QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you.  If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you”. ~Zig Ziglar

TO DOs

• Look at the HDMS calendar for any updates or events happening in the upcoming week
• Please make sure you complete your SLGGs and self-reflection.
• ALL CLASSIFIED STAFF:  Please see the new goal setting form and the new evaluation rubric.  These will be the forms used moving forward. 

ADVISORY UPDATE

• October 23: 8th Grade Class Meeting, 
  • 6/7th Grade Digital Citizenship “Media Balance & Wellbeing” 
• 30: 7th Grade Class Meeting, 
  • 6/8th Grade Digital Citizenship “Media Balance & Wellbeing” 

• November 6: 6th Grade Class Meeting, 
  • 7/8th Grade Digital Citizenship “Media Balance & Wellbeing” 

The advisory team strives to ensure that advisory lessons are easily accessible for staff (to avoid the need to plan for another prep) while still being in-depth and meaningful for our students.  This year’s Digital Citizenship lessons have been updated through Common Sense Media.  You can use this link to access the lessons (you’ll need to sign in using your gapps account).  The lessons will take two advisory class periods.    

Because the lesson resources are so in-depth, we’ve also tried to pare it down to the essentials (slideshow, student handout(s), lesson quiz, and family resources) which can be found here.  This will be posted to the staff Google Classroom.  The student handouts will also posted to the student Google Classroom. 

CONTINUED CULTURE OF CARE PD

Above is a short video on the difference between empathy and sympathy.

FEEDBACK

Laurie and Wendy would like your feedback about their SIW session on Collaborative Conversations and tailor their next session to your needs. Here is a quick 5 question survey.

In addition, to assist those wanting to jump into the Plan B process, we’ve added this question to the Observation Form: If you’d like a member of the CCT to cover your class for 5-10 minutes so that you can have a Plan B conversation with the student, please name the day/period/time below.  One of us will be there

BITS AND BOBS

• Our 1st and 2nd-year teachers, district wide, are attending workshops around Disciplinary Literacy. I think this article provides a great definition and understanding of what, exactly, Disciplinary Literacy actually is, as well as providing some great content-specific examples.

• I have seen several ‘all staff emails’ asking staff to look for a specific students lost items, such as; lunch box, i pad, notebook etc… This is not necessarily a sustainable system.  I wonder if these opportunities would be good practice for our students to advocate and problem solve with you as the adult but then they have to do some of the work to retrace their steps, chat with their teachers etc…instead of ‘all staff emails’ being how their problem gets solved and materials get recovered.  Thanks for considering an adjustment to the ‘all staff email’ practice.

• Data to use for SLGGs:
  • Number of 6th graders: 290
    • SPED: 28
    • ELL: 31
    • TAG: 20
  • Number of 7th graders: 283
    • SPED: 28
    • ELL: 20
    • TAG: 16
  • Number of 8th graders: 283
    • SPED: 36
    • ELL: 20
    • TAG: 13

• Conference details: Click here for tips on how to best work with interpreters
• Wednesday Oct 23^rd 4:00-8:00pm (DPO provided dinner in the staff room)
  •  Dinner break 1 at 5:30-6:00: Math, Social Studies, PE and Sp Ed
  •  Dinner break 2 at 6:00-6:30: Language Arts, Science, Electives and ELL
• Thursday Oct 24^th
  • Grading time 8:00-11:30
  • Lunch break all departments 11:30-noon
• Conferences noon-8:00pm
  • Dinner break 1 at 5:30-6:00: Language Arts, Science, Electives and ELL
  • Dinner break 2 at 6:00-6:30: Math, Social Studies, PE and Sp Ed
• Friday Oct 25^th
  • Non work day for certified staff

• Please click the link below to read the notes from our Safety Team meeting https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M_pV9ki9XhXX_iaWCWVUGd965FTAY0NkH0hxqjCpRdc/edit?usp=sharing

HDMS HIGHLIGHTS