January 30, 2017

What's Happening?

It has been amazing to see so many wonderful things that are taking place in your classrooms on a daily basis!  The work you do is so important and needs to be shared.   Please remember our rules for posting:

Ensure the students are not on our no-photo list
The image portrays our students, staff and school in the best possible light
The post represents one of our three core values.

Nuts and Bolts:

All grades MUST be entered by 9:00 AM Wednesday.  Report cards will be printed Wednesday, placed in envelopes Thursday and mailed out on Friday.   Please be sure your grades are updated accurately.

What music do you want to start your day with...enter your songs here.

Mid-Year conferences with administration will be taking place Monday, Wednesday and Friday of this week, please be sure you are signed up for a time-slot.  Our focus will be on how the first half of the year has gone, as well as Domain 4.

Please be sure to schedule a meeting or check in with Mark for your SGO's.

All ELA students should have completed their STAR reading, please make sure all your students have taken the assessment.

Dates:

February 1 Grades posted by 9:00AM

February 6                 Faculty Meeting

February 10               Spotlight 9:00 am

February 13               Faculty Meeting

February 22               BOE Meeting 7pm APR

January 23, 2017

Great Things Noticed:

It is wonderful to see so many teachers sharing one moment from their classrooms on a daily basis.  Please be sure to click here to learn about why we are doing this as well as student list of students who can and cannot be photographed.  Let's tell our story!

Nuts and Bolts:

Help make us all smile in the morning by adding some song selections!

Marking period will end on January 25th, and grades must be posted by 9:00AM on February 1st.

• Faculty meeting today will be departmentalized
• Math - STEM Lab
• ELA - APR
• Science - Room 100 - Mrs. Miserulli  -  How are you adjusting to the shifts in NGSS?  What resources have you found helpful?  What resources do you still need?
• Social Studies Room 102 - Charlie Best  -  How are you adjusting to the shifts in curriculum?  What resources have you found helpful?  
• Related Arts - Linda Naimo's Art Room  -  How can you work to connect some of the work students are doing within your classrooms?
• Spanish - Work on new curriculum questions from Mark
• PE - Explore possibilities for new Health Text Book series.

The Super Bowl Competition on February 3rd -- Bring in your own soup or chili dish for others to try. The Steelers and Giants are now out of it so Tim and I have try and win something.

ELA and Social Studies Teachers HERE is a link to a Book Wishlist. If there are books you know you will need for next year, please be sure to add to the list. The PTA has some extra money to help us get some extra books. Not all requests will be granted, but it doesn't hurt to ask.

Mid Year SLC Check-ins will be scheduled February 13, 14, 15th. Thank you to our Team Leaders who put together this document to help us all stay on track with the students' progress throughout the year. We will be using an advisory schedule these three days. Your team leaders will be able to discuss this further with you during your team time.

Mid Year Conferences with administration. These meetings will be a check in to see how your year is progressing. If you have any concerns or areas you would like help improving please be ready to bring them to our attention. We will also be discussing teacher performance as it relates to Domain 4.

Dates:

January 23 Faculty Meeting
February 2 8th grade MyNAEP Testing
February 13, 14, 14 SLC Adjusted Schedule -
We will be using an advisory schedule these 3 days.

January 25                  BOE Meeting-7pm in APR  

February 6                  Faculty Meeting
February 10 Spotlight 9:00 AM

February 13               Faculty Meeting

Resources:

Happy 2017!!!

Quotes to Start Your Year:

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”  – Mark Twain

“I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.” – Marissa Mayer

“For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually’, just do it and correct course along the way.” – Timothy Ferriss

“Someone once said …. ‘Work is the bridge between dreams and reality.’ So just be warned: if you have big dreams be ready for a ton of work.” ~ Jared Leto

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Vincent van Gogh

“Hard work does not guarantee success, but lack of hard work guarantees that there will be no success.” – Jim Valvano


Nuts & Bolts

Tim and I feel honored to be leaders in a school where there are so many wonderful things taking place in your classrooms.  We would like to provide you with an opportunity to share at least one thing that takes place in your classroom with your team members on Thursday.  It could be a classroom management system, communication with parents, formative assessments, a lesson that hooks students, etc.

Morning Procedures -- As a reminder please be sure to swipe your key fab or card by 8:30 AM, and be in your room ready to teach by 8:40. 

Parent Calendar - Please be sure to update our parent calendar by Friday for before/after school events or any grade level activities that may be taking place.  We will send it out to parents on Friday by 9:00 AM. 

Spotlight -- January 13 -2:30 in APR - All names need to be in by Tuesday 1/10 as Denise will be out and unable to print awards after 1/10.  Agenda click here  Please be sure to have students vote for Teacher and Staff member of the month, the link is:  https://goo.gl/ZnDy9x

2nd Round of observations will be starting shortly.  You will not need to schedule a pre-conference with us as it will be an unannounced observation for 30 minutes.

SLC - Please be sure to continue having students complete reflection sheet when a summative assessment is given.  We will be pulling these assessments into our SLC's in April and we want to make sure you and the students have enough assessments to choose from when they sit down with their parents.  

New Year Tips & Best Practices in Classroom Management
https://www.smartclassroommanagement.com/2016/12/31/the-best-of-smart-classroom-management-2016/

BIS Teacher Created Resources: Here are 2 self-assessment resources created by our very own staff!

Phillips Chart

Student Self Assessment Rubric


Dates:

January 9th  - Faculty Meeting 
January 9th - Girls Basketball Press Release
January 13 - Spotlight 2:30 in APR - All names need to be in by Tuesday 1/10 as Denise will be out and unable to print awards after 1/10.
January 16 -   Boys Basketball Press Release
January 23   - Faculty Meeting
January 23 -  7th Grade Press Release
January 30 -  8th Grade Press Release