QUOTE OF THE WEEK:

Culture is a set of living relationships working toward a shard goal.  It’s not something you are.  It’s something you do.

~ Daniel Coyle

 

TO DOs:

Please consider reviewing the following folders as new items have been added:

• AVID
• PBIS
• Sustainability Team

Consider reviewing the new weekly data in the Behavior Resolution Reports tab.

Consider coming down to the cafeteria to sit and eat with students or watch them play and engage with peers in a different environment.  Several staff have done this and the positive comments made by the students about seeing their teacher at lunch have been powerful.

Consider viewing this 3 min video related to the article The Curve of Forgetting that was mentioned during our PD

 

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Monday Oct 15

• D-WOW: simultaneous

Wednesday Oct 17-

• District providing breakfast to all HDMS staff in the Gym.  Shay will stay after breakfast and spend the rest of his day at HDMS.

Wednesday Oct 17

• Advisory
• 6^th grade- Class Meetings (after announcements please walk your class to the Cafeteria, there will NOT be an “all call”)
• 7^th and 8^th grade- Digital Citizenship #6, Gallup Poll

Wednesday Oct 17- SIW

• District mandatory meetings for selected content teams

Thursday Oct 18

• Safety Meeting at 7:15 in the downstairs Staff Room

Friday Oct 19

• Kindra’s last day.  Swing by the Main Office throughout the day to enjoy a treat and say farewell.

CPR class-Wednesday Nov 7^th HDMS Media Center 2:00-5:00, Please sign up with Stephanie Bent

 

BITS AND BOBS:

Tardy Data:

• Six students tardy for September 28th – October 4th.  Zero repeat students from the previous week and zero egregious  number of tardies.
• All six students appearing on this report for the first time received a written notice with their specific tardy data; additionally, their family was notified of this warning.

 

Some of our families and staff have been impacted by ICE, the following is an FYI regarding our families dealing with immigration/deportation issues.

In chatting with our Superintendent’s office and our legal counsel, here is the recommendation:

If a teacher receives a request for a letter of support from an attorney, they may write the letter (but are not required to do so).  However, because the information included is more than we publicly release about a student, we first must receive consent from the parent to share information with the attorney.  (The attorney can help provide that consent documentation, and it should be filed in our records.)

Remember, your letter is a legal document, and follow-up testimony, while unlikely, may be required.  Your job title and relationship to the student are important to include, but please don’t use district letterhead.  If the staff member writing the letter would like their document reviewed before sending it to the family’s attorney, Sharon Smith is willing to help with that.  The staff member should keep a copy of their own letter, for their records.

 

Just a reminder regarding ACT:

• If you have a student with an apostrophe in their login, hold down the apostrophe key until the student is shown the option to select the vertical apostrophe. That is the only apostrophe that works on iPads in this case.
• Student Transfers through ACT Aspire need to be requested by schools using the “Students” tab, then selecting student transfer.  Then notify either Dave VanLoo or Stephanie Bent to approve the request.

🎉Digital Citizenship Week officially begins Monday!🎉

We have assigned lessons to be taught during Advisory, if you want to embed more of this in your content classes eel free to take just a few moments each day to call attention to these important topics.

• There are many other resources that you can draw from in addition to the lesson table that our team sent out last week.
  
  For instance, you could share this video from Common Sense Media to introduce Digital Citizenship Week 2018 and identify some common topics with your students.  Consider creating an account with Common Sense Media to access even more materials and resources.
  Please reach out to Scott MacDonald if you have any questions.

REMINDERS:

Student Observation forms:

• There is now a hot link on the right hand side of the home page of the blog where you can enter any info regarding students you want to document.  When you get an email with a Behavioral Resolution please consider NOT printing but saving to your computer so this info remains confidential, as many of our printers are in public locations where students have access as well.

Conferences:

Below is the schedule that staff voted on for our conference schedule:

• Wed. Oct 24 1:00-3:15 conference prep
• Wed. Oct 24 3:15-7:15 conferences
• Dinner break provided by DPO (Math, SS, PE) 4:45-5:15
• Dinner break provided by DPO (LA, Sci, Electives) 5:15-5:45
• Thurs. Oct 25 7:15-11:15 grading time
• Thurs. Oct 25 11:15-7:15 conferences
• Dinner break (LA, Sci, Electives) 3:45-4:15
• Dinner break (Math, SS, PE) 4:15-4:45
• Fri. Oct 26 trade time day off

 

HDMS HIGHLIGHTS:

Below please enjoy images of students and staff engaged in learning at HDMS this week!