UPrep Weekly

1. UPrep Weekly
Year 4, Week 21
January 29th
– February 2nd
, 2018
83 days left to ensure our scholars are on the path to college.
Get Proximate!!
Weekly Outlook
Monday
 i-Ready Winter Window
Tuesday
 i-Ready Winter Window
Wednesday
 i-Ready Winter Window
 COSI in the Classroom (2nd – 4th)
Thursday
 GL Meeting & Culture Audit (7:30)
 COSI in the Classroom (2nd – 4th)
Friday
 OSU Men‟s Hockey Game
On the horizon:
 Family Leadership Council (2/5, 5:30)
 Family Engagement Blitz 6 (2/7)
 PLC Session (2/8, 7:30)
 K-2nd Celebration (2/9, 9:00)
 GL IAT Meeting (2/13, 7:30)
 GL Meeting & Culture Audit (2/15)
 Family Night (2/15, 5:30)
 3rd-4th Celebration (2/16, 9:00)
 President‟s Day – No School (2/19)
 PD Session (2/22, 7:30)
Items for Your Task List
 Please remember to record a brief video (~5-10 minutes) of
yourself using Cold Call, our current focus. Please share with
your grade-level team and me when complete. Thank you!
Announcements / Updates:
 Please utilize morning culture time and regular i-Ready lab
time to complete i-Ready makeups. I would like to wrap
up the winter winter by Wednesday, so please let me know
if that is going to be challenging. Thank you.
 Mid-year evaluation meetings start this week. I will send
you your evaluation at least 24 hours prior to your meeting.
Please review in advance, and bring any talking points to your
meeting. At the meeting, we will discuss and establish goals.
 COSI in the Classroom is coming to UPrep! 2nd-4th grade
teachers, please let me know if you have any questions
regarding the email I sent out a week ago.
 If you are interested in leading a service club or a service
event with the UPrep community, please let me know!
GROW our TEAM Value of the Week:
 WONDER. This week pump up scholars for the wonderful
topics they will study through the week. The scholar
definition for wonder is: The desire to learn new things.
Highlight scholars who are truly showing wonder in the
classroom through their engagement and asking questions on
new topics.

2. Driven by Data (January 22nd
– January 26th
)
Cultural Data
Central
Michigan
Findlay Bluffton Capital Miami
Ohio
St.
Bridge.
St.
Wooster Dayton Regis
Attendance
Rate
89.3% 89.3% 96.7% 92.2% 94.3% 90.8% 95% 91.9% 92.5% 96.9%
LW
Completion
57.1% 71.4% 79.2% 95.7% 85.7% 76.9% 75% 62.9% 73.3% 83.8%
*Congratulations to Miami on a “double green” week! Nice job!
Progress Report 2 Update
Below you will find an update on academic progress. This data is directly from Kickboard, and it includes all
scorecards entered from the beginning of Trimester 2 until Progress Report 2. The letter grade and percentage you
see reflects the average mastery by grade and course. Next steps:
1. Look at the average mastery scores for your grade. How can you leverage your grade level team to support
with lower averages?
2. Use the “Course Dashboard” feature on Kickboard. Click on “Subskills” and it will automatically generate a
list of skills scholars are struggling with. You can use that as a starting point for intervention.

3. Monthly Focus – January
Cold Call
Call on scholars regardless of whether they‟ve raised their hands. At UPrep, we get every
scholar involved!
Four purposes of Cold Call:
1. Checking for Understanding. If you only call on scholars who raise hand, you don’t get a true representation.
2. Culture of Engaged Accountability. When scholars see you calling on scholars with hands down, they come to
understand that they need to be prepared to participate at any moment.
3. Pacing. Waiting for volunteers can take a lot of time. Cold Call can be fast paced and more engaging!
4. Backstopping Your Ratio. Used with Wait Time, scholars will think more deeply because they know the cycle
could end with them being called to share.
Four keys to effective Cold Call:
1. Keep it Predictable. Scholars should know Cold Call is a possibility. They will then come to expect it and be more
prepared to respond.
2. Make it Systematic. Make Cold Call a part of your everyday routine, and use it with all types of scholars all the
time. Don’t use it to single scholars out. Planning Cold Calls in advance based on academic levels is best!
3. Keep it Positive. The purpose of Cold Call is to foster positive engagement. It’s not a “gotcha.” Remember that
Cold Call is an academic technique, not a behavioral one. Use an upbeat tone and have fun with it!
4. Unbundle your Cold Call. One way to maximize participation is to “unbundle” questions – breaking up larger
questions into a series of smaller questions, and distributing them to multiple scholars.
Please see page 249 in Teach Like a Champion 2.0 for more information!
Shout-Outs & Bright Spots
1. Allison S. for a great targeted questioning sequence when she broke down a math problem and cold-called
multiple scholars to get involved. Great stuff!
2. Julie for her outstanding consistency in using the exact right math terminology with scholars during class.
This is especially important in her current geometry unit.

4. 3. McKenna for establishing a calm and positive atmosphere during Core Knowledge in the afternoon. She
had kindergarten scholars making predictions and discussing the read-aloud in an engaging way.
4. Natalie for pushing work onto scholars by consistently asking the class if they agree or disagree with a
particular response. She then calls on scholars to explain why they agree or disagree.
5. Allie for keeping a great “poker face” when listening to scholar responses to not give the answer away to
the rest of the scholars. Her neutral face ensures the work stays on scholars to determine if the answer
they‟re hearing is correct!
6. Chelsea for going to KIPP Columbus to see how their operations teams function and determining some
best practices that we could implement here at UPrep!
7. Devin for leading such efficient small reading groups. She is able to get struggling scholars an extremely
high number of at-bats with word solving because of her diligence. Nice!
8. Jessica for targeting a very specific skill (the „th‟ blend) for review. When she realized scholars weren‟t
“getting it,” she brought them back to the carpet to review. Great work!
9. Shawn for setting up what will be a really neat science experience for scholars. 4th
graders will be growing
crystals…promises to be very engaging!
10. Abigail for getting scholars writing frequently during class. Our scholars‟ writing ability is improving
because of the number of opportunities they have to express ideas in written form.
11. Veda for a great sequence during her CK Skills lesson. She had scholars think about a summary of the
reading independently first, then talk about it with a partner, then listen to others as she called on scholars to
share, and then finally scholars went back to their desk to write a summary. Great sequence!
12. Allison E. for being so diligent about updating the IAT trackers with new data. That‟s a big job!