Rolling Hills Writing Rubrics

Rolling Hills Writing Rubrics.

These are some writing rubrics that were posted with original student work in our classrooms:

Rolling Hills SAMR Technology Update

At our February staff meeting, we showed the SAMR video to our staff and held a discussion of what SAMR looks like in the classroom and shared out some examples.

  

Rolling Hills Attendance Task Update

Rolling Hills used the Count Us In Toolkit and our staff chose to focus our efforts on attendance in providing parents with information.  With the help and advice of our attendance liaison, we sent out an informational flier that detailed the reasons why you should keep your student home if they are sick and.  We focused on the public health part of attendance because we felt that our parents are often confused as to when they should send their children to school and when they should keep them home.

The LEVEN partners with Rolling Hills

Rolling Hills is now a partner with the LEVEN organization in Fairfield.  We are currently collecting the following items for them:  construction paper, cookie cutters, play dough, water colors, tempera paint, paint brushes, scissors, glue sticks, glitter, pencils, graph paper, hand held pencil sharpeners, markers, dry erase markers, stamps for art projects.

Sorry we don't have a photo, but we will post one next time with the items we have collected for donation.  

PBIS at Rolling Hills

Rolling Hills is headed in a positive direction with its efforts towards implementing PBIS on our campus.  We have currently had lots of success with our school-wide reward system.  In our recent discussion with J.P. Gretlet, we detailed how this system is currently being utilized and how we have even helped another campus get their system started.  The next step for Rolling Hills PBIS group will be to implement its "rollout" plan for Tier 1.  This plan was developed at the last PBIS training and will involve the entire staff in taking the PBIS system into the classroom.

Rolling Hills is Teaching for Success!

Rolling Hills teachers reviewed the results of the fall WestEd T4S "Sweeps" data during the February staff meeting.  The teachers understood that this was a "snippet" of time and that the data was limited.  As a faculty, they agreed to continue to pursue professional development on: Academic Conversations, Depth of Knowledge, Student Engagement, and Learning Objectives.  Based on the data collected so far this year, the staff, the principal, and the campus WestEd consultant have decided to put an emphasis on Depth of Knowledge as an area for focus and for professional development in the future.

Introducing...Danny Gentry

I am happy to be a contributor to this blog.  I am looking forward to sharing my perspective as a campus administrator to this blog.  Currently, I am the principal of Rolling Hills Elementary in Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District.