a deficit, bee sure to list the strategies you will use to support the student. Express optimism about the outcome; if there is an attendance issue, mention it in the comments. 

Mar  29 - Portal Closes at 9AM
        13 - Report Cards due to Admin 
        19 - Corrections due
        20 - Portal Opens 3PM  


MONDAY AFTERNOON LETTER TO THE COMMUNITY 

This is the letter that will go out to the community on Monday afternoon. Admin will let you know if any of your student will bee involved and provide an update on the supervision plan. 
**REMINDER: Do not encourage or discourage participation!! Share our plan and refer questions to the admin team. 

Dea Brownsville Families,

As you may know, two nationwide events are planned in which students across the country are
 being asked to walk out of school to protest gun violence in schools.The first event is a scheduled
 national school walk out this next Wednesday, March 14 @ 10:00 a.m.  Event organizers have asked
 students to walk out of school for 17 minutes.The second protest is scheduled for April 20 at 
10:00 a.m.  During this event, students are being asked to leave school for the remainder of the day.

We expect these events mostly will impact secondary schools. Brownsville Elementary will operate
 on a normal schedule. If you have discussed this with your child, and they plan to participate on
 Wednesday March 14th, please notify the principal so that we can make arrangements for supervision.
 Contact Mr. Crutchfield by phone, (434) 823-4658 or email, jcrutchfield@k12albemarle.org.

Students who plan to participate in the event on April 20th will need to be signed out by their parents
 or guardians.

It is important for you to know that teachers and administrators at Brownsville will neither encourage
nor discourage these protests.  Our goal is to keep students safe.

ACPS respects the rights of all students to engage in peaceful protests and express their opinions
 through speech and other ways as long as it is done respectfully, does not interfere with the rights
 of others, and does not disrupt learning in the school.

Sincerely,

Jason Crutchfield, principal 

TPA PROGRESS

Except for the few exceptions, TPA forms in Talent Ed should bee up to date and ready for the final 
appraisal process. Take a look and let us know if you need anything. A reminder that novice and 
non-tenured teachers should expect unannounced observations in the upcoming weeks. 

5th GRADER MADISON ANDERSON

Congratulations! Brownsville student Madison Anderson has been named a winner in the Bus Lines Poetry Contest! The Bus Lines Poetry Reading at the Virginia Festival of the Book will take place on March 21 at 6:00 p.m. at the Downtown Transit Station on Water Street. We invite everyone to come and hear these fine poets present their work.  There will be light refreshments afterwards. The poems will be printed on posters and placed on city buses and will also be placed in the Special Collections Library at UVA. 

UPDATES ON DEBBIE AND PHUL

We are so sorry that we have not updated you on Debbie Gibson. She is back and all healed from a bad fall late last year. She was able to keep the accident quiet, but we are happy that she is back with us. 

Phul was out for a couple of weeks because of the cutie below. Congrats to you and your family, Phul!

 
 

February 23 Buzzness

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Calendar Feb 27          Fire Drill (Rescheduled) 1:25PM 28          3-5 Jump Rope For Heart in P.E. Mar                1            Variety Show evening performance 6:30PM 1            RTI/ SpEd Gradelevel Meet -  Kindgtn and 4th 2            Variety Show K-2 8:45 to 9:45, 3rd  10 to 11AM,                                      4-5 12:15 to 1:15                                                                                                                                                     2            Art Fest in the West    WAHS 6-9PM 7            Team Leaders 2:45    8            Faculty Meeting: SBIT / RTI 2:45 9            PTO Families in Motion  6:30PM

Art Fest in the West info If you would like to promote this event to your class, here is a cool video.  Brownsville art will be represented. Here is the link:   It is currently on our ACPS Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages. Here is the link:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNure0lHVK4

Welcome Becca Ramdass- Long Term P.E. Sub Becca comes to us from the Curry School after completing her Master’s  of Ed program this past Winter. She has made an immediate impression  with her ability to connect with our bees. She will be with us through  Cherie’s leave. She currently does not have a k12 email address, but we  will set her up asap.

BES Hive Helpers Association - HHA All the planning for the student Hive Helpers Association, our new for of  student government, is going well. Here are a few updates: Philippa Belsches, a parent of two of our younger bees, has taken  the challenge to lead these ambitious students. Keep an ear out if  she needs to reach out to any of us for support. She will monitor a  k12 email address for these students once it is set up. A student newspaper survey will go out all students within the next  two weeks. The objective will bee for students to select a name for  the paper. A paper format will go out to pre-K -2nd students and a  google form will be sent to all 3-5 student. There will be  announcements for this prior to it going out.

Master Schedule Input On March 5th, a school team will meet to draft a schedule option(s)  for next year. If you have specific considerations that will inform the  team's work, list them in this form. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeYSKGr-TFhlslskIbYh- a4aGTyBmkYgncAfC1upYSY2EDiIA/viewform?usp=sf_link

February 23, 2018

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xt two weeks. The objective will bee for students to select a name for the paper. A paper format will go out to pre-K -2nd students and a google form will be sent to all 3-5 student. There will be announcements for this prior to it going out.

February 2, 2018 Buzzness

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Calendar The madness is over! - Check out this cool schedule. Thank you for pushing through these past few weeks. 5            Report Cards Sent Home 6            TA Meeting 8    Faculty Meeting BES Mid-Year Review Library   2:45pm 9            Hive Jive 6:30PM 13          Fire Drill 1:25 PM 14          Happy Valentine’s Treats from PTO in the Lounge

From Discussion to Instruction The Admin Team is looking for teacher volunteers to present their story at our Thursday Faculty meeting, about how a great conversation in a PLC meeting, SBIT meeting, IEP or RTI/ SpEd Gradelevel meeting, that lead to a quality learning experience for a student or students. In general, you would need to discuss: What happened in the meeting Planning for implementation How the implementation went Describing the positive results We have a couple of volunteers and we are looking for more! Thank you for considering.

Flipgrids Have you seen the ones that have been posted yet? Don’t you still want to post one and join the fun? What a great way to share your progress. Check these out and give it a shot. Your grid code is ge3bh4 and here is a direct link to the grid: https://flipgrid.com/ge3bh4 Also, here is a direct link to this new topic: https://flipgrid.com/eeb308 Click on “How’s it going”

Mid-Year Reviews Thank you to everyone that has participated in Mid-Year Reviews so far. These meetings and reading report card comments, leads us to believe that we are making tremendous progress and that there is more to come. The dedication and commitment of this School Team is second to none. We have a few more to go. with a bit more information to collect. Jason will bee presenting our progress to the division leadership on Monday morning. BES Admin Team

Recertification Tip Here is the link that Christa found helpful: http://compass.k12albemarle.org/?p=2288095

Overdue Book Notices Hi Teachers! 1.      Overdue notices for students will be coming around today. Don’t forget to remind students to check in classroom collection bins, backpacks, and book boxes, as well as at home. 2.      Overdue notices for teachers and support staff will be in mailboxes. If you see an item named “Investigations in number, data, and space..” – don’t panic. This is your Investigations Math kit that is checked out to you. If that is the only thing you have checked out, we will not put a slip in your box. P.S. You don’t need to turn in any items you are still using! We just like to send out reminders periodically so you know what you do have, and can return what you are finished using.

Master Schedule and Peer Observation Two items we will continue the conversation about, is our Master Schedule and MI3 Vertical Team Members peer observation planning. Bee on the lookout for more information and let the Admin Team know if you have ideas or want to join the fun.