KARCHER STAFF BLOG
Karcher Character Students of the Week
All 6 of these students displayed positive character behaviors within our 8 focused traits:
Be... responsible, respectful, kind, safe, honest, loyal, compassionate, courageous.
Students: (left to right) Josie Smith (Diamond), Katherine Picazo (Applied Academics), Jonathan Payant (Karcher Bucks), Scott Darville (Silver), Andrew Gehrke (Hive), and not pictured Joe Zuliger (Onyx)
Pictures from Camp MacLean with Ms. Fons's team building group.
Pictures from FNL :)
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Kudos
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- Mike Jones was chosen as the KCB STAFF OF THE WEEK! Congrats Mike and thank you all for continuing to reinforce our 8 character traits.
- Thank you all for calling individual families to encourage them to come to conference in order to assist all of our students.
- FNL was a success on Friday night with 153 students in attendance! Thank you Mike Jones for all of your organization to get FNL ready and thank you to the following staff members for helping chaperone and provide such a positive experience for students. Mike Jones, Matt Behringer, Marilee Hoffman, Jack Schmidt, Jeri Nettesheim, Wendy Zeman, Rod Stoughton, Jacob Malewicki, Brad Ferstenou, Donna Sturdevant, Jenny Geyso, Kurt Rummler, Stephanie Rummler, Kathyrn Botsford, Amanda Thate, Crystal Hernandez, Renee Hisey, Grace Jorgenson, Barb Berezowitz, and Steve Berezowitz!
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Reminders
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- Parent/teacher conferences are from 4:00 to 7:00 Monday, October 12th. Conferences will be held in everyone's individual classroom.
- Flexisched has been reset for the next three weeks. We will be doing intervention, ALLs, and SSR for all THREE weeks. The "5th" week for enrichment will be November 12th and 13th due to the half days the week before.
- Your Educator Effectiveness folders will be shared with you this week. I was going to send them last week but minor tweaks were still being done. Expect your folders to be shared with you this week.
- October 19th to 23rd 8th grade students will be called to the health office for their vision screening. If they wear corrective lenses please make sure they wear them throughout this week.
- October 21st is picture retakes.
Field Trip Dates:
- October 13th - Student Counsel field trip to Camp MacLean.
- October 20th the Hive House will be going to Madison to the State Capital/Vets Museum.
- October 22nd the Silver House will be going to Madison to the State Capital/Vets Museum.
- October 25th is our Outdoor Education spaghetti dinner night here at Karcher in the cafeteria.
- Time: 4:00 - 7:00
- Cost: 8 dollars per ticket with 5 year-olds or younger eating for free.
- Pre-tickets can be purchased from any 8th grade student or Mr. Jones (mjones@basd.k12.wi.us)
- A 50/50 raffle and silent auction will be onsite!
- Proceeds go to Outdoor Education and other field trips for our students
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Pictures from the week
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Pictures from FNL :)
Article of the week:
The below reading is the next section of the article: Knowing your learning target
The below reading is the next section of the article: Knowing your learning target
Knowing Your Learning Target
The first thing students need to learn is what they're supposed to be learning.
Beginning to Share
When teachers in the Armstrong School District began sharing learning targets with their students, their early efforts were tentative and in consistent. Not all teachers tried it, and some who tried did not share targets for every lesson. Some simply paraphrased instructional objectives, wrote the target statements on the board, or told students what they were going to learn at the beginning of a lesson. Yet, even their exploratory attempts became game changers. When teachers consistently shared learning targets in meaningful ways, students quickly became more capable decision makers who knew where they were headed and who shared responsibility for getting there.
At Lenape Elementary School, for example, teachers and administrators marveled at the immediate effect of shared targets and how quickly those effects multiplied. Principal Tom Dinga recalls a visit to a 1st grade classroom during the first week of sharing learning targets. The teacher, Brian Kovalovsky, led the class in discussing the learning target for the math lesson that day—to describe basic shapes and compare them to one another. When he asked his students how they would know when they hit that target, one 6-year-old replied, "I'll be able to explain the difference between a square and a rectangle."
Invigorated by the changes they were witnessing, teachers and administrators used e-mail, peer coaching, peer observations, focused walk-throughs, and professional conversations to share what was working in their classrooms and buildings and supported these claims with evidence that their students were learning more and learning smarter.
Students are now more actively engaged in their lessons as full-fledged learning partners. Because they understand exactly what they are supposed to learn, students take a more strategic approach to their work. Students have the information they need to keep track of how well a strategy is working, and they can decide when and if to use that strategy again. In other words, students not only know where they are on the way to mastery, but also are aware of what it will take to get there.
Calendar for October:
