SWAG – “Staff Week at A Glance”
Here is a link to this week’s SWAG slide.
Talking to students about masking…
Thank you for sharing your empathetic, thoughtful, and honest perspectives on masking during Staff Crew this morning. If you didn’t read through the email from Jennifer Hauth this afternoon, you might have missed that there are some great discussion prompts on the subject, linked below. Feel free to use this in your Crews, or even in your regular academic classes.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jv72h1IDCUFlvN1AppRARPtq9dFsIY-X3X6P2iVGN-U/edit
SLC Sign ups
Crew Teachers – did you get an email from Signup.com?? If not, please let Roger know ASAP.
We are sending the sign up links to families today. Please follow up on Monday or Tuesday with your own message to families of your Crew members with your individual sign up link. Thanks – we would love to see HIGH attendance this time around!
Saturday Proficiency Day – 3/12/22
In the absence of Academic Intensives, we are hosting a Proficiency Day next Saturday from 9:30 – 12:00. The main purpose is to help students with D’s and F’s get some extra support, so it would be AWESOME if those students arrived ready to get some work done!
All we’re asking is that Crew teachers make sure to check in with students about their grades this week, talk up this opportunity, and Subject Teachers help students in your classes with low grades to “arrive ready” (meaning they know what they need to complete) if they do intend to come.
Check out the D-F list from Friday March 4th. It is concerning!
There are 35 individual kids with 1 or more F mark, and many more if you include D’s! There are 125 total D’s and F’s out there right now… Yikes!
Canvas Settings/Sub Plans
Many/most teachers are using Canvas pages to hold the bulk of their sub plans. This is great, but please know that you need to adjust the following settings in order for subs to see your Canvas pages:
Go the course home page, then click Settings on the left side. Under Course Details, scroll to “Visibility,” then select “Public” from the drop-down menu. Click “Update Course Details” at the bottom of the page.
Note: Some folks have expressed concern about having copyrighted material on public Canvas pages. If you don’t want to make your pages public for this or any other reason, then that is fine! Just make sure that both students and subs can see and access your plans and materials in another way.
Please take a moment to make sure that your settings are as you would like them to be (we cannot actually change them on our administrative back end). If you could use assistance, please see Tyler or Danny (our Canvas Coaches).
Also for your reference: RHS Sub Expectations Doc
Hall Passes/Attendance Info
I want to appreciate your patience and input as we tune our systems around students out of class. This is subtle and tricky work! Here are a few ways that you can help make sure students are where they are supposed to be:
- Use the Hall Pass quarter sheets (pictured above) if you are sending students further than right outside your door. If you need more, there are extra stacks on top of your mailboxes.
- Please send only one student to the bathroom at a time, regardless of gender.
- If a student is more than 20 minutes late to class, then they should be marked absent (not late).
Tri 2 Grading Window
Heads up as you are planning your Spring Break fun… we’re going to ask that your final grades are in by the end of the day Friday, March 18th. Thank you!
Cool teaching practice: Public Progress Tracker!
As Tony and I (Zach) were cruising through classrooms earlier this week, we saw this AWESOME public progress tracker in Karen’s room. She had one of these for each of her classes, and this one was posted on the front whiteboard.
Students were totally self-directed, engaged, and collaborating effectively, while Karen was able to check in with her students who were further behind. One cool feature is the arrows above the tracker, which indicated where students “should” be to be on-track, but also indicates that it is OK to be a little behind that.
Big Ups, Karen!
