Parent involvement and school outreach is critical for students to succeed in school.

At the beginning of the year, teachers voted to increase parent/school activi-ties as one of our goals this school year. Therefore, we

had family fun night for the Fall carnival night in October 2015. In No-vember and December, teachers and students are planning presenta-tions before the break.

Announcements will be provided each month on the monthly

calendar.

The pictures below illustrate community members playing at the carnival. At school, we are training teachers on how to use games to increase student engagement with Kagan strategies. Students will then play games to learn skills. When learning is fun, the brain is more actively in-volved and memory enhanced.

Parent Involvement Activities

PEACH SPRINGS SCHOOL

Newsletter for Nov/December 2015

Partnership activities with the community helps students meet their social, cultural, and academ-ic goals. The picture shows the tribal Halloween festival where the whole community planned togeth-er to create safe and fun events for children. At Peach Springs, we are working together to help all students experience success.

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Tiger Tickets (Tiger Bucks)

for Positive behavior

intervention support (PBIS)

Another goal at Peach Springs is to help students work as a team to experience success. We want to thank Grand Canyon West for agreeing to donate $5,000 to start a school store where students can buy prizes Thursdays 3-4 pm using Tiger Tickets. Students can earn tickets by demonstrating good behavior. Parents volunteers needed for the prize store!

Community activities in Peach Springs

Tiger Bucks will be

used to positively

reinforce desired

behaviors.

Peach Springs School Newsletter

Weekly, we ask teachers to review weekly assessment results and reflect on instruc-tional strategies. During Response to Inter-vention (RTI) Tier 2 and 3 times; students should work in small groups and stations to complete reteach and/or enrichment activi-ties. At Peach Springs, teachers have indi-vidual student data folders (portfolios) to share with parents/guardians to track stu-dents’ academic growth from weekly work samples, assessment data and reports.

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Basketball

Using data to guide

instructional decisions

For sports, there will be basketball games held by our new coach, Mr. Ron Quasula Junior. We ask that viewers stay positive and support students. At the elementary level, many students are still learning and basketball should be fun. Please come out and support our girls’ and boys’ team!

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Feedback &

suggestions:

Please contact Jaime Cole, 769-9034 PSUSD

Superintendent

Thank you for your support of

PSUSD

Please join us for “Coffee with the

Superintendent” on Tuesdays

from 2-3 pm in the parent center room

(across from the office) beginning Nov.17th.

After discussion and input from community

members, we will continue having coffee/

tea and snacks every Tuesday from 2-3

pm.

Agenda will be informal as this is a time to

ask questions, provide feedback, and for

parents/guardians to give input to make the

school better each day!!!

Meetings may include: Data review

Conscious discipline training videos

Question and feedback

Review of school wide goals to gain feedback

from parents/grandparents

Goal: Increase Two-way communication between school and

community