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Visitors This Week!

The

Jag News Weekly Words for All 5.21.18 to 5.25.18

Our Mission

Gratitude List 1. Ms. Mullen, Ms. Z, Ms. Weiss-Cohen, Ms. Presser, Mr. O, Ms.

June Willis-Castle – Thank you so much for helping to ensure the

students had a delightful 8th grade dance on Friday evening. Special thank you to Ms. Mullen for securing a beautiful venue and for planning the event.

2. Ms. Phelan, her grandmother, aunt, sister and mom, Ms. Leon,

Ms. Favors, Ms. Criss, Ms. Easley – Thank you so much for

planning an excellent K-1 Mother’s Day Tea on Monday. Our students and parents had a delightful experience.

3. Molly, Morgan, and Qingying - Thank you for being our amazing

counseling interns this year. Your time, support, and positivity was invaluable to our students.

4. Ms. Sheila Weisberg – Thank you for being the principal sub on

Wednesday!

5. Ms. Weiss-Cohen - Great job planning and executing a successful

career day on Thursday! We had wonderful presenters, an organized schedule, and students participated in a meaningful learning experience that involved exposure to a myriad of careers.

6. Ms. Keefer and Ms. Weiss-Cohen – thank you for your energy,

time and hard work ensuring our students had adequate time and space to put forth their best effort on the Keystone Exam on Monday.

7. Mr. Clark, Ms. Presser, Ms. Keefer, Mrs. Easley - thank you for

preparing and presenting professional development on Friday!

8. Ms. Keefer– thank you for running our leadership team meeting on

Wednesday with a special focus on our professional development.

Our mission is to prepare students to become positive, productive citizens who can live

independently and with purpose to serve others.

We focus on accountability through

owning our actions, resiliency by putting forth

our best effort, and kindness by ensuring we

care for all while honoring diversity.

10 Principals who are current Philly Plus Residents and 2 directors from this program will be visiting classes on THURSDAY morning.

Parents will be here FRIDAY morning for our end of year ballet show!

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The students had an amazing experience at their 8th grade dance on Friday because our staff put so much time and effort into ensuring it would be a memorable time for students. THANK YOU! As well, MAJOR SHOUT OUT to Ed from Delaware Valley Fairness Project. He came on Friday morning with hundreds of dresses, shoes, and jewelry for our girls from community partners as donations. THANK YOU ED!!!

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This week at OEC was full of joy and positivity. Molly and Morgan, our counseling interns, pose above with students on their final day. Tymir and Emanuel are looking sharp in their suits at the 8th grade dance above and to the left, moms and first graders enjoy our Mother’s Day Tea. With only a few days left in the 17-18 school year, let’s maintain our engagement and positivity!!

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Reflecting on Teaching and Communicating with

Families

The Classroom Environment

Instruction

Planning and Preparation

Best Practices

Great job to Ms. Leon for being a presenter during our career day and for encouraging students to extend the discussion and enrich it by creating their own future dreams and goals. Virtually all students were engaged and I thank you!

Our K-2 Team will be visiting Clara Barton Elementary on Monday to identify best practices and reflect on effectiveness of instructional activities used. Teachers will identify specific ways our instruction is similar to CB, different, and how we can collaborate. I encourage other teams to schedule visits 4x/year next year to see other schools. Let’s put these on our calendar!

Ms. Weiss-Cohen did an excellent job of creating a culture of learning by bringing in a wide variety of career day speakers. Students indicated through their questions and comments a desire to understand more about potential careers. As well, the passion communicated by our speakers was contagious. Great job Ms. Weiss-Cohen!

Gentle reminder to all staff to kindly refer to the end of year close out list provided by Ms. Presser on Friday. Summer Work packets are quickly approaching. When determining what work should be provided over the summer, ensure it is meaningful and relevant.

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Students looked beautiful at the 8th grade dance on Friday evening. Thank you to all staff who helped ensure this night was extra special for our soon to be graduates! We appreciate you!

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Huge shout out to Mr. Zacharjasz (Shelly’s dad above) and Mr. Nasir (Damon’s dad to the left) for coming to OEC for the 3rd YEAR in a ROW for career day! To all our newcomers – we encourage you to return and THANK YOU SO MUCH for your time!!!

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THIS WEEK IN MAY!

Day and Date What’s Going On?

Monday 21st

K-2 Team Out at Clara Barton (subs in annex!) AIMSWEB #3 TESTING WINDOW NOW CLOSED!!!

Foote will be around Monday to check data. All SLO scores will be input by Foote for all teachers

One Day of Wonder Schedules delivered by Sophia and Frank!

PLEASE stop by CHIPOTLE in ARDMORE from 4pm-8pm and let them know you are with OEC as 50% of all funds will

be donated to our school!!! Home and School Meeting 6pm-7pm

PARA MEETING 10AM PARA MEETING 2PM

Tuesday 22nd

8th Grade Trip to NYC! Field Trip to Dance School of Rock!

Wednesday 23rd

2nd ANNUAL ONE DAY OF WONDER! We will celebrate Stevie Wonder and honor diversity at OEC with St. Lucy’s students who are blind/visually

impaired. *Choir and violin performance trip to nursing home

Leadership Team Meeting – Follow Up on: *check system, inclusion for 18-19, May 18th PD, planning for

EOY retreat and June 13th final day

Thursday 24th

Safety Team Mtg 3:15pm-3:45pm (rescheduled from last wk) 10:30am Music Trip to Senior Care Center

8:30am-12pm 10 Philly Plus Principals will be visiting OEC along with two directors of the program

Friday 25th

Student of the Month Forms due to Sharon Weiss-Cohen 10am Ballet End of Year Show with Parents in GYM

K-1 Spring Literacy Event 1pm-3pm in Annex

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OEC’s VISION Need to reach me? Principal Meredith

Foote

Cell: 610-731-6039

Email:

[email protected]

Follow us on instagram: @oecjags

Any

suggestions for improvement or growth are

ALWAYS welcome.

Texts/emails work best!

The vision for OEC is to be a model school for the School District of Philadelphia by 2020 as rated by the school progress report (SPR) in order to exemplify best practices of using the least restrictive environment specifically for

students with special needs. Our ultimate goal is to be ranked #1 among all K-8 schools in the city.

We will continue to improve through

*effective leadership *collaborative teachers

*involved families *a supportive environment

*ambitious instruction

Teamwork will enable us to achieve our vision.

Safety News: Our 9th fire drill this year was our fastest exit at 1:57 out of the

building – keep it up!

Share below to help us create our dream playground! https://fundamentals.thefundsdp.org/school/4480#

Above, Ms. Weiss-Cohen’s family shares their love of technology during career day! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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Let’s Look Ahead… May 21 – Home and School Meeting 6-7pm May 23 – ONE DAY OF WONDER May 28 – School Closed, Memorial Day June 1 – Spring Fling run by Home and School Parents + Accenture Volunteers June 4 – Fire Drill #10 June 5 – Spring Concert June 6th – Kindergarten Move Up Day June 8th – 8th Grade Graduation @9:30am June 12th – Last Day for Students and June 13th – Last Day for Staff

MUSICAL MOMENT OF THE WEEK! This week, Ms. Hoffert picked up a donation of 30 classroom guitars to use in the music room next year. The 7th and 8th graders will now get to choose their own electives and guitar class will be one of them. Ms. Hoffert asks you to please consider learning guitar! Check out Vakees and Oscar below starting their lessons! Excellent job Ms. Hoffert! Learning guitar is going to be a wonderful experience for us!

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STAFF FAMILY MOMENTS

Congratulations to Ms. Spencer and her entire family. Her son Jonathan graduated from Messiah College this weekend and we could not be more proud of him! Pictured above are OEC graduates Jacqueline (soon to be senior at CAPA) Jennifer (soon to be junior at Lycoming College) and Jonathan. ALL THREE CHILDREN are graduates of OEC!!! Go Jonathan and go Mr. and Mrs. Spencer!

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STAFF FAMILY MOMENTS…

There were two royal weddings this weekend. One was celebrated by Ms. Phelan when her sister tied the knot! Congratulations to Ms. Phelan, her

sister, and entire family. Hope you had a wonderful time! Your students are looking forward to hearing all about

the big day!

OEC Staff – if you have a great family moment that would be okay for me to share, kindly send me a text with a few details so I can share in this new section of the Jag!

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Moment of the Week!

Students did something new this year at the 8th grade dance. They conversed with Ms. Mullen before the start of the dance and decided to present awards to every single one of their classmates. Students asked Ms. Mullen to get party favors around the Hollywood Theme and then distributed positive awards to each of their classmates. This type of culture of care and concern is what OEC is ALL about. Great job kids!

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