QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Forget all the reasons why it won’t work and believe the one reason why it will.

TO DOs

• Sub Notebooks: Beginning a new quarter is a good time to review your sub notebook, having it up to date sets our Guest Teachers up for success. One way to do this is to ensure your sub notebook is accurate. Please click here for all the documents that are expected to be in these notebooks.
• Review safety team meeting notes found here.  
• Click below to see the notes from our SIW work teams
  • Culture of Care https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mo6NtpWRnrb2XjxHQHiSOh1788u8c_Ef?usp=sharing
  • PBIS meeting notes Here is a link
  • Advisory meeting notes Here is a link
  • AVID meeting notes https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_pVBU8oTbzXH_wkTUtvVmRIfdw3eI_q41XSIFtZECFU/edit?ts=5e179209
  • Equity meeting notes https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YEPY3Dac_J0FmhDb317IjaJqh3XbzNdq

PBIS INFO

• Student store was a great success!! We already have ten groups of kids looking for places to enjoy their pizza during lunch on 2/7, with more likely to be submitted; the PBIS team will be contacting teachers who these students requested to host. This is completely optional, so feel free to say no or ignore the email if you are unable to host students. Keep handing out those Diamondbucks!!!

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

One of the things that we’ve discussed but not addressed in detail is that the reason “why” student misbehave is because the expectations of a given situation are greater than a student’s skill level. If you are curious as to a list of lagging skills that often cause a student’s challenging behavior, then here is a link.

We probably won’t spend any time this year reviewing and talking about this list of lagging skills, but it is something that we’ll be using behind the scenes to better craft student intervention and supports.

BITS AND BOBS

• Excellence and Equity: Here is the link with the full report from the listening sessions that happened throughout our district this year with a variety of groups of stakeholders. We will spend some time digging through this information as a staff in the coming months.
• Tardy information: The master tardy list continues to be updated on a weekly basis. See the link on the sidebar of the blog for more information including charts and graphs on different tabs.
• Sustainability: One way we can improve is to completely power down classroom presentation stations by simply turning off the switch on the cart’s power strip to avoid phantom power use.  Ideally, we’d do this every day, but at minimum, it would be done every Friday.  
  • We are working on a plan to have Green Team students help remind teachers so we can have school-wide “Phantom Power down Fridays!!”
  • Here is some information about energy use in the district and where all schools are in the ENERGY STAR ranking across the district.  Also included in the update is a link to a survey about energy management.  The district’s sustainability coordinator is hoping to get a few hundred to take the survey and get a better pool of information to work from.

HDMS HIGHLIGHTS