We want to extend a sincere thanks to our incredible staff for Monday's staff meeting. Our skillful Central Office administrators often coach us towards having candid conversations with staff in a way that positions ourselves as listeners and learners who are curious. Practicing with 70 staff members...whoa! Thank you for extending extraordinary grace while we navigated a truly tricky conversation. We're hopeful that you came away from our conversation with the following big ideas:

We are grateful for your professionalism and the kindness you extended us as we facilitated this conversation. We hope that your trust in us is intact. Our respect for our staff is unwavering.

We are looking forward to next week when we'll tackle another five days in a row. Please enjoy the weekend, your families, and your friends. You deserve all the best.

Sincerely,

Marie, Kate, and Naomi

At every All Staff Meeting we'll begin with a matching challenge. Can you match the these ten staff members to their favorite song? If you haven't shared your favorite song yet, please do! The answers can be found at the end of the newsletter!

We have scored the desirable Thursday night for our Curriculum night. All three elementary schools will have Curriculum Night on the same night. What is FANTASTIC about this is that we can offer a bus from Boston to Wayland for elementary caregivers. There will be a "green room'" complete with refreshments for Boston parents to hang in between sessions or during a portion of the night should they not have children in that grade span. Stay tuned for details.

K - 2: 6:00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m.

3 - 5: 7:00 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.

Thank you to all of the staff members who quickly jumped at the chance to mentor one of our new Boston resident students. We are grateful for the care and time you'll extend to your mentee. Jackie and DeVaughn share the below list so that all educators are aware of our pairings. Educators should feel free to reach out to mentors to share good news from the classroom or to engage the mentor in problem solving, too. A big thanks to Jackie and DeVaughn for leading this charge again this year.

PLCs will start the week of September 15th. Kate and/or Marie will join just as often as we can for at least part of the time.

For those providing coverage during PLCs, please arrive on time.

For TAs providing PLC coverage, know that car pick up students can be dismissed to the office at 2:25 so that you may leave at your contractual end-of-day.

The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is pleased to share a new and growing set of resources to support the onboarding and continued professional learning for paraeducators across Massachusetts.

District administrators, school leaders, and paraeducators are welcome to access and use the first two e-learning modules in a larger series aimed at providing targeted learning and support for paraeducators. Paraeducators across Massachusetts informed the design and directly contributed to these modules.

Please take a moment to review the Regis Bachelor Completion in Education Program details below. We are actively recruiting a new cohort, 20 students, seeking to complete their bachelor’s degree with licensure. Individuals should be interested in Early Childhood or Elementary licensure and have completed a minimum of 15 credits. Individuals will be accepted into our FAST TRACK program, which enables a direct pathway to Moderate Disabilities licensure through our master’s program

The Regis Bachelor Completion program in Education, provides paraprofessionals pursuing MA DESE licensure in the areas of Early Childhood or Elementary a with a variety of tuition discounts and degree opportunities. If you are accepted into the program, we’ll develop an individual curriculum plan accounting for transfer credits. The partnership between your employer and Regis College makes your future attainable and affordable.

• DEI integrated into each pedagogy course

• Flexible mix of classes held online and remote synchronous

• Discounted cost per credit for partnership employees

• Real-world, field-based experiences in workplace and partner districts

• Close-knit classes with one-on-one support from professors

• Support and programming toward MTEL completion

• Transfer up to 90 credits

*Discount Tuition Rate for partner districts and individual assistance in applying for the DESE paraprofessional grant.

For more information please visit THE REGIS WEBSITE or email me at rebecca.putnam@regiscollege.edu for more information.

Heath Rollins, Athletic Director, is currently looking to fill the following coaching positions for the upcoming winter season:

Middle School girls basketball head coach

High School boys varsity basketball head coach

High School boys varsity basketball assistant coach

High School girls JV basetball head coach

Please let him know if you or someone your know is interested in a position.

Please schedule all field trips by February 1st again this year. Also, please book field trips and plan for transportation two months out. Making plans with less time than this can be stressful on the office and can make planning that needs to be done around transportation and health/safety very difficult. We will work to finalize an MCAS schedule as soon as possible so that spring trips can be planned. While we completely understand the appeal of a June trip, transportation and nursing demands may limit the number of trips we can accommodate in June.

EVALUATORS:

Teacher evaluation assignments are available HERE and on CH Works on the PAWSitively

Useful Links Page under Helpful Links for Goal Setting and Eval.

SMART GOALS:

Model SMART goals will be made available for your adoption again this year. Please feel

free to adapt them to meet your needs. Our coaches are working to update them. You can access them HERE and on Claypit Hill Works.

GOAL SETTING MEETINGS:

Please schedule and attend a goal setting meeting with your evaluator by October 31.

Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd grades: Mary Ellen

3rd, 4th, 5th: Amy (Kathy is working with the co-taught room in 3rd but Amy will do gen ed)

ILC Milestones and Achieve: Kathy

TLC: Amy

LBC: Mary Ellen

If you haven't uploaded your finalized schedules, please do so. You can find the folder on CH Works, PAWSitively Useful links, under "Our Schedules". Thanks for your immediate attention to this.

Optional, but encouraged:

RazPlus Training (learn how to navigate the platform and use data to assign targeted practice) Raz Presenter Invitation will be added to the assessment calendar.

All welcome.

(learn how to navigate the platform, find interventions and use data for instruction) Lexia presenter Invitation will be added to the assessment calendar.

Sarah’s schedule will be:

Monday/Wednesday – Claypit Hill

Tuesday – Happy Hollow

Thursday – Loker

Friday – Alternating between Happy Hollow and Loker

Thanks for all the work you've done to build your math communities and help students grow their math identities through your implementation of Number Corner and Bridges Core lessons.

Below are a few items of note. Please let me know how I can support you in these first few weeks of school and beyond!

Here is a folder that has many amazing beginning of the year documents that Bridges provides for families and caregivers. In the folder you will find Welcome Letters, Unit Overview Letters, Vocabulary Lists and Helping at Home documents.

Here you can find very informative instructional documents that provide great beginning of the year teaching tips and suggestions for establishing strong work place routines.

Grades 1 - 2: week of 9/8

Grades 3-5: week of 9/15.

You can continue to find all this information on the Coaches Corner tab on the Claypit Hill Works website (it is still being updates).

You can access Nancy Colbert's site full of helpful tech tools at the link below.