This week’s Paw Prints from principal Jeff Slater:

• Our teachers are currently learning an instructional practice known as “close reading.” This practice supports students’ learning of complex texts, particularly in content areas like Science and Social Studies. You can learn more about the practice of “close reading” by checking out this article: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yl2p79xszvxqzzg/Fisher%20and%20Frey%20-%20Text%20Complexity%20-%20January%202012%5B1%5D.pdf
• At our Instructional Leadership Team meeting on Tuesday, we began the process of analyzing school wide trends in the grades 3-8 ELA Predictive data. We’ll be using this information to support teachers at the classroom level and to make adjustments to our practice across all grade levels to better meet the needs of our students.
• Parents from all over the world gathered for a special gathering on Thursday. The focus was to introduce our growing Somali population to our Latino parent ESL class to promote a sense of unity for our whole community.
• Hopefully, you’ve noticed an increase in Curley Pride via the number of students wearing the uniform over the past week! Our raffle ticket incentive has been extremely popular in motivating students to wear their uniforms. This raffle ticket incentive is part of a larger push positively incentivize our mandatory uniform policy. Keep an eye out for more fun things to come as we work to have students internalize their desire to wear the school uniform (and logo gear!) with pride!