Week: September 16, 2024

General Announcements 

FAST TESTING this WEEK –Our 6^th and 7^th Grade Students will be testing Monday and Tuesday in the morning. This is a change from the original dates posted to allow for small groups and accomadations, ensuring our students are provided with the optional environment to do their very best!

 ACADEMICS

Please check HAC (Home Access Center) grades have been updated for your child’s classes, interim reports were published on September 11^th. Please take a minute to review your child’s grades with them. They will have multiple opportunities to make up any missing work. Wednesdays in Bridge are allocated for Make Up workdays. Please encourage your student to take advantage of these days to work with teachers and co-teachers to complete or remediate any of their missing assignments. As always, if you have questions about your child’s grade, please reach out.

 Fridays have been designated for summative assessments and for the chance for students to show what they know! This week’s summative activities will focus on a One-Pager Activity that students will have the entire week to work on in class to ensure they have all the support, supplies and resources to do their best! We are looking forward to the wonderful work they can do!

CSA’s: District Common Assessments will also be given this week in Social Studies, ELA and Science are on the horizon and Math was completed last week. CSAs are like a classroom summative assessment. Can be used to identify targeted reteach supports as well as student mastery towards grade level standards.  CSAs allow us to connect as a community of instructional leaders at both the building and district level, allowing us to share common language, a collective knowledge of strategies, data and what works best for students.  Teachers will use assessments to gauge student progress, review results and determine interventions, reteach opportunities, and extensions.

Social Perspectives

The focus of our program is to teach students alternative behaviors to replace challenging ones, helping students reach their academic and affective learning potential. The goal of the Bridge Program at GRMS is to gradually reintegrate students into the general education setting with minimal support. Our social perspectives focus this week will be on EMOTIONS and what to do when they are dysregulated or overwhelming. We will focus on strategies on how to advocate for themselves, use their accomadations and useful communication along with self-regulation.