Weekly Bulletin for September 15, 2015

Our Lady Wolverine Soccer team is having a nice season.  Be sure to catch a game!
Click here for a full schedule. Photo by @pastorphoto

Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. - Pablo Picasso

Important Dates

September 22 - No Staff Meeting - Complete Public School Works Requirements

September 22 - 1st Quarter Progress Reports Due

September 23 - No School

September 28 - October 2 - Spirit Week

October 2 - 5 p.m. - Homecoming Parade

October 3 - Homecoming Dance

Important Information

Ms. Cooey - Please keep Ms. Cooey in your thoughts and prayers as she struggles with the loss of her father this weekend.  The family will be having an open house at her parents' house on Thursday, September 17th from 5:00 - 6:30 pm with a memorial mass at Communion of Saints Church (formerly St. Ann's) at 8:00 pm. Her parents' address is:

3367 Washington Blvd
Cleveland Heights

Club Meetings - Mr. Murawski is currently finalizing the club/activity schedule with all of the requested meeting dates.  You can find the schedule on the school's main Google calendar or by clicking here.

Homecoming - Homecoming week is right around the corner and I encourage you to assist in putting together the best parade ever.  If you advise a club or coach a sport, get involved in the parade by putting together a float.  See Stephanie Rischar for details.

Three-Tiered RTI Process from PBIS.org

Academic Support Forms - Three teachers have completed Academic Support Forms for struggling students.  These forms serve to help students succeed by documenting strategies and interventions and to provide the C.A.P. Team (counselor, administrators and psychologist) information for Tier 2 of the RTI process.  As Dr. Markwardt stated in this week's email, "the classroom teacher is the person most qualified to implement Tier 1 and Tier 2 interventions."  The C.A.P. Team will assist you in identifying successful intervention trends when working with individual students as well as determining if a student should be moved to Tier 3 of RTI.  Please have struggling students identified by Friday of each week as the C.A.P. Team will meet early every week throughout the year.

Academic Tutoring -Advisory period tutoring is listed as one intervention strategy on the academic support form.   Please use this as one of your strategies to assist students.  In fact, require the students to attend tutoring if they are struggling in your class.  If attendance is required, contact the tutoring instruction and check to see if they attended by clicking here.  Issue a cut to the student that does not attend.

Congratulations to our Science Dept.  - Members of our science department and Mr. Spotts (Robotics) have received the Governor's Thomas Edison Awards for Excellence in STEM Education and Student Research for the 2014-2015 school year.  "To receive the award, schools had (1) to conduct a local science fair with 20 or more students, (2) qualify one or more of these students for one of the Academy's 16 district science days, (3) have students participate in at least one more youth science opportunity beyond the classroom such as State Science Day, visits to museums, mentorship programs and extended field trips and (4) convince external professionals from STEM business and industry, government and academia employers how and to what extent the school’s program met the Academy’s definition of STEM education."  Click here to view all of the awards the department received.   Great job!

Positive Phone Calls - Hopefully all of you have had the opportunity to make at least one positive phone call home regarding a student in your classroom.  If not, consider it this week.  Great things are happening in your classrooms and parents should know about it.

PLC Forms - Please understand that the new PLC Feedback Form should drive conversations you have in your group.  It is not expected you respond to every question ever week; however,  all questions should be part of your conversation over a three week period.  Please fill in the fields that are discussed and identify plans to address other field questions.

Student Tardies - Please maximize instructional time by making sure students are in your class at the beginning of the period.  Send students to the office when they are late to first period and issue points when they are late throughout the rest of the day.

Good Professional Reading (or Watching)

What is RTI?
Response to Intervention (RTI) & PBIS
Increasing Student Engagement with Project-Based Learning