1.24.2020

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“No! Don’t eat the samples we are going to look at under the microscope. You don’t know what was on the tray before it!” ~ Mr. Prud’homme (6th grade Science) 🙂

TO DOs

PBIS INFO

  • Keeping giving out those Diamondbucks rewarding students for doing the right thing here at HDMS. 
    • Positively reinforcing behaviors we expect to see in students is tightly correlated with a safe environment and a positive school-wide culture. 
    • We are continuing to draw student names for weekly prizes as well as having the student store this Wednesday (1/29).  Please talk up the cool items available at the upcoming student store (e.g. pizza party for 150 Diamondbucks) with your students; direct students to the display case near the bus entrance for examples of items that will be at the Diamondback store and their cost. 

ADVISORY INFO

  • Please find the link below detailing the College and Career lessons that will take place in advisory in the next six weeks. Each lesson is grade specific.
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G6x7K7DSrvZjSrY85xd4oY8d616BkyyQR47y8KWwsXY/edit?usp=sharing
  • In addition, to this link a grade specific power point will be available on Google classroom. Please also note that depending on the weekly lesson additional material will be placed on Google classroom and/or in your mailbox. 
  • Prior to each week please try and review the lesson before advisory so that you remember to collect any materials needed from your mailbox.
  • Please feel free to contact Brettney or Joe if you have any questions or need any clarification on the material.

CULTURE OF CARE

Thanks to Brettney and Elissa for leading an interactive and informative session on Wednesday! They are soliciting teacher feedback to help the Culture of Care team craft our next session.

“Whether a kid is sulking, pouting, whining, withdrawing, refusing to talk, crying, spitting, screaming, swearing, running out of the classroom, kicking, hitting, destroying property, or worse, you won’t know what to do about the challenging behavior until you understand why it’s occurring (lagging skills) and pinpoint the specific situations in which it occurs (unsolved problems). Lagging skills are the why of challenging behavior. Unsolved problems tell us when the behavior is occurring.”
― Ross W. Greene, Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them

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