Here are the Helping Children/Students Learn newsletters from April 2010 for Elementary (elem), Middle School (ms), and High School (hs). These newsletters were created to help you help parents take an active role in their child's education.

hcl-elem-apr10.pdf
hsl-ms-apr10.pdf
hsl-hs-apr10.pdf

Here are the Building Readers newsletters for April 2010 in English (en) and Spanish (es). These newsletters were created to help you provide the resources parents need to help their child become outstanding and enthusiastic readers.

br-en-apr10.pdf
br-es-apr10.pdf

First of all, I neglected to put in Sandhills as one of our schools that will be involved in the Peer Review for Schoolwide projects.

The following information is for the Targeted Assistance Schools:
Targeted Assistance schools are required to do an annual review of program effectiveness, NDE has a rubric you are to use for this, it is called the “Targeted Assistance School Program Rubric” and can be found in PDF and Word format at this site.  http://www.nde.state.ne.us/federalprograms/titlei/index.htm
 
Please note this is an annual requirement of Targeted Assistance programs but submitting the rubric to NDE is neither required or desired!  This document will be looked at during the NCLB review.
 

It is time for the annual SW Peer Reviews.  This year Ansley, Litchfield, and SEM are up for the peer review.  They need to register for the review and send in 2 copies of their SW plans to NDE for review.  Your superintendents have received information from NDE but I would be happy to forward any of the information to you if you need it.  I know a couple schools are already registered and are working on their plans.

For those of you not "up" for peer review you still need to send in the Self-Review information by May 1.  Again, your superintendents or Title I directors have this information but I would be glad to forward my information to you. 

I hope to see you all on March 17th for our Spring Meeting.  "SPRING", now that is a novel idea:)

Here are the Helping Children/Students Learn newsletters from March 2010 for Elementary (elem), Middle School (ms), and High School (hs). These newsletters were created to help you help parents take an active role in their child's education.

hcl-elem-mar10.pdf
hsl-ms-mar10.pdf
hsl-hs-mar10.pdf

Here are the Building Readers newsletters for March 2010 in English (en) and Spanish (es). These newsletters were created to help you provide the resources parents need to help their child become
outstanding and enthusiastic readers.

br-en-mar10.pdf
br-es-mar10.pdf

After reviewing evaluations from the fall meeting and talking to several of you, I have a plan for the Spring Meeting.  I have invited Roger Reikofski from NDE to our meeting.  He will be sharing any new updates from the Feds and NDE regarding Title I.  There will also be time to ask questions so please, come prepared with some questions for him, we want him to earn his pay!  HA!
As I get more opportunities to review schoolwide plans and targeted rubrics I am finding that parent/family involvement is very sporadic and in some cases just includes parents attending ball games.  I would like to share some ideas on how to create partnerships with our families that really are critical in creating a culture of learning.  As Title teachers I feel that you are natural school leaders for this kind of work.
We will also have some time for sharing ideas!  So please, come with something you would like to share with the rest of us that has worked for you, the sky is the limit!
We will break for lunch and there will be pizza and salad from Valentino's here but it will cost you $6. 
The meeting will be on ODIE soon so that you can register.
Thanks and if you need anything, please, feel free to call.  Have a great week!

Here are the Helping Children/Students Learn newsletters from February 2010 for Elementary (elem), Middle School (ms), and High School (hs). These newsletters were created to help you help parents take an active role in their child's education.

hcl-elem-feb10.pdf
hsl-ms-feb10.pdf
hsl-hs-feb10.pdf

Here are the Building Readers newsletters for February 2010 in English (en) and Spanish (es). These newsletters were created to help you provide the resources parents need to help their child become outstanding and enthusiastic readers.

br-en-feb10.pdf
br-es-feb10.pdf

Here are the Helping Children/Students Learn newsletters from January 2010 for Elementary (elem), Middle School (ms), and High School (hs). These newsletters were created to help you help parents take an active role in their child's education.

hcl-elem-jan10.pdf
hsl-ms-jan10.pdf
hsl-hs-jan10.pdf