WELCOME BACK!

Coming soon to Arno…

Aug. 26

No events

Aug. 27

No events

Aug. 28

Medical Meetings

Aug. 29

Staff Welcome Back Lunch 11:45

New Family Tour 1:00

Aug 30

No events

Sept. 3

First Day of School– A.M. Only/Staff PD in P.M.

Sept. 4

Full Day

Sept. 5

PBIS Stations per schedule

PTA Meeting 6:30

Sept. 6

Fire Drill 10:00 a.m.

Sept. 9

No events

Sept. 10

No events

Sept. 11

No events

Sept. 12

Meet the Teacher Night

Sept. 13

ALICE Drill 10:00 a.m.

ARNO VISION

ARNO ELEMENTARY WILL PROVIDE A SYSTEM OF SUPPORT TO EMPOWER

AND INSPIRE STUDENTS TO BECOME COLLABORATIVE LEARNERS

THAT STRIVE FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

MEET THE NEW FOLKS…

STAFF CHANGES FOR 2019-2020

So many new changes and classroom changes for this school year.  Please help me welcome all of our new staff for the 2019-20 school year.

Erica Saville- School Social Work

Hello, Arno family! My name is Erica Saville and I’ll be your new School Social Worker! I got my MSW from the University of Michigan (go Blue!) and have worked in neighboring districts for the last 5 years. Outside of school, I love spending time with my own sweet daughter and husband, and traveling to visit my family. We are particularly fond of the National Parks, so look for my souvenir stickers in my office. I am so excited to be joining this team and can’t wait to get to know the Arno staff, students and families!

Lindsay Garza- 5th grade

Ciara Zuke- 5th grade

My name is Ciara Zuke. To fulfill my lifelong dream of becoming a teacher, I attended the University of Michigan – Dearborn and received my Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education in 2018. I student taught in Southgate, Michigan in a fourth-grade classroom. I plan on going back to school to obtain my Master’s Degree.

This year will be my very first year of teaching in my own classroom, and I am very excited to be teaching 5^th grade! I began my teaching career as a substitute teacher in Allen Park and Southgate and continued as a Title 1 Math and Reading Interventionist in Southgate. I have worked with students from Kindergarten through 5^th grade. I am also a lifelong Allen Park citizen! I attended Arno Elementary, Allen Park Middle School, and Allen Park High School and still currently live in Allen Park. I am very thankful to be starting my teaching career back at Arno!

Emilie Talamonti- 4th grade

Hello! My name is Emilie Talamonti and I am a new teacher at Arno Elementary this upcoming school year. I graduated from Michigan State University in 2013 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education. In 2018, I obtained a Master’s Degree from Eastern Michigan University in Learning Disabilities. I have been teaching fourth grade for the past five school years. When I am not teaching, I enjoy cooking and being outside with my family. I am so excited to join the Arno team!

BIG Welcome back also to Cassie Harrison and Andrea Alvarez!

2019-20 Teaching Staff

Goals and the Reading Coach

This year, we are looking to make our coach, Beth, more involved in your teaching experience.  Beth has worked with Journeys now for two years and can be a tremendous asset as you go forward in your lessons.  As evaluations start this year, you are annually asked to create a person goal- the types of things you want to find out about or work on.  As such I have met with Beth and have come to the following:

-Every teaching staff member that is being evaluated will initially meet with Beth once you  establish your personal goal, and the types of resources, modeling, etc. that you may need during the year to make it happen.  This should take place by Oct. 18.

-During the month of Jan/Feb, please meet with Beth again to review where your goal is at and any additional things you may need.

-At the end of the year (May/June), you will wrap things up with your normal evaluation process with me and enter all of your results into your evaluation.

This will result in some meetings through the year with our coach to help make your personal goal more meaningful and should be very helpful.  Beth will be issuing a menu of sorts that will help detail a number of the things that you can take advantage of, but Beth will, of course, work with you on whatever your personal needs are at the time.

Once Beth knows your goals, she can be on the lookout for resources, etc that can help you build your knowledge base and instruction.

NEW FAMILY OPEN HOUSE

Thursday, August 29, is our New Family Open House at 1:00 p.m.  At this time, our new Cougar families will be coming to check out our wonderful school.  If you are around and are able to help guide our new families as they check out our building, I would really appreciate it.  In the past, families have loved spending a little time with our great staff and learning all about Arno!  Please let me know if you think you’ll be able to help out so I can plan accordingly!

FYI- Summer Reading from the parent blog:

Summer Book Swap

It was another great summer of swapping as we saw many students up here at Arno looking for new books- we are so PROUD of our Cougars ! Now that summer is over, we need to set up the return of the books so that we have good stock for next summer’s swap.  Please plan on sending in your child’s summer books by Friday, Sept. 6 to their teacher.  Returning the bag is optional, but if it’s in good shape- you may return that as well.  Ms. Stanley will need all summer reading logs as well as the students may have earned an extra recess and popsicle in early October.

PBIS Behavior Chart update for 2019-20

PBIS lower clip chart

PBIS Stations 

PBIS Beginning of the Year Stations and Follow-Up Activities

Thursday, September 5, 2019

2019_2020 PBIS Beginning of the Year Stations

There will be 10 minutes spent at each station which includes the discussion and travel time between stations.  You will rotate in sequential order.

Start Times and Station

8:45a–Trionfi (1), Talamonti (2), Johnson (3), Pushman (4), Watson (5)

9:35a–Warneck (1), Guyot (2), Kalis (3), Schultz (4), Martinchick (5)

10:25a–Garza (1), Zuke (2), Higgins (3), Cervantes (4), Amonette (5)

11:50a–Jensen (1), Haskin (2), Harrison (3), DiCarlo (4), Stanley (5)

**Presenters, please note that the 11:50a rotation are all littles.  Please shorten your presentation to short attention spans, highlighting the big ideas.  Thank you for making this accommodation!**

1.Office Expectations

Staff: Kim Dowd or Cathy Anderson

Location: office

2. Assembly and Bullying Expectations

Staff: NEED STAFF

Location:  Gym

3. Bus Expectations

Staff: Steve Zielinski

Location: bus located in parking area

4. Cafeteria Expectations

Staff: Lunch STAFF

Location: Cafeteria

5. Hallway Expectations

Staff: Michele Sbonek

Location: hallway outside of Media Center/Computer Lab

Follow-Up Activities

(If needed, use for hallway displays for Meet the Teacher Night)

~Posters for the hallway

~Individual positive messages

~Write about it in your journal

~Review classroom matrix and expectations

~Draw a picture of when you were kind/somebody was kind to you

~Watch a PBIS video clip 

2017/2018 Stations video

RESA PBIS website–“Videos” dropdown on the page

REMIND

Please be sure that you have been added to my Remind account for any emergency contact needed.  Please enter 81010 and text this message @arnostaff to join our Remind group

GROUPME

Please remember to make sure I either have your cell phone number, or an updated cell phone number to enter you into Groupme.  This is the service I can use in an emergency that will allow staff to communicate back and forth should it be necessary (different capabilities than Remind)

FLIPPED STAFF MEETING

Please be sure that you view the flipped staff meeting so you are prepared with any questions during the F2F staff meeting on Sept. 4

TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DATES

This year, the district calendar reflects 7 half-days of teacher PD plus 1 Full day that is required by the state.  Those half-day PD dates feature no school in the afternoon, 11:30 dismissal.  The dates for this school year are as follows:

10/4, 10/31. 11/26, 12/13, 1/20 (Full Day), 2/14, 3/6, & 3/27

Digital Resources to Kick-Start the year

English / Language Arts

To install one of the tools listed below, visit the Chrome Webstore and search for it by name. 

Math

To install one of the tools listed below, visit the Chrome Webstore and search for it by name.