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This Week in the ARTS...

  • Teachers continued to reinforce their routines across the district, as classrooms were bustling with work, talk and song.  The Durfee Musical and Talent Show are amping up- stay tuned for more details- this year's musical is Legally Blonde, and it's going to be TOTALLY COOL.
  • K-5 Music teachers were given their recorders and Link Up program books for EVERY 5th GRADER in the district.  876 sets to be exact- all paid for by the Carnegie Hall Link Up Program.  Teachers will be attending a PD with Amelia Nixon on 9/28 at 3:45 at the Silvia School to learn more about how to use this program.
  • Our own Alex Ollivierre, percussion itinerant, has been super busy building his program!  He has students at almost all middle schools with the largest group at MORTON!  He is also working with a group at Stone, and I am so excited about this...  Alex, you are doing amazing things!  We are so happy to have you.
  • The Durfee Marching Band will be performing tonight at the game- check them out!  This year's music is from The Nightmare Before Christmas..  Love it!

Next Week...

  • Next week, I will be visiting all schools to check in with teachers.  I want to make sure you have what you need, and take a look at your classrooms!  
  • The first Learning Walk will be on Wednesday 9/20 (K-5), and 9/27 (6-12).  I will visit every music and art room in the district during this time, and will report out a baseline as to where we are and what we are doing with our kids.  That report will be in the 9/29 Blog..
  • I am painting for the Durfee Portuguese Club on Monday night as they are having a painting fundraiser at Our Lady of Light Banquet Hall at 6PM.  We will be painting a traditional Portuguese Galo de Barcelos- they have over 70 people painting with me!  Wish me luck! :)

Evaluation Info:

  • The first step in the evaluation process is a Self Assessment.  We will discuss this in CPT at middle and high school levels, but I am hoping that K-5 teachers will also be able to discuss this work with building colleagues and leaders.  Please reach out to me if you need support.
  • For the teachers I am responsible for evaluating, I will share a folder with you to put this year's eval docs in on the GDrive.  In this folder, you will have a Self Assessment Doc and a Goals Doc.  
  • Each school has created a School Improvement Plan (SIP) that will drive the work for improving student learning. These plans adhere to goals around Literacy, Numeracy and SEL/Attendance. High Schools have additional goals around graduation. As you draft your goals later on in the month, I will also be sharing a team goal for you to adopt if your building leadership allows- this goal will tie directly to the Literacy District Goal, but will be relevant to students' visual and music literacy and using content specific language to defend, critique and explain their reasoning.
  • It will be our goal to support our schools and students in this focused growth as we excel our students' abilities to communicate with and about the arts.  As we create art and music student learning goals, these will support the school literacy goal as we ask students to improve their ability to communicate using specific content language as they defend their choice making, support their claims, and critique student work (their own and others).
  • Here is the link to the Tes Teach (Blendspace) that I used with teachers at CPT this week...  it talks about art/music literacy and how that ties into our SIP goal, as well as how this ties into our eval process.  https://www.tes.com/lessons/EuDYVYRdDzZtaw/2017-18-start-of-year
    • Dates:
    • 9/23 Training on SMART Goals/Goal Setting/Plan Development/Evidence Collection
    • 10/7 Self Assessment and Goals submitted
    • 10/14 Review and Approve Goals

Calendar Items:

  • 9/20- Durfee Open House, 6-8 PM
  • 9/28- K-5 and 6-8 Dept Meetings
    • K-5 Music @ Silvia 3:45- Amelia Nixon RI Phil PD
    • K-5 Art @ Silvia 3:45- Steph hosts us as we work on maps/Kindle Books
    • 6-8 Art @ Kuss 3:45- Sondra and Karen host as we work on maps
    • 6-8 Music @Kuss 3:45- Bill hosts MS Music teachers- goal is to plan for an All City Chorus Festival in the Spring of 2018
  • 9/28- String Rental Night
  • 9/30- US Bands Comp at Dartmouth (Durfee Band will attend)
  • 10/5- Release Time Day- I will request my F/PA team- TBD
  • 10/6- Proposed Goals Due
  • 10/9- Columbus Day- No School

ARTS Nuts and Bolts:

  • Lesson Plans- Thanks for sharing!  Please continue to send/share by Monday morning!
  • Out Sick?  Please text me before 6:30AM so I can arrange for coverage (Durfee).  
  • Durfee staff- if you are out, prep as if you would have a sub..  with the new sub structure, we may have a sub for you in your room, but we may also have to send students to the caf/IMC..  

Arts Around Us:


Have a wonderful weekend,
Jackie

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