Week 6 "A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." - John C. Maxwell

Hello #TEAMKuehnle! We have heard so many wonderful things about the blog, and we hope you are enjoying it too! If you have something to share, we are always open to feedback! 

Educational Excellence

Celebrating Greatness Amongst Staff! 

Congratulations to:
Deanna Brewer, Jasmine DeRitter, Keri Lenard, Raina Garza, Michele Garland, 'Liese Altendorf, & Joanna Emanis
*Don't forget to bring your All-Star megaphones to the faculty meeting on October 5th to celebrate another teacher! #payitforward

We would like to highlight some examples of our Kuehnle Core Values that we have noticed on campus.

Educational Excellence:  We believe in setting high expectations for our students.  

-          We are excited to see the classroom goals being set and look forward to seeing individual student goal setting.  What a way to demonstrate this core value.

      Intentional Instruction:  We believe that educators should be flexible and have the courage to change course when needed with a student-centered philosophy.

-          We are so proud of how flexible and efficient 3rd grade and special education teachers were as we added Ms. Daria Clark to our staff.  This change happened quickly without much disruption to the students' learning.  

      Collaborative Community:  We believe in working collaboratively with colleagues, students, and parents; sharing ideas and respecting other's opinions to achieve our common goal.  

 -          We are so excited to see your collaboration skills and opportunities reach new levels through 

      Google Classroom! 

Intentional Instruction

We reviewed out STAAR data with teachers during PLCs last week.  We celebrated the great things we are doing, discussed things that are stagnant, and pondered over things that need to change.  We looked at specific subgroups such as special education, LEP, ethnic groups, etc.  to identify our strengths and areas of concern.  After much discussion the questions we have to answer now are:

• What are we doing now to be sure that your students are making progress? 
• Do you know your SSI/AI kids by name? 
• Do you know which students are in which subpop so that you know who you are focused on?
• What are we doing to ensure that intervention and enrichment are both happening?
• How are we monitoring progress and tracking our data to keep our groups fluid? 

We must have serious conversations about how to intentionally plan our instruction to get the biggest bang for our buck in all areas.  We can collaborate with our PLCs, meet vertically with other grade levels, seek out our campus specialists, etc. to be sure we are doing whatever it takes to help our students make progress and reach success!

Collaborative Community

We have noticed several areas of collaboration happening on campus.  Here are some of the things happening all around us:

• Teachers are working on putting together "Lemonade and Literacy."  We have heard great things being planned to help our students and their families with literacy development at home. 
• Administration and teachers have collaborated, written, edited, revised, conferenced, and more to create outstanding T-TESS goals for the 16/17 school year.  
• Teachers are working closely with Jamie Drew and Michele Garland on planning creative lessons, looking at data to drive instruction, and putting together meaningful CCAs to support the TEKS. 

We could list a million other things, but we are very pleased with what we have seen taking place!  

We realize that we are tapping into a lot of technology to create lessons, collaborate via Google, stream live announcements, etc. so we wanted to offer a little video tip to hopefully make accessing these resources a little easier and faster.

Faculty Meeting Video

ELPS TELPAS Connection Video

Here is the google form to complete after watching the video.

NOTE: Deadline to submit the Google Form and receive credit in Eduphoria is Friday, September 23.  

Week 3 "Do what is right, not what is easy."

Welcome to the 3rd week of school! We hope you had a fabulous Labor Day! We are looking forward to another week full of goal setting and reaching success! 

Educational Excellence

This year is off to a great start! We have seen lots of goal setting within the classrooms, NHA being taught and utilized effectively, and teachers discussing RTI and SSI data to create flexible groups. We have started our classroom learning walks focusing specifically on the environment and culture of the classrooms.  We see you all working on building relationships with your students and providing clarity for how every aspect of the classroom will help them succeed this year.  Remember, we are here to unlock every child's potential! Watch this eye opening video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxyxywShewI.

We are also attaching a document that the Klein ISD Teaching and Learning Center shared with us regarding classroom walkthroughs and what we are looking for within the content areas you are teaching.  This is a quick reference guide that is easy to read.   Click here.

As we continue to strive for educational excellence, we want to use T-TESS as a guide.  We have completed the Introduction and GSPD portions of T-TESS training.  You should now be working on setting a professional goal for yourself.  Remember, these are due in Eduphoria by September 15th. To address a lot of your questions and concerns in creating your goal for the year, please click here for an informational quick tip.

Intentional Instruction

As you are working feverishly to create groups based on your RTI and SSI data, keep in mind what your goal is.  Keep in mind the 4 guiding PLC questions.  Keep in mind the data discussion questions given to you during staff development week.  Be sure that your instruction is intentionally planned to meet your goals, to target specific needs, to reach students where they are and help them to grow and learn.  Be sure that you are targeting subgroups that are in need of specific, targeted interventions.

Along those same lines, we want to be sure that we are ready to go for the first 9 weeks credit recovery week.  The week for these sessions is October 31-November 4.  Please visit the Grade Recovery folder in Klein Share to edit and save your Kuehnle Grade Recovery Plan 2016-2017. These need to be completed by October 7th.  In that same folder, you will also find the forms that you will need to edit and send home as the credit recovery week arrives.  

Collaborative Community

Collaboration at its best, creates a culture of success.  In building that culture of success, we have already seen various teams, students, parents, administration, etc working together on various tasks. Every little task is a puzzle piece to growth and development of our students success academically, physically, and/or emotionally. Here is what we have seen thus far:

• Teachers collaborating with Students:
• Setting Goals (classroom and individual)
• Creating Classroom Rules
• Standards for Success (teacher and student)
• Teachers collaborating with Colleagures:
• Professional Learning Communities
• Lesson Planning
• Grading Guidelines
• Intervention Groups and Times
• Teachers collaborating with Parents:
• Open House
• Meet the Teacher
• Positive Phone calls and/or Emails home
• Parent-Teacher Conferences
• Administration collaborating with all:
• Professional Learning Communities 
• Staff Development
• District and Campus Meetings

Don't forget we are also sharing all of these great things via Twitter using our 2016-2017 team theme,  #TEAMKuehnle.

Another way to keep up with what is going on for our school and community is to visit our awesome PTO's new website:   https://kuehnlepto.membershiptoolkit.com/

Faculty Meeting Video

Welcome to your first ever faculty meeting via video! We have something to share with you, so click here to see what's in store.