SEL Concerns Ticket Please use this if you have concerns with a student’s lagging SEL skills and you would like to do some collaboration with us (Heidi T. and/or Brian) to problem solve. Thanks!
FYI Ticket Please use this if you have an incident or recurring incidents with a student. This helps us with follow through, communication and data. Thank you!!!!! New and improved: You can now check more than one teacher for each FYI! Please use this function when more than one student is involved (including the victim if there is one).
Staff Shout Outs are BACK! Please fill out when you see/hear about the great things our staff is doing.
How’s it going? Please keep these coming.
Highland Culture of Care is looking for teachers and/or grade levels to sign up for assembly videos! You can do that here. Thank you!!!
Our character trait for November is Gratitude! Look for books coming soon in the library as well as some ideas linked to the assembly calendar. The next assembly will be on November 19th at 1:30 and our spirit day will fall in line with the district college and career day if it is happening.
Your Culture of Care team will be leading the SIW on Nov. 3rd. If you have a copy of Classroom 180, please bring it to the SIW. Don’t have it? Have no fear, we can fix that!
Student Success Support Please look over this document before the November 3rd SIW. It is something Megan and I (Heidi T.) put together in order to help with understanding of what it looks like to get support from our SST (Student Success Team).
Flu Shots – Friendly reminder to protect your health and get those flu shots.
PTO Update – The PTO board met last night to discuss a variety of things including some requests for funding. Since the Giving Campaign is about one-third fulfilled I suggested they consider releasing approximately half of the Storyline Class Funds line item. Once we receive the check we can distribute this to teachers, so within the next week you can expect to have $400 ready to use for storyline items (in addition to any supply funds you still have from the $450 you received in August). These funds can be used for your own storyline needs or your grade level needs and you do not need to send the request to PTO; these purchases go through Ashley. Please see me if you have any questions.
Equity Team – You are invited to join our building E-team on Wednesday 11/17 for the first meeting. One overarching purpose is to coordinate opportunities to check our current practices against our collective values, rights, and responsibilities.
Masking – Please keep your mask on your face covering your nose and mouth. Pulling the mask away from your face defeats the purpose. If you find yourself doing this often, it’s time to try a different mask. Thanks for keeping your colleagues and students comfortable and safe.
SLGG Form – Here is a link to the SLGG form
SIW update – based on your input here’s the proposed plan for the upcoming SIWs up to winter break;
- 11/10 – Staff Meeting & PLC Workshop
- 11/17 – Teacher Prep & Optional Equity Team
- 12/1 – Storyline
- 12/8 – Staff Meeting & Storyline
- 12/15 – Teacher Prep & Optional Storyline
SRP Training – The following dates are being provided for any new hires this past year and anyone interested in a refresher training on the Standard Response Protocol. Please sign up in PD place.
- WHEN: Choose one of the following dates: 11/10, 12/8, 1/12, 2/9, 3/9, 4/6, 5/11
- WHEN: 3:00-4:00, one hour in-person
- WHERE: Ed Center room 314
TLC Announcement – The decision has been made to split our language arts adoption between 2 years. This school year we will be running a foundational skills adoption. This means we will have a steering committee that meets regularly throughout the year to adopt core beliefs, practices, and materials around Tier 1 and Tier 2 foundational skills (phonemic awareness, phonics, print concepts, and fluency). Implementation of our newly adopted beliefs, practices and instructional materials will begin starting in June of 2022. The second part of the adoption will be language arts which will be more specific to building knowledge of the world, vocabulary building and a building a deeper understanding of what we are reading. Writing instruction will be included in this part of the adoption. Implementation of Part 2 will begin June of 2023. Here is the timeline:
Week Preview:
- Monday 11/8
- Tuesday 11/9
- EBISS K – 2:30-3:15
- Wednesday 11/10
- Staff Meeting 1:15-1:45
- SIW 1:45-3:15
- Thursday 11/11
- Veterans Day – No School
- Friday 11/12