Tiger Tales
SHS Faculty and Staff Weekly News and Information Bulletin
September 14, 2015 ..... Edition No. 5
Please be cognizant of information, dates and deadlines, changes and updates to regularly scheduled meetings, and reminders included in the bulletin.
Information included may be confidential; therefore, all Tiger Tales news bulletins are considered exclusively for Southside High School faculty and staff.
Quote of the Week
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
~Jose Ortega y Gasset
This week's events:
Monday, September 14
................................Biology Benchmark Testing
................................No meetings planned
Tuesday, September 15
9:00 am .................1st Quarter Progress Report Grades & Scoresheet Reports due
Duty Periods ........PD #1 Rescheduled for Sept 24th
2:01 pm .................Algebra EOC Team Meeting
Wednesday, September 16
8:45 am .................Biology EOC Team Meeting
10:37 am ...............English EOC Team Meeting
2:55 pm ................US History EOC Team Meeting
3:55 pm ................Faculty Meeting
Thursday, September 17
...............................ACT Math Benchmark Testing
3:50 pm ................SLO Makeup Session (Media Center O.R.)
4:30 pm ................SHS hosts Student Centered Learning Sessions/Clusters
Friday, September 18
...............................ACT Math Benchmark Testing
4:00 pm ................Safety Modules deadline
Monday, September 21
.................................no meetings planned
Tuesday, September 22
2:01 pm .................Algebra EOC Team Meeting
4:05 pm ................Faculty Council Meeting
...............................Triple A Tutoring
Wednesday, September 23
8:45 am .................Biology EOC Team Meeting
10:37 am ...............English EOC Team Meeting
11:35 am ......... .....US History EOC Team Meeting
Thursday, September 24
All Duty Periods.....PD #1 with Dr. Hall (Media Center O.R.)
Friday, September 25
4:00 pm ..................Student Learning Objectives due
In the near future:
September
28 ...........................OPEN HOUSE
October
14 .............................PSAT Testing
15 .............................Professional Day
16 ............................Exchange Day
20 ............................PD #2
22 ............................1st Quarter ENDS
26 ............................1st Q Grades & Scoresheet Reports due
Happy Birthday !
Click here Play Happy Birthday Video This is for YOU!
Happy Birthday to these Tiger Teachers and Staff:
Sept 19 .......................Carter W. Smith (GDSKeeper)
Sept 21 .......................Latonya Little (Special Ed Teacher)
Sept 25 .......................Joseph Windley (AFJROTC Instructor)
From the desk of
Carlos Brooks, Principal
Southside High School's Annual Open House will be held on Monday, September 28, beginning at 5:45-8:00 pm. All teachers are required to attend.
Where Are You?
Please contact Ms. Mills and inform her of your whereabouts if you plan to conduct class somewhere other than your classroom. In addition, be sure to complete the class locator form on your door. If you do not have a class locator form, one will be placed on your door once the laminator film is delivered.
Benefits Meetings:
Ward Benefits Services will be on campus September 18-24, 2015. All staff members are required to meet with the benefits representative. Please drop by Ms. Webb’s office prior to the close of school on Friday, September 11, to sign up for a time to meet with the benefits representative. If you are new to the District and have already had your benefits meeting during orientation, you are not required to meet with the representative again.
Shirt Sizes:
Please email Ms. Webb your T-shirt size or you may give it to her when you sign up for your benefits meeting.
Student Attendance Books:
A class record (attendance) book has been placed in each teacher’s mailbox for the purpose of maintaining a hard copy of student attendance. Teachers should refer to page 15 of the Faculty Handbook if you have questions about student attendance.
Teachers are also reminded to use POWERTEACHER within the first ten minutes of class to record student attendance. Additionally, as aforementioned, a hard copy of student attendance book/log is required.
Makeup Picture Day
A makeup day will be set for October. Further details will be forthcoming.
Brad Griffith, Assistant Principal
Student Attendance:
In the near future you will receive an email from me with the number of attendance errors incurred per week. The beginning of the year is always difficult putting names with faces in addition to necessary schedule changes that affect your roster. As a whole, you are doing a fantastic job with an average of 2.4 errors per teacher for the week of 8/31 – 9/4.
Please continue to review the daily attendance report each afternoon and contact me with any questions or concerns.
Teachers with ZERO errors 8/31-9/4: Ashland, Bogan, Brookie, Butler, Corbett, Ford, Little, McCurley, Nelson, Pachter, Pesnell, Phillip, Rosteck, Shepherd, Shilling, Shoun, B. Smith, Thrower, E. Williams
Tracy Hall, Assistant Principal
The new teacher evaluation system for South Carolina requires that all teachers attend a Student Learning Objective (SLO) Training. A makeup session is scheduled for September 17 at 3:50 pm I the Orange Room.
Will Jones, Assistant Principal
ISS:
Administrators will contact you when students are assigned to ISS. Please submit assignments for the respective students to Mr. Simmons.
Safety Modules:
All safety modules should be completed by September 18, 2015. Please be certain that you have completed all nine trainings. It is unnecessary to submit your certificates of completion to me.
Bomb Threat Procedures:
This procedure has been modified. It will be placed in your box. Please insert the plan into your Emergency Management Quick Reference Guide flipchart in the appropriate sleeve that is included in your red emergency bag.
Justin Ludley, Assistant Principal
Regina Ransome, Assistant Principal
Southside High School's Annual Open House will be held on Monday, September 28, beginning at 5:45-8:00 pm. Teacher attendance is required.
Guidance Office
Lavetta Collins, IB Coordinator
AP/ IB Teachers will meet October 7th in the OR beginning promptly at 4:00 PM.
IB Magnet Open House will take place on October 8, 2015 from 5:30-7:00 PM.
Jennifer Browning, Media Specialist
Upcoming Academy Events!
September
17 - 18 — Freshman Goal Setting through English classes
18 - No Zero Incentives Day
Triple A Tutoring:
Triple A tutoring will continue every Tuesday and Thursday beginning at 4 p.m. Please let your students know they may attend tutoring each Tuesday and Thursday (bus transportation and snacks are provided).
.....Tuesdays: Math, English, and Social Studies/Science help will be offered
.....Thursdays: Math, English, and Assessment Make-up/Retake help will be offered
Make-Up:
If you have an excused absence on a day when an assessment was given, you will have the opportunity to Make-Up that assessment in AAA tutoring each Thursday.
You MUST sign up by Wednesday if planning to Make-Up assessment on a given Thursday.
Retake:
In English 1, Algebra 1, and Earth Science, you may retake quizzes as well as one test per quarter based on the following stipulations:
You MUST sign up and attend the Tuesday tutoring session before the Thursday retake session and you MUST receive help in the subject that you wish to retake the assessment in. Your teacher in the Tuesday session MUST observe you participating and putting forth a reasonable effort.
You MUST have all assignments completed in this class.
You MUST sign up by Wednesday to retake the assessment.
Communication Resources:
Check out our Freshman Websitehttps://sites.google.com/a/greenvilleschools.us/jludley/
and Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/SHSFreshmanAcademy) for updates, celebrations, and program information.
Kathleen Stables, CRT
Grade-Reporting
1st Quarter Progress Report Grades & Scoresheet Reports Due at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September 15th.
Please print, review for accuracy, sign (indicating accuracy), and submit Scoresheet Reports to Kathy Stables no later than 9:00 am.
How-to-Videos & PDFs link: https://sites.google.com/a/greenvilleschools.us/powerteacher/how-to
Lesson Plans:
Daily lesson plans should be visible (displayed on the dry erase board or Promethean Board) daily. Plan should include:
Daily Essential Question
Objective
Agenda and
Assessment
District Newsletter:
Division of Academics Secondary Newsletter September link
2015-16 Grades & Scoresheet Report Deadlines:
Did You Know?
Newsela is Compatible with Goggle Classroom!
Newsela is compatible with Google Classroom. Assign any Newsela article to your classes in Google Classroom. Newsela automatically presents the articles you assign at the just-right reading level for each of your students. If your school uses Google Classroom, just click “SHARE” on any Newsela article to get started. Learn more
Supporting Our Spanish-Speaking Students
With leveled Newsela articles and quizzes in Spanish alongside their English counterparts, teachers can ensure that their students reading in Spanish are reading at their just-right reading level. Students can switch back and forth between languages at every level. Learn more
Discovery Ed Streaming Videos
GCS teachers have access to Discovery Ed website. Teachers are to use their Google login (@greenvilleschools.us) to access.
Informational Flyers are attached to the Tiger Tales email.
Southside Support Scoop
Business Office
Please do not slide paperwork under Ms. Webb's or Ms. Seear's door. All information/paperwork for Ms. Webb or Ms. Seear should be placed in their mailboxes with the exception of money. All money and receipts books need to be turned in to Ms. Seear by 1 p.m. each day. Everyone is reminded to turn in invoice slips for any package you have ordered to Ms. Webb so the vendor can be paid.
Receipts for District funds totaling $250 are due to Ms. Seear on or before November 6, 2015.
Plant Engineer Office
Recently, the Fire Marshal conducted an inspection of Southside. Please review and adhere to the following:
Boxes or equipment stored on shelves cannot be closer than 18 inches to the ceiling
Plug-in air freshener can longer be used and
Regular incandescent bulbs can no longer be used in lamps. Energy efficient bulbs are to be used in all lamps.
Health Room
Please call the Nurse prior to sending a student to her office to make sure she is available.
Intervention Specialists
Please call the Intervention Specialists prior to sending a student to their office to make sure they are available.
ISS (In-School Suspension)
Please refrain from sending students to ISS if you have not contacted Mr. Simmons, ISS Coordinator. Any student sent directly to ISS by a teacher will be returned to class by an administrator. Guidelines for removing a student from class are as follow:
Call Mr. Simmons
Complete the Incident Management Referral online
Contact the parent/legal guardian sometime during the day
Athletic Announcements
The Southside Athletics Schedule can be found on the Staff Drive. Check out all fall sports!
Professional Development -Technology Proficiency
Registration Opens Today
In conjunction with the State Department of Education eLearning SC PD, we will offer INTEL Elements Designing Blended Learning this fall. This course will satisfy the requirement for initial technology proficiency in Greenville County Schools and can also be used for technology proficiency renewal. Participants may also choose to receive certificate renewal credit, or graduate credit for an additional fee.
Important Reminders
Greenville County Schools covers the cost of the renewal credit course for teachers who successfully complete all course requirements with a passing grade. Participants must pay the additional cost for receiving graduate credit for the course if needed. Participants who drop the course after the third week of class may be asked to reimburse the district for the cost of the renewal credit.
Course Details
More information about the course including dates, course syllabi, and course description can be found on our webpage: www.greenville.k12.sc.us/it.
Course Registration Information
To request an account and register, please visit the eLearning SC PD webpage: http://www.elearningscpd.com/portal/
If registering for graduate credit >> Be sure to look out for very important follow up email once you register with us to complete crucial registration steps with The College of Charleston as well.
If you already have an account with eLearning, login to Open SIS (bottom right corner of home page) and register. See this page for helpful tutorials (http://www.elearningscpd.com/portal/index.php/resources/tutorials/).
Updated codes for Designing Blended Learning are: Renewal 60 credit = 3943 and Graduate 60 credit = 9392
Please do not share this information with non-Greenville teachers.
Questions
All course information can be found on the links above. For all other questions, please email cmusgrove@ed.sc.gov
Reminders & Archived News
School Security & Safety
All faculty and staff members are asked to check for visitor badges. All visitors and volunteers in our building are required to have a visitor’s badge. Visitors, including parents, MUST have an escort when in the building. If a person does not have a visitor’s ID badge and an escort, please walk them back to the main office.
Teachers are reminded to close and lock your doors when the tardy bell rings so administrators and Intervention Specialists can conduct thorough tardy hall sweeps.
FIRE CODE VIOLATIONS Space heaters, microwaves, mini-refrigerators and other small appliances are a violation of the fire code and not permitted in classrooms.
Teacher Duty
Any time you are unable to cover your duty post or you will be late covering your duty post, please let Mr. Griffith know so he can arrange alternative coverage. If you are absent from school, your lesson plans should outline your duty post for your substitute.
Please arrive at your duty post promptly and remain until your relief person arrives. Teachers who have hall duty should obtain the duty radio from the media center prior to arriving at your duty. Any student in the hall without a signed agenda should be returned to class and/or ISS. If a teacher allows a student to go to the restroom or water fountain prior to the tardy bell ringing, please sign the student’s agenda.
Student-Related Procedures
Students should not be dismissed from class during instructional time to come to the main office to use the telephone or go to their locker.
When releasing a student to go to the restroom or nurse’s office, please complete all portions of the student’s agenda. Also, students needing to go to their car during the school day should consult an administrator between classes. The parking lot is off limits during the school day for students unless they have an early dismissal.
What Every Teacher Needs to Remember
Teachers are reminded that movie permission slips are required for movies shown in class. In addition, a viewing guide needs to be submitted with the movie permission slip. Movies MUST be related to the curriculum and department administrators’ permission is required.
A dark classroom can lead to problems: You may either use a lamp to illuminate your classroom or keep one light on during instruction if you use the Promethean Board. Classrooms should never be pitch black.
A Guest Speaker form must be completed and approved prior to inviting outside presenters to speak to students. Forms may be found on the Staff Drive. Once completed, the forms should be submitted to your department administrator.
SCHOOL CALENDAR To reserve dates on the school calendar/facilities, please contact Mr. Griffith. Once approved by Mr. Brooks, the event will be placed on the school calendar.
Tiger Tales Weekly News Bulletin
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Links to all archived 2015-16 Tiger Tales may be found on the staff drive.
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Website: http://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/shs/
Location: Southside High School, Frontage Road, Greenville, SC, United States
Phone: 864-355-8700