12/16/22 Weekly Update

Special Schedule for Friday 12/16 – PJ Day

Highland Norms: Linked here is a draft of Highland Norms. Our leadership team spent several meetings combing through the survey input as well as examining other examples of professional norms. It’s time to share this staff-wide and we will go through an exercise in January (possibly February) to increase our congruence with these norms for behavior.

Report Card Guidance: Please be sure to read your updates from TLC and look for the report guidance and support. Ashley will send a survey to you on the deadline possibilities. Kaelynn Adams will also provide a workshop on Thursday 2/26 at 2:30 to provide support with report cards as well.

Winter (March 2023) Culmination: Please use this link to put in details for your Winter culmination requests.

Magnet School Info Nights and Tours:

Informational Presentations: Wednesday 3/1, 2:00-3:00pm and 5:30-6:30pm.
Tours: Thursday 3/2, 1:15pm and Tuesday 3/7, 1:15pm

A Friendly Reminder from Heidi and the recess coaches: Please do not send your students out to recess early. It makes it tough on our recess coaches. Thank you for understanding!

From Heidi Thomas and Highland’s Culture of Care Team: Here is the link to our 22/23 Highland Culture of Care Folder. This is where our school expectations posters and videos will live. I have also made a copy of all of the Classroom 180 SIW slide decks and added them to the file.

Here is our assembly plan and sign up.
December:
- Character Trait: Generosity
- SEL Focus: Relationship Skills
- Discussion Question: I contributed by…

Key Links:

Shout Outs

COVID Reporting Form

Highland Literacy Resources

2022-2023 Staff Meetings – Agendas & Notes

2022-2023 Master Schedule

FYI Ticket

SEL Concerns

Bias Incident Report

How’s It Going

Piper Posts

Recess Rules