3.9.2019 | Where Every Story Matters

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“What if Disco was actually an ancient language?!” ~Intrigued 7^th grade student

“Hats off to you guys as teachers and school staff! You guys have such a difficult job and you all are doing fantastic!” ~Parent of 2 HDMS students

TO DOs

– Please ensure that you have your sub plans, class lists, duty schedule etc. updated and please leave your Sub Notebook under your phone. Whenever you are absent please be sure to include safety information and how to locate your Sub Notebook in your content lesson plans. Please see a Safety team member for clarification (Jo, Brad, Laurie, Koop).

-An email was sent out in August with updated documents for all the Sub Notebooks (updated phone lists, personnel room locations etc). If you missed that email please reach out to Kerri Green and she will re-send it to you.

UPCOMING WEEK

D- WOW: Synthesize

Wednesday March 13 (Safety Day all day, every class period)

7:45am Advisory: Safety lesson then an ‘all call’ to release to PBIS celebration

1:30pm SIW: Whole staff EBISS/Kid Time in the Media Center

BITS AND BOBS

-Staff that indicated on the survey an interest in meeting with Admin regarding teaching assignments for next year have been emailed and scheduled to have those conversations.

-Kid Time Update Overview (more details will be provided at SIW)

Because we have not seen any demonstrable improvement of the students that we’ve discussed during Kid Time, we are going to hack how we structure Kid Time to see if we can produce greater improvement in student learning. Here is a brief overview of what we’ll be trying.

We’ll review the list of the 46 students who had 3 or more F’s during the first semester. We’ll then ask each person to adopt 1 student for the second semester. It could be a student that you have already informally adopted, a student from year’s past that you’d like to reconnect with or a student that you know from a non-academic setting.

We can then brainstorm what an adoption could look like bearing in mind that we don’t want to place a host of new responsibilities on your shoulders. Our guess is that most everyone is already doing this in some shape or form but we can use Kid Time to put a little more definition around it.

In the long run, if we can assist these students in improving the academic engagement, it’ll make all of our lives a lot easier and provide them with a richer future.

REMINDERS

-Safety Day slides have been updated with improvements/adjustments based on feedback we have received. Please review on Google Classroom prior to instruction on Wednesday.

-Forecasting is coming up. More info to come with details but the dates are below

– 8^th graders will forecast with BSH during 1^st period on 3/19 and 3/21

– 8^th grades will forecast for SHS and MVHS during Advisory on 4/3

– 6^th and 7^th graders will forecast during Advisory on 4/3

-Snow Day make up hours noted below. Certified staff will offer 16 hours, outside of their regular working hours, that will support connection/communication with our families between now and the end of this school year to take place of conferences.